skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they've discounted upfront there going down overall...?
The number of people who can actually comprehend the operation of a computerized voting system, let alone inspect it (not possible without an electron microscope basically) is incredibly small.

Yet the possible impact of subverting it once is incredibly large. Paper ballots are not unhackable, but they do require a conspiracy. People have to turn up and take physical actions which can be comprehended by most of the general public.
"Mathematics for Machine Learning" by Marc Peter Deisenroth, A Aldo Faisal, and Cheng Soon Ong.

https://mml-book.github.io/
I like the boiled eggs in plastic at Walmarts. As though it's just a stretch too far to expect someone to take eggs in their existing shells and boil them briefly!
I think looking at Macau is a good example.

They are in the same political and cultural position as Hong Kong: 1 country 2 systems, colonized by a European country, speak Cantonese, etc. but there are no protests in Macau.

Why? The economy is doing well and people there are relatively well off.
Those 'welfare cheats' are feeding you.
PathFactory received $15M in funding:

https://www.crunchbase.com/search/funding_rounds/field/organ...

Amount of traffic to pathfactory.com is negligible:

https://www.similarweb.com/website/pathfactory.com/
You are their target audience then.

>how much effort the publication put into fact-checking and confirming references.

Looks like you can read Chinese, so tell me if they do what say, why are there so many allegations of fabrication and plagiarism against this "self-media" on Chinese social media?

EDITED.
Games typically need only access to video adapter, sound card and maybe network. They do not need access to your browser's cookies or history, or documents folder, for example. This probably doesn't require using VM.
> considering the obvious implication that it's a parent talking to a child

This made me wonder how many kids are switching to a different branch of religion. I've seen a bit of moving to a completely different faith / no religion, but almost changes of denomination.
Well aluminum does take a whole lot of energy to manufacture, so if it doesn’t all get recycled there would likely be a lot of waste there.
> See, in this family, we DON’T just want to maximize the overall quantity of individual happiness (like Bentham). No… In this family, we want to maximize the overall quantity AND the quality of individual happiness (like John Stuart Mill).

But daaad, this now becomes a multi-objective optimization problem, and there are potentially an infinite number of solutions that lie along the Pareto frontier...
I don’t consider “getting laid” a significant accomplishment.

I think dating is a two way street. Women, by and large, do not want a short term sexual relationship. Which is why I’m careful not to sleep with someone unless I know I am open to marrying the girl; otherwise, I put myself in a position where I can really hurt some lady’s feelings because I let my “small head” make decisions for me.

If a girl does want a purely sexual relationship, such as one girl I dated who was struggling with a drug addiction, that usually means they have some emotional issues. In that particular case, I did not sleep with her, but did what I could to help her emotionally: I let her take naps at my place because she had issues sleeping, and I had her make friends with some of my friends in a youth group I was going to so she would have more connections and friendships to help her with her emotional issues.

When dating, it’s important for me to remember the people I am interacting with are human beings whose feelings are just as valid as my feelings.
And of note, the manufacturers of voting machines get out there and make public statements that they are not politically neutral - https://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/09/business/machine-politics...
> prehistoric model of "hey let's download a .exe on the web, execute it without any sandbox, and let that .exe install other .exe from thousands of other unknown sources around the world and run them without any sandbox either."

What year is it? To me prehistoric means buying a nice big box with a CDROM or some floppies and installing with no internet required at all. Shell exes that want to download crap is the current nightmare we are living in I thought.
Yeah, seems disingenuous to prematurely do analysis on 2019 data when the year's not even over yet. Even more so when we see that the top 10 hits average follows the general trend for the top 100.
The Google Play store’s visual refresh
Back in 2011 I posted a similar question to Quora. I've since deleted my Quora account, but here's the email notification I got about an answer:

===

New answer to "Why can't I add my public SSH key to more than one account on GitHub?"

Andrew Naoum:
Because when you push via SSH to "git@github.com", it needs to uniquely identify who you are given the SSH public-key.

If you had the same key associated with multiple accounts, it wouldn't know which user to login as.

===

Perhaps if GitHub changed the SSH user to be something like username-projectname@github.com, then SSH could authenticate you with a single key but preserve the other information needed to b narrow down to a project or organization.
I run 5 miles 3 times a week. Usually on the same loop. I use the stopwatch app on my phone.
I’m in total agreement. We give corporations a lot of freedom even when that freedom is unnecessary and leads to significant environmental and societal harm. We’ve got to get some power back for the people so we can say “no, you don’t get any shape. You have to agree to a limited number of shapes and they have to be totally recyclable.”
Downvoting anonymously without justification seems cowardly.
Not my specialty, but website shows two versions available for download (at least for free non-commercial use): 64-bit "on-demand" or 32-bit. Both have a similar no benchmarking clause.

https://kx.com/connect-with-us/download/

32-bit version: "(c) 32 Bit Kdb+ Software Evaluations. User shall not distribute or otherwise make available to any third party any report regarding the performance of the 32 Bit Kdb+ Software, 32 Bit Kdb+ Software benchmarks or any information from such a report unless User receives the express prior written consent of Kx to disseminate such report or information."

But more broadly, feedback from the finance/capital markets suggest that the choice of kdb's proprietary Q query language vs. standard SQL is top-of-mind, expanding access and insights to time-series data from a small set of highly-specialized engineers to any of their developers / analysts / tools.
Ask HN: What is your hardware side project?
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> we're talking about a political system that can be legitimately defended.

If you think authoritarianism, (organ harvesting and concentration camps) can be "legitimately defended", sure. You go with that.

The economic growth of the last few decades has no causal relationship with the form of government. If anything the reforms of the 90s/20s were delayed by CCP incompetence. Think where they would be without the corruption and party nonsense.
I’ve got five the majority are from the USA.
Have you ever tried Swedish Snus? It's supposedly healthier than smoking, and no need to spit like chewing tobacco.

If you try it. make sure you get fresh stuff before you pass judgment, because it ferments inside the package if left out for too long.
Just about the time Chrome and Firefox came out with working debuggers for JavaScript, everybody rushed onto non-debuggable bandwagons, so we’re back to the bad old days of using “alert” to debug...
Yes I do sympathize with this in that, put bluntly, I'd also prefer that a programming language be developed by a smaller team of highly skilled people, as opposed to making the process as accessible as possible. But I really think there are ways for everyone to help out while retaining the feature that the most important and challenging parts are contributed to by the appropriate people, without upsetting anyone. And I think it's possible that Rust might be a shining example of such a thing. Clearly, in modern western society, it's hard to avoid this discussion acquiring a political dimension. And honestly that is something the open source community might need to address openly and attempt to do a better job of schism-avoidance than other areas of society.
I’ve seen OJ go from 2L to 1.89, and now 1.75L.

Pasta: 1kg to 908g.

It’s bullshit.
Wow I haven't seen those before. The reddit images were really powerful and disturbing. There's no arguing that the Chinese government has committed atrocities and is trying to cover them up.

My point is just that, I feel like the Western dialogue is often "Look at these horrible things that happen in China. Isn't propaganda sad?" My point is that propaganda is happening everywhere. Yes, it's happening in China blatantly and fragrantly. But everyone needs to be wary and alert that it might be happening even in seemingly "safe" countries.

For instance, I enjoyed your vimeo link and it compellingly documented the obvious censorship of the issue. The video made clear that some people clearly know what happened on 6/4 but it's not socially okay to talk about.

Interestingly, there is a small and consistent mistranslation in the subtitles. What the video translates as "don't record it", is "don't record me". Aka, some of the subjects take issue with the videographer recording people without permission. In addition to the sensitive topic, (I imagine) some part of their discomfort on screen is due to being randomly interviewed and recorded. But this was seemingly mistranslated in the videographer's favor? I point this out, not to argue with the message of the video, but to show that there is nuance/spin happening everywhere.

Thank you for taking the time to share these very interesting links. I'm grateful that I live in a place where it's possible to have this open and reasonable dialogue.
How many years have you spent in jail as a political prisoner?
Yes. Depends on liquidation preferences. If a company is not “crushing it” and sells then investors get back their money before anyone else. Carve outs for execs and some principals may also happen to integrate an acquisition
Is this free? How do I know google wont terminate it?
I feel like a reasonable middle ground to these issues is for communities to perhaps embrace “metapackages” that serve as community maintained “standard libraries”. In the R community we have tidyverse, which is practically a full mirror of R’s standard libs at this point.

These metapackage communities can then focus on interoperability of constituent packages w/o overburdening the standard libraries, and core language can remain lean and concise.
Yeah, I never said I quit nicotine. Just switched to mostly gum.

It seems as if you were trying to maximize your performance, you'll ingest nicotine in a way that doesn't go through your lungs.
Where on the page did you find that? I looked but didn’t see it.
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Once u have used all all your resources - what else do u do? Enter a new market, under the guise of alturism, give that country cheap credit... and soon enough you have a new colony!
The plastics and chemicals industries -- as a chemistry professor used to put it -- are but a pimple on the butt of the petroleum fuels industry.

They are a tiny portion of what's getting produced every day. And as long as petroleum keeps getting pumped out of the ground for dirt cheap and getting burned, plastics will be an inevitable byproduct.

It just costs pretty much $0 to make new plastic from that stream of petroleum, versus recycling which takes human effort, more equipment, logistics, etc.

Until we tax petroleum coming out of the ground for all the later problems it causes us, I too am disappointed but resigned to having recycling being a further waste of resources.
I just found I have one of those bulk bin stores near my office. Its slightly more expensive and I have to bring my own containers but I will never again buy a single use packaged item that I could get packaging free from this store.

The insane amounts of damage we are doing with all this plastic needs to be controlled. Recycling is not the answer, reduce and reuse is.
There are a bunch of good arguments here: https://www.thirty-thousand.org/
It takes willpower. Believe in yourself, draw a line in the sand, you're no longer smoking real cigarettes. Stick with it. You're the one in control of your actions.
Abstraction and the Equation of Life
It can be as little as $1500, if one makes a point to go to a coffee shop and have the first date over coffee. Indeed, the date where I fell in love with my wife was a $5 coffee shop date.
Partisanship in this country is a huge problem. It also has been deliberately encouraged by our leaders.

In a number of measures, the effects of partisan bias are much stronger than the effects of racial bias. [0]

[0] https://news.stanford.edu/news/2014/october/dems-gop-polariz...
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I haven’t followed China’s expansion into Vietnam as closely as I should’ve. Do you have any articles I can read on the above, or good twitter accounts to follow on the topic?
I once got a 10KG sack of rice from an Asian store once. After a year it got full of tiny bugs less than 1mm in size. Now I buy 1kg bags that I can more easily seal airtight with pegs.
They already don't spend time equally. Currently they spend time where the expected votes are closest to 50:50. Why is that preferable to going to where there are the most undecided voters, which is what would happen?
Ew. You're not supposed to just eat this. It's a protein replacement. Still eat your fruits and veggies and everything else.
Pictochat (2004)
What's even better than putting your plastic bottle in recycle is not using plastic bottle at all. Is there any use case where plastic bottle is better or required?
Interesting, that's a good case. Though it's a bit of an extreme one, because it's jitcode for a CPU emulator. I'm not sure how relevant that is to Rust, though it's certainly worth keeping in mind.
Soft skills are as important, if not more important, than technical skills
If talent, luck, resources, and a temperament for hard work are assigned randomly, some people will have all of them, and you will find them at the top. What stories they tell themselves or others about the key to success are irrelevant, because only people with every advantage can be the best. That's what being the best is. How can one factor be more important?
But also some regulations to keep the permutations down would be super helpful. Mandating that all the things are recyclable would be super helpful.
I did admit to being a little pedantic.

But upon reflection, it's arguable that the paper would have been more interesting if they had included L-canavanine, in addition to L-arginine and three analogs with shorter cationic side chains. Because we know that it can be incorporated during protein synthesis, in place of L-arginine. But none of their analogs can.

So if L-canavanine had been incorporated into peptides in their tests, more or less as well as L-arginine, that would arguably have ruled out their hypothesis.
Thanks. That's how I feel about it, but I don't like to make decisions while I'm upset and/ or angry. Seeking opinions just in case there is a significant downside that I'm overlooking.
Don't be a pitch change denier. Part of the pitch increase problem is the increased volatility and one season of abnormally low tones does not change anything. Global consensus is that pitches are on the rise and we must act now before it goes ultrasonic and us old people can't even hear it anymore.

Oh wait, nevermind, that wouldn't be a bad thing.
The rules are just insanely complicated and depend entirely on what suburb you are in. There are countless different kinds of plastics which all have the recycling triangle on them but you have to actually check the number inside and remember all the kinds of plastics there are and which ones your local council can recycle as well as keeping up to date if this changes. And then you have to deal with the fact that loads of products use 2-3 different kinds of plastics on one product so you have to sit there breaking it up in to its basic materials.
Would you consider a company like Ticketmaster a tech company in that case?

What about pre-merger DirecTV?

(In the former case I think it pretty much meets the definition but is not traditionally thought of in this way; in the latter I think they are very dependent on low-margin but non-zero scaling but clearly tech-enabled in the same Netflix has become)
There are 2 separate externalities with different costs:

* CO2 emissions through burning fossil fuel

* plastic garbage with 1000 year lifetimes being littered around the planet

While we should absolutely be addressing both, you have to target these 2 problems separately

Edit: To clarify what I'd propose would be a tax on fossil fuel production, and then an additional, much higher tax on production of things like plastic bags
This is pretty wrong. Most women I've known (friends/friends of friends) have pursued short term encounters at least once. Women enjoy sex too, as frequently as men. What turns us on is different, but that is a different point.
I readily buy their conclusions, but this really should be placebo controlled.

MRIs are loud and obnoxious and upleasant. If you told me that this result (observed on MRI#2) was entirely the consequence of having done MRI#1, I would find it plausible.
I was part of a smaller acquisition Splunk made. My existing options at the original company were worthless at the time the deal closed. Instead Splunk and our management agreed to pay us out in cash that was lower than the value of what Splunk paid. In turn Splunk slapped on the golden handcuffs for those they wanted to keep and bumped up our salaries and threw the standard four year vesting RSUs at us with everyone starting at day 0. The rumor was our founder took the lion's share of cash on acquisition. Once I was in Splunk it was, unfortunately, what I feared. Beyond a lot of mediocre mid-level management and everyone calling themselves rockstars I asked about how a specific prior acquisition had gone. Most Splunkers were pretty candid about how poorly that had gone (it was their UBA acquisition, I was part of the SOAR acquisition). I saw the writing on the wall within a few months and left money on the table. It just wasn't worth it to me to stick around as I had been in a similar size Valley security company that was equally as bad.

It's unfortunate this is what the landscape has become. On one hand I'm happy for the SignalFX founders to have made it and hit pay dirt. But everyone else... Yeah, they're all going to get swindled on the deal. Sure you'll make some money but not nearly as much as a select few and even then there's a good chance anyone who tries out Splunk internally runs into the same wall myself and a bunch of my peers did. Splunk, Palo Alto Networks, IBM... They're all are done innovating. These companies buy relevancy and then are proud of their accompliments in changing the world. Or that's what they tell their prospects, customers and themselves. So much great technology and brain power are getting locked up in these non-R&D companies who are at a stage of run rate revenue but still think they're a startup that will continue to pull 50% growth YoY. It's absurd.

Splunk isn't good at acquisitions. I've seen it first hand. I'd never go back there willingly. I hope the SignalFX crew ends up better. But at the end of the day you're working at Splunk.
It's not like mainlanders every really had a choice. Their own protests were crushed with tanks in 1989 and they've been relentlessly propagandized on everything from the papers to the schools to social media since then. I have zero doubts such strong propaganda efforts over decades would yield similar results on the vast majority Americans had it happened here.
Those athletes have trained for years and have a heart that is well conditioned with strength and cardio. A normal person who is moderately physically active is nowhere near their fitness level. That’s why nicotine is a dangerous thing to gamble with. You might be fine, or you might have afib/vfib that leads to an MI. Rather avoid the risk. Plenty of more potent PEDs out there that don’t cause adverse cardiac events.
> It's also politically preferable for the US to depend on a hundred small countries instead of one big competitor

FTA:

The Chinese model of the past 20 years thrived on suppliers being close to each other, making production quicker, less expensive and more efficient. Now, as operations become more fragmented, they are threatening to raise costs, stretch delivery times and expose companies to multiple tax and labor regimes
From the report cited:

> Compared to midyear of 2018, the number of reported breaches was up 54% and the number of exposed records was up 52%

> Web remains the number one breach type for number of records exposed, accounting for 79% of compromised records, while Hacking remains the number one breach type for number of incidents, accounting for 82% of reported breaches

Also, almost every breach was of a system with between 10 and 1000 records, so mostly small systems.
What you said is right. Thank you!
They'll spend more time campaigning in the areas with the most people who can be convinced to change their votes. This isn't necessarily going to be the highest population areas, as those areas tend to be solidly liberal.

I don't know why the electoral college would be better at identifying high need areas than willingness to change your vote. Shouldn't people who need help be more likely to change their vote than to live in a purple state?
There are no more bridges to burn - it's only me and one other developer. By "toxic" I mean that the "interim" CEO, who was not selected to be the CEO, is now ramping up rhetoric that puts the blame for his bad decisions soundly on me. I know the score - whether I leave now or in two weeks, every bug, design flaw, or bad business decision relating to the software will be my fault. I don't want to play into that any longer. It feels like staying in the house with an ex after the relationship has ended.
If you want to build your own micro PaaS, which is from Git to Deploy (on a Kubernetes cluster), check out https://rio.io (disclaimer: happy user).
Correct, no city compost here and I'm in an apartment building so I can't put a pile of it in the backyard
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Yes, but the FDIC equivalent in Germany is 100k, which doesn't help you if you're in the business of buying 30 year bonds (usually that's institution buying >10MM)
I'm super glad it was taught in your high school history class!

I dug up my AP US History textbook and found that it was covered in half a sentence. So I guess this was how I missed it: https://photos.app.goo.gl/6x8Zfgh8HSuCbRdB8
This comment indicates the problem! Taking the scare-quotes "enterprise" as a synonym for "bloat", one person's necessary feature is another person's bloat.

.NET is an interesting case, because of WinForms, which is a de facto part of the standard library. I think few C# developers think of WinForms as bloat; it's very convenient for making simple UIs. Yet putting, say, GTK+, in the Go standard library would doubtless be considered bloat. I don't think there are easy answers to these questions.
That's an interesting implied point. Does it make sense to hold gold on paper, if it's mostly useful in highly messed up situations where paper gold would become worthless?
Lots of things are cost centers. SRE is a cost center. OPS is a cost center. Companies still pay a fortune for services that optimize these areas.

Hell, why do you think Splunk has 1 billion dollars to burn?
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They would expect other states to not be able to dictate things against them, not necessarily them against other states. This is looking increasingly likely as political opinion on immigration, gun control, abortion, etc continues to divide further left and right.