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I get all my science from motherjones.com! From fluoride to sugar to weed, this is where Pulitzer meets Nobel.

Seriously though: a motherjones.com post of this quality as #1 on HN is a new low. I miss the days of pg obsessively micromanaging everything 'round these parts.
"For the last 20 years, Blount has led technical teams at a range of companies."

LinkedIn says she was an IC until 2002, and then from 2002 through 2006 she was a "software design/project management" which is also an IC role. So really she's been leading technical teams for at most 10 years, which is not someone I would suggest anyone turn to for sage and experienced advice.
I agree there may be some social barriers, but, for instance 4 of the 10ish math students that started the phd program in pure math at the same as me were filtered out by the written exams, another was pulled to industry in her second year, and another left due to (I think) not being able to finish their research before his funding ran out (had less due to entering with a masters). I could be forgetting someone, but I think I am the only one on the pure side, finishing at the 5 year mark in my program, and I put myself through some serious sleep deprivation to do it. The applied students seemed to do slightly better.
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This comment at best should be neutral. Why the down voting. Just curious.
Whatever. I'm using Clojurescript. I'm happy. When I used angular - I wasn't.
it depends on the OS and that's not the important part of the question, as far as I can tell.
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This happens. The historian Hugh Trevor Roper was the world's greatest expert on Adolf Hitler and fell for a scam, famously publicly endorsing some fake 'Hitler diaries'.
Political leanings of the author are of utmost importance when reading an article. It seeps into the writing, into the fact reporting, into everything. I don't care about tact, I care about what's true, and I saw she was a feminist by her face and her blue hair (I actually love blue hair but it is a fact that colourful hair is associated with feminism these days), and that tells me enough. I know this kind of people very well (3rd wave feminists) and I wish I didn't. Bottom line, I wouldn't be surprised if she herself is also the cause of trouble occasionally.
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Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, just tweeted that Trump will be the presumptive GOP nominee. With an endorsement like that there's an incredibly strong chance Trump has the nomination.

https://twitter.com/Reince/status/727665447684820992
>Have you considered that a huge number of Americans have effectively spoken as he becomes the nominee?

That doesn't have anything to do with whether the OP's conjecture is correct. It could be that a huge number of Americans would welcome that change (not that I think they do).

Also I wouldn't say a huge number of voters have spken. Trump has only gotten about 10 million votes [1]. That's more than any other republican nominee, but hardly a sizeable percentage of the country.

>Why would you say it's the beginning of a descent to a darker time pre-civil rights?

Trump said that he wants to: commit war crimes by murdering and torturing the civilian families of terrorists; ban all Muslims from entering the country; deport 3% of the country; and build a wall between us and Mexico.

I can see how people are worried about a descent to a darker time.

[1] http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/repub...
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Just every other thing he says? Let's pick at random - registration of Muslims, no same sex marriages, requesting mass surveillance, etc.
Why wouldn't non-technical users buy high end laptops? Even just for a metal casing, better appearance, or performance in day to day use (e.g. gmail), battery life, screen, etc., higher end laptops have plenty of ways to appeal to non-technical users.

A lot of it likely comes down to price sensitivity of the purchaser, which isn't linked to their level of technical skill.
The non-crazies should annex a portion of Canada and start a new country.
Different projects and goals as someone else mentioned.

However, it would be great if the *wrt projects could adopt the standardized update mechanism that OSMC has leveraged. It's made upgrading so much less painful.

Personally, I use ddwrt and would like to see that project take the charge up on this.
There weren't really any shenanigans available. The rules are:

1. On the first ballot, pledged delegates will be counted as having voted for their assigned nominee

2. Thereafter they can do whatever they want. You can call this "politics", or "the will of the delegates", or "shenanigans" if you want.

After Indiana, Trump will inevitably have enough pledged delegates to win on the first ballot, so that's that.

> What about all the party/convention rules shenanigans they can do, where they can still nominate anyone who won delegates? Was that a misconception?

There was some vague talk about a rule change to unbind delegates on the first ballot, but that was never, ever, ever going to happen.
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Yeah, what kind of asshole carpenter wastes his customer's money by inflating materials costs for no reason?
I don't know why parent is being downvoted. Linux probably isn't the best OS for this, a microkernel OS or something based on BSD seems to be far saner, especially since we don't need weird hardware support, all home routers use the same three or four families of MIPS and ARM SoCs.
Hopefully it's the user that you expect: https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/72646884513381171...
The incentives create a market in which the energy consumer and producer can trade in their existing inefficiencies. The market will decide where it is best to make the compromise, whereas before there were just wasteful externalities.

If you have an industrial process that can cope with intermittent power supply, it may be only slightly more expensive to design or build so that interruption of power won't result in interruption of production. If the overall cost increase is less than the decrease of energy costs due to incentives, there is no downside.

The energy producers likewise price the incentives so that their loss of revenue is lower than their cost savings.

Unless of course the market is created and operated by Enron, then we're all fucked.
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it looks like you might have to eat your words....

http://www.drcraigwright.net/extraordinary-claims-require-ex...
What's puzzling here is that Wright proceeds with his charades as though he somehow knows the real Satoshi will not emerge to call him out on it. (There is some precedent for this: a long-dormant account controlled by the real Satoshi stirred to disclaim the identity of Dorian Nakamoto in 2014. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/03/06/bitcoin-c...)

If Satoshi disclaimed the identity of D. Nakamoto in 2014, why wouldn't he disclaim the identity of Craig Wright today?

I do not believe, for an instant, that Wright is Satoshi. But given the history, it seems plausible that Wright might have once been in the know as to Satoshi's true identity. Should he know the real Satoshi(s) to now be absent, it would likely embolden him to undertake this scam...
I'm sorry man. Thank you for what you guys have provided. I still have my wrt54g (v2?) as well as a wrt54gl. I remember modding those routers with friends adding usb ports, expanding storage and all sorts of other things. I have several friends who became ccnps because of openwrt. Regardless of what happens with this, thanks again. You guys rock!
It doesn't have to incentivize new technologies. It could just as easily incentivize new business models. Imagine a laundromat that sells "FREE DRYING" during the day. Heck, I bet you a lot more people will do laundry during the day time. Similarly, power companies can give incentives for more day time power usage. A lot of people already follow night time power usage today so its no reason to think it wouldn't work.
I think you're going to have a hard time eliminating Social Security; the voters won't stand for it. They paid into it, so it seems unfair for them to not get paid back out of it.

What would work, I think, might be a phase-out: for anyone who's getting less in SS payments than the UBI, just replace their SS with UBI. For everyone making more, they don't get a UBI, they just keep drawing SS. (Or, you could say they get UBI plus the difference between SS and UBI.)
Then eliminate the SS portion of the FICA tax and stop everyone from paying into it going forward. Then there'll be some math involved in figuring out how much people who partially paid into it get, but the end effect is that SS will cost less and less money until finally everyone's aged out (to the point where the amount they'd draw is less than UBI so we can just cancel SS altogether). It'll cost a bit more in the short term to do it this way, but it's more fair to people who paid into the SS system and it won't get the AARP voting against you.

>Edit / Afterthought: No one currently receiving social security or unemployment will support this proposal because they are all receiving way more than that. More than 700/month, and certainly more than they need to survive.

Again, you'll have to phase it out. Unemployment is an insurance program that people have paid into, just like SS, so of course they expect it to be there if they need it. And it may (or may not, depends on the person and their income) pay more than they need to survive, but if they have a lot of expenses like a big mortgage then that's irrelevant. They've been forced to live in a society where having a job is basically required for survival unless you get on the dole (which prevents you from working, so it's a trap), so unemployment is something the society has created to mitigate risk.

But like SS, it could be phased out (and the taxation from that eliminated). It could probably be replaced with privately-run unemployment insurance though, but it wouldn't be as necessary with UBI.

But your $700/month sounds low to me. I know it's supposed to be a bare minimum, but even that seems too little to me to live on with today's rent prices. I do think the government has a responsibility to do something about that; rents have been driven up far too much by Wall Street, foreign investors, speculation, etc. UBI needs to be enough for someone to live on with roommates (and not more than 1 per bedroom at market rates), in an average cost-of-living area, plus reasonable grocery store bills and a bit extra to cover transportation costs. If it isn't enough for that, it won't work, and it needs to be jacked up until it is. If that means instituting a big tax on Wall Street, then so be it, since they're largely responsible for the cost of living being what it is.
The blog post links to this paper: Lead Exposure and Violent Crime in the Early
Twentieth Century -- http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfeigenbaum/files/feigenbau...
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Well he was certainly after a result he wanted, lead was phased out of house paints starting after 1971 and gone by 1978, meaning anything built before 78 was suspect. This may still be a problem in some older housing especially in cities. Leaded gasoline didn't fully phase out until the 80s and was still for sale in places until 91. Even in Canada leaded gasoline wasn't banned until 1990.

So while it definitely had a large influence we have to realize lead was everywhere, it was cheap, it had so many wonderful uses, but it most certainly didn't vanish in the seventies.
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I just happened to listen to an old Stack Overflow podcast where they talked about code reviews. They said they do in-person code reviews before committing code.

(I find this is the most valuable way of doing code reviews vs pull requests/sending comments back and forth. In-person conversation about the code is so much higher bandwidth.)
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Ok, but that was well over a half century ago. The liberals have had more than enough time to eliminate these horribly regressive tolls which only hurt working class people, so why haven't they? Why are we still paying ridiculously-high tolls on bridges that are falling apart because they're so old?
Where are the tests!???????????
"securerandom.rb will consume too much entoropy if /dev/urandom is used directry."

This is a quote for the ages.
The article is bad (MotherJones), the paper may be better [1]. I've only skimmed it, but it looks at the correlation between distance from a lead factory and homicide rate, which probably increases the signal/noise ratio.

[1] http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfeigenbaum/files/feigenbau...
There are plugins for Wordpress that will bake the front end of the site in to static HTML and push it up to an S3 bucket for hosting. Seems like a decent solution to me.
The delegates.xml file looks interesting, and `convert -list delegate` lists a large number of formats that we don't need to support.

I'm not clear on the difference between a "coder" and a "delegate". Do I need to add a policy.xml entry to for each delegate?
Yes it's so easy to isolate all other possible factors, and correlation is obviously a definitive proof of causation.
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bug or monetization?
What are cases? Is it short for use case?
I've been wondering where you've been lately Roger :p

Releasing Helios 2.0 today, which is a big improvement over the previous version.

Stress test results across 350 connections (ramped up over a 3-5 minutes, each connection doing 250 msg / s): https://gist.github.com/Aaronontheweb/ab3ae953239de81752c357...

Also includes 1 million message throughput tests for duplex and inbound-only receive. On the inbound side we peak out at about 250k / s on a single connection. Write side is slower at the moment due to lack of batching on flush, but that'll be fixed.
That would be an end then, with the inevitable demographic shifting of the US over time.
> Nobody was getting their news from the web in that era though

ummm.... Actually a lot of people were. It just ended up being blogs, forums and other methods.

Personally, most of the news I read comes from "non-news" sources. I find the vast majority of news-sites to be terrible in quality.
Exactly. This doesn't make any sense. Sunlight causes cancer. Maybe we should start there?
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I want to believe that. I want to believe that the NSA, while having no respect for the law, does at least care about results. It would make a lot more sense to tap devices of interesting people, than this idea of bulk collection (which leads to just a lot more noise).
There's some decent questions here, but also too many "how to" questions that most people won't bother memorizing since they take 2 seconds to google.
I wonder what Imgur uses
Maybe, but we've seen some plant diseases pretty much eradicate the original species without them developing resistance. For example, the Panama disease (despite the massive resources of the banana industry) devastated the Gros Michel, and is now killing off the Cavendish.

Another example is phylloxera, which plagued Vitis vinifera (European grape) vines in the 1800s. And to this day, the only solution is to hybridize or graft them with American rootstock.
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>So a mediocre application has 5x space to grow before the app stops feeling instantaneous.

Not really. Those 100ms are from click to render done, so you also need to account for the physical transmission latency, the transmission of the data and finally the rendering (which is where your 16-20ms are).
Thank you, that addresses and contextualizes the things I must be thinking of.
My theory for the reason that people like Trump is this: genuine.

People are sick of politicians and the game they play. Trump comes off as genuine. Sure, most of what he says is wrong, but people don't care.

People don't like Hillary for the same reason, she comes off as the opposite of genuine. The common refrain about her is that she'll say whatever it is that she thinks you want to hear.
I'm travelling semi-permanently (away from "home" ~9 months now). I had to update OS X and Xcode recently. 11GB fortunately only took 2 days (and $60 of data charges) since I'm somewhere with ok cell LTE. I did have to delay the update for a month or two until I was somewhere I could do it.
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Yeah, looking at the position, that would pay more than that in Portland. Not sure who is going to do that in NYC.
>> HP offers its Elite USB-C Docking Station ($149), which plugs in to a USB-C port on the PC and enables to connect up two Full HD displays, Gigabit Ethernet as well as multiple USB Type-A devices, such as keyboards or mice.

Good to see high quality USB-C docking stations coming thick and fast. Wonder how much testing they have done on the Macbooks for compatibility...
piemessage proxies through your own Mac though -- not some sketchy server in China. I'd imagine Apple shut down the one you linked to protect their users.
The real targets here are the crime rates, and the diseases known to be side effects of lead poisoning. And the question is, can we use high level aggregates to observe lead poisoning caused by industrial design decisions?

We've seen massive drops on the level of violent crime in the US (and beyond) over the last twenty or thirty years. And the attribution of that drop has huge ramifications. Should we double down on three-strikes laws, or can the drop be attributed to environmental factors like ambient lead levels due to leader gasoline?

What I see here is increased evidence for the lead poisoning hypothesis. We know that lead poisoning causes violent behavior; the evidence is indicating that elevated crime rates may be due to undiagnosed poisoning.
Ugh, Don't get me started on WordPress. I think I would describe such a solution as "lipstick on a pig".
I see you around HN all the time. Clicked your profile.

> Formerly: founder @ Matasano

Neat! Matasano is what got me into crypto - though my pursuit has since been limited.
> Raspberry Pi proved there is demand for this sort of thing.

RPi proved nothing of the sort. You are still relying on a commercial vendor to provide the VLSI chips. And, I assure you, they didn't make that chip for the RPi.

Open chips for phones? I couldn't stop laughing. Phones are all about minimizing power consumption. That requires that you be on nearly the newest fab technology.

If OpenRISC/LowRISC/<foo>RISC were serious, they've got a really good market to jam themselves into--Bluetooth Low Energy and WiFi chips. The margins on those chips have gotten so small that everybody is doing anything to avoid having to pay ARM money.

So, why aren't those chip vendors adopting the "open" stuff instead of hand-rolling their own?
The TSA would be completely, perfectly effective if it simply didn't let anybody get on planes. That defeats the purpose of the TSA, of course; they have to let people on planes. Our filter, by comparison, is allowed to stop everything, which makes its job much easier.

* Aerosols are really the only effective way to deliver biological weapons. This holds even with person-to-person transmission; "airborne" transmission almost always means "infected person coughs, spreading aerosolized fluids that contain infectious bodies".

* Aerosol droplets smaller than .5 um don't land on parts of the lungs that can absorb them and are re-exhaled relatively harmlessly. Aerosol droplets smaller than .5 um also lose stability (evaporate, chemical changes, solar irradiation) too quickly to be useful.

"Realistic Threats" are, in this case, particles between .5 um and 5 um. There is zero difference between a droplet with and without an infectious payload. If you really wanted to you could do this test with some completely harmless organism like a household micrococcus strain, but it wouldn't demonstrate anything new. If there are no particles of that size coming through the filter, you are safe, in the same way that the plane would be safe if it took off with no people in it.
If you did different tables, that's even more complicated by making every query dynamic. It also makes backups, etc. far more complicated as well. Multiple databases is simply the simplest solution for multiple things that need a database with the same schema :)
>There are certainly people in this world who would sit on top a mountain of food that will spoil if not eaten a foot away from a starving dying man and tell him he's not allowed to have any because they'd like to watch him suffer

Hell, there are people in this thread who would apparently play the role of the foodpile guy because of their intensely, sincerely held moral conviction!
The same kind that was the CEO of one of the most successful companies in the history of the world.

Steve Jobs may have missed the mark on some of his products during his long tenure at Apple, but his focus on quality in every possible area of what he had a part in creating has paid its benefits
Wow. Thank you for the encouragement.

the only problem I see is how YC will make any money from you other than investing in future dollars (which anyone else can do). Perhaps I need to read your thread again to see if that was answered.

It wasn't answered. This is indeed a challenge. If we stick to the letter of the rules for YC Fellowship, I'm not sure how much YC stands to gain by taking 1.5% equity in Greshm Dollar.

One thing that might work is that we could underprice Future Greshm Dollars for YC. Or maybe we could issue call options on FGD that YC could exercise after the FGD price has risen.

I'm confident we can arrange something with YC.
Does anybody have a library (prefer JavaScript) for inspecting files and extracting the file type using "magic bytes"[1]. Seems like most people probably blindly use mime-type, which appears to be incorrect and insecure.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures
If memory serves, pg was actually pretty hands off - unless a submission was politically controversial, most topics were allowed.

I haven't really noticed anything different, other than dang commenting more publicly on moderation decisions.
This is not how supply and demand should work in a functioning economy. Higher demand will up the price at first, but then some market player should be able to step in and make it work for less (thus upping the supply), until the market has found a new steady state (which, as long as supply isn't restricted, should be around the same price as before or lower because of a higher scale).

Now obviously, if what you have isn't actually a free market but an oligopoly with government protections, price fixings etc., this won't work. You'll have some of these problems in some markets, but that would just have to be next thing to concentrate on.
That is definitely not true all the time. Chase didn't do a hard credit pull to give me my MileagePlus credit card, which was definitely worth the effort. Besides, the hit from a credit pull is only temporary, so unless you are planning on buying property or changing rentals in the short term, it's basically negligible.

People are a bit too worried about their credit scores. Just make sure to not screw up too badly and you should be mostly OK.