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At one time I had plans for a 2,000 volume library in the basement. Basically book cases on rails that you could stack all to one side or the other, each capable of holding roughly 200 books. Books are really awesome.

These days I digitize them (or buy them pre-digitized if I can get them without DRM). That is because a large portion of the books I buy and keep are nominally "reference" works rather than fiction. The reading experience is certainly different but with screens not horribly so and everything fits on a couple of flash drives so no risk of having my library burn up or get buried in an earthquake.
> Both wholesale rates and retail rates have been regulated for a decade or so now, so larger carriers can't charge smaller ones ludicrous rates.

If regulations force the retail rates to zero without forcing the wholesale rates to zero, that's still a problem; either do both or do neither.
EU net neutrality laws fatally undermined by loopholes, critics say
I'm waiting for the $9.99 ereader sold on a tab at the supermarket.
In an econ 101 competitive market you also will not make accounting profits. Think about about it...
Single-player games with dead authentication servers ruled DMCA exempt
Can we turn Watson towards childhood education somehow?
I am amused by "nomadic".
On top of how silly your statement is, if they were to do something like that, the car would only turn right, due to fuel concerns and not having to wait for lights.

Hell, a lot of fleet management software for companies like UPS already tries to minimize the amount of left turns for this very reason.
My old mechanical watches are still worthless.
Creating Heat Maps in .NET
What a waste of money. Such gnashing of teeth over nothing. Now Zenefits should drop ADP.
I'd love to hear about your digitization workflow. I have an enormous backlog of books that would be much easier to read (more portable and available) if they were digitized.
My payroll info was online with ADP in 2000.
There was a comment in the post from Scott Yates I found to be insightful. Apparently he's a customer of both ADP and Zenefits and felt the effects first hand.

https://www.blogmutt.com/blog/adp-and-zenefits-end-their-sil...

I can't add more to the conversation, but I found it added another (more interesting) angle to the situation.
That is complete bullshit. As others have stated, it has been around for a couple of years.
There are charities that support the troops
Doesn't sound too unlike working a job in the real world (minus the homework).

Totally agree with you though.
Agreed, Jetbrains is moving to this model and it is disgusting.
Well, in certain regions of the country such as NYC it effectively does create a monopoly and it may be true of other regions as well.
"They don't have to work there*"

That's not an excuse.

"If they are more qualified for a higher paying position or different job, they should move to it."

There are all kinds of reasons why a person wouldn't move jobs. Pay is not the only reason.

"Apple doesn't owe them anything, and it certainly doesn't need people attempting to tell Apple how to pay their employees. If you don't like it, move to another group, end of story."

Would Apple be anywhere near as successful if they didn't start in the US?
This is what citizens' tax dollars pay for. How nice that public funds can so easily be used to pay people to do nothing.
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Even the automakers don't make super profits. And GM would have gone under during the recession.

http://marketrealist.com/2015/02/intense-competition-leads-l...

Yes ideal competition is just an ideal. But given the right regulatory environment you can very extremely closely mimic that ideal. Maybe even surpass it in terms of encouraging competition.
Seems like the very existence of roaming fees indicates that the European carriers were behaving very much like US carriers.

Why would US carriers double down on roaming fees? I don't see how it's in any way related to this.
The ability to open a pharmacy in an area isn't restricted the way Internet and television providers are. Nothing stops a new store or chain from opening.
Can you explain what you mean by "upfront" vs "on-the-fly"? I'm somehow not getting it.

This looks very nice. It'll need lots of docs with examples to understand how to put together the nicely flexible building blocks you provide.
Slick WebGL/JavaScript tool to compare diameters of planets and moons
Wonder if TPPA and CISA are related somehow.
The WTF Economy
Coffee's positives extend life[1], therefore i disagree its "not good for you" . As well decaf coffee goes through some gnarly processes, i'd rather risk the caffeine and have unadulterated antioxidants et al.

Any sources that sugar is a drug, addictive or something like that?

Obligatory link because you said "I feel great" : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6rE0EakhG8

[1]: http://www.health.harvard.edu/press_releases/drinking-coffee... -- sorry its annoying.
"Much better than using static analysis is to have it in the type system"

I am not sure there is a distinction. Though it is true that some analyses may be run by a broader swath of users.
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I should do that. It would probably surpass whatever contribution I would end up giving them directly byquite a bit. I do want to support the developers though, so maybe I'll do 70% EFF, 25% devs, 5% humble tip (gotta keep the lights on).
I still believe every JS developers should know VanillaJS well. Without those fundamentals, you lack the ability to understand what the framework is doing for you.

React is a nice piece of software, I'm glad to see it introduce FRP to a mainstream audience, and it fixes certain problems around componentization that you will run into if you try to build a big-enough app in vanilla JS. I've been tempted to use it for a couple startup ideas, but then I remember that no app is "big enough" until it has actual users, and getting them is the hard part. So I remain largely agnostic about its usefulness for startups, while believing that it can be quite useful for more established teams.
>or is the market already earning as much as it's going to earn, and the used books have no impact?

My guess is--pretty much. It's hard to find good numbers (i.e. some quick searching turned up some fairly old and incomplete data) but the used book market would seem to be something under 10% of the total. And that probably overstates the impact given that the textbook segment is probably significant and that used books effectively target many people who wouldn't be in the market for the new book anyway.

>All that said, even if getting rid of used books was economically beneficial to those writing the books, there still seems to be no practical way to achieve it.

No there isn't. First sale doctrine.
Will it? My knee-jerk reaction to this was that Elixir already has more adoption than Rubinius, but then I stopped paying attention to Rubinius years ago. Do people use it for real stuff?
http://cloudinary.com is another good service.
Night of the Living Dead failed to ever have copyright protection due to lack of a copyright notice or registration, not from a need for renewal. Renewal became automatic in 1964, and registration or notice became optional in 1989. (And in 1976 it became possible to register for up to 5 years after publication, to allow for fixing mistakes like with Night of the Living Dead.)
Roaming in the US only really went away sometime around 2000. I would say the wireless carriers are competing pretty hard right now (what with all the offers to pay $500 to get people off their old plan and huge LTE build outs).
These interpretations are so silly. You can classify plots into any number of anything based on any merit. Will it be of any value though? Meh.

I understand the natural human desire to figure out how stories work, but this is not how it's done.

On that topic, the best explanation I have ever read is the book "Story" by Robert McKee. I recommend it to everyone who is interested in the subject. It may still be imperfect, but he is very good at explaining things that are actually practically useful for writers and make a lot of sense.
all taxpayers are donors to the unwanted war

"the point of public relations slogans like support our troops is that they don't mean anything... you don't want people to think about the issue, that's the whole point of good propaganda..." - Noam Chomsky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7DdWmWUa_8
+1 for this. I know a ton of small restaurant/bar owners. None of them like Yelp. All of them have been called and offered many versions of the "we can make your bad reviews go away if you just fork over this subscription fee" scam, even if not using those exact words.
I have noticed a proliferation of "I received this product for {free | discount | etc} in exchange for my unbiased review" notices tagging reviews on what seems like every product I look for on Amazon these days. It's a shame the reviews are so gamified now that they are losing their usefulness, at least to those that realize the scam.
You may prefer compensation over exposure. Others may prefer exposure over compensation. Someone rich probably doesn't care about the $500 dollars HP will pay him; he does care about people reading his work.

Economics!
While I agree totally with that sentiment in general, the topic at hand is an apparent regression in performance despite improved hardware.

My perspective is that I will enjoy the wondrous functionality more without glitchy transitions. Get them right or turn them off. You can call it bitching, but fit and finish is a major part of the apple brand that people value.
> Ever since a university gave me a literature degree certifying that I have read Chaucer in the original Middle English, my taste in books has reverted to very specific, lowbrow stuff.

This implies Chaucer isn't lowbrow...

Edit - Anyhow, as for the rest of the article, it's an interesting look into the trade of used books. I'm glad that people are given a chance to give these books a second life and spare the landfill, and there definitely is something comforting about reading from an actual paper book (I definitely prefer them to digital). Maybe it's the sense of permanence, vs. bytes which are all too easy to delete?
The author goes into great detail to explain the various idiotic ways you can use ImageMagick, which, at it's core, has a command line interface.

If you need to do any appreciable amount of work, don't waste your time with any of these libraries. Except for a few, they provide nothing over what running from the shell would give you (i.e. non-native). Just generate a list of commands, newline terminate them, add a chmod +x to the file and run it and be done with it. Or spawn a process and run it. It's much more reliable and will save you a lot of headaches and frustration.
Time and time again we find "journalists" (The Times has been in the pocket of the intel world for decades), academics and politicians who are cleverly seduced by getting a glimpse of the inside of the intelligence, special forces, police world etc. Too often the people charged with overseeing them allow themselves to feel intimidated by people in uniform or in intelligence. So called "Defence," "Crime" journalists etc get lazy and allow themselves to be feed like a child from the press offices of various organisations. "Sources say," "insiders say" basically becomes a form of grovelling verbatim printing of press releases and spin.

I really wish they would open their eyes and ask difficult questions (it's generally better for their careers in the long run). Or better yet, if they are afraid ask the public and experts for specific questions to put to them. When I worked in the UK Parliament, I always found it interesting that the best questions, comments and observations about these worlds came from the people who were formerly in them - e.g MPs/Lords who used to be intel or military. They were generally much more inclined to not swallow the crap pushed out by the agencies and instead ask the difficult questions - as it was a lot harder for the wool to be pulled over their eyes. Esp on issues like 90 day detention, mandatory ID cards, government surveillance powers.
What is the point of your comment exactly?
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> At some point that might lead to an actual spec...

This has been tried before. By Rubinus, in fact.
Airline prices aren't exactly going through the roof.

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/airfares/programs/economics_and_...

To add to this point. My wife just got a ticket from Atlanta to Indianapolis for 49 dollars round trip. . . You can't drive from Atlanta to Indy for 49 dollars.
The last few times I had to buy a product, I just googled stuff like "site:reddit.com usb charger" and read the comments and suggestions of actual people; much better than the fake stuff from amazon.

I wonder how much it will take until someone starts a botnet discussing products on reddit..
Yes CVS sucks. I can't put my finger on why exactly. It just feels cheap. Like the paper bags they give me (which I have to pay for directly in California) are so thin as to be nearly unusable. They're like barely thicker than tissue paper making them not reusable.

I don't know if that's the only issue that set me off on CVS.

Walgreen annoyed me because they started replacing everything with their "NICE" brand which is about the lowest quality possible. That displaced brands of various things that were higher quality. I can't remember what I bought. Might have been cotton swabs (ie q-tips) because they stopped carrying q-tips and they were basically unusable. Plastic sticks that broke. Sticks that poked through the cotton.

I can only hope enough people care to either vote with their wallet or complain (I sent them a letter in the hopes to have some influence).
That's what I hate about school. It doesn't teach or encourage autodidactism. Instead, it rewards those who do what they're told and follow the status quo. You see it a lot in straight A students where they're basically just really good at jumping through hoops given to them and have no creativity. Being able to answer problem sets from a textbook is great, but independent and original thought often requires you to step outside the box and question things.
I never really understand the view that evolution can only happen over long timescales. From a theoretical perspective, natural selection can obviously have a huge effect over a single generation.

Imagine that the ability to swim was an extremely heritable, genetically determined trait. A flood on an island could select for the swimming gene in about 30 minutes.
I feel having people near this statue pause to reflect on the nature of art and beauty is some of the best use of my tax dollars in that area.
Aristotle said that the basis of interesting writing is conflict, and writers have been copying him ever since.

A plausible character with believable internal conflict is more interesting than a plausible character with external conflict - although ideally you want plenty of both.

Audiences like a certain amount of ambiguity, especially if they sympathise with the challenges a character faces.

But the old formulaic plot books are largely nonsense. I have a version from the late 19th century which predates silent movies by a few decades, but still claims to reduce drama to the same tropes.

It doesn't work - except maybe as light entertainment. The book is full of references to plays that have been almost entirely forgotten now.

Really good writing - Shakespeare, ancient Greek comedy/tragedy, a few more modern examples - works on a much deeper level than a trivial plot taxonomy.
Yes, that's entirely the problem: Seeking an optimal solution when a less-than-optimal solution gives us "good enough" workability while avoiding all of the heavy costs and obsolescence risk of a centralized system.

You're pushing for a technical solution that ignores political problems. The political effort to even get this to the planning stage is already astronomical. Then you get into the endless committees, finding a mayor with the cojones to confront his constituency with the up-front costs, somehow keeping everything compatible between each and every city you do this in (because each will be done by different contractors, each with their own ballooning expenses - 10x cost is not uncommon), and hoping to god the other cities don't get cold feet after watching the vanguard get eaten alive come election day for blowing through $5 billion or more (did I mention ballooning costs?). And then of course there's coordinating with the car companies...

The fact is, autonomous cars as they're being done now will win by default, because besides the already huge political momentum they have, they also involve little-to-no cost for municipalities. Private companies pick up the R&D tab.
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Ask HN: Are You a Chief Security Officer?
I have a possible SAAS idea and I would love to ask a few questions to a handful of Chief Security Officers or people who have similar roles.

I'm not sure what I could do to make it worth your while, but it would really mean a ton to me and it would only take a few minutes of your time. I could paypal you $10 if you want, I guess.

Please post here or PM me if you are willing to chat! :)

I apologize but I don't want to post the idea publicly at this point in time. I would obviously be more than happy to post it publicly once we have a product ready to sell.

Thanks HN!
This is definitely happening in the collector car world, where the simpler, lighter, manual gas-powered examples are being bid up in price dramatically as porky, computerized, electric cars are introduced.
I finally understood your point and where I was unclear, mostly after reading the other comment about the for loop.

You're right that C requires UB to optimize things like (x2)/2. My argument is that Go and Rust's secret sauce is you wouldn't have to write things spiritually similar to that in the first place. (x2)/2 is a bad example, since nobody would write that on purpose, but loops are a great one. C's only interface to elements of an array is a pointer. So C has to say that accessing out-of-bounds pointers are UB, as is even having a pointer that's neither in-bounds or right at the end, because it simply has no way to distinguish "pointer" from "pointer that is in-bounds for this array". The type of an array iterator in Rust (and I think also Go) carries knowledge of what array it's iterating over, and how far it can iterate; since it's part of the type system, the compiler has access to that knowledge. So you can just say `for element in array`, and the compiler knows that you're only accessing in-bounds pointers, and generate the same code C would, without needing to define a concept of UB.

Of course if you do generate pointers in unsafe code, you are subject to UB, same as in C. Rust and Go simply give you a language where most of the time, you don't need to reach for constructs that require UB to be performant.

(There is, however, an actual bit of secret sauce, at least in Rust but I suspect Go has an analogue: Rust's ownership system allows it to do far stronger alias analysis than even C's -fstrict-aliasing, without the risk of false positives -- you cannot construct overlapping mutable pointers in safe code.)
I would be ok with a feature that looked at any history I had chosen to enable and informed me and only me that it believed I may be at risk for some mental illness, and suggested how to get help.

For example if you search for https://www.google.com/search?q=suicide (or related queries) it informs you of a suicide hotline.
You've got a typo:

>Free Group Calls With Upto 100 People With The Tap Of A Single Button!

"Upto" should be two words
The government will often require divestitures in specific areas as a condition to approving a deal, so that there are not local monopolies.
As in "We tasked one of our interns, the one with a Russian literature degree, to anonymize the DB ... two hours before we let the clients access it".
Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced
To add, IMO there is a gap in the market for a dumb phone that can also act as a 4G router. I can then pair it with my tablet/iPod touch when I need to go online.

But most times, I want to use the phone just to make/receive calls/text & have good battery. No need for a big display or other stuff.
Flask for python. It's so bare-bones that it's great for API's even though it's mostly used for full sites/apps.
> This contract creates a market which allows contracts to hire people to call them at the requested time.

Does that mean that if 'market conditions' deteriorate or make it unfavorable to 'take the job' as it were, that the reliability of this system would take a hit?
I have not hired capable "homework programmers" for this very reason. If you do not code outside of your CS degree you are toast in this industry.
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I thought it was kinda funny when telstra had "NextG" in their marketing, because now it's essentially "PreviousG"
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Just in a generic sense, the tool has something to do with it. How clear is its purpose? How unambiguous is its design? The tool is part of the system of its own use.
I'm not sure how any of this will help, if there's a chance they can link the phone/router IMSEI[1] to your person in some way.

It's reasonable to assume, that any network provider will, for billing, internal use (eg: document/fight network abuse) and/or as mandated by data tracking laws store IMEI, MAC and IMSEI numbers, along with connection meta-data (tower, exact location if available, timestamp etc).

I don't think it's possible to get meaningful privacy from an attacker that either a) is your service provider, or b) works with your service provider (eg: NSA, buyers of data for "advertising")?

You could use TOR - but you'd have to use it for everything -- which pretty much rules out real-time voice/video chat AFAIK. Perhaps a VPN that crosses jurisdictions and corporate ownership would help against "commercial" attackers (eg: the ad networks). I'm doubtful how effective such a "single-hop" defense would be against state actors.

Not that I necessarily think all threat models should try to circumvent illegal government wieretaps - just pointing out that if that is wanted in addition to just un-linking meta-data on data/communication from meta-data/data on shopping/banking -- the needed security measures are likely to be inconvenient.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Mobile_Station_E...
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That's very true, but in the alternative scenario, you would have citizens who never buy new cars driving in semi autonomous cities.

No matter how hard it may be to get past the political problems, this solution would guarantee more lives would be saved. Whether that's worth it requires weighing against the alternative: lives lost and more years for the lower bar to raise. There's an $800 Billion+ in savings available if cities implement, and they don't even have to be the ones to develop the technology. Politics also change quickly when there's money involved from the players who can implement such a system, like google or apple.

Also a point on obsolescence risk: are you confident enough to buy an autonomous car now? When better autonomous reconstruction systems come out, you would be obsolete unless you buy a new car. A city can upgrade daily.