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Lol. He’s gonna forget about it tomorrow.
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> In a related vein, it seems characteristic of the kind of philosophy that the later Wittgenstein, and more recently Peter K Unger, criticise as linguistic illusion,

I tend to agree.

Thomson's lamp paradox assumes that time is continuous, i.e., that time intervals are infinitely divisible. Physicists do not know whether that's the case. They don't know whether the space is continuous either, so Zeno's paradox also stands on very shaky foundations.
You can ignore it if you like but don't take the choice away from me. I'm rarely in california but I have seen these warnings while traveling there and on products that are distributed throughout the United States. I'm not well educated in biology or chemistry fields and these signs and labels have made me want to investigate, or at least think about something that I normally wouldn't. Because of these I have considered secondhand tobacco smoke (signs in hotels), benzene (on fuel (petrol) dispensers), lead in brass (plumbing fittings), asbestos (automotive brakes, clutches, gaskets), and many others. I think I make better decisions as a result: telling my kid that if he can smell petrol he's too close, and making sure a brass fitting is RoHS if it's used to convey water but I don't always wash my hands after I handle an air hose with brass fittings.
Generally these things are set up so that proving someone lied on the form is easy and straightforward. As someone else pointed out, the actual question isn't going to be "are you a terrorist", it's going to be a question about whether you've ever associated with certain people, or organizations which espoused certain views. And that can be very easy to prove.

You see this pattern in more than just immigration cases.

The FBI and other federal agencies infamously "get" people for making untrue statements to their agents, since that's a federal felony right away, and easier to prove than that the person committed some other, more complex crime.

The other day in a reddit thread I got to bring up a case from New Mexico involving someone who literally fabricated evidence of a child in order to claim support payments. Once it was established the child didn't exist, proving all the various elements (like falsifying birth certificate and paternity test) of the crimes involved in getting to that point was difficult, but it was very easy to prove she'd claimed the nonexistent child as a dependent on her income tax returns, which sent her straight to prison (if you want all the details on that one, Google "Barreras v. Trevino").

A few years ago the US Supreme Court (Abramski v. United States) upheld a conviction of someone who purchased a gun, because at the time of the purchase he filled out a form which said he was purchasing the gun for himself, and not on behalf of or as a stand-in for someone else. Except he lied when he checked that box on the form; he was buying it for his uncle. The Supreme Court ruled that it didn't matter whether his uncle was legally eligible to buy the gun (he was); Congress had made it a federal crime to lie on the form, in order to prevent people from skirting background checks by getting someone else to buy a gun on their behalf, and the guy had unquestionably lied on the form.
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I've thought about this some and one way to at least "sort of" map a private key to a single trusted real-world individual/entity is to require it always keep a balance of some "high" amount on it to be considered valid. So three banks start out signing some new "blockchain" ledger with their private keys, each with $100M on it, and they probably are going to be really careful with those keys from then on, and not let anybody who doesn't really represent the entity sign things with them?
yeah that’s also why cash and gold are worthless XD. who in the world would take cold hard cash or gold bullion in exchange for goods??!! you can’t reverse it!! and guess what, someone can hold a gun to your head and take it.
> It does not seem very "viral" or income-generating. I know this is premature at this point, but without charging users for the service, is it reasonable to expect to make money off of this?

Does everything have to be a moneymaker? Like you said, this would be trivial to setup yourself. It's a nice piece of software that provides some advertising for his other products.
this model already exists (google "WISP micro pop"). One of the primary problems with doing this at a large scale is that the bandwidth via satellite will not be that great, compared to what's possible with current terrestrial technology. the second is that the micro POP needs some kind of serious battery backup and a way to meet five nines or better reliability. you can't start hanging downstream customers off of the rooftop radio system on some random person's house unless you can be absolutely certain that the main uplink won't be unplugged by somebody's kid messing around with a power-over-ethernet injector underneath a desk.

one of the challenges with a wisp micro POP approach for current last mile FCC part 15 unlicensed band operators is that you need to (a) keep the equipment powered independently of whatever the POP-host customer might be messing around with inside of their house, and (b) provide a good sized UPS for it, and (c) ensure that the POP stays in place and contractually "survives" the original resident moving out, either new tenants or new homeowner. The (c) part requires a fairly long and ironclad commercial lease agreement that becomes attached to the property title, which is not something either ISPs or homeowners take lightly.
Why Reddit has been rewritten in python:

https://redditblog.com/2005/12/05/on-lisp/

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
>while Trump's remaining voters, who have been repeatedly embarrassed and disappointed, have as much motivation to show up at the polls as a child has to show up at a vaccination clinic.

Have they been? In real life? Or was it rather the inverse (all the impeachment fantasies etc, the collusion stories endlessly appearing and fading, the economy that was "sure" to suffer, etc...).
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Qatar has always had a weird diplomatic position for an Arab state.
Great points, but...

> This is by no means going to hurt Comcast.

Well, it could, couldn't it? Satellite internet does have the potential to make regional pseudo-monopolies go away, which means Comcast now has price competition. Even if speeds end up being much lower, it will still be plenty fast for lots of people, and the price will be the determining factor.

At the very least, I think this will force Comcast to lower their prices and/or be better.
Sure, but in practice, they don't seem to do that. I've heard of public complaints of denials and it's because the person doesn't actually meet the published criteria, not just "they seemed a bit scary".
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Being one of those "EE persons" specialized in semiconductors seeing lack of ESD protection drives me insane. I used to work on an electronics factory production floor where it was required of me to take a certification course of proper handling procedures and in the use of ESD arresting equipment.

Your PC build didn't boot? Probably shocked it. It's blue screening or kernel panicking? Probably shocked it.
Thank you for this. Just been reading about Terra Preta and am finding it fascinating!
> You're not choosing to make a trade, you're choosing to cancel a trade.

You're also choosing not to cancel a trade, which is the difference from the example you've cited. Choosing not to cancel a trade based on material, non-public information after establishing a pattern of regularly canceling your planned trades doesn't seem to be something that's been tested (at least in anything discussed here so far).

And note that I'm not saying no one pushes - or crosses - lines; nor am I saying that the system isn't exploitable near the margins. I am saying that if you were as flagrant in abusing it as you posted above, I wouldn't bet on your safety from the SEC.

> Sorry to say but you're looking for a way to defend an indefensible system.

No, I'm contesting a claim that seems inaccurate. I quite readily agree there are things that need fixing.

> If you want to see it in action look at what the Intel CEO did.

I don't think we have enough details about what the Intel CEO did to say much - more shares were sold, but it was plausible the formula was set in advance of discovery of the flaw and more shares were sold simply because the stock had gone up. If you have a source with more details, please share it.
12 years of paying taxes aren't enough to earn you a bit of credit in society?
The latest version of Kodi can play Netflix and Amazon using plugins they are working on drm management for official stream apps.
Yeah truthful answer would be "gosh i have 500 facebook friends for like 10 years who knows what they have been up to".

I'm still not gonna check that box though
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No opinion whether Tesla will or won't fail, but driving behind a Model S you can see that it was assembled by people who would not get a job at a Yugo factory. Model S levels of quality is... not impressive.
That's all well and good, i encourage you to move to addis abbaba, ethiopia (an example of a semi-autocratic state that does not allow ANY non-government-owned competition in international telecom links) and build a 2.4 meter c-band Tx/Rx earth station on top of your house. Count how many days elapse before men with guns come to dismantle it.
It's one of those silly damned things that could and should be a static page but is served as JS instructions for building it in the browser instead.
The regulations were plain dumb -- a classic attempt by a bureaucratic working group signed off by the higher ups who have no idea how economic incentives work.

The goal was to capture externalities -- so target the SOURCE of the externality (with a fuel tax). Raise the tax on emissions-producing fuel and provide rebates for validating certain standards regarding how efficient the fuel is burned. This way the tax applies equally to all polluters and doesn't create any unintended consequences in the market due to misaligned incentives.

A higher fuel tax incentivizes not only fuel efficient vehicles but electric vehicles and renewable energy -- whichever is the most economically efficient. Instead, we have a misaligned incentive that will further prolong our dependence on hydrocarbon-burning cars. But of course, raising gas prices wouldn't be very politically expedient...

Note: I am not defending the administration's decision as it was made for the wrong reasons and there is no replacement.
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Your toilet analogy is partially true but is incomplete. Toilets manufactured immediately after the regulations went into effect are in fact less effective. However, the industry innovated, improving previously inefficient bowl designs and creating other inventions that improve performance. Toilets manufactured today are at least as effective as those created before the regulations, and consume fewer natural resources (no small matter here in California where we're staring at drought again).

Regulations may impose a cost, but they can often spur innovation and economic growth as well.
There are two versions, one with SQLite built in. The choice of TCL is super interesting given its pedigree and could easily bring TCL back from its quiescent state.
Cost needs to be a factor in the decisions the EPA makes. If it weren't, cars wouldn't be allowed at all.
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At the time, neither Hillary or Obama supported gay marriage. No political view can stand the wind of time. Should Hillary have been a viable candidate in 2016, given that she "didn't respect the human rights of others" in her 2008 run for the dem nomination?

A mere 10 years later you are insulting someone you likely don't know for 'not respecting human rights'!

Example 1: It's possible that eating non-labgrown meat will be considered a crime within fifty years. Who knows? Are you sure you want all of your current actions judged by some unknown future values?

Example 2: How sure are you that future society will agree with the current 'clump of cells' argument? Would you want to be on the record forever donating to abortion clinics? Your political ideology may not always be in charge either (Mike Pence).

Example 3: Society in a decade might consider us brutes for driving cars manually. How do we accept ~1/X000 high school students dying in car crashes, mostly by preventable causes (drinking, distractions, speeding, seat belt, etc).

We have not reached moral perfection as a society. Future society practicing moral relativism is not guaranteed. So, protect your future self, and protect your privacy.
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Sort of related.. but I'd say classical composing. Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Prokofiev, etc.

Where are the modern classical powerhouses? Contemporary classical is a scary, awful thing for my ears. The best I have found is actually in the movies - Danny Elfman and Hanz Zimmer, for instance. I sort of attribute them to modern Opera writers, though - they don't write full on symphonies.

I don't believe myself a snob, I listen to and enjoy modern metal, pop, techno. But I love the old classical as well. While techno and metal continue to progress and get better, classical has grown...weird
Two different cars with the same mpg can have wildly different emissions. A fuel tax wouldn't discourage higher emissions, only lower mpg!
I can, basically anything that transmits needs an indian license from their version of the FCC. No license, it might get taken away by men with guns. You can't even bring a handheld Iridium satellite phone into India without a license. It is not rigorously enforced, because the Indian version of the FCC is certainly not fitted out with Sprinter vans equipped with $60,000 of spectrum analyzers, but it is occasionally enforced. The more traffic you move or the more significant your thing becomes in your local area's telecom infrastructure, the more likely it is to be noticed.
Why does people keep posting articles behind paywalls here on HN?
I have no doubt that the “ Russia Collusion” investigation is largely the kind of bare knuckled political tactics used all around by the real political infrastructure. (Though I think think there is far more substance here than the Starr investigation of the Clinton/Monica Lewinsky case.)

It looks like the Russians did try to influence our election, and why wouldn’t they. But I can’t believe any seriously thinks Trump is some kind secret Russian agent.

The heart of the issue is that Trump has worked actively in the shady parts of high finance projects. From what I can tell, his business conduct is shamelessly sleazy, showing little regard for anyone’s interests but his own. At certain level of wealth, entities can start to operate almost above the law. Their wealth protects them through the legal and political systems. It is this kind of conduct that is most disturbing, amongst the “elites” of many countries, including the US.

I’m thinking of the practices of the financial-military-political complex. The connecting thread is the pursuance of wealth and power above all else.

Trump is a bad person, and it always struck me as nearly impossible that he hasn’t engaged in highly illegal conduct. It’s just at his level, before he became president, he was hard to touch.

Ironically, becoming president opened him up to a level of scrutiny that is extreme. His usual legal defense methods likely won’t work. Whatever happens in this case, he has so many enemies, he will not get a rest, as long as he is in power. It takes something like a special prosecutor to go after a president. The authority and power of Mueller is politically based. It’s hard to attach the president on legal grounds, purely, but he remains vulnerable to these political attacks.

For anyone that still thinks the Russian issue is a “nothing burger,”I highly recommend reading this eye popping article on the activities of Paul Manafort. Manafort is a very bad guy, and deserves to be in prison. The level of cynical corruption Manafort engages in is sickening. He is certain very connected with the political and economic power structure in Russia.

Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager.

Put it together...

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/03/paul-ma...
Yep, let's fit warnings in birthing suites that 100% of all children born will die.

We need more vigilance from Captain Obvious, who has been slacking off.
Was it the ACS or the Council for Education and Research on Toxics?
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How about writing the warning in the sky, say hourly?
I hate to be the young whippersnapper parrotting buzzwords, but CGI is theoretically supposed to lend itself really easily to deployment onto serverless runtimes, right?
Ah I see you already wrote a similar comment as me. You are more correct. I assumed the ball would bounce lower and lower, but never constantly on the ground.
What if we teamed up as a community to draft a bill, then lobbied Congress to pass it?

Edit: Restated as a question.
Tried to change my password just now but can't. Clicking on 'change password' logs me out again, anyone else?
Ask HN: Facebook Pages alternative for NonTech people
Maybe a wrong place to post. But Facebook pages enabled a lot of content creators, media teams of brands(mostly non-tech/semi-tech) to set up and share their content with wide audience.

What is the best alternative for Facebook pages now, where creators can create/setup interact with their audience easily and post a wide variety of content?

The first thing that comes to my mind is a blog, but even with Wordpress, it still requires some tech teams to setup and manage.

What is the next best alternative?
Normally I'd be the first to beat up on Tesla for not actually knowing how to really design or build a car (they don't) - but in this case, its not as if they're the first auto manufacturer with a similar problem.

https://www.edmunds.com/car-news/ford-recalls-355000-vehicle...

(To be clear, my issues with Tesla is that they do not have the internal manufacturing expertise - or the design expertise for automobiles, and this shows thru parts availability, several recalls, and their slow pace of production - you can't design components with the same tolerances you'd build a MacBook Pro with, and use them on a car, and expect it to work well for manufacturing at scale)
I'm just asking questions
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Using the microphone continuously does require power, though…
> It's always amazed me that the SEC standard is proving insider trading willfully took place. Which is a pretty high bar.

Systems fail, so you have to ask which way you want it to fail.

We go by Blackstone's formulation: "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer". The founding fathers often quoted this and it is an integral part of American law.

Yeah, it often sucks and many guilty people go free. I'm sure you can think of specific topics where it is particularly difficult. But we chose to fail this way because we value freedom so highly. So the prosecutor has the burden of proof. This is often why trials go for so long and it takes a long time to form a case.

tldr: It is purposefully a pretty high bar.
Another example is modern washing machines. A friend of mine lives in an apartment complex that just replaced an old machine from the late 80s / early 90s that finally died, with one of those new top-loading ones that has a load sensor and fills the basin accordingly with the "ideal" amount of water.

He noticed that ever since the new machine was installed, his clothes and bed sheets often came out feeling soapy (yes, he was using detergent designed for HE machines, and the recommended amount). So one day he opened the lid mid-wash, and... the machine was so "efficient", the very stop of the clothes weren't even wet, even after they had been agitating for several minutes! This was with a medium sized load, with the basin less than half way full.

He stuck around for the rinse cycle and noticed it doesn't even fill the basin up with clean rinse water; it just continually spins the basin and sprays water for a little while. No wonder everything came out feeling soapy.

This was with a major name brand commercial/heavy duty machine by the way, introduced within the past 2-3 years.
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He sold more than the scheduled stock down to his bare minimum required to hold as the CEO.

I gather that the loophole to insider trading is that if you sell 0.1% of your shares per month, then decide to sell 99% of it in one month. It's ok, because you were scheduled to sell shares anyway.
Probably causes more cancers each day than every nuclear disaster added together. On the other hand, without sunshine, the Earth would be frozen world covered with ice, void of life.
It'd also be good to actually show something.. not be terribly light on details.
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Yes, all languages in the ML family compile to native code.

OCaml can also compile to bytecode, usually used on the REPL or just to speed up the development cycle.

Your single binary might depend on glibc by default. If you want a pure static library then you need to customize the toolchain to use another C library like musl.

And yes, it does work on Windows.
I used to think this way until recently. I literally have an engineering degree in electronics and it takes me hours to research a compatible set of components. A lay person stands no chance!

A couple of examples off the top of my head: AMD RX480 power draw exceeds the pci-express current limit specification and bricked motherboards, hence I bought/overclocked an RX470 instead. Intel 6700k overclocking. Wow. Reading and understanding the thermal and power envelopes described in the 300 page datasheet difficult for me, it would be impossible for a lay person to comprehend.
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If you have a town/city of population 2,500 to 20,000 that has very poor internet connectivity in general at present, this will probably be most useful in its larger version to bring one relatively high capacity DIA/IP link (like 150 Mbps downstream x 50 Mbps upstream) to a single central location, as an ISP POP in the town, and then local distribution throughout a US county-sized area by point-to-point and point-to-multipoint terrestrial microwave in the 2.4, 3.5, 3.65, 5.2 and 5.8 GHz bands. Possibly with some use of low-cost equipment in the traditional licensed (6, 11, 18, 23) GHz bands, unlicensed 24 GHz band PTP, 60 and 80 GHz, etc.
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