skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perot's Presidential candidacy is a good example of why we need the Electoral College and cannot simply go with the "winner" of the popular vote. Clinton had 370 Electoral College votes, Bush had 168, and Perot had 0. Not only did Clinton win easily, he had a majority of ALL the Electoral College votes.

In the popular vote, it was 44,909,889 for Clinton, 39,104,545 for Bush, and 19,743,821 for Perot. While Clinton still had the majority, more than half the votes cast for President were not for him -- in other words, the majority of voters did not want Clinton to be elected President.

Some sort of system which uses "rounds" to narrow the field down to two candidates could work; but, it's hard enough to get people to vote once, much less several times.
This reminds me of the efforts I made to answer the following question from a Soviet puzzle book I happened upon."Does New Year's Day fall more often on a Sunday or a Saturday?". I will leave the working out of the answer to the curious.
...but then why follow specifications at all?
Do drug companies' arguments that they are entitled to freedom of speech hold any water?

I know people like to overemphasize the effects of Citizens United, etc

But I am curious if they could solely win on a speech argument. If so, one would think all sorts of advertising regulations would be easily overturned.
Speaking generally, in development, some features are considered must-have even though much of roadmap may be unclear, right?

So why isn't extension support considered a must-have?
Not sure why people are suggesting shadow-banning doesn't work. Shadow bans have existed for a long time, already. Message forums and MMOs have used this method to deal with toxic community members and it has already shown to be successful.

The way they measure the decrease in toxicity is based on support tickets. When organizations implement this feature, a reduction in complaints means they don't require as much support staff to deal with it. It saves them money.

The logic behind it is simple: Toxic community members want a voice to be heard. This method sends players the message that if you post something offensive or unwelcomed, it'll be voted down and no one will see it.
> Less security is a user visible advantage.

No, less friction is a user-visible advantage, less security isn't user-visible, for most users, until sometime after the vulnerabilities exposed thereby are exploited and, when it becomes user-visible, is very much not considered an advantage.
Sounds like a case of European exceptionalism. I doubt you can accurately make such a broad generalization about an entire country’s people.
The GP is literally throwing out the reasons s/he won't buy a MacBook... in the same way that you did. What don't you understand?
Please use the tax to fund research into holoportation to replace quite a bit of travel.
>Doesn't this mean that you can't use the Branded power supply with anything else?

No, check the article for an explanation.
Because if you read the above comments, changes in the ionosphere caused by earthquakes are scientifically proven.
Ionization of the ionosphere is also what causes auroras.
Triboluminescence as another hypothesis is also proven, you can try in your kitchen with sugar!
There are a lot of very cool things that have been in or allowed by the HTTP and HTML specs that have had to go because people can't be trusted to play nice.

ETags are one of the biggest disappointments that way.

I wonder if there's a potential to fix this by suggesting a deterministic version of ETags, that's based off of information the User Agent can see. Like the Vary information, response headers and payload.
Does this interfere with lazy loading?
Please elaborate on "more and more IT guys I know move over to Free/OpenBSD" and your mentioned easiness of migration.
Have people vote once by ranking candidates. Then the computer can do the rounds.
Agreed. I had a break-in in my apartment last decade and the cop who came in just said "it happens all the time in terrace level apartments". A week later the investigating detective sent a form for me to fill and that was that. They giving me a police report to be used to file claims with insurance was the only useful thing they did.

In a town hall meeting later that year the local police chief said they don't investigate burglaries unless it was a home invasion (they coming in while you are present).
If a company puts out an ad, is that the speech of the assembled individuals? Which individual is responsible for the speech? What if the individuals within a company disagree with one another?

There has to be some kind of separation of "individuals" and "entity". To only see companies as simply "people" I think is short-sighted. A company is so much more than that.

If companies are truly entitled, as an entity, to protection of speech, how do any marketing/advertising regulations stay valid, period?
> Well, yeah, but what is the problem with that?

Because Airlines seem to be the intended target and not the tourist. I would imagine they would have instituted an airport fee if the tourist was the target.

>The price increase thus decreasing the demand of flights, achieving the goal.

This could cause a drop in tourist dollars but maybe that's the goal. It seems Europe in general is wary of tourists. Spain has gone so far as to discourage tourism to Barcelona by restricting any new hotels or tourist accommodations. France may be following their lead and taxing Airlines instead, creating less across the whole country instead of a particular city.
* Flexibility when accessing cash. Even very wealthy individuals can have cash flow problems. Allowing payment despite lack of funds is big thing for millionaires who don't want to be embarrassed. When the banker knows you personally, they can asses the risk and give loans quickly. When you want to buy something very expensive very suddenly these banks can move money, even bags of cash, immediately.

* Wealth management trough tax, trust and estate planning.

* Connections that give access to some forms of private equity. Bankers can arrange meetings and they know people.
The T1 chip also serves as an authentication chip, a disk controller, and can be used for video encoding/decoding.
This reminds me a story a friend of mine told me. When he was a kid he had a job delivering the local free news paper around his local town in the UK. This was at a time when local free news papers were still a thing.

At Christmas time he had a plan, he knock on the doors of houses on his round and explain that he was their local paper delivery boy and ask for tips.

He did this first on the part of his route with gated mansions in the area. To his dismay all he got was sneered at. He tried again on the council house part of his route and for every house pretty much all occupants were very generous and appreciating of his work.

At the other end I'm aware of some people who are asset rich, but not that cash wealthy. They've inherited a huge house or estate, but only have just enough money to keep things ticking over. Often big estates like that start to go into disrepair for that reason.
"Move fast and break things" was never going to cut it. Anyone who has the word "engineer" in their job title, certified or not, should expect better of themselves.
Brian Boquist “send bachelors” senator, appears to have Ashley Madison account
When I find a politician's behavior obnoxious, I often run them through the Ashley Madison database. This time I got a hit, or so it appears.

Account number 8152436 has zip code 97338 Birthdate "1958-10-20" email address 'TrueOregon@aol.com" and has fields "Salem" and "Tillamook". These are all matches for Brian Boquist.

I debate whether it's appropriate to put this out there, but if someone is in a position of power, and is threatening others, I don't feel bad at all bringing them down a notch.
I've never seen this issue myself. I'm on High Sierra now.

In Yosemite PDF rendering performance was crap for me in some high resolution documents for print, but other than that it has been flawless for as long as I've been using macOS.

I've only seen the issue shown in the Reddit post (which looks like some rendering lag) in Android actually.
I avoid electron apps because it is almost anti web.

I would use apps built more like electron if they simply removed the electron part and replaced the app with a name for a namespace and simply shipped tht js/html/images along with a api service.

Installing would be binding tht app to tht name space and using the browser of choose and navigating to namespace.localhost. In this case rsync.localhost.

The system would be a bit more complex for handling auth and a few things but let's not get bogged down in solvable details.

Then I could access my apps from my phone. Another system (if I chose to expose them publicly).
You read this wrong. I was specifically mentioning AAA games with large examples to make the point more obvious. I then mentioned "if the game is good" because if it isn't you shouldn't expect to get your investment back.

I did NOT mean that you spent 10s of millions of dollars to make any good games. That would be silly in a world of Hollow Knight, Cadence of Hyrule/Crypt of the Necrodancer, Dead Cells, Gungeon and more, where indie games are kings.
You don't need a moral code. The pragmatic argument is that throughout history and across cultures, the rise of large civilizations was enabled by basic rule of law. Protecting people against violence brings stability and maximizes productivity.
What are the server/OS/cloud prereqs for Dark?
I disagree. At the cutting edge of development, experiments and failure is impossible the avoid without incredible and expensive measures, which, you know, isn't exactly feasible in every case.
Tails 3.15 Is Out
Abolish the electoral college, institute national ranked-choice.
I used to know this kid called Junaid, at some point he was relatively normal. He became less and less normal though, and eventually got in trouble with the law over some silly hacks. He fled the UK to Syria and joined ISIS.

In Syria I watched him wave around guns on skype for a couple of years until he was placed at the top of the US kill list and eventually got incinerated.
Thanks for adding this perspective.
> This is exactly what I said in my comment.

Ooops, I think I replied to the wrong comment
I think that a good abstraction is not always obvious. For example, in our old code base from 2008, which is still in production and extended, the main idea was inheritance can solve DRY. Many developers still stick to abstract class just to save a few lines where they could go with a strategy or just split up.

I wouldn't call this over engineering. I call it laziness to learn and refactor.
From the comments:

„[…] the author confirms that Clojure solution uses boxed numbers.

Breaking news: boxed math is 17x slower than unboxed math in a computation-heavy task.„
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I almost never run .pkg installers either. Maybe 1% of apps need elevated installation privileges.
>Because you will not die without the hot new video game.

Could you expand on this? If we are looking at pricing discrimination that still allows them to buy it, then they aren't going to die either way. If it is immoral to use their life to make money, then selling it at any more than cost is immoral, and potentially even selling it at cost is immoral since that cost includes some amount of niceties that aren't required to produce the drug. (does the person making the drug really need to earn that much, couldn't they do with a bit less pay?)

Also, given that even if you fully minimize costs and sell the drug exactly at cost, there are still some who can't afford it, so if you want to maximize the number of people who can afford the drug then pricing discrimination is still preferable. If upping the price in one region lets you lower the price in another (remember, we are already selling it exactly at costs), and the people in the first region has more income to spend on drugs, is that not the far more ethical than demanding it be equal costs to everyone even when people in poorer areas end up being denied the drug due to pricing? In effect, the pricing discrimination is a tax on the richer individuals buying the drugs to allow poorer individuals to buy the drug (within the hypothetical where you are selling it at cost).

I guess even deeper then is the question if the person making the drugs should even be profiting off the work. They need to eat and have a place to sleep, but if they require more than the bare minimum salary possible aren't they now increasing the cost to product the drug, resulting people having to pay more to live, just so they can have more money?

Of course, there is the issue that if they can't make enough money to attract them, then they'll pick a different line of work. Is it wrong or immoral for them to do that? To demand a certain level of compensation or they work elsewhere, even though they could survive off of less money while making the drugs at lower cost? If the end worker can demand a premium despite the impact on the lives of those who depend upon the drug, why can't others involved in the production of the drug?

Overall, it makes a nice sound bite, but I don't understand the actual reasoning implied.
Depends on the system. For a desktop enviornment you are correct, *bsd is at best an after thought to pretty much all projects. However "serious" server programs tend to get much more testing on BSD. I don't think you will have any issues running a database on BSD, and probably not a web server (though some web frameworks are Linux first so YMMV)
Has anyone experience with System76 laptops?
This would be a lot easier if the year ran from March 1 to February 28/29. Which it did, for the ancient Romans - so the additional day was at the end of the year. This also explains why September through December come from roots meaning 7 through 10, despite being the ninth through twelfth months.
Subresource integrity solves this issue.
You could try eBay or Craigslist for those.

Since Apple never licensed out MagSafe, the market has been full of poorly built counterfeits rather than anything from reputable manufacturers. That’s another thing I don’t miss.

Anyway, I’d bet there’s still some market for used MagSafe chargers to be used with older macs whose chargers have frayed.
It's a touchscreen instead of physical buttons. People had the same concerns about the iPhone screen replacing the hardware keypad on smartphones. In that instance, the improved flexibility of the touchscreen was more than enough to compensate for the reduced affordances. We'll see about the Touchbar. I like it a lot--for example, having the mute button persistently handy (and obvious) during web conferences.

Touchbar affordances are better than the iPhone in that the persistent touch buttons are immediately above hardware buttons. My mute button is directly above the + key. My volume control is directly above the - key. My brightness control is directly above the 0 key. I can get a finger there without looking and immediately adjust by sliding left or right.
While your local law may give you some tools (thinking of the new European GDPR thingy), practically you cannot take influence of what is done with your data once you publish them/give them out of hand. Best you can do is counter misinformation by keeping an up to date CV in the web (say on your website).
Well, it's a bit like renting an apartment vs paying down a mortgage, right? On the books they (IBM) will almost certainly still be paying the subsidiary (RH), and the subsidiary will still record and report the revenue. But IBM is now building equity with its payments up at the consolidated reporting level rather than shoveling the cash out the window.
How GraphQL empowers Data Communication
I think they design computers not because they're arrogant but because it's their job.

I get that they don't always hit the nail on the head, but then who does? Hopefully they will learn from their mistakes and get better.

Also, I think a lot of their users do like the computers they make. There are inherent tradeoffs in any product that isn't isn't entirely custom designed for a specific customer. (Actually, that's a tradeoff too, since an entirely custom designed computer with tiny production runs would be very expensive.)

Anyway, I don't think you should get mad. For yourself, go get the computer you want. (And for work, well, like most of us, you lose some personal flexibility when you work with other people. Hopefully, the greater things you can accomplish as part of a group is good compensation, or if not that, then at least the paycheck is.)
RCV is better than FPTP, but it still mathematically converges on a two party system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q7rzqJ0YS8

https://rangevoting.org/Duverger.html

There are better single-winner systems that truly fix this problem, of which the clearest example is approval voting.
Disclosure: I'm an IBM employee working on legacy enterprise architecture absolutely nowhere near Watson. If modern stuff is on the left side of spectrum (AI/ML, CI/CD, Javascript and web frameworks etc), I'm somewhere at the edge of solar system on the right side of the spectrum :)

That being said, my personal impression from the market, and completely unauthoritative, is that Watson is a brand-name, NOT a single product; it's a collection of products, some built, some purchased, some integrated, some stand-alone, some simple, some complex, under the AI/ML/"Cognitive" umbrella. Most companies have branding/pillars - in IBM, Infosphere used to be information management, Lotus was collaboration and communication, Rational for project management / testing / modelling / etc, and so on.
So you have "Watson Predictive Analyzer" and "Watson Chat Service API" and "Watson AI Doodad #37", etc where you can seamlessly take out Watson, replace it with IBM or not at all. There is no single Watson product that I'm aware of. Some stuff was likely even re-branded from previous analytics/BI into Watson branding as deemed appropriate.

Globally-intentionally or not (opinions differ wildly), market perceived "Watson" as "that big machine that won Jeopardy" - a single drop-in product, as opposed a suite of independent products that can certainly do many things, but need hard work at data cleansing, formatting, modelling, testing, etc to do useful things.

I mean, cognitive/watson/AI implementation projects seem to be order of magnitude faster than my experience with Enterprise Architecture projects; but still not a "plug in box, push button".

My $0.01CAD :)
Shadow profiles. Man everyone wants and answer on these
My definition is that software engineering is about the management of complexity.

Complexity in software proliferates faster than in any other discipline precisely because it is so easy to create and change. The difficulty is not in writing or editing a line of code, but in understanding how that line of code interacts with all the other code in the program. The essence of software engineering is building large systems in such a way that they are as easy to understand as possible.
The Nation’s Largest Commercial Insurance Company Has Ditched Covering Coal
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I think the Pi team unintentionally became dependant on the time window they normally spent using test boards based on pre-release versions of the Broadcom sytem-on-a-chip. When the Broadcom chip went final really early they ended up shipping a half-baked version of the board along with it.
I love to hate on it, because it is impossible to "program it to show what I want". I want keys I can feel. I want to not silently trigger whatever goddamn touchbar "button" because one of my fingers grazes over it. I want to be able to hit the appropriate "button" by touch.

"And as for physical keys, with Karabiner, there is no need for those keys as they are too far away from home row anyway."

Or you know, we could just have the physical keys.

So maybe slow your roll on how all of the haters just didn't "invest the time". Sometimes stuff doesn't work for people and it's not a learning curve issue.

I can appreciate that it may work for some folks. Maybe you should appreciate that it doesn't work for others.
Amazing. I wonder if there will ever be a CCG comprised entirely of AI-generated cards.
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France does two rounds, first round all the candidates, second round top 2.
Unrelated - I'm browsing this page right now over a proxy that's part of a project I'm working on in Haskell, using BearSSL for HTTPS. I can't of course speak to the correctness of the crypto primitives, but the project is small, self-contained, well written and easy to navigate such that writing the Haskell wrapper for it was relatively straight-forward. Great project.
use multiplexing to speed up SSH
I use both Mac and Windows at home. Trust me when I say that you'll prefer the Touch Bar, as bad as it is, over Windows.
I was referring to the Guns N' Roses album.
The personal, quantifiable damage to me of every one of my guest records in my past five years getting stolen by some shadowy cabal is zero. That's because I haven't done anything particularly interesting. Neither have most people. If you're ready to wire me a few hundred dollars, I'll be happy to share records of my, and my wife's stays with you. It'll be a waste of your money, but who am I to judge?

A few people have done some very interesting things. For them, those numbers are substantially higher than zero.

You haven't disproven my point. The quantifiable, median damage is zero. This is relevant, because this sub-thread tries to quantify the harm by taking the fine, divides it by the number of records, produces $3, and posits that the leak has done more than that amount of harm. Because, obviously, if any harm comes, the harm is over three dollars.

Well, yes. It is. If you can measure the harm, of course it's more than three dollars.

For most people, though, the harm is immeasurable. Pointing out that the median harm is zero exposes the absurdity of the original argument.
Tcl/Tk is much a better choice of a toolkit for this job.
Karabiner can map it to Esc on its own, but to Ctrl if you combine it with another key. Best of both worlds.
In the US you can't copyright a list of facts, and a resume is mostly a list of facts. You can copyright the presentation of the facts, if its sufficiently distinctive from other presentations, but your hypothetical ai company isn't going to keep the presentation around. They're going to copy the facts into a database that they can query.
I thought the fuel tank had to be relatively empty in order to land.
If I was to do it again, I would teach Git with paper - have the class augment a paper tree with paper nodes or something else tangible. You can even have them write a collective story instead of code. The more abstract the topic, the simpler the analogs to get the largest subset of users to grasp it.