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> That's a very different thing from voting for pre-selected candidates whom you've never met and don't interact with, and then crossing your fingers.

I'm a bit sick right now, thus either my math or my formulas might be off. I welcome any corrections. :)

So.

Copyright policy is decided at the Federal level. The people in charge of setting that policy are elected members of Congress.

Let's assume that you can declare someone "met and interacted with" with a single five-minute conversation.

According to Wikipedia, California is the most populous state and Wyoming is the least populous state.

The CA Secretary of State reports that ~17 million voters were registered to vote as of the date of the 2014 general election. The WY Secretary of State reports that ~240 thousand voters were registered to vote as of that same date.

There are 124,800 minutes in a standard 40-hour-per-week, no-vacations-or-holidays work year. (60x40x52)

For Wyoming, each Senatorial challenger would need to spend 48,000 minutes per election cycle speaking to each registered voter. (240,000/5) That's doable.

For California, a challenger would spend 3,400,000 minutes per election cycle on the same task. (17,000,000/5) For California, what you propose is not possible for Senatorial challengers... they'd have to do nothing but hold conferences for 27 years to get this task done. (3,400,000/124,800)

So, what's the largest state where this is feasible?

This might be South Dakota (the 46th most populous state) (with -I think- ~514,000 voters). [0] If it's not, it's definitely Alaska (the 48th) (with ~509,000 voters).

So, it is physically impossible to even pay lip service to what you propose in either fourty-six, or fourty-eight of the states in the US.

Before you get too cranky, I do acknowledge that the situation changes when one meets with one's Representative:

In California the 27-year workload would -roughly- be divided over 53 representatives, meaning that they'd only have to spend just over half of a year meeting every registered voter in the state. But... this assumes a five-minute meeting. If that constituent meeting balloons to ten minutes, we're right back in the realm of impossibility.

While the workload might be smaller in the smallest states, Representatives are apportioned by population, so I don't expect that the picture would vary very much from state to state.

In short, your idea is promising, and would be really great to do... but there just aren't enough hours in the day to make it happen. [1]

[0] I'm having a fuck of a time finding historical voter registration numbers for SD. So, that voter registration number is based off of what I'm pretty sure is current voter registration data. :/ (North Dakota doesn't even have voter registration!).

[1] Yes, my analysis ignores the fact that a campaign could conceivably be a multi-year thing. It's difficult to get good numbers on the length of an average Congressional campaign, but it's... difficult to believe that a campaign would run for longer than two years.
It was typed from an android.. Should've verified before posting. Can't edit it now
I am sorry, I have seen two interviews by Mehdi Hasan of Al Jazeera. The bias was really really obvious. I don't buy the arguments about how good it is by some commenters here.
It's pretty cool that you guys like your professor so much and that probably means he's an awesome prof, but comments like these don't belong here, so the community is likely to treat them pretty harshly.

We'd be happy if you stuck around and learned the ways of HN and started making solid contributions, so please do! Best to read these links to get an idea of what's good on the site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
"enabling TAPIR to provide the same transaction model and consistency guarantees as existing systems, like Spanner, with better latency and throughput."

Oh, hell yeah! Now that's great stuff. Can't wait to see the next step done by this or another team: building an alternative to the F1 RDBMS that Google built on Spanner. Would give CochroachDB some competition.
The original purpose was to incentivize creative works, and the desirability of that hasn't really gone away. For example, Free software would be a lot further along if there could be a lucrative business model behind it.

Enforcement is just utterly at odds with physics and at this point, the idea of "owning" control of bits in someone else's possession is incompatible with a free society.
Side note to your post, the w800 in your picture was my all time favorite phone. I'm a full time Android developer now and I consider the Java programs I first worked on with the w800 to be the reason behind my interests :)
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Or keep the same split but render it all server-side (easy with ASP.NET, no idea with other languages).
Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html, which asks you not to use uppercase for emphasis.

(Nothing wrong with the comment otherwise, of course.)
Or its like saying an automobile has a design flaw because it can't go in reverse.
Yes, but in more and more cases it's being done without the knowledge or agreement of the client, but to minimize load on public defenders.
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I'd love to run a retreat center like this. I'd augment it with a scientifically-backed nutritional plan, have floatation tanks available, and spend a bit more time helping visitors make sense of what they're experiencing and how to proceed.

And definitely, definitely manage expectations better than most of these places. Most of the cultish vibes and/or disappointments that can emerge from these kind of retreats are because people are prone to hyperbole when they spend some time on activities so completely out of their frame of reference.
It's tragedy of the commons because the miners are trying to reap from a shared resource, with no alignment to the changes that are beneficial for Bitcoin.
Presumably, Canadians and US have less language/cultural barriers compared to some east European/Asian nation and US.
Can I PXE boot the OpenBSD image? I know when I looked it up for FreeBSD the information was quite sparse.
You can, e.g.

struct Foo;

impl Foo {
fn bar(&self) {}
}

fn main() {
let x = Foo;
Foo::bar(&x);
}

What you may be encountering is you can't pass a `Foo` when a `&Foo` is expected (why I needed to write &x), because the types differ. Calls with method syntax don't see this because they automatically borrow the receiver if necessary, but explicit function calls do not do this sort of borrowing and so the types need to line up right.
> Caching is based on file hashing. Not filenames.

I'm not really sure what this means, and I've used all the major CDNs/reverse proxies =)

Cloudflare for instance is generally controlled by the filetypes, while cloudfront is generally controlled by the cache control headers sent by the origin server.

Either way, I think exactly how it works needs to go into its own fully-fledged article. It's probably the most important thing a reverse-proxy does, and should be documented very clearly.

BTW one unique feature of cloudfront you might want to support, is setting cache control with vary on cookie. So with cloudfront, I can make non-logged in users see a cached page, while logged-in users see a non-cached page. It allows me to take a huge amount of load off the origin server, with no real downsides (in my case).
It's 2016.
Miners profit from increased competition (for transactions to be included in smaller blocks) increasing the transaction fees. Only transactions with the highest fees are put into blocks.

It was proven several times with the "stress tests" of Bitcoin network.
On the one hand, I'd rather Amazon and others not manipulate pricing to squeeze a couple extra pence from their customers, on the other hand, exploiting social norms undermines society and eventually you lose those nice things in life you could count on in a given society.
>Lots of fixes to USB and and xhci mean USB 3 devices should attach much more reliably.

Does anyone know how much code FreeBSD and OpenBSD share? FreeNAS uses FreeBSD 9 and the forum is allergic to any mention of xhci. I've got it working on a Atom C2758 system but it runs at USB 2 speed.
What are you plans for an API?
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Is it just me or is the reasoning behind the switch from postgres to mysql very vague? They describe a sharded mysql database... Sharding postgres isn't necessarily any more difficult, instagram apparently uses it in a sharded manner with many shards. You'd think storing json in the pretty sweet jsonb column type in postgres would be a nice bonus for querying or indexing on.

I guess someone at uber must really like mysql, a good enough reason as any other I suppose. I'd love to hear about what other reasons as to why mysql turned out to be the choice here, as I've usually gone the other way (mysql to pgsql) for many of the great features and performance pgsql has.
No, it was a fully "democratic" takeover, in that they saw a small town, much of which was for sale, and tried to buy up enough of the town that they'd have a majority, and be able to vote in whatever hateful nonsense they deemed fit. What do you suppose the town's original, non-neo-Nazi inhabitants should have done if they'd succeeded? They aren't exactly being represented in this case, either.

I guess, as long as you're cognizant of the fact that the system you're espousing offers potential institutionalized hate as a means of conflict avoidance, I don't think there's much else to say.

EDIT: Or, hell, let's just take it straight to ludicrous-land. Imagine a group that believes it should be able to practice virgin sacrifice, and raises their sacrificial virgins from birth to believe that it's in their, and their society's interest to be placed upon the altar, so they aren't inclined to leave the society that believes it needs their mortal blood for its upkeep. Do the rest of us just sit by and say, "Well, they're over there in West Whack-a-doo. Nothin' to be done about it", and let them go about their business?
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Author here. I based on a lib that used the word "encrypt" at C++ level mistakenly, but I should have fixed it. I do know the meanings but I needed to implement it fast to use on a personal project.

I'd appreciate if you opened an issue instead of commenting like that, but I did the fix anwyay: https://git.io/vznTU

Thanks! You can use the new API in v0.5.0 if you want.
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If you want a boycott site to be taken seriously, you shouldn't start it with a tone such as:

Best features of Docker:

- Easy to get a project to the top of HackerNews

- New Github stars for old ideas

- Has lots of Twitter followers

This only serves people who already have a disdain for docker to smile and say "year, fuck Docker!" but you've already lost anyone by the end of your terribly written introduction if the goal was to actually change anyone's mind.
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Why is the latest Intel hardware unsupported in libreboot?
It's illegal as per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_neutrality_in_India
Roadmapped. Probably a few months from now, pending how the market size us up. For example, if the bulk of our users are programmers, then the API will be prioritized.

But if most of our users are non-technical users, then we'll prioritize ease-of-use. For example, the biggest hurdle we face are users asking us "how to change the DNS".
Interesting. Counterintuitive but it makes sense.

I think the guy who explained it to me was talking about a combination of counting, pattern recognition and other such strategies, hence my confusion.
> So, it is physically impossible to even pay lip service to what you propose in either fourty-six, or fourty-eight of the states in the US.

lol, that is the opposite of my proposal, and your post (thank you for it btw) just further solidifies my point.

When math says it's impossible for your representative to represent you, perhaps at that point we realize that the system has reached the end of its shelf life.

See the rest of my comments in this thread for a clearer understanding of what I'm saying (and my apologies for the comments that HN makes difficult to read due to downvotes ;).
Heroku's hosted on Amazon servers, so you still can have your app and db in the same data center
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This is what happens when you hire a dim-witted Luddite to direct US Intelligence. Surprised?
Information is a state--a given pattern of matter and energy--that is characterized by its statistical likelihood.

There are a vast number of states that a few picograms of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon, and phosphorous can be in. There are far fewer states that can qualify as the DNA molecules that encode your particular genome. Therefore, your DNA encodes information.

Now, no one called that "information" until we came along, but that doesn't mean it did not exist before humans. Gravity didn't have a name either until we came along.

Physically, there is no difference at all between what humans do and what hurricanes and waterfalls do. All physical systems are governed by the same physical laws, i.e. quantum mechanics and general relativity. Information does not violate either one.
That has non-free code to read the FAT partition.

It also really needs a security audit.
But that is not the case.

Any non-hip, non-fancy, non-SV thermostat control system doesn't have these bugs.

Sure, those systems don't come in fancy design, but they will work offline, they will work in every edge case, and they'll cost twice of what Nest costs.

Treating IoT devices as if they'd be consumer software, with updates every week and constant internet access has never worked, and probably never will.
BBC is not considered trustworthy by lots of people in the West, too. They're very left-biased, and very poor at presenting opposing viewpoints.
> Allowing Secure Boot to be bypassed is a backdoor in itself.

Like Ubuntu does?

http://firmwaresecurity.com/2016/01/07/ubuntus-uefi-secure-b...
Boiler + hot water circulation through radiators is also pretty common in US and will also use a low voltage thermostat. The only exception I can think of is older gas-powered steam boilers which may use a millivolt thermostat (which have the advantage of working when the power is out).
(Or electric baseboards...but who can afford to heat that way?)
Yes, and even when you are publishing pure facts, which is a good goal for journalists, there is still some editorial in which of many facts you choose to publish.
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Things like postman (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbifli...) exist for normal REST APIs. But it's lack of use suggests to me this isn't something people need.
Same for me. "Schemalessness" is even worse.

I have no idea why this word caught on instead of "aschematic", which is much easier to parse.
I think it's more accurate to say that the BBC is disliked by lots of people are aren't culturally Marxist.

BBC is fine for left-leaning Anglosphere types, but it's not very broad in terms of the views covered.
A payment system that ties up the funds for 30 days in escrow is even less useful and not competitive.

Again, escrow is neither new nor unique to Bitcoin. It doesn't solve the refund problems. Why do you think it's not used by modern payment systems?
>has had several carry bugs.

I'm not sure I understand how Go's implementation is so much better when your justification is that they are making the same mistakes other libraries already have. The bar should be higher for new software, not the same.
This is actually pretty common at your local MBA program (State U or similar). The widespread practice of using MA students to teach undergrad courses isn't far off, either.
The key insight: "... existing transactional storage systems waste work and performance by incorporating a distributed transaction protocol and a replication protocol that both enforce strong consistency. Instead, we show that it is possible to provide distributed transactions with better performance and the same transaction and consistency model using replication with no consistency."

The full paper is here: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/2820000/2815404/p263-zhang.p...
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You must be from a warm part of the U.S.

Forced hot water systems are very common in the colder parts, and they use the same thermostat wiring as forced air. Some parts of the U.S. even use diesel fuel for heat (it's called #2 heating oil, but it's really just diesel fuel with pink dye added so they can fine you for using it as a vehicle fuel...it's taxed advantageously).

Also, boiler-radiator systems can absolutely work with standard thermostats. The classic design has no electrical control at all, just bimetal valves (like car thermostats) to regulate the flow of heated water. But the modern revision uses the same kind of electrically controlled valves (24VAC, IIRC) that forced hot water does.

All low-voltage thermostats with standardized wiring layouts.

I didn't know the UK ran high voltage to ordinary thermostats though, that seems crazy if it's just a control circuit. Presumably the full mains voltage?

Old U.S. "radiant" (electrical, non-hydronic) heat ran 220/240 VAC to big rheostats in each room, but that was actually the supply to the heating elements. It feels like something that wouldn't meet code today, but it used to be popular in some parts of the country where electricity was inexpensive.
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And don't forget http://flexboxin5.com/

(tip: visit with a computer not a phone)
My guess is it's a de-duplication trick. They might even have dedicated caching servers. I'd guess others might do it behind the scenes with them just being upfront about it for whatever reason. Just an educated guess.
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Er, one of the specific values of the current system is that the people who (theoretically) represent me and make rules I must abide by also do so for millions of other people. This is genuinely advantageous, even for, perhaps especially for, copyright law. Things are in-copyright or out-of-copyright in a consistent way nationwide, fair use exceptions are defined the same way nationwide, public domain and author's rights exist or don't exist nationwide, etc.

If I have myself and a small number of people represented and ruled by a group of folks, the only way to get this result is for my group of people to form federations with other groups of people, and those federations to form meta-federations, and so forth, and have each group willingly delegate most of its authority upwards. But that's really similar to how I live now.
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That's a fair point, but from what you've shared it sounds more like an invasion of sorts than an actual secession movement. Do you know how much of a majority they had? If it was on the order of 51% of a tiny town that just doesn't seem sufficient.

As you say, it helps for the place to be self-sufficient.

A good example actually are the Amish. Their towns are almost completely composed of Amish and they're entirely self-sufficient except for the standing army part.

For this they actually pay fewer taxes than most Americans, but they still do pay taxes.

The formation of a country seems to require at least two things then:

1. Self-sufficiency in terms of resources

2. Self-sufficiency in terms of defense

(EDIT2: A friend points out that it's a bit more nuanced than this since many existing countries do not satisfy these criteria given the nature of modern trade. So these requirements can be filled by-proxy.)

On that last point, it doesn't necessarily have to imply a superior military. As long as you have some sort of leverage over neighboring countries (like trade agreements), you can arrange to have a truce or even an alliance between yourselves.

An example would be if Silicon Valley and neighboring farming regions banded together and said, "No more tech unless you give us autonomy."

---

EDIT: regarding the question you inserted in your edit, please see if the post I mentioned answers your question: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th... If it doesn't I invite you to post a comment there to continue the convo.
Great to see fresh ideas! One thing I don't like in the presentation is that tapir is presented as doing better than what is out there without stating the conditions. First off there's quite a bit of hand-waving when it comes to leadership bottlenecks -- please assume that sane sharding is occurring. I'm not entirely sure transactions spanning partitions is something unique to say paxos. The abort rate vs. contention seem off. looking at the paper all the nodes are in a single datacenter. I would love to see these numbers where tapir is spread across larger geographical regions. My suspicion is that at higher latency will negatively impact the abort rate more so than with a strong leader. What about poor clock synchronization conditions? What about testing with a variety of client latencies? Since the client is effectively acting as a leader in tapir, the client is, in some ways, contending with other clients and the abort rate may be correlated to client latency. I don't think high-latency clients observe this same correlation than with a strong leader. I wish more of the compromises were presented.
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How is Paribus taking that 25% cut? Do I have to put my banking details in the app?
In general, the way IoT is treated is wrong.

Startups try to treat IoT devices as a standard arm or x86 processor with some additional GPIO pins where they read info, deal with it, and write info.

No real-time guarantee, a level of QA similar to websites or consumer software, etc.

And here is what previous companies building smart devices (say, SIEMENS) treated them like: As extended microcontrollers.

Put all the critical software on one tiny microcontroller, do static verification that that microcontroller is always acting correct. If you need Internet access, add a second chip that does that, and provides the results of that data to the first microcontroller — but don't depend on it.

There is a large divide between the Engineers designing these devices in the past, and today's crowd.
What problem were they meant to solve?

(That's a serious question. I'm interesting in hearing how other people view the purpose of an urban highway.)
Are the original AppleTV's still supported/updated to include an app store? They came out a while ago now and I assume the original devices are much less capable than the latest.
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On the other hand, most people who take the lump sum end up declaring bankruptcy after 2-4 years. The annuity at least prevents them from spending it all in one place.
Please don't submit current affairs stories to HN unless there is something unusually intellectually interesting about them. This is a horrible event, but it doesn't fit that criterion.

You might want to read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and
https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html to get a better idea of what stories are a good fit for HN.
Jesus Christ on ten motorbikes.
Nest's wifi has always been sh*t (for lack of a better word). It's the only device that I've had to reboot the AP for.

It is by far the most fragile device from a network connectivity standpoint. I'm so happy that I won the Nest or I would be so much angrier at the whole thing.
Very cool. Is there any way to do this with more modern technology than GSM?