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30k+ people die in car accidents every year in the US alone. These accidents are caused by a laundry list of things, including texting, eating, interactions with other passengers, fiddling with the radio, etc, etc. As cold and as heartless as this may sound, all sorts of products will kill people on the road, but some level is fatalities is "acceptable" when compared to the stifling and unrealistic alternative of aggressively policing every potential distraction.

Texting while driving is one of the most dangerous distractions primarily because of the interface: eyes off the road, hands off the wheel.

If Navdy can potentially reduce the danger of texting to a level comparable to that of, say, talking to passengers in your car, then I don't see how you can justifiably "realize" that it's a bad idea without seeing some statistics first.
So how much do they cost?
Ballpark figure. $3k? $10k?
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You know the bit in a court, when they ask to hear "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth"?
I have done several of these, my favorite one being where we moved servers AND switched all of the underlying code at once (including DB schema). Oh, and the traffic was very write heavy, and coming not from the web, but from a large number of hardware devices running Java 1.4 over 2G using UDP. The packet routing for this was complex and involved at least two pieces of home-grown software (and even IP spoofing). I love shit like this, and this article highlights a few cool ways you can do this migration. In this case I would have set up replication to a secondary MySQL server, then used reverse procuring to let DNS propagate and the finally make the secondary MySQL server the master server.
> I am similar age rage. That was what it was called back then. What is it now?

Technology? Development? Engineering? Depends on the company, but generally tech-driven companies don't have developers working in an "IT" department.
Adam, thanks for the reply. Makes sense. Don't get me wrong though, my comments were not meant to be negative. I actually love the strategy, pure marketing and branding genius. Someday I hope to be in a position with Commando.io, where we can do a video with you guys.
One thing we can do is stop the false accusations of suicide. Suicide - which is indeed almost always wrong - is choosing death when you could have had life. What we're talking about here is a scenario where you are going to die either way, and your options are torture or no torture. Given that, 'no torture' is the sane and reasonable option. Let's not put up with lies about it being suicide.
It was originally a cartoon. I remember watching it growing up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu,_pogodi!
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Autoincrements are only a small part of the problem. Unless, your database is append-only, alternating auto-increments are not going to help.
You don't need assisted suicide for a quick and painless suicide. I'd recommend getting a tank of compressed helium and a bag over your head.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_bag
> No; They're comparing across different points in time. Unless the portion of older families that are married has increased, the gap would not change with time due to that factor.

The proportional difference in marriages definitely has increased. As people are getting married later, it absolutely makes sense that the average household income for younger people is falling as more of them are single-earner "households." [1]

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-people-get-married-later-...
Of course! I've been watching it for an hour now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ko6UEwT9i20). I wanted to find something about Nu Pogodi and found the hand-held game I played ~20 years ago.
With the training set sizes they are using it is no surprise they did not get good results. They could have done better with them had they used some kind of dimensional reduction.

However, just from seeing a lot of systems that wind up on the wrong side of the "commercialization valley of death" I wouldn't start this kind of project unless I had a bigger training set and some latitude to adjust the categories to produce something more learnable.
Everyone dies. And I'm in no place to decide what is or isn't torture, or which suicides are more valid or less valid.
I was glad to see this was free, as it's not that difficult to do this in a development environment. That said, as someone that once created an OSS tool used by tens of thousands of developers - and had one single donation sent my way - I'll probably donate to the developers.

It's great utilities like this that can help introduce you as a developer in a crowded community.

I believe in karma - put something out there for others and it will come back in droves. So, really cool little tool, thank you! And thanks for making it free, I hope Karma treats you well!

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Hmm... that happened to me as well. I went ahead and switched to Phone Power (Obihai recommended) which was around $40 a year.

Turns out this is one of those times procrastination would have been a good thing.
By the way, we also made a "behind the scene" interview about this video: http://startup-videos.com/blog/behind-the-scenes-of-the-doll...
"Is it safe? ... Unless you install your own CA certificate in the browser or in the root certificate store of whatever other technology you use, they will complain about not being able to validate the certificates. This does not mean they are unsafe, just that they don't know to trust the certificates."

Not being able to trust that you're talking to who you think to are seems like a serious example of "not safe".

Teaching users to click through the warning screen is a serious anti-pattern; the reason browsers keep making it scarier / harder is to try to stop the security theatre that occurs when using untrusted certs.
Navdy hit the front page, so people were talking about the video, and here you are.
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I remember playing this when I was a kid. Nice job!
My startup (www.dronehire.org) connects commercial drone operators with clients for aerial photography, real estate photography, precision agriculture, surveying, mapping etc.

Do you think you could create a video that would help us do that?
I found paywave a great improvement over the previous "best" which was sig/pin less payments (under $50 or $20 from memory) which in turn was better than pin, which in turn is better than signature. Better in terms of how quickly and easily I can pay for something.

My phone is going to be a lot quicker to grab than my credit card, and this way it has better security.

As much as you say consumers don't care about security I still think some people will use this where they wouldn't use plain paywave because it's more secure.
I'd be interested to find out if Sandwich are sufficiently confident to offer contracts based on some measurable outcome metric. Such a "no risk" contingency would be valuable for very small business owners, beyond the likely budget of a normal up-front approach.

Difficult, and probably not that well advised, but..
Found the source here: https://github.com/pawel-winiecki/nu-pogodi-html5-game
Why not admit point blank that you're looking for ideas for the next 'big thing' and you're out of ideas yourself?

Frankly it's going to be a big dollar item for tech geeks that must have everything new, and that it's a fad that's not going to last long.
Yes, which was the heart of the CU decision: if individual are unlimited, and corporations, associations, and unions are collections of individuals, then how can those be limited?

Put another way, the CU decision argued that individuals do not give up their right to free expressions just because they decided to pool their money in a particular way.
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This is very much like something I built years ago.

It was just a front end to a back end that didn't exist yet, but it's brought back some nice memories. Thanks!
It will take more than nuclear winters, volcanoes, or asteroids to wipe out life on Earth. Short of a supernova or another event that heats the surface of the earth to hundreds of degrees Centigrade, everything from archaeic bacteria to tardigrades will survive any catastrophic event and eventually more complex life will evolve again. The earth's biosphere will far outlive any civilization.

But we're not talking about tardigrades and bacteria: we're talking about millions upon millions of species that do have complex interdependencies with each other and the environment in general. We have no way to predict which species, when together decimated, might drastically impact our survival because they hunted pests that killed major oxygen producers or transmitted diseases through different animal and human populations. We have no way to know where in the equilibrium we are and which levers might set off a catastrophic downward spiral.

Hell, if there is a nuclear winter or asteroid impact, we are far enough along technologically that many humans, maybe even millions, would survive and rebuild civilization (say using nuclear power, chemical engineering, desalination, and hydroponic agriculture to survive underground until the environment clears up). I guess it just depends on how you define the biosphere and survival.
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Can you point to any SaaS best practices in this area?

That's surprisingly difficult. IMNSHO, most SaaS fails completely on this count, and my businesses use very few of the trendy services for exactly this reason. Of those we do use, every single one is either (a) convenient but expendable without compromising the business, or (b) both well established and having some form of legally binding statements along the lines below.

What I would ideally like to see in most cases would be a guarantee that if a service were to be taken down then its source code would be released with some form of open licence so that any service you relied on could reasonably easily be converted to self-hosting. Obviously this isn't worth much for services that are essentially proxies, such as most payment services, but it's sufficient for continuity in many cases.

Otherwise, as a minimum I'd like to see automated tools for exporting data in some open format so it can be transferred to an alternative platform where this is a reasonable possibility. Where there are non-trivial issues relating to data export, such as with PCI DSS for the various card payment services, I think the most plausible approximation would be a legally binding promise to help transfer the data to an alternative provider.

Obviously if a start-up fails suddenly then even legally actionable promises aren't going to be worth much if anything, which is why we won't rely on any SaaS from a new start-up for anything essential no matter what their terms say. However, properly worded guarantees would at least stop exit strategies like acqui-hire or sell-to-competitor-who-shuts-you-down from screwing the customer base.

One good example IMHO is MailChimp, which provides a straightforward mechanism for customers to back up all their important data, not just mailing lists but also things like e-mail templates and stats that normally live on the remote system.

Another one that seems reasonable is Stripe, which has explicit wording in its (UK) legal terms guaranteeing meaningful notice under fair conditions if they're going to terminate an account, and guaranteeing that they will facilitate transfer of card data to another payment service also under reasonable conditions if a merchant using their service decides to terminate.
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As a lisp enthusiast for the last five years, I'm starting to have the same reaction. This paper's been a light-bulb moment.
There's a crucial difference between defying common belief, which great scientific breakthroughs do, and defying reasoning, which they don't do. Reasoning is what shows that the old theory did not have the explanatory power of the new theory.
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I can't see an "about" section. I assume that this is a Project Euler alternative, and that solutions should be arrived at as the output of a computer program, proof unnecessary (as opposed to, say a math contest, where no computer assistance is permitted)?
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Holy crap, this brings back some memories. Very cool! I also remember playing "Весёлые Футболисты" (Fun Futballers).
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Until seeing the Navdy ad, I thought that the guy in the Coin ad was the founder or something. So when I was this ad, I thought that he killed Coin and moved on to something else.
This is not an OSS project though. It's free, but not OSS.
Well, it's a bit confusing. I posted my comment when the submission title was much less relevant to the article's content than it is now. The title was edited to better reflect the topic after my comment was posted.
I find SELinux is a very cool feature, if I really needed fine grain control over my system.

Reminded me slightly of facls under Solaris, just far more elaborate. At least at the time of RHEL5 -- the tools around it were just too rough for even intermediate admins to manage (I have not revisited since then).

Even then, if I really was concerned about compartmentalization, might I turn to containers and/or virtualization, just for the simplicity of it.

Nowadays, it's mostly just another thing to check disabled when installing RHEL -- very few external apps/packages seem to understand it, and predicting all the interactions and establishing labels/types is just a bridge too far. Yes, I know you can use selective mode, or even permissive then build policies based on the audit logs, and If I ran a NSA storage subsystem, I might be bothered to.. but for most folks, this level of scrutiny is too cumbersome.
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Remind us again, what's the problem with money and politics? Is the problem really that some people make money by commenting on politics? I guess you're thinking of like, Rush Limbaugh? Maybe Jon Stewart? Really? Please think more carefully.

If money is like cooties, in that it ruins everything it touches, no matter what actual role it plays in the situation, then everything in this world is screwed up forever. But, that's not the case. The real problem with money in politics is the corruption of political, regulatory, administrative, and legislative decisions. When you fixate on stupid shit like some movie some dudes made, that idiocy is quite useful for those who benefit by that corruption.
I had never heard of this startup before https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c6QdNhy1Aw&feature=youtu.be , really cool.
You don't see a cost (an/or effort) difference between deploying an army of trivially simple packet sniffers and and deploying an army of of stateful (RAM requirement), fast (to deep-packet-inspect in realtime) MitM proxies? That notable difference in cost makes the endeavor worthwhile on it's own, as long you remember what it buys you (still need real authentication).

A better comparison - which is often ignored in these discussions - is that the test for something being "useful" doesn't rely only on if it solves every aspect of the problem. A method should also be compared to the current situation. For encryption, way too often the current situation is "still using plaintext". In that situation, even rot13 is an improvement because it require an attacker to take at least some minimal step.

Sometimes you can't solve every part of the problem in one step. Adding an authentication feature later to improve something that already exists is probably easier than waiting for a perfect, complete product to happen.

Historically, the crypto community has taken a hard line approach that any weakness shouldn't be allowed, because they correctly deduce that an attacker can use any weak link to break past all your security efforts. The result is we got pgp and everybody still using plaintext. The "all or nothing" attitude lead to web browsers complaining about self-signed certs when they should be automatically generated by Apache by default with HTTP retired permanently. Instead, browsers conflate authentication with encryption and scare people back to plaintext.

Even if hardware gets so cheap that is zero cost difference between passive eavesdropping and running a MitM proxy or deep-packet {inspection,injection}, non-authenticated crypto is still worthwhile: it creates a culture where encryption is normal instead of being seen as suspicious, and it can be an educational or traditional tool.

//of course, if we can get authentication as well, that would usually be a better option. Even if we have to wait for "v2.0" to get it
His Master's Voice took the conceit in at least two completely different directions, itself: the "frog eggs" and the biophilic effect -- nobody could figure out how the same message could be interpreted to produce two such completely unrelated effects.
But you said "qualifying players", which implies that there is some qualifier. What is that qualifier?

And Moneyball didn't show us that all knowledge and experience was wrong. We didn't all of a sudden start recruiting marine biologists to become baseball players. The old "common sense" still stood. It's just that resources were reallocated in a very technical, wonkish way.

It's not like someone would look at you like you were crazy if you said "hey, we should pay more attention to on-base percentage than we do now, and maybe we could win with lower salaries". It was, at best, a minor revolution in baseball asset allocation.
Wow, congratulations Ryan. It was probably quite easy (relatively) for PH to raise, since top tier investors have been sourcing potential deal flow from PH for months. Also, it does not hurt that they are a YC company, increasing their social proof.
"But there are undoubtedly other reasons for its neglect. Pharmaceutical companies have nothing to gain from this cheap, ubiquitous element."

It's a tragic condemnation of the way we do health and nutrition that if no one profits from marketing and selling something, the masses typically won't hear about the benefits of it.
Why vote him down? Because of his honesty?

I do drive myself. Have for 20+ years. Just drove 1300 miles over the summer vacation, sometimes on long monotonous roads, and I'd be lying if I was paying full attention all the time.

My experience is exactly as he describes. In city traffic, at traffic lights, or just before an exit, my full attention is required and constant (I actually dislike GPS because of this, it distracts, especially if notifications are late, I'm looking at you Google Nav - 'keep left at the fork').

However, after so many years of driving, I have also developed some sort of autopilot/'trance driving' mode. It is typically engaged on long legs, or when extremely tired on a very familiar route (e.g. going home). I betcha if you ask professional drivers like truckers, they'll tell you the same.

Edit: While in this mode, my 'look-ahead' window is maximized. I gaze much further ahead than I do in 'stress' situations. My focus point is definitely way past the windshield, usually several cars ahead of me. I gauge my speed by engine sound, distance to the cars ahead of me, local traffic flow etc etc. As such, I am not convinced that this heads-up display approach is a safety improvement. Sure, your eyes will be on the road, but by requiring a change of focus, you cannot look ahead to anticipate issues/changes/risks.
Is there an error in your math, or am I miscalculating?

My math says that .17mg*1000=170mg.
Well, I like the fact that this exists, but I don't think it will work being just a CRUD site as it is.

You're making it too difficult for the people, making them write all the details, then search, I don't know, maybe you could get their data from other places.
To me this is akin to limiting all vehicles to under 70 MPH to ensure no one speeds recklessly.

The solution is to train our drivers better and start actually pulling people over for using phones while driving, not cripple the capabilities of the technology we have.
My favorite type of Internet comment. Erroneously calling out someone on their math. 0.170mg times a thousand is 170mg, not 170g.
>it was the only book I'd ever read that accurately described what I was learning to do as a scientist

What, politics? ;)

I read it as truly brilliant and scathing social commentary about what's wrong with the "scientific process" as practiced (and corrupted) by academic and government institutions.

The initial premise of the book, how the message was discovered, is deeply hilarious: somebody was fraudulently selling some old computer tapes of raw space telescope data as truly random numbers, and then one of their customers got pissed off that the numbers were't random enough because they repeated, and demanded their money back.
The original post has bad math.

1000x .170mg is "1,000 times less than a fifth of a milligram," not 1000 times a fifth of a gram.

http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics#lithium has a significant number of references to the literature on lithium, and is worth reading.
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Property owners do not own the electromagnetic spectrum in their property. I'd go as far as to say that even the carriers do not own the spectrum. They merely rent it (in the US). I'd say they have certain implicit (and explicit) responsibilities when they assumed the spectrum slices.

Did we really go so far as to welcome intrusion where someone can just ping your phone to get a reply with our location? I for one was very concerned when BART shut down cellular connectivity in order to cover up its incompetence.
Those aren't the sort of bikes that people buy in order to lose weight. They are more like mini MotoX bikes without the engines. They cost a lot because they are built to be extremely strong and have brakes which work well at high speeds in bad conditions which is important when you smash it into a tree at 40mph.

The risk with buying a bike like that second hand is that it may have already been crashed/damage.
This is pretty accurate, but I think one of the issues with driving is that it's often really... boring.

I mean, I know that it's incredibly dangerous, but because I do it for hours every day, I become desensitized to the danger. So, I check out my facebook feed or respond to that text message. Before smart phones, I would pick up a paper book that I had just bought and skim a little 'cause I just couldn't wait to get home. If it weren't that, I might be looking for wildlife out my passenger-side window or fiddling with the radio, etc.

I guess I'm a bad person, but I'm pretty confident that I'm not the only one. My guess is that a device like this that can keep your attention without diverting your eyes from the road is, in general, going to improve safety.

Of course, I could be wrong.
From the article...

"1 percent of 65-year-olds, 2 percent of 68-year-olds, 3 percent of 70-year-olds. After that, the odds start multiplying. The likelihood of your developing Alzheimer’s more or less doubles every five years past 65. Should you make it to 85, you will have, roughly, a fifty-fifty shot at remaining sane."

1% at 65 doubling every 5 years for 20 years = 16%

3% at 70 doubling every 5 years for 15 years = 24%

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