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Federal funding is no longer tied to speed enforcement. Highway speed limits are set artificially low because it's convenient and profitable for the police. (Given that statistics do not reliably support the usual contention that higher speed limits are more dangerous, the burden of proof falls on those who would argue otherwise.)

Maybe you're not speeding, but rest assured, there's some other attribute of your driving or your car's condition that will allow law enforcement to pull you over if they want. This isn't a coincidence. For better or worse, the police will tell you that they catch a lot of genuine bad actors this way.

It's not that they want to be able to stop everyone... it's that they want to be able to stop anyone.
Agree completely based on my own limited observations. This emphasis on scaling up (with risk seen as a necessity), combined with an attractive definition of 'entrepreneur' vs 'small business owner' [1], cause people to forget that value can be unlocked in so many more ways. Trading your time for an income could work well for many even if it does not scale or fit the definition of 'entrepreneurship'.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092514/entrep...
Here is another idea based on audio, which doesn't require any aspect of audio to be sent to the network.

1. The phone is equipped with a public/private key.

2. Authentication begins when the client side of the application running on the PC or other device ("authenticating device" or AD) receives a message from the network informing it of the phone's public key, and a challenge token. The AD's goal is to obtain a signed version of that same token from the phone.

3. The phone also receives a message containing the token. A handler on the phone recognizes the message and kicks into action. It retrieves the private key, signs the token, and emits audio representing the signature.

4. The authentication module on AD is listening for this audio, and decodes it. Then it uses the public key to verify the signature against the token. If the signature matches, it declares to the application that the phone is present in the room.

Simpler version, without cumbersome crypto:

1. The phone and AD receive a numeric code.

2. The phone converts the numeric code to a short sequence of musical tones. These are played out the speaker.

3. The AD hears the tones and recognizes the correct numeric code, declaring the phone to be present.

The downside is that the phone makes noise, which may not be acceptable in some circumstances. This can be mitigated by using a simple audio cable with 1/8" plugs from the phone's headset to the mic input on the PC.
Right, but you wouldn't want to do that anyway, because you can simply install Windows 10 directly and it will find your existing license online. As the article states, you will then need to call Microsoft to transfer the license to the new hardware in order to activate. (Something you would have had to do even if you'd stuck with Windows 7.)
The idea that you, as an unsophisticated investor, could ever be on par with the most sophisticated investors is a myth. Sophistication is there for a reason.
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I can understand there's an argument that the scope of the documents leaked is too broad and how someone could think trusting the selective publishing to journalists isn't good enough. I think Binney was arguing that it was the journalists responsibility not to publish materials out of scope.

That said, I suspect it's broad because it's hard to be selective internally without arousing suspicion and part of the leak was the scale of the operation itself - but that's not a great defense.

>If the problem was that he disagreed with the law, in the US, the way to change laws you disagree with is through the political process. Not by breaking them then demanding a pardon.

I think the core problem is actually deeper than this. When you have secret courts and secret interpretations of secret laws you don't have a process to change them. Part of leak was to bring this into the public view - given the incentives, politics and the existing laws surrounding the sharing of classified information I don't see another way this could have been done. Mass surveillance should minimally be a public decision - the secrecy surrounding it is dangerous.
I don't get it. I can't recall a single piece of learning content from Oxford that didn't have the audio quality of a tin can phone. I sounds like an over-compression issue, but it is just made even worse by horrible audio in what seems like tiny little boxes that lectures are held in. Someone please point Oxford towards a course on audio recording.
I'd be curious to know if anything similar happens during meditation.

I often feel just as refreshed from meditating briefly as I do from a quick nap.
For a century, California has pioneered innovations that have changed the way we all live.

For probably over a century in fact. And California has pioneered environmental laws for decades as well, going back to about (or "at least"?) the 1960's.

Salt Dreams is a fascinating book about the history of water usage, the Colorado River and the Salton Sea going back hundreds of years, to before the existence of the Salton Sea. I also recently read a history of another water use district in the Central Valley. I cannot recall the name of that book, but the history of water usage and water law in California is rich and fascinating and a lot of pioneering things have happened out here.
Ok, that is really slick. I really really hope this gets incorporated into phones.
Numpy, is that, but Numba is a general purpose JIT:

> Numba works by generating optimized machine code using the LLVM compiler infrastructure at import time, runtime, or statically (using the included pycc tool). Numba supports compilation of Python to run on either CPU or GPU hardware

http://numba.pydata.org/
Get/Join/App vs. .CO domains
PG's post this week had me thinking about domains & company names. Let's say you want to start a company called "Unicorn". Obviously, you would love to own "Unicorn.com", however, the owner wants $100k+ and you don't have any funding yet.

What's the better option in your opinion?
GetUnicorn.com
JoinUnicorn.com
UnicornApp.com

OR

Unicorn.co
I was just about to write, "You don't look for cofounders. Cofounders happen white you're already on the journey."

Well put.
If we could accelerate the process and/or control duration and/or induce it at will it would have major implications even if we're unable to remove the need to sleep fully.
Something similar http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/
Because there's no source cited for the information and it's provided in editorial journalism.

What's described is a large polluted source of water and presumably it's being filtered with microscopic screen filters. While I'm sure if I were aware of the engineering behind it, that I would agree that it was potable and sanitary, just reading it sounds kind of iffy.
96-bit keys??? Even in 2012 when VW released the feature, 96 bits was laughably weak.
runit is what the Phusion Docker base image http://phusion.github.io/baseimage-docker/ is using, and it's the perfect tool to start and supervise containerized apps.
I also love the fact that it can wait for a service to run (in order to wait for dependencies), and that stuck services can be restarted in a more radical way than a single TERM signal.
The http://www.startupsfortherestofus.com podcast is quite good. Rob also has a blog: http://www.softwarebyrob.com
Highlighting mine...

Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That
includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a
sentence, the answer might be: ***anything that gratifies one's
intellectual curiosity***.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless
they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of
pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. ***If they'd cover it
on TV news, it's probably off-topic.***

It's a fine line, but I think it's a good line. For example, the news aspect isn't really appropriate for Hacker News, but the cause may be (in this case, it sounds like the chemistry is very much of intellectual interest [1]), as may be methods for identifying, recording, and sharing aspects of the explosion (e.g. "quantum dot spectrometers" [2], the OP, and the "synced-up version" of recordings[3]).

All links point to other parts of this discussion:

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062226

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062399

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10062300

Edited in attempt to improve readability.
Did the upgrade, and it seemed to go ok, but now the pw command is really slow (around 1 minute to complete). This might be a bit of fun figuring out.
Or one conclude from this statement's release that an acquirer could not be found. That comment could be just a last ditch attempt.
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Very late on this, sorry.

I'm curious to see if you expect to get 7 years life on a LiFePO4 in hot states. I just measured the battery temp (at the terminal) on my truck, it was 163 ºF. Road surface temp is 155 ºF.

This is quite common, everyday summer stuff here in Texas.

It seems very unlikely that you can hold a LiFePO4 at 100% state of charge in a temperature environment like this and still get anywhere near 7 years of life.

Are you doing something like using a 20 A-H battery, charged to 70% SOC or something, to deal with high-heat/high SOC degradation?
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My friends and I were up late on a road trip once. We started to argue about how long it would take someone to die from lack of sleep.

Initially, I held the position that sleep was probably more important than eating food, and that you would die from sleep deprivation before you died from starvation. We looked it up, and learned about a disease called fatal familial insomnia. A mutated protein causes the onset of permanent insomnia, and there is no cure.
It affects about 100 individuals worldwide. [1]

The average life expectancy of a patient is 18 months after the onset of symptoms. The first 9 months is a worsening case of insomnia, where the patient will experience paranoia, panic attacks, and hallucinations. Sleeping pills and barbiturates have been shown to worsen the clinical manifestations and hasten the onset of the disease. The individual then becomes completely unable to sleep, and will enter a state of dementia before becoming completely mute and unresponsive. This second state of permanent insomnia lasts for 9 months.

So ultimately, we learned that you can go for 9 months without sleeping before you die. I'm not sure at what point you'll suffer irreversible brain damage, but that was an interesting finding for me nonetheless.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatal_familial_insomnia
Knowing what you do of neuroscience and caffeine, do you personally consume caffeine? Do you think it is a "Bad Thing" to drink coffee?
Wow, that's gorgeous. Except for the last shot of the jumble of cables, which made me cringe. But the rest, nice.
The netmap framework now also runs on Windows
Please don't stop looking for a cofounder. It's true that all it additionally takes to be a solo-founder is self-discipline, but as a human being you are psychologically and emotionally unequipped to deal with this. Let me explain...

On History, there's a self-filmed TV show about 10 survivalist dropped off separately on Vancouver Island competing for $0.5M to be the last standing. The show is fantastic, not for the impressive survival skills, but for the human psychology. The show is called "Alone," and I'm fairly certain they (re)named the show after filming. What you witness over the course of just weeks, is nearly every wilderness expert abruptly losing their will to go on because there is nobody to share it with. They openly acknowledge that they have what it takes to continue, and were originally okay with being away from their family indefinitely, but they all just completely lose their desire and interest in winning or continuing because they are so alone.

In short, isolation doesn't just make it more difficult for you to achieve your goals, it rips the desire to achieve them from your psyche altogether! This is empirically shown and self evident in numerous aspects of society: solitary confinement being classified as torture, team dynamics, mentors, pair bonding, tribalism, etc... It's also why YC (mostly) doesn't accept solo-founders, as well as many other respected VCs.

[1] http://www.history.com/shows/alone/about
Gas station employees in New Jersey (where it is illegal for you to fill up your own tank)

Doctors in New York, where it is illegal (!) for you to request a medical test, only for a doctor on your behalf - and the results go only to him (not sure if he is allowed to refuse to show them to you - but I suspect he is).

Most HOAs in the US, those in Texas being especially egregious.

Car Dealerships in states where you must go through them (Tesla has been fighting this; consider the absurdity in that Tesla is allowed to ship you a car from another state, but not sell it in that state).

Various government agencies I will not name so that I don't get on their [s]hitlist.
You build a few skyscrapers on very valuable land and then what? The area gets even more popular, congestion gets worse further decreasing the viable area in terms of commuting, some of those people would want to start companies close to where they live and now there's even more demand for that area.

For most cities around the world, throughout history, this has their definition of success. Cities grow and change, and deal with the complications of that growth, or they stagnate and decline as economic development moves elsewhere.

Paris and London built new high-rise business districts in their suburbs to protect their historic urban cores. This can help relieve demand pressure that otherwise can't be satisfied in a city largely protected from development by regulation. The application to the Bay Area, however, would be to protect San Fransisco by building high rises in places considered less architecturally and historically significant - like trailer parks in Palo Alto.
perhaps i am missing something, but it looks like this just highlights two very common and easy to define types of error. how much practical value is there in this? Has this not been done before?
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As someone who has been stressing over “needing a cofounder” lately, this is an encouraging and timely post.

However, I dislike the phrasing here:

> a 100% owner requires half the earning power of 50/50 partners–that gives him a huge advantage.

…which assumes the founder is going to be a man.
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?snr=1_4_4__12&term=#so...

1395 it says, but i could be searching incorrectly. My main point though is that I don't want to miss any of them, so I run whatever I want instead of limiting myself to one platform for ideological reasons. I love Linux, but just not for games and desktop stuff.
The cited engineer's LinkedIn page[0] says that he worked for Lit Motors[1] through Jan 2015, then nothing - which seems to square with my mental model of Apple. The Lit Motors part piqued my interest since I'm a pre-orderer for their awesome looking self-balancing enclosed motorcycle/vehicle. He even went to the same university as I did, although for very different degrees.

0 = https://www.linkedin.com/pub/frank-fearon/16/687/3a0
1 = http://litmotors.com
That's a great point, good IT would definitely help. But it doesn't seem like we're making any real movement towards replacing the current bureaucratic mess with well-designed systems. Then again, I didn't know there were alternatives to the DMV until this very moment.
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Hey, Convox cofounder Matt here. Great questions!

1) You can update your Convox rack and cli using the cli. `convox update && convox system update`. http://docs.convox.com/docs/updating-convox/

2) We're working on an RDS provisioning service today and hope to release something this weekend. We're also in early talks with other addon (we call them "services") providers. For now if you want to use one of these services you can connect to them using environment variables. http://docs.convox.com/docs/environment-variables/

3) Our RDS service will eventually handle backups and recovery, but those features aren't implemented yet. We're also exploring partnering with other hosted database services that already have these features.

4) Convox is open source https://github.com/convox and totally free. You can use it however you want and you only have to pay for the AWS expenses. We're also experimenting with managed hosting, which we'll charge a small premium for, so please let me know if you're interested in that.
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I'd happily help foot the bill.

So how much is that 1000 mile journey going to cost?

1000/44.94.4561.119= where's my calculator?
Check the statistics which show reductions of 30-40% in many communities. These savings are achieved by people making dramatic changes.

https://www.calwater.com/latest_news/july-conservation-progr...
If a republican is elected, ed might stay away from the US for a long time.
Reddit's response:

> Here’s the full statement from Reddit, posted to r/ChillingEffects, about the ban:

> This week, Reddit received valid legal requests from Germany and Russia requesting the takedown of content that violated local law. As a result, /r/watchpeopledie was blocked from German IPs, and a post in /r/rudrugs was blocked from Russian IP’s in order to preserve the existence of reddit in those regions. We want to ensure our services are available to users everywhere, but if we receive a valid request from an authorised entity, we reserve the right to restrict content in a particular country. We will work to find ways to make this process more transparent and streamlined as Reddit continues to grow globally.

So pretty much any country can now get reddit to ban any sub that they think violates local law...
This wasn't a bad list. However, one factor I'd consider is the individual role's role and options.

For instance, I've read (I think it was in "Fast food nation") that factory farms in the US are often staffed by people who are not legally permitted to work or reside in the US and who are at constant risk. They generally don't have much education or options, and have no recourse if they are mistreated on the job or denied pay. I'd also be disinclined to hold a burger flipper at macky d's responsible for, well, macky d's.

A patent troll, on the other hand, is a well educated person, almost certainly a US citizen or someone with legal rights and options, who had every opportunity to choose a different path in life, and indeed still does.

By the way, there's this job where you collect vast amounts of personal information about people, who may be unaware or only semi-aware of what is being collected, and then using sophisticated machine learning to get them to click on ads... where does that fall in the spectrum of harmful jobs?
> Any manufacturing component which cannot easily be adjusted to a slightly different measurement is poorly designed, in my opinion.

Imagine all of the parts in a car engine. Everything fits together perfectly. Engine mounts line up in the right places. It all has to be very precise.

Now imagine you take all those parts and round them off a bit. Nothing much, just a mm here and there. If you try to put the engine together with these parts, it's not going to work at all.

Also consider that you can't just simply convert the units. Take a 5/16" socket wrench for example. Nobody makes a 7.9375mm socket wrench.
Size of a void* is two bytes? really?
Having sat in on a BUG meeting where this was discussed by one of the devs responsible, I believe it was basically "UTF-8 won, it's time to not pretend otherwise, we're going to move forward with this."
Ah sneaky if a highly unfair to the people taking a paycut to work for their country.
Small things add up over time.

Also, it is hard to just jump in and make huge changes. Keep making small changes, eventually you will fall into something bigger.
One correction: MMI doesn't list all the registered keys, but it does track them (e.g., you just see the total number registered). I know that dealers can un-register, and I know they're unique.

http://pixady.com/image/6ds
It's not just true for security, but also to some extent for usability.

At ZeroTier we develop our core network virtualization engine with a very strict philosophy about settings and features:

* Any setting a user must adjust or manage to make things work is a bug. Everything must work instantly and reliably in any minimally functional environment, and installation must be single-step.

* Optional settings are suspect. They should be computed if possible.

* The best features are invisible.

* Any visible feature is suspect, especially if it's a special-case, workaround, or legacy support hack. A visible feature should only be added if an invisible feature or systematic fix eliminating its need cannot be found.

Simplicity is harder than complexity and minimalism indicates a more advanced design. A longer feature list indicates an inferior product.
Indeed. I wish they'd tell us what that new venture is so we can know to avoid it as well. Some of these announcements read like parodies ("incredible journey", yada yada)
Greenwald couldn't figure out how to use PGP on his own and then frequently communicated via CryptoCat. His OpSec skills at the time of the leak were questionable at best.
Pat Flynn’s site and podcast: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/
>The rule of law should apply to everyone equally

Then start with the little incident that happened around 2008 that did far more damage to the average American. Also, hasn't Obama admitted to smoking pot? He is currently in a far greater position to damage the US and should be thoroughly punished for his crimes. What about Clinton and her emails? And if I started listing the skeletons in the closet of Congress we would be here for weeks.

Rule of law has ALWAYS been selectively applied.
First of all, stop conflating HFT with other, actually useful, forms of algorithmic trading.

Secondly, when an HFT sells out their inventory (which is the most typical response to vol), they consume liquidity on their way out. If they held the inventory what you said would be true, but they don't.

Third, the idea of strong incentives for HFTs in the case of high vol sounds true, but isn't. HFTs flee because their models don't cover the fat tail scenarios and/or there's the concern that they'll get on the wrong side of a broken trade. Some non-HFT algos do this, but HFT basically doesn't. You're trying to steal credit from actually useful people here.

"But the same was true of human market makers of the past..."

This is my favorite part of your rant. You admit that you were lying, but then pretend it's fine because 30 years ago markets were also filled with sociopaths.

Today's real market makers are mostly algorithmic, but they're distinctly not HFT.

> This is an often repeated claim, but things do not become true by repetition.

And yet there you are, repeating lies again and again...

I guess I'd lie too, if the truth meant that my entire career was dedicated to something that is a net negative to society; if it meant admitting that my entire existence consisted of finding ways to capture value that other (better) people created.

Yeah... I'd lie too if I was you.
"Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting"
This is really useful. In my case, I usually have music playing in my browser and this allows me to quickly mute it while I watch a video.
I just whish it wouldn't switch tabs when unmuting.

Asynchronous call stacks sound promising as well :)
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