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I agree: people in power, from a large number of factions inside the group of people in power, want this level of control. The question is "Why"?
Or just buy one of these: http://www.usa.philips.com/c-p/HF3332_60/golite-blu-energy-l...

They are quite compact, and do what they are supposed to do. You can even use them in the office while you are working.
Vehicles are though, by way of DOT standards, various state regulations and licences... Wanna drive on the highway? That better be a vehicle perscribed for such activity.
Aren't those SSIDs all on the same WiFi channel? Having split guest/internal networks broadcast from the same radio on the same channel really doesn't hurt things enough to care about. And it's almost certainly using separate DOCSIS channels or not counting toward the traffic shaping limit on your traffic, and it's prioritized lower than your business-class traffic when it's further upstream in TWC's network, so you don't need to worry about it affecting your WAN connection performance either.
You are vastly more likely to die in a car crash than from a non-abused prescription drug. Furthermore, small cars are significantly more deadly than large ones and trucks. Car companies obscure this by comparing cars to ones "in their class", thereby misleading the consumer into thinking that their high-scoring small car is about as safe as it gets.

(I am putting aside opiate abuse, since illegal use is a different thing and opiates aren't advertised anyway. But this wouldn't much hurt my argument, since the deaths from cars are very comparable to opiate abuse, so one still can't argue that drugs are more dangerous than cars.)
tl;dr: Author's mom applied for a merciful visa for supposed medical treatment. She endangered all future applicants that actually need help by fraudulently using that visa to immigrate illegally.

She subjected author to illegal status for years and years as he grew up. They were not eligible for refugee status because they were citizens of the DR, a perfectly nice country a few hours away on a plane.

Author was privileged by his nationality with scholarships and racial preferences for admission to exclusive high schools and one of the world's best universities. He took spots that a US citizen was denied and that an American without that racial privilege would have had to achieve much higher grades and test scores to compete for. Author used that status to study a prestigious subject with very, very few practical job prospects. Author eventually hoped to take one of a very few professional spots available to Americans in that field funded by taxes American citizens pay and apparently found one.

Following the rules is for suckers.

People who have no respect for your country or its laws deserve its highest privileges more than the citizens that have to work to pay for them.
I came here to say the same, so instead I'll add this: "I'd open an umbrella up me ARRIS for her" - Super Hans
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They are welcome to sell their shares anytime. Being a shareholder does not mean that a shareholder runs the business. A shareholder can sell their shares or vote for a different board. That is it.
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The unfortunate truth is that a huge number of doctors are downright incompetent, and the healthcare system only allows you to see a limited selection of doctors. So until the system fixes itself, the onus is still on the patient to try to treat themselves.
Jeff Bezos' quote "Your margin is my opportunity" might come back to haunt their AWS Business.
«By the way, neither identity protection nor reuse across browsers does not strictly require IdP.»

Technically correct, but it makes it a lot easier at a practical level, especially for non-technical users. Users have trouble remembering passwords, key management is seemingly beyond most users. So too are systems like the "web of trust" model of key identification much to complicated (and onerous and time consuming) for the average user.

IdP is the best bet we have of at least somewhat decentralizing trust decisions in a way that is user friendly.

«With Persona you trust a very specific third party - some email provider. You trust it to behave and you trust it to serve and stay so for as long as you need your identity.»

This is not a requirement of Persona. You can use any email you like with Persona and it's not a platform requirement that user accounts in a system be one-to-one with email addresses. It's certainly possible a site using Persona can very easily tie multiple identifying emails to your account. It may not be likely that a lot of sites would do it, as one email, one person is a rather generally accepted identity world at the moment, but it's also not far fetched that the replacement for the "Forgot Password" button in a hypothetical universe where Persona is the only option is a "Associate another email address to your account" button.

«However, if - for example - you have an identity asserted by a keypair»

But what good is this assertion? How do I as an application provider trust your assertion? At bare face value an "identity asserted by a keypair" is a fingerprint, a boring hexadecimal hash. I don't know very many people that associate themselves as "fe:02:aa:45:c3:d0". You could self-assert an email address or a name/pseudonym, fine, but as an application provider I can't make any assumptions about the contents of that email address or name/pseudonym and the only trust I have in it is "your word". You could use web of trust assertions, but again we get into the bootstrapping issue of "web of trust is hard" and "users don't want to have to do it".

The same goes for all of your hypothetical key management: yes, you can manage a key on your own cognizance in any number of ways. Ultimately, most people just don't want to.

On the flipside, Persona too has more options in this space for IdP management and key management than maybe you've given it thought: There's a Mailinator-based IdP that will sign any key request from Persona for pseudonymous identities (while even maintaining the application provider assertion that the email is valid and accessible to that user). There's the ability to do IdP delegation from a domain, using a file on my website to choose which IdP I trust right now, which can easily change over time. (Static HTTP sites on custom domains are cheap as free, including Github Pages as one option.) There are more ideas out there and you can reasonably approximate whatever half-finished idea you have for your own key management system with Persona given a little bit of time and elbow grease.
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Not being offensive here -- but how about imagine if the author is a terrorist, and this terrorist is studying in an Ivy and pretending to be a student.
Hm...my response was the exact opposite of that. Maybe I need to rephrase?

In bullet points:

1. Yesterday someone presented a case where they needed to interact with a DOM API that used local state.

2. I didn't think it would be worth the trouble to wrap that API.

3. That is not an endorsement of local component state.

Hopefully that clears things up. :)
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It is who you know.
> Being exposed to pictures/videos/comments of exes getting married is not an issue that many people had to deal with 20 years ago.

Then be an adult FFS. Either stay friended to the person and realize that they've got their own life to live, or unfriend the person and say "Hey, I'm really sorry, I can't handle this emotionally. I wish you the best." Neither option makes you a lesser person.
Ask HN: Called Facebook customer support to retrieve banned page, but
The number I dialed is 855-770-7790. The voice is obviously Indian. I know my page was banned for promoting so-called "hate speech," lost it along with 88k followers I painstakingly collected.

Tech support on the phone said that they can bring it back, but I have to pay a $45 fee via PayPal to their technician for the job.

Is this a conjob?
We do have paid support tiers (https://cloud.google.com/support/) with explicit time-to-response targets. Which were you using?

Disclaimer: I work on GCE.
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I've seen Evan's talk. Evan confuses the presentation of features with the value of those features. (I suppose one could solve the difficulties people have in learning Mathematics by throwing out everything after Algebra I; another solution, however, might be to do a better job teaching the more difficult stuff.)

Just because you shouldn't expose new programmers to advanced concepts on the first day doesn't mean they shouldn't be a part of the language. Similarly, the fact (<~) might confuse someone new to Elm isn't a reason for removing it from the language.

I'm sympathetic to the concern that some code is too "clever" or dense; but Elm swings the pendulum too far.

(Btw, type-classes are not incidental complexity:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6COvD8oynmI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIZxTQP1ifo
)
Large corporations innovate, but they mostly pick obvious ideas e.g. better batteries. They are design to execute known business models.

Startups pick orthogonal ideas of out necessity. Large corporations are not efficient and it's raison d'etre for startup existence.
Forget paleo, go mid-Victorian

[…]

Bread could be expensive but onions, watercress, cabbage, and fruit like apples and cherries were all cheap and did not need to be carefully budgeted for. Beetroot was eaten all year round; Jerusalem artichokes were often home-grown. Fish such as herrings and meat in some form (scraps, chops and even joints) were common too.

So, a diet with little to no bread that's focused on vegetables and meat (including fish)—sounds pretty paleo to me.
There's a whole production line devoted to the manufacture of outrage. It's not entirely spontaneous, it occurs along primed fracture lines defined by talking points which are carefully crafted to appeal to existing prejudices, morality, and tribal identification. The emotional response of the individual member of the public may be sincere from their point of view, but it's not independently arrived at.

Hypothesis testing suffers from being very easy to put a thumb on the scales. Especially if you manufacture a lot of slightly variant hypotheses and pick the ones which are significant. This turns into whataboutery.
The effect doesn't seem that clear. That it varies from project to project makes me believe it's just some weak correlation.

They should have tracked developer retention to those projects. People might still contribute and fix issues if someone's being a jerk, but are they going to stick around and contribute further? That's the real question to me.

Someone actively contributing for a project for years is much more desirable than someone doing drive-by PRs.
In fairness, for things like "engaged" or "married" Facebook promotes the heck out of those events making them very much a "big event you should be excited about".
> The Mexicans that have stopped coming and started returning are more than replaced by Guatemalans, Salvadorans, and Hondurans that have started arriving in much greater numbers.

Citation needed on the "more than replaced" claim.
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Totally agree that they will. Personally, I'm curious to see what happens to all these delivery/food delivery startups when the economy slows and people have less disposable income for urgent delivery of non-essential items.
Why Google? Why not literally any other company?
That sounds pithy, but what does it even mean?
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Especially in price.
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Ok, so this is a personal issue for you. My apologies if I offended you. I won't push this any further. I disagree with your position, but we're running in circles now.

PS: I know about the Armenian Genocide, and it's terrible. But as I'm sure you're aware, at other times Christians killed plenty of Muslims (and other Christians, while we're at it) and were decidedly intolerant of Jewish people. Ahem, I don't even want to go there. So I'm not sure what we can conclude from this about the current world-wide Muslim population.
It would appear to me that that is a knife that cuts both ways.
I'm against technology abstracting away the difficulties of social interaction, for its own benefit (to get you to spend more time on Facebook), to the detriment of social skills.
Unfortunately true. A lot of the people talking the most about good manners and civility in software development turn out to themselves spend a lot of time bullying and insulting those they disagree with, and a lot of the requests for politeness are actually thinly disguised demands for political litmus tests, backed up with threats of online mobs for those who don't fall into line.

This is a pity, as I'm open to being convinced that a more polite and pleasant environment is also better for productivity, but that well has been thoroughly poisoned by its loudest advocates.
If they don't offer free wifi, just use DNS tunneling ;)
I've used the SDK in the past (before the 1.0).

I am far from being a Go expert but you can see this has been written by Java developers.

The usage is so verbose and you need to pass pointers around all the time. Even when it's clearly not changing the original instance (when passing by value would be enough).

If you compare it to another lib like goamz you can clearly see how easier it is to use comparing to the Amazon SDK.

There's also an issue from June 4 that discusses this: https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-go/issues/265

In my lib I ended up going with goamz, it was much simpler to use and required much less boilerplate.
Exactly.

Phone notification: "HELLO, THIS IS THE OMNISCIENT COMPUTER NETWORK 'FACEBOOK' AGAIN. MOMENTS AGO, A MALE COMPANION PROPOSED A LIFETIME OF WEDDED BLISS TO YOUR FORMER GIRLFRIEND. SHE SAID YES. ATTACHED IS A PHOTO SHE SELECTED OF BOTH OF THEM LOOKING ATTRACTIVE."
But it's not like there aren't ways around this.

There are some exes who I don't have any feelings for whom I'm still friends on Facebook with. They posts happy pictures. I'm happy for them. I have no qualms about them moving on with their life (marrying, having children). In fact, I've attended some of their weddings.

For the ones which still hurt, I'm not friends with on Facebook. By no means was it easy to cut off all contact, whether it's Facebook, Whatsapp or Instagram, but I had to be honest with my feelings and recognize that yes, it'd make me sad if I saw them happy moving on.

And if for whatever reason I need to contact them, there's always e-mail or phone.
There are some great aspects to Google Compute, but I hope this change results in catch up on features needed for corporate adoption compared to AWS.

The lack of a billing API and the lack of centralized management are really painful if you're trying to adopt it across an organization.
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Because: https://www.google.com/loon/
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I guess that's their way of telling you that you are so good now that they would like to sign you to their label.
If you're a decent human being, you should be happy for a past partner celebrating an important moment in their life. If they're happy, would you not be happy for them?
> Being alive is hard (and sometimes, it should be).

Says the comparatively rich guy with first world problems.

Go spend some time in the poor areas of Somali or India and see whether you think we should deliberately make life hard for people just to build character.
> Except before Facebook, we wouldn't have known this unless we went out of our way to find out, or just ran into our ex in the street.

Or had any common acquaintances. Or read newspapers (publishing engagement notices in them used to be a thing).

For most of human history, if someone you used to be involved with was engaged to be married, it wasn't particularly unlikely that you'd hear about it, and in many cases be either socially expected to participate in celebration related to it or be pointedly excluded from them.
There are a lot of things to say about this (for instance, I'm not sure policies should be constructed based on the worst thing that could happen instead of the thing that probably will happen), but this leaps out at me:

Why would a terrorist _pretend_ to be a student. Why not be an actual student? They aren't mutually exclusive, and it doesn't even feel like pretending would save a lot of time.
That sounds like a workable and practical solution and it almost makes you wonder why it isn't there right now, it's that simple.
Yes, its Genesis 6 button Pads that used microcontroller.

Sega Master system had basically an atari standard port, Genesis 3 button pads added select signal for swapping two pages (alternating between a/b c/start), finally 6 button controller added third page, but to trigger it you needed to pulse select line 3 times, and this was deemed to complex for discrete logic, hence microcontroller in 6 button pads.
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I couldn't have exhibited more of a persecution complex if I tried.
Here's a blog post I wrote about how the joystick of the Nintendo 64 works, electrically speaking: http://dpedu.io/article/2015-03-11/nintendo-64-joystick-pino...
It's semantics, but I'd argue if you're read only than you're changing the definition of available.
Pub/Sub is pretty meh. The Google Cloud team still don't seem to understand the need for a Kafka-like unified log service, unlike AWS (Kinesis is 2 years old this week) or even IBM Bluemix (who just launched Message Hub, which is true hosted Kafka).
Does anyone have any anecdotal evidence on the effect of dark and light editor themes on mood?
Good? They're at least getting informed consent and an opportunity to be diverted towards harm reduction. Ideally if a patient stubbornly demanded a particular drug they'd be warned in graphic detail of why that was a bad idea, asked to sign a "Prescription AMA" form, and that'd be the end of it. If nothing else it would keep them in the system and out of the grasp of hucksters and literal druglords.

The guys in the park selling opiates at unspecified dosage and purity are available 24/7 and don't even ask questions.
I think they just implemented the mechanism that was nearly universal at the time for a computer mouse. It's not like they had a lot of precedent to follow for compact joysticks.
The whole point of a backdoor is that changing the password is ineffective. And the backdoor isn't a file you can delete, it's just a couple of extra instructions buried in the code - the article made that clear.
I don't conclude anything "about the current world-wide Muslim population." Do quote when I ever wrote anything about the "world-wide Muslim population." I wrote about Islam as religious doctrine (which has more elements of a fight manual than of a spiritual text) about Islam's primary holy texts and about the violence and intolerance that they provably contain and can nurse and inspire. If they inspire it in minority, but minority with a lot of means of producing enough fighters and fanatic believers, that's more than enough to produce huge problems to this world. The another minority necessary are the ideological leaders. Only these two minorities are enough. The fanatics know that already: their prophet and his army are their role model for that (together with always-available case studies in Hadith). Even the Muslim women who didn't have to cover their hair until recently in a lot of Muslim countries know what it means the rule of "more religious" Muslims (as the smallest thing that changed to them in the last decades -- we had more secular societies in different now already again more and more "dark-age" Muslim countries). Only the people from the parts of the world where Muslims weren't effectively present aren't aware of the danger. It's not some ancient history, it never stopped. There was just a more quiet period.
Quite different actually. (Even if two things are both bad it does not mean they are the same thing!) For example you can censor a dead author, but you cannot threaten him. And you can punish someone for saying something without censoring the utterance.
An interesting tool, but I assumed that facebook did this sort of thing automatically anyway--seems like most people would want to see a tad less of a new ex.
I have an good/odd memory of that great rubbery feel and push the SNES bumpers had. It's cool to see the inside of it, although I'm surprised I never did having thrown said controller against the wall so many times because of how hard Super Star Wars was to beat.
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Why not?

You would think that the spooks are dying for some good PR given the hits they have taken post-Snowden.
It's the same principle at work when advertisers educate young children about how to nag more effectively.

Patients will go to their doctor and ask about a specific medicine and too many doctors will give in to this pressure if they feel that the medicine will not outright harm the patient. Patient happy, doctor can move on to someone who deserves his/her care more.
It's important to note that a major part of this update allows the user to easily prevent their content from being visible to the other party.

This isn't the same thing as the user electing to filter their incoming information, though the update includes facilities for that as well.
I was just starting out with building a Go app on AWS and didn't even consider finding an alternative to the official SDK. Thanks for this comment - I'll now go and checkout out goamz.
Southwest does that in large part: there are zero in-seat entertainment systems, but 80% of planes have WiFi that includes (free) streaming live TV, (pay) streaming movies, and (pay) Internet access.

No outlets yet, but rumors are that the next generation of interiors might.
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If this works, then you need to elevate your vitamin D (should ideally be between 40 and 60 ng/ml) and serotonin levels.

Vitamin D:

- 3000-5000 IU vitamin D3

- 1000mcg vitamin K2 MK-4

- 100mcg vitamin K2 MK-7 (to direct calcium away from soft tissue)

- 200-400mg Magnesium Glycinate.

.

Serotonin:

- 500-1500mg L-Tryptophan

(or if that doesn't work...)

- 300mg 5-HTP

- 3000mg L-Tyrosine (to counter lowered absorption caused by 5-HTP)

- 400mg EGCG (helps prevent 5-HTP from becoming serotonin in the intestines).

.

If depression isn't seasonal, then there are other supplements that may work (any of the following):

- Tianeptine Sulfate

- Memantine

- N-Acetyl Semax

- Fasoracetam
True, although both the company and the unit were named after Nikola, so not sure if that changes much.
Thankfully we will get modules in C++ soon. Hopefully the (Microsoft) version that deprecates the preprocessor.
It used to feel like a sanctuary going on a plane and being forced offline, no social media, no emails, no ads, no constant poking of my dopamine receptors. One of the last refuges.
I think the objection stated in the artical is to buybacks and downsizing at the same time, which the author claims was done by HP, for example. I don't know whether to credit this, but naively, it makes sense that this practice might contract output by cutting costs and transfering the savings to shareholders instead of reinvesting in more promising endeavours. It does seem like HP sort of makes less stuff every year. Didn't they go from making mainframes to desktops, to rebranding desktops manufactured elsewhere, and then finally to giving up tablets and dumping WebOS 18 months after they bought it?
> In my clinic, I do not accept visits or items from drug reps (including glossy marketing materials, pens, etc); the only thing they can leave me is a copy of a peer-reviewed article.

That's absolutely super good and I wished that more (all?) doctors followed your example.