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> Well there was, for instance, the rule brought in a few years ago in London that minicabs have to be called from a registered business, they can't just hang around soliciting for business. This was in direct response to women being picked up by unregistered drivers and raped. That's just one example of regulation that has sprung up to protect the public.

That makes no sense. I don’t see how regulation might conceivably make it more difficult for “unregistered drivers” to rape women. All you need to understand is that even if it did, the rapists would just move on to more opportune circumstances for finding victims.

Therefore, the regulation is not justified by the idea of preventing rape. It’s just not going to. I doubt you sincerely thought it would either.

>> Consider that free(er) competition results in quality increasing and prices decreasing.

> It can result in a race to the bottom just as easily.

Free competition certainly does cause a race to the bottom of economically viable prices. I’m not sure what you’re getting at there, but “can” is just not enough when the way competition works is clear to anyone with half a brain.

> Pleasing customers is not the be-all and end-all of ... anything really.

Um.. I guess not? So what?

> I like to use the example of hygiene ratings and checks in restaurants. This is a government function that makes sure people don't die.

Alright, that’s it. I’m withdrawing your benefit of the doubt. Do you want me to believe you have no idea how people make successful sales on eBay, for example?

> I gave an example above of a regulation that came in for a reason.

There’s always a reason. It’s just that it’s never to benefit the public, because there’s no point in ruling over people besides to benefit at their expense.

> Right, behave or we won't rent to you next time!

How about: ”adhere to this contract, or we’ll sue you”?

> This is the very kernel of the problem - the negative externalities are ignored.

There’s a certain group of “people” that sure likes talking about “externalities”.. :P

> I do give a shit about consumer protection, fire regulations, safety, hygiene requirements, workers rights and many, many other things that have been hard won over many, many years. Things we're not all clamouring to discard for a slightly cheaper cab ride or bed to sleep in.

Oh you managed to sneak in some shaming too! Well done!
Meh, this is a weak argument. Not too long ago people were saying "Of course the small eastern european states need authoritarian communism! They aren't rich like the USA! They need a strongman to lead them and to control the weak economy or they'll fall into starvation. Ceausescu keeps the lights on and our bellies full!"

Capitalism scales just fine. So does democracy, ask India. Lets stop giving authoritarians more excuses.
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with ibm crap-ware on all their macs. sure! :)
I'm using pretty much the same setup, and the only trouble I have is that simple React exceptions can cause webpack-dev-server to terminate. It's not the end of the world, just kind of annoying to have to restart the dev server if I misspelled a variable!

I'm not sure if this is the same problem you've encountered, but if you find a solution I'm definitely interested. :)
It's typical.

My theory is the average person doesn't cognitively absorb the human suffering because there's more guilt associated with it.
Completely agree with your entire comment.
The Appeal of Outsourcing
Ask HN: Should external links open in the same browser tab or new tab?
I know links opening in the same page is the default behavior. Do you set same behavior (links opening in same tab) to both internal and external links?
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I like this answer, however, its still not sufficient. Because you dont want to mix the "structure" of your UI with the behaviour of it. But in very dynamic apps behaviour = structure. So in that case React makes sense.

However, i dove into web components with Polymer, and it seems that this is the "official" direction of components in the future web... It also doesnt try to mix HTML with JavaScript. In fact in the future there will be more langauges than javascript since there will be a bytecode for the browser. Having your app written in React poses a real problem when you want to switch your logic to a different programming language.

So isnt the Web Components solution much better?

It seems that React and Web Components can be combined:
https://github.com/Wildhoney/Maple.js
Building a smart meeting room with LoRa and Physical Web
This is really cool.

(On a sidenote, I bet the creators would have loved to have this run inside the browser; the fact that this cannot be done again shows how broken the web is).
i'd be interested to hear what Jeff thinks about the GearVR. Most people brush it off as just another phone holder with lenses, but I'd say it's the most compelling VR headset available on the market.

It has a lot of what he requests from a VR headset: wireless, better display than DK2, and doesnt require a gaming rig. It's virtually plug and play and I think that's why people love it.

MobileVR is what will and should be people's first taste. I've spoken with a lot of architects who love cardboard because it sets such low expectations but blows people away when they put it on. The DK2 is a bit underwhelming as you're strapped into some gaming rig so you're expecting some cutting edge graphics and end up with what something that looks like N64 VR.

One thing that was neglected in this post is the emotional response that VR, even in it's current state, can evoke. I was sold on the Rift after trying some of the early horror titles. They were graphically very basic, but every corner had me sweating and the jump scares had me looking away. You could argue a 2D monitor has the same effect but when you're in VR and try to look away only to find you don't see your living room or anything familiar everything changes. And the social experiences like Convrge or Altspace are also something to be excited about. I was at first quite skeptical of things like this, but the subtle head movements that are incorporated into the avatars are enough to give one a sense of "meatspace" social cues. I once found myself talking to someone in Convrge and was awkwardly nodding and avoiding eye contact when I realized this was just an avatar. It's simple but powerful.
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The tenure system is a relic. It served its purpose but it's not compatible with today's culture.

It may or may not be the case that only 1% of the population realize the full extent of how bad it is, but a large part of the population knows something is wrong with the system. Just look at how expensive college has become. Everyone knows this is a problem. It may be that the tenure system has some part in the price increase also. Tenured faculty are not only secure in their positions, but in their salaries. This denies universities the flexibility to adjust salary expenses and forces them to charge students more. The majority of the population may not be aware of how bad the problem is, but the increase in tuition is a very visible symptom of the problem.
People are coming to the defence of man-eating lions in a place where lions eat people.

How are there 7 billion of us when we hate ourselves and each other so much?
I would love the crap out of whoever managed to swing that. I'd never thought of it that way, actually, but you've hit the nail on the head as far as the intersection of network effect and therefore counting as infrastructure goes.

One can only hope!
It is not invalid to care about something just because there are also more important things in the world.

It is not invalid to be saddened by something just because there are worse things happening in the world.

Hopefully, though, this will shed some light on the situation in Zimbabwe. Seems like the country's a mess and lions don't have much to do with it either way.
Yea I love it when people quote the amount of aid these countries are given. The number that is left out is the amount basically stolen. I think for every $1 given like $1.50 is stolen.

http://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2014/jul/15/ai...
That's really the problem...just like feds wanting backdoors that "only they" can access, Onstar thought it was clever and could grant itself powers in software that no one would be able to exploit. Too bad the people who are best at exploiting software aren't likely to work for companies like Onstar (I'm not saying Onstar is disreputable, just probably boring and with a low skill ceiling).
Humans are intelligent creatures and villagers killed are a result of encroaching the animals rightful land. There are no condolescence for those deaths caused by one's own mistake. Get out of the animals territory and fight for your survival with those other humans not with poor animals. There are only 3000 tigers left in the wild if a Bengal tiger kills a villager going inside their territory of sundar ban it's the fault of that human not tiger. Here at least American's are being right to care about 3000 tigers or lions instead of over 7 billion humans. This article shows the sick mentality of the people who thinks it's alright to encroach on other animals turf since it's easier. They are cowards not able to fight for survival with their own fellow human. There are no surrounding context in it. It's just talking about villagers encroaching lions rightful forest and pushing them to extinction.
The elephant in the living room is that the outcry about Cecil the Lion was a form of 'Virtue Signaling.' When people express outrage over something that 'no good person could be for' they do it as a way of forming in-group cohesion.

http://playingwordgames.com/2015/04/signalling-virtue/

The article this thread is associated with shows that different groups can rally around different values. If you were from that man's family in Zimbabwe you clearly would have a different take on it and use different 'virtue signals.'
I think you might mean "lest".
Let me illustrate my problem with a little image of the youtube homepage (top image is with both activated, bottom is with only uMatrix):

http://i.imgur.com/RQ7VM0z.png

Did the "state of sexual intercourse" need to degrade to a certain level in order for condoms to be necessary?

No, because the risks have always been around and thus predated condoms. Still sad and worthy of improving, if possible.
That behavior not nearly as universal as you make it sound.
The same way the Great Firewall went down during Clinton or Obama? Come on, don't be naive. This is the status quo in China and has NOTHING to do with the USA. Stop blaming the failings of other nations on the US.
Or maybe, just maybe, that's the kind of stuff cub scouts are taught, or the kind of thing that they learn from their elders and role models?
You'd be surprised how deep into the stack login goes on these content-controlled A/V apps. I can easily see that a distinct login/billing requirement would lead pretty quickly to totally distinct apps.
I agree and disagree. Licensing is obsolete for a lot of cases. At the same time, smart radio technology isn't there yet. In fact, this article is a great example of that. Both WiFi and LTE have pretty primitive spectrum sharing technology built in. But it doesn't work that well together.

I worked on spectrum sharing technology as part of the DARPA XG project about 10 years ago. It worked great for many things and had some significant limitations. Not to mention, the necessary hardware is still very expensive (high bandwidth analog frontends, extremely sensitive detectors, substantial CPU and memory to run the algorithms). The simplified version of that sort of technology you have in LTE on unlicensed band is probably the best you can do without blowing your budget. And that's not good enough to replace licensing. The challenge is probably a bit but not tremendously simpler than self-driving cars, and the relevant cost, size, and power budgets are a couple of orders of magnitude tighter.

Besides that, the ideal of smart radios interacting in a totally unregulated world is suboptimal. As Bill Lehr points out, smart radios work way better when you impose certain rules on everyone. See also Kevin Werbach's work on the subject: http://werbach.com/research/supercommons.pdf. The unlicensed band for example isn't totally unregulated. You have strict power output limitations. But that's sub-optimal. If you're a WiFi access point in the country, you can probably use a lot more power without causing interference. At the same time, you don't want to create a shouting match scenario, where each node ups their power output to drown out the others. More sophisticated rules help you get more efficient use of your unlicensed band. For example, you can mandate transmission power control (only enough power to close the link) you can mandate the use of FEC, so you don't have dumb devices that can't handle even a tiny bit of interference. Etc.

But you're right about the big picture. Allocating spectrum is not the way forward. We don't "allocate road" to cars--we just define rules they have to follow to play nicely with others on the road. Licensing has its place in enforcing those rules, and doesn't need to imply fixed allocations.
ImagePlay focuses more on the intuitive interface for education and rapid prototyping then to be a complete image processing library. That is exactly why it is splendid for artists and designers.

For artists, where platform independence is less important, I can also point you to http://www.am-cb.net/emotion/ .
VerneMQ says Hi to PostgreSQL
> In return we've started granting them dual citizenship that has been their gate to the EU.

Not the best way to say "thank you" to the European Union -- not only do we have to suffer your Gypsies, we also get your Moldovans :(

(Don't put all the blame on the Soviets, the Ottomans didn't treat you so well, either.)
How many humans do there need to be before I can own one and keep it in a cage (even if regulations require it to be a big cage)? I'm thinking of putting the cage on display and calling it something. Maybe a yoo.

My point being, we seem to value them more in our actual interactions, but when it comes to discussing rights and laws, we still value them less. So my actual question is why do we have this discrepancy. We cry on the death of a lion more than a human, yet putting another lion in a cage for our own amusement is allowed but doing the same with a human is considered extremely wrong.
This is usually achieved using distributed hash tables. Almost certainly the most prominent use of this is magnet links in bittorrent. Freenet has also been doing this for a long time, and ipfs is a relatively new player.

The internals of distributed hash tables are out of scope for a comment thread, but if you happen to know about the structure of the cassandra database, they're related concepts.
I live near Vancouver in BC. We still have large mammal wildlife, grizzly bears, black bears, Cougars. They are killed by park rangers or police if they become comfortable in the human world. You can also pay to go on grizzly hunting trips further north in the province. We have just as far to go as we want Zimbabwe too.

But just because it's the same here, and because there are worse things there, can't we just agree that culling these magnificent animals should be done by officials as the grim task it is, and not by rich for recreation?

Lions that attack villagers do have to be killed sadly, but why not embrace Eco tourism instead of trophy hunting for the ones that are not a threat?
The best way to turn me off of a cause is to see a bunch of people soapboxing on facebook/twitter. Regardless of whether or not I agree with Cecil the lion being hunted down, the internet mob is disgusting.
The right number is the one which nature will support, and sadly, that probably means we'll push out the wildlife entirely. My point was that there is a contradiction between a) our stated desire to protect remaining wildlife, and b) our failure to master our own instincts.

Our strongest instinct is survival, closely followed by resource appropriation. Both are the enemy of wildlife, yet we love wildlife. To remove the contradiction we'd have to dominate our survival instinct and reduce our own population, with all the awful moral and ethical consequences (for humans) that that would entail.
Well, it would revert to the old style "wild west" of the Internet where people who didn't understand the services - mass amounts of lay people - would simply stop using it or stay in sandboxed app/web environments.

Perhaps this is a good thing.
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> That money doesn't go to the Greek people. It's used to preserve the international banking system.

That money goes to the Greek treasury, which is run by the Greek government, the elected, representative administrative body of the Greek people.

These banks and other sovereign states hold debts that Greece issued in exchange for capital it needed to fund its national budget. Greece needs to make payments on its debt, unless Greece wants to ruin its credit and not be able to participate in international economic trade.

The money does go to the Greek people, but their elected government needs to generally be responsible and use the money to pay their national debts.
Objectively, lions and other apex predators do a lot of good in maintaining species population balance in their respective ecosystems. And, objectively, humans are extremely destructive forces, both to every ecosystem into which they've expanded their range and to each other through excessive population density, wars, oppression, loss of frontier, and in many other ways.

This is simply another form of ecosystem imbalance; we kill lions, we use medicine to encourage unfit humans to survive and reproduce and intensive agriculture to produce many times more food than could be grown using natural methods. The effect is the same as with any other predator-prey imbalance: the prey animal populations expand far beyond the ecosystem's carrying capacity, leading to stress, disease, weakness, starvation, and numerous other ills among the prey population. Eventually the prey population is reduced dramatically as nature kills off huge numbers of unfit animals.

You're welcome to call me callous, but I choose not to cry for humans, African or otherwise.
This is false.

There's no reason I should be able to embed the following onto someone else's page:

https://hulbee.com/?query=%3Ca%20href%3D%22%23%22%20obfuscate%3D%22238942932djwdj928%22%20onClick%3D%22alert('pwnd')%3B%22%3Eclick%20here%20for%20results%3C%2Fa%3E&region=browser&uiLanguage=browser
also try https://hulbee.ch/ (they are a swiss company, after all) for entertainment.
I am particularly confused what made you so upset. Is it something that offends you?
Thanks for the praise!

(We actually never thought of building it for the web up to now. The Image Processing community mostly still write in C++ to be able to optimize the code to the bare metal. But it seems that there are solutions emerging (ASM.js and cohorts) for the broken web.)
Well, from that I gather that Dart transpiles to a huge lump of mostly useless code. It'd be nice to see a non-trivial script written in those languages run through uglify or the closure compiler to see how well they can be simplified.
It's another word for spies. I never realised it had a completely different meaning in colloquial American English.
Been taking scouts out for 20 years. First time they ever see a duck. They didn't need teaching.
I've been saying the same thing, but I feel this goes too far into an alarmist view.

When Facebook, Google, and Apple hold all the cards the creators, the developers, will move back out and create the 'old' Internet again. Then the people will follow to the new creations. Eventually we'll hit AOL 3.0 and the cycle will continue.

At least that is my hope.
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The greek people had a choice between two bad options: Default, with all the consequences that entails or continuing loans, with all the austerity measures that come with those

I won't deny that there was pressue by other EU countries, but you make it sound like as if there was no other option for the greek people.
Also we are happy not to pay for all the CPU cycles (-,
True, and someone commented this: http://www.usaid.gov/zimbabwe

There's also PEPFAR which is notable for how many lives it has saved for Africans with HIV.

Still, I'm pretty sure that the average American neither knows nor cares about either program and wouldn't raise a finger if either went away. But they care a shitload about the lion.
This has been a great series: clearly written, solid examples, and obvious utility. Thanks for doing it!
Wishful thinking? Give your own examples...
Looking forward to the referendum...
Yasuní-ITT Initiative
Thugs.
Has there been any sort of serious audit or quality review of the 23andMe service? I'm dimly curious but would at present guess it's mostly a load of nonsense, and who even knows how replicable their results are.
Some of the partnerships, maybe even all of them, are beneficial to the private sector entities and their customers. The U.S. government provides security, guidance, technical competence and resources. But just because they are beneficial in some ways doesn't mean they can't also be harmful in others.

The government can make sure that the private sector information and communication is secure against nation states and industrial espionage while also using the partnership and the access it provides to further its surveillance efforts, even its efforts against its own citizens.
Really

The right amount of money to pay this company for their software is ZERO