skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with your contention that the examples of modern annoyances chosen by the author are not hidden pinnacles of humanness to be preserved at all costs.

However, I think the author's deeper point still stands, despite his poor support for the argument.

Can we not agree that the _je ne sais quoi_ of humanness is threatened, on some level, by modernity?

It is a very difficult empirical case to make, as you have made clear with your totally acceptable critique of _Bowling Alone_.

But, in my view, supporting the claim that our "humanness" is under assault is not really where we should be focusing our energies here... It is much more interesting to discuss how we can preserve the "old good" things from our past, while somehow enabling ourselves to take advantage of the "new good" things unlocked by technological progress without being undone in the process.

I'm tired of all these jeremiads bewailing the loss of all that we hold dear, ripped from our grasp by inhuman techno-corporate-behemoths.

Not sure what the roadmap for a more productive discussion is--but perhaps first we must define exactly what it is we valued from our pre-industrial, supposedly unsullied past.

I agree with you that we must be very critical any rose-tinted "back in my day it was better" line of inquiry, but I do believe that there are things worth preserving.
Another important question to answer is, why are those things valuable to us? Is it because they titillate our neurons in just the right way? Or is there something more there?

Then we need to figure out how to implement our technological progress in a way that fosters these values, rather than undermining them.

PS: above-mentioned link to Ladd's critique of _Bowling Alone_: https://www.csmonitor.com/1999/0301/p9s1.html
This is pretty much how all projects and headlines about blockchain are created. X could be: the music industry, healthcare, space, pornography, universities, protecting your art, tracking your bananas in Laos or buying your weed. Those are all real ones that I could remember of the top of head btw. It's an utterly ridiculous field.
a one way international ticket usually costs about 80-120% as an equivalent class round way ticket, due to different price buckets.
How do you pronounce tupperware?
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That consisted of algebra up to quintic equations plus their own inventions

Well, calculus had been invented before Euler was born, and a lot of advanced math had been developed by the time Gauss appeared (a lot of it by none other than Euler).
This is the “Christian Bakery” moment for Twitter et al. You can’t at the same time argue that a bakery must serve people whose politics it doesn’t like (you can find photos of the baker in question with sympathetic gay folks, so he doesn’t seem like a total homophobe to me) and do the exact same thing yourself.
Woohoo! My urge-zero key stopped working mysteriously and I wasn’t happy about that but I’ll give them another chance.
I remember back in college listening to a guest lecturer talk about the problems with electronic voting. It was very interesting. I think the entire political world is still feeling the wrath of the 21st century. Hopefully we all make it out alive.
Working here, perhaps try again?
You can get WS2811, which is the driver chip without an LED. You can hook that up to any RGB LED in any form factor. It's more expensive and requires more PCB space, but you get flexibility in LED placement.
Terrific book, highly recommended.
"There’s more that matters about being human than happiness"

I would go a step further and argue that happiness itself requires that friction, and can't be optimized or quantified. It's human nature to grow discontent and even depressed when given any kind of constancy for too long, no matter how "perfect". The idea that you can use social-engineering to perfect human happiness isn't just incomplete, it's fundamentally broken.
Yes, but so does Wayland support in general. Protocols are the bread and butter of Wayland, the core Wayland protocol is very conservative (it doesn't even specify application windows).
Semi-related "Show HN: Compare benefits of second passport based on the one you have" (201 points, 145 comments) from last month:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17577386

https://multinational.io/
Sure, just like how you can just steal physical absentee ballots out of mailboxes and mail them in.

There's no such thing as perfect security. The problem of secure elections is how secure is secure enough?

How many keys/ballots can you feasibly steal before getting caught? Is that number significant enough to change an election? Historically, it hasn't been.
Too bad no one patented the idea of being a patent troll (a business method patent) - and could use to to sue patent trolls.
All I can do is recommend people to try out the z3 solver, especially through the Python API. There's no better resource than https://yurichev.com/writings/SAT_SMT_by_example.pdf.
It's possible that they may be able to grant exceptions on a case-by-case basis; this is strictly based on my lawyer's interpretation of the clearance process.

In general, the theory is that I could potentially have travelled to Iran, Cuba, North Korea, etc. on my German passport, and the US government would never know.

Since I personally sought out these rights, I have also demonstrated "insufficient loyalty to the United States", which is a second strike against me.

Finally, I am not willing to renounce either citizenship, which is yet another.
It doesn't scale to every voter, but in my country anyone can request to witness the opening of the local sealed boxes and the subsequent count.
My NEO has been on my keyring for several years. Still going strong.
even more funny it was internal payment processor @ large porn conglomerate in Eastern Europe.
You mean parents. All this money you're talking about comes from old people.

If you're worried about inequality, you need to take the money away from the rich people, not worry about this or that little thing.
You can buy things online just fine without JavaScript. Forms have been around for ages, and require no client-side code (they do require server-side smarts, and for security they require encryption).
tuple → /tuːp(ə)l/

tupple → /tʌp(ə)l/
It reports on the problems and summaries the current going on with comment from the authors and Skinner, who found the reproduced noise.
I didn't see anything scary or FUDlike in the Water MSDS. http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927321
I'm with Buckminster on this: t-ewe-pl. I think it may be UK English 'dialect'.
They did write a functional framework and used "only" immutable vars though.
>- Ensure voters cannot prove their votes to others

>- Ensure all ballots are actually counted

aren't these two contradictory?
> your visa remains valid even if your passport expires and you get a new passport

This will soon be the case for me - can you explain how that works? Do I just bring my old and new passports to the border and show them both?

>A US B1/B2 Visitor Visa will generally get you into an additional dozen or so countries

It can work the other way too. Due to a mix up with dates I had to get one cancelled (and a new one issued) so the original in my passport has a huge red "Cancelled without prejudice" stamp across it. The border guard at Honduras was not happy - he figured if I wasn't allowed into the USA he didn't want me in his country. It took many, many hours to explain I had another perfectly valid USA visa.
Obligatory (recent) xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2030/
From the first paragraph:

With the U.S. heading into a pivotal midterm election, little progress has been made on ensuring the integrity of voting systems—a concern that retook the spotlight when the 2016 presidential election ushered Donald Trump into the White House amid allegations of foreign interference.

Most of the allegations at the center of the media feeding frenzy have nothing to do with tallying votes, but:

- influencing voters through platforms like Facebook

- airing the Democratic Party's dirty laundry regarding Sanders

- the unsubstantiated claim by a certain President that illegal aliens voted in droves

One notable exception is Reality Winner, who published classified materials that among other things linked Russia to an attempt to contact a voting machine company. She sits in prison today without bail awaiting a trial that has been years in the making. Few have even heard of her.

The pro-election automation drumbeat seems to have very little basis in fact, at least in the US.
Archaeologists Find 3,200-Year-Old Cheese in an Egyptian Tomb
What services do the middlemen provide? Are those services truly unneeded or will the farmer have to develop those skills and/or outsource to a different company? It seems like there is an opportunity here when viewed through traditional product distribution eyes but can a farmer ship direct to customer, organize bonds and insurance, navigate the futures markets?
> With keys, you can verify your vote was counted and not tampered with. If you don't want people to know how you voted, destroy your key

If you can prove how you voted, this will be the subject of vote buying (or negative retaliation for failure to prove “correct” votes.) History has demonstrated that over and over again, which is why secret ballots for normal public elections and recorded votes in representative bodies where you want voters to be held accountable are norms.
Twitter Can Fix Twitter with Just a Few Lines of Code
Well the history of variolation in the West is no walk in the park. It was tested on prisoners who were then exposed to smallpox and told if they survived they would go free!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation
The following are not equal:

1) Google has decided that it does not want this content on their platform.

2) The totalitarian government has decided that nobody can access this content on any platform.
Genetics play a huge role [0], but so do social and environmental factors.

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2442454/
It's even more the case in China, where their big tech companies have integrated with the government. Imagine being unable to get a loan without a Facebook account, or being unable to vote without Google.

It's tempting to see these trends and just cut yourself off even further; boycott Big Tech and claim that they don't affect you because you're opting-out. But we're reaching a point where that's not enough, because eventually we won't have the option to opt-out unless we do something about it now.

Instead we have to engage with our society and take action in our democratic channels, to change things before they get to that point.
Yep a friend of mine is banned from Canada for that.
What blockchain voting scheme(s) provide at least as much anonymity as paper ballots?
LEDs is a great example for a current comparison, people were talking about diodes decades ago for lighting, but it isn't until the last few years that they have reached cheap and efficient enough versions to really challenge the lighting marketplace, especially for growing plants. 10 years ago growing with diodes was expensive as hell for negligible returns over specialty growing bulbs. You buy LED tech released in the last year or two though and you are going to be throwing away or selling your old fixtures as a waste of electricity.
Recently on HN, too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17629436
Polls show little support for Trump’s Space Force
Revoke my security clearance, too, Mr. President
The Brazilian visa policy is definitely advertised as a reciprocity measure, but the only thing about the experience that's really particularly "reciprocal" in practice is the visa application fee.

In addition to requiring a considerably smaller amount of personal data and fewer travel details, Brazilian consulates in the United States don't require an interview for visa applicants from the U.S., and in fact don't even require the applicant to be present in person at all. You can, for example, give your passport to a visa expediter who can deliver it along with your visa paperwork to the consulate and pick it up for you afterward. (An example—among several—is https://www.traveldocs.com/.) So, you don't necessarily have to travel to the consulate at all.

If you do travel to the consulate, you might wait for about an hour and be asked largely pro-forma questions about the nature of your travel.

Source: I'm U.S. passport holder who's obtained three Brazilian visas and helped other Americans with their Brazilian visa applications.
No, a very similar setup is possible depending on the compositor. wlroots enables this. The Wayland protocol only exposes up to one keyboard per seat to the client, but wlroots lets you pass input to seats in any manner you choose. In sway you can have multiple keyboards with multiple layouts and we swap them out whenever you start typing on a different keyboard.
Overleaf v2–Launch Announcement
IBM patented patent trolling as a business model in 2007, but I like your evil, legal genius.
The nightmarishly complex wheat genome finally yields to scientists
> That farmers are docked if they bring in grain with over 0.5% foreign matter?

That really depends on the contract. A much more costly problem is Moisture. Its rather costly to dry grain.
How would you know every vote was registered in the blockchain?
People are really confusing a free speech issue with a first amendment issue.

It's not a first amendment issue because the first amendment only forbids the government from censoring speech, and private companies are not the government.

However, it's still a free speech issue, and it's still a censorship issue. Just not a first amendment issue.

Private companies can still censor and can stifle/forbid free speech.
I believe aeternus means proving the contents of the vote, not simply that they voted. In that case, no, they're not contradictory.
I like the idea, but I would prefer to see it accomplished with a Raspberry Pi and a Big Red Button. At least this is one part of your life that shouldn't need AWS
Thanks. It's been 35 years since I took Latin. I was doing the best I could. Correction taken.
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There are reasons to believe estimates of the population of Chaco Canyon may be too high.

There are at least two kinds of communal structures in Chaco: the large elaborate structures; and lots of small pueblos scattered around the canyon. I understand the high population estimates are based on the numbers of small pueblos.

I was listening to a talk by a woman who lived in one of the modern pueblos in New Mexico, and she remarked, off hand, that the population of any given pueblo moved from one pueblo to an other as the small animals and plants they relied on became depleted. They successively re-inhabited a circuit of pueblos allowing each to recover before returning.

I don't doubt that the people of Chaco Canyon influenced a wide area, but I am skeptical of large population estimates.
I spent three months traveling through Central America and the stories I heard of the difficulties people face trying to just visit America are absurd.

It’s just ridiculous that Americans can show up basically anywhere on earth and get waved in and we don’t extend that courtesy to others.
yep, I took this a step further and made a little bash script to automate it

https://gist.github.com/drhodes/c1ce517c1704d4daedef73259b0c...

supports multiple domains stored in ~/.selfcontrol
No, I'm providing definitions and using myself in an example. Please do not put words in my mouth.
I agree, but the inverse is the the tech companies and government use this type of punishment to silence and quell dissenters or stop any type of change it doesnt like.

Context, satire, and meaning is extremely tough to convey over the internet and leads to a pretty wide margin for interpretation to suit your (or who ever it may concern) needs.

No easy answer
Indeed it was misleading.
"The basis for vaccination began in 1796 when an English doctor named Edward Jenner observed that milkmaids who had gotten cowpox did not show any symptoms of smallpox after variolation. The first experiment to test this theory involved milkmaid Sarah Nelmes and James Phipps, the 9 year-old son of Jenner’s gardener. Dr. Jenner took material from a cowpox sore on Nelmes’ hand and inoculated it into Phipps’ arm. Months later, Jenner exposed Phipps a number of times to variola virus, but Phipps never developed smallpox."
from https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/history/history.html
Yes, I understand the concept of selling votes. That wasn't in dispute.

But in that case, your objection is to "being able to prove to others that you voted one way". Not to "being able to prove to yourself that you were counted as voting one way".

Equating the two makes to harder to evaluate what is and isn't possible with different schemes like e.g. homomorphic systems.
> unions are cartels/monopolies on labor

They're no different than businesses that sell commodities other than labor.
But it is deeply central for designing any secure system that one can really argue that it is a disregard of due diligence when not followed.
Overleaf (or writeLaTeX as we were back then) got off the ground in part thanks to early support from the HN community.

Last year we joined forces with ShareLaTeX, and the culmination of a year's efforts in combining the two platforms is about to be released in full (it's been in beta for most of 2018).

Feedback is always appreciated, good or bad, and so I wanted to post this here to see what the HN community makes of it, over five years since we first got started :)
Can you clarify this a bit? What unique security assurances are offered by a blockchain that cannot be provided by other cryptographic methods?
> All this is because resource is digital so my access does not deprive other

It's not surprising that people don't treat something that lacks one of the key aspects of property as property. Especially when the desired enforcement regime for this concept always seems to necessitate encroachment on their actual property!

Copyright applied to individuals is even less enforceable than drug persecution. And we see how well that's working out.
Other headlines I have read:

"What could blockchain do for music?"

"Blockchain - the future of healthcare?"

"De Beers turns to blockchain to guarantee diamond purity"

"Blockchain Technology Is Becoming Crucial For Space Exploration"

"The Blockchain Art Market is Here"

It is actually quite remarkable how much hype there is for this technology that hasn't really done anything useful besides cryptocurrency (and even then, we can argue about how useful that really is...). Seriously though, how on Earth did the hype get this far? This technology is actually not that interesting or new or proven to do anything. It's an interesting study of human psychology. Are there any other examples of technology with a worse hype to usefulness ratio? At least "machine learning" has actually done something useful in places.
Personally, I think there's a some sort of line there where you have to use some sense and say this person shouldn't be allowed to say or use our platform. There's got to be a line somewhere for hateful, terrible people. It's not about different viewpoints or opinions when you get to the point of something like White Nationalists or Islamic fundamentalists.

I don't think they should be arrested or put in jail but what's the harm in booting some awful people? I know someone will respond to "what happens when they disagree with what you say"? Yeah, that could happen and I get pissed and life goes on. People get banned daily from all the platforms for really dumb things. Hell, you can't even have a female nipple on Instagram.
My passport expired last year and I kept it with me for the US Visa. I just brought up with me 2 passports and they didn't ask me why. They realized that the one with the Visa is expired and just used it to check the visa and compare the name no questions asked.
Yeah it's probably not 100% hit for sure.
Some people in my University had questions when renewing their (student) visa because they got a DUI driving a bicycle.
A government's ability to control its population weakens as subversive technology evolves. The law is always behind the state of the art. This frustrates officials so much they react with incredulity and throw childish tantrums. In order to maintain control, the government must ask for more and more power and become more and more totalitarian. It's like a politico-technological arms race.

What will be the end of this? Will the technology evolve so much the government won't be able to win no matter what it does and surrender? Or are they going to ban encryption, non-vulnerable computers and everything that could stand in the way of prosecuting people they don't like?
How I used psychological framing in my acquisition negotiation
There is generally only one organic certification program per country, in the US it is administered by the United States Department of Agriculture [0] - which also administrates most standard regulations. Of course, no organically certified products are exempt from any standard regulations - the organic regulations exist in addition to general standards.

[0]https://www.ams.usda.gov/services/organic-certification/beco...
Similarly someone described linear algebra as composition of vector space functions. It was a shocking revelation.
Visas and passports started widely being used post-World War I
>Ideally, you'd want to be able to verify your vote was counted correctly, but not be able to determine whether a specific individual voted a certain way. It's so you can't feasibly sell your vote; it's one thing to say you voted a certain way, it's another to prove you actually did it.

Right -- my point was that the parent was equating the two, but that's throwing the baby out with the bathwater. It's great that you can't prove to others how you voted, but not if it allows a third party to overwrite your vote without your knowledge!
Oh Dear Elon Has Found Another Con
A problem that shows up as infertility could be something more general too.
It's illegal in Colorado for a business to refuse service to someone because of their sexual orientation. That's the law under which the state tried to penalize the baker.

Alex Jones violated Twitter's ToS by, among other things, encouraging armed violence.

There's zero tension in thinking that both Twitter and the state of Colorado acted defensibly in these two cases.
Used to be ping yahoo.com in the 90s :-)
You're totally right, I misremembered that part.
Correct, you just show up with both.

For the second, generally make sure the documents you are using for entry are valid at time of entry; in particular a lot of countries require 6 months validity on passports.
Do they protest by not typing? If not, then this is no protest.
Like tulip?
Imagine it's voting day, you go to a polling location and sign in to verify that you are a real person and allowed to vote. They generate a private/public key for you on the spot and hand it to you without officially linking your name and key together on the record, so your vote can remain anonymous. (Or maybe you're even allowed to generate your own and let polling station just verify the public key) You vote for who you want, sign the vote with your private key and then keep your public key for your own personal records. Your vote is added to a master database and made publicly available for anyone to verify. You can give your public key to anyone you trust to validate your vote, or just look it up yourself to make sure nothing was altered.

Now how does running this mechanism through a P2P blockchain make this more efficient, or more resilient against corruption?