skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes the Australian Ballot (private voting, public counting) is the one-way hash of dropping one's ballot into the box.

All of the crypto systems I've studied try to accomplish the same with hash collisions. So that individual ballots get lost within the herd. Unfortunately, due the complexity of our ballots and the small size of our jurisdictions (elections are administrated per precinct), those hash collisions don't happen. One remedy may be to split complicated ballots into many simple ballots.

As of yet, I've not seen an electronic voting system proposal which states under which circumstances it will (likely) preserve the secret ballot and public count. A failing I consider to be gross intellectual malfeasance, willful ignorance, or both.
Is it? In the scenario you say we shouldn't be necessarily proud of more people would be economically well-off (e.g. less people choosing between food and rent). Are you sure that wouldn't be something to be proud of?
There are also significant libertarian ideals at play in the US. People don't want to pay the government to control their healthcare, why shouldn't they control that themselves? To say people are just "deluded" is oversimplifying IMO.
Interesting. The one thing that I didn't see mentioned in the article at all was the Faculty Senate. At most universities I've been at, Shared Governance between faculty and administrators was the rule, and big decisions like the ones described in this article could not have happened without senate approval. Did TU not have a policy of shared governance?
The same way doctors do when their best efforts weren't good enough to save a patient.

The same way charity and social workers do when they don't manage to quite reach all of the people they intended to help.

The same way firefighters do when they aren't able to reach a trapped victim.

There's nothing new or special about making life-critical decisions just because we happen to encounter them in the form of creating code.
I still find tearing to be problematic

I have a machine with a supported Radeon card (open-source driver), another machine with a supported nvidia card (binary blob driver), and another two machines using different intel onboard graphics chips (open-source driver)

the radeon and the intel (both drivers which work with it) have issues putting out a stable jitterless 60fps without tearing (with tearfree on, and various combinations of with/without compositing/glx/...)
Because for all of history and across cultures and civilizations, women have never been considered equal to men (socially or legally) - with the odd exception/legend here and there, of course.

"Because you're a woman and women can't do that" - "Why?" - "Because they can't." is what it boils down to.

Now for a more interesting stroll through Canon Law:

(1) The pope is the Bishop of Rome, and is (always) already a bishop (but if not, is immediately ordained as a bishop (Can. 332)[1]).

(2) Only men who have had the sacraments of baptism and confirmation (Can. 1033)[2] can receive the sacrament of ordination (Can. 1024)[3] and thus be bishops.

This has been reaffirmed (in 1994-1995)[4][5] as being part of the deposit of faith (i.e. Dogma).

In addition, anyone who tries to confer a sacred order to a woman (and the woman in question) are latae sententiae (implicitly) excommunicated.[6]

[1] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P16.HTM

[2] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P3R.HTM

[3] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P3P.HTM

[4] http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/apost_letters/1...

[5] http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/teach/ordisace2.htm

[6] http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/docum...

Of course, there's still the legend of Pope Joan[7]

[7] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Joan
Most Americans have insurance through their employer, or under Medicare/Medicaid. (And that was true before ACA.) Copays are small ($20-30 typically) and similar to what they are in say Sweden or Finland: https://megaphoneoz.com/why-sweden-gets-away-with-health-co-....
Does it? No matter how much I try block it, they always manage to get information about me; location, preferences... Thanks, "Facebook for Developers".
It’s a completely made up statistic, as far as I can tell, and it’s repeated constantly.

It probably does a lot of harm, too, by discouraging people from having a go, people who might have actually got off their arses if they’d instead believed “half of all businesses fail within five years”.
Why? A bit of context to clear up a misconception or a misleading stats isn't a bad thing.
>It's not a myth, it's how I and other people I know actually feel.

Your feelings didn't just bubble up out of nowhere. They were incepted in you by the culture and values you absorbed growing up. When you're conditioned from the cradle to view social services as "hand-outs" being given to "underserving" populations who don't look like you, you're being influenced by a racially coded language and a racist cultural narrative. You don't even have to be consciously racist to be perpetuating it and influenced by it.

Political advertising made you imagine a specific type of person when I ask you to imagine someone on public assistance the same way advertising made you imagine a chubby, rosy cheeked man in a red coat when I mention Santa Claus. And we have to be honest with ourselves about accepting that when asked to imagine a recipient of public assistance, and it's not an accident how many of those stories are racially coded.
^ this HN reader has it right. And we'll see the extent of that truth tomorrow when FB announces their earnings. Most of the problems in the world can be solved with robust revenue growth. It's only when you're on the decline that "optics" begin to matter, and FB is most certainly not in decline, at least outside the HN bubble.
Readable version of the quote:

> This is not to say that C is less secure than the other languages. The high number of open source vulnerabilities in C can be explained by several factors. For starters, C has been in use for longer than any of the other languages we researched and has the highest volume of written code. It is also one of the languages behind major infrastructure like Open SSL and the Linux kernel. This winning combination of volume and centrality explains the high number of known open source vulnerabilities in C.

Please, never ever use code snippets for quotes, unless you hate mobile users. Just put "> " in front.
Hi, sorry for the delay replying, weirdly Electron names the output win32-x64 even though it's only for 64-bit, I think the naming convention is platform (win32) then architecture (x64). Either way I've just built a 32-bit version which hopefully will work for you https://github.com/chrismaltby/gb-studio/releases/download/v... though I'm not sure how it's going to manage with 1Gb RAM.
This article is premised on the idea that basically everything the Chinese government does is unethical, which is debatable. For one, the Chinese government is largely supported by its population. There might actually be engineers working on Dragonfly who do not believe the project is unethical. It's not that black and white...
"First they came for the Facebook users, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Facebook user."
Futility is a terrible reason to stop fighting.
This sounds like heresy, you can pry paint and notepad out of my cold dead hands. Also, while you're at it, no one will need more than 640K of memory.
I've been looking into doing this in Go and haven't found a good solution for Python 3.

Is it possible to build a static binary (including Python) with pyo3 in rust?
But those weren't due to the actions of the lawmakers. They won't learn from that.
Any updates and plans on Chalk[1][2] and Traits subsystem?

[1] https://github.com/rust-lang/chalk

[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap-2017/issues/8
Who cares about liberty? Julia Angwin and Trevor Paglen on our big privacy mess
How do you know that it wasn't you that was brainwashed by media to believe that your opposition are racists even when they tell you explicitly that their opinions have nothing to do with race?
I mean, the 360/91 that he's talking about didn't even have an MMU.
The taller you are the harder you fall. Lets hope this merc gets cockblocked before destroying the last bit of our online liberties.
It was weird how the corporatization and the "social-justice agenda" were lumped together like that in the article. Usually the people who criticize the former aren't the ones getting upset about the latter.
I completely understand your concerns, especially given the issues that NPM had lately.
We are an open-source focused company and our success is tightly tied to the success of our open-source solutions.

Here are some of the things that we are doing in order to resolve (or minimize) the concerns:

* Completely open API to retrieve the registry data (it's a work in progress, but our GraphQL API is open to everyone to use: https://registry.wapm.io/graphql )

* De-centralized hosting of the packages (news to come soon!)
Also, all those mobile ad companies which sell their data to investors will be guaranteed to have Facebook as a client, possibly also by proxy so that they don't appear on their client list.
When considering "I and other people" vs statistics, I'll generally acknowledge your experiences and go with the statistics. The statistics says that Americans are not more likely than residents of Nordic countries to believe as you do.
That’s not really what a tensor is; this simplification is due to tensorflow I think?
How would one know if the Chinese government was supported by the population or not, given that anyone expressing a contrary opinion is likely to be killed?
On my computer I have a simple calculator program. I can go to the view menu and change it to 'scientific'. It then has loads more buttons. I can also choose another mode to make it more useful for finance things. This interface was pretty much the same with the desktop calculators used by schoolkids, if you wanted radians you could change the mode. If you wanted statistics you could change the mode. Normally the basic mode was what you wanted.

With MS Paint and the decades it has been part of Windows they could have evolved it. They could have kept the 'simple' view for the simple mode it is and had a photo editor mode that was a full-featured Photoshop clone for those that wanted it.

There are ways to iterate a product and keep it simple. What is shocking is how Microsoft have kept the tools deliberately backwards, e.g. Notepad and Paint. Notepad couldn't open CR/LF line endings correctly, why not listen to user needs and put the functionality in?
They solve this problem with large wads of cash and FB stock. A couple of my friends there make close to a million dollars a year each in total comp just being middle managers. FB has no problem whatsoever with recruiting or retention of top talent.
Ask HN: What Went Wrong at SilentCircle and Blackphone
The company had a great founder-market fit (PGP inventor Phil Zimmermann, Apple's Jon Callas [0]), and raised $130MM in funding to pull off the Blackphone [1], built on SilentOS based on Android [2]. I could totally see a need for privacy oriented offering in the space (esp since Apple's PR is getting all serious about it). They weren't too soon to the market either (2015/16)?

From your perspective, what could have gone wrong?

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160309214229/https://www.silentcircle.com/our-story/

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20160312085934/https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20160312090048/https://www.silentcircle.com/products-and-solutions/devices/silent-os/
Maybe you should tell the world about it. More people need inspiration to stand up to morally bankrupt leaders. Your story might just push them in the right direction.
Which general purpose package manager works correctly on Windows (not WSL, actual Windows) and Linux? Cross-platform is more important than not creating another package manager.

I think a far more interesting question is, does the package repository support falling back to e.g. curl. That would allow those who don't want another package manager to still use the registry.
You won't get enough data if you ask them to fill out a survey. If you try a single interview you'll see why. You'll end up with pages of notes and venture into problems you had no idea about. If you had asked them to fill out a survey instead, you would've ended up with just a fraction of the information.

And world wide or not doesn't matter. I did all my interviews over Skype.
> The JS guys also like to do stuff like this.

Harsh, but fair.
> This causes them to act against their own best interests.

Ah yes--when rich liberals vote against their own interests, it's noble. When lower-income conservatives vote against their interests, it's ignorant.
In my city it is per block face. So you can go around the corner and park again. Except that you can't because we have no meters so all the parking is full all the time.
I meant a minority of the European people/countries. Whether you count by population, or by the number of countries.

(a) By number of states: 18 approved it, 2 rejected it, and the rest canceled/dropped efforts as it was effectively a failure (at that point).

(b) By population: Let's add together the populations of the 18 countries that approved of it, and the 2 that rejected it. I'm confident the total population of the 18 europhiles exceeds that of the 2 naysayers.

We don't know how things would have fared in the rest of the EU (that dropped/canceled referendums or legislative votes on this), but of those 20 countries, a majority of both people and countries were for the EU Constitution.
Having employer-provided health insurance in the United States does not mean it does not cost the employee as well. Many companies require the employee pay part of the premiums, especially for families, and there are many, many out-of-pocket costs that people must pay even when they have insurance.

In the US, there were about 1.4 million bankruptcies every year before Obamacare. There are around 700,000 per year now. But the majority of those are still widely considered to be related to medical costs (though exact statistics don't exist). That should give an idea of the burden most Americans face in terms of healthcare costs.

More anecdotally, my own costs this year - as a single adult having employer-provided health insurance - is already about $800 out-of-pocket for a few office visits and tests.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725489 which was discussed yesterday?
I'm more interested in how Samsung ever got so far down the road with a such an apparently flawed design. Samsung's engineers must have known it had big problems. Was this a classic case of dysfunctional corporate culture meaning nobody wanted to give the bosses bad news? I'm guessing so.
AI can be used to remove bias in business
> Italy was the 4th European country to introduce a smoking ban in public places.

Is the ban enforced? If not, it's just lip service. When I went there 3 years ago (Rome, Naples), people smoked in public EVERYWHERE, even on public transportation. Sometimes I would get on a bus and there would be some guy in the back blowing smoke out of a cracked window
Yes, I have. What biometrics do you think I’ve given up?
That's required for several of the items under "long-standing requests".
That's fair, but it doesn't change the argument much. If you add the Institutional Support, you get these costs being 87% of Instructional Costs in 1999, and 94% in 2016. That is an increase of 8% as compared to 5% by my original calculation.
What is your opinion of that book? I just looked up the summary of the 48 rules [1] and it seems pretty morally questionable. Maybe that's the point?

[1] http://the48lawsofpower.com/summary
Twitter shuts down 5k pro-Trump bots retweeting anti-Mueller report invective
According to how the graph was constructed, you can't actually infer that the middle class in the US is smaller, because it defines the middle class as wealthier to begin with.
Selection bias, filter bubble, self-selection -- all these could apply to a varying degree.
Kohl's also reprices many of their products on a daily basis. I used to be a repricer. I would walk through every night for hours changing the price labels on all the stands. That's why they have updated so many of their price labels to be electronic.
Why do we need a social credit score when we already have money?
On Everest, a Trail of Old and Faulty Oxygen Equipment
> No programming language or calendar library version older than March 31, 2019 could include proper support for Japanese dates of May.

I don't think that's correct. The same way we handle timezone updates via external data source in most languages/libraries, we don't need to update the language itself to handle the new era. This could be done by preparing the code to handle changes and then publishing just the common database update which includes a new "(date) (era)" entry.
The graph has nothing to say about the relative prevalence of people choosing between food and rent.
I don't like GC (on an ideological level), but I still write most stuff in Go because I'm so insanely productive in it. Will probably use more Rust once async/await is there and mature enough.
I am sure it’s very simple. Maybe someone had a financial incentive to push it through.
100% but just not using Facebook is not a very effective strategy. And thinking that not using Facebook protects you from Facebook could be dangerous.
The irony of the Raspberry Pi in particular is that while the ARM side has seen multiple order of magnitude jumps in performance, the GPU and compositor hardware have of course remained at its original 2009 atrocious level.

The result is that the CPU drawing on a screen-sized framebuffer is fast enough that Raspbian will probably never, ever make the jump to full bells-and-whistles mainline VC4 drawing and atomic DRM composition. It would just end up using a lot more memory and break a bunch of hacks in the proprietary drivers that people have come to rely on for essentially still garbage tier performance and a system that randomly freezes because you ran out of graphics memory (which is forever limited to 256 MiB, memory that you surrender on boot to the horrendous CMA system).

I like the Pi a lot as a PoC platform given the availability and the fully open-source supported driver we have for it. But the HW specifications of all the parts that Wayland cares about make it very clear that the thing was only ever meant to do 1080P when you are piping frames from the video decode engine straight to the compositor and out the pixel valves.
nothing. he's referring to nothing because none of that is true in even the most expansive non-tinfoil-hat-wearing imaginations.
Samsung has a history of shipping crappy products just for the sake of being the first to do it. Their product line has always been a sprawling mess of overly-specialized niche products. It seems like they have a strategy of throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks.
Facebook's social graph and engagement data combined with data already obtained by governments makes an elaborate social credit score easy to generate.

As for the great firewall, Facebook has been in talks with lawmakers who want Facebook to do more to prevent "fake news" which is another way of saying that lawmakers want to use Facebook to control the news narrative.

So far, Facebook has been extremely complaint with both of these areas. This new hire is further evidence that Facebook plans to support user privacy only after offering the government plenty of reassurance that its interests and patriot act powers will not be adversely impacted.

I've been concerned/cynical about Facebook's stance on this stuff for a while, but this hire is really chilling. If anyone reading this hasn't read the Patriot Act, give it a read. It is shocking both in how stupid and technologically naive the wording is, as well as in its blatant disregard for the bill of rights. It's definitely the most shameful piece of legislation passed in my lifetime.
And you get what you measure.
A Quick History of Ubuntu: From 4.10 to 19.04, from Gnome to Unity to Gnome 3
California Homeowners: Please Convert Garages into Apartments
or lying
It doesn't seem like it, given the final bullet point here, which is unchecked https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/276
Wait--weren't MMUs available back even on the 65/67?
I'm a former early employee at a KP backed start up. Nothing but respect and good vibes from the folks I met with or presented to from KP.
Conjugate transpose and other adjoints are kinda nuts, they are the other part of the story

http://www.reproducibility.org/RSF/book/bei/conj/paper_html/...

Esp the ray tracing/topology relationship is nuts.
> in the same situations.

But without the risks "added by taking selfies", as it's the point of the article.
We already have a social credit score. It's called FICO and it's been doing a great job of making life difficult for people who don't fit the mold for over sixty years.
I’d say it’s the media and general public that want Facebook to curb “fake news”, more so than Washington.
Just wait until you meet dynamic dynamic variables, nothing more elegant than that...

$x=0;$a='x';$b='a'; echo $$$b;
There are many things that can be done, especially online. The question is if you can do it in a way that make sense. I am sure there are many people from New York on tindie. It is just hard to make it into a full time small business if you have a high cost of living and a limited supply chain.
Yes, it does strike me as "remember in the past when things were better before the liberals ruined it?"
Ask HN: Can you make 200k as a software engineer outside US?
Top level salaries I have seen in Switzerland/London are around 140K CHF or £120k as permanent or 650-700 per day as contractor.
That is around 155k USD, which seem a fairly common salary in Bay Area/NYC while it would be a top salary in those 2 markets above.
Also the big bonus/shares culture is not as prevalent in Europe.

Anyone here making more than that or knows anyone that does?
As all administrations have done and will continue to do for the foreseeable future...
I'm not talking about a hard-and-fast policy; I'm talking about a Bayesian, "if a random person off the street sends a proof what should my priors be?"
practice.
write the code exmaples, change something, break things... and then learn to fix these.
Congress keeps ceding more of its power to the executive, since it can't seem to accomplish much of anything any more. It does allow stuff to get done, but the only oversight is whatever the voters decide to do every four years.
I make a good six figures. I have a $20 copay. The copay in France is usually €1. I have delayed going to the doctor in the US because "do I really want to spend 20 bucks on this ?" and ended up going a week after while in a worse state. Most people I know here are like this.

Also, 12.4% of all Americans are uninsured and 28% are underinsured: http://fortune.com/2019/02/07/americans-health-care-underins... . Don't pretend the current situation in the US is anywhere near healthy.
Only if you are forced to use facebook. Its more of a problem in developing nations. I'm glad Myanmar finally gave Facebook the boot as the default portal to the internet.

When the day comes that we are forced to use a social media platform... heh, we'll all just roll over and start using it. Revolution takes too much effort.
I'm a really big fan of that keyboard shortcut (first time I've used the Print Screen key on purpose in years).

On a related note I hope they aren't done developing "Snip & Sketch" it still lacks features from the Snipping tool in 1809 (Delay Granularity, Window Snip, Highlighter, and the new Ruler is buggy as heck).
Two{four, five, ten} wrongs do not a right make...
Well, thankfully they do also ship many products that are the first to do something useful, so as a normal consumer that isn't a first-adopter for most things I appreciate that they create a market for many random innovations.