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Thanks for responding. I wasn't offended, I actually upvoted you to counter-act the downvote storm a little. (It was your offensive prejudice against U.S. citizens that triggered your downvotes, any apology should be directed at them)

I believe that violence is not taught, or even human. I believe it is a fundamental aspect of nature, and only humans have the power to overcome it. A group of humans overcoming nature and violence is what I would call a civilization. Unfortunately any group of humans has only a limited influence, so civilizations have borders.

Outside the borders nature rages violently, attacking civilizations for the resources they dig, farm and build. To keep nature out we need to make some sort of sacrifice, be it resources, lives, or our own morality.

Our morality is what makes us human, so war should never be a solution. But our civilizations are also precious, so they have to be guarded. That's what I believe anyway.
You asked others to justify their views. I'm curious how you justify yours rationally. By what rational basis is a deer less worthy of (any particular) rights than a fetus?

Do you argue that the human species is special and distinct from other animals in some categorical way that leads to the establishment of these rights for any human individual? It seems obvious to many people that we're just mammals, more capable than other mammals in some ways and less capable in other ways, and that all of our differences are more quantitative than qualitative, and that any line you draw ("You must be this smart to live") is arbitrary and can't be justified rationally.

Do you argue that you should grant more rights to an individual of your own species than to one of a different species? That premise is hard to argue with, but it seems absurd if you consider a hypothetical planet with two intelligent species.

I understand that the primacy of homo sapiens seems obvious to most people, but most people don't ever bother to question this idea. Consider that most vegetarians and vegans have probably thought about this topic more than you have. Obviously that doesn't prove them right and you wrong -- but by the way you posed your challenge it seems like you expected there to be no rational response. So put yourself in the shoes of a vegetarian for a minute and struggle with your own worldview for a second: how do you rationalize your worldview?

EDIT: s/sentient species/intelligent species/
The opposition did a terrible job of defending dog sniffs during the oral arguments. They could not articulate a reasonable rule for when they should be allowed (except that they were ok until the ticket was written).

The justices repeatedly presented hypotheticals, but the guy just didn't get it.

[1hr MP3 of oral arguments]
http://www.oyez.org/cases/2010-2019/2014/2014_13_9972
Related: "Making music with a C compiler [SIGINT13]", https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCEUyx-SxPw
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/zero-rated-data-net-neutralit...
If it really helps some cool new services get off the ground, I'm happy to spend a little money on it and in the FAQ it says that if you verify more than 30,000 numbers, we'll ask you to help defray the cost. I don't expect lots of people to verify exactly 30,000 numbers.
As Chinese push into Latin America, Nicaraguans try to hold the line
They're got something like 400 trading days worth of data to make the case with. If this spoofing case is like the last one I read, the spoofed orders aren't going to make any sense relative to the guy's assets, and his actual profits are going to contradict any thesis he proposes about the intent behind the spoofed orders. But we'll see, I guess.
> is profit-maximization a law?

If we are talking about Public Companies, yes. Privately owned ones can do whatever they want, but in practice the ones that do'nt care about the bottom line tend to be driven out of the market by those who do.

> because i don't see why for example a company can't be formed for the purpose of "betterment of humanity"

Those are called NGOs.
To do that, you'd have to know in advance which officers were going to be making traffic stops in which they would want an excuse to make an otherwise unconstitutional excuse so you could preposition K9 units to assist them, or you'd have to have every patrol car have two officers and a dog. Either of these is impractical.
Nice, however given the name, the triangle logo associated a lot with destiny the game.
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131219001817/destinyped...
I know, I know. The Silicon Valley moniker resonates a bit better with audience here since this is Hacker News.

Cog? Total global revenue between the Big 3 (General Motors, Ford, Chrysler - all based in Detroit for you HN readers) is over $250 billion USD annually. Shitty margins though, yes.

People talk about the next $10B+ market cap company coming from something involving hardware. As software development skills become more pervasive, keep your eye on Detroit - you'd be surprised how much talent we've yet retained.
great. move to detroit, get married, have kids, kids get lead exposure and become violent criminals.
Point taken. But I hope you'll agree that "it's bad for business" isn't a slam dunk argument even in Canada. Think about it this way: if the alignment were reversed, and this law was good for business, do you think anyone would try to fend off critics of C-51 by saying "But look how good for business it is!".

This asymmetry indicates the real reasons the law is good or bad lie elsewhere.
Andy Mitchell and Facebook’s weird state of denial about news
If life is a race, its participants are the various speciated evolutions[1], not individual creatures. The human species' common genetic material won; it will propagate much further than any other genetic material has so far.

What that implies about what humans do is a whole other question, because humans aren't racing anybody. (But I think that was somewhat your point.)

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/kt/evolutions_are_stupid_but_work_an...
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> Expect two officers from now on, one to have the dog sniff while the other deals with the traffic citation.

If police departments could afford to make every existing single-officer patrol unit a two-officer K-9 unit, they'd already do that.
Answer that question substituting chimpanzee for person who speaks a different language from you and you'll have your answer.
The concept is pretty poor. In any infinite scroller you need a page height that progressively increases. When that page height gets too big it is unwieldy to navigate.

One way around this for a user ironically is to use page up and page down. I.e. hacked pagination of that vertical beast!
Can somebody put together a quick tutorial on how to get from this API to charts generated in ipython?
The entire point is that this dichotomy seriously blurs the lines of "ownership" in new and potentially harmful ways.
Not only is this API availability great, the short descriptions of what each one does are outstanding. So many 'try our API' pages are written in developer-ese that tells you up front about the mechanics of interacting with it but fail to explain what sort of things you could do with it. Documentation is much more than just a command reference!
"Operator Bill Moore performing the last rites before turning the Philco off."

back in '95, the Cyber mainframe I used in my undergrad years had a bust-up party where you could take a piece of it home.
While amusing, the premise is flawed. 0xF5 is pronounced "two hundred forty-five". Of course, just as with decimal-expressed numbers (e.g. phone numbers), it may sometimes be useful to list the digits; our existing digit names should be sufficient but could certainly be improved for distinctiveness.
Luckily, it looks like Jason Scott is already on the case!!

https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/590610390817595393
> You can still gauge supply and demand -- but you would do so using actual trades

This actually happens a lot in some venues, especially dark pools. This leads to pretty high bid/ask spreads and lowered liquidity.

> It seems to me that a law that hinges on proving the intent of the trader seems destined for failure.

Which is the primary argument for making it legal in my mind, because a law that is unenforced only penalizes honest market participants. Another option would be to dramatically increase the cost of the punishment.

Another big problem is that even the idea of "intent" is in question when it comes to algorithmic trading. Absent a code comment //spoofing goes here or an email it seems like you are getting into deep philosophical territory.

> I like your idea of de-anonymized trades.

To be fair, there are lots of problems with it. Big block traders would absolutely hate this as it would give market makers such an advantage. Tracking reputation would become yet another advantage of sophisticated market participants that would be largely unavailable (or expensive) to other participants. Further, nothing would prevent reputation gaming, and detecting it may be even harder than spoofing.

Basically anything that increases the bid/ask spread is likely to benefit market makers at the expense of the rest of the market and simplicity is a huge virtue.
Awesome. The flow is really great and simple. The only problem is that you're giving things for free and losing money. People will not trust your service for something important since you can stop it at anytime (if you start to lose a lot of money).
That's true of a lot of third party services, though.
How does this provide any better performance to the company using it? If anything it's doubling the work requirement because now you have to do 2 rounds of bcrypt/etc instead of 1.
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I don't give a shit about getting downvoted and I'll keep speaking my mind. As to why I was downvoted, the mindless HN swarm here can't handle any dissidence and when it encounters any opposing view that contradicts with its worldview, it attacks and neutralizes its prey as soon as possible to avoid the mental anguish that comes with challenging their preconceptions of the world around it.
>The theory I espouse would simple add that the continuum between K-selected and r-selected species would tend to correspond to a continuum of evolutionary rates.

Looking at the last 2B years who has shown higher "global" evolutionary rate - the line of living matter leading to humans or the line leading to fish?

While of course it is obvious that the "local" evolutionary rate - rate of producing and churning through minor changes - is higher for shorter lived.

In short - giving the result the human rate of evolution
Hopefully the terms of your neighbor's tractor lease don't come with a geofence!
> If it's an ordinary incident of a K-9 traffic stop, it's not prolonging the stop.

Its still a search not reasonably related to the justification of the stop, which would seem to make it unreasonable as an ordinary procedure. Sure, Scalia might vote to uphold it, but if Scalia's view was controlling he wouldn't need to.
Making the claim that fetuses are somehow not human beings is an example of a purely political statement.
We came after, but they definitely copied us.

Here's how we arrived there: https://medium.com/@kyle_ohara/simple-is-ing-hard-91730cf723...
Throw the chimp in a pool. If the chimp swims out, it seems to have a (at least instinctual) desire to not drown. Put it into a more complex situation where the danger would only be recognizable through reasoning, see if it still tries to live.

Honestly I would be very surprised if infant humans passed this, let alone unborn babies. I doubt a non-instinctual desire to remain alive can exist before that entity has the ability to recognize death as a concept and possibility. From what I have seen of babies, they just aren't that smart. I mean come on, they have to learn that they have hands, how could they have a conscious desire to preserve their own life before they are even aware of their full body?
From 2009. Here's the blog post announcing it: http://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/smaller-is-faster-and-safer...
He is badly mixing metaphors. One baking, the other construction.
> The old Fisher Body Plant had cyanide (yes, cyanide) baths for metal plating.

This is not some outdated thing like asbestos; bonding cyanides of metals together is pretty much just how you do electroplating. It's also not all that scary; there are a bunch of well-known industrial methods of neutralizing the cyanide afterward[1].

[1] http://www.sgs.ca/~/media/Global/Documents/Flyers%20and%20Le...
Looks interesting, how do you do this exactly?
Records requester Tim Clemans pokes government agencies, then offers to help
Huawei to launch cloud computing service in China, invest in 5G technology
Most of us are seeing the phrase "digital nose" for the first time.

Easy mix-up, everyone read it as "digital noise" and thought to themselves, "grainy screen? noise as in randomness of the input timing? that doesn't sound helpful."
Yet, he developed a fair bit of software for this free already. Sometimes people do things for the public good. Plus you know he's going to be hired somewhere else after this if he wants to, and if he owns the software he develops, he can make bank.
This is nigh Sun_Tzu/genius of Seattle's creative (female) chief of police: if there is a capable pest working against you, invite them in, and have them work for you.
The end-user's bandwidth is the thing they're trying to save, not Google's.
"I think the biggest problem we have today, with regards to securely hashing passwords, isn’t the technology available, but the fact that sites still use the older, less secure approaches. If a site cares enough[...]"
There you have it. Today, I helped an older computer illiterate friend update her mobile phone company data online. She had forgotten her password, so I clicked "lost password". The mobile phone company sent out her password in plain text by email. Hashing? Salting? Never heard of it!

The concept quoted in the article does sound interesting though...
The early examples of the plane were prone to crashing, yet people still board modern aircraft.

An example of an infinite scroll that works is the one used in Discourse: http://www.discourse.org/
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> > is profit-maximization a law?

> If we are talking about Public Companies, yes.

Please cite the relevant law.
That's what anchor tags with an id tag are for, so it scrolls to the section you want. Which they use on the desktop but, wait for it, you can guess what's coming here, not on the mobile site...
This is great, I was just thinking about a similar idea when I waltzed into my empty barbers the other day, good luck!
The actual line is

Well we'll see how smart you are when the K9 come

Which implies the dog is not currently with the officer and he is going to detain Jay-Z until the dog gets there. So this would actually cut the number of problems Jay-Z has down to 98.
U.S. Homeland Security to set up cyber security office in Silicon Valley
Please for God's sake digitize the whole lot.. there is an entire history of a barely documented civilization on these disks, and it reminds me of something else:

BBS operators of the 80s and 90s, where are the copies of those hard drives that you took out of that 286 before you binned it? Google may have bought and destroyed Dejanews, but you're hoarding something much more valuable (IMHO!)
We were all once in the womb and we all desire life.

How can we presume that an unborn human does not desire the right to life, a right we give freely to someone who is born?
What does gender have to do with anything?

Disclosure will progress towards real-time: gathered not only by officers, but by any other person as well. Props to Seattle for being slightly ahead of the curve.
Private companies have hired planes to drop bombs on striking working coal miners: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain

People should take a look at the list of "Major armed conflicts in American labor union history" at the bottom of the page and get a feel for how many people died for the more comfortable version of wage-slavery we have to day.
Oh, can't disagree with you there. I'm from Ireland and though we're less geographically isolated than Australia being an island nation I grew up seeing many similar monopolistic abuses.
I was thinking about similar concepts and problems then I decided to create a framework [1] that could possibly solve those problems.

I created a lightweight system, that serves web pages, added proper authentication, storage (mongodb), memory storage/cache (redis) , simple ORM (mongoengine), automatic backend, background processing/scheduling (celery), email integration, single command deployment (automation)

I have also demonstrated how to do scrapping/scheduling/email sending in this tutorial:

https://medium.com/project-enferno/create-your-first-minion-...

and this one explains how to automate the deployment of everything you create with the framework with a single command:

https://medium.com/project-enferno/tip-deploy-enferno-framew...

Hope someone will find this helpful.

[1]:My framework is called Enferno: http://enferno.io and runs on top of flask.
The threat model that any salting procedure is dealing with is if someone has, e.g. downloaded your database (i.e. is performing an offline attack). So things like sleep(0.5) or rate-limiting become irrelevant.

So, you now have a database of 10,000 usernames, hashes and local salts. Normally you would fire up your favorite cracking program and get to work. Under this scheme, before you can start on a password, you must request its salt from a remote service which will probably cut you off after a significantly anomalous number of queries, or which itself could impose rate limiting. Basically, something like this enables things like rate-limiting even in the case of an offline attack.

note: not saying I necessarily think this is a particularly good idea, just that I think you're missing or misrepresenting its purpose.
Many people gave you very good responses/readings to why they think drugs should be legal and search/seizures should be illegal.
This is what every activist needs to do.

Unhappy at how a government agency works? Apply for a job and change it from within. Agencies are made of people.

I saw a story a while ago about how the CIA was having trouble finding people to hire, because of Snowden.

This is backwards! People should be jumping to work there and make the place better.

For example, Zoos used to be quite different from how they are run today. What changed? People who loved animals figured it would be a neat place to work. Over time zoos have changed to conservation and public education oriented places, instead of public exhibition places.
Nice job. Trying it out.
I think PG's argument does not work in two points.
He seems to say that

1. Reducing the potential payoff kills startups (and)

2. To reduce inequality, you have to reduce the payoff of startups

2 is false: there are many ways to reduce inequality that dont affect startups. Take inherited inequality: you can tax inheritance, you can make college more affordable (by, say, using the inheritance tax), you can tax only big companies, or real estate. All these things reduce inequality. If inequelity is bad, we might fight it in some places, and still tolerate the existence of "the next bill gates"

1. is weird. I dont know for you, but for me, there is a clear upper ceiling of incentive: I'd work hard for a million, but not so much for my eleventh million. I am not sure founders are just multiplying P(sucess) and payoff. (VCs might be, though)
"Often their simple things that don't take a ton of money like head start funding, lower the cost of post-secondary education and training, and providing certain basic services like health care."

What is 'head start'?
> 1. Quote and trade data must be time stamped by the exchanges at the time it is generated. This will ensure delays can be detected by everyone.

Quotes and trades are typically generated on different systems. There are CAP ramifications for implementing this that may be much worse than the fix.

> 2. Quote-stuffing should be banned.

If you mean quote stuffing as DDoS, this is banned and is trivially prevented by the exchange. If you mean quote stuffing as in layering, that is illegal and is not trivially prevented.

> 3. Add a simple 50 millisecond quote expiration rule: a quote must remain active until it is executed or 50ms elapses.

This may or may not have CAP implications. I'm curious why 50 ms is chosen? Click traders won't be able to respond to this (and you've already mentioned Alaska/Hawaii) so it won't be "everyone" in any case.

Finally what does the NBBO have to do with CME trades? These were futures contracts that have no legal requirements with regard to the NBBO. They do of course have a correlation with the NBBO just like equities exchanges in Europe and Asia do. Do you intend to regulate the venues globally?
And how do you trust the identity of the new server/instance during boot strapping?
I think you if do a new development on a newly purchased city parcel, and call the right people downtown, they'll send the state out to do remediation.

But yeah, no way I would build on vacant land in Detroit without getting the ground and water tested first.
Eugenics would help society a ton but it's obviously horrible from a moral standpoint. We don't live in a utilitarian society, drugs being legal should have nothing to do with how much they help society.
What about landing a mass driver on the rock and slowly shoot bits of it into space? Another option is a generic ion engine fed by the local material.
Correct.

Also, I was mistaken somewhat, the byproducts aren't excreted, they're reprocessed in the liver back into glucose, but this requires extra energy. So it's less efficient than aerobic respiration, but not by as much as I believed.
It is a shame to sit here and be able to watch Canada's demise, for when we pass these draconian laws that take away and restrict our freedoms, the terrorists that the government is trying to protect against, have won.
I think you know full well that those are not at all what I meant. You can say "they still make money selling the software too," but that's what they call damning with faint praise. I made some money selling my old car, but I don't say I have a car-selling business. Those are hardware companies and service companies, not companies that primarily sell software.

The simple fact is that selling free software has not been shown to be a viable business model. There are businesses that have shown the value of using free software, and businesses that have made good money supporting free software, but creating and selling free software just doesn't appear to be something you can look to for income. And that's what api was talking about when he said "In [Stallman's] world, the creators of things starve."
Out of curiosity - isn't an economy more diversified (and thus stabilized) by having both manufacturing (which benefits from a low $CAD) and oil (which benefits a high $CAD)?
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Centralizing your logins with inherent lack of local fallback isn't necessarily a good thing.

If you're trying to mitigate your password DB being stolen, insert canary accounts and have a passive device on the network scream bloody murder when it detects anything logging into one of the canary accounts.

Another approach is just to have the random data be local. (Have a large chunk of random data. The hash is a couple iterations of a standard password hash, but each time used as an index into the random data. You want multiple iterations as otherwise someone walking off with a relatively small section of the data can still crack many passwords.)

If you're preventing brute-force, there are better methods. For example, having the client submit a proof-of-work. (As a bonus to this, you can adjust the proof of work if you're under (D)DOS.)