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Hey author, it'd be cool if you gave me a mention, as you did comment on my post about it [1]!

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You clearly have never been to the Netherlands. If there happens to be snow (which it rarely does now), bike lanes get cleared first.
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Nintendo certainly does not compete here. I don't know the ins and outs of Playstation Network and Xbox Live well enough to really judge, but Nintendo's... whatever, is not in the same league. They still haven't managed to even separate the end-user from the console he owns. If what they offer is 'robust' I want to know what isn't robust.
All suitable roofs are not filled yet. And once they are filled -which sure takes many more years- you will still find many other more suitable places than roads which need to sustain the weight of a truck (which is a must even for a cycle track).
Let's not forget BSDs long-lasting influence. OS X uses a lot of code from Free/Net/OpenBSD. Many commercial operating systems initially based their TCP/IP stack on BSD.

Cheers FreeBSD! I happy remember buying the 2.1.5 CD set from Walnut Creek and tinkering for weeks.
Wasn’t that idea debunked as impractical multiple times?

EEVblog #632 - Solar Roadways Are BULLSHIT! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obS6TUVSZds
Ask HN: Real world examples of graph db usage?
I spent sometime playing around with neo4j and mongodb - while mongodb was fun, it wasn't as interesting as neo4j to me, I'd like to learn more about graph DBs. Before spending more time on it, I've a few questions:

1. What are some examples of real world usage of graph DB (other than social networking)?

2. Which is a good graph DB to learn?

3. Is there enough demand for graph db skillset?
This seems like an example of a submarine article:

http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Is this something new and particularly exceptional? There are shops in the Netherlands that you can only pay with pin cards
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It would have been much more useful to put the panel above the path to shield from precipitation.
I 100% agree. People think ADD/ADHD is "resolved" on meds, but it's not the case. They started me on 27mg of Concerta, then 54mg, then I was (thankfully) moved to Vyvanse and titrated my way up to 60mg. The story hasn't changed - it's still valuable to leverage the downsides into strength. An ADD/ADHD brain is certainly a chaotic one, but going on meds has enabled me to do better planning/execution and to actually complete tasks. Your wall of TVs analogy is great - I often describe my head as the similar murmur you hear from a crowd. Thoughts are like white noise where it's nearly impossible to pick the right one out, let alone stay with it for a while when it's so easy to hear everything else on top of it.

Not to sound skitzo, but I think the meds do a great job of quieting that noise. While medicated, I have the ability to plan a task or project, execute each step, and actually stick with it to the end. It's still possible to get off task, and perhaps worse if you do (since then you're REALLY focused on being off task), but the meds still help me think. But that is where it stops. They don't resolve problems - they provide most of the tools needed to change the way you think so you can work on resolving them yourself.

Now, to the popular point of diet and exercise; I'm sure it's a mix of improved medication delivery, the natural stress relief, and the endorphin benefit that comes with it - but eating well and regularly exercising seems to amplify the medication's benefit by 15-20%. Those two things are marginally helpful without meds, along with several other "natural remedies" that I have tried, but I think a combination of all of the above is key.

My original point was just that the article makes it sound like symptoms should be treated via introducing new parts to the equation which ultimate distract people from boring situations. Yet, ADD/ADHD in its TRUE FORM works 100% independent of one's desire to pay attention. The argument of "BUT VIDEO GAMES ARE FINE SO IT'S CLEARLY CHOICE" is 100% falsified by Dr. Thomas E Brown's research. He provides such excellent insight - I am so fortunate to have met him.

I'll close this novel of a post with an analogy made by Dr. Brown when we met:

"Picture a massive old wooden sailboat with dozens of crew frantically fighting to pull the sails, keep up with the demands of their job, etc. Non-ADD/ADHD folk can get a benefit from medication, but it just speeds up both the captain and crew.
ADD/ADHD folk, on the other hand, are instead sailing through a terrible storm at a much faster pace than normal and can hardly see - but the crew still keep up with their jobs. The captain is the problem. In this case, the captain is the only one sped up by the meds, and suddenly, no matter how chaotic and messy that voyage is, it's all under control."
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Like Lessig's Super-PAC? https://mayday.us/
Looking at the source, it looks as though each node is in a fixed position on the graph. Wouldn't it be easier to use something like graphviz where you just declare the nodes and connections, and it (graphviz) takes care of drawing it properly?
> why do you waste money on somthing that is roughly 30-50 times more expensive?

This is called research and development. They're not replacing all the roads and cyclepaths with this stuff, they are testing and developing it because we will need it in the future.

Also, I do not appreciate the "you" in that sentence.
That article does a great job of demolishing Kaletsky's declamations on the Great Depression and Recession. But this quote of him also caught my eye:

But governments and central banks usually panic during the liquidation phase, pushing interest rates below their natural rate again and boosting the money supply This artificial stimulus, especially if sustained for a long period, inevitably sets off another credit boom and the cycle begins anew.

Which is what sort of happened in Japan ... except for that "another credit boom" part.

As far as I know you don't have to be an Austrian to know about, let alone believe in the "pushing on a string" thesis; if you're not familiar with it, read the mises.ca article about what businessmen are really responding to.

Another thing to prop up the thesis is the "inverted yield curve" recession predictor, specifically short term interest rates suddenly rising above long term. The theory is that's because businesses are frantically borrowing in the short term to keep themselves afloat while they work their excess inventories down. If they survive that experience, no low or negative interest rates will interest them, so to speak, in resuming the intensity of the game that almost killed them.
I'm completely amazed that people do this to figure out when to sleep. My intent is not to sound rude; I'm a big believer of "do what works" in my personal life and at work. For me it's always so simple: if the following day is a work day, I need to make sure I get at least 7 hours of sleep so that determines how late I can stay up. If it's the weekend, I go to sleep when my body says it needs a break.
We should make the maximum sentence that can be sought at trial a small multiple of the minimum sentence. So the defendant is looking at a tradeoff of at most a year in jail vs. three years in jail.

Giving defendants a choice between a certain year in jail if they plead guilty or 15 years in jail if they're convicted, it becomes basically right for them to accept the former just from a risk management perspective.

Playing a game of high-stakes poker with your freedom on the line makes a mockery of the very concept of justice.
X.org 1.16 running with systemd and most drivers allow non-root execution in Linux now, too. This is the default on Arch Linux unless the driver dies not support it.
If the US would really lose $35 billion, this project is going to cost Brazil a lot more than $180 million.
that you say "minority rights are growing" means that you accept that minority rights are short of where they should be.

People don't choose anarchy because they want violence. They choose it because they don't like violence. Those that choose violence want to obtain the "archy"/power for themselves. Sure there are violent power hungry people that claim to be anarchists but that is not the core. They are like the Gay bashing gay people.

If you are not an anarchist, you don't get to decide who is anarchist and what an anarchist believes. That there are some violent anarchists does not mean that all anarchists are violent. It's much better to take people at their word and observe their actions, rather than to impose your own morality on them.

Kind of like telling gays that they are violent rapists and unfit to have families and marriages. As this democracy used to portray them and continues to do so.
> When you are SSH'ed into your server and you need to adjust a configuration file

This is pretty much exactly what you're not supposed to do in any form of modern system administration. How would you rebuild that server, or move it to a different provider?

Edit a local definition of your server for Ansible or Salt or Puppet or whatever else, and let those systems deal with making the server match your definition.
I'm not saying that it's currently implemented in any existing ebook format (I don't know if it is or isn't). But it would be a clear advantage of ebooks for reading Japanese.
I would say that all the current generation consoles have pretty much the exact same game purchasing capabilities. If anything, the Xbox One is the worst due to how bizarrely confusing browsing the store is on it. The PS Store and eShop are much nicer to use.
> If they sell you a 100Mbit/s line with unlimited data

No ISP that I'm aware of does that. They might sell you a line with a "nominal" bandwidth of 100 Mb/s, but when you read the fine print, that really means "as long as nobody else is using the network at the same time", or something like that, plus a lot of other qualifications and hedges and disclaimers. The ISP actually is making no guarantee whatever about the actual data rate you will get.
I still like x61 a lot, not hard to find for less than 100$ on ebay. With the usual maximum ram + ssd upgrade you really have a neat little 4:3 rock solid machine. Most people buying ~600$ core i5 laptop will never reach the boot time and stability I get using *linux on this hardware. Next week I'll try x200/x201 family to see how better the cpu is (heat and battery life mostly).
Hey. Thank you :)

Yup, ill add faster animations, and also give an option to get another compliment without closing the app (like a 'redo' or 'another' button)

Thats okay, I had this made for myself, and read a post on reddit, /r/SomebodyMakeThis/ , so decided to post it online for everybody else, in case others wanted something like this. :)
The serial is not written on the CD, it's a lenovo recovery CD, not a pure windows CD. Nor have i found it anywhere else.

I guess i could easily get a key from lenovos support but i really don't care much anyway, win 7 works great. I just find the whole experience a great example of how badly pc manufacturers consider the "whole package" experience of their products.
The argument about whether "unlimited data" really means unlimited data is a completely different discussion. It has nothing to do with net neutrality, it's a discussion about false advertising.
It seems that you're saying that there's no way to do what I want. OK, thanks, but I'll clarify two points:

> Create an email address just for paypal transactions.

Yes, that's exactly what I have. I have an email address just for PayPal transactions. However, that same email is what allows me to login to PayPal. That's why I want to keep it secret for added security.

> so the merchant can update you about the purchase

I give my normal (non-PayPal) email address to the merchant on their order form. So they do have a way to contact me.
+1 to Bustaname.com, it's a great tool for finding domain names and one I have found to be invaluable.
Ignoring the trackpad angle...the idea of ramping up the CPU on scroll does make some sense. If you think about smartphones...the first place people bitch about lag is scrolling. Thats likely what the engineer was thinking about when they linked trackpad to CPU like that.
The function keys missing is a pain. Moving home/end is a pain. People calling and asking how to shut the caps lock off when there isn't even a caps lock button is a pain (hint, double-tap the shift key)
Ongoing MacKeeper fraud
What problem is this solving? The limiting factor in solar panel production is cost,

Depends on where you are. Ground in the Netherlands is expensive, since it has a relatively high population density. Roofs alone do not provide enough surface to provide energy to the whole population.

There are many more promising sources of energy for a country with a relatively small amount of sunny days (wind, energy harvested from tides). But this is apparently just a testing strip, so supposedly they just want to test the yield, durability, etc.
Zero interest rate policies definitely make it more difficult for central banks to use interest rates as a tool to stimulate aggregate demand.

Sure, the massive bond-buying program of the Fed did actively push interest rates close to zero. But, in the process, it decreased long-term interest rates too, in particular, treasuries and T-bills. This decrease allowed the government to borrow more money during auctions.

Isn't this a case for QE enhancing the government's ability to borrow? Or is my crude understanding of monetary policy all wrong?
Dawn of mass puzzles games like this? Or temp fad?
> grant-grabbing from the EU

For the record, we contribute more money to the European Union per capita than any other member state.

Source: local news a while ago, and http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/nov/22/eu-budg...
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Is piracy high in Japan?
I will play devil's advocate a little.

Since you will always have to pave roads anyway, it makes some sense for them to have a dual purpose, no?

Laying roads is exceptionally expensive anyway - requiring the roads to be high quality enough that they work as solar roads has the dual benefit that these can be more effectively maintained as a pair.
I think it varies. FreeBSD does have a lot of stuff, like netmap, capsicum, that is quite experimental in some sense, although capsicum is a great design. NetBSD has rump kernel, but thats not much code, it is just(!) portability done right, some build fixes and a little code.
There's already plenty of laws to regulate them and they work pretty well for the most part.

The problem is if a large company wants to hire contractors directly- and not use a staffing agency. Thats where the laws are unclear and contractors are the ones paying for it.
Allow me to take this opportunity to mention that Roman Mars, of 99% Invisible (http://99percentinvisible.org/) fame, is holding another kickstarter to fund the collective of Radiotopia -- the idea that podcast producers can make a living wage to produce great content.

This kickstarter, like many of them, has a funding match going on where if they get more than 20,000 backers at any level, one of their corporate sponsors will chip in $25,000.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1748303376/radiotopia-a...

Even if you don't contribute, I think you'll enjoy 99% Invisible.
Putting it more directly: would YC think that this is a good investment of money?

Well, if that would be the criterium, a lot of great investments would never have happened. E.g. many railroad routes that were constructed in the late 19th century took decades to be profitable. However, in the very long term they were good investments. Luckily, we had/have governments that are bold enough to invest in stuff that doesn't lead to an IPO the next 5 or 10 years.
> in UberX, the company’s lower-priced service, introduced here last spring, can cost as little as $4, while parking lots charge $5 for 15 minutes

This is absolutely false. Parking in downtown LA is much cheaper than this. Closer to $5 a night, maybe a little more on the weekends. Sometimes you can even find street parking within a few blocks of this vaunted Ace hotel that the author is so infatuated with. Parking isn't a problem on this side of town.

Moreover, Uber makes no dent on the fundamental problem in LA, which is that the distances are so great.

It is shameful that the article doesn't even mention the real good news in LA transportation which is that the Expo Line now stretches from downtown to Culver City, and will go all the way to Santa Monica in 2015. LA residents also voted to install a streetcar in the downtown area, although that's a few years off.

Totally agree with the comment about this being a "submarine article". More Uber cheerleading.
This is true, but the hard-drive music player seems to be on its way out now as well, with the iPod Classic gone and Apple moving toward the streaming market or "cloud" model, where they have ultimate control over the user's access to the content. While I'm not a CD junkie, I find myself clinging to the model you mention, because I am not eager to hand over control to a company that continually required me to pay. For those are a fan of Spotify: you pay $10/month for access to millions(?) of songs, but what happens when Spotify goes under, or gets bought? You've been paying for, let's say, 3 years - $360 - and what do you have to show for it? I much prefer sinking that amount of money into backing up my music collection.
> I personally prefer a world where someone would have to do something like steal my device to gain access to my data to a world where everyone's data is compromised by default all of the time.

That's a blatant strawman as that isn't what is being discussed here at all.

In BOTH cases (with device encryption or without) the data is held on your device and only on your device. If you choose to upload it to OneDrive/iCloud/Google Drive/etc then that is your business but outside the scope of this "issue."

> Maybe that makes me an outlier, but if I had owned one of these devices, I'd be pretty outraged...not unlike some were in the midst of the recent iCloud brouhaha.

This issue is nothing like that issue. The fact you seem to think it is means you don't really understand this issue or that issue or both.

This issue is that device encryption encrypts your drive, it then backs up your key by default to OneDrive. The data itself is still held on the device encrypted (unless you saved it to OneDrive or copied it into that virtual filesystem).

The iCloud "issue" was that iCloud allowed infinite password guesses against an account without warning the owner or imposing a limit on the number of wrong attempts. iCloud is opt-in (during iOS setup), so people opted to have files stored there.
I still think the Pro 2 is a better compromise, esp. when you consider the price difference these days. You can get an i5 128GB for around 1/2 the price of the Pro 3 i7. The i5 doesn't get hot, too.
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Most of our code is written in Ruby and runs on the Rails stack backed by a MySQL database, but we also incorporate other technologies such as Node.js, Memcached and Redis. We use GitHub for version control and our infrastructure is entirely hosted via cloud services.

This is a full-time position at our headquarters in Dallas, TX and includes a competitive base salary, a full range of benefits, stock options, and an awesome team of creative people by your side.

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I grew up in Germany not far from the dutch border and am an avid cyclist. My point is that at the time being you can produce far more efficiently solar energy with putting solar cells on roof tops and you are being ripped off tax payers money. Once you run out of roof tops there is not much of development needed to add a 1cm glass plate on top of a solar cell. It is not like developing a fusion reactor. You are legally stolen 2.7M€ because you can supply three house for just 30.000€.
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More like "The Flaw Lurking in Every Machine Learning Algorithm with a Gradient"(1) IMO. For example, in a linear or logistic classifier, the derivative of the raw output with respect to the input is the input itself while the derivative of the input is the weight. Knowing this one can use the weights of any classifier to minimally adjust the input to produce a pathological example.

As for humans, I submit we have all sorts of issues like this. It's just that we have a temporal stream of slightly different versions of the input and that keeps inputs like this from having any significant area under the curve. Have you never suddenly noticed something that was right in front of you all along?

(1) And probably those that don't too, but it's harder to find cases like that without a gradient (not that it can't be done, because I've found them myself for linear classifiers using genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and something that looked just like Thompson Sampling but wasn't).
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