skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article:

"The pattern could be voter fraud or a demographic trend that has not been picked up by extensive polling, she said."

So it seems like there are multiple possible explanations being investigated for the apparent discrepancy, and the data will be helpful in figuring out which explanation or mix of explanations is correct.

(though there is probably also some snark in that -- the current Kansas Secretary of State, a Republican, campaigned heavily on a platform of forcing voter ID and other requirements to combat alleged voter fraud, so painting him as being opposed to investigations when there's a discrepancy in favor of his party is a neat little jab)
That's what I'd heard at first, but I remember being corrected and told that it was much friendlier than the public assumed, and it was basically treated as gcc's unstable branch.

Also, remember that egcs started out as a merger of several devs' individual experimental forks containing stuff like new frontends, new architectures, and optimizations for specific processors. The projects that went into egcs were all pre-existing projects; egcs was just a consolidation.
There's the problem; we would have to incarcerate him all his life, or kill him, which is unethical from the current life philosophy (for such a crime).
3 Lessons MSPs Can Learn from Kentucky's Epic NCAA Run
> companies "valued at billions" literally cannot specialize in "shit no one needs".

Yes they should diversify into "shit no one wants", "shit no one knows about", "shits no one gives" and "shits not taken".
Greggman, first off, these resources are great, thank you for making them available!

As for the 2d rasterization vs 3d math question, I've bumped into your philosophy online before and never commented but found it did touch a nerve with me as you suggest. I'm not entirely sure why, but its as much an emotional argument as a logical one.

After I thought about it for a while, I concluded that you have a valuable and interesting point. But every time I read it I keep wondering a couple of things, so since you're here I figured I'd just ask.

First, why deny so absolutely that WebGL is 3D? I've been feeling like your point might have more traction with graphics programmers if it left the question open than claim to close the book. Even though you're right, you need to do your own math, WebGL still does accept 3d data, and it does 3d operations on that data. WebGL enables 3d graphics, and denying that it does that is inherently problematic, isn't it? The argument that amount of prior knowledge necessary to use a library should dictate the category of a library also seems pretty subjective to me, and in my experience doesn't generally hold - not many libraries I use are truly black box libraries that don't require prior knowledge. My personal use of OpenGL has always involved me doing a lot of 3d math myself, just like my personal use of OpenCV requires a lot of prior image processing and computer vision knowledge.

Second, why try to convince the internet that WebGL is 2d and not 3d, as opposed to, say, the Khronos Group? If all the official sources of documentation call WebGL a 3d library, then isn't this argument probably going to be futile and never ending?
I feel like Zed gave up on this project too early. He created it, gave it an initial promotional push and then "turned it over to the community."

There were a faithful few people who kept contributing to the project, but it did not have anyone pushing the project forward significantly after Zed left.
Not all permutations are issued as "standard issue" stamped plates and some states have a format where there wouldn't be any confusion about where number and a letter would be. Customized plates might have a chance but they're free to refuse to issue any plate they want and if there's an issued customized plate with any ambiguity in the OCR, they can just run through all the permutations and match it against secondary values like color, make and model or the registered owner's address. The odds of two people with a late model red Chevy truck living in the same areas of the state with similar travel routes, one with something like 'O0O0NMN' and the other with '0O0OMNM' is probably astronomically low.
"Best tool for the job" is not a knowable truth. Best for what time frame? For what shifting array of tasks?

Often we pick the tool that will be perfect for high performance or a known task, but if you're still figuring out the product, why not make an MVP using what you know? I rarely see anyone fail because they chose, say, PHP. <cough>Facebook</cough>
Big thumbs up for your stance on auto - eminently sensible. There are instances where "meh, you don't need to worry about the type here" are valid, but if your code is to teach or explain then it needs to be as explicit as it can possibly be.

Edit: that's not to say that there aren't also cases where you should use auto because it is safer than using an explicit type (some integer sizing/signing scenarios spring to mind).
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I think Manjaro is actually the most popular distro based on Arch. Has versions with XFCE or KDE pre-installed, and has packages for many others (Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, Gnome, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, etc). Main difference from Arch is that it maintains its own repositories and adds Arch updates only after they're deemed reliable. (Although if you'd prefer to use Arch repositories I think you can install Manjaro and convert it into plain Arch system.)

A couple others that I believe use Arch repos and rolling-release updates directly:
ArchBang (Open Box wm):
http://www.wiki.archbang.org/index.php?title=Main_Page

Bridge Linux (Gnome, KDE, XFCE)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/bridgelinux/

There's list of all the Arch-based distros here:
http://distrowatch.com/search.php?basedon=Arch
Corruption is too simple a term for what's going on. In part, because portions of all of those programs are useful for spying on foreigners (which was apparently the original intent) and legal (for which a whole raft of laws need to be changed while we reform the other process).

See, non-American dickpics are perfectly fine to collect and may be useful intel or leverage or whatever in the future. I have no problem with that - collect all the information on people outside the US, be they friend or enemy or even frenemy, that is wanted or needed. Just don't go looking at or collecting American dickpics.

If you have a problem with that, you were born and live in the wrong country.

And dickpics is a useful illustration, because people can understand that. So, if they think "Shit, they can see my dickpics? What else can they get?" then the illustration will have done it's job and we can move on to the next step.

* by dickpics, I mean intelligence.
PukingMoney's excellent presentation at DEFCON 21 has some tips on how one can (legally and illegaly) obfuscate your plate.

https://www.defcon.org/images/defcon-21/dc-21-presentations/...

It's a really great primer on a number of issues concerning free travel in the USA and what law enforcement can and cannot do. Also covers other possible ways that the government can track your vehicle (toll transponders, tire sensors, etc). Read the whole thing when you have time.
And then there's spoilage, and returns by customers (some people will return anything to a store..)
The constitution already protects privacy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griswold_v._Connecticut

The government tries to violate the spirit of the constitution all the time. It will just require a supreme court ruling banning mass surveillance via licence plate scanning. Even then, I'm sure various LEAs will try to worm their way around the ruling.
Hey detaro, thanks for the comments. Artists can sign up and claim tips directly, we send the money and that's it! You can always see the status of your tips, and can also claim them back if they haven't been claimed. We want to be as transparent and accountable as possible.
Suffering from HNDoS; read it at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

Also links to http://impossiblehq.com/get-disciplined-not-motivated and http://thereallimegreenandloki.tumblr.com/post/101385465984/...
For the record, the original title before someone edited it was "Gradberry (YC W15) Spamming GitHub Users"; the parenthetical was then edited out.
Thanks Matt! Give it a try and let us know how we can make it better!
Given github has a desktop interface that is super simple and easy to understand and can be explained in a single sentence, I am not sure there's any reason to not use it.
This has been a side project of mine for the last couple of weeks.

It's a really simple JSON database: you can create lists and fill those lists with chunks of JSON data, all via a REST API.

In many of my projects, I usually find myself repeating the same pattern - building a database and API that serves JSON - so I figured that a generic JSON storage system would make things easier.

To be honest, I'm not really sure how useful this will be to anyone, but I'd love to hear your feedback. Specifically, are there any features that are missing that would also be 'essential' for this sort of thing?

I've got a few ideas for features that might make it even more useful, for example:

- multiple API tokens per account, and the ability to set read/write permissions (per list, or even per item) for each token.

- 'typed lists', where each list has an attached 'JSON schema' which gets checked every time an item is added or modified.

- sorting/searching, where for each list you can define a set of paths (using JSON Pointer format), each path would represent a field that can be sorted or searched on. I'd need to extract the values and index them separately for sorting/searching to be fast.

Anyway, let me know what you think!
I said it elsewhere, but it's just a sign to the removal crew so that they don't have to look [hard] for it. It might be unnecessary, it might just be up the whim of whoever was working that day. We don't know, and so I'm not going to call it a conspiracy. An exception (i.e. protection for the display of public art, even if scheduled for removal) would be pretty great, just not a high priority for our public officials unless we're vocal enough in our support here.

Edit: Oh sorry, you meant how does covering up help with the potential of it falling... Not much, except to possibly prevent people from being interested in it and going near it. Only the people who know what it is already would be interested. But I don't think it's actually going to fall, just that if they're going to remove it there's no surprise that it's covered. It's not uncommon at all to see tarped statues in Parks when any sort of maintenance is being done for a variety of reasons.
I will second Expert C Programming.
ICANN has a process?

No, really, they're just making stuff up as they go along. The idea of this kind of "extortion" has been around for decades, since the early rounds of DNS root name expansion.
Thanks for putting up the cache link :) it's actually an outage on directVPS' end so I hope they resolve this fast
> You can always see the status of your tips, and can also claim them back if they haven't been claimed.

That's a good feature to have, thanks for including it!
Firefox disables “opportunistic encryption” to fix HTTPS-crippling bug
Have you seen this VR demo: http://youtu.be/fAhzW4blqvM ? It looks similar enough that I bet it's inspired by yours.

Yours is a very fun demo. I tried modifying it to move more work to the GPU. I had the CPU only update a subset of the particles each frame and the GPU would interpolate a curve to fill in the missing frame updates. It sorta worked. It was N-times faster and could do more particles. But, the interpolated curves were progressively less responsive and fun.
The Fraud Problem of Free SSL Certificates
Software development has a gender balance problem
> do face recognition already.

Someone hasn't been paying attention.

http://edition.cnn.com/2014/06/01/politics/nsa-facial-recogn...
So, you're trying to tell me I have too slow hardware to see some
visualization? Good job, I would say. How about seeing my data on a smartphone
or tablet or even on a microwave display? Requiring a decent desktop to merely
see the data is ridiculous.
Beloved Brontosaurus Makes a Comeback
Great stuff. I personally find it useful to have an additional "Regression" label to tag bug reports that have cropped up as a result of new work (this happens surprisingly often).
Solution: Stop building apps for your content. That's what the web is for. If deep-linking is a requirement, it's probably not well-suited to an app.
3 Common Roof Leak Locations – Prevention and Repair Tips
Are the alligators dangerous while canoeing though? Can they topple the boat or what if you fall out?
Going Indie
Thanks! I was talking specifically about causing tax problems. In that other thread there were some very vocal people who seemed to be talking about real problems, so I was curious.

(I'm not a recording musician, but some of my friends are)
Yes and no. Perhaps when the first edition was published that was true, but the second edition was published 11 years later.
"While trying to duplicate Touradj’s results, we discovered that the early version of libvpx ( November 2013) he used, had a bug that produced invalid vp9 bitstreams and encoder / decoder mismatches with the settings he used. "

-- James Bankoski, Director at Google, former CTO of On2
The Potential Upside to a Technology Bubble
> Well yes, but is it self-signed (or otherwise "invalid" cert) because the user was MITM or because that's what the server handed over?

Is it HTTP because the user was MITM or because that's what the server handed over?

Again, why one rule for HTTP and another for self-signed. It is inconsistent. HTTPS sites being hacked and turned into HTTP is a real and common problem, yet where is HTTP's red bar of danger?
What Happens When Personal Information Hits the Dark Web
My post would make a lot more sense had I not forgot to include the link: http://www.llrx.com/features/usapatriotact.htm
Is reading a license plate on a public road an invasion of privacy, though?

Looking inside your car might be, but anyone can read a license plate.
Syntax is like getting used to math symbols, but once you do, you can really do a lot with a little - very expressive. I find myself in the J interpreter or APL workspace to hack away at solutions much more so than in any other language. I am not a web developer.
My favorite camping spot in Florida was actually surrounded by gators and you could hear them talk all night long. It was the place they brought all the central Florida nuisance gators to live.

Never once had an incident or even saw a gator near our camp ground. We would have over 600 Boy Scouts there and never a problem.
And ffmpeg vs. libav
Ask HN: Government DMV makes a geometry mistake?
One of the questions of my state's written driver's exam was:

"How many inches of water can float a small vehicle"

Note the use of the word float, not drag. Their answer is 6 in.

This is probably wrong. Can anyone give me an example of:

- A street legal car that can go on the freeway with standard tyres that will float in 6 inches?

Since I'm in a rural state,

- A street legal car that can go in the freeway, with any street legal tyre installed (even if it wouldn't fit in the tire well). I'll even allow the exaggerated tyres not lift the car or weight it down.

You can assume the tyre is a cylinder (not a toroid) and is massless.
>Encoder JM 18.6 HM 15.0

>3. SUBJECTIVE EVALUATION

Those are the reference encoders for the respective codecs which - to my knowledge - do not perform any psycho-visual optimizations or if they do not with the level of sophistication of state-of-the-art implementations such as x264. They're not meant for practical use

While google's vpx library on the other hand is intended for practical use.

Even for PSNR measurements (which are of limited relevance) this would be questionable. For subjective evaluation it's outright useless.

These results should be taken with a ladle full of salt in my opinion.
> People don't steal ideas.

while it feels counter-intuitive, this is absolutely true. people don't steal your idea because theirs is always better.
So, every time ICANN wants more money they can just roll out a new TLD that has a negative connotation?

There was a big uproar in the mainstream press when Taylor Swift bought up a bunch of explicit domains that could be used to deface her online presence... ICANN could just open up more explicit TLD's and she'll have to buy more and more.

Or what about companies buying up entire TLD's without intent to be a registrar -- like Google's $25 Million purchase of .app.

In short order all the "good" TLD's will be squatted on and we'll be in the same exact boat we are now with .com,.net, etc.
I rhink there's something fishy with it: you overcome several hurdles to fuzz OpenSSL and then - miraculously - you come up with Heartbleed.

And the best of it: only Heartbleed. nothing else. Nothing more.

Looks like it really went that way, but what are the odds?
Even in Rocket Internet, the value is mostly in the execution, they have the resources and the expertise to copy any kind of project and they can create a whole team from scratch really quickly. And they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea, before being copied by Rocket Internet you have definitely more important things to worry about.
afl-fuzz is pretty powerful, no doubt.

But beyond dynamic analysis, someone wrote a static analysis feature to find heartbleed as well: https://github.com/awruef/find-heartbleed
True, and this is one of the harder lessons to act on. Brilliance in = brilliance out, right? At the most basic level shipping product can be the difference between fail-pivot-success and fail.
I don't see anything that indicates she only thinks it's wrong when Republicans get the benefit. All I see is that it just so happens that the anomaly in question favors Republicans. Is there some similar effect that favors Democrats that's being ignored?
It's not that surprising considering how dangerous but necessary electrical work often is. If you screw up, you could die, the building could burn down, other people could die, etc.
The supreme court also once ruled that black people could not be citizens and had no standing to sue in court. That's the problem of depending on interpretation. If a right to privacy is important, it should be explicit.
Impressive. Though your demo works (for me) only in Chrome (no error and no audio in FF & IE11).
Is there a word for government and corporations weaving themselves together?
Reflex: Practical Functional Reactive Programming (part 1)
Well one of the problems is that SSL does two things: Server Authentication and Encryption. Since there is nothing backing the identity of a self-signed certificate, it can easily masquerade as whatever it wants.

Yes, a CA-issued cert and a self-signed are equilvent when it comes to encryption. But with Server Authentication, its too easy for self-signed certificates to mislead people, and that is deserving of the red-X in my opinion.

You may be interested in the Opportunistic Encryption that Firefox has just enabled: http://bitsup.blogspot.it/2015/03/opportunistic-encryption-f...

It allows for SSL encryption with a self-signed, and ignores authentication. So not red-x, but no green padlock either.

EDIT: Opportunistic Encryption seems to have caused some problems: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2015-4...
I don't understand this point:

> "Republican primary results showing strong statistical evidence of election manipulation in Iowa, New Hampshire, Arizona, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Louisiana, Wisconsin, West Virginia and Kentucky"

Primaries are crazy. There is very low turnout overall, so a few very motivated candidate campaigns or groups can really swing them and since many of those groups operate on the local level, they can cause noticeable blips.

In general, statistically weird things happen during elections, because there are so many possibilities for weird things to happen. For instance, there were around 60 precincts in Philadelphia that didn't record a single Romney vote. Those precincts represented over 19,000 votes, and on the surface that would appear almost statistically impossible. But it isn't really indicative of anything and can be explained by looking at the demographics of those areas.
That is the standard meaning, and is identified in the article: "bypass a site’s home page, whisking you straight to some specific location or product"

(It would still be a deep link without the affiliate tracking info.)
Dynamo and Riak
Indeed, \max \{X_i\} has a very skewed distribution.
In those cases, I fall in love with the projected result. Visualizing a bunch of people happier because some obstacle is removed is motivating. More so when they start emailing you their joy over this pain point being removed.
I think you should observe more on microsoft stack. Big change, new ceo , new policy. Some product change to open source, some product change to free
if your friend updates and you don't, the encryption still fails though
Most people with Chron's disease should avoid spicy food due to chemical irritation and sure the mechanical issues are also important.

However, a nutritionist will suggest a heathy low fiber diet when dealing with a partial obstruction etc. Eggs vs red meat might seem like a simple change, but once a range of dietary restrictions show up a heathy diet becomes a lot more difficult.

Anyway my point was there is a lot of practical diet research out there.

PS: Chrones also frequently causes issues with nutrient absorption and a high protein diet is useful for healing. So, there are some classically nutrition based changes.
No. If you read about the recent Audi that went from SF to NY with Delphi's automation and Google's self driving vehicle intelligence, both are design to handle not only aggressive drivers, but also pedestrians and cyclists.

There is no reason to replace every car at once, except that it would save more bad drivers from themselves.
Female Attraction to Narcissists
The Grid – AI Websites That Design Themselves
Sweet, thanks! So what would that (e.g. 10x the energy density) mean for consumers in practice. Can we expect 4x the range on a car, or the lifetime on a phone? Is this something we'll see around 2020, later, earlier?
Why 'Cultural Diversity' in the Workplace Needs to Die
Yes, it's typically a hallmark of fascism (seriously, look it up).
I've completed a certification in TIG, MIG and Stick welding and metal fabrication.

Welding overhead is considered more difficult because gravity is making the molten metal run away from the joint. Less metal in the join means less strength. Too much metal means you have wasted welding rod AND possibly put more heat into the weld than needed which weakens it as well.

For pipe welding if you can imagine a horizontal join of 2 round pipes, coming around the underside is where you will be doing an overhead weld.
Ideas are like assholes, everybody has one.
Is arch relatively approachable for a linux noob who has logged a bit of time on Redhat and Ubuntu?
What do they think about programming? It's true
Since most browsers shipped these together (as they're closely related), it would be very surprising if this didn't happen at the same time for both.
Apple and Google agree: Only wearables can save humanity
I still struggle for why someone would go RethinkDB over Hardoop. If you have the "Big Data" issue for using a Non-SQL DB (Another struggle of mine to find a clear case for its use).

Why go RethinkDB when you limit what you can do with your data at the start. You can't do so things but the big one for me is you really can't do statistical analysis (Author pointed it out in the article). Why have a Non-SQL that really hinders the biggest selling point for the non-SQL DB? Wouldn't it just be better to use a SQL and expand the scheme horizontally???

Serious question that I don't understand.
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