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Yellow means "stop if safe". Red means "stop", but when driving "if safe" is always implied. I've driven through red lights to let emergency vehicles through, and a judge would likely throw out a ticket given for such a reason.

Yellow lights increase safety by avoiding the "slam on the brakes" effect you've described. They've replaced this with a very common "floor the accelarator" reaction which also decreases safety. How do you get one without the other? Red light cameras combined with a short yellow seem the best approach to me.
I'm surprised they don't include letters in different colors and only have you distinguish ones of a particular color. Or make certain colors blink having the user select only the ones that are blinking.
No PHP? No matter your opinion of its merits, doesn't its size alone merit inclusion?

PS. Upvoted anyway, because this is a nice tool and idea, and because your demo process was slick!
Kickstarter project raised $196K and stopped responding
Doesn't something like this compel people to use bitcoin more rather than less?
I am as amazing as Leibniz.

Yours sincerely,
Stephen Wolfram
Dwolla started implementing some policy changes a few weeks ago regarding Mt.Gox which was a pretty good tell about something bigger coming along. I'm glad that I took the opportunity to move my funds away from Dwolla at the time and avoid this mess.
As someone pointed out it doesn't if the total red+yellow time is still the same (i.e. red time is replaced with yellow).

The counter-argument is well it increases chance of rear end collision when people stop suddenly. And that is true.

The counter-argument to the above is well they should be driving with enough assured distance between vehicles and below the speed limit.

To "maximize" revenue they could be making the legally correct assumption that everyone is keeping a good enough distance and driving below the speed limit, and they'd actually have a legally defensible position as much as I hate to admit it.

(It is also hard to argue informally that they don't know what they are doing, they know perfectly well, as others pointed out, if this was a start up maximizing revenue we should be cheering, right, right...?)
I'd really love to see how a Google street car (those autonomous vehicles) would handle a yellow...in my book, yellow still means speed up lol.
The same thing happened in New Jersey, but the state took the matters in hand, and effectively suspended the cameras last summer (http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/is_your_local_red_l...). I was flashed in Newark, after a very short yellow light on a 55mph road where normally yellow lights are long enough so that you do not have to dangerously slam the brakes. According to another article I read, it is supposed to be 4 seconds for 40mph roads. I was flashed after what looked like at most 2 seconds of yellow light.

I never received anything, and I found out about the yellow light abuses.
The original opposing factions of the Founders were far closer to each other in intent than where we are today.

The fact that the interpretation of the Constitution has changed so radically where you can point out where it decisively was interpreted differently implicitly tells us that the original language and spirit are no longer obeyed. We're somewhere else as a result of the Civil War, the New Deal, the Great Society, and now the utter capitulation to the Nanny State that is Obamacare.

I mean, the language hasn't changed that much. We have written records of the Constitutional convention and the ratification debates within the States. Obamacare, for example, was a universe away conceptually from what the Constitution allowed the Federal government to do.

No amendments have been introduced since then that would allow for many of the functions of government. Yet there they are.

You can argue that judicial precedent and inherently unconstitutional laws have brought us to this point - but you can't really argue that our Federal government isn't in constant violation of the Constitution.
An appropriate partial quote of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged:

“Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken."

<snipped>

"But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt."
It sounds like you may just need http://www.glider.io
And also fight this article as if it were advertising a paid strongman programme, not an openly available paper describing a routine that only needs a chair (maybe it's sponsored by IKEA?) and the purpose of which is to get some slobs heart attack risk down a couple of notches. Which means they probably didn't even read this.
I think the article overlooks a large segment - that is, very popular YouTube producers who genuinely make cool videos with (what I think are) professional graphics and production quality like freddiew, wongfuproductions, ryan higa, kevjumba, mysteryguitarman and kurthugoschneider

The article also misses what traditional TV lacks that YouTube producers do - audience interaction. They will make videos based on their fans' comments, hold meetups in their location and actually respond on twitter/instagram.
You are correct, the conspiracy theory I'm referring to was the US government was deliberately doing such things in an effort to spur the Japanese to attack a US target for justification to enter the war. Up until Pearl Harbor the American people had little desire to enter the war, which obviously changed in a big way after the attack. I should have been clearer.

The fun part of the conspiracy was the fact that the all-important aircraft carriers were not in port for the attack.

Mind you, I don't necessarily agree with the theory, just mentioning it.

But your what-if at the end there, that is one that would be interesting to consider the outcomes of that potential path of history.
I read this in a fairly long article that I'm not able to find at the moment, but there's a lot of other stuff that's been written about it out there. Who knows whether or not it holds water.
Surprise surprise, the King wants to squeeze thew peasantry again with another tax.
Well, the problem is discoverability, from personal experience.
I listen to rock mostly and I really doubt there is much public domain quality rock music out there. Imagine almost entirety of rock being forced into public domain. Why would I buy anything in that situation?
Most of my music collection would be in public domain by now.

Imagine all the quality study materials being in public domain. I would love it, but after a while it might crash the market completely. At least for non-cutting edge fields like advanced but still reasonable math or physics or mechanics.

I haven't really looked through all the available stuff, but most of it seems of little 'worth' to me. Old and hardly relevant to my interests. It might be cool to read 1912 book on aircraft propulsion, but it's just a odd thing to kill time with. 1999 (date chosen with regard to studies mentioned in some other comment thread) air propulsion book is mostly up to date, at least for studying.

I'd late here and my rambling might be a bit inconsistent. I'm not really arguing for either side, but I do find overbearing IP a nuisance. Just trying to cast a different light on the issue.
about:memory has been gradually improved over the last two years.
I totally agree, as long as you can trust your dependencies.

Go's dependency management will even allow a library to have multiple versions depending on the version of Go being used to build (either a branch or tag matching the Go version). This isn't a major feature right now, since Go is backwards compatible within major versions, but could be much more important when there's both go1.x and go2.x in production.

The problem here arises when your remote library can't maintain a stable master, either because the maintainers don't care, don't know how, or the project is new and still in flux. The onus is then on you to incorporate that code into your project.

People need to think of this system as giving all dependency developers commit access to your project (which is nearly is). Would you just let the world check-in code willy-nilly, or are you going to review what's going in?
The only "natural right" you have is which of your appendages the bear gets to eat first. If you're awake when it catches you.
> Please. JavaScript is a far cry from the ideal byte code / intermediate representation for all future applications to be built in.

Indeed. But it's what we actually have today, not what we wish to have tomorrow.
To the downvoter: if the above is wrong, it's non-obviously wrong enough that it deserves an explanation.
Ultimately, folks with money can use that money how they want. You can dock credits because he didn't donate it to providing clean water or some other cause that you deem more worthy, but ultimately it's his money and it seems like a reasonably charitable thing to donate it to trying to find cures that will be available to everyone. There's supposed to be room for folks to make personal decisions about charity; otherwise we should just do it via taxation.
No, you're missing his point. He's talking about safety, not avoiding fines. If lights go straight from green to red, but then wait 60 seconds before any other traffic goes from red to green, then it won't cause any safety issues, because even if a handful of cars can't stop in time when it goes red, there won't be any other traffic around. Off course it could cause problems with cars going in the same direction stopping too quickly, but the assumption is that cars won't just slam on their breaks as soon as they see the red light (and let's not forget this is also the hypothetical in which there is no orange light).

This line of discussion is unrelated to whether or not they should be trying to maximise fines.
Department of Homeland Security Shuts Down Dwolla Payments to and From Mt. Gox
This project has been funded for a year and half with no progress to show for it, only thousands of comments from backers wondering when they will receive a refund or at least an update on whats going on.

Unfortunately the project founder has flown the coop and kickstarter doesn't claim a lick of responsibility. Want to get away with stealing 200k? Just make a kickstarter project and never deliver, it's working for these guys.
So you sympathize with people who can't be bothered to observe posted traffic regulations?
Rick Allen is a great person for continuing with his drumming career with one (1) arm. Nobody's claiming he's a "great drummer" and your insensitivity doesn't contribute much here. The comment section is not a record store.

Many people have stronger voices than Page, but the point still stands that it's how you approach your adversity that counts.
> Also, when you get down to brass tacks, if Bob has zero engagement with the product, Bob will not pay for the product, and thus the downside risk of annoying Bob is to a first approximation zero.

Yet Bob might make a blog post and get significant exposure on a very well known technology site where many industry leaders participate - where people like me might say: "hmmm do I really want to deal with FooCorp spam when I can use similar competing services which do not seem to annoy people with spam"

There is always risk to annoying customers. You just never know how it will come back and bite you.
George W. Bush: Oh yeah? Well let me ask you something, Kumar, do you like giving hand jobs?

Kumar Patel: No sir.

George W. Bush: Do you like gettin' hand jobs?

Kumar Patel: [smirking] Heh, yeah.

George W. Bush: Yeah well, that makes you a fuckin' hypocriticizer too
I wanted a tool like this to be used not only for interviews but for remote pairing as well.

Say I am stuck on a particularly sticky problem. I'd love to be able to load up some code and work through it with someone more experienced.

I know you can do this via Tmux but what if I don't want to setup Tmux and SSH keys?
Coffee with Tim Cook finishes at $610,000
Just use google spam filter.
It won't necessarily endanger the public if they add more delay between one light turning red and the other turning green.
I think they realize that the survey prompt is self-selecting enough that they can't get a valid sample of non-sufferers through it, and will have to go elsewhere for a baseline.
This kind of thing reminds me of guys who gets one night stands by propositioning every single women they come across.

The end result from his perspective is that he scored. The end result from everyone else's perspective is that he's a sleazy annoying scum-bag.
I'd certainly like to see EFF on that list, but we've got Business Software Alliance (Microsoft) and Engine Advocacy (Google) on there. No one with strong grassroots ties among startups unfortunately.
I've considered hosting my assets on a separate domain (e.g. assets.mydomain.com) because, in theory, browsers will better be able to parallelize the downloads. It sounds like this same approach would make your CloudFront setup a bit easier to manage.
Reminds me of the criticism of web fragmentation HTML5 DRM was getting.
Consumer paranoia (many claim chips/RFID is unsafe) in addition to outfitting millions of retailers. Chip readers is where Square should be, IMO.
Hum, sorry to ask, but why would anyone accept to write some java code in such an environnement while it is so easy these days to allow screen sharing (join.me) and let the interviewee use the tools (s)he masters?
It is a common misconception that officers have quotas to issue a certain amount of tickets per month. The quota is actual for how many traffic stops they make. You'll see behavior like this from cops who haven't met their quota, but it's not about the money.
It's bewildering to see a project that "can't compile" after having $70k+ poured into it. This article sums up this clusterfuck: http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/24/haunts-anatomy-of-a-kickst...

Back on topic, maybe Go should take a page from node's NPM: simple versioned tarballs with isolated dependencies.
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It can if you're used to the lights being yellow for longer, it suddenly turns red, and you slam on your brakes and get rear-ended.
For those of you who didn't bother reading the article, which I assume will be all of you since this topic normally drags up the least-able critical thinkers on this site, I'll summarize it for you: the Florida DOT lowered yellow duration to a level appropriate for the speed limit on the road. The duration might not be long enough for speeding cars to stop. So in addition to being colossal asshats, people who are speeding might also be getting more tickets from red light cameras.

And in conclusion, drivers are the most self-entitled scofflaws in the world.
It is interesting that he shared this. I like it.

I wonder how it will be perceived. Will stock traders buy or sell GOOG differently now that they found about it (or found out that the public found out) about this issue.

Did he have to get the approval of the PR or board of directors before disclosing it.
IMO this is some sort of clueless scapegoating. Dependency could be an issue in software development but only for large projects. A project with $28k funding and probably 1 or 2 developers, seriously? And no details like lines of code, libraries being used, etc makes it hardly plausible.
Was anyone else pleasantly surprised to find that this is a well-researched, plainly-told article -- the kind you rarely expect from local news? This should be an example on how to investigate and report impactful news.
No, I don't really sympathize with people who get caught there very much nor did I say I did. But I sympathize far less with the cop who is doing way more to endanger my safety than the other drivers are, all in the name of scoring some easy stops to meet an obvious quota.

For visual reference, this is the intersection:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=32.917322,-117.2356...

The people getting popped for right hand turns are the ones to the left in this image. The cop sits under that bridge in the shadow area without any lights on, taking up over half of the rightmost (leftmost from this view) lane. The difference in brightness between daylight and under that short overpass bridge is very high.
So damned true. In one of my apps, I literally had to hide everything else on the screen to keep people focused on the tasks at hand, one field at a time.
I... I think I'd quit the company after that conversation.
If you do that, you'll still cause more people to slam on their brakes to avoid running the red. Slamming on the brakes increases the risk of losing control of the vehicle, and of being rear-ended.
But even if the government does monitor all SMS messages and people do censor themselves out of fear, that does nothing to stop a determined terrorist from communicating over SMS: they just need to devise a code in advance, which is what criminals have been doing for ages. Instead of saying "go ahead and plant the bomb" they could say "my hamster has been feeling very ill".
I have the feeling the author is elevating presentation over content. His definition of terrible is different than mine.

I mean, I think "Transformers 3: Pixels Making Grinding Noises" has insanely great production value, and made a bajillion dollars, but honestly I'd rather watch two hours of Jenna Marbles videos, and I don't even like Jenna Marbles all that much.
I have nothing against China. But if the balance of power evens out through electronic warfare, then real and very deadly war might be the end result.

The US doesn't spend half of our GDP on the military for shits and giggles.

Regarding your Nazi Germany comparison, I don't know enough about the holocaust to speculate on the reasons why it happened or what could have been done to prevent it. I wouldn't kill any innocent human, no matter their religion or race. Groupthink, racism, fear, and ignorance might be partially to blame but it would be difficult to be in a position to actually make a difference during those times. Electronic warfare is not comparable to the holocaust. But the potential of power changing hands after 50+ years of control isn't something that shouldn't at least be discussed.
Why do you say "even Symfony"? The buzz I hear is that Symfony is pretty much the most forward thinking framework in PHP and that it's offspring such as Laravel take cake if you're looking for something a bit more streamlined.

Just looking at job boards tells me those tech + drupal seems to be where all the work is (in the UK at least), so yeah, why the "even"?
After you turn 14 you'll realize there is actually never an appropriate moment for an Ayn Rand quote.
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That's pretty cool. It's great to see people share some of their process.
He's not sympathizing with those people, he's pointing out the police officer that can't be bothered to observe posted traffic regulations.
The emperor still has no clothes and the god's are still crazy.

(I mostly walk, thankfully. And don't live in Florida.)
Let's Talk About That 500 Startups Video
Ryan Lawler: "By now you’ve probably seen that 500 Startups Accelerator has a new class of startups, its sixth. And it’s got a ton of international folks taking part and that is fucking awesome. You know what’s not so awesome? The video that accompanied its announcement."
> which we usually pronunce as "n-ginx"

Is that like "en jinks"?
"The cues are a result of depth. You have given them up, by-definition when you use a flat design."

Except that flat designs aren't defined as eliminating depth cues. The simply do not rely on them so much or demand additional cues. The Flat Design Church does tolerate depth, and many "flat designs"include some notion of planar layout. It's just that depth cues aren't supposed to be primary cues in a flat design.

And for good reason. Depth cues are often very subtle and increasingly UX needs to be good even when looking at a dim screen under bright sunlight. The advent of mobile is demanding designers start going high contrast, and so flat design is an obvious choice. It is, ultimately, a phase. People have reverted to the simplest solutions for more visually rugged UIs, but we're starting to see a new and more nuanced set of visual grammars emerge.
Have you tried Screenhero? It allows sharing a screen with both users being able to use their mouse and keyboard at the same time.

There's also another startup that's a shared code editor with video chat on the right, but I can't find the link to that right now.
It's a great SDK for making cross-platform 2d games. (For cross-platform 3d games, Unity is currently the most popular choice.) You are sacrificing control of the technology by using it, or similar products, but that's only relevant if the underlying technology is more important to you than the game itself.

If the technology is important, you're probably better of creating your own engine (this will take a long time), or licensing an existing engine (i.e., the Unreal Engine) and modding it as necessary.
It's a proof. That doesn't say it's true.
Cofounder of Tringify here. Would love to get feedback from the community.
This is unsafe for pedestrians.

The yellow light means "Clear the intersection," not "Slow down." The purpose is to give time to people crossing the sidewalks to finish walking over to the other side. Shortening them is a safety hazard for pedestrians like me who don't own a vehicle.

I don't live in Florida, but this is shameful and disgusting.
If people stop harder, they're more likely to get in an accident doing so. If you don't have ABS, stopping harder increases the odds that you'll skid. Also you're more likely to get rear ended if the person behind you isn't paying attention.
> As a country we got by for over 200 years without government surveillance, and nothing has changed to make it necessary now.

I'm glad you're so certain we had no government surveillance.
Let me start this off by saying that I love Basecamp and use it everyday...but I am very intrigued by Duet. The app looks really great and I am a fan of the way the UI and navigation are set up.

What I think you are missing however are Discussions. I find discussions to be the single most valuable feature that Basecamp has to offer. I also love that for any todo or file, project members have the ability to comment on that item, which is essentially a discussion in itself.

The ability to keep all of the conversations that are taking place with various members of both my internal and external teams in one place is incredibly helpful. It eliminates the need to track disperate conversations across gchat, gmail, skype etc, and gives all team members transparency into the various facets of the project.

I think adding these features would make your app much more robust and compelling.
Blaming the rules of the game is sometimes appropriate, but not in the case. This is a free market for entertainment if there ever was one. Much freer than TV or movies.

The high-volume clicks that the author reviles? These consist of millions of individual consumer choices. The viewers decide what they want to watch. Apparently, this is what people like. Maybe old media didn't realize that and was wasting their money all along, or maybe tastes have just changed. But either way, if you don't like what's popular on YouTube (which I don't), you probably just have different tastes. Fortunately, there is plenty of diversity of YouTube, so you're not stuck with what's popular.

Which raises a question about this article: What exactly is the author criticizing? Surely it's not the lack of good content, because there is more of that than ever. It seems to be the mere popularity of bad content. But if bad content is popular, what of it? I don't mind. If it is truly bothersome, one can always take comfort in snobbery, which can be a lot of fun.

If Google were somehow distorting the market by deliberately promoting low-quality stuff, I'd blame the system. But based on the facts as stated by the author, I don't see any reason to believe that.