skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In most countries where an id is a requirement for voting they have systems in place where you can easily get a national id card. In the US Republicans make it as hard as possible for poor people to get an id then are asking to make it mandatory as they are aware most poor people don't vote for them.
If they want to enforce id checking for voting then they need to make sure people can easily get an id.
How do you think homeless vote then? You are actually allowed to just list a park or street corner as your "home address" when registering to vote. No effort will be made to validate this; it is on the honor system.

> It is recommended homeless registrants list a shelter address as their voting address where they could receive mail. Alternatively, homeless registrants may denote a street corner or a park as their residence, in lieu of a traditional home address. The federal voter registration form and many state forms provide a space for this purpose.

[1]: http://nationalhomeless.org/campaigns/voting/
I faced a similar challenge. The technique I used was to carefully read the code of the program to be rewritten, and then I wrote a spec for it. The format of the spec was that everything that was feasibly testable was written as a unit test, and everything else was written as comments between the tests and the text explaining them. Naturally the original code satisfied the test suite/specification.

Then I used that test/spec to do a TDD type development of the new service. It was the easiest rollout I've ever done. Everything just worked when it went into production. I even ended up giving some internal presentations on the process.

I also tested with logged input from the source program. It's neat to see this technique is common.
Sure is. It's more than 30 years old. It's called IRC.
You're suggesting there is some causal relation here that I'm not sure exists. Desirable cities have housing crises. Those cities implement policies to attempt to abate these crises. Ironically, theory says that restrictions like this make the crises worse: what incentive does it give renters except to hold their leases, thereby further restricting supply?

That theory seems to hold up in a most cities, see SF, LA, London, NY etc. The introduction of rent control did nothing but to reduce housing availability and increase prices.
Thank you! I couldn't figure out how to do that.
Yeah the latter is the nail in the coffin for my argument when it comes to the United States of America. Many other countries do have the individual right to vote written into their constitutions, though.
Clearly he didn't think this is horrendous himself. He was out on bail, living in an apartment in LA, a place with better weather and a better infosec community than his native Britain. He clearly enjoyed his time here.

Source: his own twitter.
It's from even earlier, since from what I recall it's a direct descendant of the email client which was part of Netscape Navigator in the late 90s.
Luckily, some people will get suspicious when you ask for the ballot to be sent to Moscow.
Sounds like you pretty much have it. Set up a Stripe/Shopify/PayPal/etc. account for free and hack shit. There are no rules. Or there are some rules - the most important one being that you solve user's problems. If 3.5% vs 2.5% is a problem for you early on, you probably have other problems...
I see voting as the sandbox/turf of politicians, with huge battles for all ground gain or lost.
No one with think to bother with rent control in a "failed city" where no one wanted to live in the first place. Why would a city where rents were falling or there was a huge vacancy rate enact rent control?

Should we therefore think that the lack of rent control caused them to be miserable or vice versa? (Is that not what you're implying?)
Washington DC has for one not doubled. I'm not sure you're statement is accurate.
He told the truth and you attacked him. In this case he is in the right, and you the wrong.
I think it would probably be best if we did both: statutorily mandate that employees have an opportunity to vote, even if the polling stations are only open during working hours; and also require that voters show the kind of ID we ask for when somebody tries to purchase a beer or a pack of cigarettes.

Neither is a bad idea.
Irrelevant, but even if I humor you: The PATRIOT act does not require libraries collect any more personal information than the government already has. The comparison is utterly meaningless.
They also want to know that you live in the area they serve since local taxes are paying for the library. I can get a library card in the town over. They just want 80 bucks a year for it.
It's not up to them to decide who's real or not. It also opens up an easy to exploit situation where I can just claim to be running for president and I get some whitelist applied and could do some nefarious things.
From my (very) personal point of view, I think consciousness has nothing to do with sensor or motor functions...we know so little about what we (as humans) and "conscious" beings really are that we're always in the realm of conjectures. Self-awareness is a so complicated subject to define anyways.
You’re right. I forgot Australia and NZ. Never the less even left leaning or liberal countries out there require ID to vote: Brazil (was left), Sweden, Spain, Greece (Syriza), but then you have truly poor countries with truly poor people who still pull it off, like The Gambia, Ukraine, Libya, etc. Ukraine and The Gambia are made up of many ethnicities and they manage to do it.

None the less, we're down the list at no. 26 when it comes to voter integrity[1]. This is from 2014, so it's not encumbered by today's politics.

Ahead of us: Norway, Germany, Netherlands, Iceland, Czech Republic, Austria, South Korea, Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus, Lithuania, Australia, Rwanda, Japan, Chile, Italy, Grenada, Malta, Argentina, Georgia and Mongolia.

All except Australia req. Voter ID.

I (and everyone else) needs to present ID for cold medicine. I don't see this being burdensome.

[1]https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2014/11/study-ranks-...
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I think to many Chinese people, being forced to do something that is perceived as for their own good is seen as a good thing. It's kind of in the Asian culture that the end justifies the means, as opposed to Western culture where you are free to do as you choose but you bear the consequences.

Not saying it's wrong, just a different perspective.
This isn’t true.

Here are the instructions for incorporating in Delaware: https://corp.delaware.gov/howtoform/

A form an cover sheet are required. Plus, there is an obligation to submit an annual tax filing with lots of information.

Here is the online application for a library card in Orange County, CA: https://web.ocpl.org/n/LibraryCardApplication/

I’m sure things vary state by state, but I’ll leave that for others to comment.
Are people with bigger brains smarter (on average)?
It might be that the parent poster took your use of "egg" as the sexual orientation meaning [1], instead of taking the metaphor more literally. It probably depends on the circles one lives in, words are often contextual.

The word was standing out a bit in your sentence, which made me wonder if that was the intended meaning for a sec. But I didn't quite get their post either, and now that I re-read it, the explanation I offered seems less plausible.

[1] As per https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=egg "Transgender person who hasn't come out yet"
In case it was not obvious: the vote is for adult U.S. citizens; not for permanent resident aliens, not for visitors, not for illegal aliens, not for children.

It is a tragedy that this was not made abundantly clear to this woman, assuming she truly believed that she was permitted to vote.
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China is not Communist, but it remains Leninist.
That's not entirely true. The third-generation butterfly keyboards will be replaced with the fourth-generation keyboards. See https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/21/18634247/macbook-butterfl...
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Looking forward to a curly top virus-resistant variety. My neighbor is the only other person growing tomatoes near me, and thinks it’s a miracle that he can continue to grow the same ratty infected vines for multiple seasons. His plants continue to infect mine and subtle hints and offers to buy him new plants have all failed. Oh well.
Also does the font have variable weight? Are you adjusting it in any other way before rendering? What context were the fonts designed for – did the font designers evaluate their appearance using any specific displays / rendering engines?

> asks subjects to choose "which line is thicker" types of queries

I think you could develop a model for “which line is thicker” given a specific target display without inordinately much trouble; you might have to tweak some parameters for matching particular displays. The harder question is “which line is the right thickness”, especially if you don’t have any correct answers to reference.

We also don’t just care about apparent line thickness but also spatial resolution, aliasing artifacts, ...
Consolidation is bad as it causes prices to rise.
thank you, I’ve update with the acronym meaning
How do you know they didn't?
Lost functionality in Office 2016 has been driving me crazy, too. It seems that most of the problems are derived from the 2016 apps implementing app sandboxing (which Apple requires for distribution through the Mac App Store). The 2011 apps are unsandboxed, but I'm not sure how much longer it will be before Apple turns off the compatibility mode for legacy apps.
Great, do that, then require an ID to vote. The other way around is taking away peoples' fundamental rights.
Democracy is also an expression of self-determination of a people. Meaning they don't have to let anyone who visits their country sway their decisions.
I've always been telling people: mathematics is art, just with a smaller audience.

After all, beauty is the only criterion for a work of pure mathematics. People might use other words, such as elegant and interesting, and also, quite often, surprising to highlight different aspects of that beauty. And quite often, a math paper works in the way a mystery novel does (modern math papers, for silly reasons, are often written backwards and give away the name of the murdered on the first page -- and yet still work in the same way).

In the end, a mathematician would go in a certain direction because it is interesting, and the results will be appreciated if they are beautiful.

The article mentions equations, but quite often, equations are only there out of necessity. The ideas, often better expressed with diagrams, examples, and conversations might still need some algebra to be pinned down, but often enough, they are considered "ugly" and shoved under the rug. The mathematicians' word for this ugliness is technical; during the talks, they'll say somethings likes this:

>And so the limiting distribution of the number of sides in a single cell in a tesselation given by a geodesic curve on a hyperbolic manifold is given by a Poisson process. The proof is quite technical, so I'll skip it...

Which translates to the following:

>Here are two ideas that come from different worlds. It turns out that they are the same in this setting: like two lines in a poem that rhyme. The beauty of the poem is readily seen, but the rhyme is difficult to spell out with the alphabet of proofs and equations - so I will not do it.
I don't object to what you've just written. I expect even if we had conscious robots that we programed with AI software and which are connected to sensors and aware of themselves (similar to boston dynamics humanoid and dog-like robots, if we also add in a large neural software brain), having them be conscious by obvious virtue of running software we developed/coded/used genetic algorithms on, wouldn't mean we understand that consciousness.
> If you do not do this then the enforcement mechanism is that when you get sued, then a court can take back the corporate veil perk of your llc (llc is void so it turns into a sole proprietorship I think) and go after your personal assets if you loose a lawsuit.

This is a common misconception.

In real life there is no actual penalty for not placing the ads. In the event you’re challenged on it, the deficiency could be remedied by immediately placing the ad, but that literally will never happen.

It is, in fact, a special interest giveaway to some local publications, but there’s no teeth to the law.
For the FBI, CIA, NSA and local police to investigate terrorism and other crimes (also to conduct parallel construction and CIA/NSA/FBI feed no-warrant intelligence gathering under "national security" and "terrorism" banners).
I think it is also one of the rare industries where the price of the good is so vastly under-priced (often zero!) for the value it provides -- especially if you use the "sell once, update forever" model people claim to desire. Few people would want to pay for it that way though, I would assume.

Especially considering that so many people get extremely high quality software for free (open source, free software, apple style "comes with hardware purchase", etc) these days.
The reasons for requesting robust identification for those filingbfor incorporation, dismissed by several comments here, are given in the first parafraph of the linked report:

In early April 2016 the largest cache of private documents in history were leaked to journalists and subsequently exposed the shadowy world of offshore tax fraud, money laundering and corruption that hides behind anonymous shell corporations. The documents, which included email, incorporation papers and other private communications, were from a little-known Panamanian law firm called Mossack Fonseca and were released by the nternational Consortium of Investigative Journalists which had received them from a whistleblower. The ensuing scandal followed two others before it – Lux Leaks and Swiss Leaks which were related to bank-enabled tax evasion – but dwarfed them in the sheer amount of data involved.

https://secureservercdn.net/45.40.149.159/34n.8bd.myftpuploa...

The Securities Act of 1933, setting among the few national registration requirements in the USstates as its basis, following an episode of history in which such need was established:

To provide full and fair disclosure of the character of securities sold in interstate and foreign commerce and through the mails, and to prevent frauds in the sale thereof, and for other purposes.

http://legislink.org/us/pl-73-22

The history of Delaware incorporation law makes clear at numerous point obligations for good-faith dealings and power to pierce the legal fictions of incorporation:

It is well settled that a court of equity may disregard formalities and break through the shell of fictions in order to prevent, or undo fraud. ...

Directors of a corporation are trustees for the stockholders, and their acts are governed by the rules applicable to such a relation, which exact of them the utmost good faith and fair dealing, especially where their individual interests are concerned."

"A History of Delaware Corporation Law" http://www.djcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/A-History-of-...

(Though concern for general public trust is notably absent.)

See also KYC. (know your customer) laws in banking.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer

Note that incorporating is not necessary to run a business -- sole proprieterships and partnerships exist. Incorporation extends specific legal protections by the state in return for net social benefit. In theory.
What do you think of ancient attempts at medical models involving bio-electric energy regulating bodily functions (e.g. chi/prana)? Do you think we have a long ways to go in reconciling modern science to ancient observations?
> To obtain a library card in any state in the U.S., the applicant must be the person who will ultimately be controlling/using the card, and a significant amount of identifying information must be provided by the person to the state in order to obtain the library card.

This is nonsesne, or at least was here in Sunnyvale California. I walked in with a phone bill. No ID, nothing else. In hindsight it probably could have been anyone's bill, or even a fake.
Hopefully we get self driving cars you don't need a license for ASAP, so the expectation of every adult constantly carrying around an ID decreases.
I think the difference is probably that in the eyes of the American government, everything Ulbricht did was bad. Whereas Hutchins did some good at some point that could be weighed against the crimes he committed. Character letters don't mean anything if the acts that gave that person their standing in the community are seen as wrong by the court.
In Australia you simply attest that you are eligible to vote, repeat your name and address as per the electoral roll, and you're good to go — ballot in one hand, sausage sizzle in the other. You don't even have to demount from your skippy.

I've never heard anybody suggest that an election outcome has been affected by any part of this. And we vote on paper too, no computer fuckups.
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Creating a corporation requires more than one form.

https://revenue.delaware.gov/business-tax-forms/doing-busine...

Edit: Step 2 is Obtain a Federal Employer Identification Number (FEIN) from the IRS. I started clicking through that process. The 2nd question the IRS application asked is are the co-founders married. Definitely more information required :-)
As a general rule, if your sole interaction with the police is traffic enforcement (and it helps if you are white), then being courteous and honest is generally the most successful strategy. Anecdotally, aside from a few newsworthy examples, almost every traffic situation that escalates into a significant confrontation got that way because of unnecessary belligerence.

When "never talk to police" comes into play is when they are doing a criminal investigation. And even then, when to pull out the fifth amendment card depends on individual circumstances. It can definitely escalate an otherwise innocuous situation if you overuse it.

Also, try to remember that what makes the news is newsworthy for a reason.
In what way do you think an efficient market prevents people from gaining resources?
> people vote

The "high taxation is not slavery, because you voted" argument lost all merit once net recipients of the welfare state became able to out-vote its net contributors - which has already happened in the US.

> make sure old people don't starve

If only that were what the extent of what social security actually does. But it's not properly asset tested. So broke millenials are paying a ton of payroll taxes, which are - after substantial adminsitrative overhead - transferred to their elders who almost always have significantly more assets than they do, and often don't even need a transfer at all, let alone as their only way of avoiding starvation.
There are still companies which allow that. Support them instead.
> In many of the states where I've lived (13 so far), all that was needed to vote in the absence of identification was to sign an affidavit stating that I am who I say I am. The people at the polling station could ask for ID, but they couldn't require it. It's up to the people who handle the vote (often the county clerk or county board of elections) to decide later if my vote was valid or not.

And this is precisely the problem I have with people who jump up and down screaming that it’s “impossible” for non-citizens to vote because “they have to register.” Clearly there is potential to exploit the system — it’s just the plain old honor system, after all. Maybe it’s just the software developer in me, but I would never ship software that I knew had a critical vulnerability but then rationalize away that it’s so unlikely that anyone would ever exploit it.

And yeah, states could follow up on invalid voter registrations, but will they really? One state in particular prides itself on being a “sanctuary state”, yeah I’m sure they’re right on top of making sure illegal aliens aren’t slipping through the cracks and voting after the DMV automatically registered them to vote upon issuing them a license.

I also find it funny how the same people that rationalize things the US “should” do because “every other country does it” conveniently ignore that “everyone else” requires ID to vote, but for some reason we’re a special case that can’t possibly accomodate that.
The meaning of words changes with time, but that can't be allowed to change our laws. Here, "well regulated" is about being reliable, high-performing, and accurate. The term also applies to mechanical devices; one could have a well regulated clock.
> my eyes burning when I drove through eastern tx

The father of a friend of mine lived in texas in a refinery area. He was a reasonably healthy guy, but died quite young (~50) of a brain tumor. I couldn't help but wonder.
> It's up to the people who handle the vote (often the county clerk or county board of elections) to decide later if my vote was valid or not.

You'd really rather have your vote nullified behind your back rather than just be told you can't vote? That sounds like a recipe for a lot of abuse doesn't it?
If you're talking about the $2.50 VPS, yes, that's IPV6-only, so it doesn't support IPV4. You're correct that people who only use IPV4 won't be able to access that VPS, at least not without jumping through hoops. There's also a $3.50 VPS instance with the same spec that appears to support both IPV4 & IPV6.

I've been using Vultr for a while and am quite happy with them. I've also used a couple of the IPV6-only VPSs for experiments, but I have IPV4 & IPV6 connectivity at home.
The Fed is implicitly causing venture capitalists and other capital holders to subsidize the labor market and grow yhe economy. All the gig economy with money-losing companies is basically a private sector jobs program. To assume there is a bubble in assets is assuming things will go back to a high interest-rate environment. That may never happen. We'll just get lower lows, even negative interest rates if there are no money making opportunities.
> Why would the Patriot Act care more about who's getting a library card than incorporating when the dirty money is obviously flowing through the entity?

Because the Patriot Act was about using terrorism as a pretext to shove through an authoritarian wishlist, much of which and previously been pushed unsuccessfully on other bases (rooting out Communism, the Drug War, etc.), rather than a rational focussed response to any real need.
NB: Non-citizens have historically been allowed to vote in local and regional elections.

Consider that there are towns in rural California with majority noncitizen residents. In cases upwards. of 90%.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_of_foreigners_to_vote_in...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/noncitizens-are-gain...
It depends on what's actually wrong, but in some cases, yes. Sometimes it's possible to unstick a pixel by just displaying the right sequence of colors; poking the screen is essentially a more brute-force variation of that.
Same on my model from around 2016. One key cap came off. Got back essentially a new laptop (as far as I can tell) from repair with new body - the display stayed the same. I wonder how many people will scam them this way now.
I'm not sure why you're downvoted, but I think that this nails the biggest reason for runaway inflation in housing prices. When money supply is cheap, asset prices will be bid up. The only people who can afford the assets and profit from further increases in their prices are those with the means... in other words, the rich get richer while others are left behind.