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If Lessig were to step down and hand power over
to the vice president, then couldn't the vice
president freely appoint a new cabinet?

Lessig would have to govern until he finished enacting his agenda. That could take years. Plus, selecting a good cabinet would off-load distractions from him, allowing him to focus more on his core objectives.

Even if we got stuck with a crappy cabinet for
four years, it would be survivable

A "survivable" term isn't the threshold I personally use when voting for candidates. :)
See also the `pv` program: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
As an venture investor, I would prefer my startup CEO's to be nice. Easier to manipulate nice.

As an entrepreneur, I've seen many situations where investors dump the founder, all nice and reasonable while they stick the knife.

There's room at the top they're telling you still
But first you must learn how to smile as you kill
If you want to be like the folks on the hill
- Working Class Hero, John Lennon

In my experience, most people are nice. But be on guard, and remember that execution and results trump everything.
Governments play a trump card: the known devil is better than the unknown one. Sunk cost, you know.
Lessig is the embodiment of the great ignorance that a lot of people in tech have for politics. This comment is going to come off as nothing more than an ad hominem, but it would take multiple paragraphs to fully explain everything that is misguided about this plan.
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I agree a fair amount with the bashing. And I recall historical commentary similar.

That said, the two hangups for me on windows are -

254 character path limit
no posix compliance (lack of a shim library even) -- there used to be a posix compliant set of libs that were optional under NT

That said, outside the scope of the rant, Windows has been really good at keeping backwards compatibility. (See issue w/ 254 char path limit).
"One piece of evidence that preregistration can act as a strong corrective comes from clinicaltrials.gov, a registry of publicly and privately funded clinical studies involving human subjects. Before 2000, when the site was established, 57 percent of large clinical trials funded by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute showed a significant benefit of drugs or other intervention, according to a recent analysis published in the journal PLOS One. After the registry was put in place, only 2 percent of such trials found a clear benefit."
Then please write the several paragraphs, else:

1. Your comment serves no purpose

2. I might be tempted to vote for the guy out of ignorance
Time for Latinos to leave
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There is
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/1160731...
When economics and government collide, economics always wins. So many people believe they can fight the immutable laws of economics, but alas, they always lose.
They had other ways to make money but Chavez ran the capitalists out of town so he could bask in the glory of his socialist paradise.
We've had the microkernel versus monolithic kernel debate _over_ and _over_. I'm not against research but I've yet to see a convincing argument that microkernels are better. If you decouple the logical bits of the kernel from each other all you'll get is greater impedance and message passing overhead. And for what? A "clean" architecture? Sometimes perfect is the enemy of the good, and I think that applies in this case. We've also got the tools to make monolithic kernel development scale now. Basically, I'll believe it when I see it.
What. the. actual. fuck.

Trips outside of NYC (aka the 'burbs) have the full street address listed. Those are addresses of people's single family homes, vs. the NYC addresses which tend to be multi-family dwellings.
Another government employee, another private account, another crashed hard drive
Larry Lessig, George Washington and all other figures are/were human beings like the rest of us; it's only other people which catapult them onto pedestals. I think we should take stock in the coming socio-political fight for social justice, which needs a strong and wise torchbearer, so that it does not devolve into a French Revolution, but instead an insurrection in the spirit of democracy's promise of continual revolution. Because without a equality functioning across-the-board, history has shown time-and-time-again, that people inevitably seek country justice if city justice doesn't work for them. (It's not "right," but it's human nature.)
>A "survivable" term isn't the criteria I personally use for choosing presidents. :)

That's fair enough, but I would counter that:

1. We've been settling for "survivable" terms for the past 10 years

2. Some people will take a hit for the greater good. I really wish you would be willing to do that too. That said, maybe you don't think Lessig's agenda would be serving the greater good, in which case I'd be interested in knowing why.
The idea we wouldn't build a logistics infrastructure and testing environment on the moon for any longer range venture is insane. Lack of aerobraking at the moon is more than offset by the fact that you don't have to accelerate to ludicrous speed to reach Mars in a reasonable amount of time; it's a softball pitch, energy wise. Landing people on the moon is "been there, done that"; on Mars it's all theory and speculation.
Begs the question, what brand and model of hard drive is being procured that is so unreliable? I don't want to buy them!
Swifter, yes. Better? I think that depends on the particular circumstance. For example: you look in your rear view mirror and notice an out of control cement truck half a block away heading directly towards you, plowing through vehicles in its path. Would a computer recognize the impending catastrophe and take the initiative, sideswiping a few vehicles in your way in an effort to get out of the situation?

I think it's safe to say that every day driving circumstances are already on par with what a human driver could achieve. It's the extenuating circumstances where a human can make the call of "my life is more important than property damage or even risking others lives" where I have my doubts. Those situations are obviously rare, but still quite important.
Looks like there have been some other elevator falling deaths:

http://listverse.com/2011/12/23/10-tragic-elevator-accidents...
'Terrible planning' ends up being 'too much planning'.

In the end, Venezuelans were certainly trying to 'have the right plan' and 'build a better Venezuela', but because of the complexity of the economy, they were not able to grasp the tiny details and failed on their mission.
The tone the turnstile makes when it successfully reads the card, and fails to read the card, are the same. Don't be blind!
Coming from an Erlang background, I found it very easy to get started with Elixir, it has the same underlying concepts and power as Erlang. Elixir takes it to the next level, though. The syntax eliminates annoyances in the Erlang system, e.g. having to fool around with punctuation and work with binary strings. The Elixir standard library gets rid of inconsistencies in the Erlang libraries and it is organized to allow easy chaining via the |> operator. Then it has features like protocols which give the encapsulation and polymorphism of OO without needing objects. And finally we have macros, which are the "right way" to do metaprogramming, allowing ease of use at a Rails level without the mess underneath.

Another big thing is that the Elixir community focuses on ease of use and out of box experience the way the Rails community did. So it's easy to get started and all the pieces generally fit together well, e.g. the mix build tool works great, as does the hex package manager, and relx release builder. With Erlang it's more DIY. We have recently converted a big Erlang project to use mix as the build tool, and it just eliminated a bunch of cruft. The interop between Elixir and Erlang is easy. So you get the best of both worlds, the ease of use of Elixir with the power of Erlang, with the highly mature runtime and libraries. And with Phoenix we get a web framework with world class ease of use.
By Geographics and Resources Venezuela could be a beautiful and thriving nation, unfortunately its future is not as pretty as its beaches.
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A screenshot in the readme of what it looks like would go a long way.
Manufacturers like HP and Lenovo don't only have the FCC to worry about upsetting. They have to worry about regulators in every other country, too. So they want to make sure their type approvals can't be breached.
What would happen if you used your own blank plastic magnetic card? Would it be more durable? Would the vending machines refuse to load your fare onto them?

(I imagine the MTA doesn't have enough money for upkeep, let alone upgrading the turnstiles with NFC readers.)
I assume you mean this part:

> Every time I wrote that Chavez was in fact direly mismanaging the economy, diverting investment funds that were needed to maintain oil output into social spending, I knew that I could look forward to receiving angry e-mails and comments accusing me of trying to sabotage his achievements for the benefit of my corporatist paymaster. And in fairness (though without minimizing his appalling authoritarianism), those policies undoubtedly did improve the lives of some incredibly poor people.

The problem here is that there's nothing to enlighten anyone not already in the know about who this "paymaster" is. As near as I can tell this is some libertarian journalist publishing an "I told you so" article ("This was predictable. Indeed, many people predicted it, including me [...]").

I assumed that the respondents were saying there was some big, obvious conflict of interest, like a stake in the money made off of their oil. However, Google could not enlighten me as to what that might be and her bio on Wikipedia only lists her working for media outlets, so I'm left in the dark here. I probably wouldn't ever read Bloomberg if it had not appeared on HN.
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Although there would seem to be practical scenarios where autonomous vehicles are much closer than in the general case. I can easily imagine that limited access highway driving with a competent/licensed operator not paying attention or actively steering could be such a relatively near-term scenario. Maybe you need radio beacons at construction zones, be in active cell communication range, weather within certain parameters. But definitely doable, and perhaps with an overall improvement in safety given that a tired or distracted driver drifting across a lane or plowing into the car ahead at high speed is a major source of accidents.

I'm not convinced that foregoing that in absence of robo-Uber (which I personally expect to be many decades out) is the optimal path.
...and they never learn.
We've had the microkernel versus monolithic kernel debate _over_ and _over_. I'm not against research but I've yet to see a convincing argument that microkernels are better.

Sure, if all you do is read Linus Torvalds ranting.

If you decouple the logical bits of the kernel from each other all you'll get is greater impedance and message passing overhead.

Debunked many times, as early as 1992 in fact: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.1...

Microkernels have come a long way since Mach.

And for what? A "clean" architecture?

You clearly have no idea what the advantages are.

Basically, I'll believe it when I see it.

You're seeing it in the billions of L4 deployments worldwide in wireless modem chipsets. You're seeing it in QNX being everywhere.

But then again, you might not see it, because you are willfully ignorant.
> 2. Documents are leaked (or evidence otherwise emerges) that the NSA collected data on virtually all of a particular company's calls. Subscribers to that service would probably have a good case for stanodding.

This already happened in 2007 I believe. AT&T and Verizon phone services were implicated, implying mass violations of the Telecomminications Act of 1998. Congress turned around and have the telecoms retroactive immunity.

Because "ignorance of the law is no excuse" only applies to you and me. Companies with millions of dollars worth of lawyers on retainer couldn't possibly have known that it was illegal.
I think his agenda is great. (I might quibble about things like ranked-choice versus approval voting, but that's immaterial for the moment.) I just think he's going to have to govern while trying to achieve that agenda, and I suspect he can do that successfully, so I'd like him to run for real rather than planning to quit after he's done.
So basically you're just betting at 99:1 odds?
Amen (and I'm an atheist). Two sources probably: I think people get acclimatized to the situation and fear big improvements because it involves change, and change is scary. And also, there is an amount of jealousy and resentment directed towards anyone whom may have a real shot at successfully fixing things because they won't get credit in history books. (This last one is also commonly experienced by anyone whom becomes much more successful in whatever they're doing. It sucks, but friends and peers fear being left behind.)
> Neither is usable by someone who isn't thoroughly familiar with their limitations and weird little idioms.

vs

> You can't learn programming from either Unix or Windows.

Really?

Reading this article is an exercise in Poe's Law.
as a long time fan on Taleb, this makes me smile.

take that you non believers!

edit: what. why the downvote. I made money betting market would fall as well.
1 billion minus a rediculous amount of theta and gamma during the entire bull run. Meh. Out of context link bait.
"Aging and death was part of the mitochondrial bargain."

Are you Nick Lane ? Or were you just reading Nick Lane ?

Please say you're Nick Lane ...
Well, I must admit that I don't have much more energy for this. But here are some final thoughts:

1. "United States" is, of course, a proper noun. That "States" in pluralized within it tells us nothing.

2. It is, in fact, very well established that the federal judicial power does not extend to suits between citizens of the same state that arise under federal law and, likewise, that "laws of the United States" refers to federal, and not state laws. This rule is as old as the United States itself: see Martin v. Hunter's Lessee,. http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-supreme-court/14/304.html. In fact, Alexander Hamilton discussed this in Federalist 80. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/fed80.asp Here is a fairly accurate overview: http://litigation.findlaw.com/legal-system/federal-vs-state-...

3. I had assumed it was clear that Article III only relates to the powers of the federal judiciary. State courts are totally unaffected by it. (This is, a result of the fact that Article III, by its terms, only vests powers in courts "of the United States" which, again, means "federal courts.") This means that, although federal courts cannot hear cases between citizens of the same state arising under state law, state courts still can and do. In fact, with a few exceptions, state court can hear all the cases that federal courts can, and then some.

But you will not be able to find a single case in the last 200 years where a U.S. federal court constituted under Article III (without later getting reversed on appeal) has ruled on the merits of a dispute between citizens of only one state, where the dispute involved only a question of state law. Guaranteed. (Though I'm intentionally being precise in my language here. Things do get tricky when there are multiple plaintiffs and defendants, multiple state and federal claims, etc. all in the same case. This gets into some of those nasty details: http://www.pavlacklawfirm.com/blog/2013/01/25/federal-divers...)
The paid membership component makes that tough to compare, but I've also heard they take good care of employees
> You can't learn programming from either Unix or Windows. You can learn it from other applications and from tons of books, but you can't learn it from the OS.

I grew up in an era of Windows 3.1+, so I'm probably showing my youth when I ask, how can you learn to program from an OS? Is this akin to compiling your own kernel from scratch and being forced to tinker with the kernel modules to get Linux 2.x to run on your 2015 laptop..?
Why should a trading strategy be "particularly sophisticated" ? I'd settle for terribly boring and profitable.
I might again, the show stopper bug was me attempting to repeatedly block a domain that would not remain blocked, and it was facebook related so the plugin got uninstalled.
The key is that a human can anticipate a dangerous situation and take mitigating action before a quick reaction is necessary. AI still has far to go before that sort of nuanced behavior can be replicated. Until then self driving cars will be like teenagers learning to drive. Sure they can get themselves from point A to B but I don't want to be near them while they do it.
The answer is pretty simple: we are desperately in need for more spectrum (at least in urban areas), licensed and unlicensed, for wireless internet traffic. And there really are no unused bands that can simply be reallocated for this purpose without dealing with the users already in the band.

Although airport RADARs sound like a poor choice of a service to share spectrum with, they have the benefit of being stationary, not very numerous, and typically located far from the urban cores where the spectrum is needed most.
You can say whatever you want to whomever you want, and you don't really have to worry about being bullied.

This is a complete load of shit and I can't imagine how stupid you have to be to think it's true other than being an apologist for 4chan. If you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you wouldn't just get "bullied", you'd be dog-piled by dozens of abusers all egging each other on, doxed, swatted, hounded IRL and anything else the rabble could come up with. That's what Gamergate was: this mob going over the top with how big a bullies they could be when you had the audacity to say the wrong thing, be the wrong gender, in the wrong place.
Then how is it he sank 8 million alone into armadillo?
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If they're extremely rare, then they're not important.

If you save X lives in every day driving circumstances at the cost of Y (Y << X) lives in bizarre rare circumstances, it's an easy, obvious win.
Those seem like procedural issues -- the sort of things that, if it were a technical proposal, I would write up in a detailed RFC or spec but not in the blog post. The campaign website is basically the blog post.

I'm obviously not Lessig, but those issues sound pretty straightforwardly solvable:

1. Allow your VP to appoint the cabinet members they want, and have them continue to run the executive branches as usual. Delegate everything other than the signature of bills from Congress to your VP: since the duties of the president are "decide whether" or "decide who" unless you're at war, delegation doesn't need a formal mechanism. Veto everything except the reform bills, then wait, like, two days for the Senate to realize they can't get 67 of themselves to agree on anything.

2. You want to vote for him because while you and I might be enthusiastic about Lessig as a person, the country is not. Lessig->Clinton is much more likely to win the Democratic nomination than Lessig/Kerr or whatever, and I'd rather have Lessig get to be president for a day than never.

3. Run with the future-VP's name on the ticket, and get a promise from your VP, during the campaign, to appoint them. Make that a condition of stepping down. Obviously the VP technically can lie until the day they become president, but if you have a president who's willing to lie that much to the country and the party, you have bigger problems.

3a. (You never had a direct voice anyway. If you wanted Obama but not Biden, or McCain without Palin, or Lincoln without Johnson, you never really had an effective choice in the matter. All you could do is vote for another ticket entirely. This isn't making the situation any worse.)
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Ask HN: Want to meet in Buenos Aires/Montevideo?
I'm a freelance developer spending September in Buenos Aires and would love to meet other hackers from the local tech community. I travel a lot and consult for clients all over the place so I'd love to get in contact with anyone looking for CTO-style architecture work, or just doing something interesting to discuss over a beer.
Yeah, but see, vfs doesn't count because... Uh, it uses macros, or something.

Hell, even the user land side is "OO". The same set of syscalls work on files, sockets (IPv4 and IPv6), pipes, etc. "needs more OO" is a pretty nebulous complaint about an OS.
When you think you'll win 2% of the time, those are good odds.
doctors were also under a great deal of suspicion 200 hundred years ago or so...the idea of the story of Frankenstein was taken from the fabric of the society of that day...most people did not trust doctors...anything new is under suspicion.
IMO the whole "metaphysics of quality" thing needs to be taken with a huge grain of salt. As you find out later in the book, he actually was diagnosed as schizophrenic (and went through electroshock therapy as a result), and it becomes pretty clear throughout the book that his whole thesis doesn't actually make any sense, and is more the ramblings of an insane person.

There's a few insights to be taken from the book but I largely agree with you that after reading it a few times, it's not worth the praise that it gets.
Also known as Sayre's Law (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law)
Just to rabble in agreement, one recompiles xmonad (typically with mod-q), where recompiling means loading one's entire xmonad.hs file. "Reloading a file," especially when that file is typically solely used for xmonad resources (and not for any object the user desires) is not nearly as programmable as a Smalltalk or an Oberon.
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I'm a bit surprised that this didn't exist before.
How many of those L4 deployments end up running 90% of their code in the "Linux" or "posix" process?
The difference between this and UBI is that these people have no time or opportunity to explore and possibly learn how to do something progressive. It's a gross waste of human potential.
"America" doesn't hate Latinos. Small groups of people will always hate any given thing you name. The same is true of wherever you're talking about going instead of America.

Suppose it's true that there are a lot of racists in America. Is voluntary self-segregation the answer?

What does your ideal world of the future look like? Is it one where ethnicity is not very important? Or is it one where ethnicity is very important, and is a major division between people?

Now: what kind of bricks are you putting in place to help build the world you want?
I'm purchasing a cat for a circumnavigation. Where could I have such a conversion done?
And this is why we can't have nice things.

I recommend that you tally up the revolutionary technologies produced over the last 30 years that allowed us to get to this point (including the web), and then consider how many of them could be invented on Mac OS or iOS today.
They just need a new Forum Software.
So they can be better. QNX is the one example I know of that is better. It's also the only microkernel that is actually micro. When I was looking at it the whole kernel, all of it, fit in a 4K instruction cache.

Most "micro"kernels aren't micro at all, they are bloated crapware. QNX was not like that, they actually had a micro kernel and it worked. I ran 4 developers on an 80286 (no VM) and it worked just fine. Far far better than the VAX 11/780 that had more memory and more CPU power. The VAX was running 4.1 BSD.
I'm suggesting, hypothetically, such a dump would be an on-going release of data rather than a one-time and ad-hoc dump.

Hypothetically there may be more facets of data not provided to cities, etc.
Ytalk reinvented bbadly.