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I have yet to see one of these bills accompanied by legislation intended to help people without IDs get them.

I have just googled it and, apparently, it's a constitutional requirement to issue IDs at no cost if they're required to vote. Arkansas for example is waiting with the implementation of their voting ID law precisely for that reason.

The new law won't take effect until January or when funding is available for the state to provide free photo IDs required under the law, whichever is later.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013/jun/19/panel-reviewi...
I apologize if it came off this way. I actually allocate blame 50% to him and 50% to the people that do this sort of thing. This is a circular problem to me. Some people seem quick to be angry about things and they lash out at people. Then the people being lashed are like "These people are CRAZY. I'd better steer clear of them." The ones lashing out may have been on the receiving end of something *ist and read into things that people say/do. This issue seems to be feeding itself. What it comes down to is this: Everyone needs to stop judging everyone based on the actions of a few people who make great waves. The tech industry isn't the only place this could be beneficial, either.

WRT calling him out on his behavior, all I was trying to say is that I disagree and wish he would consider changing his mentality going forward. I'm not mad at him for it, I'm sad that the actions of a few have caused him to think this. At the same time I was hoping to imply that I won't twist his arm because I see where he's coming from. No malice intended!
As I said: really not my area of expertise.

The point is that at multiple levels, biological functions are operating at the molecular and/or atomic level. The ATP/ADP reaction is another that comes to mind, though it's an energetic transformation involving cleaving/joining of a single atom from a molecule.

As for proofing methods: sometimes a transcription is in error. What then? The problem may be caught further upline: a protein is synthesized incorrectly and destroyed, a cell behaves improperly and the body's immune responses remove it, an imperfect embryo is formed and is reabsorbed or stillborn.

None of which denies the fundamental fact that biological processes occurring at the molecular/atomic level are in fact commonplace.
Socket.io used to be good, but it is littered with bugs and has been promising 1.0 for nearly 2 years without a single update. We switched to SockJS a few months ago and haven't looked back.
Jacob Applebaum at 30C3: To Protect And Infect, Part 2
Long Distance Quantum Communication

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2013/30C3_-_5536_-_en_-_...
A new Microsoft programming language that may be open-sourced
If you are a US citizen who continuously gets refused reentry at the border, what would happen if you snuck across?

Presumably once you were across the border you would have rights again and could not be removed from the US. I imagine you would be arrested, but at least you would be officially back in the system, right?
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The big problem with most (all?) in-browser cryptography is you still need to trust the server. If you have to trust the server what is the value of doing crypto on the client side. You may as well do crypto on the server side and communicate between the server and the client using SSL.
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Most polling places are staffed by locals and will often recognize someone trying to commit fraud. If the person who you are trying to impersonate also votes, it will also trigger an event. Worst case you show up to vote after someone has already voted, you trigger this event and get busted.

Theoretically the only people you could safely impersonate would be dead and un-likely to be known to the pollster. Even if you found that, how many times could you vote? You'd risk someone recognizing you the second time, so you'd have to try and visit multiple polling places.

The most likely place for fraud to occur would be after the vote takes place: either in the counting system, or tampering with the votes. There is not much chance of changing enough votes simple by showing up and casting a physical ballot, unless you have a high enough number of people doing it (and somehow not getting caught and triggering an investigation).
I just wanted to thank you for this fantastic comment. Security history is fascinating, and this provides a ton of new material for me to osmose. Do you have any more reading recommendations? I've been wanting to research the WW2 period up through the end of the cold war in particular.
God, I wish... Non-TSA plane every single time. Suddenly it would almost be like riding the train, which is wonderful.
Seconded. I had to delegate the production of cover art for my recent novel, as I could not even pretend to overestimate my art skills. Even then, I managed to let a major error (likely a failure of instruction) get through, which will require one more editorial task for me.
Every place I've been to vote, the election workers had a printed list of people who could vote and would highlight their names once they voted. It's in plain view and it would be easy to read the names and find one to use while waiting in line to get your ballet.
I've found @jacobian's statement on the matter [1] eminently reasonable and even-handed.

As for the trifecta, I can't help you out on "lynch mob", I'm afraid, but how about this for McCarthyism?

"The [tech industry] is infested with [sexists]. I have here in my hand [2] a list of [102] -- a list of [user]names that were made known to the [Github administrators] as being members of the [sexist majority] and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the [tech industry]." [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/jacobian/status/417776560603549696

[2] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a3j7b1R...

(This link points to Google's cache of @ashedryden's tweet, because the tweet as originally hosted on Twitter has been deleted since I saw it last. I hope you'll agree that Google's cache is an acceptably authoritative source for what used to be hosted at that Twitter URL. The replies are more interesting than the original tweet, anyway.)

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy#Wheeling_speech
Hint: The world makes more sense when you stop trying to force it into a "left vs right" model.
I invite you to try and get one of those free IDs, which are often accompanied by a demand for documentation that, again, the underprivileged are likely to have trouble getting, if it even exists. This is assuming the DMV office doesn't play dumb and deny any knowledge of their obligations.

There is a distinction between constitutional requirements and what happens in practice. I don't know where you're from, maybe there is stricter enforcement of rights there, but here in the US, on the ground, rights are regularly violated with impunity by local officials.
What is the motivation of twister over bitmessage + namecoin. Namecoin is already a decentralized authorization/registration crypto network and bitmessage is a POW based P2P messaging system. The use of DHT seems novel, and it may be interesting to see if the bitmessage community had a reason not to use it.

I'm not trying to attack the idea. I just want to understand what novel work is being done here. Cheers.
I'm not too familiar on this issue, but how does requiring ID disenfranchise minorities and the poor? Don't they already have IDs?
They would be a laughingstock if they did implement a voice adjuster. It makes it appear that rampant sexism is such a problem that they have to implement protection against it.
I sometimes see sexist comments here

Me too. And I will downvote, comment, or both. The system isn't perfect, but there are people who are trying.
how it is usually done in the fulfillment industry is a scale that changes the track if it is off weight by more than a certain percent (think of how train tracks work). The problem here is tougher than just a toothpaste factory because you can have multiple items in one purchase order and you have to make sure all items are in the box. Stopping the entire line every time something is off with 1 package is never a good solution. With pushing the packages into a 'problem' pile, someone can figure out what is wrong with each one and get things moving again on their own schedule.
Driving a car. Renting a car. Staying in a hotel room. Flying on a plane. Opening a bank account.

Many, many things in life require having money. It's amazing how that's accepted as normal but somehow outrageous when voting is involved.
Reading the comments on Hacker News whenever someone brings up the issues with the Python 3 transition are horribly painful due to a systemic bias in that the people who care to read and talk about Python 3: they are mostly people who are in the 2% of people who apparently care enough to have upgraded already; everyone [edit: "here who is saying" was incorrect; "here who normally says" <- today the discussion has been much more balanced, which is really nice] "engh, its fine, I upgraded, I know tons of people who upgrade" are ignoring the actual statistics cited by this developer [maybe having these actual numbers changed the discussion, pushing out the people who just insist nothing is going wrong?] that show "no, you are wrong, you have a bunch of anecdotes because you know people like you and people like you actually wanted to upgrade for some extrinsic reason that your friends are more likely than the normal population to share with you". :(

If you cast a wider net, and talk to people at conferences that have nothing to do with fancy programming languages (and certainly not about Python itself), people aren't using Python 3, and the feelings about Python 3 are mostly "sarcastic bitterness" (where like, you bring up Python 3 and they kind of laugh a little like "yeah, no, obviously") surrounding the problem mentioned by this author that "for the last few years, for the average developer Python, the language, has not gotten better" while being told that upgrading is easy or somehow intrinsically valuable to them, which as this author points out comes across as the Python community just saying "fuck you" to their needs.
Funny, that's also the industry where my sister had to literally campaign to get the office porn collection off the walls when she became the first female trader at her company in 2008. I think if this 'over-sensitivity' that men in tech say they are suffering from actually exists in a large percentage of developers, then it's a healthy backlash from such behaviour as Wall St, and eventually we'll find an equilibrium.
>1.)The fact the female founders are asking for this, tells you that they don't feel on par with the way things are being done today.

How many are asking for this? Where are your stats?
Agreed. I might have spent the better part of three or four full work-days refactoring some code at work, but that was only after we spent a week of QA time and my own error-fixing time, all because I had not insisted on such refactoring in the first place. Never mind the time we will save going forward replacing in-browser tests with controller-level unit tests.
That piece was new to me, and very interesting! Thank you.
Not necessarily. If they don't drive or travel there's no reason for them to have state IDs, especially in rural areas.
No official gatekeepers, but there are certainly some things that can help/hurt you exponentially.

If Google drops you from search-results, game over!
If YC accepts you, game on!

Neither one of those are official gatekeepers, but they're something to be concerned about. I signed up with coinbase.com because I tend to trust companies that are YC-backed. The fact that they're in SF and I can walk right into their office on my lunch-break if my money disappears also helps.
> Many, many things in life require photo ID.

None of those things are fundamental rights of citizenship like voting.

> It's amazing how that's accepted as normal but somehow outrageous when voting is involved.

It is, poll tax issue aside, a method which presumes ineligibility and puts the burden on the citizen to prove their eligibility (which most state ID schemes, given their documentation requirements, would be as voting prerequisites even if the costs were waived.)
PEP8 revised the 79 char recommendation to 99: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/#maximum-line-length

It still doesn't agree with you about spaces vs. tabs though.
No, millions do not. And even those that do often have to contend with issues like name changes from marriage, or just forgetting to renew them (you usually get reminders in the mail, but we're talking about people who may not even have a fixed address).

Even where IDs can be gotten "free", the states with voter ID requirements are also the states likely to demand proof of identity and citizenship that are difficult or impossible for many citizens to meet.
This might sound glib, but it is a big part of the kernel of Constitutional scholarship; Ely's _Democracy and Distrust_ goes into detail about substantive versus procedural due process and how the core of the effort is to "preserve the channels of democracy". In other words, Constitutional Law's most important job is to be a referee, to ensure that the political process isn't abused to lock groups of people out and, in doing so, to preserve injustices.

Restrictions that obstruct the channels of democracy should have an especially high burden of necessity to clear.
> If you want to be really good at programming, you have to love it for itself.

It is difficult not to love things that you've discovered for yourself and learned to do as a kid. So the following:

> If someone was going to be really good at programming they would have found it on their own.

while not required, could be just an 'often encountered' case.
Would it be fair to conclude that any setup that requires ID is a suppression scheme? I.e., if ID is required for travel - is it a travel rights suppression scheme? If the ID is required for real estate ownership - that is a real estate ownership suppression scheme? If the ID is required to own a firearm - is it a firearm ownership suppression scheme?

Note I'm not asking if IDs were used in the past to suppress votes - I'm sure there were cases where that happened. What you're claiming is that ID requirement and voter suppression is the same, which is much stronger claim. So what I am asking is this ID requirement that makes it suppression or how one can distinguish suppression ones from non-suppression ones?
While we wait, lets make all sites we control ourselves use HTTPS. Change this line in the script:

ga.src = ('https:' == document.location.protocol ? 'https://ssl' : 'http://www') + '.google-analytics.com/ga.js';

To this:

ga.src = 'https://ssl.google-analytics.com/ga.js';
Erm, wow. Mind blown, even if post-Telegraph the reflex is to assume the crypto is somehow broken.

I guess we're starting to see bitcoin acting as a source of inspiration for others with increasingly amazing results. Namecoin is obviously the main project in that category, but I wonder what other applications of these concepts will emerge.
not sure why i can't reply to ars_technician, but fwiw sexism is a problem that we need protections against.
Will we ever see the iPad Air's processor in a Mac?
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This doesn't have to be about assumption of guilt, as it's not a binary "person X is or is not sexist/racist/ageist/whateverist" distinction.

We all have some biases, and taking reasonable efforts to mitigate them has worked very well in other fields, the typical example being the screen for orchestra auditions.
Torvalds didn't put the "or any later version" clause in the Kernel's GPL license. And he hasn't required copyright assignments. Because of this, the kernel simply can't be converted to GPLv3. You would never be able to contact all the individual copyright holders and have them agree with complete consensus to re-licensing.
Your comments on school history etc are completely valid in the context of inference.

I'd like to think that we could genuinely make a fairly well balanced system for meritocratic selection. Yes, it's a lot of work and there is always room for error however I'd like to think that ultimately the STEM industry favours these kinds of methods and they could be improved on so we'd see some kind of futuristic system that we saw in the Starship Troopers narrative (as a crazy example that in the movie at least, no-one complained about). Maybe we just need a ton more data to be able to make better predictions. But I also think that face-to-face interviews are ultimately needed as others have mentioned: cultural fit is important to a degree as well.

On that note it reminds me of the Declara article I read (about the founder Ramona Pierson), where data is working to pair relevant people.

https://www.declara.com
> Owning a gun does not contribute to suicide.

The statistics suggest that you are incorrect. Harvard, the National Institutes of Health, and the Israeli Defense Forces all have studies that point to gun ownership actually increasing suicide risk.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/03/suicides-vs-handgun-...

EDIT: Furthermore, the argument that guns don't kill people is intellectually lazy. Guns are designed to kill things. That is their only purpose. Period.
It’s extremely frustrating to have your words rearranged, edited and taken out of context to make it seem like you’re saying something you aren’t.

This is absolutely absurd, coming from Arrington, who twisted Jamie Zawinski's words from an anti-crazy-work-hours rant into rallying cry for gullible programmers to "work hard, cry less, and make history":

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
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By taking the picture with a cellphone that is kept with you at all times

... wait a minute, I remember seeing this earlier...

Border areas can be especially dangerous, as authorities can confiscate a laptop or cell phone
I was not focusing on your post. My point is geared towards the parent comment, and not yours. Not looking to argue. We both share the same view.
Do you not think someone would spot them sawing the door open? Also keep in mind that pilots are FLYING THE AIRPLANE. They can just start to do maneuvers that would make it impossible for attackers to even stay at the cockpit door, let alone take it apart.
I don't think the people responsible really care about gender equality. If they did then they would have checked their facts,

I think that kind of is No True Scotsman, because it's an unreasonable conflation of two attributes ('really caring about x' and 'being careful with sourcing in debate/arguments'). I know lots of people who care deeply about various causes but are terrible about research, sourcing and verification in general. And some people might care deeply about a cause but do damage to it by being involved (deeply unpleasant so that nobody wants to work with them and the volunteer group falls apart, that kind of thing). Level of caring is not, in my opinion, strongly correlated with a person's value as an advocate :)
As you said, victim blaming. It isn't just feeling awkward about things - there are consequences both psychologically, financially, and physically being an outcast. Being uncomfortable with a place isn't something the person can fix themselves - they neither have the power nor the ability to do so.

Diversity begets diversity. The only way to do that is to set up systems and infrastructure that supports and enables that and it requires support from community leaders.
> not all eligible voters have IDs or have access to obtain them

In Northern Ireland, a country which traditionally suffered from electoral 'problems', people without ID can now apply for a free Electoral Identity Card as part of the electoral registration process.

A photo is required, but if applying in person then no other identity documents are required to obtain it.

It is useful in that it also gives them a first-step ID to open bank accounts and for domestic travel.
Most ATMs are in running on Windows 7 with PC hardware. The hardware is probably custom made but still very similar to what you would find in a desktop.

As far the network, you cant access ATMs from the Internet at least in the US. Most of the providers have leased lines to a central server somewhere and then leased lines to whatever 3rd parties they talk to. US banks arent too crazy on letting people remotely service ATMs that are having software problems.
And you think you would survive by doing nothing and letting them take control of the cockpit?
For starters, I'd probably use this over Bitmessage for the easier to use UI alone. This one also seems to be a little more focused on public messages, too. It looks like a fully decentralized version of Twitter, which could be more appealing to some people.
Sure, you could maybe read a name...and then you have to show up later in front of the same election worker who checked you in earlier. Don't you think they'd recognize you?

When I vote, I have to make eye contact and speak with four different poll workers. The odds that I could vote several times without any of them noticing are very low. The odds that a bunch of people could each vote many times over without any of the poll workers noticing are zero.
> not all eligible voters have IDs or have access to obtain them.

Not all eligible voters have IDs that satisfy the new rules. We always had to identify ourselves. My first vote was cast without a driver's license and I used (IIRC) some documents (school registration, student ID, birth certificate, not sure the combination) that satisfied the requirements at the time. I may have used my military dependent ID (a federal gov't issued photo ID). The majority of my classmates probably had driver's licenses, but there was a significant minority in the same boat I was.
Or, we're concerned about being misinterpreted and that misinterpretation being escalated instead of discussed with us so we can clear it up. But yeah, it's easier to just label us as sexists that like to joke about rape, right?
The agents are IQ 100. I'm IQ 145. I'm as much smarter than the cops and doctors as the cops are smarter than the stupid guy.

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> I can give such examples for any commercial vendor and in terms of breaking compatibility, there are a few examples in FOSS land as well

But that wouldn't have the same emotional appeal as MS ;)
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I subscribe to Nathan's emails (some of the only emails I read regularly, they're that good and useful btw)and was really happy to read he had such a successful year. But I was also saddened to see that he admitted to not having as much money in his bank accounts as he had hoped or planned. He mentions that taxes were huge, but being employed rather than self-employed myself, is he paying that much more in taxes than he would be if was just a salaried employee at a regular company?
The set of people who do not have and/or will have trouble getting IDs has little if any overlap with the set of people who travel by air, purchase real estate, or lawfully purchase firearms.