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I think we're just having trouble with specificity here: let me elucidate and see if we in fact agree, which I bet we will.

Augur must in some way be designed to get information from outside the blockchain, unless it only allows prop bets about things directly observable inside Ethereum.

Therefore, part of the risk model for someone making a prop bet with Augur is that a trusted and verified third party at some point tells the Augur contract e.g. "Carly Fiorina did not win the Republican Nomination."

All those who transact with Augur have to reason about the trustworthiness and risk model for the parties that inform the Augur contract. This is how I interpret the idea of the "signal source" in the comment above.

To restate what I said above, under no circumstances should Ethereum Alarm be used to trigger the "Carly Fiorina did not win" action for a prop bet. It's too risky; we have to think about and validate the risk profile for someone cheating.

What I'm guessing you're imagining is that it would be fine to instrument our prop bet contract in such a way as to say "If our trusted Augur oracle has deemed this prop bet decided, be available for Ethereum Alarm to trigger the payouts".

That seems fine to me, and given the limitations in how Ethereum works, makes sense as something valuable to the creators of the prop bet markets.

My larger point, poorly stated at the start, and I would say that I at least am beating a dead horse now, is that it would pay good safety dividends for neophyte Ethereum devs to get some suggested rules about using the Alarm.
This is a fun read. Whatever plot, the end then comes only between
(1) Fair (2) Not Fair ending.
I'm curious what other people's perspectives are on the (what appears to me anyway) dominance of Macbooks among developers these days. Is it the convenience of a Unix-y machine with decent drivers, or something else?
Isn't this sort of a cake-and-eat-it-too situation? If you want a slim, lightweight laptop that still performs at a high level, you can't expect the old pop out batteries with the little switch we grew up with on laptops.

While $400 is expensive to replace a battery, it's obviously not as simple as just popping a new one in, which is the compromise one has to make if they want a Macbook Pro. If you want easily swappable batteries, get a different machine.

Also, $400 to get a brand new battery to essentially revive a computer that will probably work great for a few more years is a whole lot cheaper than having to buy a new computer. Just food for thought.
There is a vast difference between not drinking at all, and coming back to work muddle-headed and slow. Especially at a technology company. If you're just moving packages between bins in the mail room, ok maybe. But you're for instance checking in to my code base, forget it.
If your business model is so terrible that you need protectionist laws to survive, maybe you just deserve to go bankrupt.
And a very strong underpinning for your stance is that the origin of cancer, for instance, is yet to be found.

And for the lay person I agree.

The problem is that it isn't black (poison, electric shock) and white (broccoli).

For the sake of the gray argument let's ignore e-coli and smoking. A good example here is consumption of sugar. It's not regulated because it's not poison in the short term.

So saying that it's okay to eat as much as you like because the CDC does not consider it poison is probably not the right way to go.

Now picking between a Paleo or a Vegan diet. I think we can agree...
Sounds like what you really want is more decentralized education networks, i.e. democratic free (as in freedom) schools. There's already several of these slowly emerging across the U.S., and indeed carry the advantages of lecturing on all sorts of niche subjects without a formal bureaucracy and instead based on principles of self-governance with a coop-like structure. They're exceptionally adept at serving local communities and the lecturers or educators invited do not undergo a certification process (as is commonly advocated by laissez-faire and left-wing proponents alike).

My suggestion would be to simply extend the accreditation process to such networks, and have more of them appear grassroots on the level of individual communities and neighborhoods.
And every single student who want to go to the public school in Tribecca have to have an address there to be zoned for it. If you want to talk about selection bias thats your case not a lottery.

Plenty of kids in Harlem goes to Success Academy. Most of the kids in Williamsburg comes from fairly low-income families. That was the very premise of the school and why it's popular.

Watch the documentary The Lottery on Netflix it's quite illuminating.
> Next toss in the problem that Apple thought I didn’t have AppleCare on the machine. This is Apple’s extended warranty. This was despite me showing a receipt that showed that I bought both at the same time. Turns out that if you don’t by the machine from an Apple Store, you have to actually fill out some online form to register your warranty. If you buy at an Apple store, they automatically attach it. Anywhere else, you have to do it yourself.

It should be criminal for companies to do this to their customers. It's one thing to require registration for a default warranty, but they shouldn't be allowed to take money for an extended warranty and then not provide coverage because of a pointless paperwork detail.
Two modems? I wasn't able to get ~1998 era modems to talk to each other without POTS. I don't remember if it was the dialtone, or the ring, but something was preventing the negotiation from even starting.

Now, a "null modem" link without the modem, just via serial or parallel, that's easy.
Discussing this with friends, we pondered the advantages of university degrees being cryptographically signed. If universities were created today, the idea that they would only use paper (or a scan) to certify a degree is laughable.

The process of verifying a degree is complicated - each university has a different system and the costs can be far from non-zero. This discourages employers from doing the checks.

The impact is far more than just "well we hired him/her and it didn't work out" - counterfeit degrees can be terrifying. Allen Ezell, a former FBI agent, notes that there are thousands of faked medical degrees[1]. Even in the case that the employee does a fine job, exposing a faked degree later can destroy their career from that point forward.

Yes, there are potential issues that go along with this idea (certificate revocation in the case of a compromised key, proper implementation of the system, etc) but even a flawed system would be far better than today given so very few degrees are certified by employers.

It should be as simply as attaching a link to your signed degree in your resume.

[1]: http://freakonomics.com/2012/07/30/freakonomics-goes-to-coll...
It should be there now. I think there is an edge case in the indexing logic that skipped your app last time. Marking as will fix...
It took me one day to get up and running and hasn't messed up for me since (3 years on a MBPr that rarely leaves home). Have 3 monitors connected and a ton of other stuff. Never had to fiddle with getting anything working. Apple support has always served me well too.
I've often wondered whether a similar policy should be given where you get the ability to whitelist certain third party domains and prevent any AJAX requests from triggering (and blocking) to domains outside of the website you are browsing.
Cool name for it: "NiNi". I'm more familiar with NEET (Not Employed, Educating, or Training".
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Go is inspired by the C++ subset that Google choose to use (Just look for the Google's C++ style guide to look for things that Google banned). So in many ways, it's chosen to work as C++ in lots of corner cases.

In fact, that enabled automatic tool to convert Go compiler written in Google's C++ to Go.
This is laziness on the Apple Store employee's fault. There's an "agreement administrator" they can reach at Apple Care to get this fixed.
NOx emission from road cars is only a percentage of air NOx > like, 34% [1]

VW market share is about 20% of that [2]

so about 4000 deaths if they polluted their fair share, but since they polluted 20% to 40% more that's about 2000/year additional deaths?

numbers are all over the place however, too many uncertainties and unmeasurable factors.

also my number doesn't come anywhere close to other estimates[3]

[1] http://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/assets/documents/reports/aqeg/nd-...

[2] http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/...

[3] http://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-estimate-the-death-to...
you can ssh or rdp to it and not have to use the keyboard perhaps
Parental involvement is the number one factor for student achievement. Followed by socio-economic stuff, like food, household income, zip code.

Make a ranked list of factors and teacher competency isn't even in the top ten. Which makes all this school reform chatter drive me nuts.
Laptops for devs are a pain, especially since IBM sold Thinkpads to Lenovo. Apple makes reliable and stable hardware, and Linux generally just works on it. That's just not true for almost all of the other manufacturers.
The day may come sooner than you expect though, because one of the "big players" is actively interested in the idea now..

Your concerns are all valid of course, but this is actually considered a better solution from the people working on the solutions too. It takes a lot to admit you are wrong, so imagine how much better this solution must be for them to do that.
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The story is about Apple telling you to replace your battery when it went below 80% of its capacity.

And he say you should ignore it and continue to use it until it really die.

I think he has a point there, but i also hope the day when we don't have to replace battery due to cycle problem.
Just as a side-note (IANAL), in the EU, retailers can't refuse to fix something just because it's past their warranty period. If you can establish that the product has broke under reasonable use then you can argue that the product wasn't fit for purpose when you bought it, and therefore it is still the retailer's responsibility to repair it, replace it or give you a partial refund.

I did this with Apple when my logic board failed just under two years after buying a Macbook Pro 2009 model. I argued that the product had only experienced normal use, Apple's website implied that their laptops should last 5 years (since they talk about upgrading Macbooks for 5 years), and the price of the laptop was a premium price so I should expect it to last for that period of time. It took a bit of arguing, but in the end they did the work for free.
It's such a shame it's still impossible (AFAIK, would love to be corrected) to accurately hook into momentum scrolling on iOS Safari. window.scrollTop only changes once the scroll momentum has finished.

Be pretty simple for Apple to pass this information in requestAnimationFrame but of course they don't.

Don't even talk to me about the mess that is replacing the native scrolling!
Thanks for sharing. I have been trying to learn more about d3, so posts like this are appreciated.
That's one of my own wee foibles - I never refer to a person as a "resource".
I think it's important to note that evolution is really just the change of the availability and distribution of heritable traits in a population over time. To me, it seems fairly obvious that there are slow and fast components that can effect this, and therefore evolution plays out at multiple timescales simultaneously.

Your example is one of pretty fast restriction of traits: The trait of not being able to swim pretty quickly disappeared. However, how long did it take for the ability to swim to be present in the population in the first place? How long will it take for individuals to exist without the ability to swim after the event?
Out of warranty battery service on a Mac ranges from $130-200: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Unite.... I think that's a reasonable price considering Lenovo charges $140 for a 75-watt hour 68+ battery for the T450s: http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/itemdetails/0C52862/460/D91DC49....

And for $130-200, they will replace your top-case (including keyboard and touchpad). I have had it done more than once and it was a same-day turnaround each time (couple of hours).

I wonder if there wasn't something more wrong with his laptop caused by letting a worn-out battery sit in there too long.
I bought mine (15" pro) because I wanted

- A high resolution display
- Decent battery life
- A good keyboard
- A Unix based OS (Though I'm fine with Linux)
- Hardware that feels good to use

The MacBooks are easy to compare to pick the one you want, all look good, and you're pretty well guaranteed that you're going to get what you expect, even if it costs a little more. On the other hand, to pick another manufacturer, you have to dig a lot to even start finding what the options are, much less to refine them. I paid $X more to get a macbook and not go through that :P
Probably the better example would be even though you can buy an Iphone directly from Apple.com the Apple Store still exists.
Thanks for your comment. I do completely agree. The keywords that are entered by the developer for the iOS app are not exposed anywhere (API or otherwise) by Apple (as far as I know), so it is hard for us to index those.

For further phases we are looking into some sort of bayesian categorisation/tagging which can hopefully help with this problem.
I second that. The GCLI is pretty awesome. It is a huge work in progress but still works pretty neat.

Here is the entire documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/GCLI#Commands (links to list of commands, I suggest reading the entire page).

The best part is that it is extensible (Scratchpad FTW!) :)
I agree and that's not really what I'm saying.

I think if you want to generalize (which is very rarely done in science) then the sample size has to be representative of your (general) population.

Now we know that media (i.e. NYT) likes to take the extreme specificity that makes studies significant and apply it broadly. That's really where my contention comes from.
This seems like a very generous definition of the word "emulator"
This seems to be like PGP keysigning web-of-trust, but instead of each participant managing their own copy you pile the whole thing onto the blockchain?

The tricky thing here is key management. What happens if you (or the university) lose a key or it's compromised?
I can eat fries without ketchup just fine. My issue is with the salt. Give me more of that wonderful NaCl.
Nice! Thanks. New to me. Still, considering how "not brilliant" this feature is, I'd rather use Chrome dev tools when cookie editing/deleting is needed.
Yes. For me at least, I don't want to think about the hardware, and for the most part my MacBook is flawless in that category. Paying an extra $x00 for that is a no-brainer.

I use OS X for the same reason, but it's a great Linux box as well.
Apple do provide details on how to calibrate a battery correctly; it should be part of your general maintainance, though I'll bet barely anybody bothers in practice. See https://support.apple.com/kb/PH14087
I'm sure we can agree that anyone who builds a politics on anything as reductive as [old|new] = [bad|good] is not helping much.
Tons of employees take on this risk when joining a startup, and they don't get a huge severance package.

Yes, but tons of employees don't get hired into key roles that can make or break a company.

It's no different than the packages you see tech companies give "rock stars" who are nowhere near the CEO level. If they really want the person, they'll bend over backwards to throw guaranteed compensation at them.
I haven't dug them out in a while, turns out they're from Pioneer not Voyager, woops!
This is amazing, thank you. For those of you who didn't read the Usage guide:
"Use the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl-. by default). It’s worth memorizing this."

btw, I'm not sure why but Tabli isn't searchable on the Chrome store for me.
um..... I am under the impression ALL apple product gets their one year warranty when they first start the machine, which it will register itself.

There should be no form to fill in, and this sounds very un Apple.
Really outstanding article, OP. Well done. Slacked to the rest of our engineering team. We're using Google kubernetes to solve some of the fail-over/self-healing challenges you noted, and some of the other ideas as well (proxies, data store fit-to-function, etc.) but there are a couple of things in here that we either hadn't thought of (Nagle algorithm) or needed to be reminded of (timestamps at every layer, the cost of logging/eventing). Thanks for the good lunchtime read.
The are no haggle dealerships generally and Scion, I believe, is a no haggle brand. There may be others. (Of course that doesn't necessarily mean that trade-ins and financing deals are no haggle.)

As for why it hasn't spread further, I imagine it's partly because a lot of people go into a car dealership expecting to apply their (they think) leet negotiating skills and will walk if told that the price is the price. From the dealer perspective, bargaining is also an opportunity to price discriminate. Given that dealers don't in general make a lot on new car sales, the best answer is probably that it's the system everyone is used to.
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Depends. These days with hardware failure rate becoming higher (maybe it's just an illusion due to the ability of providing feedback on the Internet, but I argue that most of the old machines I know still work today but not so many with the more recent one), the next victim can be your SSD. Apple does get some good SSD from Samsung though. The benefit of a lock-down is controlling variable, and placing Apple at a higher standard (I hope they still do for software). Raising the bar so fewer people are able to customize computer helps controlling quality and also prevent wasting time on figuring out if problem was caused by foreign hardware's fault or not.
new (1 month old) macbook retina, 12 inch, el capitan http://replycam.com/i/Pasted_Image_28_10_15_17_10_1BE12B12.p...

fully charged battery -> 4h max ... (running mostly chrome and keynote) not really the "all day battery life" they promised (http://www.apple.com/macbook/design/)
There's a trade off to having a laptop that seemingly defies the capabilities of the day - they have to glue parts and remove coverings. Apple has been shedding ports & user-serviceable parts in laptops for years to get them thinner and lighter.

Almost every complaint in the article has a counterpoint. Bought AppleCare but didn't register it. Complains about the Genius Bar repair time - try finding somebody to even speak to you in person for free about your PC laptop.
It looks like you have mis-calibrated battery.

Apple did what you ask for in PPC era already. At least I remember, that it worked with PowerBook.
I think "Unix-y machine with decent drivers" is a large part of it. Another is that the battery life is pretty good. Another is that the hardware build quality is reliably good. The main complaint people seem to have is about the aluminium getting hot -- which IMO is far less of a problem than having shoddy hinges, failing keyboard, etc.

It's interesting to see the shift; I know some old-school techies who've moved to Macbooks despite using Linux/BSD laptops for as long as laptops have been practical.
When I have freelanced, turning up with an Apple laptop made the client think I was more experienced than turning up with a Windows or Linux laptop. As a result, I bought a Macbook and then ran Linux on it.

Also, it's easier to run Windows on an Apple machine than it is to run OSX on a non-Apple machine. As someone who has to test websites in OSX, it's just easier having native access to OSX.
"Next toss in the problem that Apple thought I didn’t have AppleCare on the machine"

I had that happen on a machine bought through Apple education. Had to argue we always buy AppleCare. I was rather annoyed.
this is not an emulator, its an interpreter for the zx spectrum basic dialect...
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Neither does charter schools like Success Academy. Instead it's a lottery.

Public shools in NY are zoned so if you want your kid to go to that good school in Tribecca you most probably have to move there.
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Batteries are the reason I stopped buying laptops. Pry my desktop from my cold dead hands.
I actually read the article this time and wish I could delete this comment. It's a good article and it's not a communication problem.
Fortunately no issue with NaCl. It has been demonized but turns out, humans with their salty blood are exquisitely tuned to regulate salt. Most of us have absolutely no problem with any amount of salt.
Heh, who said I thought it was an improvement. Now I'm wondering, is it a constant all through history ?

And I believe the hidden emotions of nations have been diluted into other channels when wars (a large scale PTSD) and then scare crow competition were the primary ones, nowadays it might be running in subtler ways.
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I eat them with mayo. I wonder if that has sugar? Anyway, still crave them, eat as many as I find on my plate (and half of what's on my wife's plate).
You're severely underestimating a lot of people's alcohol tolerance, I think.
>Just don't track users. Don't mine data about your readers.

I'd expand this to: "Don't ask your users to trust you or anyone you have a business relationship with. Be absolutely transparent about what they're giving up for the content you're providing."
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To compare and contrast the two methods of research/purchase: both online and in person feature the same marketing jargon.

Online:
You can perform further self-guided research to discern what these terms actually mean and whether you need those features or not. Furthermore, you can see what other people thought about those features.

In Person:
You can have the salesperson explain those terms to you. Except... do you really trust someone with a direct financial interest in your purchasing a new car to help you figure out whether you need features and whether this car is the right car for you?
From your link:

> At present, outdoor air pollution kills in excess of 3 million people every year, and automobile exhaust is a significant part of the problem.

Are you talking about this bit?

> the harmful nitrogen oxides emitted by Volkswagen’s affected diesel vehicles – which the US Environmental Agency claims were 40 times higher than the legal level – could be responsible for as many as 106 deaths in the US between 2009 and 2015.

That's the US, where diesel is not as common as Europe.

Your link says that:

> From a global perspective, the actual death toll could be much higher.
Over the course of my professional life with laptops, I've used Apple, Alienware, Dell and Lenovo machines. I can safely say that the three-day turnaround in an actual bricks & mortar store offered by Apple is far and away the best service I've ever received (the worst being a two-week wait that didn't resolve the issue!).

Regarding the business-level support, I think it's fair enough for the store to deliver a baseline level of support to consumers for free and a paid-for service for people who need priority and/or loaner machines to cover the repair period. I personally don't think that yelling at managers should result in priority over other people in the queue.

I think the main issue here is that because Apple integrate their batteries like they do, it's not possible to perform what was once a simple repair yourself. I'm personally okay with that, because the outstanding battery life on my MacBook Pro is a boon almost every single day.