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> Do you find it hard to believe a car manufacturer would risk losing far more than a mere lawsuit by cheating emissions tests …

That's an unrelated discussion. We're talking about whether to add an additional benefit to work which they already need to do and which is both obviously a simple addition and a benefit to both the manufacturer and purchaser, not to mention the their insurance company.

> Nothing about this scenario requires autonomous cars anyway. They could already be packed with cameras, and streaming panoramic video to the police, yet they aren't.

They haven't been in the past because those would be new, otherwise unnecessary equipment. You're forgetting that any self-driving car must have the cameras built in to work at all, which means that instead of adding a bunch of cameras you're only adding enough storage to retain footage for some time period.

Similarly, the cost of adding a cellular connection might deter some people if this was the only use but since that's rapidly becoming a common feature you're really only adding the cost of using some extra bandwidth when someone hits a panic button and it's unlikely that anyone is going to begrudge the $0.02 that'll cost in any scenario where this would be relevant.
I'm not sure they could have resisted if they wanted to and if they had been force they would do what they can to manage the public perception, but I can't imagine the anxiety that must exist in Apple if they are being forced to provide such functionality considering all it would take is a single proof to come out for Apple's whole China market to collapse into a pile of rubble.
I can confirm this has happened to me multiple times. Interestingly enough, sometimes I've seen it surge to 2.5x, so I tapped notify me... checked again after a minute, still 2.5x, but after another minute it dropped to 2.0x.
One of the big challenges is that Twitter is largely geared towards people looking to engage on topical issues in a public forum. If you're an expert in a particular area and consistently engage with other experts in a public forum where the occasional random user chimes in then Twitter has a value proposition for you. I mean it's right there in the platform... people "follow" you, they're not your "friend" or "linked" to you. You need to say something that people are interested in following.

The problem is that most Internet users don't fit into this bucket. They have things to discuss and share with a small group of family/friends but beyond that don't have much to say, to the broader world. These are the users that flock to Facebook, Snapchat, et al.

Until Twitter finds a way to engage the everyday average Internet user then they'll struggle to grow or create a meaningful value proposition (the $$$ is in advertising to the masses, not the engaged thought leaders).

The data on users indicates Twitter has likely peaked in terms of attracting these engaged users (data also indicates a lot of these "active accounts" are fake / bots / spam). Until that changes Twitter will be in trouble as it has no viable long term business model.
While I'd love to have google fiber... it sure seems to be taking a long time to roll out. Will it ever be in small rural towns? Will it beat satellites there?

There's a big jump between dialup and low end broadband. I can get by on low end broadband (which I think in rural areas may end up being LTS) but I can't get by on dialup.
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Like Watsi? What are you working on?
Not so much a thought experiment - but trying to grasp the Library of Babel.

Somewhere on the pages is your entire life story, already written. Waiting to be discovered. The story of your birth, every variation of death. Every success. Every failure.

Just a meaningless collection of words waiting to be discovered, only given meaning once found.

https://libraryofbabel.info/

Even my post already existed: https://libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi?vdayie_ifpawv163
That is only equivalent if Monty (as intended but usually not stated clearly) always picks a door without a car using knowledge of where the car is. If, instead, Monty picks randomly from the other two doors and just happens not to have revealed the car this time, odds are the same whether you stick with your door or switch.

Even in the case where your restatement is mathematically equivalent, it's obviously not at all equivalent as a puzzle because what is being requested by the puzzle is seeing that the original situation is mathematically equivalent to that one.
So stop doing it. That name turns up much more often in English language media that it does here in Norway. Here he was to a quite large extent treated as a common criminal, a murderer.
Yep, this particular pricing structure is all about price discrimination.
What are some free and credible sources?

I'm an Economist subscriber so I do pay for news.
What do you mean? I can turn javascript off in my browser which effectively takes control of the front end by preventing communication with the server. Native is a different story but saying "there's no such thing as a front-end that you control," is misleading.
The TPP is likely to be a sprawling, enormous mess, 90 days is not nearly enough time to digest it or have a proper debate in congress about it.
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Real quick, as I'm clearly not an OpenBSD user. Does the "default install" include the apps a deployment will almost certainly use? That is to make the claim meaningful. And have there been any software defects in OpenBSD or its critical apps over past "8 or so years" that could've been exploited by attackers?

That would be a start. My guess was that OpenBSD team didn't track (and update web site claim for) the number of defects that might have been exploitable: just fixed all defects as they found them instead. If so, that makes for great QA practice but inaccurate claim on web site. Otherwise, there's a tracker somewhere listing all bugs found in privileged software, their exploitability, and time it took to fix them. That tracker will have a huge list of issues with only 2 marked as security issues.
I don't see what concurrency has to do with any of this.

Concurrent Pascal was an interesting project for its time, heavily dated by now. The greatest victory for concurrency was having architectures with thread-level parallelism instead of the dominant instruction-level parallelism, and one specifically optimized for CSP in the occam language. This was, of course, the transputer. So much for that.

Erlang/OTP leads in the modern era.

But I don't see any relation to our current topic of discussion.
You don't have to do anything. Relax. Any open source project leverages other open source projects. How is this "stack" any different?
I don't think Uber is doing this to add to their bottom line - it isn't really enough money to make a difference to them. Instead, they do surge pricing because it's a better experience than telling people there are no cabs available. It prevents their best customers from ever needing an alternative to Uber.
Because the data contained inside immutablejs structures is opaque. It uses "structural sharing" which probably means internally it's more like a fragmented hard drive than a linear sequence of data.
For security updates, you could use the openup utility from M:Tier: https://stable.mtier.org/
Hi, one of Blendle's Android devs here (Dutchie as well). The first one used to be the official app, but since it posed some problems we deprecated it. It'll be removed from the store soon. The second one is atm only meant for Germany, but that might change very soon... :-)
Let's not spend any more time arguing about the style and cut of the emperor's new clothes. Terrorism constitutes a tiny fraction of the threat to life, health, and property that numerous widely-accepted institutions in Western societies constitute. For some reason, though, it's the only topic that folks in DC find fit for discussion. Could there be a reason for that?
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Thank you. We've changed the URL to that from http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/20....

Edit: see also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10332900.
Because:

(1) People ratings are far too subjective to be considered "knowledge". We have none of the context needed to evaluate the validity of these ratings—the kind of thing you can suss out when gossiping in person.

(2) People can and do change, but these ratings would persist. It makes fresh starts and self-improvement that much more difficult.

(3) People can and do forgive, but these ratings would serve as permanent reminders of bad deeds.

(4) What problem do these ratings solve? I see many problems created, but with no real benefit.
Exactly. You're safe so long as you don't run 3rd party apps. Past that, let's hope the exploit mitigation technology works. Least they have that tech, though.
That's true, but these groups offer a lot more than your average highschool club. It's a social structure and a livelihood.
According to https://www.blocked.org.uk/ there's an SSL timeout with Sky and Virgin Media.

I'm not sure how reliable that tool is, testing with ThePirateBay.gd gives "dnserror" for all the ISPs except one, but only adds a blocked since time for one (BT).
A big issue it seems that these immutable libraries and Redux seem to neglect is JavaScript's OO nature. I'm talking about instantiated function declarations, something that's more readily available with ES6's class notation. Most of these libraries (sans Redux) take advantage of this aspect of JavaScript, yet leave you to figure things out if you do the same. This blog post kind of touches upon this regarding Map and Set.

Now, functional programming is nice and lends itself some useful benefits, but unfortunately JavaScript just wasn't built in the value-oriented sense. And given the native features of JavaScript, such as the ability to create "classes," I'd like to take advantage of these features and reap all their benefits, such as encapsulation (which of course, some in the FP community don't seem to care about[1]).

I'd like to see a middle ground somewhere between having e.g. immutable objects yet respecting the way JavaScript is built. Until then, I'd have to ditch common JavaScript idioms, which are only being advanced in ES6. Not something I'm very keen on doing.

1. http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/216358
The economics of software correctness
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Terrorism is an American (English word) your barely hear the word in Spanish.
Although it probably won't.

This article doesn't link to the (paywalled) study, which is here: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0890856715...

It's really frustrating that people casually toss out exercise as a treatment for depression thing, especially when they do so as a way to prevent suicide.

Exercise is important, and we need to help more people exercise, but it's probably only weakly preventative of suicide and it's probably only weakly a treatment for depression.

Here we have people being bullied so hard that they want to die by suicide, and one solution is "go for a jog 4 times a week". That's barely acceptable if it works, but since we know it probably doesn't it's grotesque to focus on what the victim isn't doing rather than focus on how society is failing to protect the victims from harm.
The anti-competitive argument I like. You can take this to a logical legal argument with established roots in precedent and say that the "monopoly" in this case is detrimental to public welfare and spirited business competition.
Google can do that, too, through the "Play Services" framework, in case others weren't aware of it. We know this because Google has already used these "powers" to uninstall apps/malware from phones (non-Nexus).
One of my college professors wrote a really interesting book on exactly this topic:

http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Religious-Violent-Economics-Te...

Highly recommend it.
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Mitsumi still manufactures a large portion of Nintendo's product.
Eh, the math works out the same whatever is done in the case of him revealing a car. Reasonable options seem to include:

1) contestant wins (notion being the contestant retains the option to switch to any door, and now knows where the car is)

2) contestant loses (notion being Monty picked right and "won" in place of the contestant)

3) Round is aborted, things are repositioned, and the round is replayed (doesn't require any drugging, aborted rounds may or may not be aired but player learned nothing relevant to future rounds).
Mutazila thought was reintroduced into Sunni Islam by later schools of thoughts. It is most prominently included in the Hanafi madhab which predated the literalist movement.
she seems different: honest but tired.

We must be able to defend Linus without attacking anyone criticizing the Linux kernel maintainers. Not everything is perfect on that list.
Very nice client.

The only issues I'm seeing are around HTML email rendering: https://www.evernote.com/l/AAI3x17h1EJCnZcbJV19q5AUB6G_vgOzI...
Clojure's motivating reasons for immutability are around correctness, not speed. In typical Clojure, immutable data structures are somewhat slower (25%-100%) than standard java, but make up for it because they can be trivially parallelized, don't require locking, and are significantly easier to reason about.

From that perspective, immutable structures should be the default, with mutable structures being reserved for when they're truly needed.
Because it's a mail client, and it needs a server that will talk to my SMTP server and the mail client. Which means that I either need to give all my most private and important data (my emails) to this service, or I need to set it up locally. For a mail client.
If only they'd make a split layout ergo design. One of the only mechanical ergos out there (available today) is the Matias Ergo Pro. And it's got a lot of dumb design decisions. Like dedicated copy/cut etc keys that just send Ctrl-C Ctrl-X etc. Bizarre. Strange placement of Ctrl that still, after months of usage, cause me typos. And a remote Esc that hurts more than normal to reach. Among other silly key placements. All of these for no good reason. A 20 minute revision during design and it'd be a perfect keyboard.

I'd get a Kinesis but they're so huge and 90s looking.

Most promising looking device is the Keyboardio, but that'll be a year or so.
This is an interesting point - my first thought was isn't this solved with paragraphs, that can obviously be variable lengths? But what about favourites and retweets - I disagree with you that it's easier to read parts as separate tweets than paragraphs would be, but the UI to retweet or favourite a paragraph seems awkward and I think those functions on parts of a tweet storm are important.

That also raises the question of whether a paragraph should be restricted to 140 characters (assuming that's the see more limit) so it doesn't create a see more tweet itself when retweeted, not sure whether that matters.
> The new Clean Diesel's aren't very Biodiesel friendly due to ..

The only biodiesel restriction I'm aware of in larger (e.g., 3/4 to 1 ton pickups) is related to the amount of water bound to glycerin in the fuel. Common-rail injection systems are very finicky and any above-design-limit water can cause corrosion which damages the injectors or fuel pump.

My truck is certified for only 5% (B5), newer ones are B20 certified. The only difference is the fuel system. I've not heard of any emissions impacts.
AFAIK, you are. India has contributed millions in foreign aid to rebuild Afghanistan and contributes a significant number of troops to UN peacekeeping forces.
I assume they are the scapegoats.
Yep, I already unsubscribed.
Some sexist tropes in the Martian
Realtime news and straight-from-the-horse's mouth access to celebrities is fundamentally a good opportunity that no one does better than Twitter right now. The question is whether they'll have the decisiveness to make it a better experience for a broader audience without alienating the core that generates the best content.
I should rephrase my last sentence as "China would have contributed much more to science if the Cultural Revolution did not happen."

Referring to the historical context, Mao just introduced the Revolution at that time. As a consequence research institutions and universities were shut down, and scientists and intellectuals were sent to villages to be "re-educated" by farmers. Later Ho Chi Minh asked Mao for medical help for malaria, and Mao assembled 600 scientists who were still available, including Ms Tu, to start a military research project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_523

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_science_and_technol...

If the Cultural Revolution did not happen, most of the scientists in China at that time would be doing their own research, instead of being banished, humiliated and tortured. And Ms Tu would have more colleagues and a better scientific environment to work with.
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I am hoping that Rust will make in-roads into the BSD world, since it interoperates well with C and is much safer by default while not imposing overhead like a managed language+runtime would. It also has very liberal licensing (GCC being GPL has always been a tough pill for some to swallow, FreeBSD at least has already switched to Clang) https://github.com/rust-lang/rust#license

The OpenBSD folks have done great work through auditing and writing safer code in C, and I agree that using a language that ameliorated at least some of the common mistakes programmers make would be a net positive.

Related - this blog from @tedunangst is worth reading, regarding the limit to which even a language like Rust can protect against specific exploits (the OpenSSL "Heartbleed" vulnerability, in this case) http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/heartbleed-in-rust
That's doubtful, 'effective power' (incidentally that bit of the text was completely arbitrary) was (seemingly) a hard crash caused by an error in the text shortening for the banner notification pop down. Tom Scott has a good speculation video on what might be going on that seems pretty sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJLMSllzoLA
Not true. Quote from the post: "I did not want to work professionally with people who were allowed to get away with subtle sexist or homophobic jokes."

My 2p:

I think sexism, racism, etc. is wrong. I think we all need to be more considerate.

But, I also think Linus should be allowed to be a total ass if he wants, and so can the others, if they really have the best interests of Linux in mind. You could argue that if they are being asses, then they don't, but some communities just have people with a rough way of dealing with others, e.g. drill sergeants in the Marines.

That said, you can allow people to be asses and still not allow sexist, racist, etc. remarks.
Congrats, this is great! What's the Nylas story for mobile?
Server apps, including mail, implement forms of concurrency to handle incoming requests. Smart ones use either multi-threading or event model for performance. OpenBSD and others have all kinds of such apps they built on C. There have been numerous concurrency-related errors in major server apps due to this. So, just like with C itself, ignoring the safe, concurrency approaches from languages like Concurrent Pascal (or SCOOP/Eiffel today) is a failure to learn from the past with a direct, proven cost.

Think all the race conditions, deadlocks, etc that have hit server apps would've happened on Solo, Ada tasking, or SCOOP? Probably fewer to none. So, it's still relevant and Ada/Eiffel are actually building on it. Especially SCOOP R&D community.
Weird, I wonder why this was commented out? Was it something the author preferred to leave out and didn't do it properly? Or was it just an editorial mistake?
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no, the claim is the default install. anything you install afterwards is...not the default.
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> But IMAP is such a pain

Any chance you could tell us what the pain is that you're experiencing with IMAP? I don't think I've ever had any problems with it, aside from offline (but for that there's POP) so I'm interested to hear your experience.
> Even though I don't always agree with their editorial slant

You're better off disagreeing with something well written than agreeing with crap.
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> otherwise anybody (with enough time and research) could construct one of these messages to gain control of the phone.

Which is exactly one of the strongest arguments against building backdoors into products, eventually you won't be the only one with the keys.
What would you want this feature for?
"disconnected from the Internet completely".

Perhaps a blog post on exactly how that is done. And after what particular time would that happen and is that something that needs to be coordinated or??
Rap music.
I was replying to a comment that specifically mentioned crawlers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10325666
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This is in India, it shakes me out of indifference.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/05/asia/india-jobs-crisis/

I continue to believe the equation would be:

full employment for all = scalable Internet skills training + paid virtual currency apprenticeship (with non-profits)
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Starting in 2009 mitigates my criticism by, oh, let's say, 40%. Which I mean as an acknowledgment of your correction, even as I'm not generally backing down from the core point.

I want to respect OpenBSD. To a great extent, I do. And there are reasons to prefer tested C codebases to untested code bases in new languages, sure. But to the extent I can't give my full, unadulterated respect to OpenBSD, it is because I don't see that they consider everything being in C a problem to be solved.

I mean, I get engineering considerations and that we can't rewrite everything at the drop of a hat and performance matters, etc. But it is my opinion that any engineer that cares about security really ought to see "written in C" as starting out with a huge entry on the debit side, and take appropriate actions. And every year that goes by that's more true.