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Are you saying you disagree that the Constitution is considered less relevant today than it was in the earlier history of the United States?

Yes.

If anything, our First Amendment rights are now more robust than they were in the past. We have almost nothing like a modern-day equivalent to Anthony Comstock. The amount of obscenities you can get away with these days is higher thanks to people like Al Goldstein, Lenny Bruce and Larry Flynt setting historical free speech precedents. Labor movement violence is a thing of the past. The sexual revolution means pornography went from obscene to "meh, whatever". Film censorship no longer happens as much as it did in the period before the 1960s. The export restrictions on cryptography have been heavily softened to the point of being almost practically irrelevant. Left-wing politics, though hardly major, are no longer subject to any real suppression beyond punditry's ignorance.

As for the other amendments you listed, I presume they're in reference to mass surveillance. In which case, civil asset forfeiture dates back to maritime law, NSA has been documented to intercept ingoing telegraphs as far back as 1945, Operation Mockingbird had the CIA meddle with U.S. media, FBI has had COINTELPRO, DCSNet and other operations, so on and so forth. Nothing here is new.

You're viewing the past through exceptionally rose-tinted glasses, honestly.
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Fine, I'll bite: what non-cute tool do big boys who are "great at Linux" and do know what they're doing use?
Scala, Java, Clojure, C#, F#, Node, LuaJIT, Erlang, Elixir, Haskell, D, Nim... There are lots of reasonably fast options out there that aren't C.
On the contrary. Just because x86 is a baroque monstrosity doesn't mean simple, powerful ISAs are unpossible.
Or: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=framework&sort=byDate&prefix=f...
The attack on our ability to encrypt is in the end an attack on the right to private thought. Loosing this, while we merge with our digital creations, is an existential threat.
Great work. Thank you for sharing it. You'd be surprised how hard it is for big companies to make a tool like this.

Ideas to play with:
1) Have one of the outputs be a box and whisker output showing the percentiles of ages the person will run out of money.

2) Have a way a person could easily code a transition from an S&P500 portfolio to a fixed income portfolio over 5 to 10 years.

3) Add a generational mortality table on the back end and include a probability of death.

edited to clarify (2)
Is there a semi-passive fund that just responds to the announcements that something is going into or out of an index?

Presumably they'd leave a little money on the table because they'd have to guess how much to buy in or sell out, but it'd probably mitigate a good chunk of the loss, right?
Very nicely done. What kind of tools does one use to create this.
But don't those Total Stock Market indices have some kind of weighting for each stock? Wouldn't changes in the weightings just leave you with the same problem? Or maybe I'm missing something?
How about these boring specifications like language specifications, OS changelogs?
Here's the paper:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9846414
Yes there are "bio-hacker spaces" and yes, you can outsource a lot of the more delicate methods, but we won't see software-level start-ups for biotech for several decades for three reasons.

1. Biology usually doesn't work. Even the simplest wet-lab reactions take very exacting conditions to work. This requires precise, expensive, equipment and endless optimization of protocols. The result is a tremendous drain on resources to get what usually amounts to a negative result

2. Bio is inherently perishable. You can't let a start-up project linger as you chip away at it for 3 years. Reagents expire, lab-cultures will mutate, equipment rusts/breakdowns/gets contaminated for stupid unforeseeable reasons.

3. There is a stupidly large legal burden if you ever want to commercialize. At every step of the process the USDA, EPA, FDA, and patent office have rules and regulations to slow you down. It might take decades to take a product from the lab to the store self, if it gets there at all.

Bio isn't computing. As a geneticist, I've seen it a hundred times where some start-up know-it-all walks into the biotech field and thinks its "just like software". It isn't, and never will be.
At first I actually just kept a schedule of these things on a calendar and did them. But I often found that I "forgot" (or in reality, I just ignored them a lot because they weren't the sort of thing I wanted to work on).

Finally, I just went to a temp agency which did in house work and said I would pay someone to do all of that for me. And they do. I worked it out with them to pay a flat rate monthly to get it all done. They assigned a very studious employee to me and I contact her via email with tasks and assignments. It has worked out exceptionally well and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Today's internet supports multicast, unicast, anycast, broadcast, and geocast addressing. IP is a connectionless protocol designed to facilitate communication from one network node to another. The protocol is designed to be routed through dynamic, unreliable networks. IP is really not that challenging and there's a lot of other layers that make its job easier.

And it really has nothing to do with centralization or decentralization. It's peer to peer. Your peers can be anywhere and you can send and receive anything, out of order, connectionless. This is fantastic for decentralized distributed networking.

Applications can 'assume' anything they want; that's the application, not the addressing protocol. Everyone who has read RFC1918 knows IP addresses are not unique.

And there is no way to ensure a route doesn't have a malicious actor. It's been shown time and again with networks like Tor that it doesn't matter what layers of security or obfuscation or decentralization you add. A bad actor on a route will be able to identify or mess with your traffic. Your application is the deciding factor in the security of the connection.

DNS and IP are not handled for everyone by a central authority. Both are independent protocols which can be used across the internet without a central authority's authorization. Of course IP addresses are more closely guarded, but like you mentioned before, advertising an invalid range of addresses works all the time. And DNS is not even needed to use the internet! Public domain registration using specific TLDs does have centralized control bodies, of course, but that's necessary to prevent conflict.

The internet is a web of trust. That will never, ever change. The reason it will never change is we all want something for free.

If you wanted, you could pay for and bury fiber-optic cable from your home to every place on planet earth that you want to make a network connection to. Then you wouldn't have to trust anyone, and when someone taps into your fiber or cuts the connection, you could (hopefully) determine that your connection is no longer "safe" or "reliable". But this is not very practical.

The internet fixes this by allowing any network to help any other network get around common network problems. We help each other because it is mutually beneficial. When that mutual assistance breaks down you get problems like the Comcast-Netflix debacle. No internet protocol or addressing scheme will route around a monopoly on the network. The only "decentralized" solution is a bunch of people on a wireless mesh network and a satellite link, which will still result in Netflix not being practically usable.

But please, keep believing that an addressing scheme will somehow keep you from having to trust a foreign network. Good luck getting House of Cards to stream.
Yep. I don't understand the security implications well enough to guard against them. As much as I like cutting edge tech I prefer to not actually cut myself with it!
I was confused by the numbers at first, so: that's 17k requests per second, spread out over 4 dual core Xeon (Haswell) machines, which works out to just over 4000 requests/s per machine. It's still a respectable number, but it's much closer to what one would expect given the task.

Don't get me wrong, the most interesting part is definitely the implementation and as a Go noob I found it very useful - it's just a bit misleading for the headline to sum your request rate across all parallelized machines.
Gordon Bell and Allen Newell edited wrote "Computer Structures: Readings and Examples" 1971, which is a collection of original technical papers and their commentary on significant computers. It is online at: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer...

With Daniel P. Siewiorek, they revised the book in 1982 as "Computer Structures: Principles and Examples" with new material, it is online at:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Computer...

There are lots of inexpensive copies of the books available at used book sites or Amazon.
All of Gordon Bell's publications are at:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gbell/Pubs.htm

In 2011, Ron Mak taught a course at San Jose State University: CS 185C: The History of Computing. He invited a number of famous experts to speak to the class, including Bell, Knuth, Kay, Gosling, Feigenbaum, Alcorn, etc. (I am certainly not famous; I gave a lecture on the HP-35 and other early pocket calculators).
http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/CS185C/

There are a lot of links to papers and other videos.
The textbook used in the class was "A History of Modern Computing, 2nd edition" by Paul E. Ceruzzi

Visit the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA, Paul Allen's Living Computer Museum in Seattle, WA (computers that still run), and London's Science Museum.
To elaborate, if Sensible Sally's female descendants all produce one child, and Fertile Myrtle's descendants all produce 10 children each, then Myrtle's genes will multiply faster, and be less vulnerable to being wiped out by the odd plague or war.
I really really like the idea of a smart watch band for a handful of reasons, but a smart watch is going to move more units.

A fitness tracker with a watchband form factor and can vibrate for phone notifications would satisfy most of my smart watch desires (I wouldn't even need a screen on it). I'd buy one of those in addition to the smartwatch I have now, as I still wear my nice watch when I need to dress up. My smartwatch is uglier than the apple watch, but don't think a black LED screen on a wrist is ever a good look.

But smartphones have made many people stop wearing watches in general, and fitness trackers aren't the most popular products either. And a secondary screen (like in your link) for someone who doesn't want a timepiece in the first place doesn't make sense, just give prime placement to one really nice display.

Plus branding. People don't just want smart functionality in a good looking watch, they want to be seen wearing an Apple Watch.
Hi there.

I'm the guy who did the AMA.

I don't think the guy who interviewed me from Atlas Obscura disclosed that he was from Atlas Obscura.. I thought he was some kid doing a high school paper or something. :) Meh. Oh well.

Anyway, he didn't get some of his terminology correct. I've directed him to how he can clean it up, however.

..."Churnalism" is spot-on.
does it needs python interpreter?
I think you're missing his point. He's attempting to staple a moral argument to the citizenry--that it's not merely the government that must ensure freedom of speech, it's that we as citizens must accept and tolerate shitty speech. Which has no significant historical basis--Noam Chomsky is a guy and I don't have to agree with him, even when he's not being misquoted--but is alarmingly popular in certain dank corners of the internet.

More specifically, this notion is the origin of redpill horseshit--itself fallout from the fundamental disaster of my generation: the belief that we deserve to be loved, that people who don't love and adore us are wrong. From that tragic misapprehension rises this back-assward idea of acceptance-for-everything-under-the-sun, which you will note is employed almost strictly by people who have lost positions of social power but still cling to the ideologies of superiority that put them there.

One must deserve to be loved, and that requires work and effort. It is not, to crib a phrase from a friend, an existential entitlement.
Chesterton is spectacularly quotable - but I am afraid he was English. I would suggest at a minimum, it reflects the Anglo-Saxon legal mindset, and at a maximum, it reflects the human legal mindset.
The incentives here have been changing in favor of progress and the breaking down of the life science academic priesthood for years, but this piece omits a very important part of the landscape, which is regulation and the present state of law.

People in the diybio community are justifiably very cautious about what they say and do, as there is there very real threat of getting thrown in jail for no real reason other than they have a lab. The war on drugs on one hand and hysteria about terrorism on the other have done a great deal to make it risky to do home life science work. Beyond that regulation makes it hard to impossible to do near anything useful with animal tissues on a garage hacking basis, and if you're not improving the state of medicine, what's the point, really? Might as well build a cat webapp if your horizon is limited to glowing plants.

So there is a lot of tension here between what is possible and what is permitted. That has been an issue in early stage research for decades now, and has cost uncounted lives and years of progress. This is just the stage in which that becomes more apparent as more people could, in theory, participate.
Most of what we believe about gender is based on societal beliefs rather than biological reality. I am reminded about how high heels were worn by men in the past and the preferred colors for boys and girls (pink and blue) were switched. (http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-st... http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21151350)

Our faulty assumptions become clear when viewing other societies. For example, in the former USSR, 58% of engineers were women. In China, 40% of engineers are women, where less than 47% of the population are women. The communist countries placed a greater emphasis on gender equality in workforce. Sharp differences between west and the east are evident in other occupations such as medicine.

In the study cited, the mean age of the babies (neonates) was 3 days. That's enough time for babies to be influenced by adult interactions. Babies have been shown to be handled differently by adults based on their gender. Female babies are spoken to more, whereas male babies are handled more.

In the study, a substantial number of babies exhibited behaviors associated with the other gender. I would resist talking about a real sexual dimorphism when gender is not determinative of social vs mechanical preference.
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> The prime numbers are those that have been intersected by only two curves: the prime number itself and one.

This is merely a prettier but somewhat obfuscated Sieve of Eratosthenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes
The first amendment is actually far more strongly defended than the second. It's settled law at this point that exceptions to the first amendment must pass strict scrutiny, which means that there must be a compelling government interest in play, the restriction must be narrowly tailored to protect just that interest, and the restriction must be the least restrictive way possible to protect that interest. In practice, few laws pass strict scrutiny. In contrast, courts are still hashing out which level of scrutiny must be used when deciding second amendment cases.
Well, I'm not so sure how constructive it is to try making behavioral predictions about people based on general categories (race, sex, etc.) in the first place. I think it's far more useful to seek understanding and respect.
G.K. Chesterton was British.
Same here, FF on Linux Mint.
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Not that it matters that much but I notice there's no .NET or C# on the "Technology Used" list. Is there really not a single YC company that uses the .NET stack? I'm not surprised that there's a strong bias toward open source technologies among these companies, but given how widely .NET used elsewhere in the enterprise world I find it pretty remarkable NONE of those companies decided to go with a MS stack.
Can we stop the sharing of pay-walled content please, just pick another source?

ot: What do they (cameron and c/o) think the best case scenario is for this folly? Disrupt a few mainstream services while pissing everyone off in the process whilst the real criminals move on to slightly more obscure services?
Ask HN: Email token service
Hi HN,

there is any "email token" service out there ?

I mean that I would like to generate every time a new email address (something crazy like: b4ver94v89ir@crazydomain.io) and use that email address to register to only one single service.

When I receive an email to that address, the email it forwarded to my own, "real" address.

As soon as I start to get spam from a particular token I can simply stop the forwarding of email.

Is anything like that available ?
i think the sell through rate is proof of this. when the price is pegged to demand correctly, things sell out, rather then sit on shelves.
> So if i'm following this right, querying the builtin DNS server for a .key actually triggers DHT lookup and NAT setup?

That's the idea.

> How are NAT entries recycled?

DNS responses have a TTL. The mappings last at least as long as the TTL and get extended if any traffic is sent to the address or there is another name lookup. After there is no traffic for a period of time the address goes back into the pool.

> Also couldn't SNI be used here to do this via a single IP?

SNI is HTTP. Doing it this way works with other protocols too.
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Ask HN: Ideas for BYO Video Surveillance/Monitor?
Baby boy recently joined the family and been looking into baby monitors (w/ video) but some are using such old technology or if new w/ cloud based access they have silly monthly subscriptions that ruin the economics.

In a crunch I'll use an extra ipad and do a skype call but it doesnt auto answer so have to initiate the skype call and keep the connection on all day
"Many people reach senior software engineer, and then they get stuck. They’ll still be a “senior” level developer 5 or 10 years later. For many, getting stuck is just fine. They like coding, and they don’t want to manage people, and the money is pretty good."

I have a problem with this part. Basically, being a developer and not making it to a managing position is "getting stuck". I strongly disagree with that. Developers and managers have very different roles, a great developer will not necessarily be a great manager. It's like expecting great athletes to become great coaches, and if they don't they're stuck?

Is becoming a manager really a promotion? I would argue that in such a hot market great developers should be making more money than their own manager.
Perhaps Coke is secretly revolutionary and subversive, and Max Headroom was giving us all a subtle hint?
Vastly exaggerated. IIRC, the standard deviation for males is 15, while the SD for IQ in females is 14.
Very well. I tentatively stand corrected on the historical significance of unconstitutionality as an effective means to stop unconstitutional government behavior.

Nevertheless, and perhaps in part because the Constitution has in fact been routinely steamrolled in the past, it seems that bringing it up as a counterargument to any law today is just short of pointless.
So can Google's self-driving cars be jacked?
Just saw the news that SDCs are coming to Austin. One of my friends posed the question, and it's a good one. What does the community say?
It was the same for the original TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. They got enquiries about what computer system they used to make the graphics for the guide. They were all hand drawn.

Special effects were done manually until quite recently. Independence Day was probably the last big budget film to use models. Now it's all computer generated.
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Harsh in what way? Some resume critiques have seemed a little rough to me, but generally speaking I haven't noticed too much negativity.
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I think you've just found the first application where high latency is actually desirable!
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It's now preferred that my phone not make any noises at any time for any reason. Is there any situation where it would be preferable that your phone make noises?

Once you think of it like that, I think the use case is more clear. It's not about "important" notifications or calls -- it's about all of them.
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This is one of those Calc II problems where it turns out the profit limit as the number of frontrunning funds -> ∞ equals something like e/log(2)
So did you see J or M after the hack? Seems like the kind of thing people would bring up.
I guess I should have sensed I was speaking with an edgy troll earlier. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I actually found $20 on the ground yesterday as I left the Bart. It just sat there, contradicting fundamental economic axioms like it wasn't no thang. And yeah, sure, I picked it up, but I'm also not quitting my day job.
I'd love for this sort of thing to have a filter with the type of office employees would be working on. That way everyone on Hacker News can apply for the jobs with the offices best aligned with software development sending a positive signal to those companies and hopefully encouraging better office design overall for those types of jobs.
I went through the test couple of weeks back. It was pretty interesting take on the screening part. Wanted to see how the phone screen was, but they seem to be out of slots for a long time.
You could easily use something like Mailinator (or their Pro service) for something like this.
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I'm just going to compare murder rates between Canada and US. Murder is harder to fudge. Using data from different years. Maybe that invalidates the conclusion, but I'm guessing it holds in general.

> Here in Canada, we have higher instance of violence with knives, but unsurprisingly almost the same proportion of violence with guns, despite fairly hefty controls.

Firearm homicide in the US per 100k: 3.55 [1]
Firearm homicide in Canada per 100k: 0.51 [1]
Homicide rate in the US per 100k: 4.7 [2]
Homicide rate in Canada per 100k: 1.6 [2]

Proportion of homicides from firearms in the US: 3.55/4.7 = 76%
Proportion of homicides from firearms in Canada: 0.51/1.6 = 32%

Not sure what to make of the numbers. But it doesn't seem like Canada has "the same proportion of violence with guns".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-r...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...
Re: the "strong bias toward open source technologies" bit...yes, I know .NET is open source. This is a recent development.

Just thought I'd qualify that before someone else mentions it.