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> When math says it's impossible for your representative to represent you...

That's not at all what I said, and it's a dramatic misinterpretation of my words. There are substantially better mechanisms available to us to figure out what people want and what they need than for a decision maker to ask them, one-on-one.

From what I understand, there's a whole raft of really good, reproducible research on how to tease out what people mean from what they say; people are surprisingly bad at both knowing what they want, and -even if they do happen to know- surprisingly bad at expressing that information coherently. It's trivial to structure queries in such a way to give different answers to what is effectively the same question. [0]

> ...perhaps at that point we realize that the system has reached the end of its shelf life.

This is narrow-minded. Based on this comment, you appear to be proposing that we dramatically increase the number of Federal representatives per citizen. [1] Go pick a country that you think is well run at the highest levels. Go look at their representative to constituent ratios. If they're like 10x or 100x greater than the US's ratios, [4] then you might have a point. If they're only 2x or 5x greater, you probably don't.

[0] A researcher wishes to discover what Presidential candidate a given person intends to vote for. He asks them "What Presidential candidate do you intend to vote for?". Most of the time, the answer to that question does not match what candidate that person actually votes for. The question to ask to get that information -most of the time- is actually "What Presidential candidate do you expect that most people will vote for?". Polling is full of crazy pitfalls like this!

[1] The other possible interpretation is either advocacy of voluntary expatriation of people who disagree with their Congressional representatives [2], or dismantlement of the Federal government. [3]

[2] Okay, sure. You do have the trouble of both finding a country that's governed in a way that you agree with, and will accept you as an immigrant, though.

[3] Ha. See the rest of the paragraph to which footnote #1 is attached.

[4] I'm fairly sure that's in the right direction. Again, I'm sick, sorry if my math is off.
I went to a retreat at Tassajara Zen Center recently. If I didn't have obligations (wife, house, bills), spending time in a place meditating and focusing inward would be a wonderful experience.

In this case they are more a Japanese style of Zen Buddhism... Quite stark and austere.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/01/13/copyright...

"I’m a repairman. I recognize broken things when I see them. I got into this fight because I wanted to help people repair their broken stuff. Turns out, copyright law is the thing that was broken all along."

The problem is, as perceived by me and some others, that the patent system isn't functioning as intended.

It needs to get fixed. Part of that could probably be reducing the restrictions on individual manufacturing, even though, taken as a mass event, that defeats the forbidding power of patents. Other parts could be decreasing the time period for patent enforcement, adding requirements for patent holders - to, e.g., diminish problems with "patent trolls". Yet another could be admitting that patents in different areas work differently - a software patent (which today doesn't really justify its existence) is a very different thing than a pharmaceutical patent.
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Jesus Christ on ten motorbikes!
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Having some trouble swallowing this paragraph:
"
The richest metropolitan areas in the US are San José, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, Washington, Houston, New York, Portland, Hartford and Salt Lake City. Areas with relatively few urban highways are overrepresented in that list, with Houston being the one big exception.
"

When I need to get anywhere in New York, most of the time I am better off grabbing the west side highway or the FDR rather than going through the grid and hitting traffic lights and gridlock constantly. So that's two highways, one on either side of a 2.3 mile wide (at most) island and then 95 crosses it at the top.

San Francisco similarly has elevated 280 and 80, and 101 mostly on the ground with some lights slowing it. At least SF is much bigger than Manahattan for similar amount of highways to help his point.

I get the feeling he just isn't from the US and doesn't know anything about our cities, though, so that paragraph is just way off.
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We used to be RequireJS/jQuery based on the frontend. While this obviously depends on what kind of application you have, attempting to develop complex UI in jQuery is not an experience I'd describe as "pleasant", nor does it naturally lead to creating reusable components.

On the other hand, switching to React + Redux + webpack (and NPM) has changed development from "we can't do that" or "let's copy paste from some other component" to "I'll have something by tomorrow" and "I'll reuse the generic React widget I made last time". It's really a game-changer.

Also, ES6 >> ES4. Destructuring doesn't bring you what real pattern-matching does, but it's still a lot nicer than what ES4 gives.
So Jurg and Wirth designed Modula-2 as a replacement, then built a computer, then wrote an OS, wrote some apps, and lived happily ever after. Until their urge to build new languages was overpowering. Rinse, repeat.

Yet, Modula-2 had a nice combo of readability, safety, compiler efficiency, and runtime-efficiency. Proven in OS development. Such safe, systems languages helped once I got past toy problems C could handle without crashing my stuff. ;)
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I don't see how you're disagreeing with me. I'm positing that HN may be more amenable to games that allow you to employ skill/knowledge to your benefit (racing/poker/blackjack/sports betting) over games that rely entirely on chance (lottery/slots).
Obviously it isn't my argument that Go's TLS is good because it had a carry propagation bug.
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That's the Overton Window/door-in-the-face tactic -- introduce extreme rhetoric (felonies for uploaders) in order to get a "compromise" that's basically what they wanted all along (forced takedowns at their discretion).
It will continue being a story until copyright law is corrected.
This is a great write up. At first I was thinking "just use an api..." But the engineer quickly showed how easy it was with just a tiny bit of elbow grease.
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I was with you, right up until you said "Out with the old, and in with the new."

You're first paragraph is spot on. But.

The next step is, DIY tractors, as if they were hot rod motorcycles, since, let's be honest... Tractors are NOT high technology items.

Okay, so tractors aren't as sexy as motorcyles, and gear heads don't cut their teeth on John Deer. So... just buy ordinary tractors, why not? They are basically covered wagons with motors, and attached shovels. They scrape dirt. They sift potatoes out of mud.

Why do tractors need horrendously advanced software at all? How complicated is a riding lawn mower?

These are not jumbo jets with multi-core governed CPU voting systems. Tractors don't have ailerons that need to adjust pitch and yaw at hypersonic velocities.

They fucking creep along at like 5MPH. Christ.

Then, after that one little nitpick, I'm with you all the way.
Article on the first uncharted shipwreck discovered back in May, 2015:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32719284
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Yes, assumptions and pre-conditions would be quite useful. So much academic stuff has failed in the real-world due to mismatch between what they expected and actually occurred. Or even what its users expected and what it was built for.
I think what the parent was suggesting is an arbitrary boycott for all future purchases. In other words, if they all use the same tactics, then make an example out of one to scare the others.

It sounds vindictive and harsh, until you consider that's exactly how the legal system is used all the time.
Interesting. It would be interesting to see this table normalized by the state's population.
>This seems like the kind of company that would spoil this particular form of customer service.

I strongly disagree with this, and I have some real world evidence to backup my point of view that companies want customers to take advantage of these policies. Walmart has a feature in their app called Savings Catcher. When you buy something from there, you simply hold the receipt's bar code under your phone's camera for a few seconds. They automatically keep track of the prices of every single item you bought. When prices drop within the policy period, it is added to your Savings Catcher balance, which can be transferred to a virtual Walmart gift card for spending at any time the customer chooses.

If one of the world's largest retailers finds value in automating this process for their own customers, I can't imagine that other companies with this exact policy in place have a problem with people taking advantage of it.
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I don't think this bill has much chance of being enacted, but if it was, what would stop me from buying an encrypted phone in another state and using it in New York? New Jersey is just a quick train ride away from NYC.

There's no way they could actually ban the possession or use of encrypted phones in NY, since the state is full of visitors from other states and countries (not to mention daily commuters from neighboring states).

I imagine there are also a lot of state legislators who wouldn't want their private communications to be available to the authorities. Sheldon Silver, the speaker of the NY State Assembly, was recently convicted on corruption charges, and he's just the tip of the iceberg in our corrupt state government. These guys aren't likely to pass a law that would make it easier to gather evidence against them.
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The problem of getting from one side of town to the other very quickly, without clogging up the "walkable neighborhoods" in the middle, with their narrow streets and wide sidewalks. The people going through get on the highway, out of the way of the people actually living in the town.
Napster and related sites/services/apps made iTunes possible by priming the marketplace.
> From what I understand, there's a whole raft of really good, reproducible research on how to tease out what people mean from what they say

Having a game of telephone for a government... sounds like it would result in the sort of legislation that can be found in the OP. XD

> Based on this comment, you appear to be proposing that we dramatically increase the number of Federal representatives per citizen.

Not at all. I again invite you to read my other comments.
Yes- nice to see I'm not the only one who felt this way! It's an amazing experience but some of the cultish aspects bothered me as well. I understand that they want you to focus on the Vipassana way of meditating during the retreat but pushing it as the "one true way" felt contradictory.
I read your other comments. Did you read the footnote attached to the quoted sentence?
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Tractors are NOT high technology items.

You'd be surprised. There are far more lasers, GPS units, etc. in use at the typical farm than owned by the typical consumer.
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See also: Mr. Babe, Japan's men's magazine for chubby guys.

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2015/11/13/lifestyle/japans...

I will also say that both my wife nor I can find clothes that fit us properly when we go to the US because they are cut all wrong. I've given up on trying to buy collared shirts of the rack of places like Banana Republic. As retailers all get more efficient at analyzing profit, they leave the 20 part of the 80/20 rule to specialty retailers. I think that's just going to be a reality going forward.
I wonder how this varies by country. Does this interface seem friendlier in China?
I'm not an expert but I'd imagine the biggest advantages are:
Faster travel within the city itself.
Easier to move in and out of the city.
Reducing rush hour traffic on local streets.
Wonder how many people would get re-elected after outlawing the iPhone for protecting their customers.
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When I think of major US cities that are under-served with urban highways, the one that immediately comes to mind is Baltimore (granted, I-95 goes thru, and I-83 (81?) dead-ends near downtown, but otherwise good luck).

For the ones he's mentioned DC's got big sections that aren't well served by highways, but there is still the beltway, the BW parkway/I295, I395, the southeast freeway. I don't know Hartford that well, but it's got two major interstates going thru.

I wonder what "relatively few" means, and what some examples of cities with "relatively many" highways would be.
I used to write a fair amount of AWK code back in the day. It was great for one-liners, but I wrote some more elaborate programs in it too. I treated it seriously, like a real programming language, and it served me well.

My favorite AWK program was probably my LaserJet II code listing program from 1991. I wrote this out of frustration with the terrible default listings I got when I printed source code. The AWK code did a "two-up" printout of source code: two pages of code per page of paper in landscape mode. It used a nice font and drew graphic boxes around the pages. I was in the habit of using separator lines like this in my code:

//-------------------------------------

So the program found these and changed them to graphic line separators. It also avoided splitting a function onto two pages if it could - it would leave whitespace at the bottom of a page instead, filled in with a faint dot pattern.

Somewhere I have a printout I made with this program; I was hoping to find it and scan it in to show what it looked like. I know it's here somewhere, but in the meantime the source code will have to do:

https://github.com/geary/awk/blob/master/LJPII.AWK

Of course, these days I hardly ever print out any code. But back then we printed everything.
Would be nice to have the charts start at 0. Otherwise the delta looks bigger than it really is.
The leader bottleneck will continue to exist even if there great sharding because the leaders simply process more messages than the replicas, so TAPIR will allow each shard to support more throughput.

The paper has an evaluation for multi-data-center replication in Figure 12. We assume that the clients are web servers, so they are always close to one of the replicas, but not all of them. The result we found is basically that TAPIR performs better in the multi-data center case except when the leader is in the same data center as the client. So it depends on whether you can always guarantee that the leader is in the same data center as the client.

The abort rate continues to essentially track the latency needed for commit. So, TAPIR reduces the abort rate compared to OCC because it reduces the commit latency. At very high contention, locking is likely to make slightly more progress, but no systems with strong consistency will be able to provide high performance. If you are interested in some other ways to optimize for the high contention case, take a look at our work on Claret: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~bholt/projects/claret.html

We also tested with high clock skew. The paper notes, "with a clock skew of 50 ms, we saw less than 1% TAPIR retries." Since the clients can use the retry timestamps to sync their clocks, it only adds an extra round-trip, so it still leaves TAPIR with the same latency as a conventional system, even in cases of extremely high clock skew.
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One of my friends includes line breaks in his iMessages, which I find strange because it takes extra effort to accomplish the same effect of sending multiple messages. But it also allows me only one chance to respond. I can't respond to his first paragraph while he's typing the second, because he sent them both at the same time.

This makes me think that the critical difference between the "Chat" and "Full" case is the number of messages, not the UI. I would expect similar results if the "Full" case was three separate messages as opposed to one message in multiple paragraphs. A better "Control" case would have been a single message in the chat UI, with line breaks (i.e. shift+enter while in FB chat), in order to eliminate text density as a variable.

Dividing one message into multiple creates anxiety for the reader by obscuring when the writer expects a response. Each individual message could stand on its own, but the writer does not expect a response to each. When three messages are condensed into one, the reader has an easier time inferring that the writer expects only one response to the whole message, not one to each individual paragraph.

This seems to relate to the feeling of sending two highly coupled messages in quick succession, only to lose service just after the first one says "Delivered."
IIRC, they both forked the USB stack from NetBSD a long time ago and haven't really remained in sync since. The XHCI drivers seem to be independent implementations.
> a scientifically-backed nutritional plan,

That would be refreshing, because almost none are. What did you have in mind?
I would think it's primarily moving people from point A to point B (or, possibly from point C to point D via some stretch in between A and B).

[Begin Rant]

This brings up the biggest problem I have with Bay Area public trasnportation. I live 11 miles from work, but it's impossible to get there via any reasonable public transportation-based route in less than 1 hour. On flat land, I can bike at least 50% faster than that, in normal clothes, without breaking a sweat.

The BART portion of my trip takes around 25 minutes. Once I get off BART, my choices are basically to take Muni or walk. Walking gets me there reliably in around 25-30 minutes. Muni theoretically gets me there in around 15 minutes, but that's in an ideal world where there are no delays on the line and I don't have to wait to transfer. I'd rather end the day $2.25 richer and get the little bit of exercise than save a whole 15 minutes. And, of course, the same goes for the trip home.

People who live in, say, the Outer Sunset and commute to SOMA or the Financial District have even worse options. Your Muni trip involves taking 2 or 3 buses, and there's no other reasonable way to make the commute than drive (and we know how miserable and expensive driving in SF is).

[End Rant]
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This is cool. I am only going to suggest that there is also this : https://github.com/haxpax/gosms

Written in Golang, simple api to push messages to queue, takes care of AT protocol for you. Also supports load balancing if you have multiple modems :)

Disclaimer: I am a co-author of that project.
HN thread when we published it : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9029341

It is only for sending messages though
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I was using pascal in the early 90s, and the compilers to which I had access most certainly still had "Strongly typed, but arrays of different lengths are different types", which was incredibly annoying. (And for fun, consider the arguments against pascal's length-typed arrays and against go's lack of generics)
Apologies, reading your comment was like going down a choose-your-own-adventure maze.

For footnote [3] my reply is that representative democracy is one of a vast variety of possible systems you could use. That ratio of yours becomes much less meaningful in say, a liquid democracy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delegative_democracy

These two links should (hopefully) address any further questions: https://fixingtao.com/2016/01/lunatics-terrorists-and-the-th... + this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10899574
Damnit. Looks like I'll be trialling FreeBSD 10 and OpenBSD 5. If I had a good alternative to ZFS I'd jump back to Linux before loading too much data on to this NAS. FreeNAS 9 is like going back to the 90s.
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Out of curiosity is Woodman still the highest paid CEO in the US?
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Urban highways solve a political problem. When you have voters that spend a hour or so a day stuck in traffic it's really easy to sell them the idea that a highway will reduce traffic congestion without them having to change anything about their daily routine (ie. take public transport, bicycle, walk)

Since the highway will only reduce traffic congestion for a short time it's something you can sell to the voters again at the next election.
How would it be negative?
Does this mean they'll finally stop their absolutely ridiculous policy of removing mixtapes and remixes of popular songs, and of shutting down the accounts of "offenders"?
Not going to matter. They'll say whatever they have to say to get people buying again and then sue anyone who is breaking the law. People can't do illegal things just because they got you to promise that you wouldn't tell.
Front-End Nanodegree graduate here, and I recently got a job at a startup because of my final project with the program (neighborhood map--using Google maps and AJAX requests). My interview consisted of me adding a new feature to that project and explaining everything.

Would I have been able to have gotten the job without the actual Nanodegree? To be perfectly honest, probably. However, the Nanodegree provides structure to a rather cluttered catalogue of courses (not entirely a bad thing). Worth $200/mo? (That's how much it was for me to do it at the time). It depends on the person. Certainly cheaper than something like General Assembly or App Academy (not comparing the two as they are entirely different things, but they have similar "guarantees").

But knowing what projects I had to do, and what courses I needed to take to prepare for those projects, made it much easier for me to go through the curriculum, rather than just taking ALL of the front-end courses, ALL of the AJAX courses, etc.
You have no way of trusting any other company that releases closed systems either. Like iOS, or manufacturers Androids. You have to trust some institution at some point.
It's going to be quite a while, if ever. I can sort of see the internet generation loosening copyright a little bit here and there, but then I can also see them not doing that.
When did the rename happen?
(Not the principal engineer but I can try to respond)

We forked nginx (just like Cloudflare) and modified it to log stats that we need. The logs are forwarded to a Logstash, then parsed using ElasticSearch.
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Yes, it is possible:

Have a microcontroller that stores the time table for when to set which temperature, and applies it.

Have a second processor, with internet access, that updates this table.

Simple as that.
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I don't think that there's enough to say here that anything is inherently due to the UI until the context of it being on Facebook is removed.

I would bet that are broadly acceptable use cases for FB chat and ones that are not. At best, this is saying that in the context of a chat, communicating like this comes off differently than using the full conversation, or, say, an email.

I'd love to see this repeated with white labeled mockups, and remove the Facebook branding as a variable.
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