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Virtually all of my bills except my mortgage are automatically charged to credit cards. This means that every time my card gets compromised and replaced by the bank, I have to go update it 20+ places. And there are always the odd ones that only charge a few times a year (or once a year) and I forget until the charge is declined. Yeah, I may not be liable for the fraudulent charges, but it's still a big pain in the neck when it happens. I'd be more than willing to memorize a PIN if it solved this problem.
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I wasn't talking about deadlocks - a deadlock is when no work ends up being done, whereas I was wondering about the situation where very little work ends up being done. Interesting link though!
So fun. For kicks, I just spent more than a few minutes trying to find a semi-steady equilibrium where, say 80% to 90% of cars are temporally stalled without pushing the system into total gridlock.

Just now, I got it down to only one car moving for about a quarter of the circle. Then you really have to pay attention to which car is going where. :)
Silicon Valley thrives in a Gold Rush mentality. Silicon Valley has found gold in software development and technological innovation and everyone around the world wants a piece of it. It just seems so easy from far away to make a quick fortune in only a few years by selling a startup or going IPO. Let’s look at the history of the San Francisco Bay Area and the monumental Ecuadorian initiative to clone it.
Are you saying there is literally nothing in the brain that can be abstracted away? This seems like a very bold claim.
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But there’s only so much Washington can do to help out, what with government
penniless and gridlocked, and its elected officials occupying a caste of
selfishness, cowardice and spite, heretofore unseen in American politics.

This is pure both-sides-do-it bullshit.

In reality, one side recently passed an amazing transformation of health care to attempt to pull the united states -- still the world's richest large country -- up to the level of any civilized first world country. That is, we've moved towards providing healthcare to all americans as a birthright. One party was unanimously opposed, either for venal reasons, or outright stupidity (Sarah Palin's death panels, and thank's John McCain for that!), or evil (all Republican governors in the south). Somehow Europe, Canada, Japan, etc, all make health care work but we can't.

We could also discuss the ever declining (real) minimum wage, which had it kept up with real income growth in the US economy would be in the $20 dollar range or so.

One side of the government -- and no, the Dems didn't cover themselves in glory, but who exactly decided to spend over a TRILLION dollars on a war in Iraq for reasons that are still up for question, on the basis of flimsy and nonsensical evidence funneled through willing accomplices in the media, against all evidence from people with a history of correctness that both (1) there where no WMDs, and (2) invading Iraq would upset the jenga tower that is iraq and the middle east?

Any article that can describe largely political problems without once mentioning republicans or putting the blame for much of this squarely on them is worthless and frankly part of the problem.
One minor reason I noticed recently is that you can't change Postgres' listen(2) backlog. This can have a significant impact on responsiveness.
I like Highcharts a lot and we are paying for and using it, but be careful with the licensing. Chances are you'll need to pay $390 for it unless you're using it on a single domain, in which case it's $90. And that's for a single developer. 5 developers and multiple domains = $1500 without support, and there's nothing in between. And if you don't get the license and support you don't get hotfixes and updates, which seems odd.

There are a lot of other charting libraries out there. Look at the licensing before you commit to any of them.
Will you be kind enough to list some examples please. I am working on some of this stuff.
> The Vast majority of VC's are really running get quick scams to separate people / institutions with money from it.

What you're saying is a calumny against VC's. VC's have helped create plenty of businesses and assets that investors value and have poured money into - like the whole Bitcoin ecosphere. Why, I have heard the top VC's, angels, and even YCombinator high mucky mucks raving about Bitcoin. If people listened to you, they might not pour their money into such valuable assets like Bitcoins.
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Imagine you stole the enemy encryption codes, and are listening and waiting for intel on an upcoming invasion that can save your whole country. Instead you hear chatter about how they are going to bomb a single ship.

Do you save the ship and let the enemy know you have access to the encryption codes? Or do you let the ship be destroyed and keep listening for the more important info?

This decision is pretty black and white too. Imagine if your mother was on the ship. Or it was half your navy.

Some of the decisions world leaders need to make are horrible.
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import colour as color
That has so much win. Thank you.
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You can play 2 out of 3 just fine with games to 21.
Or you could, you know, use cash.
I use Burp (and much of its featureset) every day at work; that's why I used it here. The free edition does basically everything you could want except for saving / restoring states (request history, requests you modified, etc). I've also used Fiddler to great effect in the past, but the fact that Burp is written in Java makes it really convenient to use when you deal with multiple OSes.
Maybe I lack vision - but I don't see how any of the problems of the white collar and working poor can be solved by Silicon Valley. It would be impossible for a startup to work with the government in processing Veterns claims, for example. The regulations barriers are immense and the security and compliance problems are legion.

Similarly, how are startups supposed to improve the earning potentials of the working poor? MOOCs? Don't make me laugh. Most of these people wouldn't want to take one, they are not interested in an Education. They can barely fit in their current paycheck to paycheck lifestyle into their current schedule. And even if we could retrain them - as what? Coders?! Most people do not have the aptitude or patience nessecary.
> the idea that users shouldn't be developers has lead to a situation in which access to development tools and information are seemingly treated as a privilege instead of a right

Unfortunately, a lot of people have been starting the War On General Purpose Computing[1] for a while now.

While many people saw Doctorow's first talk[1] on the War On General Purpose computing, his sequel talk[2] about the upcoming Civil-War On General Purpose Computing is one of the most important talks I've ever seen.

The talk is about exactly this point: Turing completeness scares various traditional powers (and some new/upcoming powers), and their instinct is to lash out and try to mandate that someone make a computer that can't run the various programs that scare them. Not understanding what "Turing Complete" means, they end up in a cycle that tries to blacklist anything that allows these scary programs to be written and used. Hiding the dev tools is just one step on a path that - by definition - must end up with the hobbling of computing devices until they are no longer Turing complete.

This problem needs to be fought right now, in a big way. The non-technical population is just starting to understand the full impact of what it means to have a General Purpose Computer, and we are only seeing the first skirmishes. The 2nd talk I mentioned above by Doctorow[2] - which I very strongly recommend that everybody watch - points out how modern concerns over "dev tools" (or "copyright") are trivial. We need to start the fight now, because it will be a lot more important when the War moves into areas such as medical devices or self-driving cars. We are already seeing the War start to affect areas like property rights and "first sale"; just wait until someone gets sued for publishing a fixed firmware for some company's buggy medical device.

Teaching the next generation from an early age about computers is an important part of the fight to preserve General Purpose Computers, and by promoting "learning by exploring" so kids of the future can learn like we did on older devices would help a lot, at least in the long-run.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nypRYpVKc5Y
Ping-pong is a game for participants, not for TV.
"We might like to have E[Z]=p","maybe we want Var[Z] to be small"... How do you select f and g? That's the difficulty. You see no problems because you're happy playing with your Borel measurable thingies. Try to go further in the 'statistical decision' field and see how longer can you avoid frequentist considerations.

What do you think of the "likelihood principle"? Alice and Bob get the same data and the same likelihood function. Should they make the same inference?

Do you think unbiasedness is an important property for an estimator? What makes an estimator admissible? Do you see a problem with an estimator that provides negative values for non-negative variables?

By the way, I don't think you analysis is correct: Alice doesn't have random variables X_1, X_2, X_3. The possible events for her are T,HT,HHT,HHHT,HHHHT,... (she stops when she get tails, but not before).

EDIT: In case it's not yet clear: saying that "our estimator of p is also a random variable" and looking at its sampling distribution is frequentism.
It would be great if that was the discussion, but it seems like many people consider tracking to be an absolute bad. Thus, any service improvement that might come of it is tainted by its association with tracking.
Only the whoishiring account is allowed to post these. Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

Oh, and it's September :)
I'd be curious about a comparison of the capabilities and approaches of these two libraries. Color.jl got to be quite comprehensive almost by accident.
Chartist.js just had a lot of support on HN, although I haven't used it. I've used Raphaël but customizing it can actually be a bit hard. Chart.js is simple, easy to use, and just powerful enough for most cases.
Note that v4.0.4 was released today, which I assume is the reason for the submission.
Level boarding is currently not possible due to the requirements imposed by the one (or two?) freight trains going through per day.
Apple Maps does use Open Street Map data.
Tooling. While I agree psql tends to be more performant, when you're dealing with groups of people having good tools (and good documentation for those tools) trumps many considerations.

As an example, the organization I work at is considering a move to psql, but our main barrier is a lack of good DB clients that are accessible to people who aren't software developers. The best we're aware of as far as DB GUIs for Postgres is pgAdmin, whereas if we're talking MySQL you have things like MySQL workbench, SQLPro, and a myriad of other applications available for whatever your operating system of choice is.
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No file_per_table does not change anything about the unlimited growth of the undo log in the ibdata1 file.
This is some seriously dedicated trolling.
Where'd you get a "new" one? I'm in the market for a new laptop, but I'm highly disappointed with the changes made to the current Thinkpad line.
Still trying to find a great home router that I can slap something like pfSense on.
Your assume that poor people are poor because they lack the savvy to be born into the upper middle class. That's a common misconception.

Poor people are actually poor because they don't have any money.

The easiest way to make money is not by tricking the poor, but by tricking the rich (they're the ones who have most of it, after all).

Unfortunately, that same money allows even the dumbest rich people to aggressively defend their interests against savvy people like you.

While no one gives fuck all about the poor.
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FWIW, I came across this. Apparently there are updates very recently which claim to shed light on some parts of the mystery and has plenty of tech detail:

http://shortwaveradioworld.blogspot.com/2014/07/uvb-76-buzze...
> the ever declining (real) minimum wage

The last 30 years of minimum wage adjusted for inflation: http://i.imgur.com/7kRykeS.png

I'm not saying it shouldn't be higher, but it's actually currently higher than it was for most of the last 25 years.
> The regulations barriers are immense and the security and compliance problems are legion.

Paging Uber ... I am kidding, kind of. I do wonder what would happen if a well-capitalized startup did something in this space. Provide services directly based on the hope/promise/belief of future repayment?
Georgia dealers want Tesla store shuttered for selling too many Teslas
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Apple denies iCloud breach in celebrity nude photo hack
Pretty sure he means the relations of a normalized model that fail to scale (either due to complexity (too many joins), or size (too much data for a single node)).
Would it have biometric sensors or do anything more than tell time?
I don't think it will necessarily work because some cracker has just probably added that to their personal dictionary(if they didn't before). It might work if you add 3.14159627 to it or a number/symbol set of your choice. I guess length is fairly key as well.
Side note: there's something really beautiful about the way analog radio degrades compared to digital transmission technologies. A couple years ago I got back into listening to golden age radio shows, some of them have gone through several layers of analog degradation before finally being digitized and there's a certain kind of beautiful quality to the way they sound.

I remember as a kid when my grandmother bought me a cheap multi-band radio that could received shortwave and spending hours finding stations just to listen to the texture of the sound.

Even the static can be soothing.

I often times remember songs being better sounding under the distorting effects of AM radio than when I hear them in full digital glory.
I'm thinking about the findings in skin neurons from a slightly different angle, well maybe two angles.

For one, study of brain increasingly points to widely distributed circuitry as the way functionality is implemented. But the brain doesn't exist isolated from the rest of the body, on the contrary, endocrine, immune, gut systems are highly interconnected with brain circuits.

IOW it's plausible neural circuits throughout the body are part of the brain's distributed circuitry, and contribute to functions we identify as "brain functions". The idea of "brain" as synonymous with "brain function" may be a great oversimplification.

The second idea might support a concept of body-wide distribution of information processing circuits. In embryogenesis, brain and skin both stem from the outer layer or ectoderm of early embryonic development.

We can speculate this common origin means neurons in the skin, and throughout the nervous system, are endowed with computational capability and continue to participate in non-local computations. This idea implies neurons winding up at locations far from the brain could still be included in the distributed network.

It will be interesting to find out where the research on neurons in fingers takes us. It might turn out to be a wild ride.
I use these little guys. A bit overpriced and only 100mb but they work well, run pfsense, openWRT etc and generally do what I want for years in a closet with no further intervention.

http://www.pcengines.ch/
>what with government penniless and gridlocked

Um, the U.S. federal government will be spending something like $3.4 trillion in the fiscal year beginning at the end of this month.

That's pretty much the exact opposite of truly "penniless."

As for gridlocked, sure, it's going to be difficult for the Dems to expand Obamacare, and it's going to be difficult for the GOP to repeal Obamacare, so by that crabbed version of "gridlocked" the author has a point.

But in reality, you'll see 99% of appropriations bills (measured by pages of text) over the next few months become law with enthusiastic bipartisan votes. You'll see the NSA's budget increased for next year by an enthusiastic bipartisan vote. You'll see the number of new federal regulations expand every year with no outcry from any U.S. senator of either major party. Etc.

That's pretty much the exact opposite of truly "gridlocked."

On a more HN-relevant point, the author's suggestion of fixing the VA is something that needs to be done by the Feds, not an app. They created these serious, systemic problems for veterans and they're the only ones that have the legal authority (and responsibility) to implement a fix. The WSJ has been writing for years about sensible plans for VA reform but nobody in D.C. seems to be listening.
d3 is probably the one that has gained the most buzz from developers as of late. From my experimentation/evaluation of various charting libraries, d3 is certainly the most powerful.
It's a lot easier to get money out of people who have some to spare.

And people say Big Problem when they are embaressed to admit that it's Big Money that they are really after, when you get down to it.

That said, I know quite a few people trying to solve big problems in SF. http://www.handup.us for example.
The management of Russia has indeed been broken for most/if not all of its history. I do not think it is a matter of freedom of information. With the internet, they have the tools to receive news/views from multiple sources.

The problem I have seen personally within Russia, is the lack of political involvement of most people. Political involvement and desire to learn more is not there. Within the US, a large percentage of people talk about politics in one form or another, but it does not happen in Russia very often. They are more concerned with the problems of day to day living. A very pessimistic attitude and aloofness of the political system and what to do to change it.

More people in Russia need to be active and aware of politics and challenge powerful politicians.
I see, so cops can force a drug user to take drugs they brought in front of them, then the DA can get a conviction? Or they can force a pedophile to molest a child by threatening them, and then use the argument that they were predisposed already?
Like many here, you are pretending that happens, and it doesn't. Too many are living that lie.
That, and the ~6 watt current draw at full tilt (at least that's what it was when I was load testing a couple of 2d3 boards) is very nice on the utility bill. Their newly-released APU boards are very nice, with GigE interfaces, increased RAM, and much faster CPUs.
I like the verge too,but let's be serious.
I like parts of this article more than others.

For example, while I share a certain sense of frustration that SV seems to spend a disproportionate amount of resources on mobifotosocialgames, smartphones and their downmarket progeny are an enormous quality-of-life improvement for broader America. There's virtually nothing a cash-poor-responsibility-rich person needs to do that having a smartphone does not make them better at.

Commute to work? Apply for benefits? Schedule appointments with doctors? Successfully keep those appointments? Keep tabs on kids while working/errands? A smart phone makes you better.

As an entrepreneur who makes stuff for people who are not the usual suspects, the challenges to doing this are numerous and largely not conducive to the VC-funded trajectory. You have to convince people to pay you money for your services, you have to be able to service those customers profitably, and the customers are disproportionately pathological. Most of the software they consume is getting written by AppAmaGooFaceSoft because they can underwrite it with their massive monopoly rents, subsidize the cost straight down to zero, and deal with the CS headaches attendant in serving poor people by sending them to a call tree / web app backended by a Markov chain backended by /dev/null.

There's also a bit of "every problem has a software solution" enthusiasm which is, well, a bit overstated. (Sometimes this isn't stated outright, but when you expect to do something meaningful on e.g. $500k in an angel round, you implicitly expect to do something meaningful 100% in software, because $500k isn't even enough to launch a single McDonalds in the real world.)

Many problems have an 80% software solution attached to a 20% "interface with the real world" mandatory bit. The marginal cost of that last bit, though, is hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars per client served. Or it has highly non-trivial political/regulatory barriers to entry, like "Convince an incompetent, intransigent, and politically invulnerable agency to disemploy half their workforce, who are by the way mostly veterans, whose main professional competence is doing an important thing slowly, poorly, and expensively."
Not every solution takes the form of a startup. And there's always the lifehack of asking the working poor what they think, and listening to them. Maybe some of them have the vision we lack.
Visa/Mastercard/Amex all offer systems that can automatically alert merchants that you got a new card. I've just got my American Express card replaced and about half the merchants that I have a subscription with were still able to charge my card without my intervention.
Yeah, I've read that, they operate on straight lines of code. LLVM works on DAG's, but the ideas are more or less the same.
Empirical evidence says that is not the case; and that most people who need them have to fight their insurance company for them on a semi-regular basis. If only that class of drugs were available at a competitive price so that individual consumers had a way to route around the damage that is our healthcare system.
Testing Emacs Packages: surprisingly non-awful
Freenet and now Maidsafe
Interesting he uses Google Analytics as a "Google is tracking you" story when the real trackers are the companies that put Analytics on their web site. And all that tracking is now from a company they only bought relatively recently (Double Click) that had been tracking you long before Google bought them. But Google isn't the only company that does this and it's been done in far more places than just the web and not by Google and for decades.

Tracking you by marketing companies has been happening since I was growing up in the 60s. The only difference between then and now is it's also happening on the new internet thing. Everything else tracks you, too.