skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The mechanism by which you default on a loan is bankruptcy. If you can't discharge a loan in bankruptcy, you can't default on it.

Some people never make enough money to pay it off, after which the government will pay the loan off after a few years. The lender gets payed anyway. These are risk free loans for lenders.
Excellent point, when you perform that thought experiment you end up with a set of technologies so close to a blockchain it actually makes sense to just use a blockchain.
> b) do you have speed tests to show your libraries are better than existing ones?

The OP linked to their benchmarks in [3]: https://github.com/eno-lang/benchmarks/
You still require trust with the paper ballots, there are multiple threat models:

- System needs to ensure everyone votes only once

- Ensure each person meets the qualifications to vote

- Ensure ballots cannot be counterfeit or additional ballots inserted somehow

- Ensure votes are confidential throughout the process

- Ensure voters cannot prove their votes to others

- Ensure the people counting are trusted or the results checked / verified

- Ensure all ballots are actually counted

One significant negative with the paper ballot method is that voters cannot confirm the last point. I have no way of confirming that my ballot was actually counted and contributed to the final tally's.
> it depends on how much work you want to put into making custom protocols for these purposes

> Or you could just use the existing and moderately-well-supported primary selection protocol

Unless I'm missing something that requires support from both programs (or at the very least the program that you copy from).
Only two ways to get investor attention in the initial stages: traction (i.e build something that people are raving about) or team (i.e find people with reputable backgrounds). Without one of these, it's a waste of time.
Really? The article says the boy was infected with smallpox after being exposed to cowpox to test whether or not exposure to cowpox would help:

> > He tested this by infecting the boy with smallpox and no illness occurred.
Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input. You're probably more of a nondeterministic heuristic.
How does the Truecrypt version of this idea work? I was under the impression that the double-secret data were written in such a way as to be indistinguishable from random bits that normally appear in the files that contain encrypted volumes, with no metadata (e.g. a partition table) to suggest that those random bits are actually interesting.

I figure there is at least one good reason to include amenable "filler" in a "single-secret" file containing encrypted data: it means the size of the plaintext data cannot be inferred from the size of the file. So there is plausible deniability for having amenable "random" data present on that basis alone.

I'm not saying it's easy to extend this scheme to accommodate all environments and/or user experiences. As you say, you can't just e.g. have another partition sitting around full of nothing but suspicious random data.
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In grad school this worked for me a few times, though I was not at a startup but rather contacting them re a topic of mutual interest. One was a VP at a top-5 biotech fund and another the former head of a well known VC who was doing angel investing in between jobs. The former connected me with a bunch of his VC friends at other firms, relationships I still have. The latter, in his reply to my cold email, invited me to his home to check out his (rather impressive) home brewery setup

Playing the student card works, as does contacting them regarding something that they're interested in / that benefits them
I really like the online code repls, where you can save and execute snippets. Nice for maintaining a list of 'scratchpad' projects and can easily share them with non-technical friends or just test an algorithm without having to set up anything.

I think http://repl.it is my favorite so far, but a lot of cool ones are popping up recently.
> is not far from what was implemented in the USA back in the mid 20th century, to no apparent detrimental effect on the economy.

I was merely trying to make a point, not suggesting that it was something someone wanted to do. However, you may be interested in some light reading.

http://teachinghistory.org/history-content/ask-a-historian/2...

https://taxfoundation.org/taxes-rich-1950-not-high/

There were "no apparent detrimental effects" because so very few people actually paid those taxes. Part of the problem with the soak-the-rich idea is that they're the ones who can readily adjust their wealth strategies if taxes on, say, earned income rise to obscene levels. Not much different than sin taxes (alcohol, tobacco, etc), though probably even more effective at discouraging behavior.

Heck, I knew a couple who would retire for a few years, work for a few years, retire for a few years. Sometimes it was for fun, sometimes just a reaction to an increase or decrease in local / state/ federal taxes.
Someone could still force you (physically, blackmail, etc) to give them your key.
Unfortunately doesn't work for me, as I can't unplug one of my main sources of entertainment: my brain. HN and such can be occasionally distracting, but if I'm truly procrastinating, even four blank walls will do, as I'll just space out.
Hidden option c:

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It's a good idea, being more mindful of the content we consume is the key.

Last year I made a little website to control how much time I want to spend on HN. For instance I have one page where the 10 most upvoted items for the week are listed, and I hide them as I read them. When the list is empty it means I'm done for now.

https://news.vinc.cc/search?q=hn+sort:top+time:week+limit:10

(open sourced here: https://github.com/vinc/news.vinc.cc)

Also work for Reddit.
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See: https://de.usembassy.gov/u-s-citizen-services/dual-nationali...

German citizenship law has changed quite a lot. You are allowed dual nationality if you are born to German parents, whether in or out of Germany. You are granted German citizenship if your parents were non-citizen German residents living in Germany, with the caveat that you must choose only one nationality upon turning 21/23.

Up until around the 60's or 70's German citizenship was only passes paternally, but it not can pass through both the father and/or mother. There was no concept of jus soli before 1990. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_nationality_law#Birth_i...
> Humans rarely produce identical output from identical input.

Sure they do, the problem is that humans take the state of the universe as input.
For tallying results, trust has to be placed in the people and/or machines tallying the results.

With a blockchain-based system, every voter would count everyone else's votes
The fact that your privacy isn't secured doesn't automatically mean that it is automatically compromised, does it? I mean, sure, maybe you assume it is for any real purpose, but that doesn't mean your privacy is actually compromised.

For example, my first iPhone, I didn't have a password (I think -- maybe that was my first ipad). It was insecure, but I'm reasonably sure that everything on there was private (in that more physical sense; I have no idea about internal security of those first generations of iphone/ipad).

A weaker claim that is probably true might be: you cannot guarantee your privacy without security. That you cannot have privacy seems like too strong of a claim?
If you could manage to modify Signal so it's keys were stored on the security key, and the user had to tap each time they log in, that would be far more valuable than GPG.
If you're whitelisting names that point into arbitrary cloud stuff then you're screwed, the bad guys just get themselves co-located so that you'll happily connect to them because hey, this name was whitelisted and so the IP address must be OK.

TLS SNI does NOT tell you where the client was trying to reach, you've made a classic security mistake of assuming bad guys are honest. Honest people will truthfully write good.example and be allowed past, bad guys will dishonestly write good.example, and thereby connect to bad.example on the same IP address and laugh at your ridiculous "security".

Caching all DNS answers for some indeterminate amount of time makes your security story worse, but even if you do this the worst case stands, ClientHello isn't required to work if you do this. It may work today, in fact it probably does, but it may break with no notice, and it'll be your fault.
Both the US and UK are Five Eyes countries [1], Germany isn't.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
This removes the cryptography aspects, which is what keeps the system and results verifiable after the fact. Of course the votes can be counted and statistical estimations of accuracy can be used to attempt to detect fraud but that can also be performed AFTER each individual vote is recorded on a blockchain. In fact the only reason not to utilize blockchain technology in election processes is to ensure the results can be manipulated.
Advice I got long ago is that if the industry has a trend and the new process seems to be five years ahead of the trend line? Expect to see it in five years or not at all.

Solar panels, batteries, cpus, the time of big surprises is gone. Now it’s just people putting in hard work on the next thing that wasn’t quite cost effective enough the last go ‘round.
I'm not legal expert so I can't be certain, but to a layperson like me it sounds like he is asking people to commit violence:

"mainstream media is the enemy, but now it's time to act on the enemy"

"legally and criminally its time to move against these people"
The web is amazing. That you can throw that together in a single small file of “throwaway” PHP and use it in production speaks to why the web has been such a successful platform.
People may downvote you but I have never seen an explanation that tackles exactly this point. For paper ballots you can easily take anybody that completed elementary school to get a correct result. For blockchain, electronic voting, etc, you need highly skilled people. How can you be sure that this single person per voting district isn't screwing everybody over?
Got my H1B with a wet reckless offense (still a DUI I think). No question asked at the embassy. I even figured out later that I went to the embassy while having a warrant (lawyer never went to court because he died 2 days before).

It doesn’t mean you need to drink and drive or that it will apply to you, I think I just went crazy lucky that day at the embassy.
I've also heard "quintuple" pronounced "quin-TUH-ple" when used as a verb and "quin-TOO-ple" when used as a noun or adjective, so there's a part-of-speech distinction as well...
did you read the article? she clearly suffered severe damage.
I'm working on a project, definitely less far along, that's open-source and uses the ESP32 for additional Bluetooth functionality. There's an open-source cross-platform app for control. https://github.com/hobzcalvin/blume
Right, but thats a manual process.

The thing is, I care about a lot of the issues that come up here, and sometimes they end up really distracting me.

I wish there was a feature to auto-hide everything from certain domains. That would go a really long way to make the site better (for me, anyway).
And that's for travelling. Think about how many people struggle in their home country with very few chances to try it out in a better place for them.

As Nancy Birdsall puts it [1]: "No other circumstance of birth — not race, gender, ethnicity, or parental socioeconomic status — so completely determines life chances as the nation of birth, essentially because of border restrictions on the mobility of labour".

[1] https://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/9781933286105-Prit...
Thanks for pointing that out. I laughed too. Shill obviously works for a problem.
You can make an effort to end your citizenship in the other country. The USG may or may not accept that as sufficient to get a clearance.
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Because you open yourself to vote buying and voter intimidation attacks.

Imagine a sketchy untraceable site on tor that'll give $20 for every public key that voted "the correct" way.

During the gilded age, voter buying was a particularly bad problem, so we have a history of this attack in the united states.
Just imagine how a trillion $ company gets hacked by a teenager.
That's a highly understated way of putting it.
Nvidia earnings Q2 2019: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/16/nvidia-earnings-q2-2019.html
There are a couple arguments:

1. This isn't an "either/or" proposition. This is one university that is making medical education free. There are other universities and programs that have free or low cost programs for the jobs you discuss.

2. Medical school education is phenomenally expensive in the US, unlike training for the other jobs you give as examples, and this expense has a structural impact that negatively impacts our health care system. The high cost of education is one reason that so many doctors opt for higher paying specialties that have higher salaries but don't necessarily result in an overall healthier society.
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.

It's also to protect the voter against retaliation; imagine if the government can discriminate based on how you voted. You can always destroy paper ballots; it's difficult to destroy public blockchain ledgers.
After a quick look I have a lot of questions

1) Unlike YAML or JSON this doesn't parse into a simple array structure, but a library dependent object hierarchy?

2) Is the API of the libraries also part of the language spec?

3) Can I assume that document.lookup() will be available as document->lookup() in the PHP library?

4) What about programming language specifics that may differ between languages? Will the PHP objects implement the Iterable interface? Or the ArrayAccess interface? (There are probably similar but slightly different concepts in other languages).

5) There is eno.parse(), but is there some kind of reverse mechanism to create a new Eno document? Like document.addList([...]).addSection('hey', 2) or something.
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To attack paper ballots you need people. Like thousands of people working with you to manipulate important elections directly at the source.

With electronic voting, you potentially need a single person with a computer on the other side of the globe exploiting a security flaw, that will inevitably be there. Whoever claims to write bug free software is a conman.

I also don't want to be able to verify my vote. If I can, that means that somebody else also can. Given how tech-illiterate the average human is, voting crypto keys will be littered all around the internet.
The wording is misleading. For the following reasons:

- Variolation was common in England at the time.
- Wikipedia says that he *inoculated* the boy with smallpox. That means variolation.
> The mechanism by which you default on a loan is bankruptcy. If you can't discharge a loan in bankruptcy, you can't default on it.

This is absolutely, completely, 100% wrong. Defaulting on a loan means that the borrower has failed to repay according to the agreed-upon terms.

> Some people never make enough money to pay it off, after which the government will pay the loan off after a few years. The lender gets payed anyway.

This isn't really true either. The lender is not guaranteed to be paid their principal back.

> These are risk free loans for lenders.

If these were truly risk-free, then the interest rate on private student loans would be roughly equal to the current actual risk-free rate of investment (because any new lender could always capture additional loans by undercutting their competitors and still make a profit).

Except, that's not true at all. The interest rate on private loans is quite high. In fact, it's significantly higher than the interest rate on mortgages, which are loans backed by collateral that can actually be seized.
And of course it'll entirely miss the 2,600 rounds of ammo in my apartment.
I had pain in my lower back until I bought a knee pillow. Found it online of course. In addition when I do need to sleep on my back, because of a sinus issue (allergies), if I raise my feet and my head it helps.

A few years ago my wife convinced me to buy one of those beds where you can raise the foot or head. We paid WAY too much for it, I later found cheaper ones online. But I must say I am grateful my wife convinced me to buy it.
Medical school may be free, but the WSJ isn’t.
When the plane has to land on the nearest airport, the chosen airport is very likely to be a small one and does not have any kind of international zone, and even without custom control.
Or just pay you. A huge portion of the populace would vote "the correct way" for a remarkably tiny kickback. We saw rampant vote buying during the gilded age.
I'm sure it varies widely by machine. Ours when on eco mode doesn't really dry the dishes (drying uses heat which uses electricity!), and only does one rinse to save water so dishes still have a bit of grime on them, especially if lots of the plates have thick gravy or anything on.

I would put eco mode as 'passable', but you have to remember to scrape off the plates well beforehand, rince especially gungy stuff (like porridge), and to probably do a bit of hand drying of items afterwards.

One the other hand, the 'intensive' mode only uses 50% more electricity, takes a quarter of the time, leaves the plates clean and dry every time, and uses a hotter wash temperature which I suspect is better at killing pathogens, and doesn't need any pre-rinsing or plate scraping beforehand. It's a no-brainer in my mind.
Indians require transit visas when traveling through Canada. (I almost learnt this the hard way when flying through Canada, as a complete coincidence I had a canadian visa from a prior trip that was close to expiring)
NB , it seems travel visas emerged in the early 1920s.

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=travel%20visa%...
JavaScript, whilst widely used, is not a language I would want to compare my own against when it comes to talking about quality and features, unless I want to talk about how actual thought went into my language.
Some kinda famous cryptographers have designed verifiable paper voting systems:

https://rangevoting.org/RivSmiPRshort.html

https://rangevoting.org/RivSmiAnswers.html

https://rangevoting.org/SleatorCheapo.html
I agree that scaling is hard and progress is slow. I think that a major breakthrough has made it into cars, though: lithium ion batteries.

The 1990s-vintage GM EV1 used lead-acid or NiMH batteries. The earlier generations of Prius used NiMH batteries too. The Tesla Roadster was the first highway-legal serial production EV to use lithium ion batteries. It took 17 years after lithium ion batteries saw first commercial use in small electronic devices (commercial batteries out in 1991, Roadster in 2008). Because, as you say, scaling is hard.

Of course the first Roadsters now seem like old hat and every auto maker is using lithium ion batteries. We're eager for the next, better kind of lithium battery. But just getting autos to use any kind of lithium battery was a big enough change that it deserved the "breakthrough" moniker, IMO.
Yeah this article is kind of light on technical details. I’d love to see an in depth postmortem and see what Apple’s mitigation plan is.
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Yes! That became the common wisdom: If patients are taking opioids for pain relief, they won't become addicted. Of course that article was talking about opioids given to patients in a hospital setting, not patients being sent home with bottles of them. It was taken completely out of context.

The other half of it was somehow deciding that opioids were the proper treatment for chronic pain, rather than temporary pain relief after surgery. Which was never really studied. And the consensus seems now to be that was a terrible idea.
The Eco is wonderful. It carries a stupid amount of ink.

I never realized how quickly you can run out of ink until I started on pens with small "converters" – refillable reservoirs for liquid ink. The TWSBI Eco's piston-filling reservoir is massive.
Chemistry(and biology) is one such field: the chemical/biological process behaves very differently whether it's don't in small quantities of the lab or in the huge volumes required for a commercial effort.

So think of that large($100mm) factory as a research process , that can often fail.

Example: commercializing biotech often fails because it's not possible to control contamination and genetic evolution of the bacteria you grow in huge processes .
I work in the aerospace industry as an embedded software engineer. There are a great deal of engineers in the department that use Ruby over Python (long story so please don't ask). However, I find that Python shines in it's community of contributors and users. There are tons of free online documentation, resources, forums, tutorials and even free courses.

Other than the above, my mentors have stressed the advantages of automating my tasks now rather than later. This was the main drive in getting on board with learning a scripting language quite quickly. I initially tried Ruby and it didn't seem like a language an embedded software engineer should be using "daily" over the alternative (the language I wanted to learn in first place) being python. I'm sure someone has an alternative opinion on that. Another main contributor at the time was the amount of time I spent scp'n files back and forth between two hosts. There's an awesome python library called paramiko that solved all the annoyances with doing this manually. Cheers~D
But you have to make it extendable because you can't predict every possible use-case. So some kind of Extensible Markup Language, perhaps.
>The fact that there has been no Jones-inspired violence means that there are literally zero people in his audience who take him seriously. Which is good.

Alex Jones at least indirectly inspired a gunman to fire into a restaurant because he pushed the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

One might be able to make the argument that Alex Jones doesn't directly call for violence, but he and people like him make a living out of talking around violence, and when someone pushes conspiracy theories about certain groups of people (jews, muslims, leftists, gays) belief in those conspiracies can create a higher likelihood of violence against those groups.
> what properties a blockchain would need in order to provide a secure election

Actually being secure is one thing, but the public need to know that it's secure. They need to be able to see it. Understand it.

As soon as you start hand-waving and frothing about blockchain all people hear is "blah blah blah tech magic" and either trust it blindly or dismiss it.
Wow I never would’ve thought this. As a Canadian, when I travel to the US for work / vacations I sometimes get my passport stamped with a B1/B2 visa (it is very common to cross the border with no Visa stamp in your passport).

I found this stamp more of an annoyance!
That seems really promising, especially configuring pipelines with API calls. Many wheels may be left uninvented.

Thank you for making your work available!
Google, by their own admission, was supporting totalitarianism in censoring search results before they decided to stop doing so several years ago. I don't see what Microsoft has to do with holding Google to their own self-established standard of ethics.