skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Many large counties in California report mail-in ballot results many days after election day, so they're definitely not scanning ballots as they're received."

I believe ballots in CA must be postmarked by election day to be counted. Whereas OR's rule is received by election day. So the Santa Clara number will be updated as more ballots arrive. But there is a count on election day.

FWIW, IIRC, my jurisdiction's elections are certified, the final count with all the bookkeeping, two weeks after election day. Santa Clara will do something similar.

"My county uses the same system for in-person and mail-in votes."

That can't possibly be true. The ballot may look the same. But the handling, administration, bookkeeping, and tabulation is completely different.

For a long while, jurisdictions did try to use the same mark sense devices at both poll sites and central count. But they way too slow to be practical for mail ballot processing. I'd be very surprised indeed if a county your size didn't use the newer high speed imaging scanners.

"You state many other things in your comment that are incorrect."

Each jurisdiction has it's own chaotic mutant rules. And it keeps changing. So no one person can know everything about all election administration in the USA.

But your first "refutation" wasn't. Your last wasn't even wrong.

And I don't have the heart to correct the rest.

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Update: I was curious what gear Santa Clara is using, when I spotted this:

"Returned Vote by Mail Ballot Processing

In accordance with California Elections Code, the ROV will begin to open, process and count returned Vote by Mail Ballot Envelopes approximately 11 days before Election Day. Vote by Mail processing will continue after Election Day until all ballots received prior to 8:00 pm on Election Day are processed."

https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Voting/observers/Pages/defa...

So I was wrong about the postmarks.

I strongly encourage you to observe your elections. And attend the certification (canvas report) meetings. Seeing how the sausage is made will illuminate you.

Santa Clara County's publicly available information is actually quite good. I spent years clawing information out of my county and didn't get anything nearly as detailed: https://www.sccgov.org/sites/rov/Voting/VotingNovember2016/D...

Oops. Santa Clara is still doing "ballot enhancement" and "ballot duplication". So now I believe it's likely they're still using the mark sense (opscan) devices for mail ballots. My county switched to image scanners over a decade ago, so I assumed everyone would have switched by now. My bad.

But wait, then why does it take so long to get the final mail ballot tallies? I'd bet it's because "duplication" and "enhancement" are manual tasks, and they're manually feeding the mail ballots into the mark sense devices, which takes days.

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For the record, per your own county's documentation, the only thing I was wrong about is the lack of a paper trail (enhancement, duplication). Because your county hasn't upgraded to the ballot image scanners. Yet.
Married Japanese folks only rarely wear their wedding rings, generally speaking, and the same is true for most East Asians.
They got baited by the spies presenting themselves as investors, it fits imo. Furthermore I think people who are well-practiced in HUMINT and academics/researchers building up a legal case against a hacking group don't really overlap that much.
Major privacy honeypot...enter your number, have it PRINTED ON THE WEBPAGE for millions of other visitors to see, add to spam lists etc, they could at least mask the number....
What happens when you reply to spam email
If I have to run a transpiler it's not a scripting language
This is the real answer. The Wayland devs are the X11 devs. When the music stops and X11 development ends Nvidia is going to have to make the choice between supporting Wayland or dropping support for graphics on Linux.
Tests and types can be complementary but this is not always the case. If you use a language with dependent types you can prove that your functions are correct, making tests redundant.
No, it's worse.

Linus was trying to make things work, with profanity. Postgres couldn't be bothered.

Sure, performative profanity isn't everyone's cup of tea, but milquetoast passive-aggressive dismissals of people like OP who ARE TOTALLY RIGHT aren't actually nice.
I actually think a ring or cylinder in space is a more practical idea than colonizing mars, because 1) you can get 1g earth gravity, 2) transportation to any other floating habitat or asteroid in the inner solar system is easy, 3) you have to build some kind of pressurized dome on mars anyway and 4) it’s easier to resupply from earth
National Toxicology Program: Mobile Equipment RF Radiation
A good adult thing to do is to start recognising that different people have different ways of dealing with situations. A good adult thing to do is to start understanding that there is no one absolute answer to almost any question one could ask - including, but not limited to, the question: "Is it appropriate to tell someone 'fuck you' on the way out the door?".
As far as I know, this is similar to the systems Georgia is looking at deploying in our upgrade.

Having a paper audit trail has become a fairly big cause, so I'd be surprised if the legislature recommends solutions that don't satisfy this.
Two years ago I had the pleasure of flying over Pu‘u‘O‘o on Kīlauea in a helicopter. One of my best memories in Hawaii, second to getting married ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k2hIvC1quE&feature=youtu.be
My example was inaccurate, because at least dead Replicants can be replaced with newer models, whereas dead Google products have no follow-up model and require completely replacing what you had created around that product. That's something seemingly unique to either vaporware start-ups, or Google.
Their product isn’t search, it’s tsrgetted ads. Have the ads gotten worse?
> Which ones? Your repeated use of the word artificial is why I believe you are succumbing to the "artificial = bad" fallacy.

I opted to generalize in those instances. As there are a multitude of artificial colours/preservatives/sweeteners used in the soda industry.

Sure I could have said E150d/E102 instead of artificial colours. Or sodium benzoate/etda instead of artificial preservatives. Or acesulfame potassium/sucralose instead of artificial sweeteners.

However, someone could then point out "well X mainstream soda I drink doesn't have all those". Which could be accurate, as the formulas and ingredients of sodas vary.

However, the vast majority of mainstream sodas use at least one of those _types_ of ingredients.

Listing them all out felt unnecessary, I assumed the reader would have heard of or seen an example(s) of each/some and understand my point.

There are a few others per category that are widely used in the soda industry, so it would be a decently long list - to the point where such a list would likely detract from the point (or not, from your perspective)

Edit:

> "phosphoric acid" From Wikipedia: "Products such as soft drinks that contain phosphoric acid pose no threat to human health in general."

Phosphoric acid has been linked to kidney stones and osteoporosis. Does that mean everyone who drinks a coke will get a kidney stone and break their limbs? No.

If you could avoid drinking a coke/mountain dew every morning and have fruit juice instead, would you live a radically healthier life? Probably not, but it's healthier.

As I have mentioned earlier, it could just be marginally, but I think it's quite strange to suggest they are equally as heathy/bad as each other - which you appear to support
And minus the stuff that talks to Google.
Awarded to FLIR. So basically this thing will be able to see exactly where bodies are night and day. Probably be damn handy for block-by-block battles like they saw in Iraq and Syria.

I always find it curious that these kind of military things are advertised as being "developed for the future"... though it's not hard to imagine that micro drones like this are already being deployed. /tin-foil-hat
This is likely to be true, but I must take issue with the assertion that "all it can do is hurt you". It is far likely to not matter at all - especially if one doesn't use that party as a reference, and if one was so unjustly treated as to be prompted to say such a thing; why would one do so? Still, one should also probably err on the side of discretion - it's certainly not bad advice but it isn't the one answer.
Late 90s/early 00s, there were companies that I bumped into that would lock a site's data and resources up so a customer couldn't leave.

Because of this, one of the first features I build in my CMS was a full export function. All your templates, all your data and all your files.

Why? Because when you put money, time and effort into building a site you want your clients to feel good about this decision in every way. I don't want people to even _feel_ trapped, even if they aren't.

Trapping people breeds animosity, I don't see how it could ever help. But I am not sure that providing an RMA with every purchase is even needed if you can get them one easily enough if they ask. Maybe I missed something in this article?
Hi bobblywobbles, as it's WordPress based, it done with a WordPress plugin that connects back to your account on our server
Ask HN: How to bring programming closer to non-development collegue?
The current team in my company consists of a couple of devs and all kinds of other people with various skill sets (e.g. marketing, project managers). What I as the lead dev observe on a very regular basis is the fact that many colleagues almost are afraid once a meeting discussion hits more technical grounds and pull themselves out of the conversation. This makes me kind of sad since this might not even be necessary and I really would like to change this. So here’s the question: How? Have you experienced something similar and how did you address or even change it?
The new Tegra Xavier kits costs ~$1300 and were first released to developers a few months ago
>>> They're not censoring the video, they're simply not promoting them

so assume youd be fine them doing that for say... elizabeth warrens videos but not donald trumps? Because, "hey its not censorship"
>Can you provide an example where static typing slows you down compared to dynamic typing?

I spend an annoying amount of time trying to compare/add/multiply... different types in C++ like time, durations, dates, ints, floats in my day job.

> And I can't imagine this extra operation being a significant drag.

If you have an open source C++ web framework that you think is comparable in features to python django or ruby on rails, I would be very interested as I do want the performance improvements but all the ones I have looked at look like way more work to implement what I want than using django/RoR.
Violation of Android Policy Section 4.8 Developer Distribution Agreement
We re-designed our engineering career paths at CircleCI
Honestly, not really. I've read it a couple times and run it by a friend, and we don't understand what you're getting at. But thanks for taking the time to try to explain.
As the Planet Warms, Who Should Get to Drive?
Movidius is not a TPU. It's more like a GPU, but with SIMD, DSP and even VLIW capabilities and with a _very_ wide memory bus (and massive throughput). It's rather impressive actually, but probably serious overkill for what really needs to be done during inference: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/movidius/microarchitectures/sha.... Whereas a TPU is highly specialized for just, you guessed it, processing tensors, which basically means matrix and vector multiply. It's a systolic architecture, so it also (purportedly, since I don't have insider knowledge) stores the weights for the computation for the duration of the computation.
Microsoft is also moving to ARM servers.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/9/14867310/arm-servers-micro...

And of course Apple ships 10x more ARM chips than x86 chips.
Agreed there’s tons of these types of things and the sheer volume of it feels absolutely exhausting.

Imagine how women feel.
PS: Pertinent to this thread. The Pierre Auger Observatory cost around 40M$.
This is actually quite possible in non-Euclidean geometries even for things that usually have angles in real world [1].

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry
Several examples inline, and links to more, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16471019
I can think of hundreds of great tracks from that period. I've managed to discover perhaps an equal number from after, but I had to dig really hard to find them. The "popular" stuff these days is chrome-plated garbage.
> I'd love to see a "programming language benchmark game"
> that only allowed idiomatic code and compared languages based on code length.

You just described the old Debian language benchmark game. You could select the various coefficients to apply to code size, program speed etc. I remember it played an important role when I decided to give OCaml a try: I selected 1 for size, 1 for speed, 1 for RAM and zero for everything else, and that resulted in OCaml and Pascal, the two languages I was prejudiced against from school years. Of course I went with OCaml.

From the same era:

http://blog.gmarceau.qc.ca/2009/05/speed-size-and-dependabil...

Also relevant:
https://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2013/03/25/programming-languag...
I have to say, I would love some infrared capabilities on my drone to see what my noisy neighbors are up to.

Wondering what all that stomping is for at 2am?
Just adding to the point, I believe that japanese deal with China in a much more sensible way. Instead of giving away your intelectual property, it’s much better to make it broadly available on the market.

Market grows with more adoption and you become a leader in the paricular field.
>Creating a voting system for a many-race election that is intrinsically resistant to manipulation is harder that it first appears.

Isn’t that somewhat contradictory to the rest of your comment? The mark & scan machines work well and have for decades, and not just in voting but in standardized testing in various contexts (school, drivers license tests, etc).

It seems the voting machine element of the equation “intrinsically resistant to manipulation” is pretty much solved, if election officials would just keep what’s worked well for decades rather than transitioning to shiny new digital toys with no paper trails and poor security.
I’m not really a fan of people feeling compelled to spend money for romantic gestures in general, so I’m pretty okay with this.
> Why is this article trying to make it seem like women are getting the short end of the stick?

IMO it does not. It clearly states that the marketing campaign is targeted at both sexes.
Well, yes, unless if such functionality was opt-in or at least asked me before installing the new version.
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There have been no Stagefright malware infections ever reported. Compare to nearly half a billion XCodeGhost infections, which reproducible builds stop cold. When it comes to results, the Android security model is peachy compared to iOS's. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/15/google_stagefright_...
They're both offshoots of Smith's movement.
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I understand that notion but I’m not sure it’s true. It also may make it easier for large multinationals like Diebold to divide and conquer and sell their unauditable digital voting machines to more of the electorate, piece by piece.
Ask HN: Can preferred share holders take greater payout on sale of business?
Upon sale of the company, can common shares be de-valued relative to preferred shares? I.e. can preferred share holders take a greater percentage of the buyout to achieve better returns?

I've got some common shares that are valued significantly less than the initially reported price-per-share a couple weeks ago (when the deal was closing).

I figured the only way that PPS of common stocks could go down – with the buyout being greater than the amount invested (the investments were convertible-note) – was if the buyout amount was reduced during final negotiations. However, I've been told that the preferred share holders decided to take bigger returns, leaving the common share holders with a lower PPS.
For me personally, the huge turnoff for JS/TS is the library ecosystem, and specifically this notion that everything is better as a myriad of tiny 10-line libraries with a spaghetti dependency graph.

Python is much more traditional in that it has a rich standard library to begin with, so most third party libraries are also bigger, and it's easier to track of what does what.
The night parrot, Australia's most elusive bird
I for one will spend the rest of my life trying to get ykevinator fired from every job he might ever acquire, as vengeance for this comment.

(Uh, kidding, kidding,...)
I could also see these things being fitted with a micro claymore, or high intensity laser [at leasta couple of watts]
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Why is it I generally only ever hear this argument (or some variant of it, e.g. starving children) when discussing a proposed scientific endeavour? Why not trim the US military budget by 10% and generate 3x as much revenue, you could house 1.2 million homeless for that price.
How can we figure out what it is?

Cellphone signals?

Pesticides?

Something we haven’t considered?

https://inhabitat.com/its-official-cell-phones-are-killing-b...

https://en.reset.org/blog/are-mobile-phones-killing-honey-be...

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/07/01/why-are-bees-dying-your-...
Doesn't every airline do this?
Kilauea is a fascinating volcano, and https://volcanoes.usgs.gov/volcanoes/kilauea/geo_hist_summar... is a great resource.

This is probably related to last summer's eruptions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_lower_Puna_eruption, same system but downrift)
Because they work pretty well?
You can't resell a diamond for anything close to the price you pay for it. Just buy a ring with no stone, and then have it set with the stone of your choice.
Yes, indeed, we do vote around 5 times a year on several more or less important subjects and elect officials. That does not mean that a mistake can be fixed quickly, because the entire lawmaking process is (deliberately) slow:

- All members of parliament do that only part-time; during the rest of the year, they do work (mostly) normal jobs.

- Once the (national) parliament has passed a law, the citizens have 100 days to collect the names of 50,000 opponents. If they achieve this, it that will mean the law is delayed for at least another year.
It definitely seems like things that are presumed to be western traditions have a sort of cultural gravity to them in Japanese marketing; similar to French things in the USA.
Like everything else, there are pros and cons. It’s not like dynamic languages are worse or better per-se, but they surely make it harder to scale a team or a codebase 10x the original size without introducing what effectively is some sort of typed system (or strict “typed” conventions that the team agrees upon) in place. Which may be done right, or disastrously wrong. A typed language generally doesn’t leave this step up for interpretation later on, since everybody agrees on it since day one.
You want to replace Web 2.0 with Web 1.0? Um... it's already there. There are ways to turn off JavaScript, CSS, and media. Note that accessibility tools for visually impaired users may do what you're looking for.

Personally I wish browsers had native support for displaying Markdown content.
Interactive plotting with Bokeh
If anyone knows this for dogs pls lmk.

Tried singing up my golden retriever for tinder to find mates and they banned my account.
> Play Store developers have paid they meet the criteria to be customers.

totally agree. Google has a lot of customers and it seems like a lot of them receive mediocre or poor service, especially app developers.

then again, i've seen other HN posts state that corporate customers also receive mediocre service from Google.
There should be a law to disclose this sort of information when you purchase a ticket... as well as the probability that you will be denied passage on the flight you are booking... In fact you could even make it so that they tell you the alternative you will be offered if that event occurs. They could even offer a premium price to guarantee your flight.

The whole point is to make this process more predictable for travelers. The tech exists, only the political will to force its use is necessary.
Dealing with ads is payment.
Adults realize that actions have consequences. Saying fuck you to someone might make me feel better in the moment, but what would it give me in the long run? I would be giving others the chance to view me as childish, unprofessional, and uncivil. Where is the gain in that?
Wait, there are people who don't realize that when they can't get an assigned seat when they book the ticket (and it's not because they bought a special fare that doesn't allow a reserved seats), it's because the flight is oversold and they will be waitlisted for a seat? Every airline does this.
It sounds like your beaf is not with the web but the current state of many websites.

If you want a simple web of documents then you can build one easily yourself. You can look at something like GitHub that allows you to easily publish a website made of simple markdown pages. It allows you to easily create simple or complex pages.

https://pages.github.com/

This is just an example.
IMO, dynamically typed languages made more sense when type systems in mainstream statically language languages were much more primitive, and that limited what you could do - and it was often verbose when you could.

But the kind of type systems your average dev has to deal with improved a lot in their expressiveness since 90s. Type inference is basically mainstream, too. There are still things that cannot be described nicely, but they tend to be a lot more "magic" - the kind of stuff that lets you write code faster, but not necessarily write more readable and understandable code.
The alternative that you're offered, 99% of the time, is a seat on the next flight.
Not Even the U.S. Government Can Escape the Fallout of PG&E’s Crisis
Great stuff, I started doing this in 2006 but manually. I made an unofficial google toolbar for Opera[1] that (in the unreleased final version lol) also loaded the images from the search pages when one hovered over the toolbar icons.

It took a lot of tweaking to give it the right feel. imho it shouldn't start fetching to fast in case the mouse is only moved over the link. Loading to many assets at the same time is also bad. Some should preload with a delay and hovering over a different link should discontinue preloading the previous assets.

Perhaps there is room for a paid version that crawls the linked pages a few times and preloads static assets. Who knows, perhaps you could load css, js and json as well as images and icons.

Or (to make it truly magical) make the amount of preloading depend on how slow a round trip resolves. If loading the favicon.ico (from the users location) takes 2+ seconds the html probably wont arrive any time soon.

Fun stuff, keep up the good work.

[1]- http://web.archive.org/web/20130329183223/http://widgets.ope...
More propaganda from vested interests who thrive where human rights and rule of law are absent. If you want to see the Chinese future, look at the Soviet Union, Venezuela, and even Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Are there any reasonable people here on HN who are willing to actually trade their lives to live as a Uighur in China or a Saudi female? Or any sort of Venezuelan? Have fun with your life without representative govetnment or respect for individual rights.