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Ask HN: Public Corruption Clearinghouse?
I got convicted of a felony in US federal court, in spite of being innocent and having documentary proof to back it up. The judge suppressed my evidence, the jury never heard it, and here I am.

The problem I’ve run into is not that I had no proof that the government was breaking the law during the prosecution, but that nobody cares. I have ample proof, but journalists immediately hellban me, whether introduced in person, on phone, on Signal, or email. It’s bizarre.

And it occurred to me, that as the government gets more and more corrupt officials in the judiciary and law enforcement, I can’t be the only one with this problem.

So I’m in the process of launching a site that acts as a clearinghouse for naming names, calling public officials (who are above the law) out for their documented abuses, providing documention for said abuses, to put them on notice, and hopefully bring America’s future government to shine some light into that deep dark hole.

It’s not libel if it’s true.

I’m looking for advice, others with documentary evidence they can’t give away, and especially non-US entities who want to help the US get its house in order, by providing mirror hosting from the safety of a first-world nation. Email in profile.
Can you demonstrate a vulnerability without producing an exploit? You have to provide a poc to demonstrate it to others at least, no?

Two sides of the same coin
Fuck the investor market. Cheap housing should go to people who will actually live in it, not rent it out or sit on it.
Stockholm metro has this as well but I wouldn't call it "autonomous", it's just a departure button to get the train moving faster. The driver still has to grip the vigilance device after a certain amount of time.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_U-Bahn#Fifth_expansion_... it seems that vienna isn't driverless yet.
I've said it before [1] and I'll say it again, even if I get downvoted to hell again: Unions

NYC has some of the strongest unions in the country. Everything from hotels to the MTA are plagued by really, really strong unions that only care about their interests -- leaving the city with a shameful transit system, in this case.

Unions make up nearly 25% of workers in NYC[2], that's more than the double the national average. The corruption is rampant[3] and the city is literally powerless against them[4].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14948921

[2] http://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/20170910/BLOGS01/170909...

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/16/nyregion/carpenters-nyc-u...
Will you make a fresh HTTP request every time the client needs to render a component? You could persist data client-side to make things more efficient. It would be best to use a state container to manage this. Maybe something like Redux?
In this specific case of what Mozilla is trying to achieve, they are researching the topic and looking for help. Mozilla doesn't sound like they want to ban all overlays, just the obnoxious ones.

When I think "action bars", I tend to think of banners that expand into a flexbox row or rows of my choosing and I don't overlay anything. If it is meant to hide a part of the UI, it's better to hide or replace that UI explicitly rather than cover it up graphically in an overlay.

Another reason to explicitly hide/replace UI instead of covering it graphically is because that doesn't stop someone from interacting with that covered UI, it just makes it more irritating to do so. I'm not just talking about Dev Tools and similar "cheat" options, but not every user is necessarily interacting with your site or application with sight/graphically. An overlay doesn't stop a screen reader, for instance. (A lot of the modal popups that Mozilla is hoping to block are entirely ignored by a browser's "Reader Mode", which is sometimes my first attempt when I see one.)
> not be pushed yet more email that I have to sift through

Makes sense, but I believe it's a lot easier to monetize an email list of niche subscribers for something like this.[1]

[1] Source : 320K / mo => https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/scotts-cheap-flights-...
The other forces would seize the building by force.

The Air Force would secure the right to occupy the building, by buying it.
Awesome! so happy to hear you've enjoyed it so far.
We've got a ton of additional things coming up for you, and no, they're not going to make us SmartReply!

Almost definitely a yes to an Outlook extension coming up - we're just making sure now that we're doing a good enough job on Gmail before we start porting over to another platform :)

Hey - any chance you could email me at filip@easyemail.ai? I'd love to set up a phone call to hear how we could be better for you. Thanks!
Hey Larry, quick recommendation for your photo at the end - you should probably get a better professional photo that conveys reliability and confidence in your body language, or at the very least, flip the image so it draws readers' eyes toward the text.

Ex. https://imgur.com/a/0tb01
Probably because otherwise the operator gets really bored and feels the machine is driving him instead of the other way around.
You just wrote something just now! Keep it up.
I probably did, it's been a year though so I'm not entirely sure. For what it's worth this really is not needed and I actually hate the "look at all the logos" sections on websites so I just pushed a fix to remove it.
I started using the Apollo Universal Starter Kit.[0] They were using both Redux with Apollo GraphQL. This really bothered me because there were two stores. Apollo 2 doesn't use Redux for the cache anymore. I went ahead and first pulled out the Redux dependency using Apollo Link State.[1][2] Then I went ahead and removed the Redux-Form dependency using Formik[3] instead.[4] The project maintainers thought it was a good idea and removed Redux and Redux-Form dependencies from all the packages. If you are looking for a way to not use Redux with Apollo, it has been solved. Although Apollo Link State requires some more code, it does normalize the data which means selectors are not needed which is a nice way to think about the data.

[0] https://github.com/sysgears/apollo-universal-starter-kit

[1] https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-link-state

[2] https://github.com/adam-s/apollo-universal-starter-kit/commi...

[3] https://github.com/jaredpalmer/formik

[4] https://github.com/adam-s/apollo-universal-starter-kit/commi...
True, I'm not saying Singapore isn't an ally. They just have much more hedged relationships with the US than a country like The Netherlands, who we've managed to fight two World Wars with.
It didn't take us years to implement. We didn't internally decide to support wildcards until around May 2017 - it wasn't a foregone conclusion that we would ever support them. We didn't start technical work on wildcards until late 2017.

Specifying and implementing ACMEv2 took a while, that was a lot of work. Adding wildcard support on top of that wasn't trivial but it wasn't nearly as much work.
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> There is nothing off the shelf, even if some other subway gave them all the design (unlikely), it would still be hundreds of thousands of dollars per train to make it fit the New York trains.

What? Alstom, Ansaldo STS, Bombardier, Siemens, and Thales all have off-the-shelf designs that they will happily sell. And I've probably forgotten some here. I realise none of these are American companies, and "Buy American" is often a constraint on acquisitions in the US, but it's fundamentally untrue that there are no off-the-shelf designs.

See, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications-based_train_con... for various systems using various suppliers' products.
I’m order to square these requirements, they would just have to use your browsing data to target you with the version of the instructional video which always plays relevant ads to you
"Slimy" and "gross" are not nearly sufficient for either insider trading or market manipulation. I don't particularly like the way these researchers are acting either, but that's actually because I don't like vulnerability impact being exaggerated and over-hyped. The other stuff doesn't bother me too much.

If the news pushing a stock price is so misleading that it's categorically different from the truth, then I could see a case for market manipulation being brought against them. But I doubt that will happen, because unfortunately people have broad latitude to portray vulnerabilities however they'd like as long as they're convincingly authentic.
No privacy policy is kind of a red flag. I mean I'm assuming this is a proof of concept / work in progress, but I also have to assume you're gonna want to monetize it at some point, so I want to know what you're gonna do with my e-mail address before I give it to you.
Single shot timers? Exclusion locks on fixed sections of the track?

Modern control systems such as ETCS3 can allocate virtual track segments (moving blocks) to individual trains and adjust the reserved length based on the current speed.
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Your reputation will go down, with THOSE people. If they refuse to agree they refuse to agree. There is nothing toxic about that.

An accounts "history" and "reputation" will be tied to each site. A liberal who posts regularly on echo chambers on both sides of the aisle will have a middle of the road reputation. On Fox news for example you'd see next to their comments:

FoxNews.com Rep: -123
Global Rep: 38

A high global rep is due to the high score posting comments on WashingtonPost articles. Where you would see:

WashPost.com Rep: 161
Global Rep: 38

I'd expect someone with a reputation of 0 to be an honest individual gaining views on both sides of an argument. Someone with a global rep of -1833 is probably a troll or someone who doesn't interact with "like-minded" people, which could of course be seen by looking at the history of where the reputation came from.

You as a consumer, would most likely flag site reps to show on all pages, so maybe you on every site you visit would see a users reputation like so regardless of the site you are on:

Current Site Rep: 3
FoxNews.com Rep: 283
WashPost.com Rep: -87
Global Rep: 221

And you could, of course, dig into their history of reputation, and even Hide/star particular users who you notice are trolls/note-worthy to you personally.
They don't require you to use Apple Music. If shipping with a default was anti-competitive wouldn't default installs of Safari, Chrome or Google Music also be anti-competitive?
You could try to compete with this guy: https://www.sitebuilderreport.com

He realized the world didn't want another site builder, so he just reviews all of the existing site builders. Pretty genius.
Regarding Ackman vs Herbalife, the old adage comes to mind:
The market can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
Does it make it the wrong thing to do? I've never seen anyone so mad at someone for their technical decisions.

Redin/Zillow et al won't show you cap rates.
I'm getting a paywall and there doesn't seem to be a key in the link.
The current political entity that is the "United States of America" is geographically larger, but it's not as assured in its dominance as you think.

What if Texas splits off and takes a few states with it? What if California decides to bail as well? That'd put a lot of pressure on New England, which might just call it quits, too, rather than be saddled with the South.

A single thing could lead to the complete erosion of the United States as we know it, and politically it would never recover.

If you think this is impossible, that it will never happen, the Austro-Hungarian empire was once like this, geographically and economically dominant, yet it fell apart surprisingly quickly.

Consider: The United States has only fought only a handful of wars on its own soil and a few of those went really badly. A large country is harder to defend, and if the entire might of the US military can't keep a lid on a place like Afghanistan or Iraq what hope does it have holding together half a continent?
Really great idea! I put it down so that we can work on it in the near future.
There seems to be a lot of privacy issues with attachments. Do you have any suggestion on how you'd like us to deal with it? Is it something you're worried about at all?
I'd imagine Mozilla would put in a flag to enable/disable this item, leaving it up to the user as to which they would prefer.

Comcast probably wouldn't offer this option...or if they did, they'd charge you more for it.
Pressing the button without entering an email results in a popup that says:

Error!
Please contact us at founders@larryscheaphouses.com and we'll figure out what's going on.

Considering the number of people that are going to glance over the text and assume that the button lets them see the deals you might want to have some basic help text.
The nasty language in reply to your comments is righteous anger. You are advocating to hurt people; the proper response by well-adjusted people to such advocacy is anger.

You will see the same sort of anger at e.g. parents who refuse to get their kids vaccinated (they're my kids, they say; Big Pharma can't make decisions for me, if you want to get your kids vaccinated, that's fine but there's a cost-benefit analysis, I just don't want it forced down my throat). It would be incorrect to conclude that the angry people are the wrong people.
That's called workstation class. Most consumers need barely 24.
Don't sue people if they publish vulnerabilities without any notification to the vendor, as long as they never overstepped and exploited it themselves.
Podcasts too
Are you familiar with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor...?

> The issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle its flagship Internet Explorer (IE) web browser software with its Microsoft Windows operating system
One-upping is definitely a solo strategy that has a long history, and the tradition continues today. I just don't see Monk's key choice as some kind of proof of his skill. He wrote tunes that often sat awkwardly and offered a lot of space, like "We See" or "Coming on The Hudson" or even "Blue Monk" of all pieces. I feel those as offering freedom of direction and color- offering lots of rhythmic, motivic, and harmonic interpretational options. I guess that's why I love playing Monk tunes. And also his unique accent in the way he played- accent-inflection that was so of himself and so personal. It was confident and simple. I'm personally not a fan of the one-upsman approach to soloing, but it definitely exists.
Never underestimate the power of unions. They can make or break a technology. Automated driver less subway cars create a precedent which can make unions feel threatened.

Of course the reality of it is more complicated, but they are a powerful force (for better or worse).
You're getting strident comments and downvotes primarily because of the un-necessarily harsh and condescending tone of your post.
Because they don't have a monopoly on mobile phones.

The issue with Microsoft shipping IE is that they did have a monopoly on desktop operating systems.
Other music services can be installed on iOS and iOS doesn't overwhelmingly own the mobile market, or even have majority share.
Fuzzing Ethereum Smart Contracts
Straw man.

Can you cite self service online stock trading platform that can give me $50M REAL USD in a REAL bank account in USA for that much stock, today? (No, even if one wanted to, the USD doesn't move fast enough)

Coinbase daily limits can go up to $100k or $250k I think. Most financial transactions in excess of those amounts (in Bitcoin or any other asset class) probably involve an amount of personal service and a dialog between the two parties.
Ask HN: How to quickly learn industry C++ if familiar with student C++?
I have an interview in C++ coming up, and while I've worked in C++ for several years at university, it was mostly writing quick-and-dirty code that did the job, using the standard library + STL (e.g., solving ICPC problems). I have almost no experience with classes, inheritance, the template system, etc.

Are there any good resources for someone like me to quickly learn the subset of C++ most useful for writing clean professional code?
Because Apple don't have a monopoly on cellphones. I don't think it's even 50% in the US.
Your professor seems great so far but pretty silly of him to teach you verilog instead of VHDL. As an EE myself I haven't seen a job description that says verilog over vhdl in a long time. Might want to familiarize yourself with both if you plan to pursue hardware design further.
I did not see it on the forum, but seeing that the wildcard feature requires DNS-01 challenge for getting the certificates, does it mean automatic renewal is impossible without DNS api ? (or is it possible to renew without the dns challenge ? )
You might simplify things for yourself to some extent by requiring ACMEv2 for wildcard requests, which will reduce the number of people deploying the old client and spur many to upgrade.

And your old client still works on the systems it's deployed on (by definition) so you could just stop development on that.
The marine who told me that story says the Army will surround the building with guards and call it secured while those left inside take pot-shots at the guards outside.

(Remember the above is the Marines point of view)
The Greatest Computer Network You've Never Heard Of
Not sure if it's coincidental, I was offered two weeks back to try Apple Music again with one free month. I tried out when it was first launch and never subscribe to it. So my trial must have helped out with a +1 in the number.
There are no conductors, there's a control room with system overview and links to metros, stations and service personnel.

See http://www.ansaldo-sts.com/sites/ansaldosts/files/brochures/... page 21.
I wrote a big paragraph responding to this but then I remembered something I'd read and as usual, someone else has said it better than I could.

>Even if, in aggregate, land values increase, densification of an existing neighborhood creates risks for individual property owners they many not wish to bear. If an apartment block is built next door, my old neighbor may have gotten rich from selling, but my plot may not be suitable for putting up yet another tower, and my home may be worth less for its busy, unquaint new neighbor. People experience individual not aggregate outcomes, and individual outcomes are usually riskier than aggregate outcomes. Absent some insurance mechanism, it is rationally hard to persuade individuals to consent to policy changes that, in aggregate terms, would meet a return-to-risk hurdle but at an individual level might not. When market urbanists point to how much more productive and awesome the city as a whole might become, they are missing this point.

http://www.interfluidity.com/v2/6287.html
Yup - need to pay to get the signals sorted. I guess the you might unearth a bunch of other things, that need sorted... but it just needs doing.
What in particular would you say is driving the USMC to this approach to innovation, compared to the other branches? Are they simply more exposed to unconventional warfare? Is it something about the type of person selected to be a Marine vs another branch? Something unique to their command staff? Etc.
I've visited SO but I've never made an account, took a survey, or even know a survey existed.
2018 or not, the site appears severely broken without enabling JS, instead of asking the user to enable it
Yes, the issue central to the case was whether Microsoft was allowed to bundle it because of their anti-competitive activity in doing so.

If shipping default pre-installed software was deemed anti-competitive, the problems would be much bigger than just Apple Music existing on an iPhone out of a box.
Hey there. I found that regression models do okay when the feature-set is simple. And I can see that deep learning seems like overkill but I found that it can create models that does justice to the complexity of real estate.
You will need to post something of substance if you want a substantial response.
The Rock Test (2017)
> Drivers go even slower than 45mph because the train is automatically stopped when going faster (as you would want to do if there was a train ahead) instead of just giving a warning and letting the train keep going.

Is there any protection system that allows the maximum speed to be exceeded with just a warning? Certainly all those I can think of (TPWS, TVM, PZB, or something more modern like ETCS) have a given maximum speed you're allowed to exceed by a small tolerance but nothing more (though, of course, the system may be isolated, but that's not allowed in passenger service).

The failing here sounds like it is setting the line speed to 45mph rather than anything higher.
What if the CIA is intentionally propagandizing our nation into thinking Russia is about to enter our walls because it increases their funding - both directly from congress and through increased value of their investments in the MIC?
Introducing geofacet and a discussion of geographic visualization techniques
The neighborhood matters if you have kids because it determines what schools your kids can go to.
As mentioned in another HN thread, the Cirrus system is certainly spectacular, but it is heavy, requires a $15k repack every 10 years, and doesn't prevent a large fraction of accident types (e.g., an uncontrolled spin). They are most necessary for private (human) pilots who are the most dangerous kind. It's plausible that the increased safety from an autonomous system will make parachute systems unnecessary, but you'd have to dig into the statistics.
Yes. It's completely overblown. To me, that demonstrates that the person behind this is either a) ignorant of the fundamentals or b) just riding the hype wave to attract the naive.

There is of course option c). That would be that taking a contrarian view on the technology will provide a strategic advantage to a business. But I don't see how that would apply here.
Mods, could you consider unflagging this story?
Thanks for your comment. Working on this now!
Yes, it's just that those laws are no longer enforced.
Semi-related. Navy F/A-18 pilots were issued Garmin watches which have a built-in barometer/altimeter because the cabin altimeter gauge of their aircraft was difficult to read due to its size and location, and "its audible warnings are ineffective through the flight envelope." The watches, once issued to pilots, will alert them when cabin altitude reaches a preset threshold.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/06/16/the-navy-is-i...

Then, allegedly a pilot crew was able to use the watch's compass to help navigate in an emergency after their cabin instruments frosted over:

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2018/02/23/flying-...
It may be, in part, a pay and benefits joke. I have heard the Air Force pays better.
So really the answer isn't unions. It's corruption.
Unions work in many places in the world.
It's not just technical decisions... the entire site is a single web-page with zero content except for trying to harvest emails. I mean, if you want people to spam such low quality stuff on HN, then I guess that's your prerogative. But I usually enjoy the much higher quality stuff that people post here on HN and I'd hate for the bar to drop this low.