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> I don't think it's the bike. I think that there are a lot of cyclists who are simply not candidates for e-bikes because riding under their own power is part of the attraction.

You should not be asking why bicyclists are not riding e-bikes. You should be asking why motorists are not riding e-bikes.

0.6% of Americans bike to work.[0] 86% of Americans drive, 89% of them alone. If even 1% of motorists switched from driving to e-biking, that would increase the bicycling population by over 100%.

> The motor addresses the issue of effort, but not safety, weather, or a variety of other factors,

The US has a really bad built environment.[1]

> including the fact that driving a car is fun for a lot of people.

Automobile manufacturers spend billions and billions on advertising, convincing people that driving is fun.

[0] https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2015/acs/acs-32....

[1] https://www.strongtowns.org/slowthecars/
"Lenny" is only 21 short recordings, stitched together into a crude sequence. It's a remarkably unsophisticated trick on a technical level. It wouldn't be difficult to produce dozens or hundreds of Lennies on quite a small budget. Tweak the script a bit, get someone on Fiverr to record it and you've got a new and unrecognisable Lenny MkII.
Have you seen LinuxKit and Moby?
> I live in Israel and not once I've been shown some horrible video of Palestinians attacking locals.

Well, if you bury your head in the sand on a hot summer afternoon and proceed to claim its night, it's hard to take further claims seriously.

I will agree that there is extremists on both ends that just furthers their own political/economic interests and muddies the water.

...but my analysis of the conflict over there is that it is much deeper than politics or economics, spanning millenias of beef.
> If it's clear that someone presents an immediate mortal danger to others

Yeah, and that's where your argument hits a brick wall. Yes, if someone presents an immediate mortal danger, then force can be justified. If you see that video, he is reaching for the waistband of his pajamas and following directions.

Even in the event that he had a pistol stashed in the elastic of his pajamas, you have multiple officers who already are in the drawn position, ready to fire, whereas he has to pull it out, aim, etc.

You have a far lower bar for "clear presentation of immediate mortal danger" than most people here - and you seem to believe that's our failing, not yours.

> People must do exactly as they're told when dealing with the police to minimize uncertainty and confusion.

You mean like the multiple incidents where we see two police officers yelling contradictory statements? "Hands behind your head, turn around!" "Get on your stomach!" and one of the officers believes he is in mortal danger because the suspect is, in effect, obeying the other officers instruction, and not his?
> There are immediate applications to data warehousing.

I am not too worried about data warehouses. Data warehouses can be fed by batch processes, which you can run, say, once every day or once every week. This leads to the design of algorithms that optimize aggregate measures of performance (e.g. amortized complexity, average complexity, throughput) rather than microscopic measures of performance (e.g. worst-case complexity, latency). Machine learning techniques have a track record of delivering good aggregate results.

However, online databases require optimal worst-case performance. The occasional massively slow operation is not okay - we'd rather every operation be a tiny bit slower instead.

> Do I have any indexed queries? If not, nothing to do here.

Of course I do. Needless to say, complex schemata come with lots of indices that are necessary to speed up queries that pull data from 10-15 tables each.

> Does the data change rapidly? If so, nothing to do here.

Of course the data changes rapidly. Crucially, an online transactional database's input comes from external parties (e.g., public-facing web servers) that cannot be considered trustworthy. Many machine learning techniques are vulnerable to so-called “adversarial examples”. Feeding adversarial examples to an ML-powered index could cause the database's performance to drop drastically in ways that are provably not possible with B-trees.
QBC (quercitin/bromelain/vitamin c) seems to have a very good effect on my attention span, ability to concentrate, anxiety levels, etc. However it does not go well with coffee, I get a "speedy" feeling I don't like. So unfortunately I don't take this supplement as much as I would like, because I love coffee so much.

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You and the author are cunts.

Read the original Nakamoto paper
I think you’re better of reading the relevant chapter in TAOCP. It has more detail, and this doesn’t add anything from past 1970 or so. For example, it doesn’t even _mention_ the diehard and dieharder tests, let alone discuss their merits. (CORRECTION: it does. Thanks to marvy for pointing that out)

Also, I think the final line in this text (”Correct generators usually pass tests, and buggy generators usually fail.”) is at least dangerously misleading.

Firstly, I would use good/bad, not correct/buggy, but that is minor. My major issue is the idea that bad generators usually fail. Only really bad generators usually fail. Somewhat bad generators fail tests less often, and only slightly bad generators can pass many, many tests, only to show their weakness in some particular setting.

For example, if I take the output r1,r2,r3… of a good generator and swap r1 and r2 if r1>r2, r3 and r4 if r3>r4, etc. the result isn’t truly random, but will pass many tests.

If you suspect your generator to have this problem, it is extremely easy to test for it, but if you don’t, that may be hard.

A good array of tests will test subsequences, and find this easily (the average of the odd samples will typically be less than expected, and the average of the even samples will typically be larger)
Yeah, when the population is educated and has general awareness of technology, betting on ponzi schemes is up to them. When you have large, uneducated and poor population, letting people know of the risks is a decent thing to expect from a government.
Same goes for home cooked meals
Look up OneCoin. That is just one of dozens of scams riding on Bitcoin coattails, attracting (greedy/foolish) people, and taking most for a bad ride.

Most of these scams have been done in the height of the penny stocks days, and the SEC has (or had in the past) put a lot of effort into protecting less saavy investors.

Lastly, I work for a client in this space. My client is doing a legit business, but we constantly deal with customers who have made and lost money in dozens of these ponzis over the last couple of years.
You'd also like Fermat's Library
agreed - what we're seeing is essentially a peer distributed stock market or "blockchain-like" linking of salaries to perf and voting to stock (proof of stake).
I view it as a good first step, but I am expecting an ethereum-based platform to one-up this idea in a few years.
The fact that there are jobs with higher injury rates out there doesn't make policing not dangerous.
Microsoft made an offer for Mesosphere, but they turned it down [0].
These deals are of course never that "snappy". They probably had long and hard negotiations, but the deal never happened.

0: http://www.businessinsider.com/florian-leibert-mesosphere-ce...
This is a better article than I thought it would be; it's a bit scattered in that it discusses buying an ebike vs retrofitting one, and then also the user experience of being on an ebike: propensity to pedal rather than throttle, 1 gear being sufficient for flats, and 3 gears for hilly terrain, the comfort factor of biking faster when merged with traffic, and not being sweaty upon arrival when commuting.

I wish there were the political capital to put in more physically separated bike infra in American cities. Sharing infrastructure flat out does not work here, we are not mature or disciplined or standardized enough in our driving competency. A huge part of this is generational, my mom is all "This traffic sucks! Rip out the trees, rip out the sidewalks, put in more road lanes!" even though she bikes once a week to go play bridge with friends, and my dad won't even get on a bike. Millennials probably would like to rip out roads and put in more public transit and bike infra, and get rid of cars. I for sure would like to get rid of death by cycling, and single occupancy vehcicles. But there really isn't the political capital right now to do anything but piecemeal approaches.
The worst scenario is that an innocent person is killed
Hey everyone, Eric Ries here. I’m the founder and CEO of the LTSE (and also the Lean Startup guy). Happy to see the discussion here and will try and answer a few questions. Unfortunately, a lot of the details of how the LTSE works are subject to regulatory approval, so I can’t share too much while we are working out the details with them. Still, I’ll do my best to answer.

Thanks for the comments and happy new year
1. Track calories in

2. Track calories out

3. Fast 25 days

4. Meditate 100 * 15 minutes

5. Convince my customer to take on the busy work part of my SW engine

6. Integrate ML into SW engine.
True, though this isn't for everyone. To quote the article why the author didn't in this case...

...I HATE electricity. Too many years of geeky endeavors have resulted in far too many shocks, and mains electricity scares the hell out of me.
I get that we all have nice things, but that doesn't make Americans wealthy. If most Americans get seriously sick at the same time they've lost a job, then they're on a one-way road to poverty. Our standard of living is higher, but that doesn't make us rich.
Many years ago I remember seeing a little girl about 6 or 7 who was the daughter of a friend. She walked around on her toes. I asked why, they said it was a disorder (learned/self-taught behavior) they were trying to correct.
I am reading this from an Ikea cafeteria.
Maybe the pattens made for a particular step:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patten_(shoe)

but the rich (which more or less represent the whole lot of people found in portraits and paintings) seemingly used them commonly when outside, particularly in cities, while the rest of the people would probably have gone barefoot or had anyway wooden sandals or similar.
I have an adult friend who studied a lot of ballet as a kid, and she still toe walks. It's not actually bad for you.
There is an extra sprinkle of technology magic dust that seems to make many otherwise reasonable (non-technical) people believe absurd claims and make uncharacteristically bad decisions.
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I know the watermelon which has been honestly come by and I know the taste of the watermelon which has been acquired by art. Both taste good, but the experienced know which tastes best. -- Mark Twain

https://www.npr.org/2010/11/15/131268307
Slightly OT, but if you want crash training, go mountain biking somewhere with sand. You'll endo a few times onto nice soft sand and learn a lot. That's all the 'training' I've had and it's gotten me through a couple 25+mph spills on the road with just scrapes. MTB is great for bike handling as well.
Do Livejournal have likes now?
T5 took over 20 years after it was started in earnest.
somewhere out there, one brave last LifeHacker is combining this with the Power Pose just because
You might have difficulty empaneling juries if this were a requirement. What makes a good jury goes well beyond racial or sexual makeup. Also, in many places the jury pools don't match the community at large. This approach would therefore have the effect of jeopardizing the right to jury trial without really alleviating injustice.

A more fruitful approach might be to try to make the pools more balanced. Getting more community participation in the justice system seems like a very good thing at multiple levels.
Although we may have far more creature comforts today. Land, housing, and other core assets are as expensive as ever.
Also, high in the Earth's atmosphere, where the air doesn't do such a good job of protecting RAM from cosmic ray impacts.
I use basic calendaring tools like iCal or Google Calendar to manually track my historical data, silo'd into 12 different calendars which represent categories of time spent. I've become comfortable enough in the software interface to only spend ~3-5m day updating. This time investment is acceptable for now, I haven't found the right solution to automate the entirety of this data collection accurately.

In this view (historical calendar) I simply want to have a log/journal for each day which I can reference in the future. I don't want to write the details of my D&D session with friends on the calendar, I just want to know we played D&D and where we did it. If there ARE things I want to recall, I can put them in the notes field with ease.

I group together by color for at-a-glance insights. Blue = daily routines, health & wellness. Red = purely escapism or distraction from my goal. Green = goal-oriented work or billable work. .

When I'm working on devices I have RescueTime Premium installed which gives me a high granularity look on how I spend my screen-time. I have the luxury of being a self-employed developer and thus can more or less direct my energy into what interests me and also make money doing so, but as many of you may know this takes discipline and self-awareness.

Problems I've found include centralized goal-setting, task planning and in-tool time metrics. There have been some solutions out there that haven't really succeeded. GCal has actually made great strides this past year in improving their core product overall... I still don't think its perfect but that's obviously subjective. Big thanks to your team, if you're reading this.

I like low-friction, high-flexibility tools. I'd love to build a more detailed "continuous integration for humans," but I'm not ready to share any of that work yet it's all in ideation phase and needs revision before publishing.

To accomplish this I keep calendars for around 10 categories of what I spend my time doing. It's created a nice dataset useful to basically me.

I also use a Huginn installation in my server rack (a laptop on my bookshelf lol) to automate things like Harvest time tracking into calendar items and some other business-logic level tasks. I hope to explore more of this in 2018!

All in all it's an experiment in self awareness. The rough hypothesis is that if I'm collecting more data about myself I'll become more self aware of positive and negative behavior patterns. Certainly this isn't a new concept, but with the ease of collection I don't see a reason to stop or slow down.
I am talking about scientific rigor, not grades. A more relevant question (at least to my interests) is “What tests does a scientific proposal have to pass to become an estabilshed scientific result?”
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Nice to see someone thinking past the obvious loopholes. Our rules are a little more complicated than this, but you’re on the right track.
The keyword there is small. Companies with small deployments don't buy enterprise SaaSes.
> but the fact that they're in a rush is an understandable component of the situation

Eh. If I'm taking my engine company to a structure fire, we walk, we don't run. If it's a rescue situation, I still do a 360 around the structure to identify additional hazards (while my crew is setting up). That's a situation with people in verified imminent threat to life danger.

We work a patient in cardiac arrest. We have checklists. Even with this imminent threat to the patient's life, we will still at pertinent times, stop, and review those lists.

Charging in gung ho causes more problems than it solves.

If the hostage (if they existed) is going to be dead 10 seconds later, they're probably going to be dead the first time the suspect hears SWAT enter.

Similar to a fire or MVA - "you getting there 10 seconds or 30 seconds earlier is going to save a life on so few occasions, if ever, for a much greater risk".
My guess:

Google the hopefully unique username.

Find the first and or last name (Facebook).

Find the state and or city.

If you have the name and the city you can find the address.

My friend's 11 year old is already in THE database.

If you search for his first and last name and city you get his parent's address and home phone number.

Welcome to the Brave New World!
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Here's a Turkish whistled language in action: https://youtu.be/bQf38Ybo1IY?t=1m40s
Do the police have to shoot to kill? Is it possible to aim somewhere else? Or shoot into the air? Also, I think in my country they are obligated to shout out "stop, I will shoot" or something to that effect.
1. Sure, Tesla's whole plan, since the foundation of the company, was to start out making expensive cars and then to continually make them cheaper until they are completely mass-market. They have consistently followed this plan. So I don't see why you think they'd suddenly stop?

2. See 1.

3. Actually charging from 110v would take more than overnight -- several days at least if you are empty! It's very slow (it's a lot slower than half a 220v because a certain amount of power goes to overhead like cooling the batteries during charging). Even so, I got by on 110v for years. As for having (1) dryer socket ... buy a splitter cord for 5 bucks? I am not sure why you think you need a contractor and permits, unless you are just trying to fabricate reasons why electric cars are a problem.

4. See 1.

5. The market today is tremendously more developed than it was in 2008 when Tesla started selling their first car, and everyone thought electric cars were just golf carts that were completely infeasible. Why do you think this trend would stop now? On the luxury point ... see 1.
This is BS. I walk around in medieval-style shoes for a couple of weeks per year, 20+ years, and I still heel walk in them.

And that's despite the fact that I do two styles of dance that toe-walk (15th and 16th century Italian) during those 2 weeks.
My main question is: what is the LTSE?

Is it a stock market? Will I be able to buy and sell shares on eTrade or another 3rd party platform?

Who will list shares on it?

If I had to guess, I would guess it is just like the NYSE except you can only buy and sell shares every 5 years or something.
Another system != Statist communists, categorically
I saw www.rescam.org on here a while ago, definitely worth a visit!
On the small scales (i.e., you or me) it can make sense to have your second thing be a large pot of savings, which is a relatively inexpensive way of providing limited redundancy.

In the same way that a data center has full redundancy for failure of an individual machine, but limited redundancy for failure of the city's power grid, all we _really_ need is enough redundancy to give us time to solve the problem.

Large organisations move too slowly for this to be an option, so they need the much more expensive full redundancy.
I liked your summary. We definitely think our setup is a more defensible governance solution than the typical founder/monarch for life.

Our rules also are carefully tailored to Do The Right Thing with shorts and other derivatives, but I can’t say much yet about how it works in detail
Yep, this is a classic thought experiment that is designed to show you how fantastic markets are at delivering human happiness. The problem is that the same could be said about Russians in 1988 after 70 years of communism.

It also ignores the prestige that accrues to those at the top of the pile. Boudreaux says he wouldn't swap with a 1916 Rockerfeller - but would 1916 Rockerfeller want to swap with him? I suspect 1916 Rockerfeller would not want to give up his position in society even for cars with electric windows and wifi.
We're not yet in some cyberpunk world of sovereign corporations (not sure I'd prefer that anyway). Companies work within the political control of nation states. Dismantle state power if you want what you say to be possible, as it is it's just not.
This absolutely has been done with gold mining ventures, just as it was done with oil drilling ventures. That's why some regulation on solicitation of investments in crypto currency ventures would be beneficial. It is developing though.
The screenshoted email in this thread may actually be really from YouTube. I'm not familiar with YouTube community features though, but it looks like a spammy channel invited the receiver to do something through the YouTube UI. If Google had a good way to prevent that, they probably wouldn't have spammy channels.

That said, even with dmarc and all, most email programs these days don't even show the domain name if there's a friendly name in the From field. Anyway, some people don't seem to notice that webmaster@johns-plumbing-blog.biz is sending them YouTube/eBay/whatever phishing links (even if the site in question never sends email like that), they just click through.
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Yes, but it is less likely that they will die from being tasered than from being shot.
Any idea how the quality compares with just using Open Street Map elevation data?
To counter HFT?
Is that a GV setting? Is it available on iOS?
sure, any Xen guest escape receives equal amounts of press for exactly that reason: It's an isolation barrier breaking down. However, trivial exploits breaking VM isolation have been relatively rare lately.
Eric, this is a very interesting project, I'd like to see this succeed. Be aware that Hacker News has a very negative bent when it comes to new ventures like this. You're going to get a lot of criticism about how this will never work, etc, etc.

Go read the Show HN of DropBox to see what I mean. Good luck!
How do fake reviewers get the "verified purchase" tag on Amazon? This particular analysis[1] explicitly lists "Alex Brown" as a "Unreliable Reviewer", but the Amazon page[2] says his review is a verified purchase.

Did Novopal just buy it for him?

(Also, I wish I could plug my Amazon profile into Fakespot and see what it thinks about me.)

[1]: https://www.fakespot.com/product/novopal-baby-stroller-organ...

[2]: https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B01N5J6LXT#customerReviews
Commenting on 2, yes, it shouldn't be a problem at all. In the UK, police don't carry lethal weapons routinely. In fact, knowing a few of them who are active and a couple retired, even the use of a baton is usually not required at any point in their careers. They rely more on teamwork and communication than physical weapons. I also know an officer from an armed unit. He says he's bored 99% of the time as he's only of use to a tiny amount of call outs and has never had to fire his weapon while on duty in the public.

As to 3, the UK police do escalate sometimes, and I think some of their behavior is disgusting, but at least it results in non-lethal harm (and hopefully disciplinary action) when there are no armed units involved.
The author was talking about a time before that where people didn't wear shoes. He focuses on Germany. The shoes you wore is from a later time and different place.
The Ordnance Survey converted their mapping data to a Minecraft world: https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/innovate/developers/minecra...
Somehow it must be said that besides being "gullible" the victims of these scams are also (to a lesser or larger degree) affected/driven by greed.

They think that by sheer luck they are given the opportunity to make some (not so few) easy bucks for doing nothing or nearly nothing.
And by skilled investors, you mean people with enough capital to manage the insane risk.

So skillfull...

Besides, let’s wait to heap laurels on investors until after the music stops.
Well is this Orwellian double talk? To some extent, I think that's wildly accurate. Buy stocks that are sort of a scam, but don't buy into a new technology like BTC which has imo by now proven itself to be powerful and legit, unlike the next crappy IPO. Honestly it's hard to take articles like this seriously when what's going on is a lot of misdirection. Just my 2c.