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> That's why a speeding ticket used to be $25 in North Dakota with no court date, compared to $400 in NY with a mandatory court date and points without reaching a plea.

I’m sorry but for this particular problem I have no sympathy. Don’t speed. It doesn’t matter if most people speed occasionally and it doesn’t matter if there are legitimate obstacles to time management in your life that make not speeding difficult. Speeding is statistically more likely to cause death. It’s one of the leading causes of vehicular manslaughter and the mortality rate increases superlinearly as speed increases.

If I could I would make the penalties for speeding, not using a blinker, etc. significantly more onerous than they are now. We live amidst an epidemic hysteria that fosters the belief that a speed limit is a speed minimum. I would happily make someone’s life extremely difficult if they demonstrated a disregard for the dangers of speeding (and unfortunately it seems a majority of drivers do). I would be thrilled if speeding more than 5 mph above the limit incurred mandatory community service for every offense in addition to a fine that scaled aggressively with the offender’s income.

But don’t let this screed of mine detract from your broader point. I agree people are taken advantage of for things like parking tickets. I just won’t extend that sympathy for things in the category of, “Most people do this, and it’s frustratingly arbitrarily enforced, but it recklessly endangers the lives of other humans.”
People don't need a reason to escape; they need better reasons to stay. Traditionally that's been the role of religions, but what's the replacement? How can we give humanity a reason to live, in a scalable manner, without relying on fictional axioms?
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First, we’re taking that claimat face value, second, i imagine, he may have wanted to keep it secret so that one, if anyone wanted similar structure they have to get him to do the job or two, he didn’t want anyone else to steal his thunder.
>As such, there's no real reason to support voter-ID laws, aside from deliberately trying to disenfranchise low-income voters. This is a common point, but I think it assumes too much about low-income voters. You need an ID to access essentially all of the government services that low-income folks would need.

That's not generally the case, as I understand it. Imagine a low-income senior, with a paid off home (or an inexpensive apartment or public housing unit) and a family that help take care of them. What do they need ID for? They don't drive. They may need medical care, but that only requires a medicare card, which is not valid ID (no picture, and just printed on plain paper). Social Security comes as a direct deposit to their bank account, which they opened years ago, before ID was required, or when they did have ID, since lost (or as a US Treasury check that they deposit or cash). Checks don't require ID. State SNAP/EBT/Food Stamp cards don't have a picture, and aren't valid ID.
I had several encounters at my time as an intern at Jet Propulsion Laboratory where I was alerted to my immaturity and the responsibilities that were in front of me. I'm tremendously thankful for each one of those lessons.

There are many different types of personality on lab and they all contribute the extremely unique innovation culture there but there is also always the north star about the responsibility of shepherding a successful space mission which needs to be internalized by all the members in order for these efforts to succeed. I'm ultimately very sensitive to the underlying ethos of both parties in the exchange documented in this article.

Towards the end of the article it becomes clear that both parties apologized for the encounter and Mr. Hickam apparently said "After talking to her, I am certain she deserves a position in the aerospace industry and I'm doing all I can to secure her one that will be better than she lost. I have also talked to the folks that had to do with her internship and made absolutely certain that there will be no black mark on her record."

I feel like this is ultimately a very good outcome. Everyone involved learned something and grew from the experience.
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Electronic voting conflates authenticity with legitimacy. Same problem in digital identity.

To me it seemed actually stupid to believe that the only thing preventing algorithms from yielding the sympathetic magic required for a peaceful transfer of sovereign power, was their lack of complexity. Arguably, without the ritual element, democracy reduces to a lottery with a biased mechanism, and for it to work, it must necessarily be more than that.

It's a larger philosophical question, to be sure, but it's like comparing a Turing test to an Indifference curve. The first is to determine whether something can convince people it is another person, the second is to predict the point at which you will cease to care enough to choose something else. These are analogous in that, like an AI, we can design an e-voting system that can act convincingly as though it facilitates democracy, but mainly it is just an acceptable substitute for people who no longer care whether the democracy they are dealing with is real or not.

In the case of voting, it's not just a thought experiment, or a product dev question, as by real, I mean sufficiently legitimate for people not to reject the results and cause civil disturbances.

It might sound a bit extreme, but we should really be asking when we institute electronic voting (or counting) whether we are willing to accept a simulation of the ritual we use to grant sovereign powers to people.
I've tried this a few times. As much as it usually passes the buck to the next interviewer at best, I would just rather be honest.

Especially when the company I'm currently pursuing lists 'trust' in their list of 3 values.
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I disagree. Rewrites are risky because you're changing code that has been working for some time. It is easy to introduce bugs into a sufficiently complex system when refactoring.

"The idea that new code is better than old is patently absurd. Old code has been used. It has been tested. Lots of bugs have been found, and they’ve been fixed. There’s nothing wrong with it." - Joel Spolsky
Do you get enough power/amps to host 40 dual E5 systems?
> This sentence makes me so angry. If you’re going to come up with a great new way of doing something then the worst thing you could do is to keep it a secret so it’s impossible to figure out how it works and it ends up forgotten.

It's the case for lots of inventions, the ones which are not documented end up forgotten. I could add as an example the Russian Olivier Salad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad), where the modern recipe only comes from a sous-chef of the original restaurant which sort-of reverse-engineered the recipe, because the recipe was totally secret. We still are not sure that recipe is exactly the same as the original one.
Oh god spare me. It's as if you have no grasp of physics. You're going to die whether I hit you at 60mph or 70mph.

If 70mph is dangerous, why do many states allow it as a speed limit?
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Looks pretty good. I think it's too bad that the filled out ballot just goes into the place where the unfilled ballot is printed. Makes it feel like it could be over-printed or something. Taking the filled out ballot over to a box is not that much of an inconvenience. If they're worried about observation during that transfer, put the box by the voting system, but more obviously separate.
Heart disease actually has links to viral infections by things as common as herpes :)

https://medium.com/@InfinoMe/cholesterol-have-we-shot-the-me...
> Then give them a few options with trade-offs.

I had (well, I’m in the middle of it, so have) to fix a few bugs in a project that are the by-products of a deeply flawed architecture. I came to my boss and explained a handful of ways that I could potentially solve the problems, and made it really clear that the best way to go would be to completely redo this one part. He agreed with me, though he wasn’t happy about how much work was involved. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hopefully your managers will appreciate you giving them options.
Agree with all of this.

I don't work at a small company but refactoring and especially rewriting code is difficult and error prone. It's a crazy thought but in many cases, it can be better to just leave the legacy code alone. It's all about ROI of your time and the opportunity cost of what you're working on.

If you're going to be making lots of changes to a specific part of the code base, then it very well may make sense to invest in improving it so r hat you can move faster after. But if the code isnt going to be modified much, it may be better to just get in, make the changes you need, and get out.

As a mid level developer, nobody is expecting you to come in and rebuilt the thing immediately. Focus on learning it well first.
The landing page looks nice, but I'm curious how well it works. Has anyone on here used this or participated in a private beta?
More precisely, your labor is the resource.
Was this a while ago? You're unlikely to get a seat on peak services these days. Even if you do I find them too cramped for actually working.
If you can't change your organization, change your organization ;)
I think you are right, though in my experience in these situations is that defining the exact behavior is very hard. In not many cases was the messy code written messy from the start, it's usually an accumulation of changes (to behavior) - which are very hard to figure out.

I've found it's also hard to test code that isn't modular and split up: before you can test anything you need to mock 2 database connections, one external API endpoint and reading/writing from 3 different folder locations. Either that or you split them up yourself and risk breaking something.
I am in almost the same position as you, but probably a less liquid position. Wife and kid on the way even. If you want to chat more ping me at my email in my profile. There are a lot of options including just connecting with others in a similar position.
I think he was trying to get Lorenzo Ghiberti kicked off of the project (and he eventually did). Brunelleschi needed some leverage.

I'm not an expert in the area though, this may be an overly-simplistic interpretation.
CLEAR = biometric thing that checks your identity, letting you skip waiting in the line to show your ID to TSA. You still take off your shoes and empty your carryon bag for the x-ray, you still go through the body scanner, but it gets you up to that point faster.

TSA Pre = separate security line at airports which support it. Leave your shoes on, leave stuff in your bag, go through metal detector instead of body scanner. Basically the pre-9/11 airport security experience. Some airports which don't fully support Pre do various forms of relaxed rules for you when passing through an otherwise standard post-9/11 process.

Global Entry = expedited passage through customs on entering the US.

NEXUS = expedited passage through customs in both directions at the US/Canada border.

Global Entry is likely the best value for money/effort, since it also gets you Pre, and also provides you with an ID card that you can use when crossing into the US by land, and use of an expedited lane at land crossings if you register your vehicle. NEXUS has similar benefits for US/Canada border and includes Pre, but is more difficult to obtain because you have to pass background checks from and interview with officers of both countries (CBSA and USCBP; Global Entry only requires check/interview with USCBP).
Does Cisco have a responsability to the American public to hire American first and not when it's merely convenient, by whatever metric they decide, for them to do so?

The plain-as-day answer is, the business model of externalizing the costs of nationalism (protection, discounted infrastructure) and technological progress (disruption) only works if the net-benefit of that progress results in a measurable improvement in the standard of living for the majority of society whom have paid the externalization costs.

Otherwise, innovation quite clearly works as an asset-stripping mechanism; a mechanism of enslavement and subjugation.

The correct question to ask: Is Cisco's action, and what the majority of silicon valley is doing, foundationally counterproductive?

A Teacher does not teach the material, they teach the student; their job is to learn how students learn, format the material for them, and provide them with guidance, ultimately teaching them to teach themselves. They must change themselves to change the world around them.

Time and time again, I see clearly highly intelligent people like you, and they make the mistake of agrating people into numbers because they they have not learned stewardship over those less gifted, logic and reason has clouded their ability to see social systems of sacrifice.

And because of that, their designs fail. Over and Over. And they don't know why, or they become superstitious about it.

Hiring H1B's in large numbers, instead of having a scalable internal training program, is a fundamental sign of a failed system at play.
If I could live somewhere extremely rural and remote, like the deep woods of Maine, and a drone could cheaply drop me supplies every week or something, I could get a good little set up going outside of extortionary forces. But, once that technology exists, the extortionary forces will just move in to the now-inhabitable-area.

Tbh, it's much better to just make peace with it and try to avoid thinking about it unless you have so much power and influence that you can root out corruption somehow. I aint got that tho
Oh boy, if you think that meth is a problem in the cities, just wait until you visit rural Australia.

Entire communities are devastated by the shit. There are places where the percentage of users is up in the double digits (it's 2-3% nationwide).

Poverty, drug addiction, and income equality are even worse in rural Australia than in the cities.
Yes, I agree, it's a common dynamic!

What it comes down to is that many people are conflicted about whether they want more users or not. They want the fame, but not the support hassle. So they promote the software and then release it as 0.1 and say it's unstable.

Instead, we should be clear: if you are a hobbyist-programmer, more users mostly means more problems. You might want more contributors (that can fun). But you don't really want more users who don't contribute back.

Setting expectations up front will help. If you don't want people to depend on you, don't put up a marketing page explaining why everyone should install and use your software. Make it easy to build, but don't publish binary releases.
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If you look at union membership rates, that's when they begin to falter. Countries with strong social democratic safety nets usually have high union membership (in the range of ~80%.) Working class power was built on militant labor movements in the first half of the 20th century. Without the threat of strikes (essentially the only tool in labor's pocket) there's no incentive to pay higher wages or to not seek rents in industries that serve basic needs like healthcare, education, etc.
Oh, I meant making the error in the code fell under the we all make mistakes. Not the refusing to share it.
Earlier front-page discussion on news article from Nature: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17821253
I like this system the best. You can also have another machine that fills out the paper ballots, which can be really helpful for people with disabilities. You still get the option to examine the filled out ballot before turning it in for counting.
Computer based chemistry (modeling of molecules and reactions) is nothing new. It seems (although not clear from the site) that this is some sort of ML-based “reaction prediction” algorithm based on pattern matching of known reactions vs modeling the electrons in drawn molecules which would—-from a chemistry perspective—-be a much better way to approach the problem.

Is this just IBM throwing another “hey everybody look we did some machine learning” thing at the wall and hoping it sticks or is there real scientific advancement here in computational chemistry?
A Bankrate[1] survey found that only 37% of respondents could cover a <=$1,000 emergency with savings (note: savings, not a "saving's account"). They did, however, add that another 23% could cover the expense by spending less on other things.

The exact wording of the question is going to have a significant impact on the results and what they mean. In the real world, if I incur an unexpected $500 expense I'd put it on my credit card, which would get automatically paid from my checking account at the next billing cycle. It's not clear if that would incorrectly categorize me as not being able to afford it.
Embarrassed by its cobbled-togetherness. Not in whether or not it works.
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The best servers are there when you need them, are paying attention so you rarely have to wait or wave, and are wonderfully absent when you do not need them. The manager coming 'round to confirm quality of service is a bad sign (new place or struggling). Surly should never enter the picture unless it's a theme restaurant based on belittling the customers.
> You're going to die whether I hit you at 60mph or 70mph.

If you slam on your brakes first, starting at 60mph instead of 70mph could save a life.

EDIT: Oh, it's a troll. Wasn't as clear when I posted this. I need to learn not to feed the trolls... sorry all.
Should be "1,000 suns":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighter_than_a_Thousand_Suns_...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_(nuclear_test)#Detonat...
I wonder if there are comparable "stone fences" through Japanese new-growth forests as in New England.

What I mean is: You look at paintings from 100, 150 years ago of Western MA and it's farmland ... farmland everywhere. Before and kinda-sorta after, it's woodland. Take a walk through and there's dilapidated stone fences from the farms. Beforehand, of course, pure "virgin forest".

If Japan is at least vaguely similar in terms of de- and re-forestation, are there artifacts running through the re-forestation areas of the de-forestation period?
Millions of people live in top tier cities and millions of people live in Nowhere, USA where housing is still ludicrously expensive in proportion to job prospects
Where I work, "Human Resources" is just in charge of benifits/payroll/etc. Assigning people to projects is done by the resource manager, a completly unrelated posistion.
Their headlines occasionally reach punny heaven. Like this one [1]

[1] "Super Cali goes ballistic: mugshot site atrocious" [ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/17/mugshot_site_atroci... ]
I think the idea is that fashion is innovated by black people and then commercialized by the (white) fashion industry? Not really sure myself
Economic rent is not about renting an apartment. It‘s a terminus technicus.
Agree.

People have visualized market data for years. Try a tree map. You can group them and size each block by their market size. https://www.finviz.com/map.ashx?t=sec
https://www.cnet.com/news/sending-tiny-spacecraft-to-alpha-c...
>they still need to spend nights and weekends to maintain their OSS project on the side.

They don't, though. They can simply stop working on it and say "pay me if you want updates from me."
If the foreign powers had actually manipulated actual votes (and if you think this is the first time...), their manipulation would have been nearly impossible to hide. That's not what they did.
I vehemently disagree, we should absolutely revolt.

Show me the non-technological incremental improvements.

The US is not a democracy, legislative power is sold to the highest bidder. Legally.

Couple that with unregulated capitalism and things are looking quite bleak.

Inequality is on the rise and there is no reason to think that trend will reverse.

But at least we have iPhones.

We're very young as a species. Our current structures of power are not intentionally constructed but inherited. There is no reason to think this is the best we can do as a species. Why don't we put the same level of effort into designing our social structures as we do into literally everything else we develop as a society? Where is the rigor?

Now look me in the eyes and tell me everything is fine.
So just to be clear, your position is that 60 mph and 70 mph are:

1) equally safe, all else being equal,

2) equally safe, in an where one of those speeds is faster than the legal speed limit,

3) equally safe, when there is a disparity in surrounding traffic speed (possibly due to #2).

I want to be extremely clear if that's really your position, because if it is you're hand waving away the danger of a ~16% increase in speed.
It can be a super helpful assistive tech. Also you can make selections before hand, and still secure the actual ballots. Tracking all printed, spoiled and cast ballots can be helpful.

Also, you get to examine the actual ballot before casting your vote, even if you don’t fill it out with a pencil.
> I doubt it's trivial to add more capacity to ISPs.

Running new lines takes time sure, but it is very easy to dedicate more of the line to data over tv channels which take immense data.

With DOCSIS 3.1 they can multiplex but more should be used for data over television and capacity is easily added.

Hard wired broadband is just milking it until 5G and by the time we get to 6G will be dead like phone lines so wirelessly adding capacity will be easier.

My guess is ISPs are just not wasting time running lines, especially the ones that will push people to 5G and future specs when those are out.
Maybe the sarcasm tag is missing? What's the point of looking at "rate of growth"? Look at how much wood there is in total at any given point! Trees that are removed are not exported to somewhere outside earth, so that growing them faster would remove more carbon.
This is how most real world code is.

You might be the exception, but when you've been working on code for a while, your code is probably like this to an outsider too.

The difference is that you have a ton of insider knowledge in your head that makes the code understandable. The person who wrote the code you now hate probably does too.

I've learned to enjoy fixing up projects like these. You can learn an enormous amount from fixing bad code, and I truly have! Unfortunately it's probably something you have to learn for yourself. Just try to have a good attitude about it OK?
My dad (born 1957) grew up in a tiny farmhouse, 6th of 8 kids, and had an outhouse until I believe 8th grade. Meaning my oldest couple aunts and uncles moved out before they had indoor plumbing.

Admittedly, they were pretty poor, but most people couldn't even imagine living in those conditions anymore. At the time it wasn't unusual.
It's the Australian dream, we're brought up to believe that's out duty in life: find a girl, buy a house, have some kids, and settle down.

I have colleagues that commute over an hour each way to get to work, just so they can have a back yard. It is a bit different when you have kids though. I live 20 minutes walk from work on a post stamp sized section, but I wouldn't raise kids where I live. Too many heroin addicts and not enough open space.
> For better or worse, HN can be a bit autistic when it comes to comedy

This will age well...