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> You can't fix everything with money. At some point, people are going to have to use vastly less resources, and simply making it more expensive is not the solution.

Your two ideas presented as facts, but they're opinions, and they seem heavily loaded with a particular vision of the world.

I'd say the opposite: Money drives everything better than other kinds of decisions, and raising taxes on polluting products is our only solution. Be it a carbon tax or emitting permits traded at the stock exchange, there are many forms, that's called internalizing the negative externalities.

Isn't 99% of worldwide procurement fixed with money? What matches a producer of coffee in Columbia with a consumer in Germany? Money. What ensures we pay thousands of researchers, engineers and technicians for years until we build those A380 planes in Toulouse? Money. Claiming it doesn't fix everything is getting blind to 99% of the world. I agree some people do some volunteering and that's out of the money economy - or is it? We've often demonstrated that volunteering biases the actions in favour of those who provide the volunteering, which can go from "Let's build wells in Africa" with a political impact in favour of EU, and as far as "Let's bring some freedom to Irak!". It doesn't remove any goodness from the people who donated their money and time, it just highlights that volunteering provides sometimes pleasure, sometimes pride, sometimes power to the one who provides it, and those aren't exactly orthogonal to money.

Claiming that something more expensive isn't the solution is another one. European cities are rather compact and people use public transports. Guess what, our petrol is 2x more expensive than in US because of taxes. I see nothing more efficient than adding tax on what pollutes the earth and removing taxes on what's neutral.

When I'm told by organic ecologists not to buy some sort of fish because they're brought over by plane from Angola, and they're cheaper than Atlantic ones, that's just too much info to process. If the fish from the close Atlantic is more expensive, it means we've spent more money for the fishing boat and the fishermen. Maybe the boat then consumes more petrol. Maybe the fishermen will buy bigger houses and 4wd cars. If the Angola fish is cheaper, maybe people are paid less, so there's an efficient use of all resources. So maybe the cheaper fish from Angola, after being brought over by plane, remains as less CO2-polluting than the one from closer Atlantic. Besides, as a consumer, given the uncertainity, I don't want to artificially choose the Atlantic one without being sure it consumes less CO2.

So, kerozen, gas, petrol, transport should be taxed proportionally to their polluting effect, so that the price of food, toys, hardware matches the amount of resources it takes to build them. Then only we can compare whether locally-produced products are better for the environment than long-distance ones, and whether a middle-class American family can really afford big houses in low-density residential area.

So, making it more expensive through tax sound like the solution to me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmeeMYrnweg
Yes, it's by (federal) law... specifically Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 500

http://www.nhtsa.gov/cars/rules/rulings/lsv/lsv.html

Vehicles under 3000lbs and with a max speed of 20-25mph (like golf carts) do not have to meet the safety requirements of passenger vehicles.

This wikipedia page sums up the situation pretty well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle
> you're fooling the vehicle's police detection

Sounds like impersonation to me.

The "person" in impersonation refers to the entity being imitated, not the entity being deceived.
It would seem that HN agree. Black bar is now up.
http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/12/gmail-will-soon-warn-users-...

:)
Consider renting a tiny VPS and use it to tunnel its IPv4 address to your home box.
Using tor is another option for some scenarios.
How Microsoft Lost the API War – 2004
Edward Snowden says using an ad-blocker is 'not just a right but a duty'
I agree. Indeed there are 2 separate needs; bookmarking as a read later for tweets containing links (for more advanced users ) and liking for applauding for the crowd.. "for the crowd" will always win for "quarterly" reasons..

Now
The disincentive should be perceived by everyone, but it's not.

If I accept a lower pay job, I'm doing my part on lowering the pay for that job in the collective bargaining between employer/employee. You might think it's not detrimental for you, but it's detrimental for everyone who competes for that job. And, as your argument is truthful, it will become a spiral: no disincentive in accepting the $2/hr job, then no disincentive in the $1.95/hr job, then ... for n iterations until there's no disincentive in doing it for free, for the experience or the kicks.

And, of course, in the end the benefit will go the usual beneficiaries.
> Amdahl also benefited from antitrust settlements between IBM and the Justice Department, which required IBM to make its mainframe software available to competitors.

Anybody here who knows more about this? Did IBM have to sell the software for the same price, did they have to give it for free?
There's already an Android version called Twilight and it's awesome.
If you're interested in self-hosting but are intimidated by the task of installing and configuring everything, make sure to check out Sovereign (https://github.com/sovereign/sovereign), a project that automates the deployment by using Ansible.
Crossing on red is not jaywalking as per the American definition. Jaywalking is crossing the street where there isn't a crosswalk or pedestrian traffic light.
I don't know of any on El Camino in Mountain View not at a controlled intersection. There are some on ECR in Sunnyvale (e.g. just W of Halford) and two notorious ones in Santa Clara, though.

Of course, the County wants to reserve a lane for bus use only now...
> angry looks

I wonder how well the self driving car copes with these.

In fact, I wonder how well the self driving car copes with an overly aggressive driver cutting in front and slamming on their brakes just to piss you off. I guess it would handle that better than my mothers elderly neighbour who recently didn't manage to brake in time and hit the twerp, writing off her vehicle in the process. Of course, it was counted as her fault since she struck the car in front..
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10545191
I don't see how this can possibly work.

I'm reasonably well paid, and pay a lot of tax. I can save quite a bit. I could afford to live for 5 years from my savings without working. But not forever, so I still work.

But if someone was to give me 800 euro a month then I could live of my saving for maybe 20 years instead. Certainly long enough to get to retirement....

So why would I work?
I wouldn't. So not only would this cost 800 euro a month directly but also the 4000 euro a month in taxes I would have paid.

It doesn't take many people to do the obvious thing...
18-Year-Old Interviews His 56-Year-Old Self
Red Hat's patent deal with Microsoft angers many anti software patents advocates
We can consider the effects this will have on the wages and national competitiveness though. E.g. if you subtract 800 out of that €2300 average income, it translates to much lower payroll figures for the employers. It also puts Finland in very competitive position, compared to e.g. Germany or even Eastern Europe.
That article mentions both Microsoft and Google, and closes with "In addition, the software is used by Facebook and Twitter, among others." (referring to PhotoDNA to scan all your pictures in all your mails - only Google's and Microsoft's reaction to matches is described in the article though, I guess we can infer that Twitter and Facebook would do the same).
Why would it raise the cost of living? This measure does nothing to increase wages, it has tendency to do the exact opposite in fact, as per described in the article.
When a startup receives investment from a VC firm, are all the limited partners in the fund disclosed? If so, how do you know those aren't also shell corporations, etc?
loads fine for me.

at first, I thought maybe you had the old link (it moved last year, but they left the old one up, broken)
US air strike kills 'Jihadi John'
I think it is more likely to be the result of approaching things with an outsiders perspective. This gives you the ability to avoid problems insiders assume are unavoidable.
>citizens only

No it's not. Currently all wellfare in Finland is based permanent residence. But if you don't have permanent residence, the social services will get you one if you just are in Finland "permanently". Which happens if you can claim that you have no other safe place to go. Or if you have family here. Or if you have no other citizenship.

Russians can't come over the border right now. But if there is ever a civil war in Russia, then we are fucked. If Russia starts to move Syrian refugees through russia just to fuck with us, we are in deep shit.

Some people are really worried about immigration. While it's not a problem right now. Some people are really worried that we are not perceived as fascist. Some people are really worried about refugees who are here. Nobody gives a fuck about Syrians in Syria.

Getting citizenship means you have to do military service, but you gain nothing from it. Currently it is punishment really.
Without having a gap before you start, how do you plan on stopping in time if the car in front stops suddenly? Which they might do if they see someone running the red light, or a pedestrian thinking there's just enough time to run across.
Incitement to riot is no excuse for rioting, surely?

Holding up a line of cars that would otherwise be driving too fast is not going to be the cause of an accident. The cause of the accident would be the driver who was driving too fast!
> Driving that far under causes people to start behaving irrationally resulting in lots of lane changes/tailgaiting etc. This can be dangerous when lots of cars are doing it.

This is one of those examples of an explanation rather than a justification.

If someone else is going slow, that's no excuse to start acting like an idiot, and if you do and you get in an accident, that's on you, not the slow driver.
Please don't use the titles of HN submissions to editorialize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Even by Android standards, this is pretty shocking.

Being that this a one-shot exploit that the author believes will work on any Android with the latest Chrome makes it doubly so.

I'd also be more concerned that the exploit is described as targeting V8 specifically, considering how widely it is being used out of the browser these days.
Making Fedora Gnome your working system in less than an hour
Ask HN: Why is there a black bar at the top of hacker news?
So that's how it is nowadays, pay the Apple extortion fee it's good for you . As an app developer with principles I will never endorse Apple's business model as it is toxic and destroying the open internet. That users will not find the app is actually good as it might make them consider switching provider for their mobile OS and one less iOS user is a victory for anyone carring about the health of the internet market and mobile ecosystem at large.
I don't know why you're being downvoted.

You're questioning economical premises stated as obvious in a tech forum (so, where no special economical knowledge should be assumed). You're doing the right thing - why are they obvious? If he who stated them as obvious can't answer that with solid references, then it's not obvious; it's just an unfounded preconception.
Yeah, but is a couple of infrared lights enough to be considered "police"? What if I yell "VWEEEWOOOWEEEOOO" and someone mistakes that for a legitimate police siren -- am I still impersonating police, or is that person incredibly stupid?
Going at an unusually low speed can attract police attention up here in Oregon. The legalization of recreation cannabis has increased the number of non-alcohol intoxicated drivers. Apparently one sign of DUI of cannabis is going too slow for traffic conditions.

AFAIK no driverless cars around here (yet), but there are plenty of other potential hazards for motorists, like pedestrians and bicycles on narrow, twisty, dark and wet streets this time of year.

Ideally it calls for everyone to be patient, careful and vigilant. Above all be thankful if born with great reflexes, on the road alas only a few are so gifted.
The Benefits of 'Mob Programming'
Firefox shrinking customization capabilities
That's not the same though, I believe most countries have a guaranteed minimum income (520 euros in France) but unlike basic income, minimum income is not unconditional.

It disappears if you earn money from a job, which creates (some) disincentive to find a job, and requires elaborate rules to reduce this disincentive (like reducing the benefit progressively relative to the total income, etc).

Basic income on the other hand is unconditional, so whatever job you have you won't feel like you're losing on benefits (at least, that's the idea).
Yeah but that already happens with the current system; the worst case scenario is that nothing changes and people on lower wages keep being pushed out from more desirable areas.
Is TEA less broken than RC4? It's also bigger. RC4 is remarkable because it's so small. TEA does somewhere around ~8 times more work.
So... You can build the complete OS... Except for all the hard driver parts.
This is an unemployment/disability benefit, precisely the kind of thing basic income is supposed to eliminate.
Are you a Finn? I am and would definitely call this homogenous coutry. But I know Finns who would never agree on that.
It's not about some particular kind of skill-based estimate of the road's design speed. It's much simpler than that: people drive at the fastest speed at which they feel safe.

If people are driving on a large separated highway with big lanes, plenty of light, and it's straight with no curves, and no traffic for miles, then they might feel safe going 80 or 100 mph if their vehicle can handle it. People on a small, narrow, windy street with pedestrians around will drive another speed. The point is that people make these judgment calls primarily based on instinct, rather than based on signs.

Imagine that you were walking down a path on foot, and one sign said the walking path was supposed to be 1 mph, and another said 2 mph, and another said 3 mph. Would those signs mean much to you, or would you trust your two feet, sense of balance, and situational awareness to find the right speed? People do the same in cars. Dylan16807 is right.

Most people do, anyway. A small subset of people, I believe it's about 5%, follow the sign regardless. These people create traffic problems since they move at a different speed than the rest of traffic. I read a good article about how traffic planners are re-evaluating the idea that slow speed limits are a good thing or beneficial for safety. The conclusion was that slower speed limits do not actually benefit safety; if the posted speed limit is out of alignment with the road, and whether people feel safe, it creates more problems than it helps. The takeaway from the research was that if traffic planners want people to drive more slowly, then they need to create smaller, narrower roads.
Here in Britain, it's entirely lawful and very common to cross 40-60MPH roads without signals. Often the roads don't even have a marked crossing, since you can legally cross wherever you want.

It's also not too uncommon to cross a non-motorway 70MPH dual carriageway, when walking outside a city.

I don't know if our roads are safer for pedestrians than the USA. They're considerably safer in total, but it seems difficult to compare the US and UK for pedestrians in particular because of the differing laws and distribution of methods of travel. However, they're probably at least in the same ball park, despite our more laissez faire attitude toward pedestrian-road interaction.
intent matters.

If you say "Here's some infra-red lights. They simulate enough of a police car for other cars to change their behaviours" you're not going to have a fun time in court.
An alternative viewpoint is that attempting to drive substantially faster than the slowest vehicle is extremely dangerous because of the potential speed differential. Relative velocity matters, as you know!
Ok, we'll add glyphosate.
Just googled your question and found :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5990015
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5047472

So I guess someone died, but I can't tell you who.
I don't understand what is going here. They spent a lot of effort to add these customization capabilities and also the extensions support. People lowed Firefox exactly because they were the best in this. Developers spent a lot of effort to produce nice solutions. Why are they converting Firefox to a minimalist browser? One more year and Edge will be more flexible :)
It wasn't just x86, it was the fact that IBM released the entire documentation for the PC architecture up to the AT, including the BIOS source code (which was copyrighted, so competitors could not just copy it, but they could certainly study its function and produce a different but compatible implementation.)

For the PC, things started taking a turn for the worse with EFI and SecureBoot, but before that it was quite open.
Magento evangelist: ‘No matter what happened, Magento always rose to the top’
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Why don't you take a part time job at flipping burgers or at bartending? I've no idea what you do but I'm assuming there are plenty of part-time, low wage jobs you could take right now that are less stressful than whatever you do now and, because they're part-time, would give you a lot more free time.

Why don't you do that? They'd pay enough for you to be able to live off your savings until retirement age, by your account.
Well-designed roads for pedestrians are designed to limit traffic speed. Common methods in Europe are to plant trees down both sides, to narrow the traffic lane and to have parked cars meaning traffic has to stop to let oncoming traffic pass etc.

Drivers are much more attentive when they're always looking all around for potential obstructions.

Speed limits are, in turn, influenced by the road's design.
Most people don't pay 4000 euros a month in taxes and can't live for 5 years from their savings.

Your personal situation is far from representative and can't be used to assess the usefulness of universal basic income.
>oh that we could all be as enlightened as you

Completely agree. Not being on facebook is the new "I don't even own a tv". http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioni...

As for using facebook in a sane manner, I was struggling because I rely on messages and event invites so I didn't want to block it completely (and messenger.com and app is not enough for me). But this plugin basically saved me: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kill-news-feed/hjo... -- it simply hides the newsfeed, turning facebook into a fully functional messages/events page that it otherwise completely dull.
People don't work just for money. The idea is to free people up so that they can use their natural human creativity to grow as individuals.
In the UK it's not uncommon to see chevrons painted along each lane where in you're meant to keep a minimum of two chevrons from the car in front (http://www.roberthempsall.co.uk/blogimages/keep-apart-2-chev...).
Is it at all allowed to drive slow vehicles like tractors or scooters on a highway?

Here in Sweden, highways are off limits if the vehicle may not legally be driven faster than (i think) 45 kmph.
As one example of a crossing which does have warnings:

The A417 between Cirencester and Cheltenham is a dual carriageway that has pedestrian footpaths across it.

Imagine driving at 70mph toward this:

350 yard warning: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8078399,-2.0618748,3a,75y,...

actual crossing: https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.8051623,-2.0595278,3a,75y,...

350 yards at 70 MPH is, I think, 10 seconds.
We go out of our way not to kill stories and comments that are critical of YC or YC-funded startups. When such posts break the HN guidelines, we may penalize them, but always less than we would if the story were about something else. That's a pretty big deal around here—it's literally the first rule of HN moderation.

Beyond that, we'd need to know what post you're talking about.
If you'd like to provide a link, we can look into it.
I'm sorry, why is that obvious, even in the slightest?
While I agree that he's being obnoxious, I'm not sure it's entirely fair to characterize "talk to Congress and the SEC" as a legal threat.
When you say a job is unethical, who exactly is being unethical? As far as I know, only human beings can act either ethically or unethically; inanimate objects can neither be ethical nor unethical. So is your claim that any human being who does a job is acting unethically?

I still remember some of my grade school teachers. They had a profound, and I would argue, very positive impact on me. Was it unethical for them to become teachers?
Except that driving artificially slowly correlates well with being intoxicated... so being slow can call attention to oneself.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10557793
(tl;dr: Gene Amdahl)
Spain vs England – Match Preview
Cross-device tracking [pdf]
Now that you mention it, it doesn't matter what kind of threat it was—threatening another user breaks the HN guidelines. I've deleted "legal" above.
If you haven't already, you should check out Sandstorm https://sandstorm.io/ which allows you to self-host these services sandboxed.
The point of traffic is to run an economy, not to parade at a precise speed for the amusement of deontologically obsessed nannies. If a line of traffic wants to go at speed+5, then the proper speed of traffic is speed+5, and going speed-5 is causing economic harm.
Why does it seem that way to you?

"Cost of living" in basics like rent and food is what people buy anyway. How is having a basic income going to change that, unless you had like a huge homeless/starving population that can suddenly now get homes/food?
depends on how you're using facebook, as long as it's not voyeurism you should be fine
> That was how you debugged hardware designs in 1975.

soul of a new machine, spends couple of chapters discussing debugging the data-general machine as well. pretty interesting...
40mph? Really? Not 40kph? Because holy fuck -- once I managed to go 50kph for a minute and that's incredibly FAST.
The black bar looks strange on my tablet, not like I remember it from last time. The black is now about 1/7th of the bar and the remainder is orange. I seem to recall that the entire bar was black last time they did it, which I think worked much better.
I wonder how well the self driving car copes with an overly aggressive driver cutting in front and slamming on their brakes just to piss you off.

You really think Google can't afford a Death Ray in each car?
Why would you think that?

"(b) If a vehicle is being driven at a speed less than the normal
speed of traffic moving in the same direction at such time, and is
not being driven in the right-hand lane for traffic or as close as
practicable to the right-hand edge or curb, it shall constitute prima
facie evidence that the driver is operating the vehicle in violation
of subdivision (a) of this section."

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=veh&gr...

Says nothing about limited-access divided highways.