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I agree that nuclear has its place but...

"we're moving away from nuclear - and that happens because of FUD and politics (which is also "short-term profit-led thinking")."

... I don't agree with that. I'd even go as far to say the opposite is true, one of the biggest issues with nuclear fission is the long life of nuclear waste, it's only when you have a long term view that it becomes a problem.

Again, there are ways around this. From what I understand it's possible to reuse nuclear waste (are the power plants that do this known as breeder reactors?).

Another big issue with nuclear fission is the other, more destructive use for it. Building reactors all around the world could aid the development of nuclear weapons. Again, that sort of insight isn't exclusively based on a short term view. Again, there could be ways around that. Am I right in thinking that thorium is harder to use in the process of producing plutonium?

At most you could say about short term thinking is that the cost and lead times for producing new nuclear reactors seems fairly high, which would put off some investors.
The story avoids mentioning the ethnicity of the accused in this case, but the US system's brutality cannot be disentangled from its racism.

I'd be very surprised if this kind of treatment was given to the average white guy who hits someone with a car. But a nonwhite guy on a motorbike? Much more plausible.
Any news for band2 and cortana on android? I think there is a closed beta for some android devices (no nexus 4 apparently), but i don't know if it works with the band.
Well- I guess its the same than with Cortana integration us. Here in NZ we don't have Cortana and/or the band (1 or 2).

While I have "Google now" on my Android and iPhone users can use Siri. I guess Microsoft simply isn't interested in small markets. Australia (bigger market) get's the Cortana and the Band.
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> continue our exponential trend of energy use.

I think that trend has had its run - we're not brute-forcing every industrial process any more, getting clever about energy use is all the rage now.
For the `perfect information and rational actors` part, it is addressed by many. Just one example from the author of this article: http://fee.org/freeman/do-free-markets-require-rational-acto...
I guess the suspects should not go to the same place as the convicts. So prisons only for convicts and "safekeeping places" (which are not allowed to be near a prison) for the suspects.

To treat suspects like criminals is not right. You and me could end up being a suspect without the slightest guilt in the matter.
It's still the indifference of society at large that allows the prison complex to go wild. In all areas of society there are incentives that are completely at odds with the common good, but there's a huge difference between countries to what organizations are allowed to do for personal gain.

I agree that once you get to the point where politicians are bought and paid for, as well as the media and all educational institutions it's very hard to stop. Democracy has been hollowed out. Don't vote Kang. Vote Kodos!
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And none of my arguments were specific to hucksters scamming investors.
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This is incredibly offensive to professional members of the military. You are also completely wrong about the lack of war in recent years as it relates to incarceration.
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I have been there. It's a tall rusty sculpture in a courtyard well inside Langley HQ. The only odd thing I noticed is that some letters are over or below the line. Can't take pictures or rubbings so not much else to report.
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The name reminds me of "blah blah blah", i.e. no good.
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The minimum spread isn't a fixed quantity, different traders will have different minimums. Right now there is a price floor, below which the price cannot fall, which is bad for all those who want to transact in the stock market.

As for the speed race, why not limit transactions so that they can only be executed on the dot, once every $TIME_STEP? You won't be able to see what orders others have been put out, so you don't gain that much of an advantage by sitting on a very low latency connection.
I think the US is really feeling the effects of having its anti-trust laws gutted a few decades ago.
I wouldnt despair though, in the late 19th century you had a similar situation with so called robber-barons and through consistent grassroots action anti-trust laws and other socal reforms were enacted.

Making a fairer society takes a lot of hard work over a long time (and constant vigilance) but its been shown to be possible many times even against seemingly insurmountable odds.

ps. I'd recommend that documentary film 'the corporation' from 2003.
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If innocent until proven guilty, why treat them as guilty until their hearing.

Clearly they are treating them as such, so where is my error?
Not sure how he plans to get this to work without IP addresses at some layer.
Ad hominems? He's a convicted fraudster and embezzler.
It depends how you define "socially optimal".

A key notion of economics is that if two people voluntarily agree to something, it must be of some benefit of them at that moment compared to alternatives else they wouldn't have agreed. A market can consist solely of such interaction. A democracy on the other hand involves people via votes controlling what other people can and can't do (in a market context, reducing their control over what, how and to whom they can exchange their labour and products thereof), which necessarily entails some kind of loss (in terms of otherwise-realised unrealised preference) from the people who are not able to do what they'd be doing absent coercion by the democracy's enforcers.

Pure free-market economics adopts the epistemological stance that utility (the economic proxy for value, based roughly on the notion of value being defined as the sum of people's realised preferences) isn't quantifiable, so no potential utility gained from the results of the democratic thwarting of some people's preferences can outweigh the definite loss from those people not realising their preferences.

Other schools of economics do view utility as quantifiable, so it's possible to say that there can be a net benefit from interfering with someone's preferences based on the result of democratic process. They disagree however in how utility is best quantified.

Schools of thought external to economics often have measures of value that differ substantially from the economic notion of utility. In particular, any scheme that assumes the existence of moral absolutes is fundamentally incompatible with the notion of utility.

It's hence important to consider that any economics that makes recommendations (that isn't just econometrics/prediction) is necessarily based on some particular philosophical propositions regarding what's valuable. Without this, economic discussion tends to degrade to people talking past each other because they have fundamentally different theories of value, fundamentally different metrics for the "optimal" in social optimality.

To put it another way, whether or not there is an optimal solution depends on how optimality is defined, so discussing solutions without defining optimality is pointless.
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> I guess the suspects should not go to the same place as the convicts.

By and large, they don't. Suspects go to county or city jail, not prison, to wait for bail or their court date. Convicted persons go to prison.

The issue is that a large, and growing, percentage of the pre-trial jail population is repeat offenders, people who have been to prison and therefore the jail environment begins to resemble the prison environment. In the county where I work, with a total population of nearly 1 million people, the jail houses about 2300 inmates on a regular basis. Those inmates are classified and housed based on a number of factors, including the type and severity of their current charges, their criminal history, direct observation by medical and psychological staff, age and infirmity, and so on.

Still, even with this sensible approach to keeping the "hardcore" inmates away from those accused of minor crimes, occasionally someone who has never seen the inside of a jail before ends up in a cell or dorm with career criminals. There's no easy solution, but proper classification and staff education go a long way towards keeping pre-trial jails safer for the accused.

As for the subject of this article, I can't help but wonder how high his bond was set for that particular charge, given that most bonding companies typically charge no more than 15% of the total bond amount. Even if his bond was $10,000 (which would be consistent with the charge here in Georgia, but of course NYC may be drastically different), the fee to a professional bondsman would be $1500, something his family and friends could scrape together. Even if his bond was set higher than that, he could have petitioned the judge for a reduced bond or even a ROR (released on his own recognizance) bond, given the non-violent nature of the offense and the fact he's never had a felony conviction.

No, it sounds like a big part of the problem is apathy on the part of the public defender's office in NYC, coupled with district attorneys who care more about conviction rates than actual justice and judges who are nothing more than rubber stamp machines.
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Awesome. Now, the critical question is: how to implement a proper filter and a HF afterburner? And can it do live streaming - i.e. use an USB/Pi-Shield soundcard with a Line-In or Mic input?

I could imagine this being a cheap platform for crisis regions where radio transmission channels are run by government (or not existing at all).
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I hope the spurious emissions aren't as bad as they look in the waterfall, because they're basically stomping all over the band and all the neighbouring bands and they're closely spaced enough that I'm not sure it'd be realistic to filter them all out. Is this even legal to use?
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I'm not so sure I share your optimism. Just because we dodged the last two bullets doesn't mean we'll dodge the next one. Countries can (and do) slide into totalitarianism and today's technology can be used to create a dystopia bleaker than anything the world has ever seen.

It's tempting to look at history as some sort of heroic epic. Times are bleak, people struggle, but ultimately human ingenuity and sacrifice wins the day. Real life isn't like that. If we mess up badly enough it's just game over. There is no Game Master that will put humanity back on track to ensure a positive outcome. Complete failure is always an option, and if we take for granted that all problems are fixable then sooner or later we'll run into a problem that isn't.
> it is easier to slowly and quietly dig under the foundations until they fall of they own accord.

The phrase "access browsing history" could go from meaning ISP logs to browser logs without ever needing to change the argument.

What they really want are tools that can hack the OS and browser without needing individual permission from the companies that control those ecosystems.
I suspect that people are more likely to rate an item when they have strong negative feelings about it, and I guess this should be taken into account too.
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Try contacting info@ycombinator.com , you'll probably get a faster response because sometimes threads like this go away unnoticed.
Yes, this thread's discussion is reminiscent of the protests on Slashdot about encryption laws in the late 90s.
This is directly addressed in the article:

"Important Disclaimer: While the output power is very small, you should still take great care as the carrier is a square wave, and there is no filtering on the antenna output. So any transmissions will cause harmonics all across the spectrum – possibly interfering with life critical devices. A filter must be used if you actually plan on transmitting with any sort of range further than your room."
This doesn't seem to hold for big corporations, who will just buy out the competition when they feel like it.

And that is a fundamental problem with the economy: it is not about who offers the best products (and who has the best "genes" for doing so), but it is about who has the deepest pockets. The company with the most cash can buy the best advertisements. And that company can afford even to buy marketshare in a market in which it is not even active (and crush the competition there).
why is "investment" the primary benchmark? if the costs of deploying services dropped (hardware costs dropped a lot, reliability improvements meant fewer replacements, etc), and someone's spending just remained the same for a year, is that 'reduced investment'? And is that bad? It's far too simplistic a measure. Are they serving more customers, and is customer satisfaction improving? Those seem like much better metrics to track than 'investment'.
Not one of the downvoters, but a voting scheme seems totally unrealistic to me. Just think about the sheer number of economic decisions occurring every day. Going to store A instead of store B. Picking brand A over brand B. Walking two kilometers instead of calling a taxi. Picking your holiday destination. Researching suppliers for components for a new product. Cancelling a no longer profitable product. Doing market research. Changing the price of a product. And the list goes on forever.

How could you ever faithfully reconcile all those decisions into a manageable number of votes? If you stranded with five people on a remote island you could probably pull this off, but in any realistic setting this seems totally out of reach to me.

I am totally not happy with capitalism as we have it, but the thing that actually works really well are markets. Surely markets can fail if there are monopolies, if actors collude, if there are externalities not reflected by the price and so on and this can lead to socially suboptimal or plain bad outcomes but often they work really well. That is why I am against laissez-faire economics because well working markets are not something that necessarily arises out of the blue, sometimes it requires intervention.
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economic incentives typically lead firms to look for new sources of revenue. they hope to achieve this extra revenue with minimal cost, ideally by not creating new products or developing new customer relationships. the natural side-effect of this situation for software companies is that they add feature-upon-feature to existing products in an endless quest for growth. at the very end of the road this situation doesn't usually work out well for the product, the user, or the company.

on the other hand there are plenty of services/applications that keep stable interfaces for many years at a time. they do not extend themselves too far beyond solving the problem they originally tried to solve. we can all imagine what craigslist would look like in the hands of short-term profiteers, endlessly tweaking the interface for more ad clicks and "user engagement".

the success of sites like the original google search, craigslist, and HN proves that the "do one thing, keep it simple" model is successful and can often be very profitable in the long term. sadly, it is very easy to forget about such ideals when people are constantly dangling fresh money in your face and/or you have salaries to pay. while page rank might be considered the key element to google's genesis and explosion, we also owe much respect to the people that decided and continually insisted that the UI stay clean and minimal.
The craps table is marketed as a gambling game and has a published payout figure. Startups crowdfunding for equity usually have a slick pitch video about how this excellent opportunity to tap into a £1bn market is a great investment.
An opportunity which for a retail investor with adverse selection problems and no influence over company decisions is likely a vastly worse "investment" compared with a game of craps (the expected return on craps is probably less negative and the probability of at least breaking even is certainly higher at the craps table)

And people comparing crowdfunding with "regular stocks" - even on here where it's well known most startups fail - are prime example of which the public in general doesn't know enough about investment to consider it...
To summarize and paraphrase the paper:

> Every upvote should increase the score, every downvote should decrease the score and the more votes there are the less an additional vote should matter. Only "adding pretend votes" satisfies this.

That really puts into words why "adding pretend votes" just felt right to me in practice.
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I am definitely one of those people who would assume you have to be a genius to do work in finance because I imagine that if your product isn't perfect you will be eaten alive in the markets.

That said there is also one other thing that prevents me from looking at a career in that kind of business: I imagine the traders as the kind of people with no empathy who are just looking to metaphorically stab you in the back the second they get a dollar in bonus for doing so.
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People like Warren Buffet talk about things being "mis-priced" all the time, that's how people like him make money. So yes, some risk might be priced in, but how much, and how accurately? In some cases, investors may have a very good idea of how much risk a venture entails, in other cases they may think they have a good idea but be completely wrong. The market price is, yes, the market price, that's a tautology. Whether the market price reflects a sustainable reality is an entirely different matter.

The parenthetical in my original comment was important. If everyone thinks they know what is going on, and they're all wrong, then the price isn't a good reflection of reality.
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Harmonics are trivial to filter - they're at multiples of the fundamental frequency, so 100MHz, 150MHz, and so on. You can just stick a lowpass filter on the output and it'll block all the harmonics because they're so far away from the fundamental. Unfortunately, the waterfall appears to show strong spurs every 30 Hz, and those would be ridiculously difficult to filter out. I think the normal solution is to design your transmitter so that it doesn't do that.
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Do you specifically want to make a webapp, or is independence the most important thing for you?

If the latter, I'd encourage you to look around at ALL the potential means of making money with your skills, not just creating a webapp. That could include consulting, infoproducts, some kind of SEO / affiliate play, training, etc.

Of all the available means of making a boss-independent living on the Internet, webapps appear to be one of the slightly harder ones. By no means impossible, mind - it's nothing like trying to make a living from the arts, for example. There are plenty of people on and off HN who have done it. However, depending on your skillset, there may be more straightforward ways.
> So if we want to maximize the expected utility we get out of the top spot, we should put the item with maximum expected popularity there.

Really? If users only ever look at the top 10 items, you'll never find out that item #33 would end up much higher if it got some attention from voters. This is not only a statistical problem, but also a policy/intervention problem. There is an explore/exploit trade-off to be solved.

A very popular policy for similar problems is to use Thompson sampling, e.g. don't sort items according to their expected score, instead draw a score at random and sort according to those. (At random from your current belief about the plausible true scores, e.g. the beta distribution you have learned.)