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The point about the 5th amendment is that prior to last year's ruling, it was assumed that passwords (or private keys) could be compelled for any reason in the US, and systems were built with that assumption. I recommend you look into legal disclosure or e-discovery products. Not right or wrong, but that's the design assumptions backed by a bunch of lawyers in govt and private sector.

The example is incomplete. In messaging systems, Party A uses Party B to send messages, which may be useful for a court case. The government may reasonably subpoena Party B to produce Party A's records since they may not want to alert Party A that it is under investigation.

If Party B (the service provider) has any feature that makes use of the content of Party A's secrets (read: url-checking, auto-loading thumbnails, indexing for search, some types of routing, etc), then there is little ground for Party B to argue it can't decrypt Party A's records for the subpoena. Further, Party B may become a co-conspirator if it keeps incomplete records or destroys records too quickly. Even if the co-conspirator charge is remote and hard to convict, most service providers would prefer to avoid the publicity of such a court case and add decryption anyway.
Aren't Yellow Light times determined by engineering and it becomes a public safety issue if they are shortened?
After you're 50, you'll be wishing they gave you enough time to make it through a crosswalk before the lights change...
You make an excellent point.

I am worried about the case where the driver, distracted, looks away from the intersection for a second. Returning their gaze to the light, they see it red. They never observed it yellow, and thus they have no idea how long it has been red and whether or not it is safe to run the light. Perhaps this is why we have yellow to begin with--as an redundant means of clocking the time until the opposing light turns green.
Why is HN so obsessed with Ayn Rand? It's a serious question that I've been meaning to ask for some time. I never heard about her before joining Hacker News, and since then it's been at least once a week. Is this a Silicon Valley thing?
In all fairness to Mel Gibson above "Several of the beats on that album became legendary" would seem to imply he was a great drummer. I agree it's rather odd to take issue with what was an unusual analogy to begin with but it was hardly an outlandish response/comment.
I didn't plan to spend 15 minutes today reading all the arguments on this thread.

Therefore Hacker News is spamming me.

How can we shut down Hacker News?
I'm pretty sure the flashing-hand signal is what gives pedestrians time to clear the intersection (often with a counter!).
I love the ending! "I'm also a person. Programming is just one thing I do."

I'm a programmer, but creating a product of their own is difficult and I commend those that do so. I've learned while doing my projects that aside from programming, I need to be...

An Investor...investing money into hardware, but MOST importantly, time. Time to code, to learn, and time from work and for family.

My Own Boss...doesn't mean I don't answer to anyone, it means I need to be harder on myself to get *ish done, because there is no team to offload work on.

Open-minded...even though working a 9-5 would allow me to specialize in a specific area and a lovely paycheck bi-weekly, my projects/businesses required that I learn so many new things that it's continually frustrating and irritating. Ex: filing articles of incorporation, learning photoshop (I was strictly a coder), micromanaging lists of tasks, formulate a way to pay the bills while donating time to my projects (emphasis on donating).

Side Note: Even though at times I may get jealous of my peers that I know that work at Google and the state...there's a fire inside me burning, just knowing that I will be something big, and I am my only true investor...programming IS just one of the things I do.
They must think that's funny.
This sounds a lot like the co-operative model.
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I've never met anyone else who's gone the soldier -> programmer route. Who did you serve with?
I'm just surprised that there's that much revenue in youtube videos
When you manually allocate memory you are naturally responsible for the lifecycle of that memory. In Go you allocate such memory outside the GC to avoid tracing.
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I generally agree, but this might be a case where there's already a lot of information about people without the condition and as he says, very little about those with it.
This seems insane that Kickstarter doesn't have a policy on this. Guess all investments have some level of 'risk' to them.
The story of ultra-wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis is very interesting to read about. He was brazen in his profiteering and I've read stories that his rise to fortune started by eavesdropping on wealthy citizens making deals and buying stock etc when he worked as a telephone switchboard operator.
like a rapier.
You can kind of do this by looking at the clock on the pedestrian sign. I would think it would help more with traffic flow than saving on gas.
I used go get on the source code and the errors are caused by dependencies on 2 C libraries: opengl and lua. Basically the Go bindings for the C libraries are out of date and/or unmaintained.

Sample output:

# github.com/runningwild/glop/gos
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lglop
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
# github.com/runningwild/opengl/gl
gl.go:142: cannot use _Ctype_GLint(mapsize) (type C.GLint) as type C.GLsizei in function argument
gl.go:147: cannot use _Ctype_GLint(mapsize) (type C.GLint) as type C.GLsizei in function argument
gl.go:152: cannot use _Ctype_GLint(mapsize) (type C.GLint) as type C.GLsizei in function argument
gl.go:158: cannot use _Ctype_GLenum(internalformat) (type C.GLenum) as type C.GLint in function argument
gl.go:164: cannot use _Ctype_GLenum(internalformat) (type C.GLenum) as type C.GLint in function argument
gl.go:170: cannot use _Ctype_GLenum(internalformat) (type C.GLenum) as type C.GLint in function argument

/usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `luaX_tokens' changed from 8 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/lcode.o to 256 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/llex.o
/usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `luaT_typenames' changed from 8 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/lapi.o to 88 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/ltm.o
# github.com/xenith-studios/golua
/usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `luaX_tokens' changed from 8 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/lcode.o to 256 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/llex.o
/usr/bin/ld: Warning: size of symbol `luaT_typenames' changed from 8 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/lapi.o to 88 in $WORK/github.com/xenith-studios/golua/_obj/ltm.o

Seems like a familiar problem that every similar language encounters when using bindings to native code, not just a Go issue.
Come here and work on hard problems, like rounding corners and getting people to click on stuff.
> how awesome Windows 8 is and how well it's doing

Ironically, if that were the case, it wouldn't need an update.
Nice, still says for interviews but I feel like it is just marketing copy at a certain point.
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I live somewhere with long yellows and it does encourage people to run the lights. It's a problem, but we are also a very bike-friendly city and long yellows give cyclists time to clear the intersection. Also, there is a delay after the red before the next right-of-way gets their green and this seems to prevent accidents (because the late-yellow/red light runners are clear before the next green).

Nevertheless, we do have some red light cameras here. One day I was stuck at an intersection with a camera, and I was waiting to turn left. I had a red left turn signal, and it suddenly stopped cycling. It was rush hour, and after three cycles with no green arrow, I called the non-emergency dispatch and told them the problem and asked the cop what I should do. She told me to take the safest course of action I thought I could. I told her that was running the red light during a break from oncoming traffic, but that I would be given a ticket for this. She said she couldn't invite me to break the law, but just do the safest thing. The legal move would have been to change lanes to the right and go straight through the intersection on a green, but this was also the most dangerous choice because of the heavy traffic flow. Thankfully the light cycle following my conversation with the cop, I got my green arrow, but it sucked to feel so helpless--knowing the safest and correct action (running the red once oncoming traffic allowed it) and knowing I would be penalized for it.
A few things to know about gyms:

Personal trainers are either terrible or expensive. If you can afford a personal trainer for a long time, either you have hired a great one because you are loaded, or you are paying for a crappy one and probably not getting great results. I know I am stereotyping, but I'm just trying to encourage a little skepticism. The gym I go to has multiple squat racks, rubber "bumper" plates for doing Olympic style barbell lifts, and has personal trainers/staff that have been stolen away from chains like Gold's, LA Fitness, etc. Why? Because the gym I go to has a premium business model where they pay their staff much more than other gyms do. Rather than paying a low monthly rate and then hiring a personal trainer, I pay a higher monthly fee for using my gym but don't need a trainer.

Anothe thing about trainers: Too often, their goal is to keep you coming back. They tend to have constantly changing, high variety workouts. These are fine, since the body adapts to exercise and the point is to prevent plateaus. However, this is not good if you are trying to learn to work out on your own. Also, variety is overrated for people trying to get fit. I've noticed trainers mix in strength with aerobic conditioning. Gaining muscle and losing fat are goals which are most easily met when they are done one at a time. If you want to get stronger, lift weights and eat a lot. You will make progress. If you want to lose fat, get up every morning and do cardio before eating ANY breakfast. Just water, then straight into cardio. Your body will be in fat burning mode with depleted blood sugar, and your energy expenditure will come primarily from fatty acids released by fat cells. But for the love of God, don't try to do both in the same workout. Cardio interferes with muscle building and vice versa, requiring ridiculously oprimized nutrition that is hard for people without professional chefs/dieticians to achieve.

Here is what I would look for in a gym:

1) 2 or more squat racks

2) 1 or more trainers who keep themselves fit using barbell exercises (my gym, despite having the standard cardio floorplan for the masses, has a section with the good strength equipment, and the staff who are into Olympic/Barbell lifting walk around and happily give advice/tips/form checks). When I am doing squats in the morning workout, I will frequently look over and see a staff member doing the same workout on the other squat rack.
3) Large numbers (5 or more) of benches for doing bench presses with barbells (not machines)

4) A rack of dumbbells that is complete (missing dumbbells is a sign of a gym that doesn't maintain their equipment) and ideally goes up to 120 lbs. per dumbell

5) Lots of pull-up bars
This is absolutely incorrect. Traffic lights are for vehicles. Pedestrians should be obeying the pedestrian signals and your cue to "clear the intersection" is the blinking red hand. Traffic lights do not switch to yellow until after the pedestrian signals are solid red hands.

This obviously only applies where pedestrian signage exists.
Agreed. Also, if your dependency graph starts to get unmanageable, it's usually a sign you've made a mistake somewhere (likely by relying on something else that's poorly designed).

If you keep your system simple and don't rely on too many "kitchen sink" frameworks, then keeping your own source tree of your dependencies isn't that much different from maintaining a local repository of the same code in compiled form (with the added benefit of having the original source available).
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Do printers/drawers/scanners come with an USB interface?
Or, in Reddit parlance:

"Bro, do you even lift?"
Go supports some versioning. It will checkout from:

1. A tag named for the version of go used, or
2. A branch named for the version of go used, or
3. The master branch

But no, you can't spec a version to import explicitly.
I meant actual times, the MUTCD only says you must use "engineering practices" in determining the interval. The ITE equation was included in my link -- however it optimizes for reduced red-light violations, so it's no wonder it's not used in these cases.
>Modern web browsers have more in common with operating systems than with text editors and email clients.

That is the core of the problem right there. The need for a new health-reporting system is just a symptom or a consequence.
It's more of an American thing. Her philosophies fit in well with existing Individualism.

Her influence was never particularly large, and has faded over time, but left a cultural mark. (See all the objections to the GP? :)
Standby is a pretty poor solution compared to replica set let alone what Cassandra has to offer. Sharding is trivial on MongoDB/Cassandra and it is open source. So let's be accurate here. It is a problem inherent with the SQL databases.

And I think you underestimate the benefits of scaling out. If I want to ensure close to 100% uptime or have a server closer to my users than Cassandra or even MongoDB would be infinitely easier to setup and manage than Postgres. These are "very nice to haves" for even the tiniest startup.
I've seen enough crosswalks that go from solid red hand to a flashing red hand immediately, that I now ignore the flashing red hand until the street light turns yellow.

Shortening it makes it dangerous for a lot of parties.
labelling someone who uses your intellectual effort as a "free rider" as an argument is circular logic, because that term itself is incumbent on the idea that someone who puts effort into something is a priori entitled to get something back out of it.
I don't know why you are quoting spamhaus definition for spam, that is not relevant for the GP. Neither is the can-spam acts definition.

I use (and suspect the GP does too) use something like the following definition:Spam is email you don't want - it doesn't matter if you signed up with a company or not if you don't want a particular email it is spam.

Now as a practical matter I tend to click unsubscribe if it exists, mostly because otherwise the spam filters quality drops too far, but I still consider it spam.
I think what you're really saying here is that these current YouTube stars will not make the jump from their current content to TV-ready content. But they do play an important role in creating the ecosystem, bringing the viewers, and showing that there is a market for content through this distribution medium. Hopefully that will make people more willing to drop the money on a good pilot, but it won't be the current generation of creators that will be doing it.
> It seems like these people represent exceptions to the rule

Basically this.

I was a gymnast for 18 years (from 2 - 20 years old). Obviously, it wasn't professional level the entire time, but starting a bit before high school, workouts would be 5 or 6 times a week, for 4-5 hours. There was never any weightlifting, only body weight exercises. Those guys you see on TV doing Still Rings, Pommel Horse, etc., they didn't get that strong through weight training. It's just hours and hours of practice and so-called 'endurance' conditioning. I say 'so-called endurance' because most gymnasts that I met were pretty bad endurance wise, judging on ability to run for awhile. A lot of us topped out at a couple of miles, before we needed to walk.

Gymnastics is a sport that isn't assisted by weight training. There are a few exercises that use weights, like wrist therapy using 5-10 pound free weights. But all those physiques you see on TV are just thousands of hours of work, and those hours make for some of the leanest, strongest people.

Here are two videos of some good, professional-level routines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgJJDYeqqg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRDzQX6MzHo

You literally can not learn to do that through weightlifting. You cannot gain the strength those two use through weightlifting. It's not because the positions themselves are difficult, those are usually the easy parts to train and practice. It's the transitions between two different positions that is difficult, and cannot be trained by weightlifting. Gymnastics is a dynamic sport, weightlifting is a static exercise. The best that weightlifting can do is make the holds a bit easier, but that isn't really necessary, because those aren't as hard to train as the fluid transitions.
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The yellow light does mean "clear the intersection", but its purpose is not to give pedestrians time to finish their crossing. There are many things that have to clear the intersections, not just pedestrians. Plus, the decrease they talk about in Florida is only by fractions of a second, anyway.

Here in Toronto, we have an additional two seconds of "all red" light after any yellow lights, to give time for left-turning vehicles to finish their turn.
The things most lucrative to pharma are problems whose number of affected patients (x axis) and price to treat (y axis) create a box with the highest volume on a graph. That is, things which are expensive to treat, yet treatable, which many people have (common, not rare). Things like diabetes, cancer, etc. I don't think Hashimoto's thyroiditis would fall into that category.
Dwolla was basically free and worked quite fast. International bank transfer took a bit longer but every transfer cost me about 50 dollars in fees. Luckily I got my money out before this. I feel sorry for the people way back in the queue.

I don't blame Dwolla for this at all, but I am tempted to close my account with them to telegraph that I want my financial tools to push back on these kinds of things.
> It's true, a perfect training and exercise regimen will include increasing loads. But given the general sorry state of fitness and health I see daily on the streets, getting people to understand that ANY exercise, even as little as 7 minutes a day, is beneficial will go along ways towards making people healthier and stronger.

This is what is wrong with "fitness" today - the harder you work out the more "bad ass" you are, and the fitness-is-my-hobby crowd are notorious for their "go hard or go home" attitude (yes, massive generalization here). And since these people are the go-to 'experts', people who only want to not-suck when it comes to fitness probably get easily discouraged because there is a real and tangible barrier to entry: you have to "work out" which means to go to the gym, or go to the park and jog, go home, shower... while for some people, simply some more activity would be better than nothing. Simply walking more, or doing the odd push ups during down times.

But evidently - that is not good enough. Go hard or I will make you feel worthless for not being as dedicated as me.
> "but it's still unclear exactly how they're going to get there."

Technology is a good bet. Camera technology as well as cost has come down by orders of magnitude in recent years - the Canon 5D Mark II was the turning point (the first DSLR capable of shooting 1080p video at acceptable frame rates), but we're way beyond that now.

And we're not talking about "making cameras cheaper so anyone can throw one on a tripod and make amateur videos", we're talking about the democratization of previously very capital-intensive equipment. There are now cheap steadycams almost as good as the expensive real thing, follow focus units, and a massively growing segment for cheap cine lenses that are suitable for video work, but don't cost $20-30K a pop like traditional cinema lenses.

We're dramatically lowering the cost of entry for effects that were previously associated with high production value (thin depth of field, follow focus, smooth camera movement, etc).

The entertainment world of the future is a friggin' exciting place.
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>Women could choose to get a child instead of working.

This is a fallacy. A woman working is not going to "choose" this any more than you are going to go from being gainfully employed to sitting on your ass all day playing video games. Setting the right thresholds on both the income and the reductions removes any incentive to become a non-working drag on society. If however, you did make that choice, a basic income allows you to realize quickly how crap life is and then correct yourself, rather than slide further down the have not scale.

What's more, even if you did choose to sit around playing video games on $10K a year or whatever, you are fed and likely housed, and therefore not stealing from me, getting arrested and now costing me $75K a year in prison expenses.

> You have different criteria than I and should have every right to donate your income to causes you see as worthy

Taxation is not fucking charity. We do have every right to choose where our taxes go. They're called elections. However, considering (as I stated and you conveniently ignored) that your wealth was entirely derived from the society at large, the sustainable maintenance of said society is in your utmost interest, whether you think so or not. I have more interests than I can possibly afford to donate to. That's why I contribute to a collective fund and then hire managers to disperse said dollars with an eye to betterment of society as a whole.
That's strange, she is ACSM certified, yet she disagrees with an ACSM paper? Just wondering why she does.
It's not at all unusual for awesome, successful software to be updated.
I am a canadian and I've driven in cities like Vancouver and Calgary. The yellow lights in Calgary hold so much longer (maybe even double the time?). I found it much more comfortable to drive there than in Vancouver.

That said, I've been thinking for quite some time now that it might be best to just add a count-down number on the lights to show you how many seconds are left until the green light turns yellow. If you are going to beat the light, might as well speed up a bit from afar than by a lot near the intersection.
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It seems to me the developers must have been working really hard and the failure is due to that the size of the project is way too large for the two person team. It is unavoidable and the dependency issue is just a symptom.
I bucketed that with "With the domain registrar"... to include others, Register.com, etc.
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You have a client project in Racket? Cool! Care to share what area / what are you using it for?
Alternatively, why are our standards so damned high?

Is there not a decent chance that many people watch what seems like "lower quality" stuff because it is more relatable.
Also: 6 Cities That Were Caught Shortening Yellow Light Times For Profit (2008) http://blog.motorists.org/6-cities-that-were-caught-shorteni...