skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Voter lists (allowing for on-site registration with ID or proof of address), tear-away serial numbers, and checks throughout the process, including the election official initialing the back of the ballot they hand you and confirming their initials are authentic when you come back with it filled out. In reality you usually don’t go more than a dozen feet from them to mark it anyway. There’s a good rundown here:

http://www.wheresthepaper.org/CountPaperBallots.htm

It helps that it is very rare to have a referendum question so you are usually just voting for your local member of parliament. The ballots are very clear:

http://www.opinionatedbastard.ca/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/...

It doesn’t take that long to count by hand, and it’s rare that people don’t accept a result or engage in conspiracy theories and court battles for months after an election. Recounts happen if the results are very close but there is usually very little movement in totals.

It is apparently a bit more expensive than using machines but I think it’s worth it. There’s something meaningful and beneficial for a civic culture when everyone votes with a tangible physical act in largely the same way it has been done for 150 years. It’s an unusual but radically inclusive act.

Voting by mail is possible by request, but less common, and uses a double envelope system to achieve a similar outcome.

http://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=vot&dir=vote&do...
That's awfully convenient. I supposed we should just trust anyone whenever they claim that their abuses being uncovered hurts American interests. Particularly when their claims are completely unverifiable. I wonder if people will eventually stop falling for such a completely transparent attempt to muddy the waters.
For the long game, I like 3, 4, and 6 best. For short games, Civ Revolutions is excellent at capturing the most important points.
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Consider the restrictions that US law places on convicted felons. Millions of Americans have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat or possessing half an ounce of marijuana. Felons often face considerable difficulties in finding employment and housing. "Once untrustworthy, always restricted" is a practical reality in the US.
Thanks for the link. They have a .pdf of chapter one which I gave a look. Right there on page 14 when estimating the mass of our galaxy inside our suns radius we have:

"The approximation that the mass distribution is spherical is reasonable for the dark halo, but not for the flat stellar disk. Better models suggest that this estimate is probably high by about 30%, since a disk requires less mass to produce a given centripetal acceleration"

And there you have it. While he notes that a spherical distribution is different than a flat disk, he estimates the error at about 30%. The problem is that the error is not one of a constant factor, it's a different function. This unspecified better model also doesn't seem to care about the matter outside the solar radius - which also affects our velocity in a disk, but not in a sphere.

There is a lot of math in chapter one, but also a lot of hand waving.
I agree! "Cheap" parking is another syndrome of America's car culture. Nothing is free and we pay for the free/cheap parking in other ways.

In this case it trickled down to the buses and bikers. They pay for it in longer more dangerous commutes
Actually, that's not a surprise; throughout history, dictatorships often failed when economic conditions where dire, see the Eastern block, while economic prosperity always consolidated strongmen - Hitler and Putin for example.

But the social changes technology and development produce are far reaching, and usually well correlated on the long term with a democratic society. It's hard to care about liberty when you don't have food on the table, and a lower educated and poor person is much more likely to accept authoritarianism as an acceptable compromise.

I'm very hopeful for China's future and Hong Kong's peaceful resistance is a model that wil spread.
Finding Digital Surface Models by area (if they exist for the relevant region) on the UK government website isn't too difficult
https://environment.data.gov.uk/ds/survey/index.jsp#/survey

The creator uploaded the convert-to-3D program, so once you've found the files it should be possible to turn them into 3D files provide you're comfortable running stuff from the command line and following his advice on parameters.
https://github.com/andrewgodwin/lidartile

I haven't tried it yet though - it's on the to do list!
Security updates should be vetted and not auto-accepted.

There's no problem here.
My very vague and armchair-esque fear is that sophisticated technology is actually the missing gap of truly and seamlessly centralizing control and power. Communism is awkward because it's actually quite hard to understand, much less control a human being in all his or her subtleties and motivations. It's easy to point to terrible, heavy-handed actions, but with an increasingly pervasive and subtle system, can we even tell if we're being gently guided to act for it?
> The article's philosophical discussion of "surprise" feels a little klunky and academic to me

To me it sounded like something a referee would request or something they suspected a referee would request.
It's absolutely true that you should be nice to people, but let me also issue a similar warning to newcomers not to ask questions in a way that inspires rage.

Programming is, in a very abstract sense, a dirty job. We get paid well, have great benefits, perks, and mobility, but we are the toilet scrubbers of the software world. We spend whole days hunting semicolons, or trying to reverse engineer bug reports that no one remembers writing. I've spent a whole week trying to move a button over about an inch in all supported browsers just to make the product "pixel perfect". I've spent a whole month trying to figure out how to use a SaaS feature as advertised that had sparse documentation and no tech support.

Some newcomers really don't understand/believe that, and think it's acceptable to run for help every time something frustrates them... do everyone a favor and don't be that person, please.
Vic Berger's supercuts of Trump with the airhorn and theme music and fake crowd sounds are so impossibly funny and terrifying at the same time
Well, it highlights the extreme cases of the more pervasive problem: Aggressive driving, which is a factor in the majority of traffic fatalities.
It's Community's "App Developments and Condiments"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App_Development_and_Condiments
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The time limit for negative information is 7 years.
No, secrets are pieces of information that you could use to compromise my production environment--like passwords or private keys. Those should never be uploaded to Github, period.
Mobile link: https://m.xkcd.com/944/
Oh I should update that. I very rarely tutor now. Mostly my site is set up to sell courses.

When I do occasionally take a single student, I just put an entry on a pending money section of my finance tracking spreadsheet.
Yup, the NC-FET essentially has the NC and positive capacitor in series to get a voltage amplifier, a clever way of subverting the Boltzmann limit :)
> Oh come on: this is a well-known property of garbage collectors and should have been covered in an entry-level CS class.

There's plenty of BS tought in academia. In CS that would include love for modeling tools (I had classes about IBM Rational tools, bleh), OOP and other forms of sophisticated complexity. The practicioners tend to dislike GCs, but again it's not a good argument.

> a real heap allocation is really really slow

There is nothing preventing a heap allocation to be almost as fast, at the cost of memory fragmentation/overutilization and/or slower deallocation.

And that's where the whole tradeoff is. Memory allocation has to track data explicitily, GC tracks data implicitly. Typically this tradeoff is expressed in a memory over-consmpation of GC to amortize the GC deallocation slowness. And it's all dandy on paper, because the argument is "oh, just take more memory and you're fast again". Which is not such an easy thing to do. Such memory could be used as a IO caches or to run other processes. And over and over companies rewrite their memory-hogging GC-ing services into explicit-memory allocation languages and they run faster and what's more important, utilize less memory and thus make the whole system faster. They can run on much smaller VM instances etc.

So the whole "GC is as fast or even faster" is dubious in general sense, IMO. And most of the papers trying to prove it is of form "in this specific circumstances GC can run the same or even outperform mangaged memory lanagues".
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Stealing a coat or possessing 1/2 and ounce of marijuana are generally not felonies. Stealing would be larceny and there are cost thresholds associated with that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felony
It's definitely not for less terminal savvy users. If anything, it's for more savvy people, as less savvy people hardly use tab completion, hotkeys and vi/emacs mode. It's meant for power users. Tab completion makes you faster and more efficient. I do agree though that it should be standardized.
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Ask HN: Do you keep a personal knowledgebase? With What?
Basically, I have this problem where over the course of time I misplace old data and documentation. This then adds hours to the time it takes to pick up on a project that I haven't touched in a long time. It seems like the sort of problem everyone else runs into and that someone has a solid solution that I haven't run across yet. Ideally, this would not be limited to software development. After all, it's nice to be able to lookup the code to a lock box rather than text someone at 4 am.

I have tried a number of things from paper notebooks, text files in folders, trello, google docs, various databases, and various wikis. Most of them have good things going for them but there hasn't been a clear winner in the decade or so I have been playing with this.

So, I thought I would ask what people use and what you liked about it.
Why highlight “black people”? Do white people convicted of crimes not carry a stigma? Hispanics?

Notwithstanding the qualifier, I think the difference between criminal records and social credit is the system itself. While flawed at least the (US) court system provide certain safeguards: due process, equal protection, right to remain silent, right to confront accusers, right to a lawyer even if you can’t afford one, ect...

What safeguards are in place for a system of social credit?
would you call anyone capable of creating, or even installing something like CyanogenMod a user?
I’ve heard the answer to this question somewhere, but now I can’t remember what I heard. :)

More seriously, some of this, to me, depends on what I’m listening to or reading. Fiction or easy non-fiction audio books do allow some degree of multitasking. However this doesn’t apply to 90% of my reading. Technical material is much faster for me to actually read.

For example, I saw an interesting paper recently[1]. It’s results are important and I’m happy to have come across them, but there is no way I could have absorbed it on an audio format without taking much more time.

I read technical material like this faster because I can skim over the things I already know (like why the result is interesting, applications of the idea, complex proof steps, math background material, etc) and I can slow down for the key results I want to remember. I can go back and re-read sentences that don’t make sense to me or where I’m confused.

For technical books there is so much that I don’t usually have to learn again, I can just skip to the new stuff.

[1] The Power of Two Choices in Randomized Load Balancing, https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=504343
"... electronic ballots recorded in a proprietary system by a private company..."

This is the second biggest threat to elections. And probably the most timely.

--

My tour of duty as an election integrity activist radically changed my worldview on these things. I previously thought the gear was the biggest problem.

Now I know that the biggest threat is disruption. While well intentioned, HAVA caused a lot of disruption. Resulting in no one knows what the rules are. Ditto the continuous ongoing "reforms". Like changes in voter ID laws, rules, procedures. Moving poll sites. Etc. Any changes that must be made should be done incrementally, methodically.

The second biggest threat is the privatization of our election administration. Like you observe. No private entity any where should be responsible for verifying eligibility, issuing ballots, counting votes. Election administration is the most fundamental function a democratic government performs, its prime responsibility. It must be performed by citizens working for the government to have any legitimacy whatsoever.

The third biggest threat to our elections is our form of voting. The USA's FPTP (winner takes all) elections are very brittle, intolerant of the inevitable margin of error. Much better, for both democracy and election administration, would be to use Approval Voting and Proportional Representation.

Yes, I still believe the gear we continue to use remains a big open untreated wound.
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lama of winamp?
Next steps:

1. Extend social credit to non-Chinese living in China.
2. Expand to companies and individuals doing business with or visiting in China.
3. Export the program to finance dependent nations outside China.
4. Require companies depending on Chinese income to enforce the regulations in a 'know your customer'-esque format.

There will be less resistance to this than one might think.
I missed that article two weeks ago, thanks for linking the discussion.
How about putting armored plows on the front of the buses and letting them shove whatever is parked in their way in the buslanes out of the way? Preferable left angled plows so it blocks general traffic instead of the sidewalk.
We got the court order. 100%. If not we would have taken the requesting agency to court.
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Here's an article about a public defense he gave back in 2010:

https://gizmodo.com/5591905/wikileaks-critic-adrian-lamo-def...

> He told the audience that he, like Manning and WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange, had acted out of conscience. Lamo believed the cables were dangerous. "Holy fracken crap, there's 260,000 documents," he said, "Do you think you could look through those and make sure they wouldn't cause anybody's life to be lost?"
Don't forget Barney Collier in Mission: Impossible, who was not only a black man critical to national security, but also a brilliant engineer.
Computers with actual magnetic core memory were also really loud, so it would have been hard to hear any other detail.

Generally, the only noise you'd hear in response to a core dump was the programmer, screaming. Go Team S0C7!
A way of life worthy of living is not afraid of an alternative's existence.
The only complex part should be gathering the data (how many spots are open in this street at these times).

I bet in most places these things are measured, and if they aren't it could be simple to measure. LA has parking meters that take credit card payments. You can extrapolate parking spot availability from that. Obviously I'm ignoring the cost of adding credit card parking meters where there aren't, but it proves my point that it could be simple

Choosing a price doesn't have to be complex either. Every quarter raise the price until the desired free space is available
It's not an American thing, it's mostly just an NYC, and maybe Boston, Philly, DC thing.

The parking/driving thing, not the recycling one.
You can extend this metaphor to employment and job performance as well, as explored by Marshall Brain in his short story "Manna" [0]:

> You can imagine what would happen. Manna fires you because you don't show up for work a couple times. Now you try to go get a job somewhere else. No other Manna system is going to hire you. There had always been an implicit threat in the American economy -- "if you do not have a job, you cannot make any money and you will therefore become homeless." Manna simply took that threat and turned the screws. If you did not do what Manna told you to, it would fire you. Then you would not be able to get a job anywhere else.

As we get better at collecting and analyzing data on employees (a hot topic whenever tech interviews are discussed on HN), we should remember to exercise a certain amount of "social forgiveness."

[0] http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
No it isn't. While it can inconvenience you for a few years you can get it back up by simply paying your bills on time and paying down debts.

Now that being the case I still don't like credit scores. You can work years, have lots of savings, pay all your bills on time, pay off cars and mortgages and have a rocking credit score. The if one medical vendor sends your $90 bill to the wrong address, you never see it, then they send you to collections you will watch your score crater. This is sadly what happened to me, it is rage inducing!
For me Civ 2 was peak Civilopedia, and Alpha Centauri was peak content-accompanying-discoveries (with the addition of quotes), but when that style got fed back into Civ 3 it lost something in translation.

I literally did not study for history from grades 6-10 because I had learned 80% of the content by reading Civilopedia entries during gameplay. It's been a huge inspiration later in life as I've thought about educational gaming -- both as a classroom teacher and now as a technologist.

PS - I still quote CEO Nwabudike Morgan and Chairman Sheng-ji Yang on a monthly basis in adult life
I like that they at least have a decent shelf life. I've seen a bunch of these prepper kits that include items with 3-5 year shelf lives, which means you need to be eating your doomsday food regularly and restocking it. That's not ideal since most of this food is designed to keep you alive, not to taste great.

Of course you'll have the same problem with these kits in 24 years, having a year of eating nearly expired lentils and dried cranberries if the world doesn't come to an end.

And of course this kit seems to forget about the 1 year worth of fresh water storage. Hopefully whomever buys it doesn't.
Get ready for more China stabbing sprees [1] as the consequences of this become increasingly felt by their society. This strikes me as an obviously bad idea, but perhaps there are no good solutions with a population of that size.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chenpeng_Village_Primary_Schoo...
So you advocate for less communication?

Why not create a culture that embraces having new comers ask questions in a non disruptive way?

Something like a slack channel where experienced dev's can chime in if they have time.

I'd freak out on anyone on my team if they were telling new hires not to ask questions. That's just stupid.
Seems a little violent.
"Cloud SDK runs on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, and requires Python 2.7.x."

https://cloud.google.com/sdk/downloads
Or, a more light-hearted take, a few years before Nosedive: http://community-sitcom.wikia.com/wiki/MeowMeowBeenz
>most free

>People allowed to own land

Not sure the mental gymnastics you have to go through to convince yourself private ownership of land == freedom

American by chance?
So why are the analogies others have made not valid? (although I haven't found anyone saying it's "essentially the same thing")
Even if its not decentralized I can still clone all the code in the centralized version control system.
Wow, didn't realise the darkweb was so tiny.
What’s a white girl rap battle? I don’t remember anything like that
I think telling people to avoid S1E1 is counterproductive if the alternative is to start with S1E2. I always thought that one was even more graphically disturbing.
I knew it had to be in there and indeed it was. The 'Impossibly Compact Solutions' case is expanded upon in this article by Alan Bellows: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

I don't know why, but after ten years it remains one of my favorite stories on the Internet. Worth a read IMHO.
I was about to say the same, they are copying US because US did some great work in suppressing dissent.
Pay your bills. I cannot take the idea that they're holding anything "hostage" when the whole thing is that you're not paying your bill. If you don't pay your car bill, they'll take it back.
> Felons often face considerable difficulties in finding employment and housing.

This is the marketplace at work. It's not a government-imposed ban on access to public services.
When did they add the sync feature? I asked the audible support about sync two months ago and they said that the notes are only stored on the device you are using. Indeed i couldn't see it anywhere else and when i switched phones the notes wouldn't sync to the new audible installation.
What about 3 strikes in many States?
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The best thing about Civ, that player already has all the concepts from studying history.
So by selling this instead of hoarding it Coscto is confirming its bearish on a scenario where food becomes scarce for a year or more
I think you read my point in reverse? I agree with you, that the snitching is good. There's probably something to debate on what's snitching and what's being a traitor, but that's not the same debate IMO.
>search through a bunch of crappy options with little to no information about which was better.

weird, that's how I'd describe about 60% of my time on Amazon... Better, sometimes.
You're proving the grandparent's point. Android's "openness" matters only if you want to build your own OS based on Android or you're a system integrator. For users buying Android devices, it's more often than not just as closed platform as any other alternative.
The only way the marketplace can do this is with the support of the government. The government provides felony records after all.
You're being downvoted for they ridiculous hyperbole of using the terms "ransom" and "hostage" for the situation, when it's just that you didn't pay your bill, so you don't get access to the service. Any web host would do the same, as would any other business. You don't pay your bill, you don't get the service. Why is that so hard to comprehend?
Because people treat black and Hispanic people with criminal records more harshly than white people.

From: https://csgjusticecenter.org/reentry/posts/researchers-exami...

> Key findings include:

> * Both black and Hispanic men were less likely to receive a positive response from employers—including a call back or email for an interview or a job offer—compared with white men.

> * Men with criminal records were more likely than women with criminal records to receive a negative response from employers.

> * White men with a criminal record had more positive responses than black men with no criminal record.