skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bond is a registered contract that names specific parties, whereas cash is a manifestation of value associated with whoever bears it. (There are bonds like that; bearer bonds.)

Stealing bonds would have to be an information crime; surreptitiously rewriting the identity of the investor on all copies of the contract in existence. Or something like that.
I could understand if the majority of people migrating were farmers, but I haven't seen any statistics that would seem to indicate that is the case. Perhaps some of the migrants are moving because of that but I think there are more factors at play than just crop issues.
Anyone proposing this is doing so in the blind. Nobody knows how this would change the complex executive and legislative systems we have. Nobody could know, for decades. So why the confidence that this is the right thing to do?
Didn’t notice that Jeffery was already convicted at that point.

If we don’t want to believe in rehabilitation (not that it did Jeffery any good), then in that case, a resignation seems more appropriate than a few words for an apology.
Does this mean anyone who attended MIT and went to the Media Lab should also apologize because they acquired their skills through a corrupt system and now they're reaping their rewards in their careers?
He's probably been a full-time journalist much longer than he was a college student.

My spouse works in e-commerce as an expert in international payments systems. Her undergrad degree was an Art/Asian Civilizations double major (with honors work in historic Chinese painting), and her master's degree is in Chinese pedagogy.

By your standards, she's not qualified for the field she has worked in for the past 15 years. Then again, you can't exactly get a college degree in international payments.
I'm not sure the electoral college does that except when successfully gerrymandered. Electoral college votes are applied on a population basis. So small states get less votes.

Without the electoral college, "states" collectively don't get any say at all. Only citizens of those states.
This is probably not the best time to point to SV and the influence of Milner and the Kremlin, but it's fascinating to read PG's comments in the 2011 discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3143604 and how he seems to be comfortable with the Kremlin connection even though others seemed to have known at the time.
Sure, but it means the "Oh my, I didn't know!" defense rings a little hollow...
> Pre-crisis level of subprime lending?

Nope, not there yet.
I regularly see climate change stories, on TV, print, and the internet, and I can't recall any time in the last several years where any time/space, let alone an equal amount, was provided for dissenting opinions. At best, they might include mention of a strawman example of an opposing argument.

Perhaps you and I are consuming different news sources - do you have any recent examples demonstrating this equal allocation to both sides?
That's exactly the goal. The point is not to pick a different winner, it is to re-enfranchise voters in states that are strongly 'red' or strongly 'blue'
Could you link the study you're talking about? I found this - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/dec/28/vaping-is-95...

But the only "study" referenced comparing smoking and nicotine was a video experiment that didn't even use humans.
I know the following concept is absolutely foreign to most people in tech, who would gladly take seed funding from Unit 751, but if you're accepting millions of dollars in donations and investments you actually do have a basic moral responsibility to do at least a minimal level of due diligence, lest you end up helping to whitewash the reputation of a known child sex trafficker.
> If you don't do due dilligence, or even a cursory Google search, I believe you might bear some moral culpability in being willingly associated with a pedophile.

If they didn't know they were a pedophile, then they didn't willingly associate with a pedophile.
I’ve often wondered how much knowing that the electoral college is in place drives voter turnout: how many conservatives in New York or California (or liberals in Texas) don’t bother to go to the hassle of showing up to the polls because they know their state won’t win anyway? In most presidential races, the race is called before the polls even close in Hawaii, so I’m sure an awful lot of people don’t bother to show up there.
I mean, if he had won the popular vote, then fine, he is the winner.

All this is asking is 1 person 1 vote.
Yes, they do here

https://adoptopenjdk.net/upstream.html

Note that these are different binaries, build by RedHat not by AdoptOpenJDK. They are distributed there because the Java 8 and Java 11 OpenJDK projects are not allowed to post builds on https://jdk.java.net.
This sucks. We run steam on some public PCs with unprivileged accounts and we wouldn't be very happy to find that users were able to gain admin access and steal other people's passwords through a keylogger. Sigh.
It's the thought that counts right? Tandem is the name, they are gifted a tandem bike, which reinforces the symbolism of doing something together. I'd hope it would be perceived either neutrally, or generate some very small positive feelings, but not negatively.
No, I believe the OP is referring to abolishing the "first past the post" system that the US currently has in place.
Most modern countries have similar systems, where smaller areas are disproportionally represented in the legislative power. Its only when you loose that is a problem?
I don't disagree, but until and unless all laws (not just speed limits) are written with sensible exceptions and thresholds included, police and prosecutorial discretion are the only avenues we have to create a semblance of reasonableness.
I could not be more opposed to the abolishment of the Electoral College. The founders had a very good rationale for putting it in.

That said... I think there's a solution for this. Hard term limits for everyone, in all the branches.

It already exists for the Executive branch. I think it should be instituted for both Legislative and Judicial as well.
I've noticed a trend on BBC news.

'[X market/stock] slumps as [thing related to X] [does something]'

Yet when you go and look at the long-term graph, it's well within normal variance. There's no evidence they're connected at all. I'm sure it happens with other media providers too.

Why? Because they didn't have the numbers right, or just didn't check at all. Well, if I'd written a statement like that in an essay during my schooling, I'd be marked down for unsubstantiated claims at best or admonished for plagiarism at worst.

I find it irresponsible that the news rarely cites its sources beyond admitting they bought it from AP/Reuters. I believe it should be enough to prevent them being cited as a trustworthy secondary source until they at least have their justifications to a level that would be considered adequate by a high school history class. It's the only reason citogenesis happens on Wikipedia.
If the blacklist is in the browser itself to override local installation, you'd probably have to use a different browser.

My go-to would be something locked down in a VM if at all possible, given the nature of the threat.
Well, that's what's unclear to me — the apology makes it sound like he just had no idea about this guy. From the other comments, it sounds like that's false, and he ignored warnings from his peers, which makes more sense to me.

No need to be hostile, I'm just trying to understand the situation :)
It's ok, since ID isn't required they can just vote as many times as they like in other districts.
They are also an attempt to keep ineligible people from voting. There are positives to the argument that you can only ignore if you want to vilify the person making it.
Bad convictions do happen, but to think it could happen to somebody as wealthy as Epstein strains credulity.
With scanning machines there still is a problem that they can be tampered with and even if you see that the outcome doesn't match exit polls, you don't have any solid proofs to require the manual re-counting of paper ballots.
The flip side is that candidates ignore large states that are unlikely to change (think California for Republicans or Texas for Democrats), even though both states have a ton of people who don't have the same ideologies and values as their state is stereotyped.

> Even though I live in a giant urban area, I wouldn't want to feel pressured to due so due to lack of political stake if I move elsewhere.

Imagine a developer in San Francisco tempted to move to Austin, but who won't because the state as a whole will always go Republican even though Austin tends to be more liberal.
>For example: Right now in the US there are 2 senators from each state. California with a population of over 39 million has 2 senators, Alaska with a population around 700,000 also has 2 senators.

This is why we have the House of Representatives, which is based on population. California has 53 representatives, Alaska has one.

The original idea as I understand it, before the 17th amendment, was that the Senate was supposed to represent the interests of the states, hence two senators from each equally represented state. While the House was supposed to represent the interests of the residents of those states.
This is absurd populism. IMHO electoral college votes should come from US House district winners instead of winner takes all.
Glorious: Ease of use.

Imagine we had a compiler-on-board philosophy as well as a peer-to-peer-is-the-new-network purpose, and we built a new OS?

I personally think such a thing would be golden.
The entire point of the electoral college was to protect us against low information voters actually:

https://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/

We see that that backfired. :)
You're still choosing one president - it refers to how you award a state's electoral votes.

CA has 55 electoral votes, all of which went to Hillary. If CA removed winner-take-all, Trump would have received 17 electoral votes, Hillary would only receive 34, Gary Johnson would receive 2, and Jill Stein 1.

TX has 36 electoral votes, all of which went to Trump. If TX removed winner-take-all, Trump would only have received 19, Hillary would receive 16, and Gary Johnson 1.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...
Ditto. Fill out a standardized test-like multiple choice form and it gets fed into a reader.
Are you sure that that's not exactly what it's designed to do? Can you explain what it _is_ designed to do? (edit: I'm not claiming either way, but would like to understand what you're claiming) (edit: hmmm, a single downvote ...)
Newer versions of HL7 (and FHIR) aren't (exclusively) XML.
Scientists routinely cure brain disorders in mice but not humans
Perhaps those who live in urban areas may want to consider moving to a rural area so their vote can matter more. Living in a large urban area and voting Democratic is generally meaningless. Move to a rural area (or a small city), and the game's different.

The political implications of showing urbanites that (some) rural areas are better places to live than is currently being preached could get interesting.
This would lead to e.g. Wyoming being run by California though. I'm sure Wyomingites would totally love that.
> an apology is in fact appropriate from this person

The apology is appropriate, but not because he had anything to apologize for, rather to attempt to quell the "outrage" of the holier-than-thou masses.
If it is efficient, it must produce an enormous heat. Constantly, over a long time (like hours and days). How do they cool it?
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Wow, this is amazing. I did not know about these new API functions. It makes using libpng much more pleasant. Thanks!
I'm currently using influxdb v1.x and I'm not very happy with it for many reasons (impossible to delete a value, no clustering in free version,...). Can anyone who migrated from influxdb to timescale share his opinion ?
Life isn’t that simple as you’d have implicit currency conversion risk.
(1) There is a pretty big difference between shaking hands with someone and allowing someone to tie their financial stake in with yours via a quarter million dollars in investment money.

(2) The idea that anyone with this large of an involvement with Epstein was unaware that he had been convicted in 2008 strains one's credulity, to say the least. If at any point after Ito met Epstein, he had casually googled Epstein's name, he would have been inundated with information about his conviction. Not to mention that in his resignation letter, Ethan Zuckerman explicitly mentions that he told Ito not to meet with Epstein back in 2014. (http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2019/08/20/on-me-and-the-...)
You are missing the point--HE SHOULDN'T BE WALKING AROUND FREE.

I shouldn't have to even think about doing business with a convicted child sex trafficker because he should be in jail.

And anyone you or I have contact with would have been in jail until doomsday if convicted of that.
In Nevada, they joke that they have "the Senator from Reno" and "the Senator from Los Vegas".
China has been offshoring to SE since years ago too.
My opinion is that you're right to wait, with the caveat that I think you've done more research than I have, AND when I bought in fall 2014, I was ALSO convinced it was a horrible time to buy. That suspicion has not been borne out.

That said, the bay area market has been slowing the past year or so

I'm not sure your first point is particularly valid; I think that's basically always true here. Rent is cheaper in areas where assets are expected to appreciate quickly; rent is relatively expensive in slow/stagnant markets (where, for example, maintenance could be a significant deterrent to ownership, versus price appreciation).

I'm not sure at all about your second point, that sounds highly speculative.

But it sounds like you've done your homework on the last two.
the ECB also removed the 500€ bill, so the cost of storing cash went up, because you need greater storage, at least that was a theory that I heard
That's closer to how baseball used to be, but there were also less teams at that time.
Your first two sentences are both accurate, but I don't think your third necessarily follows. There are strong arguments for getting rid of the Electoral College and they should be (and are being) debated.
If the federal government was serious about these voter ID cards and the goal truly was more reliable elections then we would be seeing real conversations about cost and a deployment strategy. The very fact that they are trying to do this nearly for free is, to my mind, proof positive that they have the same goals as the politicians who are agressively gerrymandering: fewer people voting.

What is the overlap between people who drive and people who can vote? How were the location of DMV and RMV offices chosen, were they selected to be accessible to every citizen? Who trains people at the voting locations to validate ID cards? Is there a physical device that scans and helps validate these ID cards? What does that cost?

Post offices make much more sense, they tend to be accessible by nearly everyone. But there has been no talk of providing these cards through post offices. Partly because of cost, training and the increased workload on the post office. Partly because the goal is to prevent voters from lawfully voting.

Even if you feel that the DMV or RMV is a reasonable place to issue these cards, where is the pushback from states who have to staff up in order to provide these cards? How long will these cards last before expiration? In MA, a driver's license only lasts two years, ID cards last five.

The whole thing, in my opinion, is an obvious sham.
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Even if they have the right ti revoke a certificate,their reason cannot be to protect citizens of a country against their own government. That is insulting the citizens of the country,they get to decide if their government is violating their rights.

The reasoning and argument is what I disagree with,not Mozilla's rights as a US company.
In the Bay Area prices have already started to level off. Sites like Zillow are predicting a 10% downturn in the next year in the highest priced areas.

If you want to buy in the Bay Area, I'd wait a year and see what happens. I don't think the price increased will outpace your savings by very much if you hold out and continue to add to your down payment fund.

But I'm just a guy on the internet, so don't blame me if I'm wrong. :)
>I don't need your invitation to reply, sorry, and you can't "invite me to leave". This is not your house, it's the internet. Also, I wanted to make sure anyone stumbling upon this thread in the future would understand where I'm coming from, so for that purpose alone I wanted to set the record straight. Whether you did any of the above to anyone else is entirely irrelevant.

You don't need an invitation to insult me either yet you chose to be highly impolite and insulting. The only record a reader needs to know is that we were engaged in a debate then you suddenly chose to comment on my character and insult me. That is why this debate is over and why I will not respond to any of your points. You can continue to respond despite the fact that your responses are not welcome but the only person you are debating now is yourself.

Many people on this thread highly disagree with me. You are the only one that insulted me and therefore you will be the only one I will not be responding directly too.
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Sci-fi novel based on the Sepoy Mutiny. Life on Uller is based on silicon.
Are you insinuating he did the due diligence and ignored it?
Ah, that's what you meant. Thanks.
The counterpoint to that is that the Electoral College has transferred so much power to rural areas that we are no longer an actual representative democracy.

For example, a vote in Wyoming counts 3.6 times more than a vote in California.[1] The people in California are not represented in the Presidential election; it would be more accurate to say that one-quarter of the people in California are represented.

"Rural issues" do not deserve special protection if that protection results in a tyranny of the minority. People are choosing to actively leave rural communities and congregate in urban areas; this does not on its face mean that their concerns have become less important.

Moreover, people congregating in urban areas tend to be center- and left- leaning, so skewing the Presidential vote towards urban areas also results in US politics as a whole shifting to the right. It also results in a judiciary that is more conservative than the population as a whole.

There are only eight states in America that have more people than Los Angeles county.[2] Why are the concerns of the people living in LAC less important than the concerns of the people in Nevada or Arkansas? What is it about their geography that makes their issues unimportant?

[1] http://theconversation.com/whose-votes-count-the-least-in-th...

[2] http://www.laalmanac.com/population/po04a.php
the 500€ bill is already not produced anymore
Thanks, I think this is what I was missing. Failing to google a donor is a pretty bad oversight, but I think attributable to basically negligence. Ignoring the advice of your peers is more egregious, which looks like what happened here.
This seems like the most sane approach to me.

I get GP's argument that hackable machines isn't the biggest issue, however it's still a clear and present danger.
The problem with "Mozilla should trust the user" is that the threat model itself is users being forced, coerced, or tricked into installing the cert.

Presumptions of user autonomy, consent, or informedness are invalid.

Which means that the bypass process should be highly inconvenient.

I've addressed that separately in a direct response above -- might not be a solution for you, but it's the direction I'd look to. Alternatively, you could look for what Firefox's behaviour in the presence of locally installed certs would be, though as noted above, given the threat model, it largely shouldn't do that.

Keep in mind that a large chunk of Mozilla, Google, and Apple's stance here (and I suspect Microsoft will join them) is that this is a very bad practice of CAs or governments, as not only will the browsers flag this practice, but those certs and a lot of collateral damage will result. This is by all appearances deliberate and a strong message to not do that then, to any governments which are considering similary asshattery.

And failing to respond forcefully to such actions and threats risks compromising all trust whatsover in the browser and CA models. Which are rickety enough as it is. So Mozilla, Google, and Apple most definitely have dogs in this fight as well.
Probably a move in the right direction, but then the issues of gerrymandering come into play.
Which is done via 'contractors', per the article.

AKA, people I do not know and who are hired via some process I am not privy to and who are fired for causes unknown without notice to me. What happens when those contractors end up taking data out of the facility and then sell it? What is the rate of people with certain classes of criminal activity that get through the hiring process (the false positive rate)? What about the mental health of these contractors? Are they paid well? Are they paid at all? Do they remember what my loved ones say? Are they my neighbors? Why/why not?

Essentially, to me and to the people that I care about, these people are essentialy a random selection of the general population, with all the benefits and problems that come with that.
"You build your whole life based on your genetic identity..." - nonsense. Who does that?
>"So back in reality" GRAS does not mean what you think it means.

I know exactly what GRAS means. Why do you assume otherwise? I never claimed that vaping is safe; you'd have to be an idiot to make that argument. That doesn't mean you ban it.

I could have sworn it was on the list... but either way, it doesn't change the fact that nicotine is, by itself, not significantly harmful. What argument are you trying to make here?

It seems like all you want to do is nitpick and completely avoid the subject at hand. Why should nicotine and/or e-cigs be more tightly controlled than coffee, cigarettes, beef, alcohol, etc?
> I vow to raise an amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and will direct those funds to non-profits that focus on supporting survivors of trafficking.

Raising money to combat human (child sex) trafficking is a worthy endeavor; go for it.

> I will also return the money that Epstein has invested in my investment funds.

Using well-earned money for evil is bad. Using ill-gotten money for good is good. If you think MIT Media Lab's research is good, keep the money and use it for good. Giving money (back) to a bad source just makes matters worse. At best it's a vain attempt to wash your hands of the situation.

> Regrettably, over the years, the Lab has received money through some of the foundations that he controlled. I knew about these gifts and these funds were received with my permission. I also allowed him to invest in several of my funds which invest in tech startup companies outside of MIT.

Was Epstein's money even ill-gotten? The man's deplorable personal crimes seem orthogonal to his wealth, or at least the causality runs from wealth to crime, not the other way around.
Email and Phone numbers, 2 very very important and public pieces of data that should have absolutely nothing with confirming our identities. Why are phone companies still letting stuff like this slide? Their security shortcomings have to be beyond simple ignorance at this point, its definitely crossed into willful negligence.
Benefit is to set an international precedent where random citizens or corporations hostility can be accounted for or ignored. The benefit is political.