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> The electoral systems in the UK-derived nations (geographic districts only, first past the post) expressly prohibit such broad-but-shallow movements from ever being represented in government.

This is true for the Westminster parliament. It is not true for other elected bodies in the UK, which use the following electoral systems, and with the approximate share of the vote you need to get elected:

London Assembly, MMP (as Germany), 5%
Scottish Parliament, MMP, c. 6%
Welsh Assembly, MMP, c. 8%
Northern Ireland assembly, 6 member STV, c. 10%
NI local government, 6 member STV, c. 10%
Scottish local government, 3-4 member STV, c. 13%
European parliament,
1 STV constituency and 11 closed lists,
varies between c. 8% and 17%

Incidentally, I am a Pirate Party UK candidate standing in Edinburgh this May -- http://edinburgh.pirateparty.org.uk/
The hallmark of "regulatory capture" is that the regulated party is driving the relationship, and not the regulators.

So while we see occasional push back when public outcry gets too loud, most law and regulation is written by telco's, and hence telco friendly.
Ask HN: How many Hackers would be interested in design?
So, we're already thinking of throwing together a short tutorial for beginners on how we built our landing page (http://www.grooovy.me/persona) and I got a couple of emails asking me how the design was done.

So the question is: As mainly a programmer, would you be interested in hearing about design as to how we designed a product and why we designed it that way?

Given enough people are interested, I'll spend time to contribute what we were thinking when we designed our page and maybe give out a fully customizable PSD and the source code as a template to make your own page. We wanted to do this because we've never built a homepage before and we wanted to build something completely innovate and fun. So it's from one beginner to another.
They could offer a cash prize, which he could use to pay his telephone bills. I agree that it makes no sense to give him a phone he just "beat".

I guess he could sell it on eBay or something...
There's a distinction to be drawn between copyrighted content and copyrighted content of such quality that serves as a market substitute for the legitimate product.

In either case, the DoJ has huge discretion about what cases it brings. A major component of that discretion is its belief that it can win the case (much harder against Youtube); another component is "what offender is so weak that we're likely to maximize the precedential value of the case"; another is "how much of a message will this send".
Twisted's event loop is faster than gevent and tornado. http://cyclone.io/
I briefly considered making the same kind of statement, but keep in mind that a (ostensibly reasonable) jury awarded hundreds of thousands in damages to the RIAA in the Jammie Thomas case..

I have little to no faith in the jury system, especially where federal trials are concerned.
> Edit: Climate could play a part too. I've never boosted a car, but I imagine it's more appealing in a balmy 60 degrees than sub-freezing.

It was raining cats and dogs that night, terrible weather for someone conducting their trade outdoors.

Not sure if people who break into vehicles care much about the weather, though :)
CAD is expensive, or confusing, or both. It's not much fun. The kit needed to play with HDL is expensive.

Really, this guy just needs a bit of sponsorship and guidance. Some tech company should send him "stuff"[1] and they'd earn some nice publicity.

[1] Development kits or test equipment or robots or whatever. And good books for it all. And maybe a gentle syllabus.
>They are also required to restore it

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I understand the text of DMCA correctly, they are not required to restore the content which was taken down, only that they may.
You can't, but you can make a phone that is easier/more practical than the competition for a couple common use cases. When you have a product that can stand on its own, then you make a campaign like this one. Whatever you do, you don't open yourself up for this kind of accusation.

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/rdgtz/i_won_the_...
I probably shouldn't be disappointed, by now, that the TSA continue to live up to the reputation that they have around here. The agency is pretty much a pure creature of cognitive bias at this point - of sunk cost fallacies, of the desperate impulse to cover one's own ass, of irrational fears and irrational responses.

I flew over the weekend. I reached a bit of a breaking point about taking the TSA seriously when I heard one of the screeners refer to a contraband item (a bottle of water) in luggage as a "party foul." Everyone but the higher-ups knows that it's an absolute farce and a waste of money. It's a great example of why the tops of hierarchies should _not_ be insulated from the consequences of their decisions - rather, the opposite.
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Instead, they covered the interesting part, which is the differences between Exec and services like TaskRabbit (I've used several.)

> Unlike other services, it doesn’t make users manage a bidding process and vet offers.
Using org-mode as the ultimate note taking tool
Not to sound like that guy.. but I'm skeptical of their model.

Normal price comparison sites make a ton of money.. why? because they dominate the search results. Makes sense.. hard to make a brand out of something that sounds boring like comparing prices. Yet I think Leaky is betting the brand will attract users.

And if they do acknowledge they'll need search engine visitors, then that's a huge risk because 1 penalty and they're dead. And where's the "thick" content? Google frowns upon any site that looks like thin content.

Second, this is insurance. Noone's gonna compare prices regularly, like they do with regular purchases. It's not like airline tickets where people buy them 3-4 times a year either. It sounds like something someone would use once, then forget for a long time.
Why is Schneier presumed to be the most effective critic of the TSA? The body scanner program in particular has been roundly criticized by civil libertarians (both conservative and liberal), has generated credible concerns from professional scientists as to health risks, and has been repeatedly demonstrated by physical security experts to be ineffective.

Schneier is an effective writer, particular when his audience comes with built-in respect for his accomplishments, but his broad disdain for virtually all of airport security† probably reduces his effectiveness in making a case to the wider public. He's easy to caricature, and traffics professionally in an image of "security muckraking" that suggests he'd oppose the TSA no matter what it does.

† A disdain I share, mind you.
Let us leave aside how much more readily a vertical stack lends itself to ground mounting compared to a flat array for now.

Gravity loads are not typically the primary concern for conventional solar arrays, uplift is. Deadload is an effective means of counteracting uplift. Lateral force per unit area on a roof mounted object is significantly less than uplift (and lest we forget, the length of the lever is mid height for a uniformly distributed load.

Roof design is like computer security, every penetration in the membrane is a potential site of infiltration. More holes = more probability of bulk water in the building. One of the worst places to direct bulk water is around electrical equipment.

Flat layouts create additional problems in regards to maintenance. Access to penetrations and the the membrane will be more largely dependent on the ease with which panels can be demounted, in addition access to panels in the center of the array may also be dependent upon demounting panels - one probably does not want to walk across an energized electrical grid and solar panels tend to be energized when the sun is shining. Hail and wind borne debris are banes of roof mounted arrays and flat panels are generally at significantly greater risk to both.

One ignores that solar panels are a part of a building's electrical system at their own peril, quite literally. A flat scheme not only requires significantly more conductors, it also increases the area over which the potential for a lethal shock is high quite significantly - talk to a fire fighter sometime about how one plans for operations around solar arrays during daylight hours.

It may be reasonable to consider that a longer diurnal period in which significant power is generated will reduce the need for storage capacity - lead acid batteries, hydrogen tanks, and other standard storage methods all come with significant life safety concerns.

Finally, packaged technical solutions tend to provide better quality, lower cost, and a higher degree of safety compared to custom site built solutions. One can assemble a tower in an enclosed factory using industrial Q.C. processes. Doing so on a pitched surface ten meters above grade as light fades at the end of a cold winter day is a bit more unlikely.

This is not to say that the claims of the article are accurate. But from a building science standpoint, a vertical array is a significantly better option than a flat one.
If you look at the original RPC work by Bruce Nelson [1], it's pretty clear that there's no strict definition of it. I think most would argue that SOAP would be included, which is still pretty common.

1: http://nd.edu/~dthain/courses/cse598z/fall2004/papers/birrel...
That's why I started out by saying it's a nice perk.

What I objected to was that it sounded more like "instead of grocery shopping after work, now you can stay at work longer" whereas "we will do the tiresome parts of life for you so you have more free time outside the office" is what I want.

The very few errands I can't do outside of working hours can't be outsourced: going to the dentist, etc.
I enjoyed that the prices refreshed (though they did not change) when I entered my first name. I could imagine: "Oh, your name's Phillip? +$30/year."
Someone beat you to it (that's the HAT variety, I guess yours would be a VAT):

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7045702.html

The windmill scene is even more outlandish than the solar panel people, and the funny thing is all the weird ideas come full circle every decade or so.
Twisted has a benchmark suite and release-to-release tracking of performance information, so that we can be sure optimizations have a positive impact. http://speed.twistedmatrix.com/timeline/
When Youtube refers to Vitess as being RPC-based, they are not referring to Sun RPC (callrpc), but rather to the generic design pattern of exposing service calls over the network. In particular, Vitess makes services callable [-] using either BSON or JSON serialisation over HTTP CONNECT calls.

[-] http://code.google.com/p/vitess/source/browse/go/rpcwrap/
You're mixing apples and oranges. If you read my replies to your posts, I was disputing your claim that MU tricked people, not that it was use for copyright infringement.
The fact that I pay substantially less for my insurance than anything Leaky quotes me is actually disconcerting.

I got my policy through an independent agent that came recommended by a relative. They set me up with Travelers for my home and car. My auto policy for a 2009 Nissan Altima with comprehensive and collision coverage is only $800 per year. The lowest quote from Leaky was about $650 per 6 months, or $1300 per year.

I've looked through the actual policy documents for my coverage and the limits all look the same as when I was with Geico paying twice as much. Now I wonder if I'll find out there's some kind of mistake and I'm not actually covered if I get into an accident. The discount for having multiple policies with the same company is usually 10%, so that doesn't explain the 60% difference.
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Any decent C++ compiler should be able to inline generic code while C often relies on function pointers.

What makes you think that a decent C compiler can't inline runtime-generic code using void* and virtual functions?

Sure, erasing types only so that the optimizer has to figure the information out again using constant propagation is far from optimal, but the underlying issue is actually source code inclusing vs modular compilation -- most of the speed gain of templates comes from the fact that it only works with the former, whereas C-code traditionally does the latter.
Is

return /* ... */ throw invalid_argument("");

really valid C++11?
This [0] IMHO gives more perspective (don't be taken aback by the flashy images, the good stuff comes after, ~2:50 mark) When watching, remember this is when looking at the absolute darkest spot of our sky.

[0] Hubble Ultra Deep Field in 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAVjF_7ensg

PS: Inevitably, the title reminded me of this:

Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly,
hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you
may think it's a long way down the road to the
chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.

-- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-x-ov...
Because Schneier in particular has shown numerous weaknesses in airport security systems. And what you've described as "disdain" amounts to treating airport security like any other kind of security system, evaluating it critically, and correctly realizing that it has almost zero value, a huge cost (in both money and time), and a huge impact on civil liberties.

In other words, he has very effective criticisms, which makes him unsuitable for hearings designed to publically demonstrate a lack of effective criticisms.
Python outperforms C in many cases. http://morepypy.blogspot.com/2011/08/pypy-is-faster-than-c-a...
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The insurance market is very lucrative. It's up there with gambling and loans. There are so many insurance quotes affiliate sites who do nothing but blackhat google so they can get their useless site on top. I say useless because these sites can't really offer you the insurance rates comparison that they promise, they do not have the data. They are just in it to collect your details and pass them over to an insurance agent.

I used to run sites like these and it was frustrating because there isn't much you can to differentiate yourself from the competition.
I found it quite illuminating to peruse the list of the shills^H^H^H^H^H^Hwitnesses who are going to be allowed to testify:

Christopher L. McLaughlin, Transportation Security Administration, Assistant Administrator for Security Operations

Stephen Sadler, Transportation Security Administration, Assistant Administrator for Intelligence and Analysis

Rear Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant Commandant for Marine Safety, Security & Stewardship

Stephen M. Lord, U.S. Government Accountability Office, Director, Homeland Security
I would be weary of relying on Exec for anything substantial to my company because if they get acuihired, they could disappear overnight and leave a gaping hole in my business that could be very difficult to fill.
Nobody's actually confused. He did not literally mean to say anyone was confused. He's essentially saying "you were naive to think this blog was more than a marketing channel".
I'm not buying that. He had bloody giraffes on his lawn when they were taking him away.
List was inaccurate and has been deleted.
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One of the greatest strengths of the language when used for client-side code is that it largely enforces open source by virtue of the architecture. There's a lot of minified and obfuscated code out there, but even that can be deconstructed, and the amount of clear and well-documented code out there pretty much ensures that you can find tips to solve any problem you have, if not an open source library to handle it for you. Add the network effect from all the people using the language, and the resulting wealth of discussions widely available on its every aspect, and it's difficult to beat.
"Dummer code is easier to grep for and easier to maintain.

The more magical the code is the harder is to figure out how it works."

A nice formulation of the kind of advice I keep reading here in HN.
You may not have read the article this post was about. It's referring to exactly that incident.
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Right, it's like midway booths at the State Fair. You know the games are jaded and you only play for fun. But if you win and they don't give you the toy, then it's just not honest.
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Schneier is effective because he tells a different side of the story from most. The civil libertarian angle is already pretty well covered. People take it as a security versus liberty tradeoff and the population has, in general, resoundingly chosen to favor security. I don't think there are any new arguments to be made there. The civil libertarians will say that this stuff is bad, the TSA will say that it's necessary to keep us safe, and nothing will really happen.

Schneier is different because he's an expert in security and he lays out just why the TSA's approach is bad security. Not because it infringes on liberties, but because it's just not effective, and the money could be used more effectively. This approach is, I believe, the only way to convince an unreasonably frightened American public to back change.
I've heard it called "splay" before e.g. `chef-client` will take an interval option and a splay option. Splay is a random amount of time added to the interval to prevent thundering herds.
> Why is Schneier presumed to be the most effective critic of the TSA?

I don't think he is presumed to be the most effective critic of the TSA. I think the problem is that he would have been the only critic of the TSA to speak before the committee.

(http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/tsa-oversight-part-iii-ef...)

Mind you, the chair's comment seems scathing.

> The work of our two Committees has documented a recurring pattern of mismanagement and waste at the Transportation Security Administration. Add to this an unending string of video clips, photographs and news reports about inappropriate, clumsy and even illogical searches and screenings by TSA agents. Americans are right to demand answers from TSA about the return on investment of their tax dollars.
Can you point me to any of these caricatures? Are you sure we're all talking about the same Bruce Schneier?
Just make sure the first open is in a new tab!
I felt some pride reading this since I am an SJSU Alumnus. It's the only college I applied to because I was working full-time and cannot afford to move to Berkeley or any other school. I did very well in all my classes even though I was full-time with both work and school.
Gallons makes sense. I could wrap my head around the 15 gallons I used to put in my car's tank. What I wouldn't want to wrap my head around is thinking about putting ~56,781 cubic centimeters of gas in my tank.

If you require someone to perform multiplication beyond 10^1 scale to estimate costs, it becomes easier for telcos to overcharge users. You and I probably have no issues with multiplication in our head on the order of 10^2 up to 10^6, but for most users, that scale is mentally taxing.

Compare:

0.02 cents per sms message
$20 per 1000 sms messages

Plus, prices are "stickier" at 0.02/message than 20.00/1000 messages, since it's easier for two telcos to start discounting their price relative to one another with the latter, like $15/1000 vs $20/1000. The equivalent to such a discount under the per message pricing schema is to charge fractions of a cent. i.e. 0.015/message vs. 0.020/message. The only place in society where we really see fractional cent pricing in daily life is with gallons of gas, and even there the burden for the end-user is high enough that the gas stations all get away with leaving that fractional amount at nine tenths of a penny almost all the time.
But how are you going to make voters accountable for their votes? That was my initial question and despite all the talk about federalism you have yet to answer...
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KwanEsq explained exactly what I intended with my introduction.
That doesn't mean that you can write off the "linking" argument as "just sophistry". I daresay it will be integral to this case.
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I thought the overlord joke was from the Simpson's, but it turns out that they got the idea from 70's high camp: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-x-ov...

More on topic: I believe that one of the main reasons why they don't take it seriously is because they are literally above the law here. They don't have to go through the same process that ordinary travelers do. I can't find an authoritative source, so either all of Congress or only those senior members traveling with a security detail are exempt, but either way, those in charge don't understand the full impact it has on ordinary people's lives.
RBAC is a capability-based system, so I think you're confused.

Unless of course you're basing your claims on a definition of "capabilities" that limits that application specifically to capsicum.

I would encourage you to read more about RBAC as it is not as limited as you seem to be implying.
It's only because currently the politicians belong to a "protected" class that do not have worry over such policies, they are above them. But as history shows, eventually most of these protected class will find themselves in the same boat as the rest of us and suddenly they will care. But by then it will be too late.
Paywall really?
We need the ability to upvote and downvote specific sentences!
> One serious flaw of the proportional system

No such thing. There are lots of proportional systems, each of which have different proporties.

> like Italy and Israel both have

what you say is explicitly not true in Italy, where the biggest party/coalition is automatically given enough top-up seats to give them a majority.

> is that a small party can be the deciding vote, and have a much larger weight than it merits. For instance: center-left party gets 48% of the vote, communists (they still exist here) get 4% of the vote.

If the seats were split 48-48-4, then the party wih four seats would have as much power as the other two, since any two parties form a majority. But under PR, legislatures typically aren't split between two big parties and a small one. In Israel, for example, the largest party got 28 of 120 seats.

> Another flaw is that, in Italy at least, since it is not the voters of a given district who decide on one of several candidates, it is the political party who decides who actually gets to be on the list of people sent to parliament.

This is the same as with FPTP: the party decides on the candidate, and if it's asafe seat, that candidate is virtually certain to be elected. There are several systems of PR where voters not parties decide which of a party's candidates are elected: STV and open lists, for example.
I use vim-slime every day and am mainly happy with it. It is a little annoying to have to set up screen for it, I wish I knew how to script screen better but the docs are pretty opaque.
But you implied that sudo could limit privileges to only those needed for the task based on your reply to the original poster. While sudo can limit the user to only running a utility for printer configuration, as an example, it can't limit the actions of that utility, so my point stands.