skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"experiences elections", like the surrounding part of my comment, was referring to how every other position that electors get to weigh in on are by popular vote only.

I specifically was not referring to positions that are not.

If we want to talk about Head of State selection processes, I am a fan of Switzerland's Federal Council which contains 7 heads of state that act together but represent the interests of the constituent parties, while one acts as a frontman for diplomatic purposes with other nations. It maintains professional tact privately and publicly - concept only rarely strained in Switzerland's Federal Council history - and more importantly maintains representation. A brief civil war between that collection of small counties and cities was needed to get those reforms and other forms of direct representation into their constitution.
> It took about 200-300 matches, which became 40-60 active online chats, which became 12-18 in-person dates, to find the woman who became my wife. So about a 6% match to date ratio.

Stats like those make me not even want to try. Wow.
We're actually in an abberation right now with respect to how states select Senators. Originally, state legislatures selected senators, not popular votes. Direct election of senators has only happened since the 1970s, and imo the senate is functionally gridlocked unless one party has a super majority or decides to lower the threshold for getting things one to a simple majority.

I wonder if we would be in a better place if we retained the old system.
Bay Area housing is an economic bubble.

One of the signals that the analysts used to correctly predict the housing bubble existing in 2007 was growth rates across mortage payments and rental prices. As mortgage payments grew faster than rental prices, and diverged, you have evidence of a bubble.

Currently in the bay area, the cost to rent and the cost of a mortgage payment for the same type of property are so drastically different that it is a signal we are still in a bubble. So many people jump into owning, only to become "house poor" because of it.

That said, prices are dropping so just be ready to pull the trigger if you find an opportunity.
In that case Federal government has to regulate fewer things and needs to have less power. President's executive order will affect people in California too but somehow people in Wyoming had 2 times more power to elect this said president. I don't think this is fair at all. If you say States are given inalienable right to veto any and all law/executive order passed by the federal government, then you might as well just keep the senate (2 repr per state) and it could still be considered fair. But the current system blindly favors rural parts of the country.
If I remember correctly it's like this:

RUN cache is invalidated when the text (the whole RUN line) itself changes, which can be bad if you update a remote zip archive that you download with `RUN curl ...` and then expect the image to be updated after a simple `docker build`. This also goes for `RUN apk add ...` where the package might have received critical security updates but you're not getting them into your image because the cache is used.

COPY and ADD caches are invalidated when the hash of the actual file content that's added changes, which is usually what you want.
Kubernetes vs. Docker Swarm. Who’s the Bigger and Better?
Trueface Can Tell How Old You Are
Within the e-commerce niche, conversions matter the most - how you convert a window shopper into an actual buyer. This means removing all sorts of friction points. Turns out PWA is really good at page load and it works just fine.

Flipkart, a major e-commerce firm in India, increased its conversions by 70% just through their PWA approach: https://developers.google.com/web/showcase/2016/flipkart
One thing I like about Rust a lot is that it lets you choose which hit you want to take when it comes to polymorphism. You can manually (and without much difficulty!) prefer dynamic dispatch if it's important to you to keep your binary size small, but you can also choose static dispatch and allow some replicated copies of your parametric code if that's what you want to optimize for.

It's also worth noting that if you are using polymorphic functions that are only ever called in your code with a single known type parameter, then your program should be just as efficient as if you wrote a monomorphic version with that fixed type in both runtime _and_ binary size, which means the only disadvantage to the polymorphism there is compile time.
The question is how large the dollar risk of default is.
What is unconstitutional about a state using its constitutional authority to cast its votes for President?

Why should fictional state borders take precedence over actual humans when allocating voting blocs?
If different states have difference needs, then those states residents will vote for leaders who serve them.

Your problem seems to be that that giving supreme power to an arbitrary majority
is flawed. And it surely is. But giving supreme power to an arbitrary minority is surely as bad or worse.

Old people live in every state.

If you have a problem with old people exercising their sacred voting right too much, surely the solution is to enable young people to vote, not give rural state citizens extra vote weight?
> "Sanford Levinson, a constitutional law scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, is sharply critical of the Electoral College system, but does not believe the interstate pact would solve all of the problems inherent to America’s election design."

Same argument as we can't try any gun restrictions because none of them will stop all shootings.
I doubt it. The Republicans will just have to move their platform just enough to the left to appeal to whichever state has the 270th vote.
Requiring people to pay for the opportunity to vote is effectively a poll tax. I don't understand anyone trying to argue against this in good faith.
Right? As I was reading GP, all I could think is that there are a million other instances of an issue having two interested but opposed parties, one being larger than the other, and in advanced pluralistic democracies, we generally find ways to balance the two interests that don’t involve completely hosing one party. I recognize that the Electoral College was developed in a context where people were very concerned about tyranny of the majority, but it’s a drastic solution to a not altogether exceptional problem.
It looks like the author is most bothered by compile times of dependencies.

Cargo needs to do better with shared caches (so you compile each dep at most once per machine) or ability to get precompiled crates (so you don't even compile it).

Incremental improvements of compiler speed or trimming of individual dependencies won't bring the 10x improvement it needs.
This really sucks because the USDA has an amazing food database of nutrition information. Its pretty much what I rely on for maintaining my renal diet. I can't even find such a complete list in other countries (if someone knows inform me!) https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/search/list
Can you do both? Fast compile time and slightly slower execution time for debug build using dynamic dispatch and long compile time and fast execution time for release build using static polymorphism from the same code base.
Yes, heavily. If your blog doesn't have an RSS feed, I won't read it. NewsBlur is incredibly powerful and makes filtering 100s/1000s of feeds easy.
8 years ago, in a thread about YC partnering with Yuri Milner: [1]

> there are people in the Valley who are willing to overlook ethics if you have enough money.

Seems very little has changed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143897
> Yet when you go and look at the long-term graph, it's well within normal variance. There's no evidence they're connected at all.

What a completely mathematically and financially illiterate thing to say. Whether or not a market move is within “normal” variance has nothing to do with whether or not it is clearly attributable to a particular economic event. If Jerome Powell says something about rates or Trump tweets something about tariffs and the market moves 1% in the exact minute that happens you can pinpoint the cause of the move with pretty high confidence even if 1% is not significant relative to the long term variance.

I’ve seen this bizarre sentiment propagated on HN before. A lot of people seem to think it’s never possible to identify the causes of market movements (even when obvious market moving news is released).
A representative democracy by definition means that each vote does not count exactly equally.

My point is that while the current setup probably dilutes CA liberals voting power the most in terms of the EC, there are other ways the system works that is particularly empowering to CA liberals.
Yeah, there are definitely ways of securing versus someone with physical access, but I expect most machines with a non-sandboxed steam installed probably don't have them.

This privilege escalation attack is probably never going to be used if the attacker has physical access.
Show HN: Kurload – pastebin directly from terminal with netcat/socat
The electoral college was created to protect Southern slavery.
The "masses" he is speaking of were slaves, whose bodies were used to give voting power to their oppressors.
Splunk Acquires SignalFx for $1.05B
> For example in the UK it seems likely that the Digital Verification Act will require ISPs to block access to pornographic sites that don't comply with the legislation.

While there is clearly lots of potential for abuse, this seems to me a discussion where tech companies make things awfully easy for themselves.

Like, what is the supposed process to block a website that should be blocked if browser developers do everything they can to keep the ISP from doing so? (Assuming the hosted is not cooperating)

Or is the opinion really that nothing at all should ever be blocked? No pirated media, no malware, no child porn, no nothing? Then, what gives e.g. Google the right to block apps from their app store?
Yup, OP's time is in reference to App Engine Flex, which is much slower to deploy.

I normally see 1-2 minute deployment times depending on the application.

(I work for GCP)
You'd be surprised how infrequently someone does a basic sanity check on the voluminous economic numbers published by the government, all of which are derived from models (probably in a spreadsheet somewhere). Every so often a fresh pair of eyes in the government will notice an obvious flaw in the output of the model, which typically causes a one-time correction to be issued but they don't necessarily retroactively fix previous official numbers. Most of these errors happen with numbers that are sufficiently obscure and specialized that it isn't newsworthy.

The underlying methodology for the BLS model is prone to serious bias and brittle. You can see this in the level of disagreement between the BLS numbers and the widely cited ADP numbers. The ADP numbers also have significant fundamental bias, but it is an entirely different kind of bias so both models capture effects that are largely invisible to the other. For Americans in most parts of the US, I think the ADP numbers are a bit closer to ground truth but take either with a large grain of salt.
> Why do any of these concerns need Federal intervention to solve? Why can't LAC and Arkansas and Nevada manage their own affairs?

Because issues like immigration, national defense, and environmental policy are all national issues. California voters are held hostage to the preferences of the people in Nevada, even though they vastly outnumber them.

> everyone talks now as if no locality at all can survive from day to day without Federal benefits

They plainly cannot. The federal government funds a large portion of everything from infrastructure to education to healthcare, but our government structure ensures that only people in small states have a say in how those programs actually work.

Maybe your argument is going to be that they shouldn't fund those things, but the fact is that the majority of Americans disagree with you on that.
No. But states' representatives will often work together across party lines to try to do something that benefits the state. "Political power of a state" is not a totally idiotic concept.
The Senate is who convicts impeached officials. They approve judges and cabinet appointments.
https://gist.github.com/ZeroCool2u/c818f89906c9b46d28cb7de85...

The project I created it for isn't public yet, but I made a gist that provides an example workflow and the steps required to make it work.
Canada did something similarly irretrievable with a bunch of scientific records during last federal conservative rule.
It is a design decision from a time where the general belief was that template designers played in a lower league compared to "real" software developers.

It is 2019 and personally I see no reason to think professional template designers will shoot themselves in the foot if we give them too much power. We are all consenting adults...
That'll be the day when we get accurate measurements from things where pride and ego is on the line and the sunk cost is glacial.

"I spent a chunk of my life trying to be successful in an overdone, woefully lopsided, race-to-the-bottom social creation. I wasn't even mildly successful in the attempt. Nobody acknowledges my effort/sincerity/investment, in fact I learned it's exchangeable for nothing. Trying to follow the dream, I compromised my dignity and integrity in bid to succeed. I feel I failed at a fundamental goal 'everyone' is expected to do to 'make it'" (fear of missing out)

"Jim spent years of his attending college, moving and settling in an apartment hours away from home. While he attended courses for 3 years, he didn't complete enough credits to finish the degree. He's still paying off his loans. When job searching, it took weeks to even get a lukewarm response for his resume. In desperation, Jim drastically lowered his standards, not telling anyone, redoing his resume to adapt to different positions even when they offered little long term growth, in hopes of getting any feedback. On some resumes, he even lied about his qualifications. One time Jim even drove 5 hours to meetup for coffee that turned out to be a MLM recruiter" (failure at career)

"Jacob burned thousands of hours on dating apps. Most thwarted his bid for physical proximity, let alone emotional support, security, and reliability expected in a partner. He was routinely spurned by individuals he thought unremarkable, which he'd never consider or even notice in real life. Trying to make himself more appealing, he lied about his height and income. On some occasions, Jacob spent months chatting with a connection, investing enormous amounts of time in hopes of meeting them, only for them to ghost him. On the rare occasion he finally met someone in person, they looked much different than their pic. One time, a date revealed being courted by many others over years and still using the app actively." (failure at love)

Work and love is a life and death thing. The day people candidly report they sunk time/effort and they were hurt/humiliated attempting to conform to "normal" social escapades, pigs will fly.

That said, I know many people who were successful at online dating, and of course college (with varying extents of completion). Of those, I think their positive outcome is in spite of the avenue/venue picked. They were uniformly great communicators/empaths/confident and very motivated.
This does not make any sense to me. Elections is not a game, it is people's inalienable right to have equal representation compared to others. If politicians decide that State X doesn't matter since it's not powerful with respect to EC, this is blatantly undemocratic and needs to be fixed asap.
Kazakhstan is not closed country. You're free to go anywhere.
The city/rural divide in American political rhetoric is mostly a populist dog-whistle for the conflict between secular progressivism and Christian conservative identity politics.

There are legitimate issues with agricultural funding, infrastructure and whatnot that fall along those lines but mostly when people say they don't want "small state X run by California" or "New York" what they mean is they don't want Federal laws passed which force those small states to adopt more progressive or leftist policies than their local culture would be comfortable with.
So WeWork is more like McDonald?

I wonder how close they are to McDonald in business model.
Watch: Patriots vs. Panthers. Patriots.c
https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/livestream-new-england-patriots-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-preseason-week-3-streaming-tv-7db1cc5e8dfd
https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/livestream-new-england-patriots-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-preseason-2019-week-3-streaming-tv-8e6044c4e463
https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/live-free-air-new-england-patriots-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-preseason-week-3-streaming-tv-8ffcf05140a3
https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/live-free-air-carolina-panthers-vs-new-england-patriots-nfl-preseason-week-3-streaming-tv-150dc0d4cb4c

https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/free-live-air-carolina-panthers-vs-new-england-patriots-nfl-preseason-week-3-streaming-tv-b6b525fae544

https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/livestream-official-12-00-gmt-patriots-vs-panthers-live-streams-reddit-67aa8ffd0208

https://medium.com/@patriots_panthers_game_live/reddit-free-air-new-england-patriots-vs-carolina-panthers-nfl-preseason-week-3-streaming-tv-bdb9186037f1
Many of the IPs will likely belong to CDNs or shared hosters, so that would instantly make a larger number of unblocked sites unusable as well.
There's no guarantee that the module's memory is strictly isolated; I don't recall what the specification says, but on a technical level there's nothing stopping a WASM implementation from exposing the same memory range to multiple WASM modules (and in fact, I can imagine this to be a very common use case for multiple memories, e.g. defining STDOUT and STDIN as memories shared with other modules, with one module reading and the other writing).

Most (all?) WASM runtimes currently enforce this isolation, though, for security reasons. If any do allow memories to be shared between modules, I'd imagine it'd be very explicit and opt-in.
Businesses hiring real SF cops on OT to keep crime down, employees safe
The government is by, of, and for the People, not the dirt they walk on.

The tyranny of the minority who sit on emptier ground is not a sacred value.
Why Apple is dropping the “I” from product names
Yep, and that was in a location which favored me. Online dating is a numbers game.

Here’s what made Latin American dating bearable for me: If I hit the point where we met in real life, I made sure to enjoy my time and company with the woman, even if we were not a romantic fit. I made a lot of friends who I could socialize and play cards with, so dating and meeting all these women was a lot of fun.

Also, all the interaction made it a lot easier for me to read signals from women; when I met my wife, I was able to see she really wanted me and was already falling in love with me on our first date.

Here in the US, women treat dating like a job interview, which I don’t enjoy as much as the “Hey, let me take you to the movies, play cards with you, and have fun socializing together as friends” mindset I had with Latin American women.
If they get a duplicate report they should let you know the disclosure timeline and keep you posted on progress fixing it. If they're not doing that they have no right to prevent disclosure.
>> gold has not outperformed even cash in the last 30 years.

It is specifically geared to underperform it in markets like this, so it's doing its job.
Six-minute lithium battery recharge for phones and cars
Very well. Appointed people are not always political. I bet that an appointed election supervisor would be political at least some of the time, though. (Source: human nature.)
You are literally quoting the guy who shut down the DMV locations. Politicians can and will say anything to get what they need (reelection).
It highly depends on use case. If I have web application running on 100 nodes 5mb vs even 10mb has such a minuscule cost that it not even worth calculating. Now benefits for ops from just having to push a single static binary without external dependencies are fairly decent.
A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration
> CEO without one?

Like Steve Jobs?

> CEO with an engineering background

I mean, Lisa Su and Jensen Huang are great. But I'd argue that Elon Musk is terrible as a CEO.

I mean, you're asking the very basic Bill Gates (Programmer background) vs Steve Jobs (non-programmer) question. Obviously there's a difference, but I wouldn't necessarily say that the lack of engineering background hurt Steve Jobs.

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I'm not entirely sure if an engineering background is necessary to be a good or bad CEO. The most important thing is being able to lead your workers. For some, it means being a technical leader, understanding the code and product.

For others, like Steve Jobs, it means being a visionary and making the right business choices. Another great non-technical CEO would be Warren Buffet, a great CEO and visionary: being able to predict the future of the American economy and place investments in the right place.

There's lots of ways to lead and inspire others. We programmers worship technical leaders, because that's our strength. But I'm aware of many other styles of leadership, and respect that too (Steve Jobs, Warren Buffet)
> When Chinese students step outside of China to study, they are struggling to adapt to a new education system, and are frequently confronted — in class, in daily life, and online — with assumptions that they have been “brainwashed by the Chinese government.” It makes some feel attacked and reaffirms what they were taught in China: The West is biased and hostile.

Many Chinese people in the West still read the same propaganda, hang out with the Chinese people. It is difficult for them to be un-brainwashed.
> It's a little unfortunate that some of the cool features of Rust need to be put into the "use sparingly" category.

This is just the reality of engineering -- there are no silver bullets.

Sure, it'd be nice if any language could give you the space efficiency of dynamic dispatch with the runtime efficiency of monomorphized generics, but those two things are fundamentally in tension. Neither Rust nor any other language can fix that.

Rust at least gives you a fairly easy choice of which you want in any given circumstance. Most languages just pick one or the other universally.
Whether you use LTS versions or not, you must update your JDK every 3 months or so to stay secure, and must perform full regression tests. That we've recently changed the version naming scheme and started giving the 6-monthly updates new integer numbers does not make them major releases. I understand that people are confused because LTS and feature releases perhaps mean something different for Java than for other products, but the probability of an update breaking your app to the point you need to change code isn't much higher for a feature release than for an LTS patch. Updating to feature releases is overall cheaper and easier, it just requires companies to adapt. We realize change is hard and it will take time, but we believe this is the right approach. Those who have made the transition seem to agree.
It turns out that there’s another mechanism to accomplish this: a collection of states adding up to a majority of electoral votes can agree to cast all of their votes to the winner of the national popular vote. Hence the subject of the article.
Naturally, this means that farmland should be taxed more, not less. /s

But no. Land owners make money extracting rent. The difference is that farming is subsidized.