skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here is just a small handful of YouTube channels censored based on their political views:

According to Joe

Adamic Amethyst

AmericanEveryman

animal farm

Anti-School

aplaintruth

Arthur Koestler

ashtonbirdie

Back to the Constitution

Barry Soetoro

Blackstone

Bombard’s Body Language

Brave New World

Charles Walton

Charlton

Colin Flaherty

Crow777

Darkness at Noon

David Seaman

Defango

Destroying the Illusion

Dr. Jerome Corsi

Dr. of Common Sense

Dustin Nemos

Edgy Sphinx

Elliott Marxx

Eric Dubay

Factions of Freedom

FAKE NEWS REPORT

Free Radio Revolution Revived

FromDeath2Life

Gematrianator

HowISeeTheWorld

InTruthbyGrace

Jake Morphonios

Jay Myers

Jim Marrs

Joanne Steen

Johnny Supertramp

JYW420

Kalika from “For the People”

Kearn Kearsy

Kevin K Johnston

Kinningan

Lawarewolf

Liberty Columnist

Mag Bitter Truth

Matrix Breakout

Max Malone

McFly

There are many, many more. Regardless of your political views censorship of freedom of speech is a slippery slope.

I found these with a tiny search for channels banned because YouTube didn't agree with them politically.

Note: it appears some have been unbanned and others unbanned but demonetized.
I'm surprised that anyone could find Objective-C a better language than Swift. I'm just waiting for iOS to move completely to Swift to start developing on that platform. It's a much better language.
What method is used to check to see if voter fraud exists? I am reading here that there are 61,000 homeless people in New York City. How do they vote currently? If it's possible to verify their citizenship after they have voted, can't the same verification process be used to give them an ID? I see this "voter fraud is virtually non existent" argument frequently but I cannot understand the logistics of it.
Even if the funding is secured, isn't this what "Inside Trading" is about? I really wonder if Elon is aware about what he is exactly doing.
> People have written and continue to write secure C code, and insecure code in “safe” languages.

No. It's the inverse. People who are very good with C continue to have vulnerabilities in their code. Why? Because C.
Plus, if you want to intrude physically into election sites, which can and has happened in the U.S., at least you have to have a lot of people involved in order to do it on a large scale (increasing the chances of getting caught). Electronic voting machines could potentially be compromised in many places by a relatively small group of people, some of whom might not even be in the country.
Without a round trip, we must be reusing keys right? So no more ephemeral keys? I know it's optional, but I wonder which will be the default for most off the shelf https severs folks use?
I've never really understood what was controversial with TunSafe more than it was closed source so it was hard for others to review the code, but now it's open source.

As a former fan of WireGuard, I would STRONGLY advise against using ANY WireGuard implementation and that includes the official one.

As it is now, there seems to be only one person in the world who believes that they have the knowledge to determine if a WireGuard implementation is secure or not, and it is the founder himself.

So much for the 4000 lines of code that was supposed to be easily audited and understandable by others.

Avoid WireGuard until there is an outside group that can review the protocol and implementations of the protocol. For as it is now, the founder accuses all third party implementations of being unsecure but without being able to state why (more than it feels he has something personal against them).

It all feels too immature.
Control the lights, thermostat, intercom system, playing music, ask the time, set a timer (especially helpful in the kitchen with sticky hands), ask the weather, wake up alarms, and on and on.
> Am I the only person who thinks this is luxury?
> https://www.berkeleyside.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2711....

I've lived in plenty of apartments that are like this and from experience, looks are extremely deceiving. Especially when it comes to apartments. They look nice most of the time, but feel and look cheap up close. To the point I've felt disappointed and ripped off if I wasn't able to see a place in person.
How is hand counting a source for corruption if all counting takes place in public?
Machines have a higher chance of not working on election day and any issues will lead to people having to wait longer or not being able to vote at all.

Which you can already see happening in areas where voting machines are used. This is especially problematic if specific regions with known political majorities can be targeted and sabotaged.

There is absolutely no reason to not just use a hole puncher or an overhauled ballot design.

Even just keeping the problems that exist with paper ballots beats any risk that introducing electronics in the process pose.
We're working on making GitLab as fast as possible. We have a list of all ongoing efforts to improve performance of GitLab (the product) at [1]. There's also a list of ongoing efforts for improving performance and availability of GitLab.com specifically [2] (performance) and [3] (availability).

As for the differences compared to being on Azure. We don't have any definitive results right now. We'll have to wait for Monday so we can get more performance data. Most likely, we'll have a better image if and how performance changed in the middle of next week. That being said, we did observe an improvement in p95 response time for our web and api nodes - it's a roughly 30% to 40% reduction. We're working on a public monitoring page so you and the community can browse through these metrics at your own leisure.

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With regards to the Education program - it's now in full swing and available to everyone. You can apply via [4]. We sent out an automated email to let people know it was still in preparation some time ago. It should have been followed up with an email stating that it's fully functional too. Not sure why the university you work at didn't get the second one. Let me know if there's any holdups with your application after you apply through the linked form.

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues?scope=all&utf...

[2] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...

[3] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/infrastructure/issues?scope=al...

[4] - https://about.gitlab.com/education/
"Their first car demo [for the Model S] was held together by magnets." Umm and look where it is today.
xkcd agrees: https://xkcd.com/2030/
One aspect of the problem is that voting involves more stringent ID checks than you might normally encounter in everyday life.

You might think you have an ID that's good enough for driving or buying alcohol, but you can be turned away at the polls if it expired a few days ago and you haven't had a chance to take time off work to get it renewed. Or if you moved recently and the address on your ID doesn't match your voter registration. Or if your name changed when you got married, but your ID still shows your former name.

Yes, these problems are avoidable. But the process still disproportionately disenfranchises people who are less likely to be able to spend the time on getting them resolved before it's time to actually vote.
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How do you prevent someone’s boss from saying “vote for my guy or you’re fired!”? Or someone revealing the keys and de-anonymizing everyone who voted for the loser?
That's nice. You have fun with that. We'll keep our $300k and our paper ballots. No lines are expected as we've tried this before and know more or less how many will show up.
>I wouldn't be "offended" by others playing with nerf guns but certainly annoyed ... but I would be offended if others would involve me in this pretty infantile and sub-radar-bullying pastime. who do you think is going to get shot at on a regular basis?

Everybody and nobody in particular?

>and I am saying that as a European guy who is slightly infamous for very direct and obvious flirting - even at work. but as soon as I get a rejection - even a polite one - I'm going to just accept it and move on.

Well, you could have been fired multiple times in the US just for this, so there's that.

Have you checked out this "very direct and obvious flirting" against more HR departments? Or because that's where you draw the line you're OK, but anything else suggested by other people is bad (like e.g. complimenting someone on their looks, or telling a "dirty" joke among colleagues).

>guys like you make work life a terrible experience for others by forcing your idea of fun on them

"Like me"? I guess you felt free to infer that since I'm giving an argument against puritanically singling out sexual expression from various spheres of life I must be some pervert. Which is like believing that no vegan should ever argue in favor of others being able to eat meat...

>you should hope to never meet a guy like me b/c that's not going to be a fun experience for you in the end

Oh, and physical threats. Yeah, because sexual talk between colleagues is bad, but violence is fine. Typical anglosaxon puritanism (even if from a European), the kind that pushes all sorts of violence on tv, but goes into moral outrage about Janet Jackson's nip slip...
> "Why can we have electronic banking, but not electronic voting, vowelless?”

Secure transactions with your bank are doable, because there is no need to ensure anonymity from your bank (quite the opposite: your bank needs to know your identity).

Secure transactions while keeping the secret ballot is very very difficult to do. And secret ballot is one of the cornerstones of democracy.
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I am one of the organizers of the AI Driving Olympics at NIPS 2018, in which 6 universities are involved (ETH Zürich, U. Montréal / MILA, Georgia Tech, Tsinghua, NCTU, TTIC), plus 2 industry partners (self-driving car company nuTonomy and Amazon Web Services).

We are excited because this is going to be the first robotic competition at a machine learning conference: you send your code - we run it on our robots.

Or, you can get a robot yourself through the Kickstarter run by our non-profit foundation:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/163162211/duckietown-a-playful-road-to-learning-robotics-and?ref=3cul9g

AMA in the comments.
> Machines have a higher chance of not working on election day

That's fair, but if that happens, we have a very gentle fallback to just manually marking the ballots again.

> There is absolutely no reason to not just use a hole puncher

I direct your attention to the state of Florida, November 2000.
How would you keep voter secrecy in such a system?
I’ve been a student of the course and part of the project for the last year. Brilliant idea, great people, perfect execution. If you have questions don’t hesitate asking:)
Human mind can store internet
Bison simpler than Antlr? What?

I very strongly disagree.
I don’t understand what weakness of paper ballots this is supposed to solve.

If it makes all ballots look alike then surely it’s easier to stuff ballots with this. If the machine is to also verify that you are registered to vote then you would worry about losing anonymity. The machine would perhaps be less accessible than voting by paper (although there is always proxy voting). Is this just meant to solve the problem of people accidentally spoiling their ballots? Even if it does, the systems afterwards can’t assume that the ballots are not spoiled as people would still find a way to deliberately spoil their ballots. And there would still be the hard problem of unfolding paper ballots (can this even be done at any speed by a machine?) before reading them.

A second worry I would have using such a machine is that the mackhine would secretly deanonymise ballots with some steganographic techniques.
Not everyone has a DL. Many many folks are either too old or poor to have the need for a DL.

Voter ID laws would be great if the politicians proposing them didn't also underfund the ability to get the IDs.
Apparently the chinese company is called PTH.

http://www.putianhouse.com/
It boils down to the self discipline of individual developers. If you’re meticulous in making sure you’ve dotted your I’s and crossed your T’s and haven’t let too many of those insidious cast statements slip in, you can write reasonably safe Obj-C, but during my career as an iOS dev I have yet to encounter an Obj-C codebase that was fully written by such developers. They’ve all been riddled with gratuitous casting, erroneous type assumptions, and other bad practices (that aren’t possible in Swift) to the point that it’s a wonder that they ever functioned as intended.

Personally though, I’ve found that even when I’m keeping a close guard on things when writing Obj-C and am sure to avoid all the obvious pitfalls, bugs slip through in the most unexpected places, so I’m quite happy to have the Swift compiler double checking everything for me.
Also the follow up question should be ask: was an engineer who stopped the leak and fix the bug awarded to some reasonable point??
Plus it has the danger of sounding too much like "cretin"
The "can't take time off work" excuse doesn't work either, since you need valid ID to work. One that says your a citizen, and one with your picture (or just your passport, since it's both).

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/free-books/employee-...
Let’s say you run a small business making 250k/year. If you sue, it will distract you enough that you’ll likely make 100k less over the 2 years it takes. Also, the suit will cost you 50k and that won’t be recoverable even if you win. If you do win, you recover 25k in damages.

All of these numbers are plausible and demonstrate how skewed the decision to sue must be. I’ve been quoted 50k by an IP lawyer as the estimated cost to take something like this to trial, and they thought I might not win if the company is able to claim my sales aren’t covered by warranty.
Yes. There is a huge difference between undocumented and documented.

And also between pilots flying a plane they are certified on and nurses who are probably less specialized.
Voting from home would be very dangerous as it would undermine the secrecy of the vote. It would become much easier for people with power (employers, religious authorities, abusive family members, etc) to coerce others to vote for a chosen candidate.
Nobody likes to talk about it, but the truth is that if we have The Big One, the whole rest of the US may shear off and fall into the Atlantic.
Getting it right once isn't so hard. Getting it right consistently to boot kill yourself young is hard
China's one-child policy was a huge success. They avoided a big population run-up in the gap the introduction of reasonably good medicine and a high enough standard of living that birth rates went down. India didn't do that.

Now that China is developed enough that birth rates have gone down as a result, they've backed off on the one-child policy. It did its job.

The country has a long history of famines. China's last famine was in 1985. Remember, China has limited arable land and many mouths.
The 3 important aspects of a legitimate vote are:

1) Secret

2) Unique: one vote per citizen and all votes are worth the same.

3) Universal: no citizens should be prevented from voting.

-

The US doesn't consistently follow these:

- A citizen from state A is worth more than a citizen from state B because of the electoral college.

- A citizen can register to vote in multiple states.

- DNC superdelegates are worth more votes in primaries.

- Right to take time off to vote.

- Geographic location of polling places.

... and a large list of irregularities.
> Votes happen months before one needs to take office.

In your country, perhaps, but in my country (Denmark), it's usually two weeks. But still manage to count our paper ballots. Usually within 2 days.
Sure, it doesn't prove a point, but the headline does show the level of growth Rust is enjoying... It's not that different than "game X on Linux" in the early days, or "ML in Python".
Metropolitan police. Recruits wanted (1911)
> Votes happen months before one needs to take office.

Not always. There are jurisdictions voting is done just a week before takeover.
I took a cursory look through those, and every one I looked at appeared to be claiming that Sandy Hook/Las Vegas/Anothy Bourdain's suicide/some other thing was fake and a conspiracy.

Can you explain how "Sandy hook was faked and no children were killed" is a political view? Or how "Anthony Bourdain's suicide was faked for monetary gain" is somehow a political opinion?
No vote secrecy means votes will be sold and/or coerced.

Still no better than a paper vote.
> Yep, you already pay the most for healthcare in the world

Our government already spends as much on healthcare as many governments with socialized medicine.

If it was simple then we would already have it.

> We have far fewer economies of scale - our entire population is only slightly larger than the population of LA in a country larger than the UK

And that’s exactly why the push for socialized healthcare scares so many Americans.

Countries like NZ clearly demonstrate it can be done at the state level.

So left leaning states can implement it and over the course of 10-15 years they can prove to the other states it is a better system.

Instead they want to push it at the federal level exposing the entire country to the risk.

> Health insurer and pharmaceutical company shareholders might get a lower dividend.

I think it might result in a lot less R&D, less capable doctors, etc.
The JPEG Committee Is “exploring Blockchain” to Put DRM into JPEG
well if anything it shows that you cannot trust paper ballots or that in a close contest no one will. electronic voting will work provided you can take a record of your vote, say a bar code, and scan it and verify your vote was recorded properly. so give them a paper copy with their votes printed out and a code they can scan either at home, their phone, any government facility, that says - yeah it counted.

when it comes to bulk counting the electronic version is used or a printout of every single bar code value is mass scanned back in.

how else can you have a paper ballot that cannot be altered?
> If it makes all ballots look alike

Ballots aren't physically distinguishable now; what's different?

> If the machine is to also verify that you are registered to vote

No, it would be the same as now. Walk into the polling station, give the nice volunteer your name/ID/whatever, wait your turn to use the next machine. Current machines don't know your identity, neither does this one.
That would only be true if `a` is guaranteed to be a non-zero value though, right? e.g. `x = some_bool ? 0 : 1` would not be able to be represented that way.
they have a youtube video talking about using caml. listening to it now, very interesting!
>To give one example, most states do not allow exconvicts to vote

Almost all states do allow exconvicts to vote, but they may have to wait a certain period of time after release from custody/probation/parole.

“In 13 states felons lose their voting rights indefinitely for some crimes, or require a governor’s pardon in order for voting rights to be restored, or face an additional waiting period after completion of sentence (including parole and probation) before voting rights can be restored” [0]

Personally, I’ll be allowed to vote again in 2021.

[0] http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
In cryptocurrencies Monero and to some extent ZCash tries to make transactions anonymous but still verifiable for the owner. Global supply is also verifiable. Maybe there's a way to anonymize the voting scheme in some way as well.

Research in this area is still very new. Look up ZNARKs for example.
> The most common form of ID in the US is a driver's license.

It's the most common, but not the only one. You can just show up and ask for a plain ID, and avoid all that. And I kinda have to wonder how people get their I-9 filled out without any form of ID. You generally need an ID just to work in this country.
Judging by the rampant drug abuse in the valley, they aren't all finding the happiness peak either.
Currently, a conversation about voting machines with the government / a politician is likely to go something like this:

You: "I support electronic voting machines that uses <some foolproof blockchain system>."

Politician: "You will be happy to hear that I too support electronic voting and you will be happy to hear we will be buying some electronic voting machines that run proprietary software on Windows XP with Norton Anti-Virus! Thanks for your support!"

You: "That's not what I..."

Politician: "Thanks again!" <Ends discussion.>

I'm not confidence our current education level and political environment can navigate the subtle distinction between "verifiable blockchain system" and "proprietary software on Windows XP".

Or maybe they do use a fool proof system for several years. Everyone gets accustomed to trusting the trustworthy algorithm. Then they change things, they say "here's a new proprietary algorithm, it will save taxes and protect children". 99% of the population doesn't understand what's different, so they continue to support the new proprietary algorithm, because "the voting machines still look the same". The few who know better are ignored.
I have some similar thoughts. I like Objective-C and C and always thought of Objective-C as an improved upon iteration of C. The C/C++ integration is one of my favorite parts.

Also, if Swift is so much better and is supposed to be safer to use why are apps much slower and buggier than I ever remember? My iOS devices went from instant in iPhone 1.0 to pathetic and almost not useable at times on an iPhone 6 Plus, which would still be an awesome phone for my uses (using it as an iPod essentially and the occasional call) except it's slow and buggy. Even answering the phone is no longer instant. I could have sworn I remember when Jobs introduced the iPhone he was bragging how instant everything was. What would he say now and why are apps much less stable if Swift is supposedly that much of a benefit and greater than Objective-C
I genuinely don't understand the constant push for population growth. Why does population need to keep growing? GDP? Paying taxes for some social benefits for the old?

How is this sustainable? When does the ever increasing growth end?
They can get an ID. You can't even get a legal job without a state-issued ID and federal social security number.

If it's racist, well...
Only if it's not done privately.
Why not repurpose passport (the card one) into national ID?
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Currently, in order to vote, you have to register to vote ahead of time.

If I show up at the polls and successfully impersonate Person A, they cross Person A off the list of pre-registered voters, and I vote as them. But then, if Person A showed up, they would say "we already crossed you off the list", and it would trigger what we would call an "instance of in-person voter fraud." How they found out which person voted fraudulently doesn't really matter for my point, because:

In a recent 14-year period, this has happened about thirty-one times across the whole US, according to wikipedia. (Source is here: [1])

Basically, it's easy to do, but also extremely easy to detect, so in practice nobody does it. It's not currently a significant factor in the security of our elections.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/13/th...
Not all DMVs are inefficient, and some move quite smoothly.

A huge hurdle has been the more stringent ID requirements for drivers licences, mostly imposed by airlines which rely on these now as security documents. For the economically marginalised, it's all too easy to become uncredentialed, and then difficult or impossible to re-establish identity.

This affects not just voting (if there is an ID requirement), but virtually all aspects of life: housing, employment, medical coverage, banking, and of course, mobility.