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by ak217 7y ago
I don't think anybody is missing the point. California property owners have voted in a system of laws to hijack the development regulations and tax code to enrich themselves at the expense of everybody else. The question is what will h
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by ak217 7y ago
> he was probably hitting the gas and accelerating. ...Or the car was actuating the throttle as if he was hitting the gas, a.k.a. unintended acceleration. I see a lot of people like you in this thread and elsewhere dismissing unintended
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by ak217 7y ago
This is just plain wrong. The poster didn't say they were at a standstill but that they had the brake pedal pressed. That means the engine could have downshifted into 1st gear and started to rev noticeably. The engine would also produc
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by ak217 7y ago
I recently went from a 2015 MBP to a 2018 MBP with Touchbar. There is a utility called BetterTouchTool ( https://folivora.ai/ ) that adds lots of great features to the Touchbar and made it worthwhile. The Touchbar is a good i
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by ak217 7y ago
I'm not sure what exactly you're looking for, but yes, Craig Venter's team at JCVI and later Synthetic Genomics has been building synthetic organisms starting with Mycoplasma laboratorium in 2006. Most recently, an E. coli an
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by ak217 7y ago
Neither capacitive nor resistive touch screens have an acceptable use in a moving car. Drivers should use the rotary knob and voice controls instead.
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by ak217 7y ago
I had Clear WiMax in a big metro for a few years and it was awful. Miserly speeds, lots of interference and congestion. Modern wireless ISPs use a mesh of point-to-point directional radios operating on WiFi frequencies (see https:/&#x
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by ak217 7y ago
RT is not comparable to VOA. VOA has journalistic standards that are similar to those of NPR. RT's standards are below those of Fox News - it routinely engages in fabrication, misinformation campaigns, selective and reactionary reporti
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by ak217 7y ago
I'm not disagreeing with you, but I think most of the difficulty in the CAHSR project didn't come from technical challenges. It came from mismanagement and NIMBYs, in particular NIMBYs in Atherton, Palo Alto, the Tehachapi pass, a
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by ak217 7y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19859632
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by ak217 7y ago
The GoTrax GXL v2 can be had for less than $300, and the only downside compared to the Segway is slightly less range.
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by ak217 7y ago
Just because there are issues with pesticides, subsidies, and other aspects of agriculture, doesn't make your statements on meat true. Meat takes a lot of energy to produce. It makes sense intuitively: think about how much energy was s
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by ak217 7y ago
I think github runs https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2 which is not regular git.
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by ak217 7y ago
I had a similarly maddening issue (circa 2014) once where small chunks of memory would randomly get overwritten on PV-virtualized AWS instances, but not on HVM-virtualized instances. We spent an enormous amount of time chasing this problem;
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by ak217 7y ago
Shameless plug for a library that I wrote (still developing) for storing AWS API keys on a Yubikey (and signing API requests from the Yubikey): https://github.com/pyauth/exile
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by ak217 8y ago
If you're building a server application, you should be aware of the kinds of information you're writing to your application log. The first obvious issue is that of possibly disclosing information if the traceback is returned to th
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by ak217 8y ago
There is a middle ground, and I think people should demand more in that respect. Yes, cutting engine power is more hazardous in an aircraft than in a motorcycle. So the aircraft should produce a clear warning when takeoff power is applied b
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by ak217 8y ago
Keyword arguments are safer and more explicit/self-documenting. It's not clear that further accommodations for positional arguments are needed, except in variadic situations as described in https://www.python.org/d
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by ak217 8y ago
AWS is working on the Serverless Aurora Data API which is meant precisely for this purpose (it's an API wrapped around RDS).
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by ak217 8y ago
Have you read the independent report? The point of the report was that their engineering practices (both software and hardware) were so extraordinarily dangerous, the ECU was impossible to test with any authority. Its behavior was effective
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by ak217 8y ago
No, that was never proven, and as another poster pointed out, the independent audit of Toyota's practices suggests that random and uncharacterized faults in Toyota's ECUs cannot be ruled out as causes for the unintended accelerati
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by ak217 8y ago
Sure, that's a valid question. 1. YubiKey's OATH application can be protected with a password. If you can't unlock the YubiKey with a password, you can't access any OTPs (or "OTPs" in exile, where they're
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by ak217 8y ago
Good to know, thanks, I didn't know challenge-response support in sshd was specifically tied to RFC 4256. With that said, I suspect it could be retrofitted for this purpose.
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by ak217 8y ago
SSH supports multiple methods of authentication, including challenge-response authentication, which is specifically designed for the kind of exchange that FIDO2/CTAP uses.
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by ak217 8y ago
I recently wrote a different application for YubiKeys - using the YKOATH functionality to sign AWS API requests with HMAC-SHA256 ( https://github.com/pyauth/exile ). What I found is that Yubikey's protocol documenta
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by ak217 8y ago
I recommend using the winscard/pcsc interface directly. winscard is a standard library on Windows, PCSC.framework is standard on Mac OS, and libpcsclite is available on Linux by installing pcscd/pcsc-lite. I recently implemented a
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by ak217 8y ago
Yes, I agree Yubico's libraries and tools leave a lot to be desired. A lot of the functionality in these tools is broken, or requires unnecessary extra configuration, or is encumbered with dependencies that are broken. The specific &qu
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by ak217 8y ago
That's fair to say, but I think it's true of most of Stephenson's books - and he still manages to cover so much interesting ground that they turn out to be good reads despite the long-winded plot holes.
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by ak217 8y ago
I would recommend Seveneves by Neal Stephenson on this topic.
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by ak217 8y ago
These "extreme railfans" occasionally make the already atrocious Amtrak service unbearable for the rest of us. Case in point: we once tried to take the Coast Starlight from Oakland to Los Angeles. The train was delayed out of Oakl

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