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Ah ok, so next election though you should definitely vote for the party that was previously unthinkable to vote for, but is now the lesser of two evils and thus the "blameless" choice. So under your system of responsibility, as long as the parties keep one-upping each other in evilness, they can infinitely get worse and no one is ever to blame. Party A is lesser of two evils before the election but then does worse, then party B is lesser but after elected does worse, and so on and so on. Additionally, there is no way to escape this dasterdly plan because as you stated before voting for a third party is off the table because it is the absolute worst option. Yeah, I guess I see how we got to the state we're in with ideas like these.
> Classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner.

The rational actor model underpinning classical economic theory (and much other social science theory) does, in fact, assert exactly this. Of course, the rational actor model is widely-understood to be at best a useful approximation to explain both baseline situations and against which real situations can be contrasted to understand how they should vary from the predictions of the model. (OTOH, challenges to the rational actor model as a baseline in economics and other social sciences argue that its not particularly good even at that.)

> A more accurate premise is that groups of humans tend on average to act at least somewhat as if they were rationally well-informed.

An even more accurate premise is that in some common and important interactions, people tend to be on average be approximately well-informed, and in those interactions, rational choice theory usually seems represents a tolerable approximation of the resulting behavior, suggesting that there are at a minimum important situations in which rationality is a tolerable model for behavior. (Frequently repeated transactions whose utilities and costs are immediate and obvious without obscure, time-delayed, or hard-to-assess utilities or costs resulting from the transaction seem like they should fall into this category, though because utility is not itself directly measurable but is usually inferred from behavior on the assumption that the behavior is rationally motivated, there are some problems with assessing whether this is the case and even whether situations actually fall into this group -- and the inability to measure utility directly risks making rational choice theory something of a just-so story which explains people's behavior as attempting to maximize whatever it is that their behavior actually maximizes. Which ends up not being as much of an explanation as a tautology.)
I pointed this out to them over a year ago:
http://norcie.com/2013/09/01/schwab-unsafe/

I went to far as to get in contact with senior staff members at Schwab to alert them to the issue, and got a pretty condescending response.

I mentioned it to a friend at a burrito truck outside the Mozilla office, and soon found out it was a top post on /r/personalfinance.

I got a call from Schwab shortly after that. But the rep I talked to just said they were "working on" allowing more characters in the password.

I must say though, this post does a great job detailing their 2F solution. I never set it up since it seemed like wearing a fishnet condom given the rest of their security, so I never got to see how bad it is.
Edit: after seeing the discussion on 25mph and the disarming cuteness, then it makes much more sense.

I too don't care about what the car looks like, but then again I don't own one, partly because I don't care about them as much
I'm not one to buy into Apple exceptionalism, but today when setting up a new Lenovo laptop I was just flabergasted at how terrible the experience is. I opened IE to be hit with both the vendors ad-laden OEM page and MS's own news page which is ad-laden and is full of outrage and low information stories. The laptop is chock full of lenovo apps that get in my way, or worse, cause me issues down the line.

On Android its almost as bad. Every app has big obtrusive apps and they all sample my location without even asking, because according to google, they don't need to ask. This also ignoring the clusterfuck that is OEM customizations.

Apple's biggest strength, imo, is that its not terrible beholden to OEMs (it doesnt have any) or ad networks. It doesn't need to put up ads. It doesn't need to worry about OEM customizations. It doesn't have the federal government on its back from 1990s excesses. It makes its own hardware and its own software. That right there is very liberating. End users are sick of being seen as just eyeballs for ads and third-party software they don't want. There's something shameful about paying hundreds of dollars for a piece of technology only to end up with something covered with ads and hostile to you.

That's Apple's big benefit. They simply don't play that game.
I fully agree that everyone should be allowed to vote. Solving the specific problem is hard. I just wanted to give a small hint, that if someone is not happy with the status quo, they might try to change it.

Of course I have to add, that first it would make much more sense to try to change the local sentiment first - usually done by enganging in your locale community.
Is it weird to anyone else that all this "cyber warfare" is happening over the release of a movie. A comedy movie, not a documentary or propaganda film. I don't know if media has every had such an inadvertent impact on politics before. I would say it's a strange age we live in, but I think this strangeness is all from North Korea.
If you truly feel that way, then I honestly am curious as to why you get up in the morning. Dogfooding, and listening to customer problems and feedback are two of the best ways of making your product better for everyone. A few hours on the phone, or responding to emails is fantastic for breaking up preconceived notions as to what people are doing with your project, and can give new ideas.
Spares you ads? The whole thing has been turned into a Google Play ad.

Nobody wants to go to Google Play for lyrics, this is Google giving priority placement to an inferior search result.
There is essentially no useful information in that summary which could be used to draw independent conclusions.
It's worth noting that some of the two-factor systems that integrate with RADIUS also use this same method, where you can't control how the end system prompts users to authenticate.
If you have to pay tax on your investment return but can't deduct the cost of your debt, then reducing the 6% debt is more akin to getting a guaranteed return of something like 9% (more or less, depending on tax rates where you live).
I say they are lacking empathy. If you support a consequence for someone who burgles your house, by the same token you should support a consequence for someone who supports torture. Obviously (unless you're lacking empathy) your job or taxes are lower priority than taking a stance against torture.
All the OPEC oil companies are state-owned. That's how the OPEC countries are able to control their production numbers.
It would drain China's resources and focus, Russia's for that matter too. But, again, I said that I don't think that's what's happening with NK. NK is even too much of a pandora's box of crazy that I think will only be set off as a last ditch effort against, mainly, China. I see it as kind of a bomb that is surgically attached to China, which we can somewhat easily figure out how to set off if we so desire.
Can you please not use "shit"? It's not that I mind or think it's profane, it's just so generic-meaning now (i.e. thing I don't like or involved in things I don't like happening) that when you say "my dog is unable to eat the shit", I'm not completely sure if you mean the poop, the litter or some other part of the whole construction.
It's not an unpopular opinion; it's just concern trolling.
Everyone seems to be overlooking the fact that using an autonomous car as a cab would be illegal. Current permits are rather specific about having an manufacturer's employee behind the wheel at all times. I'm not an expert, but I wouldn't expect any state to lighten up the requirement of at least having someone behind a wheel for the foreseeable future. I think most patrons of Uber don't really want to be sitting behind the wheel.
Don't use anything that sends blue light to you-- it's well known. Your brain goes "oh shit, suns out, stay alert."

This application:

https://justgetflux.com/

Will remove blue from your devices (iOS requires a jailbreak I believe). The application is invaluable for me as it has made a dramatic difference on my ability to quickly get to sleep.
Obama is a disgrace. The reason he was elected over Hillary was because he initially took a harder line against the war, the spying and the torture. At the end of the Bush administration the American people voted overwhelmingly to break from the recent past, and Obama inexplicably betrayed our democracy. And I have my doubts that it will ever fully recover.
"you can enter any arbitrary text afterwards is so that if someone is looking over you shoulder they can't tell that it only accepts 8"

Except it is public knowledge that there is an 8-character limit. Very basic footprinting would make it clear to only pay attention to the first 8 characters.
Ah! Each wall is one continuous line, regardless of twists and turns. Connecting the top to the bottom is what got you stuck.

Edit

I guess each wall can only be anchored at one end. Trying to think about how to restate it in a clear way.
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"Because consensus" hasn't been terribly great either, thought it is routinely mistaken for one. IMHO fantastical implies that it directly contradicts rationality, not common knowledge.
You really think that NK has only a /22? Obviously they have some Chinese blocks routed to them.
not always, but most certainly is true very often.
Let's not get crazy here: knowing that one of a variable number of characters is uppercase does decrease the keyspace, but it's definitely not a "significant" reduction.

The main problem with restrictions like that is that it complicates the UX by requiring somebody to tweak their password manager's generator or its output to match the bogus restriction.
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Thanks for the post on HN, author of the article here. Looking forward to feedback.
I also only keep a bit in it for travel. The rest is in a different account. When I want to deposit funds, I write myself a check from my credit union, or deposit a reimbursement check.

(I travel a lot for work so I get reimbursement checks frequently)
I like his ideas. He needs someone to do the marketing and increase those numbers.
> So under your system of responsibility, as long as the parties keep one-upping each other in evilness, they can infinitely get worse

Yes, unfortunately. We are effectively slaves, so absent a revolution (or alternative that leads to viable third parties) we don't have a choice about this.

> and no one is ever to blame.

No. Those who voted for the lesser evil are blameless for the actions they didn't support, until the next election when a new choice is made based on the info at that time. The other voters are to blame.

It's very simple: when you make the best possible righteous choice, you are blameless.
Those Aldrin Cyclers are kind of a strange beast -- possibly useful in a speculative-fiction kind of way, but take more delta-v than a Hohmann transfer orbit and have a very high relative velocity as they pass Earth and Mars, which makes getting cargo to them tricky (the "taxis" have to make a hyperbolic rendezvous with the cycler, and a missed encounter would likely result in a very long tour of the solar system). Instead, NASA envisions using near-Hohmann orbits for getting advanced cargo to Mars; human travel would use the usual hyperbolic transfer orbit.
Wish I could downvote.
I guess what makes me sad is that I would like my generation to realize that it would be way better for us, like inside, in our stomachs, to be willing to pay higher taxes to be able to shelter and feed poor people, not for their sake but for ours, so that we would be the sort of culture that doesn’t let people die. And instead we’re all so worried about an extra 4% off our monthly paycheck that we get all exercised about it. And I see you looking at me… I know this sounds all pious and weird and it’s got nothing to do with the book, but doing this book was hard for me because it was about why exactly are we so sad and how have we become so unbelievably selfish, like lethally selfish and self-indulgent.

I love David Foster Wallace because he is one of those people who have a knack for summarizing and articulating huge concepts that have great relevancy to me. This quote stood out to me especially as a source of personal sadness and a sadly still-relevant commentary on our culture.
I feel like the litterbox of the future baking a shit lasagna once every two weeks is a pretty damned high failure rate. Aside from the obvious gross-out factor (I also assume you have to clean it manually after this happens?) I'd be worried that today it's the cat's poop, but tomorrow it'll cook the cat.
Pretty sure they mean literally eating the (cat's) shit.
I can't think of a worse idea than prosecuting Bush administration officials. Jailing the previous administration would set a terrible precedent, and would fatally undermine the stability of our government.

There are many people who are convinced, e.g., that abortion is murder and that politicians who enable it ought to be prosecuted. Or, more on topic, that Diane Feinstein is a traitor for making these torture memos public. They believe this with as much moral certitude as anyone here believes torture is a crime. It is only a matter of time before another right-wing president is in the White House, and when there is I don't want there to be a precedent for jailing one's political rivals.
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The guidelines don't unequivocally support your position, IMHO. Your comment, though, makes a good case for it. I'll stop now, since this is getting off-topic, but I appreciate you taking the time to clarify your stand.

EDIT: I think everyone on HN has heard of Godwin's Law. It's useful, but can also be a lazy way to quash meaningful discussion.
Normally, I'd agree with you. Except it's not a 2-party system, it just looks that way because you have two very dominant parties and the choice is always framed as such. And sure, I've even read some stories/pieces that claim that certain processes are actually biased against third parties, etc.

Truthfully, you have a few alternatives. Voting third-party, e.g. libertarian or something. Or, you could not vote at all.
This is the second time you've categorised it as choosing "the lesser evil". I don't think that's what the system was designed to be. It sounds to me like it's so far off the rails that the real lesser evil choice is to refuse to participate in the process and rob it of its credibility.

If I vote for the losing party, I implicitly agree to abide by the choices made by the winning party because I would expect the same from their supporters if the roles were reversed. None of the parties represent my interests, so I don't vote and I certainly don't agree to respect the decisions made by those who don't represent my interests.

To tie it back in with the original point, those who voted against Bush implicitly agreed to abide by his decisions if he won. Only those who refuse to participate in the system can claim zero complicity.
That would be an interesting development, good point.
High-end sports cars are fun to drive, but wouldn't it be nice to turn on autopilot from time to time? Like if you're stuck in traffic, or you need to do a bit of work, or you get tired during a long trip.

Some might also prefer ownership so that their car is always available with no delay, or so that they know their car will be perfectly clean and odorless.

I think you're right that on-demand will eventually make sense for a majority of people, though.
> To those that get hung up on the design: remember that this car is limited to 25 mph for regulatory reasons.

Which might explain exactly why it looks very similar to many NEVs [0] or Motorized Quadricycles [1], which tend to have similar constraints.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood_Electric_Vehicle

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorised_quadricycle
Spoken like someone who's always had the privilege of never being unemployed. I love it when people talk down to people that can't make ends meat and explain to them from an ivory tower how their concerns and family don't matter as much.
"Every once in a while, when the scoop misses a giant cat poop the drying cycle cooks it. It gets dried out like a little raunchy piece of beef jerky. It ends up stinking the apartment up worse than one could imagine. It’s rare, happening maybe once every week or two"

Thanks for striking this off my list of "things I think might be useful." I don't need the odor of fresh-baked cat poop wafting through my house. I'll stick with the freshly-poop cat poop smell that concentrates itself fairly well to the room the litterbox is in.
>Since the day President Obama took office, he has failed to bring to justice anyone responsible for the torture of terrorism suspect.

This is such an important topic, that it is a shame it always has to be discussed in the political context (i.e. Obama failed to bring justice anyone from the Bush administration).

#1. Obama's administration continued using the Bush era Enhanced Interrogation Techniques; therefore, politically he could not pursue anyone from Bush's administration without subjecting his own administration to the same...including himself.

#2 From a legal standpoint anyone who actually engaged in these alleged acts of torture would have a legal defense, they relied on Government officials and attorneys who authorized/ordered them to perform these interrogations. Whether the officials/attorneys were right or wrong in their judgment, this is a lawful defense recorgnized by US criminal courts. See US v. Baker, 546 F.2d 940 (D.C. Cir. 1976).
Source data for that article is at
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Select "Show results by: Race/Religion".
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> A more accurate premise is that groups of humans tend on average to act at least somewhat as if they were rationally well-informed.

That's a wigglier definition of "rational actor" than neoclassical economics actually admits.

More precisely, neoclassical economics posits that economic equilibriums are the same as they would be if humans were rational actors. Random irrationality doesn't affect the equilibrium, but systematic irrationality certainly does.

Showing that people are systematically irrational about many things, as for example the work of behavioral economists does, certainly is not an unjustified attack on neoclassical economics.
That appears to be the original content, but from what I've read it was posted on pastebin, so this is likely a re-post by somebody.
Exactly. Timing is everything:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/01/02/business/20110...
Under your proposed system, no politicians of sufficient office would ever be tried for a crime related to their office (as long as it was for the right reason)? This seems like a very poor incentive system.

I do agree with you that prosecution would not be good for stability. However, maintaining a separate rule of law for those in office is not good for stability, either.
CRC(first_half || second_half) = CRC(first_half || 000...0) XOR CRC(000...0 || second_half).

Yes. Or to go a bit further, taking advantage of the fact that CRCs are not just linear but also cyclic:

CRC(first_half || second_half) = CRC(first_half) * x^n mod p(x) XOR CRC(second_half), where p(x) is the generator polynomial.

The number of parts you'll want to split the data into will depend on the throughput:latency ratio of your CRC reduction (subject of course to asymptotic optimizations not being useful for small inputs, of course).
How many of those 12 year olds tune you out in that half of an hour? I guarantee that if it took me a half hour of professional instruction, I would not have been programming at 12 years old (I was, in Python).
I've taught mine to use ordinary flush toilet. Although he doesn't understand flushing and can't push the button (just meows for a human to assist), still needs to do a few scratching paw motions to soothe the nerves, and sometimes (no idea what he thinks, to me it seems like a completely random behavior) "forgets" about flush toilet and wants a litter tray, it's quite awesome. No litter whatsoever, obviously.
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Or worse, be worried that it'll set fire to the tinsel the cat ate and managed to poop out without manual intervention.
There's a very simple solution to this, at the moment.

First of all, do your research on a product before you buy it, typically a quick google search will tell you whether or not there are any glaring problems with whatever it is you're considering.

Second, if you find that something you purchased contains harmful DRM, return it to the retailer if it is within the returns window. If it is not, post it on Craigslist or equivalent explaining why you're getting rid of it, you'll find a buyer without losing much money.

Thirdly, contact the company that made the product and inform them that you just returned or resold the product because it contains DRM that in your opinion is harmful to you the consumer, and that you will be avoiding any future products that include DRM, and that you will be sharing your BRAND_GOES_HERE experience with your friends and family.

The more we push back against this, the harder it is for that big-wig at FooCorp to deny that DRM has downsides. This will only work in the early stages while there are alternatives though, so push back now.
My family doesn't own our cars because we like driving them. We own them for convenience! The prospect of ordering a car, waiting for it to arrive, futzing with car seats, transferring car toys, dealing with scarcity and surge pricing, etc. for every trip is very unappealing. And renting is usually more expensive than owning anyways!

In the near term, I'm looking forwards to hybrid assistive technologies. We took a vacation that required seven hours of highway driving. Toyota's freeway mode ("Automated Highway Driving Assist"), which controls speed and steering, would have made a big difference.
I always use project Euler for the learning a language, once you pass that stage I usually go for pet projects.
Ask HN: Does a print-and-mail-something-for-me service exist?
I don't own a printer. I don't even know where to find one. But alas, I need to print and mail a form to the government. Can I just upload the doc to a service, who will then print and mail for a small fee? If this doesn't exist, should it be built?
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Honest question: on average, how much "meaningful discussion" happens after you make a Nazi comparison, even if you happen to be correct?
Open the book, put down the tablet at bedtime
Great talk and ideas. But the idea of representing mathematical equations in the physical form is like supporting the same medium of symbols and just representing it in a different way. But fundamentally math was invented using pen and paper, so the centuries of mathematical thoughts were already slaves to the 2D medium. Maybe it would be interesting to think about, what would happen if we take away 2D surfaces and ask people to reinvent math in a medium that Bret is talking about. How would someone go about discovering, solving, proving mathematical systems without pen and paper? How would you represent 4, 5 or 20 multi-dimentional spaces in a 3D environment ? Maybe pen&paper was kind of abstracting out limitations of physical world so that mind can explore even further.
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