skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bunch of academic research in this area -- how to build an encrypted ballot box that lets you audit that your vote was counted correctly, but prevents anyone else from seeing what your vote was.

However, a fundamental problem with any kind of online voting is that it doesn't prevent your vote from being coerced: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2006/12/12/erosion-secret-ball... The best known way to do that is to make you walk into a secure area, secretly make your vote on a piece of paper, and put it in a common ballot box. That's the system most countries already have!

E-voting also fails to solve voter suppression problems -- how do you decide who gets a voting ID?

Finally, this kind of thing just isn't needed right now. Is anybody claiming that fraudulent voting was a significant problem in this election, or in any recent US election? Where's the evidence? The current highly decentralized system is already pretty robust against widespread fraud (though slightly less so as electronic voting machines become more popular).

There are far more important problems to solve, like voter suppression and the extreme polarization of politics.
What I found most interesting was that it was right in the middle of London. You'd think that his bunker would be out in the countryside far way from the attacks of the blitz. But then again, I guess he needed to be close to the politicians and the decision-makers. To me, it looked like after the war was over, they all just got up and walked away...
Great overview! Would be even better as a general guideline if it included costs for HD/SSD disk writes and network usage!
> That's why you see decline in growth in high developed countries in Europe and USA.

US GDP growth looks about the same since the '80s, with variability due to puntual recessions:
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth

Same in the EU since the '90s (where the data starts): http://www.tradingeconomics.com/european-union/gdp-annual-gr...
Did I miss something? Will every hate crime is now going to be blamed on Trump? Do what effectively are riots in Portland count as one?
I used to be the proud hodler of 6 dogecoins, until I reinstalled the laptop the wallet was on. Much sorry, very loss.
> Took me a week alone to convert a huge system.

Can confirm. Porting even huge code bases has become much easier lately thanks to recent changes in Python 3 (unicode literals!) and Python-Future. "from six import u" and many other hacks are no longer necessary.

Try it, and there's a huge friendly community there to help you :-)
Sure there is. Posting an article that was contrived by hate groups, is hate speech. Convincing someone to commit suicide because of their sexual orientation, political views, is hate speech. It's not that hard
A house takes up physical space. Intellectual property doesn't.

The reason we have property taxes is because maintaining the environment around the house costs money. There's no roads and sewers and schools for books.
is there an age limit?
That dissonance can be resolved relatively easily by throwing money at the problem and eating non-mistreated animals. Love/eat is a harder moral problem IMO because there is no acceptable workaround, at least today. Someday there will be one: we'll be able to buy synthetic meat that's truly equivalent to animal meat (maybe grown with animal stem cells), and eventually the harvesting of real animals will end. But that won't mark any kind of moral evolution, only a newfound ability to not have to make a choice.
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According to her? Her!?
And what would a woman have to lose, if there was a whole caste of psychologically outcasts to disappear? No social justice warriors and priests to be pressured into services with loaded husbands? Your expert is not neutral, this whole machinery that spawned her, heavily depends on all gears turning as they turn now.
Which doesn't make the machinery bad, quite contrary.
I support the upholding of pressure on pedophiles - it guarantees a sort of basic contract security, even if society would be near-collapses. In a era of total surveillance, their crime-rate is bound to drop to zero- but the continued exploit of thought-criminals is a necessary stabilizer. Viv la Leviathancybernetics!
Many people would consider torture worse than murder, basically.
Personally I'd call a crime inspired by political views a hate crime and I would hope the courts would as well. If not, i'd be open to defining it that way.
The fact that there is no baseline presented and it's some sort of reaction to a perceived increase in hate crimes post Trump is telling about the author. This is either naivety or ill intentioned. Frankly the reaction from CNN commentators, protesters and the armchair outrage on Facebook is a little over done. Because a small amount more people voted for Trump than Clinton doesn't mean we've suspended our constitution, individual rights or protections for protected classes.

And for the record I am not a Trump vote, just an independent thinker.
And even if they were this is getting crazy 50 or so million people voted for him, calling them all racists is a joke.

Not American, not a trump supporter but I have a huge disdain towards demagoguery of this level.
Super Position has real analogs in all wave based systems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition_principle

That is reality. I mean if you are actually questioning the wave-particle duality of nature then yeah, you technically should.

Particles aren't real, they're just waves.
What are your thoughts on telomere extension? I feel like a combo of the two fields will have great results.
You already have open-source end-to-end verifiable secure voting systems.

Full Disclosure: yes I work at nVotes/Agora Voting
https://nvotes.com
https://github.com/agoravoting/agora-dev-box

This approach uses a mixnet (like Tor) to anonymize the ballot so that the secrecy of the vote is preserved. Only if all the election authorities are compromised, the secrecy of the ballot is at stake, but in any case the election is end to end verifiable (this is a sentence that means that specific requirements are fulfilled).

This particular internet/electronic voting system is already being used by many organizations in Spain and Europe.

PD: Yep, nothing is 100% secure.
PD2: Yep, census/user authentication is still an unresolved problem in computer science. In Spain we have a government-issued electronic ids but it's no use because of the difficulty of using them.
Can also recommend The Crown on Netflix, with American actor John Lithgow masterfully interpreting the Old British Bulldog. There's even an entire episode devoted to the affair of Sutherland's portrait commemorating Churchill's 80th birthday, considered one of the art world's great lost masterpieces:

Secret of Winston Churchill's unpopular Sutherland portrait revealed

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/winston-churchill/11730850/S...
Most of Big Pharma's medicines don't actually work.

As in, they don't work to cure the underlying condition. They work to treat the symptoms, and thereby require you to take the medicine fairly indefinitely if you want to by symptom free, side effects notwithstanding. Thereby extracting economic value from the generally unwell and ageing population and concentrating it in the hands of Big Pharma.

In that way I see most of medicine as being fraudulent.

Also, you're probably being down-voted for your last sentence, as it is, as you say not appreciated here.
Right, they have a few historical claims. But none of them have any proof for those claims and their confidence is off the charts.

Some of their statements pass the first filter, far fewer pass the second.
You can't have "real-time" if you have to wait for verification.
I wonder if Trump supporters will care iF he really does appoint FCC chair in favor of big business over citizens?

Do the majority of Americans even know what the FCC is or does?
agreed, they're worse.
Globalization has been questioned for decades.
I recently used BeautifulSoup in a Wikipedia scraping project. It's definitely a great tool but it had a few annoying functionality issues.

I had some preprocessing using decompose(), which can take lists of attributes. However it cannot decompose multiple attributes at once such as anchors with a certain title and table elements in one call. It felt cumbersome to call it multiple times.

It seems like Scrapy does exactly what I needed though (click on the first link in the article), which would have saved me a ton of headache. So it goes.
Thank you. Very cool to see.
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Surely there is outcry at the shutting down of 2G due to the number of senior citizens with their mobile phone from 1995, and all those industrial users of "GSM" communications for automation and alerting?

I thought technologies were in place to allow 2G to share spectrum with newer standards, so the 2G network could remain as a legacy-only network forever?
Honestly, a very naïve solution.

I tried formalizing the protocol but there are so many inconsistencies. E.g. the ephemeral key is mentioned briefly... Who generates this key? Who encrypts the message? What's the purpose?

Critique of the few parts that are clear:

1. It mentions a vote blockchain. Why blockchain? There's (apparently) no reason to have a chain of votes here. Even a spreadsheet would be fine. Buzzword alert! I know it's irrelevant but it's a huge red flag that a blockchain is crammed there for no reason at all.

2. "the government can know who individuals voted for" This is a no-no. HUGE no-no. TFA trivializes the impact but I definitely wouldn't vote in a system where anyone but me can verify my vote.

3. Even if you can verify your own vote, that's pretty much it for verifiability. Everything else relies on trusting election officials. What?

And I stopped analyzing there because frankly that's pretty much a broken system.
I've taken this tour, the amount of preservation and history down there is amazing.

One of the most interesting things was a room that was explained to everyone as "Churchill's private bathroom". It was a small closet and the door even had a "FREE/ENGAGED" lock on it, taken from an airplane lavatory. You wouldn't dare enter or knock on a bathroom door that said ENGAGED, especially one belonging to Churchill would you?

http://www.timetravelturtle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/L...

Behind the door was Churchill's SIGSALY terminal, a private encrypted voice line between the UK and terminals at the US Pentagon and White House.

http://www.timetravelturtle.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/L...

SIGSALY was the descendent of the Bell Labs "Voder", which was the first attempt at electronically synthesized human speech.

https://www.nsa.gov/about/cryptologic-heritage/historical-fi...

1939 Voder Demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rAyrmm7vv0

The Voder eventually gave birth to the Vocoder and other developments beyond.
there are certain experimental results in quantum mechanics that only make sense if you accept things like superposition and entanglement. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v657Ylwh-_k
Regulatory ethics questions aside, why wouldn't he just live in China?
Right now, I think the 'Trump Era' in this context is simply referring to this time in which assholes and bigots appear to feel emboldened by the perception that over 50% of America agrees with their hateful views.

(Probably an inaccurate perception, but that seems to be some people's takeaway)
It does and it's open source. You can ask for improvements, know why something is the way it is, and change it yourself if you need to.

I bought it. I use it on my iPhone and iPad Pro and it's been great.
ISTM black Americans are used to (I'm not saying "happy about") being insulted. They meet lots of admitted racists, but also lots of insincere infantilizing jackasses. Obama was neither of those things. The candidates this time around? One of each. Occasionally, one might prefer a different sort of insult...
This is just like the headlines in Bloomberg every day. Stock market went up due to X and went down due to Y where X and Y are some random nonsense.

Trump was elected because some humans (something around 0.3% of the population) happened to feel some different emotion on the day of elections vs. what they felt the last elections. The shift has been small. There's no one factor that explains it.

The world is changing. Like I heard some pundit say the cause for this change was not globalization or trade agreements. The cause was the microchip. Anyone who thinks automobiles will again be assembled by hand in some factory in the rust belt just needs a reality check. Those jobs are gone. They're never coming back. It's not due to globalization. It just happens that in very low wage countries it might make more sense to do more things by hand vs. automation but the Chinese assembly worker isn't stealing an American assembly worker's job.

The US (and maybe other countries) needs to accept the world is changing and to find ways to adapt to this change. Unfortunately it seems most people aren't thinking along these lines and IMO that's partly due to a long history of "each to his own". Erecting walls and barriers to try and keep the world the way it was isn't going to work but also having a fraction of the population that is making profit from the change while the rest is going down won't work either. Looks like you guys have at least 2 years to think about it now.
If you inherited anything, you're pretty rich. Pay your taxes, people are living on the street.
I think that's what I'm driving at: apart of the Om architecture itself, does it make sense to drop something like a CSP autocompleter into an Om app, or are those things incompatible?
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Yea, just also side note that error messages aren't very good for saying it doesn't support it vs something weird going on with copy and paste.
For the first part, who decides what a hate group is?

For the second, you've merely provided (what I assume are) non-exhaustive examples.
About 1.5 hours.
Some people happen to be knowledgeable about all sorts of subjects. I find your vague implication of wrongdoing insulting.
The real value people see with AWS Lambda is having the ability to easily glue together their AWS services which they run, one of which is an API, a lot of which is stateful services. Requiring users to write the interfaces between their stateful services and stateless functions via APIs may be more effort than what your target audience would want to deal with, there may be clever ways to make this almost as easy as mouse clicks as it is in AWS Lambda while also allowing the flexibly to be using something other than AWS.

I would also like to have something I could point at a docker api which would manage the end to end lifecycle of a function. Building it into a container, exposing itself over an API for management, telling it when it should run and of course running it on my docker machine(s). This idea I don't imagine is appealing to your audience however.
At that point, you might as well hack into their laptop, put a bunch of CP on there, and then call the cops.

Forensic analysis of the hard drive would exonerate you though.
A mostly fluid filled skull is not an indication of brain death, in fact there are cases of people with most of their brains spread in a thin layer against their skull. [1]

The name for aware but apparently comatose cases is locked-in syndrome. [2] A nightmare scenario for sure.

[1] http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=6116

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome
We certainly shouldn't physically assault people because they support someone we've deemed racist, sexist, etc:

http://gyroscopicinvesting.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&p=156...
Back in the day many IRC fserves and FTP servers for warez/media operated the same way - you just uploaded what you got somewhere else.
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nope! all ages are welcome to apply.
I am close with my family and I already know very well how pretty much everyone voted.

Some of my family members are outspoken racists who were planning to vote for Trump. Some recent family gatherings have been explosive and memorable.

What point were you attempting to communicate here?
This website has absolutely no information about the product it's trying to display.
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Facebook did influence the election, it's the fallout due to their business model.
Their business model is locking people into their own echo chamber, to be able to serve them adverts.
Bad for Facebook that somehow Trump got into most people's echo chamber.
Welcome to the land of unintended consequenses Mark!!
It redirects to encrypted.google.com. Here's a good overview of what that means:

http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/32367/what-is-th...
Until recently the limiting factor on utility scale solar was high costs. Now intermittency looks like the most important constraint. Land availability is not the bottleneck for the US or most other countries. There are some countries that have a dense enough population and/or low enough insolation that land availability is a significant constraint on solar deployment (Japan, Taiwan, UK, Belgium...) but that's not common.

The real annualized power of the Topaz Solar Farm comes to 6 megawatts per square kilometer, using its 2015 generation total of 1,301,337 MWh. At that areal productivity[1], if you could ignore intermittency, it would take ~95,000 square kilometers to supply the 2013 US electricity demand of 4,986,400,000 MWh.

The US Corn Growers Association estimated that 27% of US corn grown in 2011 was for ethanol, and corn covered 92 million acres:

http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/8611/world-of-corn-r...

Converting 27% of 92 million acres to square kilometers, the US is using about 100,500 km^2 to produce ethanol.

But you can't ignore intermittency, so (barring much improved storage, which may happen but can't be assumed) solar PV is not a drop-in replacement for nuclear power.

[1]Other areas of the US get less sun than central California, but newer farms with more efficient panels and single axis tracking increase areal productivity significantly over the fixed-tilt CdTe construction of Topaz, so I think that 6 MW/km^2 is a reasonable number to use.
Can someone explain a bit more about this project?
I am not quite sure what you mean. There is tons of experimental evidence for quantum mechanics.

Specifically for electron spin, you seem to agree that it has spin 1/2 (because you say that it can be spin up or spin down). But that already concedes that there are superpositions of up and down. Spin left, spin right, spin straight forward, spin backward are all equal superpositions of spin up and spin down; and all these states are trivially constructed.
That sounds extremely vulnerable to selection bias. If she specializes in child abuse cases, obviously she's going to see more child abusers. People who own CP but don't abuse children would be unlikely to interact with her.
Get out the vote efforts are, at least in my case, anti-productive. If I wasn't going to vote anyway, whichever side bangs on my door, litters my yard with their pamphlets, overstuffs my mailbox, and harasses me with phone calls is the side that I am going to vote against, just because they've irritated me.
If there are ways of farming that are ethical that are already in use (the 1% in your argument), then we absolutely should discuss those. We would want to start increasing that number.

It changes things considerably whether livestock can be raised ethically. If they can, we can try to do that. If they can't, then the only ethical solution is to stop raising livestock. So discussing that 1% has practical implications.
I don't buy it for a second. Instead, I think that those who use but don't physically touch an actual child are so unlikely to get caught, the numbers are horribly biased.

To give some example numbers, say that 5% of those who view the material ever directly harm a child. And say that 100% of those who harm a child view the material. Now, say that 50% of those who harm a child get busted, but only 1% of those who don't get busted for viewing the material. The end result would be that of those caught about 5 of every 7 who viewed material harmed a child directly.

Now, the numbers are made up, but there are many values that lead to a false conclusion if people only look at those caught.
Probably not Einstein http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/04/06/fish-climb/ (not that it matters in any deep way).
Completely agree - I can't vote (yet!), but I was Democrat leaning. Trump winning was good for me - in that it opened my eyes to another half of America I had quite frankly been ignorant of, as a tech worker that's been doing quite well for the past few years.
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Personally, I think "simultaneously points both up and down" is a terrible way to describe superpositions. So let me avoid that phrase, and see if I can rephrase your question. Would it be fair to say that you're asking this question?

> Is there any real physical evidence that an electron can be in a superposition of two states, that can only be explained using quantum mechanics?

Surprisingly, the answer to this question is yes. The evidence is the Bell experiment[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments
But as I understand it, this is because of technical lock-in: physicists had to choose between non-locality and indeterminism, chose indeterminism, got forced in to non-locality for other reasons, and never went back to re-examine the model, because it was getting decent computational results, and it would be a lot of work to rebuild.

I've never seen a solid argument for indeterminism being anything but an extraneous assumption in QM. Entanglement (and other behaviors at low temperature) necessitates non-locality, which means the most parsimonious model would also use that, rather than indeterminism, to resolve Bell's inequality.

So is there any reason besides "it predicts good enough" and "technical lockin" to keep using models with indeterminism?

(Physics actually seems a hodgepodge of random philosophical assumptions no one bothered to ever review because they're deep in the model. Not unlike code suffering from code rot.)
Another reason to keep them separate is that it reduces cognitive noise when dealing with spam.

I use separate addresses for banks, brokerage, etc. Because the email address associated with each isn't used elsewhere, I can almost always identify the culprit when it starts getting spammed, so I can cease business with and blacklist anyone who does it[1].

Because of that, any phishing attempts that go to the wrong address, even well done, tricky ones, are so obvious a machine can trash them with certainty.

Yet another reason is that if someone is going to try to guess/steal your password, if they don't know the email address used for that account, that's something else that can slow them down/trip them up.

[1] That is how Wells Fargo lost my business, well before they made a surprisingly strong go at proving Lenin right about capitalists.
I would also suggest using an actually encrypted email like:

https://protonmail.com/