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// Run this script to check our files for type errors
// using our existing tsconfig.json settings
//
// Usage: node typecheck.js
//

const fs = require('fs')
const stripJsonComments = require('strip-json-comments')
const tsConfig = JSON.parse(stripJsonComments(fs.readFileSync('./tsconfig.json', 'utf8')))
const { exec } = require('child_process')

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git add . vs git add -A

Both of these will stage all files, including new files (which git commit -a misses) and deleted files.

The difference is that git add -A also stages files in higher directories that still belong to the same git repository. Here's an example:

/my-repo
  .git/
 subfolder/

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Proof-of-Vote: A Simple Cryptosystem for Secure Internet Voting

by David Ernst, www.liquid.us

A method to democratically vote online, that provably ensures to the individual voter that their vote was cast and counted correctly, without tampering, while still protecting their vote privacy.

Note: This is designed for our issue-based liquid democracy platform, not traditional elections.

Goals:

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$camphor300:'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function getSpreadsheetData(sheetName) {
  // This function gives you an array of objects modeling a worksheet's tabular data, where the first items — column headers — become the property names.
  var arrayOfArrays = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSpreadsheet().getSheetByName(sheetName || 'Sheet1').getDataRange().getValues();
  var headers = arrayOfArrays.shift();
  return arrayOfArrays.map(function (row) {
    return row.reduce(function (memo, value, index) {
      if (value) {
        memo[headers[index]] = value;
      }
      return memo;

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var swap = function (array, pos1, pos2) {
  var temp = array[pos1];
  array[pos1] = array[pos2];
  array[pos2] = temp;
};

var heapsPermute = function (array, output, n) {
  n = n || array.length; // set n default to array.length
  if (n === 1) {
    output(array);

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How to arrange a complex linked list?

Given a singly linked list like this:

[
  {
    uid: 'a',
    full_name: 'Angela Augustine',
 next: 'c',

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Goal: An algorithm to calculate an elected legislator's "Representation Score".

Legislative agenda

We have a set of legislative bills, uniquely identified with keys like "2016-11-01-160553" or "2017-03-07-170089", that are the agenda items of a jurisdiction's legislature.

The set grows by 40 bills per week on average. As of 2017-03-12, it has 602 elements.

Each bill has a 1-week window in which it can be voted upon by the citizens in the jurisdiction via the Liquid platform.

Voter registration

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function getCityByZip(zip) {
  fetch(`https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=${zip}`)
    .then(response => response.json())
    .then(response => response.results[0].formatted_address)
    .then(console.log)
}

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ApprovalVotingForPresident.com

What is Approval Voting?

This is how we do it now:

This is how we could be doing it: