skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be completely fair, the problem is likely not the voting machines themselves. The problem, at a fundamental level, is that most democracies are deeply corrupted. Some from within. Some from with-out. Some corrupted from with-in and from with-out. (Most probably fall into the latter category if we're being honest.)

The voting machines simply represent another tool in the box of the corrupt. Like money, or judges and politicians, or social media. Is it a good idea to refrain from using voting machines? Probably. But realize that you've only eliminated a single attack vector for corrupting an electoral process. There are many, many, many more. And they are probably a lot easier and more effective than breaking into a voting machine.

A few for instances:

The entire nation has been thoroughly Gerrymandered. This is a fairly effective method of corrupting elections and it is a fact of life for us here in the US.

Professional manipulation campaigns. Yeah, I don't think I need to tell anyone how effective these are. Basically, any comment on the internet that is remotely political ought to be discounted, as it should be assumed to be part of a professional manipulation campaign. Including this and every other comment on this thread to be perfectly frank.

Another example. In North Carolina, they simply deleted all the black people from the voter registration database during the last election. Fast. Simple. Effective. And WAY easier than hacking into Heaven only knows how many different voting machines to tamper with the numbers.

My only point is that, yes, voting machines are corruptible. Anyone who says they aren't is being willfully dishonest. (And probably trying to screw you.) That said, there are so many other methods of corrupting a modern election that I'm not at all sure that breaking into the voting machines would be option number one for all those political types out there.

So, yes, by all means, stay away from voting machines. It probably makes sense for you to agitate for their removal in your municipality.

But realize there are many, many other threat vectors out there that you should probably be more worried about.
The market has failed us, so let's take power over food production away from the market and give it to the government. You know, the same government that implemented corn subsidies and told everyone that a low-fat, high-carb diet was a really good idea.

Wait, what?
The real election hacking come from the fact that people are easy to sway. We succumb to subtle nudges in ways that we aren’t always consciously aware of. We now live in an era where a given nudge can be directed and concentrated to the right group of people and doing this at scale is practical.

The adage in politics has been, “All politics is local.” This appears to be changing in the U.S. Money and influence comes from all over and the issues that rile up people enough to vote are less and less tied to local problems. At least this is how I see things. I don’t know a good solution to the problem. Perhaps Asimov had it right in his story “Franchise”.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_(short_story)
Nonsense, you are completely ignoring country size, and even in absolute numbers every country in the Schengen Area allows every citizen of other Schengen Area countries complete freedom of movement. For any given country in the Schengen Area, that is more foreigners who are allowed complete freedom of movement than the entire population of the US, much less just the foreign born population of the US. Just because most of those people don't choose to exercise that ability, doesn't mean they don't have it.
I would recommend Syncthing. Fully open source. It is however self-hosted. But they have clients for basically everything, including mobile phones.
> I made a memory namespace earlier to contain some processes, and it's not showing up in sudo lsns,

What kernel do you run? I have never heard about memory namespaces. And http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/namespaces.7.html neither.

Did you possibly mean memory cgroups? Obviously lsns doesn't show them. I don't know a tool that gives a good overview over cgroups at one glance. I have used custom scripts based on

find /sys/fs/cgroup/ -name tasks

in the past.
Asking someone to spend an hour on something is not a big deal, but I've seen/heard of stuff where they're talking about half a day or even an entire day. For someone with other things going on like a family (I know it may seem outlandish to younger readers here, but it does happen) and a current job, that's asking an awful lot. It does not take the company an entire day to review that exercise, making the time commitment very asymmetric.
Facebook is shutting down Friend List Feeds today
> attracted the real followers

And plenty of Russian trolls.
What I mean is instead of slapping a carbon tax on gasoline you slap it on the car. So if a car is slated to emit 60 tons of CO2 during it's expected life you compute a excise tax based on 60 tons.
I'm not in the start-up world personally but from I understand it's all rather vibrant. I went to Vivatech and was, despite the lack of air in the building, quite impressed with the sheer number of start-ups present.

Having French language skills is a HUGE benefit and was not too long ago an absolutely necessity. It's getting better now and you can more or less get by speaking only English, at least in a professional context. Socially it won't be that great, although if you're motivated I'm sure you'll learn enough for everyday conversations rather quickly.

A good website to check out job offers is https://welcometothejungle.co (in French only unfortunately). LinkedIn is big (how I got my previous job). Also, Hired I've heared (no personal experience).
> They skipped over a lot of good farm land, and ended up in Northern Alberta for no discernible reason other than they knew how to deal with it.

I'd had that phenomena explained to me in University as a result of the feudal states (serfdom was only officially abolished in 1861) that the Russian people left to come to North America - back home those trees would have been the lord's property, but here it could be theirs - so even though there was better arable land even in southern Alberta (assuming you could deal with the fact that the land in basically a desert), they traveled where there were "valuable" resources they wouldn't have had access to in the old country.
Within the UK there is a large variety of cycling cultures. Cambridge is a city where everyone cycles to work in jeans/office clothes.

(Don't confuse "track bikes" and "road bikes"...)
Because it's easy is not an excuse. When you say that you become a victim and you lose any agency you might have had over this.

But to each his own.
Touching the Sun
Network file systems are harder than they sound, and writing additional file systems for Windows is a huge pain. Even Microsoft's own solution - OneDrive - they've had to walk back slightly on their "placeholder" implementation for detached operation, which was great when it worked but occasionally managed to blow up badly.
Hunting SSL/TLS clients using JA3
Theives are usually lazy and they don't make more efforts then required.

My friend has holes in the front of the car to make it easier for theives to attach a hook and then tow the car into a truck.

But if you put pressure above a threshold on any of the holes, car keeps sending one SMS to his number every 5 minutes.

This is in Romania.
Maybe we've been looking at the wrong cost. As you suggest, voting machines wouldn't make it cheaper to count the votes. They would make it cheaper to hack the election!

"No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up." --Lily Tomlin
Age has nothing to do with it. If you keep dismissing tech due to age, you're going to be spending your life re-inventing the wheel and rediscovering the same problems and mistakes over and over again.

By the way, NTFS dates back to 1993. It not included in the expiry list. Every file system mentioned as losing support is newer than that, and they're all under active development and getting better all the time.

XFS became the default file system in Redhat 7 and derivatives. ecryptfs is the default for home directories on Ubuntu. They're talking about wiping out a significant proportion of Linux users here.
Reminds me of Van Halen and the brown M&Ms.
Forget the workers, you need to juice about 11 oranges a minute (4 oranges/glass)[1]. I'd guess that'd take 20 workers working with electric juicers.

Instead buy a dozen automatic juicers and charge the client to buy new ones.

[1]The juice in an orange is highly variable by season, producer, ect. Just add it to the bill.
On this subject, I recommend The End of Overeating by David Kessler.
Completely agree. I'm not sure why someone would choose Dropbox over Keybase nowadays.
reddit.com/r/Avoid5
> But where would you sync to?

You sync across your devices (or anything where you can run a standalone binary). Phone, PC, server, whatever. It's pretty good and very stable when your packager doesn't fuck up the service file (https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/net/syncthing/files/sy...).

> without the need to set up configure your home nas

That's only needed if you need access to your files from the outside world (which is probably a bad idea). For instance, my ~/Documents are syncthing-only, not available through my Nextcloud instance. Can't access my payslip from last year on my phone. Can't have it stolen through that channel either!
> formal specification with proofs of correctness for its bidirectional syncing

Where can I find more information on this? Search is failing me.
>Which is to say I think that even if the things people get outraged about were to reduce, I think that people would in turn get outraged about smaller things.

I think the cases for which that's true don't tend to correlate with the sort of content we're discussing. I don't think "outrage culture" is the reason people object to Alex Jones, as an example.
4chans version:

"Ironic shitposting is still shitposting"
Buybacks are the wrong boogeyman
For whatever reason, no other service does binary delta uploads like Dropbox, including Google drive. No other service takes advantage of the local network when syncing multiple PC's on the same LAN.
Her visa was invalid.
Isn’t that what’s already happened? We went from civil rights movements for blacks (>10%) to gays (<5%) to transgender (<1%).
> Which is why we’re all using an internet powered by Javascript, Electron apps on the desktop, etc. Worse is better.

That's being a bit alarmist, isn't it? It's not worse is better. It's the right amount of compromises is better. Or, "good enough is better".

Perfection usually has diminishing returns and is rarely obtainable. Worse is not better. Good enough is better; objectively so.
But I (and I suspect quite a few other people) want a cloud backend to cover both the disaster-recovery cases and syncing while outside my LAN.
Germany lifts ban on Nazi symbols in computer games
Not quite. There are some oceanic trench faults in between Indonesian islands, so there was no full land connection.

At the last glacial maximum (and sea-level minimum), the big islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo would have been portions of a massive Southeast Asia peninsula. In addition, New Guinea would have been attached to Australia. The other Indonesian islands, such as Sulawesi and Timor, would still have been islands. The gaps between the islands would be somewhat smaller, perhaps about 25mi (even between Timor and Australia), which is close enough that you can sail between them without ever losing sight of land.
Multi-Model Azure Cosmos DB – Running SQL (Geospatial) Queries on a Graph
Anger and Rightousness are powerful human emotions. Especially towards people deemed to be 'different' than your in-group.

It basically is a fundamental part of our psyche. It's never going away.
IIUC, in U.S. jurisprudence the term "natural person" serves that role.
or just tax unhealhty food ...

The proper place of government is to regulate markets, so that they deliver social good, not spiral into self-serving vortices. Adam Smith said roughly this.
Someone referred me to equity trust. I am still looking around what to do with my ira - I am currently comfortable with stocks in vanguard, but once it grows to be sizable, RE won't be out of possibilities.
It reads a lot like the style of a fake conversation written as a sample piece for a "buy fake content for content marketing" startup on HN recently. I'm sure it's unrelated, but it definitely feels like the same style of writing to me.
Can you trade nano for a stable coin that is pegged to USD without an exchange?
Terry is an insane person who would rant about people using racial slurs.

Lets not be too kind because he also happens to be good at programming.
Calling the 3rd and 6th columns "3rd" and "6th" is hardly arbitrary.
Not what I'm referring to. I'm referring specifically to those who owned land and bore arms and were referred to as Citizens in Rome.

I find both the notions that conscription=slavery and that taxation=theft can only be held by someone who does not believe in any sort of duty or obligation to one's community, country, nation, or God, and that self-interest must necessarily be one's sole (or at least primary) motivating factor.
I enjoyed this talk along the same lines by Guy Steele, regarding not necessarily forcing a sequential solution to a non-sequential problem:

Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem - Guy Steele Jr.:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftcIcn8AmSY

Look for steps that are commutative and/or associative in the problem to exploit parallelism.
Not sure what's your question to be honest, could you please provide more context?
It basically is a fundamental part of our psyche. It's never going away.

What a piss-poor cop out argument this is. There are lots of impulsive, animalistic features still baked into our slightly more evolved reptilian brains, and it seems we haven't had much problem ironing out some of the worst of those impulses for net positive outcomes.

Clubbing people from different tribes over the head with tree branches, for example-being one of them.

Why, pray tell-is/should this be any different?
syncthing is p2p, you just run it on the devices that you want to sync with
If it just renewed and this changes breaks your use case you can probably request a refund since your system is no longer supported.
Are you really claiming that a car running a red light with speed v1 and crashing into a cyclist with speed v2 is more dangerous than a cyclist running a red light with speed v2 and crashing into a car with speed v1? That‘s ludicrous. The situations are perfectly symmetrical.
I’ve been a bicycle commuter for 25 years, primarily in the US (Minneapolis, Santa Fe, Bay Area) but also 3 years in London. Your last 3 points are much more important than the first three, there’s simply an attitude problem in the US, and it goes both ways, both drivers, and riders (and even pedestrians) are militant and angry about the space they feel entitled to.

Compare to London where the streets were designed for neither automobiles nor bicycles. In London there’s a culture of acknowledgement that we all have to make do with the available space. So pedestrians spill into the street, cars occasionally have to go up onto the pavement (aka. Sidewalk) and bicycles achieving critical mass happens naturally during peak times. London is 10 times as congested as SF and yet everyone is 10 times as calm.

It’s amazing to me the success the auto lobby had in America a century ago to create a culture where the default is that everyone should be able to drive super fast and have parking available in every square inch of developed land, and anyone who uses anyone who uses any other form of transportation is an uncivilized pleb deserving of second rate accommodations at best.
Not if you consider speed and CPU consumption.
" Researchers have pointed out that if Americans actually followed the US dietary guidelines and started to eat the volume and variety of produce health officials recommend, we wouldn’t have nearly enough to meet consumer demand."

Compare any American super market's fruit and veggie section to one in Canada, or EU, and this is obviously true. Even Whole Foods' is pathetically small[1].

Seeing how little space there is for F&V, if you imagine doubling the space, the production problem is quite apparent.

[1]In Canada, the nearest supermarket to my folks' uses half it's floor space on vegetables and fruits. Grown in California, of course.
Is your country not sharing in the spoils? I'm not saying that offensive wars are moral, but it is in keeping with your duties to the group.

And certain offensive wars are for the common defense, usually against neighboring countries over scarce resources, or against other imperial powers.
Missing xattrs? What?
In some countries your bike as a high chance of getting stolen or vandalized.
Ask HN: Do you find 1-on-1s with supervisor/team members beneficial?
Lately I have been thinking about how to make 1-on-1s more effective or if there is an alternative to them. Of recent, I have them to have little benefit relative to the amount of time they take. Currently devoting ~4 hours/wk.

If you regularly hold 1-on-1s:

- Are you required to have them or only have them when needed?

- How regularly do you meet?

- Do you have an agenda? How do you determine if the meeting was beneficial?

- What is the setting like? Are you walking/drinking coffee or is it more formal?

If you do not hold 1-on-1s:

- How is important/sensitive information disseminated to your team/supervisor?

- Do you have an alternative to 1-on-1s?

- Do you wish you had 1-on-1s?
Jesus. Please just stop posting.
The 'Anne Frank' Center needs to be put into context here:

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/anne-fr...

>With just its famous name and a savvy social-media strategy, the Anne Frank Center has transformed into a putative authority on anti-Semitism and American politics. But it’s not at all clear the organization speaks for anybody other than its own leaders—not Holocaust scholars, Anne Frank’s family, or the Jewish community. Ultimately, by politicizing Anne Frank, the group may undermine her legacy.
> The scene of my car not being where it was supposed to be was so surreal that I did not even realize it was missing the first time when I walked out the trash. I basically walked around an invisible car.

This reminds me of the street cleaning hazing ritual most newcomers to Cambridge, MA go through. I was about to call the police and report a stolen car when I saw the street cleaning sign and realized the day it specifies was the present. Either way not a happy feeling.
The Leading Cause of Population Change in Every Region of Europe
I didn't understand their #1 point "Europe is Toxic"? Does the absence of startups make a place 'toxic'?
And in that case you need to have police involved.

And if your response there is that the police will help one side against the other then your problem is massive corruption, and no technological solution will fix your voting problems (other than members of the public having the ability to record it and then make it public).
Are GitHub's pricing plans worth it? Mega analysis
EXAPUNKS from Zachtronics
There is a certain irony in that.
Machine learning links brain connectivity patterns with psychiatric symptoms
That's not the endorsement. The endorsement is that it's okay for a single product to be suboptimal as long as the system is optimal. It's more optimal to prevent or slow down a number of innovations in order to protect the vast majority of people from the sort of mistakes and scams that other industries accept as standard.
If you can solve arbitrarily hard problems while on the spot you must be a stellar candidate from a problem solving perspective. If you can effectively articulate your thought process as well you probably have great communication skills and can handle technical discussion and group problem solving for harder problems. It's gonna weed out a ton of people that can do the job but the guys that rock it will probably be valuable assets.
The use case for California rail is for rural lawmakers to use their structural legislative advantage to get the big cities to pay for their larger towns to get economically connected to them.
> Who said anything about no-motor-traffic intersections? I'm talking about cyclists in London.

You seemed to imply that safety at intersections between cyclists and pedestrians needed or was helped by traffic lights. I don't think that's true.

> Regardless, it's pretty eccentric to suggest that traffic lights are responsible for collisions caused by people who ignore them. However safe a particular intersection currently is, removing traffic lights from it will make it less safe than that.

There's an increasingly mainstream view that just the opposite is true, see e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/04/remova...
> What's the startup scene in Paris like?

The start-up scene is currently definitely at an interesting point: really young and active (people already shared links to Startup studios, you should have a look at them). The meetup scene is great too.

The salary is still a pity though (compared to the States, Switzerland or Baltic countries). For a middle developer position, you may be around 40K euros, which is "nice in France", but not a lot, especially after paying your taxes.

> How good does my French need to be?

To work, English is fine, to live, it's another problem. French people are usually really kind to people trying to learn French as it's a hard language. If you don't care about french, people won't care about you.

> Are there any languages/platforms/etc. that are popular there more than in Silicon Valley/Fairfax County

There's a bit of everything, but the Web and Robotics are especially important.
https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/08/world/threats-responses-i...

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/26/world/from-the-editors-th...

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/24/world/threats-responses-i...

Many more where that came from. There is a case to made that the US wouldn't even be in Iraq if not for the undying support of the Bush administration's agenda, by none other than the New York Times.
He is not an "insane person". He is a good programmer who suffers from schizophrenia.
GA in about:pages was to my knowledge not intentional and covered under a special contract with google as they used that for their normal mozilla pages.

WebRTC is a standard and you can easily disable it. Pocket belongs to Mozilla and they opensourced large parts of it and will open source further parts.

Experimenting in this case signals the intent that they may want to explore the direction of "recommend websites to user" and they have, in the mailing lists, stated that if this will continue, they will develop the most privacy preserving option they can.

If you look at the stats their marketshare is increasing over the last few months (25->27% under non-chrome browsers)

IMO.
I used to run syncthing...but about 1 year ago (when i started with current employer) they blocked it. i forgot what port it uses, but my employer gave me the ol' wag of the finger for "using an unauthorized app". Funny how dropbox was not blocked but syncthing was.
New York halts new licences for ride-hailing cars
For what I understand, this framework is compatible only with Bash, and not with other POSIX shells. Tipically on a router and other embedded platforms you find a minimal shell, like ash, that is POSIX-compatible but lacks of all the GNU extensions that Bash have and are used by this framework.

You find a full version of Bash only on GNU/Linux (not even in other UNIX OS like BSD), and there you can install the interpreter for the programming language of your choice
And you wonder why if this is what they get when they pay.
I continue to wonder about Dropbox's support for Linux. It's been the primary reason that I use them so heavily and recommend them so often.

If you look at the filename on the linux download is says 2015 in the filename. Has the linux client gone untouched for 3 years?