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Even with electric voting, there are 2 witnesses who's duties are to just watch the election IIRC. FYI: I've done this before and got paid about $10 an hour to do it several years ago while I was in college.

Part of the witness duties should be making sure the votes for that polling location are counted accurately and there is no way to do that with electric voting systems. It's just a black box you have to trust.
This is actually how it's done in New Zealand. We have something called realme https://www.realme.govt.nz/, which is made by New Zealand Post (our government post service, with the benefit of offices all over the country to do the initial ID verification for account setup) and the Department of Internal Affairs (they do things like births, deaths, marriages, passports, and citizenship, so they're used to dealing with identity)

It's an awesome system that the US would be lucky to have. I say this as a dual citizen of both countries.
So everybody has been talking about "freezing" your Equifax account for a little bit of protection... Well it turns out the Equifax security freeze PIN (which is all the "secret" info an attacker needs to unfreeze it) is just the date & time: MMDDYYHHMM! https://mobile.twitter.com/webster/status/906346071210778625
Ah forgot the title. Thank you.
I like to think that fewer try to hack US government services because of the consequences. Attempting to do so would get a black hat chased after by multiple three-letter agencies.

I'm sure the FBI is looking into the Equifax breach but not as hard as if someone breached the Social Security Administration.
What judgy bullshit. How about: Very rich people who have any brains whatsoever realize that they are still human and their kids can be kidnapped for ransom money or they can be robbed or otherwise targeted.

Like, you know, basic survival instinct kicks in at some point and you realize downplaying it is the only way you can walk down the street without a big fat target on your forehead.

The entire article has a subtext of "We should talk more about these things so we can take away their extreme privilege." The entire thing is openly hostile to their very existence.

Gee, I wonder why millionaires would go "Why, no, we aren't rich. We are just, you know, comfortable." when talking to someone who openly wants the rich to cease to exist somehow.
After 20 years in this industry, only one thought comes to mind.

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."
Hooray Michele. What a nice thing to hear. Makes me happy.
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Putin is angry because the US humiliated Russia after the Soviet Union collapsed. Which was reflected in Yeltsin's collapse, through depression and alcoholism. And regardless of the causes of Leningrad's sacking, many of Putin's family died there. All of which has given him a rather negative attitude toward the US and its allies.

And by the way, remember that the US and its allies invaded Russia at the end of WWII, after the Tzar was deposed. So it's not at all surprising that Stalin initially allied Russia with Germany.
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Is there some sort of bitcoin escrow service that would manage that transaction?
Ahem... Millennials.
It worse. It's not even a 4 digit PIN. It's the time in 24-hour format HHMM: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15205579

You and your wife just did it 1 minute apart...
These machines, generally print out a receipt. Show it to you and store it in a bin so that it can in theory be counted.
Since when is using 38 Java API open source declaration packages considered stealing? It's not except to the people that are upset that Oracle lost repeatedly in court. The courts have spoken. It's time to move on so perhaps you should too.
That sounds like the traditional method of learning math. I was wondering if we could leverage technology and our experiences with teaching/learning the formal systems of programming languages to make more math more accessable. For instance, I'm thinking this little instance of geometric algebra:

http://www.shapeoperator.com/2016/12/12/sunset-geometry/

...might be easier for me to understand if I could use Haskell to implement the wedge and geometric product operators on an algebraic data type describing the scalar/vector/bi-vector thingy. There is probably an applied vs. pure thing here as well. My motivations for investigating geometric algebra is to see if geometric algebra makes synthesizing mechanical linkages easier, whereas maybe most expositions on geometric algebra are focused on teaching geometric algebra to advance the state of geometric algebra. That's probably a long winded way of saying that mathematicans are writing for mathematicians (whether by design or accident). I suppose I should re-read Mindstorms again, but this time in the context of adult learning.
In RI --- we mark a paper, and surrender it to the scanner that stores it to a locked box before we exit the polling place.

A printed receipt, from an electronic polling place could just as easily be placed in a secure box prior to leaving.

It's amusing watching "ballot selfies" issue too -- it seems that folks just don't understand how important it is not allowing any coercive force influencing or verifying your vote.
Don't make it trivial to verify the hash, after all it only needs to come into play if there is an audit.
This is such a pain and ripe for disruption. No company has gotten it right so far.

First I look at flights: what is affordable and when? Some dates are much more expensive than other dates.

Then I look at hotels and itineraries: What do I want to see? What is affordable near where I want to visit? Hopefully there isn't a convention that overlaps.

Finally I look at rental cars: Is it still affordable?

Recently I've used the packaged deals websites or through the airlines. It can be cheaper to get it bundled.

If any one of those factors (airfare, hotel, or car) is overpriced, then I look at a different place. It is usually conventions that disrupt my plans and cause spikes in the prices.
Some people make decent money on IG, doing things they enjoy (their kids, exercise, etc.)
Yes, and it's possible using simply arithmetic and market rates! Given that freezing your credit ratings is a necessary precaution after this damage inflicted by their negligently unpartitioned database, we can calculate:

1 legally guaranteed free credit report / year
* ($5 freeze before + $5 unfreeze after)
* 3 agencies
* 33 more years of healthy remaining life God willing
= $990 right there.

Move apartments or change jobs just once in that interval, and it will bring you up to a round thousand. Bam.
I came up with some ideas a year or two ago : http://tinyvillages.org
You, and almost everyone else, are confusing being Rich with Wealth.

Rich is measured in money and possessions.

Wealth is measured in time * health.

It is in the mainstream media's interest to keep these 2 terms confused for people with such garbage as the posted article.

Here's why: Those people are only RICH, and somewhat wealthy.

Once their money runs out, they are done.

Also, they do not have much time for themselves working high stress job and likely living close to pay check to paycheck.

Many people earning 50k a year could live a happy life outside of major area and buy themselves a 4plex, live for free and have their security and health.

Poverty is a state of mind.

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"The Difference Between Being Richand Being Wealthy. Being rich and being wealthy seems to be synonymous as both involves having a lot of money. However, there's a bigdifference between the two. ...Wealthy people know how to make money while rich people only have money."

You can see that those with inheritance are Rich, but not Wealthy.

The real point of this article is to confuse the reader and direct their anger into predictable places.

There was nothing normative or prescriptive to help the dear reader build their Wealth. Just a bunch of fucking whining to make people feel smug and not help improve their lives.

And everyone else here fell for the bait and now "debating" the merits of this subject matter and totally missing the big picture.
Rest in peace Jerry. Godspeed!
Indeed! Congratulations!
This is contingency work. The winning cases have to pay for the losing cases. When they lose, the lawyers invest $160MM worth of very real payroll and consulting fees and get nothing.
Also switched to DuckDuckGo about a month ago, because Google was ignoring words in my enquiries to show me what the AI hallucinated I might want to see. Works much better than it used to. It does have some AI hallucinations, but not nearly as many.
It does seem really thin, but as you mentioned maybe it's just for flight and not for surviving conditions in space.
This has been how most Apple News stories have worked for a while.

I wonder if it's the same page generation for Apple News as AMP?
Some do, but it should nonetheless be easy for the reader to go back to the non-AMP version of they wish.
Is it time for a Federal Department of Verifying
Whether People Are Who They Say They Are?

After the colossal theft of employee information from the Office of Personnel Management, I have no faith that the feds would be able to keep the information secure.
At least you can sorT RSS feeds in a chronological order. I don't care what the algorithm believe, I just want to see the news in the order they came out.
I recently started a web comic series on my personal site that covers all sorts of technical topics. I'm having a blast creating it and one my favorites so far is http://randomlyunique.com/plancky/2017/what-makes-a-clock-ti... I wished more content existed between "nova special" and "advanced textbook"
Not really because the kernel maps memory in paged-sized chunks. You do have variable page sizes on modern architectures but it's still just a very small number of block sizes for allocations.

If they are non-contiguous in the kernel it is no barrier to making them contiguous in a process.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do solar flares and or geomagnetic storms affect human health?

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/8367/do-solar-f...
By growing a lot more of it (which prevents the birth of whatever would have grown in its place, but that's an invisible effect and technically not killing).

Also, grow mixtures of plants together that naturally crowd out weeds, inhibit the spread of pests, and replenish certain nutrients like nitrogen. IMHO this is grossly under-studied but could become more relevant with smarter robotics.
Yeah, it also felt blazingly fast. Chrome is still fast now, but sites and web apps have added so much bloat that they cancel each other out. Back then, on the other hand, Chrome was lightning compared to the standard experience with any other browser.
Sure but it would be slower than moles' asses in January.
I got to meet Jerry when I was going to USC, he had sent out a request for an intern to "help him with all this junk" and for what ever reason he decided I was the guy. I would go over to his house and help him sort through the piles of stuff people would send in the hope that he would mention them in his column in BYTE. I showed up in the column a couple of times, Jerry and I got into a long and spirited discussion of 'terminals' versus TV Typewriters. He had a big CP/M machine with a television screen that he used for writing (20 lines of 64 characters as I recall) and I set up and evaluated the Heathkit Z29 (which was a slick detached keyboard terminal at the time). While there were fewer characters on the screen on TV Typewriter, updates were very very fast (since it was just memory mapped). I liked that there were more characters on the terminal. But Jerry's main argument in favor was that he kept most of his writing in his head, and the screen was just there to remind him where he was, and in that mode speed won hands down. He signed my copy of Footfall with "I have another pile of software for you."

Goodbye Jerry.
Wow, I wouldn't even know how to spend that much. If I made that much I'd retire after two or three years.
Yes, they don't actually give you a receipt, for this reason.

One way it's done is that after entering your choices on touchscreen, you see the printed receipt through a glass window, and then it's stored so a recount can be done if necessary.

However, an electrically scanned paper ballot seems a lot simpler.
Yea, I agree - I think the challenge is to figure out how to get some or all of those benefits for MOOC users - or those otherwise pursuing education off-campus or remote settings. Lack of college-type socialization (and network building) in MOOCS is a thing that can be solved.

Forking out 10's of thousands of dollars or more in tuition along with all the other life-altering changes required to attend a university for 4 dedicated years is really a poor value for a bit of socialization/networking, IMHO - unless maybe you are at a really elite university.
Wrong emphasis. It must be read "flaw in open source Java software.

The problem is Java, not Open Source.
Possibly silly question but how can you be sure the code on github is the same code running on the site. Not trolling, just curious.
He'll be gone in a few years, and those things didn't ruin the country (contrary to popular belief). It just ruins the reputation. And that regularly resets at the next election.

What really ruins the US is the large amount of apathetic people who don't actually care enough to vote or participate in civic duties.
Agreed. His collaborations with Niven were great. Both were great authors alone, but as a team they were really something special. Footfall, A Mote in God's Eye, and Lucifer's Hammer are a few of my favorite sci-fi reads to this day.
Voting on the machines per se is not the problem, rather the current system is. In India electronic voting machines are exclusively used for all state and national elections and were kept deliberately non-networked by design.IIRC the technology is being 'exported' to other countries as well.
http://www.firstpost.com/india/evm-tampering-why-india-stand...
I agree, but I think it's more expensive to figure out who has brought their fate upon themselves and doesn't really deserve the money and who genuinely just had bad luck. That's why I'm in favor of a universal social safety net, for example via a basic income.
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On the higher speed front: has anyone looked into 802.11ah (900mhz wifi) or any of the smart "TV white space" stuff? It's standardized but I can't find any hardware on the market. There is a company near us (Irvine, CA) that apparently has an 802.11ah chipset but no cards or USB versions and emails go strangely unanswered. Found them since they had a press release about hitting like a few tens of megabits at over a kilometer on very low power and a small omnidirectional antenna.
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but I've had this book on my wishlist for a quite a while and it seems to fit: http://www.geometricalgebra.net/
Like other's have said; his collaborations with Niven are really great. Footfall, Lucifer's Hammer, and A Mote in God's Eye were my personal favorites.
It needs to be advanced and expensive to show how important we think it is.
Spark on Kubernetes (which is still not fully production ready) will be the clearest indicator of k8s taking over the space occupied by Mesos.

Mesos/Yarn is used by spark to schedule batch jobs in a distributed manner on a spark cluster. So they have to have very deep knowledge of the resource availability and the needs of the jobs being scheduled. We are not talking static resource allocation like a container, but scheduling a particular piece of processing in real time to one of the nodes managed by Mesos/Yarn.

Kubernetes does not come with this level of awareness today. Mesos was always built with this in mind. So for Mesos, the scheduling of containers is a subset of its functionality.

However kubernetes is getting there - https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/34377
https://github.com/apache-spark-on-k8s/spark/issues/4
https://issues.apache.org/jira/plugins/servlet/mobile#issue/...

Today if you want to deploy a fleet of containers and schedule a bunch of processes across them in a resource aware manner...you have to use both kubernetes and mesos.
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May be the browser should institute a 'lite' mode which kills js execution after some 60ms. If the content doesn't show up by then, an error is shown (rather than a broken page).
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I'm not sure how true this is. My coworkers mention that during the 2007/2008 recession in SF they saw all of their coworkers/friends laid off and leave the Bay Area.

It took one of my coworkers a whole year to find another job during that period, even though he was in a high CoL area and initially had a "great selection" of jobs.
Yeah, just do it the fiat way ... ;)
In his 80s columns he wrote (roughly, by my memory) that by the turn of the millennium you'd be able to go to your computer and ask any question with a publically known answer, and get it back right away. I thought that was ridiculous, and today you can quibble, but basically yes, you can, and he was right on the money on the timing. That was an audacious prediction back then.

He influenced me the most by his columns on space development (A Step Farther Out, and a couple of anthologies The Endless Frontier). I don't clearly remember what was in them, but there was a kind of can-do attitude about developing technological civilization in a strategic way that seems more in tune with the 60s than anything happening now.
This calculator has been around for a while, but they keep improving it and I recommend it all the time. Have to be really really careful with inputs, though - like: don't just accept their projections for a portfolio's growth, as it will depend heavily on your stock/bond ratio, etc...
If there were a $17 billion judgement against a $17 billion company, it would not sell for $17 billion.

If there is a judgment against a company which that company cannot pay, that company enters bankruptcy.

What happens when a corporation enter bankruptcy is the assets of the corporation are assigned to a receiver. The receiver then disposes of those assets with the aim of raising as much money as possible to pay the creditors involved. In the case of a credit bureau, keeping the bureau functioning would arguably be the best way to earn money to pay the individuals who the corporation owes money to - both the people who the got the judgment (first priority), other creditors(second priority) and then the share-holder (third priority).

This situation means that corporation that produces toxic waste, dumps it in a river and goes bankrupt from a private suit against it could continue to produce toxic in order keep producing and making money, in order to pay that judgment (it would probably be argued that the toxic-waste leak was a one-time thing).

Part of the problem is a private lawsuit isn't a substitute for state regulation even if it's often presented as such. Part of the problem is the very worst that happen to the owners, the shareholder, is their shares become worthless so their incentive for stopping truly bad behavior by organizations is limited.

You might say this is fucked-up and I would agree with you. Don't confuse my comments with statements of support for how things. I simply want to thorough, accurate and complete summary of just what a messy we're in.
If the FCC doesn't regulate this could you use this for metro mesh networks? Of course I assume you'd have to be rigorous about avoiding leakage.
How many of these are speculators? How many are end-users?

I can't recall the last time I saw an Indian website accept Bitcoin
Fun! But what if I want to learn tuba or practice opera singing? (Not trolling you, I really mean this.)
You've posted quite a few generic-ideological-battle-style comments to HN. Those are off-topic here. Would you please read the site rules and follow them when commenting?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Why is California such an outlier? Is it solely due to Prop. 13, or are there other factors?
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> The LCBO is a huge source of cash, what government would give up another source

The government long ago allowed "The Beer Store", a private non-Canadian company to be part of the alcohol monopoly. It's only coming to an end now that some grocery stores are allowed to sell beer.

Come to think of it, since my local Loblaws got beer and wine, I have never set foot inside an LCBO and doubt I'll ever need to again.
> just because you like Clinton better.

Upvote for illustrating my point. In your universe there are 2 mutually exclusive and exhaustive groups - Trump people and Clinton people. I couldn't care less about Clinton. Go ahead and make fun of her all you want. My issue is with coupling of the personalities. When you retort to a comment about Trump with the 'oh but Clinton' defence you're trying (poorly) to take away legitimacy of individual criticism.

'When it came down to it' - well it comes down everyday. You have an option to not defend an immoral human (very objectively immoral, by the most basic of human moralities accepted in most civilized cultures).
> Why do you hate freedom?

Would you please (re)-read the site rules and follow them when commenting here? We've had to ask you this repeatedly. If you continue flouting the site rules, we're going to end up banning you.

Political/ideological/etc. flamewars are not what this site is for. Kindly take them elsewhere.

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Sun could have written the CDDL to be GPL-compatible yet they chose not to and they generally refused to explain why. I suspect that they did not want to see OpenSolaris become an "organ donor" for Linux but they also didn't want to appear weak by saying so in public.

The closest I can find is where Simon Phipps said "to be GPL compatible you actually have to be willing to have your license discarded and replaced with the GPL. It's more a Borg-like assimilation than compatibility, in my view, and pretty undesirable as it results in future code enrichment being accumulated in some other code commons." https://web.archive.org/web/20050420234857/http://blogs.sun....
You need to move to DC to work for USDS (https://www.usds.gov/join#relocation), but you can work for 18F from anywhere in the US (https://18f.gsa.gov/join/). The login.gov team includes both USDS and 18F team members (as the blog post says).

Also the salary cap is $161,900, as shown in this pay grade table for SF: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries... Not a top-of-the-line private sector salary, but not some kind of hardship.
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So we agree: HN readers can't rely on the Wikipedia excerpt. :-)
The most frustrating thing for me about AMP is that it sidesteps the single most useful feature of Safari on iOS, the "Reader" button, by rendering the entire page in JS. I suspect this is entirely purposeful on Google's part as it cuts into ad views. It's really gotten out of hand, too. Try doing a google search for practically any news article on mobile now. The entire first few result pages are nothing but AMP.
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Yes, that looks to be exactly the type of thing I'm thinking of. Thanks.
If this is true (and it looks like it is), this is absolutely insane. For me this puts Equifax into beyond negligent territory.