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> The biggest risk of sortition is moving the balance of power from representatives to the appointed/hired bureaucracy.

That's a risk, but I don't think its the biggest even within the "balance of power between officeholders and X" category of risks; I think the biggest in that category is the shift in the balance of power between office holders and professional interest group influencers (lobbyists et al.) who aren't going to be randomly selected short-timers that get swapped out every few years, they are going to be long-term career professionals representing entities with lots of resources, durable interests, and a commitment to achieving them.

OTOH, sortition doesn't have to be a wholesale replacement for elections, either; it can complement them (as it does now, you just expand the scale.)

Say, have an additional house of the (state or federal, though some of these powers would be more familiar and perhaps appropriate at the state level) legislature (the "House of Citizens", say) selected by sortition, and given it some or all of the following powers:
(1) To take any bill passed by the other house(s) and delay it by putting a hold of up to 90-days on it, after which the other houses must pass it again before it can move forward for executive signature or veto (if there are any changes to the version passed later, its treated as a new
bill, and goes back to the House of Citizens again),

(2) To, instead of #1, invoke the power of referendum against any bill passed by the other house(s), such that if it is approved by the executive (or passed over executive veto), it is referred to a vote of the electorate at large who must approve it before it goes into effect,

(3) To directly initiate an initiative measure, that would go directly to a vote of the electorate at large, and become law with their support, without the need for approval of the other house(s) or the legislature,

(4) To (for a federal "House of Citizens"), on a supermajority vote, propose to the State legislatures amendments to the Constitution, without the other houses (the normal thresholds for ratification would still be required.)

Note that #2 and #3 are powers of the people in many states, but usually require an expensive process of gathering signatures on petitions to invoke, making them more accessible to well-funded groups; a sortition-selected body as an additional avenue could provide an alternate filter that might be less cost-driven.
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You raise an important question. It is important to detail the actual contribution, since programming may be perceived as purely implementing an idea with no creative input.

That said… in my career so far, I don't think I've ever seen a clean example of coding someone else's idea to spec. If you successfully take an idea from concept to working software, or if a research project requires complex software to be written, I think it is almost inevitable that the software developer will end up making a creative contribution.

I'm also a bit suspicious about the justification that you can't be listed because aren't a "scientist". Of course, I don't know the details, but it seems fishy.
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We used the Intel compiler at my last job and also had some good speedups. But we also ran into a lot of bugs where it would generate non-working code at the higher optimization levels.

For us, the performance was worth the effort of working around the bugs. But that's probably not the case for most projects.
Not exactly "country code", but Polonium (Po) was named after Poland by Maria Skłodowska-Curie.
I would be surprised if some doctors (or even countries) didn't prescribe probiotics alongside the antibiotics.
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Right. I'd argue that most of the distortion in US governance is due not to incompetance but malice (like bias that serves moneyed interests), and this malice is deliberate. Random selection alone would cause the 'malice factor' to diminish to the mean. Thus future governors would be no more malevolent (or incompetent) than the average Joe.
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i like 2 options:

1_ Mightycall (http://www.mightycall.com)

2. Skype with a business phone number.

Wasnt too happy with grasshooper which I also tried.
I think this is done much better by e.g. Google already today. Academia has have their 50 year run with software research and the end result is quite disappointing.

I have been peripherically involved with some recent academic research projects in Europe. The way I see it it's basically a way of keeping senior academics occupied and also diverting tax revenues to EU companies for no good reason. It's also a breeding ground for corruption - who chooses which companies get these pointless deals?
> So, even before construction capacity/permit issues...

Which -let's be real- is nearly 100% of the cause of the insane rents in the area. [0]

> ...100% of the people who want to move to SF are competing on price for 30% of the inventory.

You make it sound like people never move out of a Rent Stabilized apartment. I know this not to be true. In my building, we get at least one entire-apartment vacancy every two or three months. Those apartments that are going for $3k+ per month that I talk about? They're often covered by Rent Stabilization. :)

Also, remember that SF's Rent Stabilization is the reset-to-any-rate-upon-loss-of-original-tenants flavor of rent control. So, once any Stabilized apartment loses all of its original tenants, [2] the landlord is free to set the rental rate to any rate.

[0] http://my.paragon-re.com/Docs/General/SixtyFortyImages/3-15_... via [1]

[1] http://www.paragon-re.com/Bay_Area_Apartment_Building_Market

[2] Known as Master Tenants, these are the first set of folks whose names were on the lease signed that established the base rate of that unit for that occupancy period. Tenants added after the initial lease signing do not count as Master Tenants.
I wonder if the US Digital Service will survive after the next president takes office? Do they have a federal mandate at this point or do they operate at the pleasure of Obama in particular? For example if a Republican took office would that person have to go out of their way to keep or ditch the services?
Curious what the violation of the developer program agreement is. It contained a binary, presumably signed, so maybe that's it?

I downloaded it this morning, very excited to try it as I can't stand the blue glow of my phone after dark.
Since there's so much interest in gut biomes you may be interested in learning that what you eat greatly influences your biome. A vegan diet has been shown to substantially change your flora [1] in as little as a day [2]. I also found this video on the role of fiber, our gut flora, and our immune system interesting [3].

[1]: http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v66/n1/full/ejcn2011141a....

[2]: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v505/n7484/full/nature1...

[3]: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/prebiotics-tending-our-inner...
London Taxicab drivers who passed The Knowledge were forced to develop very detailed mental maps of London. According to wikipedia, it is the world's most demanding training course for taxicab drivers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-tes...
Interesting choice of header image. I kept wondering when the author was going to talk about Soundcloud, but it never happened—turns out it's just a random photo of a startup office. (Looks like Soundcloud's old Berlin office? Not sure.)
I don't think that matters much at all; it's really no different than developing different strains of tomatoes for size and color. Nearly every large produce grower has an R&D department that develops different types of produce for different uses with optimal yields (i.e. tomatoes used for making pizza sauce vs. heirloom tomatoes designed for straight eating).

Basically, if stoners have been doing this secretly in basement labs for the last 30 years, think of the progress an industrial-scale horticultural lab could make.
As defined by law, no.
That's a lovely hint, thanks!
No, but the problem is that the SMTP specs don't define how to validate the cert -- for example, many deliveries will work with a self-signed certificate[0], so a MITM can just make a new certificate.

[0] https://serverfault.com/questions/579138/is-it-ok-to-use-sel...
Oh cool, I was out there for a summer in grad school making Sankey diagrams and working on some conceptual stuff for cities research. I definitely miss the bay area. Haha, I figured at the very least you'd be in contact with some people here, lots of climate stuff going on.
Combining competing airlines' flights is rarely done, but is actually not as impossible to do programmatically as the article suggests. This is exactly what we do at https://skypicker.com and it really works wonders — we are regularly seeing combinations that are 90% cheaper than alternatives on other sites.
Do people realize that euphemisms do not change the meaning of something? `voluntaryExit`? What do they think suicide actually is? Oh well, at least it provides relevant context to shoehorn Carlin in. [0] [1]

It amazes me so many people are willing to receive their sticks from the stick people.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuEQixrBKCc

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWBvB4U-cA
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Anyone have a mirror? Installing it was on my todo list today.
> That's within the context of it being a trial open to the public.

Which the US Government is not allowing. We've looped back to the beginning here... and you still don't understand, don't accept, or don't know the entire narrative.
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And, -holistically- severe hunger killed the starving man who just got shot in the gut, struck by a speeding bus, then set on fire.

But, reasonable people see that starvation is an insignificant factor in the man's demise, so -if they bring it up at all- they bring it up only in passing. :)
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Anytime I copy anything from the web, I always paste it in Sublime. Then I would read the text and copy and paste again elsewhere as necessary.

Just me.
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I'm confused. You seem to be supporting his point.

R&D departments are cheap? No special knowledge required? Race to the bottom on price? How has that worked out in the wine world?
Goddamn it. Shows what I get for waiting to download it.

I found a mirror on GitHub, but I haven't verified it: https://github.com/jefferyleo/f.lux
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It sounds like they do not want to have you on as an investor. It also sounds like you no longer want to invest in them. So figure out what your equity is worth and get rid of it.
Apple won't let apps use APIs that aren't officially approved. Officially approved APIs can't do the things that flux needs to do. So, no flux on iOS in the App Store. The flux developers put together a beta that used said APIs and made it available for sideloading. Apple killed that off as well by threatening to kill their account due to a violation of the Developer Agreement which prohibits distributing your app anywhere but the App Store. Apple will only let apps onto iOS devices via the App Store. No side loading, no direct downloads, no third party app stores.
Scott Aaronson's answer on MO indicates it was known under "suitable popular derandomization assumptions" [1].

[1] http://mathoverflow.net/a/32312
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Not exactly the most honest title, BigCommerce was bootstrapped until $7m in revenue.

In theory, everybody bootstraps until they get funding, don't they?
Cannabis is the new wine. Midwest housewives are the fastest growing market.

Wine's trajectory in California doubled to $24 billion per anum over the course of 16 years.

And in the midst of all that is anything between a two buck chuck to some fancy Araujo.
What about adjusting employee exempt status for inflation? At present, if you're paid a salary of more than $23,660 per year, your employer isn't required to pay overtime; raising this to a sane figure ($70,000?) would create a lot of jobs and improve quality of life for employees; I think there was a discussion of this on HN last year.
I think Chrome on iOS has the option of some kind of mobile compression proxy that runs through Google's servers, so perhaps that's been part of the problem?
As I understand it, USDS is in the Executive Office of the President and would be very easy for a new President to dismantle, but its counsin 18F in GSA I slightly more secure (obviously, nothing in federal government is secure against strong enough political will against it.)
The problem is that expecting code to just be randomly faster by compiling it with ICC is a pointless endeavor.

For numerical code, ICC is amazing. But that's mainly because the automatic vectorization is far beyond anything clang can spit out (which is already better than gcc at automatic vectorization).

Even then, icc really benefits when you use its proprietary pragmas for hints.

The VTUNE profiler is amazing though
It is tough to have these two mentalities at the same time:

> Your employees adopt your bootstrapped mentality and they, too, are careful of where they spend your money and try to be as resourceful as they can with limited resources

and

> Could I go and raise a few million bucks in a seed/series A round today? As a second-time founder, yes — I’ve said no to several investors already and have a strong network.

The biggest expense in almost any startup is employee salaries, so raising money almost certainly means higher salaries for employees. So you are basically saying: "I'm rich and have connections, but it is better for the business if we all are very lean". While it is true that being lean is probably better for the business, it only works if the employees buy into it. Maybe you are giving employees tons of equity and that causes them to buy in, but otherwise the whole thing seems pretty hollow.
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Agreed. In Emacs hacking -- which presumably is what most people would want to use Elisp for -- the syntax is typically not the problem. Knowing how to interact with Emacs' libraries and its way of doing things is much more intricate. At least once you go beyond smaller aux functions and such.
Mightycall looks solid. I currently use TalkDesk - but do not like it - so am also in the market for a switch. I also found Bitrix42 but seems to offer way more features than I need. any others out there?
So it's a violation of the developer agreement, that's why they pulled it? Of course it's a violation. What do they care? They signed no such agreement and they are not registered Apple developers.

Developing for Cydia is a violation of the developer agreement as well, that doesn't seem to stop them. Honestly, I don't get it. It's extremely disappointing, as the app works great but needs some fine tuning. Which we will now never see because they capitulated that they were violating an agreement they were never party to in the first place.
I'm kind of shocked Apple hasn't sherlocked f.lux by now -- it's such a great feature.
I'd take it a step further: Progress is any work that is enterprise value accretive. Prioritized to the degree to which it is.
His point went far beyond 'consulting and compliance'. "Selling shovels to miners" is spot on - there's hundreds of millions of 'users' worldwide who spend money not only on the actual cannabis but also on items to supports it's use/storage/transportation.
Fair enough, though I think the problem space is substantially different (though I didn't mention it above). It's much easier to make (random) 3-SAT difficult instances whereas for GI you needed highly structured graphs. Apparently Johnson graphs were one of the classes of graphs that caused people problems in GI.
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But with hexagons, you can cut a horizontal road straight through alternating hexagons. Giving you a grid of diagonal and horizontal roads, with 4-way roundabouts every cell width. Lots of flexibility for different traffic densities!
The confusion is that the "sideloading" was just an Xcode project along with instructions for how to build it. It's hard to figure out what part of that is supposed to be a violation. Are you not supposed to provide Xcode projects to other people? Are you not supposed to tell them how to use Xcode? Or is it just the fact that they were too overt about the purpose of it all?
It's intended as a safe space for thoughtful discussion, yes. If that cramps your style, well... maybe that's telling you something.
Just in case anyone is tempted to actually use this and hasn't gotten the memo: RC4 is broken and has been for some time now.
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10556375
Incorrect. He sold his social network "The Names Database", to classmates.com, in 2006. DDG came later.
Are you sure they are not registered Apple developers? Seems to me that their being registered Apple developers is the simplest explanation here.
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My bet is that Walmart will never sell marijuana. McDonalds, like other large companies could in 10 years when it's federally legal. What seems more likely to happen (and this is also what the SV investors and companies like Meadow[0] are betting on) is that a few of the niche players already in the business expand rapidly to fill the supply/demand vacuum as it becomes more and more legal at the state level. With it being federally illegal, it's nontrivial to build--can't plug in an easy payment processor like Stripe for instance.

[0]: https://getmeadow.com/
> With this (and your computer) you can secure a message with a password in a way that's unbreakable. I can't break it, your government can't break it, other people's governments can't break it. Secure.

Argh. No.

> Should you use it? No. There's many important missing features that are present in proper symmetric encryption tools, such as proper key derivation, protection against modification, IVs, and fewer bugs.

This (buried) warning makes these things sound like bells and whistles. The truth is they're essential to security.

Here are some good reasons not to use this for anything:

1. It conflates passwords with keys. Users will not choose high-entropy passwords when left to their own devices.

2. It doesn't take an IV. This means a given password will always generate the same key stream, which means password reuse will lead to plaintext recovery by simple statistical methods. There are no warnings about this.

3. It's not authenticated. An attacker can modify messages in flight with unexpected consequences that very often include plaintext recovery.

4. RC4 is irreparably broken. Dropping 1024 bytes from the key stream might help in the author's intended use-case (assuming users adhere to it), but this is not an effective mitigation in general. The best attacks on RC4 rely on periodic biases that persist over the entire key stream.
But exactly is the term they violated?

You don't have to be in the Apple developer program to post an Xcode project on a web site. Nor to download Xcode, since it comes free from the Mac App Store.
unless the digital data represents weapons?
http://www.wired.com/2015/05/3-d-printed-gun-lawsuit-starts-...
Thanks, would be good to have multiple sources of verification that HEAD now supports this natively without issues like unexpected NaNs.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/25#issuecomm... is one verification :)
Who is the current Walmart/McDonalds in marijuana, then?
At least Python is one of the higher quality languages and codebases to go mainstream. The code they make might at least be readable...
I wish you'd asked it like this:

Chrome has had memory profiling for at least 2 years.
https://developer.chrome.com/devtools/docs/javascript-memory...

How does Firefox's new profiling feature compare?
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Would the use of private API be seen as violation of reverse engineering clause?
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This is exactly what I said.
You're much better off putting them up, even if people might think they're biased.

Without any benchmarks, it just seems like you want this to be faster, without providing any evidence that it is.
In reality, most people will seek out disgusting treats all day, then have a bit of healthy stuff out of guilt. That's happening already. The money is in the sugar. When it comes to supernormal stimuli, pleasure usually takes over -- not rationality.
> Isn't everything always more concise in Perl? No matter what language it's compared to :)

Ha, you need more exposure to things like APL :)
I will soon warn my users when they're recieving an email that is not PGP-encrypted.
"Every piece of the marijuana market is adjacent to some other hundred billion dollar market"

Every?

How about the glass blowers? Where's the hundred billion dollar market they're adjacent to?

The comparison to microbreweries and wineries is a good one here, IMO. They've done alright. And so have the businesses and services that support them.
Any comment on this?

Is RC4 secure? For this use-case, yes. For TLS, most certainly not. Even today there are many plausible attacks against RC4 in the TLS context, but none of them apply to this static-data world.
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From the FAQ:

We recommend RethinkDB servers have at least 2GB of RAM

Why does it needs so much memory?
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Oh so they plan to incorporate this feature into iOS soon then?
I did a test with a data backup from our live DB, and BDR fails in mysterious ways. I had a two-node cluster, and tried to restore the DB into one node. Failed, I think, when it was rebuilding indexes (no useful messages in the logs), with some scary warnings also when it was importing some big tables. Most of the data made it across network to the other node - emphasis on most.

I really wanted this thing to work. :( On paper it looks great.
Lord I hope so.