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I completely agree, I was about to write the same: that name is VERY badly chosen, it conveys the wrong idea to anybody who has not read the origin of the term, and makes it sound horribly pretentious (something I hate).

Whereas the ideas are quite sound (and common sense). I also find it weird, to say the least, that so many people seem to rediscover those ideas that have been known -and advocated- FOREVER by people with a clue (look at Jacob Nielsen for an example).

I also enjoy the irony that the writer uses a VERY BIG font for the titles (H1), that "brutalizes" (LOL) my eyes, especially the HUGE title of the article: they are MUCH too big.

BTW, it's "béton brut" not "betón brut", the typo makes it seem really weird for french people.
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9ton_brut .
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Vote by mail works, is efficient and easy.

Autoregister on State ID or Drivers License.

Online party management.

Signature validation, collected at registration.

Voters can mail it, use a drop, or vote in person at an elections office.

My favorite is voting parties. Everyone brings ballots, talk abot the options, vote, eat, smoke, drink, done.
Absolutely agreed on radiology. Earlier this year 3 different radiologists read my c-spine MRI and said I have slight bulging on C5-6 and nothing more. 5 different neurosurgeons* said sure, the C5-6 is bad but the real issue is the C6-7 herniated disc impinging on my nerves. I actually asked 2 of those 3 radiologists re-read the MRI and look for the C6-7 hernia and they couldn't find anything. All of the surgeons picked it up immediately.

I was told by a surgeon that this happens because radiologists are generalists (looking for strong evidence of different types of issues all over the body) while surgeons are trained to know the specific issues that happen in few parts, even if they don't show up clearly in MRI/x-rays.

AI should be able to take data from all the specialists to make a better generalist than human-trained radiologists. Integrated AI system should immediately read an MRI/x-ray/ultrasound and spit out possible issues. I can imagine an x-ray or ultrasound video feed hooked to the cloud that shows in real-time possible diagnoses and highlights the areas of concern. Ultrasounds are safe and this could even be a consumer device. Just like 3D-ultrasounds and 23&Me are for 'entertainment' and not medical solutions, ultrasound-with-AI can be a good tool for at-home what-ifs. It could be a great prenatal monitoring device.

* I know a lot of surgeons personally. Didn't cause a trillion dollar insurance claim.
And then every package comes with its own libraries, which don't get updated and end up with duplicates everywhere. It's the same reason that Linux (the kernel) emphatically refuses to support out of tree drivers. It means that you have to make the effort to package it, yes, but once you've done that you get dependencies essentially for free. And as the end-user, I can update EVERYTHING on my system with one command, rather than the Windows hell of a dozen updaters running in the background constantly.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17472485
I'd rather buy this stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLS5WzyEINA
u64 in the annotation value

Check out this document http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~mcimadamore/panama/panama-binder... for the syntax.
How can you get hard evidence today for something that may happen in 25 years, considering the rate of change ?

And I don't agree that it's pure speculation - we do see how many jobs(in full or in part) could be, and may be on their way to being automated.

On the other hand, we rarely hear reasonable speculations on what would be the jobs that would replace them.

Considering the creativity of the human mind (and of various authors), and our love for speculation, that's somewhat worrying.
I am just providing a lower-bound to its performance.
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Never heard of that... fascinating! I don't think it's used in Croatia, Bosnia, US or Canada. Can you provide examples?

Thx!:)
There would be a absurd cognitive overhead for people to have to study and prepare an opinion for as many votes as they have financial transactions. Every other productive activity in the US would grind to a halt.
Wait, that’s Brian Kernighan?

The K in K&R C Programming???

Mind blown, what an excellent dude!
I suppose they're referencing a popular video game mechanic, in which skill-building works by collecting skills in a limited number of "slots".

The claim is that while humans may be able to master a large number of different skills, few of them are limited to humans in and of themselves (and not available to some other animals as well).
I wonder if they could run a long tube through the water that would be waterproof and through which the boys could be pulled or crawl
> Voting ID cards too

National ID cards is better. Requiring and ID to vote is open to actual fraud as it can be granted or denied on political basis.

A mandatory national ID card is politics free. It is used to register your weapon, to get health care, to vote, to register your kids in school, etc. It helps that everybody is counted as a citizen. Instead of just removing the people that you don't like (https://www.scpr.org/news/2016/12/22/67481/you-say-you-re-an...).
Ask HN: Do you now any dead open-source projects looking for maintainers/BDFL?
I don’t need to break my head with such things because I’ve mastered OS packaging on several operating systems.
Sorry to say this, but the US has bigger systemic problems to fix. Voting is a small one compared to the 2-party system. The US always boasts about how it is so democratic; while in reality there isn't much democracy. In fact, the 2-party system looks suspiciously a lot on the 1-party system in existence in many other countries. Sure, you have a choice, but what value is that choice?
Turnout is also much higher. A few dead ballots suck, but the higher turnout renders them moot.
Do you have examples of the SV posters?
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ID requirements make a tremendous amount of sense. Fear of those laws repressing certain groups should just incentivize watchdogs and protections ensuring that repressive regulations are not passed.

Seriously, just because a good law could be abused does not mean we should avoid enacting such a law. That sort of thinking would seriously restrict our legal system if it was applied in all cases.
If you’ve never tried, load something like "lite.cnn.io" and be amazed at how quickly you can see 50 different headlines and links, on any type of device. Similarly, "old.reddit.com" and other simplified designs.

I now strictly bookmark only what I consider the “sensible” versions of a site. And if there isn’t a sensible version, I stop using the site entirely.

Also, in 2018 you are doing yourself a disservice on the desktop if you don’t have the best content blockers installed. (I use "uBlock Origin" and "uMatrix", not because I want sites to suffer but because web browsing IS intolerable without a blocker.)
> And Facebook is an outlier? Really? Even when we add Wordpress, Wikpedia, Flickr, MailChimp and a long list of the most successful websites in the world to that list?

Yes, FB is an outlier -- one out of million companies. Only 5-10 companies out of those millions made this current model work. So their existence and "success" proves absolutely nothing.

You have a strange understanding of the word "successful".

Facebook is certainly not "successful" because it neglects good tech. If anything, they rewrote PHP itself so as not to have to rewrite their customer-facing software. How is that for your "tech excellence is not important" argument? They rewrote the damned runtime and even added a compiler.

So please define what "successful" means to you. "A lot of people using FB" is a temporary metric, even if it lasts for decades. It's not sustainable per se. It relies on hype and network effect. These fade away.

@jacquesm's points are better argued than yours. Throwing words like "free market" and "entropy" does not immediately prove a point.

I will give you the historical fact that there are many throwaway projects but he's also right that the fallout from the tech debt they incurred is almost never faced by the original author. Throw in the mix the fact that many businessmen are oblivious on what do the techies do in their work hours exactly and one can be easily misled that technology perfection is not important. Seems that you did.

Final point: I am not arguing for 100% technical excellence. That would be foolish. We would still be refining HTTP and the WWW in general even today and internet at large would not exist. But the bean counters have been allowed to negotiate down tech efforts to the bare minimum for far too long, and it shows everywhere you look.

(My local favourite restaurant waiters' smartphone-like devices for accepting and writing orders are faulty to this day because some idiot bought a cheap consumer-grade router AND made the software non-fault-tolerant, being an everyday example.)
Likewise, Democrats turn a blind eye towards voting id because they benefit from non eligible voterw voting, because they usually vite Democrat. There, I've made my point and provided as much evidence as you have towards your point
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If you want a job as an entry level programmer, do not bother learning C, go with something like C#, JavaScript, Java, or Python.

The author doesn't really list any viable reasons to use C over any more modern, convenient language. Just the whole "shows you how memory management really works". A lot of C programmers remind me of the die hard Gentoo/Arch Linux people who think it'll help them "show you how Linux really works".
IDs are not issued automatically in the US; they take money and effort to acquire. Therefore as implemented in the US, voter IDs are a poll tax.

Unsurprisingly, this makes voter ID a political issue: those who benefit from poll taxes support them, and those whose voters are suppressed by poll taxes oppose them.
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Would you want your doctor to be lying about having obtained his medical degree?
Extracted from working code overnight, which in those days on that equipment was still quite an accomplishment.
And inside the Bay Area you can get a car or a bicycle for less than a million dollars too.
Damn, he IS Iron Man.
Agreed that if lower level hardware is compromised it doesn't matter what you run on top of it, and RattlesnakeOS doesn't protect from that other than keeping components up to date with latest security patches. I think if you are going to buy a dumb flip phone and solder out components for privacy, you are probably better off just not having a phone at all. This project is more about having a useful smartphone experience while still focusing on privacy and security.
You need to defeat the police forces. Here, the police is a part of what we call "les forces de l'ordre" (the forces of the order). The real goal of the police isn't to struggle against crime. The real goal is the protect the current order like it is (whatever this order is).

That's why the revolution happens in the street in front of the police. A smart police should be less violent as possible. Each violent act feeds the revolution.

Here we have the best riot police because we are also one of the best revolutionary country.
why 'trying to disguise', could be inadvertent machine noise?
That's a good point, though honestly I never could understand why you would use anything but Apache (for permissive) or (A)GPL (for copyleft). Other options seem like oversights (BSD/MIT don't cover patents) or cutting off your nose to spite your face (WTFPL). I'm sure there's nuance, but I can't seem to see it.
This not my point - my point is that although it is optional it is mentioned as the defacto standard. I don't think it is because it complicates things way to much.

I cannot enumerate all decorators in this comment but we have one called useGlobalState where you pass several prop names and a scope name and in return it manages those props for your like any other controlled component. It is fast and it is effective in what it does.

There are a few others that are more specific.
We've already asked you to stop posting political flamewar comments to HN. If you can't or won't stop, we're going to have to ban you. This is not what the site is for, and it's destructive of what it is for.

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yet I read that every meter of ocean floor was physically 'plowed' multiple times over by fishers, on average.
You also need to wear clothes and shoes into the polling station. Are those expenses considered poll taxes as well? Straw man, but requiring ID is not really a direct poll tax. I certainly don't feel like I'm being unreasonably taxed when I vote with my ID.
Please don't respond to a bad comment with another bad comment that also breaks the site guidelines. It only makes things worse.

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Great to hear! Here is another you may find interesting:

Meehl, Paul E (1967). Theory-testing in psychology and physics: A methodological paradox. Philosophy of Science, 34(2), 103–115. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/186099
I take a different approach; I've zoomed out from the problem, and looking at it from a macro level, I've concluded that the system is what's corrupt, not the candidates, recruiters, or hiring managers, and all of the individuals are victims toiling under a broken system.

It's a business opportunity, and it's one I'm going after once my current project gets to a stopping point.
The appraiser's real job is to protect the bank's money by ensuring that the house is sufficiently valuable to serve as collateral for the loan you are taking out.
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In my locale, you mark a paper ballot by hand, and it goes into a somewhat antiquated electronic scanner. The scanner is attached to a locked box that stores the ballots. That seems like a reasonable approach.

When I was a kid, I remember going with my mom when she voted. The mechanical voting machine created this roll of paper with everybody's vote marked on it. After the poll closed, they took out the rolls and laid them out down the hallway of the school where the polling occurred. Anybody was welcome to stay and watch while the poll workers checked the tallies.
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> Voting requires ID in almost every other western democracy

Not in the UK. [1]

> Do I need to take ID to the polling station?

> You do not need to show ID to vote in England, Scotland and Wales. You just need to tell polling staff your name and address. They will then cross your name off the list and give you a ballot paper.

There were trials of a voter id system recently, but it is widely regarded as "a solution in search of a problem" and a way of suppressing the vote of the economically disadvantaged, the natural opponents of the ruling right wing Tory party[2]

1: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jun/07/how-do-i-vo...

2: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/29/england-vot...
It's because the right benefits from low turnout. The left, representing the interests of the proletarian majority, benefits from large turnout. The Democratic party, a center left or center right party depending on who you talk to, has co-opted the left voter base and thereby depends on higher turnout during general elections. As a centrist party, they intentionally suppress turnout during primary elections (e.g. by not advertising the date in my community) to restrict ideological choices.
Well yeah, because the interviewer knows the other people! The candidate, however.

My point was that if they're actually hiring for soft skills, why does it not hold sway in one-on-ones? It would seem to symbolize a weak bullpen, so to speak.
If this is the case, it begs the question why voter registration data is directly connected to the Internet. Yes, we want to allow online registrations and modifications, but surely we could have a batch process to make changes to the canonical source, with a signed log of changes.
Honestly, if I were you I would try to write it blind. It's one of the more rewarding things to write, because when you do it correctly, it collapses down to a bunch of macro calls. You'll start off writing it long hand, and eventually you'll start to see some patterns. Then you'll see the need for certain combinators, and then finally you'll see how everything collapses down. It's one of the more rewarding things to write if you're a fan of DRY, and the fuzzy feeling you get when you properly abstract something.
...how are these systems not airgapped?
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Or outside the United States. You would think that they could somehow use geo-fencing that correspond to the districts that are under consideration. Rather than going back to paper counting some form of key-based two-way encryption that verifies voters within the state would be useful and more secure.
There's so much tribalism happening now. Getting legal Americans to vote and vote easily should be an issue for everyone to care about, regardless of party affiliation.
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AWS’s secret manager seems like overkill for most projects and it’s expensive - 40 cents per secret per month. The Parameter Store is free and much better integrated with AWS’s other offerings. It also supports encrypted values.
I dunno... the Yale Art & Architecture building is a classic early example of brutalism, and I've never been in a space that felt more open to creativity or so honest... it was a revelation the first time I stepped inside of it. I looked forward to classes there because it felt uplifting for my soul, and deeply envied architecture students who got to use it as their workspace, its spirit was so perfect.

Of course I'm sure brutalism can be done badly too (like anything), and I haven't spent time on the inside of too many others... but there can be something profound about it -- a modern building in balance that tries to be exactly what it is, no more, no less.
I think it would be reasonable to create a national ID card system and fund it through taxes. It could replace driver licenses and social security cards. I do not know why it would be unreasonable to require such a card for voting. It could also serve as a PKI system with the govt acting as a CA (i.e. manage issuance and revocation). There are non zero benefits. And this doesn't have to operate like a poll tax. I don't understand why this isn't already a thing. Seems obvious.
Geez, just like... Give the voting software its own isolated network, and for external reporting force somebody to dump the results to a flash drive before uploading them to the web. I'm not even a security expert, but maybe I could get a job as one working for the US government.
> Not to mention that after not touching any code for a whole year I'd be questioning your ability to be doing technical hires in the first place.

I you read code from 20 years ago, you will be surprised that there is good and bad code. Most of the code techniques were developed decades ago.

If you stop coding you are going to be more slow when you have to start to do it again. But you don't forget the principles.

You will find managers that user to be developers that are bad coders. That does not mean that they have forgotten how to code, in my experience they were not good to start with and that is why they changed profession.
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You are thinking of this as a person who already has a government issued ID. If you don't drive and don't travel internationally there isn't much in life that would require you go acquire a government issued ID. If the only reason you need the ID is to vote, many people who don't already have an ID won't vote.
I've very rarely seen them outside of job purposes. I remember a fad as a kid but I wouldn't compare making your own radio in early 1900s with buying a plastic toy in the 80s.
> It isn't a feature but a requirement is the common argument.

An argument that no one listens to, which is why the web isn't performant and is instead full of bloated junk. They are acting like performance isn't even a feature, like users don't care about it and shouldn't have it. This is wrong.

^-- Is what that section is saying.
So the status quo can stay in power.
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I'm not sure how unique it is to Iraq, but there were tons of photos of it on American news after that country was 'liberated'

https://www.google.com/search?q=iraq+voting&tbm=isch
There have been numerous studies proving that systemic (not andecdotal) voter fraud doesn’t exist.

https://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/debunking-voter-fraud...

And there have been public comments by GOP politicians saying they’re pushing voter ID laws explicitly to disenfranchise democratic voters.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ac...

Race and voting demographics show Democrats have an edge nationwide that will continue to grow over the next decade and on. Republicans know this and this is why they hit mid-terms so hard. General voting is down and it’s easier to win. Add suppression methods, including psychographic warfare and they know they have a shot to rig the system.

This why Trump won and why our Supreme Court is going to take away the rights of workers, minorities, women, and immigrants.
If you choose not to vote, you save that money and it effects your life in no direct way. You can't choose not to wear clothes and still expect to live a normal life. The point is if the ID was free, it would be different, because you'd have no incentive to not have one.
Looking at the description of Canada, it looks similar to how the US has worked.

The general thing people have wanted to avoid is an extra burden that burdens poor voters. Either an ID that costs money (poll taxes are banned in many countries, so this is always a little dubious), or that simply requires going to a distant or understaffed facility to get the ID.

The only reason it's a political issue at all is because the Republican party has been rather openly seeking these negative effects to their electoral benefit: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/us/some-republicans-ackno...
For larger parrots, it is actually not that uncommon.

A responsible parrot owner should plan for the parrot to outlive them and include something in their will about how the parrot will be passed down.
I got the airpods a couple weeks ago. My main motivation was that the earpods cable easily tangle. It's difficult to sort it out. The next motivation was to be able to charge the phone while using the earpods since they have lightening. And finally, because I can't get the earpods in my macbook unless I use an adapter.

And here is my experience: It is great and feels like an Apple product.

1. The charge lasts. It lasts around 2-3 hours + charge 6-7 more times. Can go with the thing for a full day of usage without worrying.

2. It is seamless to get it working. You just open the case. Done. Then you can easily switch on the Mac after you connected it to your iPhone.

3. The sound is good. It is not too strong. But I guess this will protect me against my own stupidity.

4. The airpods are water resistant (though warranty doesn't cover that). I dropped one on my coffee cup. Still working good.

Simple. Nice. And it works. That's what I'm paying the premium for!

And yes, it is definitively worth the price. I use them for 3-4 hours per day. So if they last for a couple year, that's like $0.22/day for something that I use probably more than anything else.
>The left, representing the interests of the proletarian majority.

No party is currently doing this unless you include third parties. The American left works for business too.
Congratulations. Seeing this made me really happy.