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• Heat is a huge issue, so shaded parking spots or air conditioning become very important. A roof rack with solar panels or a storage bin help in a minor way, but any direct sunlight will quickly raise the interior temperature of the vehicle.

• Upgrade the battery system with a deep cycle battery and a voltage switch relay or a manual switch to prevent your 'house' electronics from draining the starter battery. A pure sine wave inverter is more expensive than a normal ('modifed sinewave') inverter but it's well worth it if you have any expensive electronic devices.

• Secure climate controlled storage units would seem like an option for your music/photography gear.

https://www.reddit.com/r/vandwellers
One way to get access to gym and shower is to sign up for a course at a university and pay a small extra fee.
> By the way, radiation exposure is cumulative throughout your lifetime. There is no safe minimum level of radiation exposure. How much radiation you get on a flight is irrelevant to the topic at hand.

It still doesn't matter; assuming the official values are correct within two orders of magnitude, those scans still get dwarfed by the natural background radiation you are exposed to every day.

Complaining about this, or expecting someone to get consent for such levels of radiation, is ridiculous (yes, there are very important reasons for which one should oppose those scans, but radiation is not one of them). It's just failure of thinking by refusing to do the math. By the same token, why should we allow you to increase risk of heart attack of everyone here by using scary-sounding words like "radiation exposure" in the comments? Stress adds up too.

Please meditate over this handy reference chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/.
Or you could just turn since first authentication after booting requires a passcode.
Why would they have to force that? It's not too hard to manufacture something that will bypass the fingerprint unlock using rubber cement or silicon gel, especially for an organization that is one of the few expected to have your fingerprints on file (at least in the scenario we are describing, where you're already in custody).
pshyco, totally agree! It is content marketing, but it's also what I actually believe and based on my own personal experiences (I wrote it).
> To me, doing all of your life at work is work, with no life. I need to disconnect, and I can't do that in the place where I work.

Indeed, at my new job I can get free meals, a free gym, free health clinic (not just a band-aid station, a fully staffed urgent care center with its own dispensary), showers, and so on. And this is not even corporate, it's a government job. But after a few weeks of just partaking of the free lunch/dinner, I decided to stop using the freebies. I felt like I was living there (12 hour shifts contribute to that feeling of course) and so I began leaving for lunch breaks and decided not to use the other facilities unless absolutely necessary. Given it's a government gig, it already feels like they "own" me as it is (mandatory uniform, strict rules about social media use even off the clock, etc).
> High performing people often prefer environments with high stakes and high risk/reward.

Is there any research to support that statement? Genuinely curious. Seems like it could be true, but also not.
Perhaps, but the author is reflecting on the productivity of the entire group rather than on the individual. I cannot say whether the chicken story really is pertinent to corporate culture, but at a glance this analogy feels relevant.
Well they missed one heck of a chance to collect email addresses, even if they weren't ready to roll out the product.
Situation: you're arrested/captured/etc. All they have to do is, on a new 6S phone, touch your finger to the sensor for 1/10th of a second.

There's no emergency evac situation. You either have basically no protection from hostile action or you avoid finger auth.
A totally valid concern, but I've been at 4 companies in the past 4 years and it hasn't given me any problems :)
But conceivably apps can't update when the phone is locked?
Opening a new tab works, but come on... It's a crude tool!
Enjoying harshness for it's own sake is masochistic stupidity. What's the upside for the amazon opportunity? As far as I can read from what's reported, below market compensation for the reward of watching your fucking back every microsecond and possibility of...? Where do I sign up to get books and trinkets delivered to your door a day faster? Beats the shit, mission wise, out of trying to cure cancer...
Or you can quickly disable TouchID by giving it an invalid fingerprint too many times or simply shutting off the phone. Then you'll need a password and I don't believe they can compel that.
Imagine a situation where your job is CRUD development. You write PHP and CSS and JavaScript for a series of ad campaigns (say, every marvel movie for the next 10 years). It's repetitive drone work.

Then compare that to a situation where you have to send a rocket to space in the next 6 months or the company is out of business and you'll be homeless.

Which situation motivates you to do better work?
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Very cool. Have you by any chance considered the Amazon Echo or teaching her how to use Wolfram Alpha?
There was a guy who slept inside AOL's campus too, except on the couches: http://www.cnet.com/news/meet-the-tireless-entrepreneur-who-...
The sad part is that in this circumstance, I don't think Americans would have cared if the movie showed the Canadians as the prime mover. We knew the US didn't have clue given our rescue attempt and the utter chaos around Perot's actions in Iran.
Tailspin is a tech job marketplace, so you're right that it would benefit from churn in the market. The market has plenty of churn, though.
Yeah, for sure. Wasn't at all planning on doing this--just kind of assumed it would inevitably happen what with the prevalence of smart phones and geo-tagging capabilities.

One could imagine it being fairly trivial to create an app that broadcasts the location of these things if they can be easily detected.
Bringing an alarm clock to school and NOT setting it to go off during class is more suspicious to me.
Whether or not the title is false, it's certainly clickbait, so we changed it to a representative sentence from the article, in accordance with the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Also: finger unlock only works after a password has been entered once (to generate the "finger unlock" key). Copying fingerprints or compelling finger access is moot if the device dumps the finger unlock key (as is done after 48 hours of no finger auth or after 5 (?) failed finger auth attempts).

But, trying to revoke the finger auth key in an emergency (less than 5 seconds) is difficult. Your only option is to try and quickly power off the device, but you're at the mercy of the "press and hold sleep/wake button for 5 seconds, then slide to turn off" delay timer.
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Why would you compare against the income of the world? You need to factor the local cost of living, taxes, etc. The medium household income in Santa Clara county is something like $95K.
I think it's to be determined if that would be an illegal search.
Cyclists here drive me nutty. Granted most places don't have bike lanes but IMO you shouldn't be on a road where the speed limit is 45 and you're blocking a line of cars.

The other day everyone was patiently waiting to get around this guy going 15mph on his bicycle, and once we did, at the next stop sign he just cruised to the stop sign in the 2 foot space between the cars and the curb and blocked slowed down even more cars.

I know my rant is a little off topic, but my point is that if you want to share the road you should be held to the same standards. Bicycles yielding at stop signs isn't right.
Let's make most stop signs into yield signs, even for cars. Being on edge (alert) causes drivers to be focused, which reduces accidents. See roundabouts.
Hi, journalist who went to North Dakota and socialized with oil field workers here. There were dozens of stories written about workers there last year, as well as photo essays and documentaries.
Designing any product can feel overwhelming but by diluting it down to the essential user experience, you can make it approachable and doable.

How did you find out what the essential user experience was without talking to users?
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> but empowering for those who thrive that way.

The entire point of this article was that while it may be empowering for some individuals, the entire group output suffers, and as such is less effective than a system that empowers high performing groups instead. I mean, sure, it was taking a study and trying to overextend the result—but still, merely repeating that it's great for certain individuals misses the point entirely.
Are you talking about the richest nation on Earth?

Also, do you mean that it is Ok to kill a prisoner because it is too expensive to keep him alive?
If you’re talking about San Francisco, which road exactly is it that has a 45 mph speed limit, and cyclists?

Most city streets have a speed limit of 25 mph, though drivers often go dramatically faster. (On my semi-arterial residential street, the speed limit is officially 25 mph, but between midnight an 6 AM, especially on the weekend, Uber cars and taxis tend to go 50–60+.)
What a surprise- being down voted by the autistic majority of the HN crowd ;)

Flame on if it makes you feel better.

Sorry dang, I luv u dawg but couldn't resist throwing some to the trolls.
Probably thought it would be easier to write a converter than figure out how to change their code without breaking it. That's my guess. Wouldn't have even been a problem if Intel/AMD had chosen the best endianness. ;)
According to his blog, his savings will have broken even as of today and since early this morning, his savings have reached nearly $200 in the black. Thats pretty impressive all things considered, he's payed off the truck and other expenses and is now making money of this setup.
The problem is people refuse to do the math, or to listen to people who did the math. All they hear is "that scary r-thing".

At this point I think this link will beat Meditations on Moloch in the "most often posted in comments by this user" statistic, but once again I'm pointing to this helpful chart: https://xkcd.com/radiation/.

> People are afraid of excessive radiation and the government isn't listening to people.

People are afraid of a lot of things, and at this point I'm not sure how we should deal with it on a social level anymore. They are scared of radiation, therefore allow for lots of unnecessary deaths, destruction of the environment and even more radiation by refusing to replace coal plants with nuclear ones. They're also afraid of vaccines, microwaves and cell-phone EM radiation (how they were never afraid of radio waves in pre-cellphone era is beyond me, but maybe they initially were but got over it).

That people are afraid of things that aren't dangerous doesn't mean we should stop doing that things. As for how to make people not afraid, I don't know anymore. Maybe we should just pay the advertising industry to fix that with propaganda?
re: predicting the future/streaming/"stitching", how do you need to remember more state for quantification beyond the state that needs to be maintained to support streaming at all? Why do you need to make a decision when you've reached the current block--can't that decision wait until you've seen more data or been told there is no more data?

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...I can see that if you're using bit vectors to represent active states, that's how you can make use of SSE4/string instructions and POPCNT... I've been thinking about how to do that but it just doesn't seem to work with a VM implementation. Maybe for a hybrid filtration scheme, though...

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Have you implemented Watson's MultiRE with input skipping, or Wu-Manber? I've tried some hacky approaches to skipping before and the problem seems to be that a sufficiently large pattern set will always include a short pattern (e.g., "PE") and now you're stuck with a bad l-min.

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Ordering is horrible, both between patterns and within patterns (Perl's ordered alternation rules). It took us a couple years to get full compatibility with PCRE (for forensics, correctness is more important than line speed searching; and most of our input comes from spinning rust, not ephemeral packets). We had to sacrifice the strict guarantee on O(M)/static memory usage during searching in order to gain full compatibility. Fortunately, branch prediction and reserving memory remove pretty much remove that cost, so that with normal pattern sets we don't see mallocs.

Streaming matching is criminally understudied from a theoretical perspective. You cannot match some patterns in O(M) memory in a streaming model as an NFA algorithm should. The one we know about is any time a lower priority path is a prefix for a higher priority prefix; you have to buffer the lower priority match until the high priority match resolves. E.g., "a+b|a" on a string of a's is pathological. These kinds of patterns can be detected; what I don't know is whether there are other classes (I don't think so, but...).

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I've always found the DPI use case fascinating, as it is a completely different input model than what I've worked on, which has its own rules, and yet has many of the same demanding theoretical requirements in its treatment of automata.
if you want to share the road you should be held to the same standards

The law treats bicyclists and motor vehicles differently in many ways already. For example:

* Bicyclists are required to ride "as far to the right as practicable". No such requirement exists for automobiles.

* Bicyclists are prohibited from certain roads, like freeways, unlike automobiles.

Of course, in these cases it is the motor vehicles that are allowed to do things bicyclists aren't allowed to. I suppose for consistency you are arguing that these these rules shouldn't exist either?
Safari does this already. It shows "Open <URL> in a new tab" in the status bar when clicking will open in a new tab, and same for windows. This text also changes in response to modifier keys.

I'm surprised that Chrome doesn't do this!
This sounds really similar to when the Snowden docs were first leaked. You have to listen very carefully to exactly what is said and read between the lines.

http://www.cnet.com/news/obama-denies-that-us-spied-on-germa...!

"the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications" means, "Was monitoring up until just now."

Here Apple says "We can't unlock new iPhones." Apple says nothing about their ability to restore iCloud backups or load software to capture evidence from a locked phone.
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People who emerge onto the footpath are often not prepared to avoid a cyclist cruising along at >4x the speed of a normal pedestrian.
Everywhere I've ever worked allowed 24 hour access. Never worked in an office tower though. Never lived on the West Coast.
As somebody who has biked thousands of miles in SF, this is a fun thing to argue about but it doesn't make any difference on the streets. Almost every biker already does this, and as long as the police (correctly) don't enforce the actual law, whether or not it is legal really makes little difference.

If you are a driver you shouldn't notice the difference anyways. If you get to the stop sign first, then the biker has to stop. If they don't, they are breaking the law. If they get there first, they get to go, but by not stopping they'll get out of your way sooner.

Also major Kudos to The Wigg Party [1] who came up with the idea for the creative and wildly effective "Stop In" protest. When you compare that protest to the moronic monthly takeover of the streets by Critical Mass it is like night and day.

1: http://wiggparty.org/
He said by splitting with roommates in the blog post. That's possible if you get a 3+ bedroom unit and split amongst that many people.
I also live in Isla Vista, and can confirm that this is exactly what happens.

When freshman move in, the first few weeks are filled with crashes. Also, every time there is an event that draws lots of out-of-towners (Freshman Orientation, Halloween, etc.) it gets much, much worse.
Yes. The writer is definitely very smart. But on top of smart, he hustles. That's the part I admire most.
No, the concern in this thread is based entirely on the notion that innocent people are potentially being exposed to X-rays, without their knowledge or consent.

You're arguing against a strawman. HN commenters aren't idiots. The technology in question is using ionizing X-rays, which can have harmful health effects.
Political stability is also a potential issue. If you're putting K-hundred-million dollars into a top-rate data center, risks associated with political instability become hard to stomach. Kenya is a great place to work, and quite open to outside investment, but had major problems two elections back, a scare at the last election, and ongoing problems with al-shabab. One of the best places to work in SSA, and still doesn't feel all that stable.
ANSI was 9 years after the 70s. I'm curious about the 70s C code that was "done". My point is that Go may still be in the 70s.
but whenever you are using your phone, it is unlocked and not encrypted and all data could be transfered at that time (or any update could be installed)... 4G is pretty fast and it would not take very long and could be hard to notice.
How often does that happen outside of TV? In most cases where you have legal protection which actually works, you would also be able to power down the phone. In most of the other scenarios, most people are going to unlock it anyway under the threat of a beating or threats that non-cooperation will result in heavy/fabricated charges.
1. Yielding means going relatively slowly through the stop, probably <= 15 kph. At that speed, it's relatively safe to go through. And of course you have to yield to pedestrians still.

2. This has been implemented in Idaho already with no ill effects, and Paris is implementing a variant: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop

3. You have cause and effect backwards. Treating bikes as legitimate road users, with corresponding infrastructure, is what causes cyclists to respect the rules. People don't respect systems that ignore them.
Simply trading some luxuries for others. Owning a car is a luxury.
There's a bunch of disdain on both sides, huge amounts of rule-breaking, etc. People are people, people 'bend' rules toward their own gains.

But the thing I want every car-driver to remember, when they talk about their dislike of bicycles, is that they are driving a very deadly weapon (as Doc Brown says in Back to the Future "He's in a '46 Ford, we're in a DeLorean. He'd rip through us like we were tin foil!"). An angry jerk of the wheel 'to get back at a that bicyclist' puts the bicyclist in the hospital with permanent brain damage.

I guess all I'm saying is, be careful out there.
No, I meant the false negative rate. Imagine you have a hiring process. It marks some applicants as "should hire" and some as "shouldn't hire". False negatives are marked "shouldn't hire" when really you should have hired them.

The only way to determine your false negative rate is to hire a bunch of "shouldn't hire"s and see how they work out.

Easy hire, easy fire is inhumane to people who believe that once you get one job somewhere your problems are over. Never-hire-because-we-never-want-to-fire is inhumane to people who interview poorly and do good work -- they're humans too. You can't win them all.
there still needs to be laws keeping them off roads over 35 or such; I ride a bike. Unless there is a dedicate bike lane being on a road with speeds like that is just asking for trouble even if it is long and straight.

also, tag them like cars. no reason they should not have tag fees if they want to use the road
How late did you arrive at your destination? How much earlier would you have arrived had the bicyclist been driving a car instead?
Current iphones can be unlocked by asking siri for the time. I doubt the new iPhone security is much better.
Cyclists shouldn't have to share the road, because they should have separate infrastructure. Bikes and cars in the same space is nearly as dumb as cars and pedestrians in the same space.
Part of the article addresses that other cities are looking to San Francisco to set a precedent before adopting similar laws. It might be defacto legal here, but other cities need a law on the books to get the same privilege.
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I did not know they were keeping this crap, but it's kind of neat I can hear myself getting directions to the bakery on my wedding day to pick up the cake (donuts).
If you're an international spy or something, maybe don't store your top secret data on consumer-grade electronics.
Just click on the (buzzfeed.com) at the top, dude
When I was in my early 20s, it seemed like we always had someone crashing on our sofa, including employees of major tech firms. At that age, having a 'fuck truck' is probably not any worse than rooming with five other guys in a three bedroom apartment.
I think most of us here are aware of the basic nature of radiation exposure and have also seen this popular XKCD chart. I personally had to learn a lot about radiation exposure due to a bout with thyroid cancer and radiation treatment and scans. But that is not the point. It's not about the dangers of radiation. It's about the right to expose people to radiation at all, regardless of the danger level.

By your reasoning, it would be OK for the police to take a few pennies here and there from large bank accounts.
This is a very bad idea! It'll cause far more accidents as the result.
You'll have some crazy bicyclist who'll fully ignore the stop sign and fly through them.

The problem is that you have some minority of cyclists ruining it for everyone else. I have arrived on a stop sign in SF on many times. I do my full stop, I have the right of the way, only to see a cyclist just fly by. And then give me the birdy when I hunk at him.

At the same time, many of them just fly through pedestrians. For those who are not familiar with SF, the cult of cyclist in SF is becoming rather entitled. They have (not sure she is still there) a PR women that make the perfect deputy for Karl Rove.

The SF cyclist are basically the NRA of SF, IMO. They have a strong lobby and are getting everything they want. Including having a special privilege that puts them above cars and pedestrian.
Bicycle registration has been tried, and it doesn't work from a practical or fiscal perspective: http://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/s...
Honestly, it sounds kinda great. He's going to have some completely unique experiences and stories that he'll carry with him for the rest of his life, and he's learning a lot about how to live thriftily and how to separate needs from wants.

It's not all that different from living in an RV, and he's taking control of his finances to a degree that most people would never really consider. That's admirable, IMO.
Several thousands bananas a day add up to about the background radiation level. Most people won't be spending all day sitting next to this van, and even if, there are some other radiation sources one is exposed to daily that just dwarf the emissions from the scan-van, per this handy chart[0] that I'll soon get banned for constantly posting in this thread.

TL;DR: it's harmless, please focus on the actual problem - i.e. police taking nudes of you without your knowledge or consent.

[0] - https://xkcd.com/radiation/
It cited the claim with a source, so presumably you could check the veracity that way.