skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but note Illinois is also well-represented in the font, this time with significant Democratic party over-reprentation (13 out of 18, for a state that is not nearly that skewed in presidential elections, say).

Turns out, gerrymandering gets done by whoever happens to be in power. :(
Thanks for posting the studies. This might be considered bad faith but the parent comment struck me as anecdotal and I wanted to press where those sources were coming from.
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Wow that's a great blog post I wasn't aware of!

I think the main evil is representing the data as a network of pointers, which peak worst cache locality.
On-device learning is a thing.

Indeed. I am increasingly suspecting that the next swing of the pendulum back towards thick clients will be driven not by reliability or performance but by privacy and security.
Yes and the barrier to do that is so much higher than OP's suggestion. It's so high that it's nearly impossible.

Idealism is great and all, but you gotta have a practical plan to achieve something.
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The problem, as I see it, is that positive impact on a large enough scale that matters requires orchestration that we aren't equipped for as just software developers.

The beauty, though, is that we are more than just software developers. We are also humans with compassion and the capacity to plan and execute.

But planning and executing a software project is different than planning and executing a system whose output is "social good".

Our strength lies in our ability to create tools, but tool creation is only part of the equation. There's also the monumental task of building the social infrastructure to support whatever good we're trying to bring into the world. That's a task we're often not equipped to complete on our own.

It seems, then, that we should look at it through a similar, but subtly different lens.

Instead of asking "what's the best way to help people with software", maybe the question should be "who is already making a difference, and how could software increase their impact?"

Reduce your scope. Don't look for new ways to help society. At least not yet. Instead, look for groups of compassionate people who are united toward a common goal, and ask how software can help them achieve it.

I hope that helps in some way.
Which they then served as a blurry (in my browser, at least) gif. I have no idea which #'s are bold.
I'm not sure what you're suggesting. Individual districts are going to have problems the the rest of the state or country don't know/care about. Having a representative for these districts makes sense.

For example, in my district (Brownsville in Brooklyn), we have an almost tragically poorly-ranked school system, due largely to bad funding and high crime rates in the area. I don't expect someone from Midtown Manhattan to care a whole lot about these specific problems (I know I certainly didn't when I lived in Washington Heights).

In an ideal world I guess I'd agree, everyone would care about everything at the exact appropriate weight, but that's not the world we live in. Certain problems will go ignored if we don't have fairly-granular representation for an area.
But the requirement for the credit check is from the bank, renter, employer, etc. They aren't being forced to do that, other than the economics of risk.
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Will give this a try. As a remote team, this is the sort of stuff we’re always interested in iterating and improving upon.

I will say, the pricing feels like it will be a deal breaker. The product will need to add a ton of value to justify that price point. I’d honestly expect something like this to be closer to 4 or 5 dollars per month per person.

What’s the best way to share feedback with the team?
Why would I be? What’s wrong with having choices of the size/price you want in iPads? Which ones would you propose they get rid of? Have you looked at the product line up of other computer and phone manufacturers?

If you want a choice of Android phones, laptops or Windows PCs you have dozens of choices. Apple has to cater to all of the market segments that it cares about.
You've unsubscribed. You're no longer a customer. Why should they care? (Other than if they want to be decent human beings.)
Looks interesting, I'll definitely check that out. It's also comforting to hear about music recommendation companies getting acquired ;)
Wait...hmmm...but I thought Google was built by the CIA.. https://bit.ly/1IFvbsv so confusing (j/k :: sarcasm)...
No, I don't have any evidence either way.
For what it's worth, a bunch of the things in this font are weird-shaped because of coastlines...
Like Mozilla? I think if such an organization existed, I would hope that it recognized the conflict of interest in such an arrangement and be working to clarify or rectify the arrangement.
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Someone should hack in and download it and publish on wikileaks
Then the justice system is relying on faulty technology.
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Oh wow, got dozens of subscribers to that latest hifi cottage playlist. That's a lot by my standards. Thanks for the interest, people. I hope you all find something fun in there: I really enjoy doing this.

With this development in mind, I'm going to keep this playlist current over time with our new adventures in hi-fi. I'll move the previous content to separate playlists for archiving.

Bummer that Spotify hid playlist subscribers a while back so I can't see who all of you people are!
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No, it doesn't. Because what the district votes for isn't necessarily the party that drew the lines. The goal of gerrymandering is to create safe districts for yourself, and your opponents (But more safe districts for yourself).

Just because a district that looks like a dragon riding a spaceship votes blue doesn't mean that it was created by a Democrat. It could have been a Republican, who attached all the areas that were likely to vote D to that district. (And ended up turning the neighbouring 3 districts, which look a little less insane into solid R blocks.) Or vice versa.
http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.com/2015/08/everyday-dsp-for-p...
Yes, thank you. Perl was an absolute earth-shaker back in it's day. Even still it's a fantastic language for string manipulation. Much of Ruby's beauty, expressability, and powerful string processing is thanks to inspiration from Perl. It's disappointing to see people crapping on such a venerable language.
Come on guys, it's not an uncommon name by any stretch of the imagination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowley_(surname)
> The US is a spectacularly prosperous country, and all it seems anyone talks about is how to fundamentally change the systems that made it that way.

The things that made America so wealthy were changed pre-2000. It takes time for those changes to really impact society, and for people to realize it. And no one really talking about "fundamental" change. They're talking about raising taxes back to what they used to be like in the 60s and 70s. Not just in terms of the rate, but the percentage of the tax burden that falls on each segment of society.
But.... Let's try again... How do we know that?
Much the same was said about going to space in the first place, decades ago. Now we have satellites able to aid global communication services and information dissemination, as well as observation and analysis platforms available to billions, including farmers in poorer countries, so they can improve their lot.

Who knows what the next stages will bring? if we mine platinum and gold-heavy asteroids, we can make common use of previously-rare elements, or (as Bezos wants) foster an environment for heavy-polluting, but critical industry, to go off-world.

Never mind that the entire technological evolution necessitated by the process can be used to better humankind's lot.
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Perhaps it's time to push back and start using better apps then.
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Wow, it's strange that I could've written this same post.

Similar reasons for subscribing digitally and the same lack of other stories I would find interesting. I'm sure it's great for LA but a lesson learned - subscribe digitally to national or local.

Cannot fault the LA Times for their focus but there is a real concern with the way they do business when it comes to these digital subscriptions. You can sign up easily enough yet when you want to cancel, you have to call in and spend 10 minutes on the phone. Plus, you're given multiple sales pitches for lower-priced offerings when cancelling.

This type of dark pattern for a well-known newspaper could itself be a tech news story.

What could be worrisome is this kind of difficult cancellation process will put people off from supporting other news organizations via subscription.
This isn't as much of a joke as it sounds.

I've just written a utility I needed in Perl. I tend to think about some things in the long term, and this utility is something I want to be able to run 10 years from now.

[it's a concistency checker (hasher) for file archives, to find out if the bits in your copy are really the ones you put there, important for multi-GB photo archives — see https://github.com/jwr/ccheck]

I do most of my programming in Clojure, which has excellent backwards compatibility and takes a long-term perspective. I still run some unmodified Clojure code from 8 years ago. And yet for really long term stuff, I would much rather write it in Perl. It has been around for a very long time, is very mature, and can be expected to last, even if it isn't the latest fashionable trend.

Take a look at the various programming languages+environments around you: there will be very few where you can expect to be able to run your code even 2-3 years from now, much less decades later.
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Two of the three openly trans women I know have ASD siblings; I hadn't ever thought about the connection before.
What happened to "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." As expressed by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, published in the 1760s.

Seems you're willing to punish an innocent man and a guilty man just to make sure a committed crime is followed up with a conviction.

Why have such a low bar in 2019?
To be clear, I was only talking about this particular problem, and engineers who might deal with it, not engineers in general. That was my experience when I visited, and apparently at the time the problem was not being dealt with properly. India is probably not a good example of how this happens in a lot of cities either, but I'll grant that Mexico DF has location problems from being on top of a lake etc.
What's a non-legitimate evolution of language?
The original point of having districts was because states are "too large" and you want people representing an even smaller geographical area so that truly local issues are represented.

And in many places that's still the case, and is actually useful and important to get local issues surfaced properly.

For states with heavily gerrymandered districts, though, I agree: might as well just do away with districts and have the entire state vote for their entire roster of representatives.
Why can't the result itself be the map prior->posterior (instead of the result of applying this map to a fixed prior)?
I think the soy idea has been debunked for some time now. The main external estrogen source is milk and to some extend meat products.
maybe because we could have a lot of bad side effects if we try to prevent something we don't understand
Wait this is game changing
Blizz still has it with 'starter editions'. There's free to play soaking up a lot of people that would want that business model. A lot of people that care about what they're going to buy ahead of time get involved in predictions about the quality of the product and they will back them in early access. Steam frequently has 'free weekends' for games, so you can play it over the weekend. Also steam has a 2 hour or less window for refunding games you have bought.

And of course there's always piracy.

The business models have kind of exploded and it really depends on what kind of game you are talking about.
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The T district doesn't even look problematic to me. Nor does the other California letter, X, which is made up of a combination of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_8th_congression...

and

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%27s_14th_congressio...

...both of which seem like textbook examples of what a good, non-gerrymandered district should look like.
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That's fun, I just started & enjoyed the katas from cw and planned to do yours after skyscraper 6x6
Do you think there's more chance of this happening, versus Barbara down the shops being shown a photograph and saying "oh yes, that looks just like mcny from two doors down"?
Or it shows that people will actually show up for $125, but not for $5 or lower numbers that are more common.
There are many approaches they could go, they could improve the live session approach (for example saving between sessions), which could also help people who repeatedly run scripts on the bash (for example with a --save-session flag). It wouldn't solve the very first plot but it would help all "first plot within the current run", which is probably most of the complaints.

The one that people would probably appreciate the most would be an AoT alternative (allowing you to create a runnable/linkable binary with a function/module without embedding the compiler, at the cost of the dynamic features such as eval).
I don't think that would give you the information you think it would.

Gerrymandering includes packing opposition votes into one district.

So whether a district is red or blue tells you nothing about whether it has been gerrymandered by a republican or a democrat
I dearly hope I live long enough to get to see footage of what the Rings of Saturn actually look like, somewhat up close.
I think gerrymandering is typically willing to sacrifice a few districts to make the majority of districts less competitive
Still, presumably they aren't usually more than 3-5 people. Much easier to get that group to switch than your 400 Facebook friends.
I don't follow what you're saying. Are you facetiously parodying your impression of religion? If so, let's just be clear that of the two of us, you're the one preventing a rational conversation and stereotyping me based on what you've seen other say, something most people hate when religions do it.
Because 1 in 3 email adresses is @gmail.com and google learns very fast from the Spam button. So if you want your emails to arrive to the subscribed people...
What's wrong with D? That looks like a pretty reasonable district. B is the worst one I think.
Here's a sample

https://is.gd/KAduzx (.jpg)
I would like to try this out, but am not willing to go through the current setup process. You should add a way to be notified when you are done with the first version of the app. I would gladly give my email or twitter.
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