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Thanks. I clicked on that. And then the "Massachusetts Mail-in Voter Registration form (PDF) – English" link. In the instructions for that PDF form, #7 says: Federal law requires that you provide your driver’s license number to register to vote. If you do not have a current and valid Massachusetts driver's license, you must provide the last four digits of your social security number. If you have neither, you must write “none” in the box. I'm not sure what they do with the mail in forms that mark "none".

And then I read the questions on that the page you linked to. I found this one interesting: Do I need to attach identification to my voter registration form? The Answer: Yes, if you are registering to vote for the first time in Massachusetts. Because of a federal law, the Help America Vote Act of 2002 passed by Congress, if you registered to vote by mail on or after January 1, 2003, you will be required to show identification when you vote for the first time in a federal election since registering by mail in 2003, or you can send in a copy of your identification with your voter registration form.

Acceptable identification must include your name and the address at which you are registered to vote, for example: a current and valid driver’s license, photo identification, current utility bill, bank statement, paycheck, government check, or other government document showing your name and address.

Am I reading this wrong? Because it pretty much sounds like to me that ID is required. Was there some other info I was supposed to find?

Edit: I found this Federal Voter Registration form interesting: http://www.eac.gov/assets/1/Documents/Federal%20Voter%20Regi... If you scroll down beyond the form, it gives a breakdown for each state what is required for Box #6 (which is where the form asks for your ID Number). Seems a lot are asking for ID of some sort. Good info. Thanks for suggesting I do more research.
Long term capital gains is less than the alternative minimum tax. Executive compensation probably consists of a mixture between stock options and company paid expenses (airfare, company car, vacations, travel, nice office equipment, etc).
>It's "amateur social science" in the sense that it's an "off-hand comment". I could write a 5k word essay on this very small point and make it respectable

Pics or it didn't happen.

>I didnt because HN comment boxes are not vehicles of long essays. (...) Far too much effort to spend on a crowd whose faith in pg's intellectual status is based on his money-making ability.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backtracking
Not arguing against rights for creators, but against rights that go beyond their lifetimes. I think people work to create an immediate future for their children, but I've never met anyone who's spoken of creating an inheritance for a time beyond that.
Maybe the IRS determines that's the market rate for their skills :P
My favorite are the ones where the developer got the resolution of the screen wrong, and both the horizontal & vertical scrollbars are present. The touch screen is emulating a mouse, so you can drag the bars a little ways.
"As somebody who may travel to the USA one day"

Well, if you remove this requirement, I have a solution for you.
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Number of back clicks to get you back.
I hate that pg even has to make this explanation. It is easy to understand what he meant even in the hit job "interview." I didn't realize how it was constructed. Now it makes a lot of sense. I mean what goal would it serve for pg to misogynistic claims? It defies common sense. I think the "interviewer" represents the worst of journalism, simply trying to peddle controversy where there is none. It is sort of infuriating to me because there actually is misogyny in our hacker culture but this is NOT it.
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Yeah. You could just use a grease pencil or thin crayon though.
Looks nice, but the website looks like you're fitting a left shoe on your right foot. Looks premade and needlessly crowded. Also the 'z' at the end of your name screams 2002. Otherwise, nice products.
Hurricane season in Florida/Caribbean is from June 1 to November 30.
how long does dd take? Could use an estimate. Ran dd for around 10 minutes this morning and got 500,000 lines, and it was still running.

update: finished in around 12 minutes. out.txt is around 10gb.

update: out.txt is around 54 million lines from wc -l out.txt. I'm using less with command [line number]G to poke around. I have an NYC1 droplet, and there's a lot of junk not mine.. text in other languages and python which i don't use
Not just a jumbo either, 30-40 at a single airport at one time with ~100people per plane (~4,000 total) vs 9 people on a single Cessna likely 2-3 times a day maximum
> Or a RTOS type question where you're wanting to squirt out exactly one value 44100 times per second... Solutions?

Use a CD player? :)
Yeah. Most other places would get more slack, but when you big thing is "We are expensive in a market where everything else is free because WE ARE BETTER" and the time before first huge fuckup is counted in days, you lose a lot of that momentum.

That said, suddenly everyone is talking a hell of a lot about "The Information" -- so maybe it will end up being a huge win for them.

Suicide or brilliant marketing move, will be fun to watch.
We edited a bit around some of Mr. Graham’s quotes on female founders. Specifically, we edited a “these” from the quote. The reason was simple. The “these” didn’t refer to anything.

What pg actually said was, "We can’t make these women look at the world through hacker eyes and start Facebook because they haven’t been hacking for the past 10 years."

Lessin is saying removing "these" doesn't change the meaning. I think that's absurd, to put it mildly.
All in all, Eric Lander's 7.00x (Introduction to Biology) probably was the best of all the courses I completed in 2013. Lander is a fantastic lecturer -- it wasn't uncommon that his lectures (or shall I say performances) ended in applause.

Going beyond "just" videos and multiple-choice quizzes, the MITx folks built/assembled an impressive array of mostly web-based tools (e.g. a 3D molecule viewer, a molecule editor, a simplified version of genome viewers used by actual biologists) to support the learning enterprise.

Here's a glowing review that (unlike my scribblings here) starts to do the 7.00x experience justice: http://okazakifragments.wordpress.com/2013/05/29/the-best-mo...
> We edited some of Mr. Graham’s quotes on female founders.

If you quote someone you quote them, you don't remove certain words because they don't "refer to anything". If you leave something out you put in "[...]".

What does "a bit around" mean anyway?
To blame the listeners is one step short of accepting things as they are. In this case, it is most certainly the talkers, since it is they who immediately profit from their deeds. Don't forget that every listener is also a talker (I bet there is a Nietzsche quote about it somewhere).
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I haven't flown since before 9/11, and I didn't like the airport experience too much then. I'm sure I'd like it less now. But I keep in mind that the airplane + TSA still saves a lot of time compared to trains, boats, buses, and cars for travel over a certain distance.

The question I have for people is why they bother traveling so much nowadays. Maybe the experience of le rive gauche cannot be replicated over the internet -- but a lot of travel (especially business) seems to be a bit of showmanship itself. You know, show up and impress the client with a little face-to-face. Or let the striking factory workers know who's boss. Whatever.

What makes me laugh even harder than the deaths of old habits such as flying hither and yon are people who distinguish between security and the illusion of security. Isn't security itself a feeling? And what makes jittery fliers feel safer than a bunch of goons rifling through one's possessions? Isn't that the essence of "stepping up security"?
Well, the problem here is that "these" very clearly did refer to something, and anyone who doesn't think so might not be someone you want editing.

Apparently they still don't think it referred to anything, which is completely mind-boggling.

The correct response here would have been to admit the mistake and apologize for it. As it is, it's hard to take them as any sort of serious journalists now.
Honestly, this is a troll comment.

By making the comment you will assuredly elicit the response you expect, imply, but it is not necessarily for the reason you state.

pg was misrepresented and held out as a misogynist. We think highly of pg, why should we not defend what is merely slanderous nonsense?

I'm the first one to disagree with many ideas in our echo chamber ... That's healthy. But the idea that pg said anything wrong is ridiculous.
Is this claim true?

"Mr. Graham didn’t object to anything in the story, or the fact we published it in the first place, until Valleywag wrote about the story days later."
I don't see a strict interpretation of the cause of suicide in what I said, I see a disagreement in whether guns are contributors.

Having a gun increases the likelihood of you attempting to use it, much like using any other means to do so. If knives were the most common choice, should we consider them risks for everyone because they might commit suicide with them? The fact that so many succeed with guns while failing with others makes it look like a contributor. The studies tell me that people are just more successful with guns. Anything that states that guns are a contributor I would have to disagree with as to how I understand what contributing means.

But I'm glad to see that you agree with me that not all guns are designed to kill living things. Hopefully you agree that such arguments are silly on their face and are designed to cause an emotional reaction. I believe I've shown elsewhere that I have no problems with having reasonable regulations on weapons designed to kill human beings on the battlefield, such as fully automatic weapons.
Sorry - I'm not American, could you please elaborate, what makes a bag "TSA-compliant"?

I looked at a couple of the products but couldn't quite work it out.
> the most clueless people in those areas I know are tenured professors.

Not about the subjects they research. That is the purpose of research.

> are full of scorn for academia in general

All of those people are academics par execellance. I'm not talking about business-ified institutional academica. I'm talking about spending a long time on a topic, researching it and thinking deeply, clearly on it before you offer your opinion as though it were valuable.

> do a SPECIFIC critique of what he wrote somewhere

I have on one of his essays, but I took it seriously to write that critique.

The audience I would be targeting in a critique of the man (via a critique of his under-informed rants) are those who equate money with success and "money-making" with intelligence. I value my time too much to spend the amount required undoing that confusion.
Yes, nearly everyone can get one if sufficiently motivated.

I think the issue is that people seem to be pushing for this sort of thing to place obstacles in the path of specific types of voters because they don't like how they vote. No one has identified a problem with how current voter registration and voting works that the govt ID requirement solves, as far as I am aware.
"We edited a bit around some quotes"… This passes for journalism?
Hey, thanks for your feedback! I feel the same way, plus the local echo feature Mosh provides can only help when the connection slows down. It's a pity the poll didn't get traction, but it did get a few votes! Cheers.
Seriously? Go look at the games, we're talking about a single image of a character in most cases. And showing something off doesn't have to be putting it up on Microsoft.com for the world to download. The kid is 15, my point is find the friend you have that is taking art class and get them to sketch something for you. I bet money that if this kid is into games, one of his gamer friends can sketch a game character for him pro-bono. We're not talking about developers and designers - these are high school kids making one-off test-the-water apps.
boring and atypical outlier. Come back and report in 10 years. Now, let's hear real life stories of 2013 losers, more interesting, educational and realistic.
>Hanson and Yudkowsky make the point that it's the best we've got (in one article, they put the chance of success at 5%), and that the alternative right now is nothing. Considering the relatively low cost, it's a gamble worth taking.

No, I would say that leaving money or life-insurance to my family when I die is worth more.

Besides, if someone developed a better, more evidenced "immortality treatment", I would want to have the money for that. Pascal's Wager is simply not acceptable for real life just because you wave your arms and go "Futuristic super-science!" instead of "Magic!"

>Yudkowsky has had the inspirational, secular techno-futurist new-age-ish sounding hope thing going for ages, as you probably know.

People would mistake it far less for cultishness if he didn't follow the optimistic futurist tone with prophecies of doom and requests for money in order to supposedly fund saving people from previously mentioned prophecized doom.

Which is a fucking pity, because there's so much there worth liking, but they kinda ruin it with the cult behaviors.
"Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas. And plenty of coded "utter shit" gets heaps of recognition - like every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo.
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Your stuff looks good. Keep it up.
A better title is "Direct-to-Consumer DNA Testing is Meaningless."
I appreciate your posts here on Hacker News. Don't burn yourself out—those bullies aren't going away any time soon.
>I know that this is a general complaint about breaking a common feature

Then stop breaking it.
I don't think "these" was supposed to be referring to anything in the sentence or around the sentence there. It was being used as sort of a quantifier, as in "there are some women who haven't been hacking and we cannot make them see things as a hacker". Of course "these women" refers to something different than "women". i.e. "for all women who have not been hacking for at least 10 years, it is not possible to make them see things as a hacker" vs. "for all women, it is not possible to make them see things as a hacker". You can clearly see they mean two very different things because in the first one you are quantifying over a proper subset of women.
This seems like a non-apology. In my opinion, it seems like you ("The Information") made a colossal mistake by editing out a key word in a sentence, profoundly changing its meaning, and worse, doing this on a hot-button topic in a way that attempts to raise stink.

If this is true, shame on you.
FWIW Debian stable (esp. with KDE IMO) is now very close to this. I have no patience at all for a fiddly daily machine, and for the most part I've been pretty happy with it.

There are probably other Linux distributions (Mint?) that can fill this niche.

I only mention this because, if people are looking for something right now, setting aside a little bit of time to try out Debian stable or Mint might be worthwhile.

But yeah. I'd love to see Haiku become a strong alternative OS. I've been keeping an eye on it ever since it was announced. (I still have the BeOS R5 disc that I installed on a PPC machine years ago.)
off topic: as hn lacks comment history, it's advisable to not use "edit" as a "rewrite" button. I don't know if the only editing you did to you original comment above was add the single paragraph prefixed by "edit" -- or if you first changed the comment substantially, possibly without any indication -- as the first reply seem to indicate.

Generally I'd just go with "delete" if something came out really wrong and/or doesn't contribute anything worthwhile as written -- possibly following up with a fresh reply/comment. Prevents others from having to spend time reading something that doesn't really contribute to the conversation.

On-topic: This does sound like a great way to get a false sense of security. Who's to say some firmware hasn't been replaced? You could ofcourse transform your entire mainboard to an epoxy blob - but still - how good are you at telling epoxy blobs apart?

Using some rare colours and strange patterns might raise the bar - but an average system could probably be broken into various pins ons sockets and whatnot (pci bus/firewire/...)
I graduated in December 2001, with a BS and M.Eng in CS from a well known school. This was almost precisely the low point after the dot com crash. I spent 4 months at home with my parents doing nothing. I had some random uninteresting interviews; the most interviewing was for JPL in Pasadena, but it wasn't a fit. Then I managed to find a summer internship at EA in April 2002. Not even a full time job.

The game industry was the only thing in software "going well". It's completely decoupled from the web/dotcom business. I think EA's stock doubled from 2002-2004 because everything else in tech was completely stagnant, at least business-wise.

I moved to Redwood City first, then SOMA later in 2002. SOMA was completely different -- sort of tumbleweed-y as someone here put it. My roommate from craigslist was 5 years older and worked at a company in San Mateo, but otherwise I met almost no other tech people.

Everyone I knew from college said they wanted to move out to California, but not many did because they couldn't find jobs (although most of my college friends were not in tech).

I did have a college acquaintance who started at Google in 2002, and I found that interesting because I had used Google since summer 2000, but not noteworthy as far as I can remember.

After that summer internship in 2002, I converted to full time at EA for a $60K salary. That sounds ridiculously low now!

In 2003, I was sick of my job at EA, but I wanted to stay in SF. The only decent companies I could find with programming jobs (i.e. not doing IT at a bank) were Dolby and I think Macromedia, which later was bought by Adobe. That was kinda it for the city? Most jobs then were on the peninsula.

"Startups" weren't a thing. I don't know when they became a thing again, but I think it did have something to do with the Google IPO in 2004 (I've worked there since 2005, after they posted a recruiting billboard near EA/Oracle in Redwood City).

I think I bought Hackers and Painters around 2004 or so. I was reading the Joel on Software forum at the time, and I think I got the recommendation there. That was my Hacker News. I learned so much as a green programmer from reading that forum and Joel's essays.

(To a lesser extent I learned from Paul Graham's essays, which at that time weren't only about startups. Although I thought he was sort of arrogant until I saw him speak in person at Google, I think in 2005 or 6 when he was starting YC.)

All of that wisdom still applies, so for the younger people who haven't seen them, start with the top 10 essays here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/ .
Your idea is reminiscent of the Rosenthal-Jacobson study, so it might have some basis in reality :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect#Rosenthal.E2.8...
It isnt back tracking when at the time you made the comment you said it was an off-hand comment.

It isnt "backtracking" to criticize a person for one thing while you are doing another. Jon Stewart criticizes news programs whilst his program isnt a very good news program. Fortunately he's in the comedy business.

Equally, my off-hand comment isnt a very good essay but fortunately I didnt post it to an Essays section of a website and then go and read it to a conference audience.
Code signing turned out to be very successful for protecting against VBA macro viruses, though I would consider the use of MD5 for doing it flawed nowadays. Office 2007 and later ended up defaulting to a different solution however, and days ago I received an email in my inbox with an attachment that claims hidden content and ask the user to enable macros. It is not signed, and guess what the macro does?
Fighting back if nobody else are willing to take the first step is a rational response. Doing what everyone else is doing is a safer first response - in the hope that someone is crazy enough or desperate enough to be the first person to throw themselves at the guy with a weapon.
It's fine to edit for length and clarity if you recognize that by removing context you're creating a new context. It's up to the editor to be careful.

The editor can't say "I am the editor and I have perfectly preserved pg's comments" knowing that valleywag will call him a sexist, when the editor knows him not to be one. If the editor thinks pg is, they should talk. I'm convinced by pg's rebuttal.
the whole notion of blind studies I would love to see implemented not just for tech startup funding, but jury selection, and a few others I'm having trouble imagining at the moment.
Could you be talked into doing a little writeup on what you've got running on it, any problems you've run into, that sort of thing? I think I'd like to try dual-booting or a VM, but I'm years out-of-date on the Haiku world.
I trust Singh's "the Code Book" is hiding behind one of those amazon links?
> In our interview, which was explicitly introduced as an edited transcript, we made edits for clarity and length.

How, exactly, is the edited version more clear?
Is pg also to blame for not immediately hopping on a plane to feed starving children in Africa? Just because someone is silent about an issue you personally care about doesn't give you cause to criticize them for their morals.
I didn't read the essay in question, but from your quote it sounds like you are deliberately misinterpreting his point. He is talking about political power.
Unfortunately it's not a popular pastime as it used to be.
Other than the font in "Jazz Age", you've got something pretty useful here.
Looks like that first bogeyman is back: Front page today: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/12/30/us-china-economy-d...
"(Reuters) - Calls for China to accelerate financial reforms grew louder on Monday after figures showed its indebted local governments owe nearly $3 trillion in a debt build-up that some analysts called alarming."
>But if you have any serious reading on the last two hundred years of economic, political and sociological critiques of capitalism, wealth and power that whole article will just seem silly.

If you have any "erious reading on the last two hundred years of economic, political and sociological critiques" you'd know that ALL articles and books will just appear silly in isolation. Especially since most of the important critics are vehemently opposed to the ideas of other important critics.

The role of an isolated piece of writing on some topic is not to provide a summary of the ideas ("the last two hundred years of economic, political and sociological critiques") on the topic -- that's just what you do for a bad academic paper.

Its role is to showcase the ideas of the author in a clear light and within his frame of thinking.

>But it takes a certain kind of "pseudo"-something to think that this kinda hackney "thought-lite" material should be delivered at a major conference (Defcon 2005).

Then again, it also takes a certain kind of pseudo-something to value Defcon as a venue for intellectual thought, as opposed to a mostly technical conference and get-together.
Still hate the name 'Rust'
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The Nazis never won over a third of the vote in an open multi party election in Germany. The insider establishment parties chose to hand power over to the Nazis rather than allow reformers or Communists to threaten entrenched wealth and monopoly power.