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The threat comes from closed-source devices.

If these closed-source devices send un-encrypted data, you can MiTM these devices when they're on your network. But if they're encrypted, you're SOL.
I attended a research conference two years ago with demo showing live speech recognition and live translation. I'm not sure there's any commercial product yet.
I guess we're talking about different things.
It seems to be fairly common for the abused to turn into the abusers at some point. Once you've internalized the status of a victim, abusing your power over others can seem like justified self-defense or righteous revenge.

I remember a lot of 'us'(the uncool kids, 'betas'(haha), nerds, dorks, dweebs, etc) being somewhat conflicted over the Columbine killings, because, while the perpetrators were absolute evil assholes, we understood why someone might feel justified in lashing out at the 'cool kids'(is that more acceptable than 'alpha'?).

There are definitely nerd bullies. Hell, my mom and uncle were exactly that in high school. They even used to taunt and make fun of my dad. Unfortunately for my mom, being a smart, sarcastic, cross-eyed nerd girl meant you had to sleep with the dorks, and behold, my family was born.
Would be amazing to have an npm module instead of a bunch of dart code.
extended stay in the U.S. away from his family and dealing with X months of court bullshit is horrendous and should not happen

Curious, how do you think we should deal with crimes of this type, if not (at minimum) restraining suspects from leaving the country and having a judge preside over the legal proceedings?
It drives prices higher making building new building less profitable.

And more importantly, disincentivizes maintenance and upgrades to older buildings.
Doesn't the fact that they're subsidized to keep them from collapsing due to low prices mean the opposite of it being easy and cheap?

If the subsidies were removed, the farmers/etc would need to raise their prices to pay for whatever the subsidies paid. That new higher price would reflect the real cost of production. The subsidies are there to keep prices low and accessible despite a higher cost of production.
jdoliner's comment: voting should require ID stricter than library/corporation

lutorm's comment: "Voting is a constitutional right" (implying that is isn't OK to require an ID)

sneak's comment: "purchasing a firearm" (clearly a constitutional right, so it isn't OK to require ID to purchase one???)

That is perfectly relevant. What sneak's comment does is point out that lutorm's argument implies that we can't have an ID requirement to purchase a firearm. Since this conclusion seems a little crazy, it suggests that lutorm's argument is no good.

I'll add that at least for presidents, the constitution only makes voting a right for 538 specific people. States are not required to let the rest of us participate. Voting is clearly not more of a constitutional right than firearms.
Other modern democracies have different traditions with respect to documentation; we don't have a national identity card either, nor do we require people to carry identification with them. Lots of voters, particularly elderly voters, don't have formal identification.

Instances of voter fraud in the US are vanishingly rare. It's a really dumb crime; stiff penalties, lots of legwork, and an infinitesimal likelihood of influencing outcomes.

I was a Cook County election judge in the last cycle and will be one during the next cycle as well. We don't require identification, though judges can challenge a check-in and ask for identification, and the vote will get cast provisionally if none is provided.
You’re ignoring history. Rent control resulted in dilapidated buildings being burnt down for insurance money in NYC.
Depends if you interpret the right to keep arms (i.e. not have them taken away) to equal the right to obtain arms in the first place.

An example: it’s legal to “keep” a pre-1986 machine gun but it’s not legal to obtain a new one for most people in the US.
What do you have against Stripe? Normally, and I believe it does in Italy, it supports sole proprietors. Otherwise, use Square, Gumroad, Amazon Payments, Authorize.net, or any other payment processor. Paypal.me would normally be good, but in the event of refunds, you are still liable for the 2.9% + 30c fee typically assessed on transactions, and they can freeze your account at any time. I assume that in Europe, as they are registered as a bank, they are required to have more accountability, but I'm not sure.

Are you looking for a one stop solution like Gumroad or something more like Stripe?
I think you overestimate the sanity of the current political climate on the right in the US. There is absolutely not going to be anything close to everyone getting behind cutting back on coal or any pollutant, regardless of how you sell it. There's morons out there specifically making their trucks spew black sludge into the air and bragging about it. The current president won with a large part of his message being bringing back coal. I don't think the details of the message are the problem, rationality is leagues away.
Until we can authenticate voters, elections are invalid by default.

How would you even prove that fraud is NOT happening, when many US states are essentially on the honor system?

In California, I can register to vote from a Russian IP address without any form of ID or proof of residence. It's even easier than getting food stamps.

Let me know if you want me to dig up proof for you.
I have no reason to doubt this story - that it caught everyone by surprise. But if such an asteroid was discovered in advance and it was determined we were at high risk of being hit, I'm not so sure the public at large would be notified in every circumstance. If the impact would be large enough and/or the warning short enough, getting people panicky might do more harm than good.
Regardless. Death is death. And while we have traditionally feared shortage, the truth is excess - albeit of the wrong "foods" - is now the bigger problem.
How do you know if its non-existent if you cant even measure it from lack of proper identification?
In Chicago the only requirements are a photo ID with address, or a letter with your name and address + an ID with your photo and name.

Enough to comply with the anti-PATRIOTic act. But if that weren't the case, having your name/address/photo seems like a reasonable prerequisite for loaning you materials for free - the system would be very easy to abuse otherwise.
You don’t need ID to buy a gun in the US.
Private transactions are completely paper and record free. (Unless you are from some non-flyover state.)

It’s only when you sell guns as a dealer that you are required to get ID and whatnot from the purchaser. (Even then, there is no penalty for BUYING the gun without ID; the penalty attaches to the SELLER.)
Good character letters sometimes backfire. The judge in the Ross Ulbricht case said that she sentenced him so harshly partly because she got many letters attesting to his good character, so she decided she needed to set a very public example.
Starting a business should be something anyone in the US can do without hiring lawyers and wading through complex paperwork.

In Massachusetts you can even download a fill-in-the-blank articles of organization and look up the filed articles for any existing company online if you want to see how others are doing it.
Honestly, that is a great idea, but it would never happen. It would be called racist if not enough non-white people sign up for it. No matter how easy you make enrollment.
You do this by taxing land. Cannot be passed on to the renter as they are already paying the monopoly price. It just takes what was private profit and captures it for public spending.
Oil is more profitable for other stuff like vehicles and plastics, it'd be a financial waste to burn it for electricity.
At first I thought, this makes no sense. 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?

And then I realized, the government gets all of the ID information they need about the corporation the moment the entity needs to open a bank account. ID not just for the single corporator, but information about all of the officers and directors, and increasingly, about shareholders and major investors as well.

From the government's perspective, it actually does make quite a bit more sense to gather more (and better) information through the banking system at a later time. It's low risk and the additional information is significantly more valuable.
Honest question: are there places where you can be a mid-level developer making $80k/yr and over the course of two years get raises and promotions lifting you up to $300k+? I've never heard of such a thing happening. In my experience, industry-wide, the only way to make that kind of raise is to leave.
On the off chance your reading comprehension has improved since you read my initial comment, it is worth pointing out that I was referring to my personal experience when I said "most of it was in my head and self-inflicted."

'Alpha' is a term of our times. Sorry, I don't define the language. Substitute 'cool kids' or 'socially elite' if it makes you feel better(assuming you want to feel better... maybe you enjoy being righteously indignant?).
The site's administrators have repeatedly stated that you can down vote for any reason whatsoever. People have protested over the years but it is not going to change. I therefore randomly down vote comments that I read. Because spite is a reason. If enough users random vote the karma system breaks and maybe the admins will fix it.
Walking down the street and voting are not the same thing.

ID's are common, the vast majority already have a passport or driver license. You need this much to even be employed so bringing it with you for an election is not an onerous requirement, it's actually completely reasonable.

EDIT: It seems HN has rate-limiting for comments now.
Voting across the United States is registered, and voter registration requires identification. In Cook County, where I vote and election judge, voters are assigned to relatively small precincts, which track votes during the day on paper and electronic ledgers. If Judy Blue comes in and votes in the morning and you try to come in and vote for her later, you won't be able to check in. If the reverse happens, Judy makes a stink and there's a process for going through the ledger and checking identification. In practice, neither thing ever actually happens: "retail" voter fraud in the United States is practically nonexistent. It's an expensive crime with stiff penalties that is extraordinarily unlikely to impact the election.
Moreover, the State collects a filing fee... That is, a library card grants you permission to borrow something from the State, while the Corp application entails you giving the State your money.
If you're still early stage and looking for feedback you should look for feedback from actual users. Taking feedback from non-users may skew your feedback away from what actual users would provide. The audience which pays for a product and provides feedback will be different from the feedback you would receive from people watching a conference demo.

There is some hype provided by a conference demo and you may get feedback from designers + programmers. This type of feedback will be different from normal users and at an early stage the benefit may be low if your saas product provides a substantial benefit to users.

If you've already put down some money though, it may be worth seeing what other technical people think. At least you should know that this will likely be more nit-picky than the general utility type feedback non-technical people would give. It will probably help with UX + programming but less with the value prop of your product.

If it's a technical product - think about what would make the conference audience recommend your product to other potential users.
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In fact, California voter registration requires both identification and proof of residency. Please do provide the proof you're referring to.
That does not achieve the goal I had in mind.

It keeps rent at the monopoly price and increases the cost to people who own and occupy land themselves.
A return to 2007 housing prices would be something that would cause the next recession, rather than an indicator that it's not coming. Housing _construction_ drives the economy, while housing _appreciation_ kills it.
This could actually be a really fun project to do with your child. It's a pretty inexpensive way to teach them about how companies work, the basics of organization, and even introduce them to the idea of taxes.

Registering a simple company in your local state, issuing stock, designating your board, doing your meetings and minutes, filing your $0 tax return, then dissolving it would probably only cost you ~$100 - $200 in supplies and fees.
It's kind of nuts that there's a lobby in favor of more car exhaust. Car manufacturers had to negotiate directly with California after Trump rolled back Obama's CAFE standard. Corporate interests are now to the left of America's federal government.
How is a bit of arson a contradiction to the statement that NY isn’t a failed city?
TrueVault (YC W14) is hiring staff engineers to help us index personal data
For those that think retirement is the best, think again. I know of a few people that had plans for what they would do if they could retire. When they got the opportunity they started strong but from what I've seen they are just drifting. They don't have to do anything so they don't. They have enough money to live a middle-class life and they just hang out most of the time. They don't have any real goals or the pressure to create them. Dreams are great but if you don't have the pressure to make them come true it's easy to just give up. They have 30+ years at least of what they call retirement.

Is it good? Is it bad? That's up to each to decide.
A number would be nice.
> Do you think voting should be limited to citizens of the country?

Oddly, I’m not aware of any state that requires you to prove citizenship to register to vote.
What's the best way to stay awake in meetings?
Sounds like a nice model. What are the worst disadvantages?
Have a framework of handing over cases like that and the person back to their country of residence. Unless the case can be handled in less than a week.

Otherwise it's basically: Have you got access to lots of money, or are you going to spend years in prison? He was really lucky that he knew people who could offer him place to stay, contact lawyers, help with bail. Majority of people would be completely screwed in that situation.
Oh. Right. Oops. I did mean to say oil/natural gas.
Are you saying poor people and brown people don’t know how to get a state ID? That’s pretty ridiculous and in the latter case racist.
> Brands/trademarks are an identifier, actually not a token of trust.

If that were true, why don't companies switch brands when people lose trust in them? They are free to do so, but somehow they don't.

Often, the brand is a company's greatest asset, and revoking a brand/trademark would be a far greater punishment than a fine, which is often just a slap on the fingers.

Also, it would warn users. If I buy at Amazon, and suddenly have to buy at X then that reminds me that the company cannot be trusted and has to regain my trust. I think it would be the perfect punishment in many cases. A monetary punishment is often difficult to get right.
Because we have unauthenticated voting in most blue states, we can not know how rampant voter fraud is. The only detectable voter fraud would be extreme corner cases, where they have a confession, or some other kind of evidence. Because as of right now, we are not allowed to verify who it is that is voting.

Frankly, the federal government should not accept the outcomes of any elections from California, until they can hold a real election.
Well China's national anthem makes a point about her people not being slaves... so much for that fantasy. That said, it's still a great accomplishment being able to provide cheap produce (that we take for granted) to the middle class in Tibet, a region that's not known for it.
The degree seems pretty large, though, since it's the difference between an unclearly worded constitutional amendment that does not in any plain reading say that "buying a gun" is a constitutional right, to literally the right to have a say in how your nation is run.

I think of it this way: If you think that you're being unconstitutionally prevented from buying a gun because you don't have an ID you can at least vote for people who would change that. If you can't vote because you don't have an ID, though, you're SOL.

Edit: The second amendment even refers to "well regulated", which to me seems to imply that the intent was to, well, have some regulation of the matter.
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You can do some cycling in Tai Po area, but down there, it's not the drivers that make it dangerous, but other cyclists. They cycle like they walk, so be prepared to be constantly cut off and have people stand in the middle of the road.

If you're close to Quarry Bay, you might want to look into Tai Tam, it's a nice nature park, there's several paths that you can take.
This is one of the things I’d like to see many other countries adapt as part of labor law harmonization.

People plugged in and responsible 24x7 is silly. I was talking to a dir of physical security at some big company with tens of thousands of employees. He’s the guy. He’s the one to make the call on an emergency be it 9AM or be it 2:30AM. That’s nuts!
Australia doesn’t require voter ID either. Voter ID is a vehicle for voter suppression (and generally called for by the politically conservative).
> Texas produces and consumes more electricity overall than any other state.

OK, why? From an article in Texas Monthly:[0]

> More than half of the energy consumed in Texas is for industrial use, according to the EIA, while residential use—which in terms of sheer BTUs is the most in the nation, even as our per capita usage is relatively low—accounts for just over 13 percent. Transportation accounts for nearly a quarter, while commercial comes in slightly lower than residential.

I wonder what the major industrial uses are. Some is used in oil and natural gas production, I guess. And perhaps size accounts for high transportation usage.

0) https://www.texasmonthly.com/energy/texas-uses-energy-state/
Took me a moment to figure it out, but the word you are looking for is "technique". Unless you're talking about using Lego blocks :)
Preponderance of evidence. If you had a fake drivers license and UPS hadn't caught it, perhaps the one at your library could catch it.
Authoritarianism always claims to be about ensuring the integrity of something or other. The question is always: is that the right goal, and is the proposal really the best way to accomplish that goal? Making election day a national holiday, for example, would do more to allow citizens to accurately express their voting preferences than any removal of non-citizen votes could ever do.
Parent is a factual statement about how the Anglo-American legal system works. Other systems may work differently.
Umm the 1700's in America were the era of needing to have land ownership to vote (more than half of white men couldn't vote), poll taxes, exclusion of blacks, native Americans, and women, religious tests, and so on. The 15th Amendment that changed some of that wasn't even passed until 1870.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...
Slavery was not fully eliminated in the US; it was just fractionalized, and the terms - which groups are enslaved, which groups are entitled to their output, and how much of it, etc - were obviously heavily modified. For instance you are able to change employers now, but no matter which one you pick - even if it's your own firm - in most highly-valued fields 40-70%+ of your output will be taken by various layers of government - by force if necessary. Your children are subject to the same obligation so "fractionalized chattel slavery" is a decent first-order description.

It is true that acts of extreme violence are less common than they were in the 19th century South, but that alone does not make the system "not slavery" given that a threat of overwhelming force still underpins it.
Seems a little bit weird to call this "Reality" - the word "Virtual" is not incidental the meaning of the phrase "Virtual Reality", taking it away completely reverses the meaning. It's almost like this is an April Fool's joke.
honestly it reads mostly fine to me. people are overreacting to a trivial change.
You can't exactly set aside the cash when you receive illiquid assets, such as restricted stock or options, in compensation. It makes it a huge risk to even get equity in that situation, unless you are the founder who has an 83(b) on file.
That is an excellent question. Why isn't internet search also treated like a public utility?
Look at Lyft's S-1. They're spending $100 million per year on AWS.
Not in California, where you pay $800 annually just for existing.
Something is a bubble if its future discounted cash flows cannot cover its current valuation. Can the author please make a rigorous case by looking at actual numbers (e.g. her predicted valuation 5-10 years ago vs now.. or analyze a few companies today). Or can she please refrain from writing such general, alarmist and meaningless articles?
Well if you take corn for instance, we use a large portion of that to create high fructose corn syrup. The government subsidizes it to keep prices low, so that it's cheap enough to stick in everything from soft drinks to salad dressing to bread. We don't actually need all that sugar; it's keeping Americans fat and unhealthy. But I'll leave you to draw the obvious conclusions about what a fat sugar-addicted population does for revenue.
it is really interesting that in US and countries like that where voter fraud is relatively easy it's almost nonexistant, but in Russia, for example (where you need your passport to vote and where you can't vote just anywhere, but on a particular station in the region you have a stamp of residence in your passport, and yeah, there's a list of voters everywhere, in advance)... Well, bussing exist there.

Buses with "voters", who have "out of home voting permit" papers on them, are coming to the "problematic" voting stations, to tip elections for the "proper candidate". Usually it's organized by managers of political indifferent or loyalist workers of government institution.
Imagine you receive $10,000 worth of meat, with a legal restriction that prevents you from selling that meat before it spoils. You have to keep it in the freezer for two years before you can sell it. What was the value of the meat you received?
Electron, as critically as I see it, seems to make a pretty good compromise.

The UIs can be styled and modified to an app author's liking, but unspecified properties fall back to the operating system defaults (assuming the Chrome developers did their jobs well).
If you’re physically in a jurisdiction, you are subject to its laws. Isn’t the supposed point of democracy to give people a voice in the government that rules over them?
Instead of just assuming that requiring ID leads to better representation, shouldn't we objectively analyze what choices lead to the best representation?

Requiring ID has the obvious tradeoff that it prevents some people who should be allowed to vote from voting. Furthermore, it can potentially lead to a system where people's votes are unfairly discounted because of administrative "errors" (e.g. interstate cross-check). From the evidence I've seen those problems are more significant than double voters or non-citizen voting.