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As long as ticket revenue goes into the budget of the local government entity issuing the tickets, it doesn't really matter how awful you think drivers are. There are plenty of documented cases of deliberate meddling with safety features to increase revenue. Look at red-light cameras, for example, where local governments have been known to change the light timing in unsafe ways in order to manufacture ticketable violations.

And, again: the safest thing is to keep to the average speed of surrounding traffic. If you deliberately operate your vehicle at a significantly different speed than surrounding traffic, you are deliberately creating a hazard to yourself and others.
It is only unbalanced as long as there is an oversupply of people seeking these jobs. With basic income there is a real chance that shitty jobs simply remain unfilled until they improve and people consider spending their life energy on it acceptable.
Well ok a bit on the low side, but it is possible (especially if you share the appartment).

http://www.vuokraovi.com/vuokra-asunto/kankaanpaa/keskusta/k...

Why do you have to commute? Take the bus to the interview, it's not like you have to commute every day to the city centre to find a job.
So, let's assume that processing your photos on the device is far too processor extensive. That means that Facebook uploads every single photo you take to Facebook's servers.

That means that every single dick photo, or vagina/boobs photo that you have ever taken, is now with Facebook and readily available to the NSA under the FISA or Prism programs.

Basically the NSA has the biggest amateur porn collection in the world.
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Ask HN: Beijing – Ideas on Tech Incubators, Startups, Art, Design?
Hi Hackernews, I am in Beijing, China for the next two weeks - do you have ideas what to do, see, explore? Briefly about my interest: Right now I am funding a tech company in Berlin, as well I have strong interest in technology design/art. I checked meetup, there is not much going on in Beijing - maybe some of you have ideas?

My WeChat ID is tobiasmartens - happy to meet up!
Cloudflare Is Having Issues in USA, South America and Europe
It's entirely inconsistent with Mozilla's past actions.

You can compile Firefox source code of which 100% of it came from released Firefox versions in Mozilla's HG tree and they won't let you call that "Firefox". Part of why IceWeasel exists is Debian wanted to backport security patches from Firefox releases into an older version (eg. apply security patches from Firefox 4 to Firefox 3.5) for Debian-stable and Mozilla wouldn't let them use the name Firefox if they did that.

Therefore your claim that

> Firefox is the UI chrome and corresponding stack

doesn't match the reality of what Mozilla has done. It seems now Firefox is anything that Mozilla calls Firefox.
Can we stop promoting the use of a broken cipher?
And further, I believe the high rent prises are in large part because of the subsidies. If people actually would pay just what they (themself) can afford then the prices would be lower.
Issues with HTTP as well, not just DNS : https://pulse.turbobytes.com/results/5645b0f8ecbe402ea700034...
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This is called a timing attack and no, Tor doesn't seem to protect you against it: http://tor.stackexchange.com/q/737
So, if I understand correctly, you're suggesting bitmadness should have listened to his friends telling him their problems, then designed and executed a rigorous study into whether they were lying for profit (and/or other motives).

If so, that would be an extremely unusual thing for a human being to do, and I would wonder what would motivate someone to ask that kind of question.
iOS does not send data to server?
Don't forget the guarantees!

http://www.kleinbottle.com/guarantee.htm
It's still work though. People usually don't trade their free time for pennies an hour if they have an alternative. Basic income provides that alternative, nobody has to work. This will probably lead to a increase in wages for jobs that are no fun, like cleaning restrooms in a bar, and a decrease in wages for jobs that people actually want to do.
> There are plenty of documented cases of deliberate meddling with safety features to increase revenue. Look at red-light cameras, for example, where local governments have been known to change the light timing in unsafe ways in order to manufacture ticketable violations.

Didn't know that, thanks. If you have any links to some well-documented cases of meddling with safety features like that, I'd be glad to read.

> the safest thing is to keep to the average speed of surrounding traffic.

Safest for drivers, not for pedestrians; but assuming pedestrian-free area, then ok, that is of course true for the reasons you describe (basically introducing any unexpected element on the road is making the situation less safe). But since many (AFAIR most) traffic-related injuries and deaths are caused by speeding, how do you propose we force drivers to slow down? Personally I'm in favour of ALPRs and distance-based speed checks (i.e. distance traveled / travel time > limit == you get ticketed).

That is, if it matters now. Self-driving cars are hopefully around the corner, and they should be able to solve this problem once and for all.
Correct me if I am wrong, but is seems like you can now compile and run Hello World on Ubuntu without needing a Windows PC (which I remember was needed at some step before)?
I'm sure it wouldn't take long to find someone willing to work for that salary so you wouldn't pay income tax but someone else would (and that someone else would also take another step on the social mobility ladder, etc). If you were to quit, you would have some money invested, you would continue helping the economy by buying things, and someone else would take your job and eventually be better off. Sounds like a win-win for the society/economy.
Some evidence it hasn't changed (as far as I can see): https://www.flickr.com/photos/turoczy/5886505173
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We changed the URL from http://www.slideshare.net/PacSecJP/hyperchem-ma-badbarcode-e... which appears not to render correctly.
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Because those reddit users were 100% right. You have a link selling business whether you like it or not, and a sleazy one at that.

Don't act surprised, sites like this don't belong on here.
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"We use "lies to children" to avoid complicated explanations, but then we're never up-front with older high-school students about the misconceptions they probably acquired in grades K-6."

This pretty sums most of the "science" textbooks my daughter used.
I self-learned about electricity concepts from a book using closed hydraulic system analogy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_analogy)

I'm an EE now :-)
This is a fantastic solution for public web sites. Kudos to the team.

It is hardly usable for internal (non-Internet facing) ones because you have to expose either the site or internal DNS for a check to go though.
Basic Income should be quite a bit higher then; enough for a fairly comfortable life with no serious financial worries. But then, sure, I'd work for just the fun, the pleasure and the kicks. I probably wouldn't be freelancing for banks, though. Some jobs will always require pay in order to entice people into taking those jobs.
Now, imagine if they would say something (anything!) about pricing without forcing me to make an account.
I know a number of smart, hardworking engineers who cannot find jobs now, even when they are doing everything they can to make sure their skill sets are up to date. The unifying factor among them is that they are not kids anymore, and have wives and families. Yet I still keep hearing about the supposed "talent shortage."

One guy is in his mid-40s, and was a UNIX sysadmin whose company went bankrupt in the dotcom bomb. He's survived several recessions. He's quite proficient at Python scripting, and he's learning JS and Ruby. But companies won't hire him, I guess because of "culture fit" which seems to be a code phrase for "we want our team to gel around interests and work styles common among single millennials." The worst-case scenario is when a company thinks "culture fit" means "we only hire hipsters proficient in Amazeballs framework and BeardyScript."

Some other problems I've observed: finding mentorship is tough, particularly for women and minorities, because the very people in a position to be great mentors are the same people running startups, and don't have time to mentor. It's a Catch-22.

If there really were a tech shortage, you'd see salaries rising and more training and mentorship instead of the collusion among major companies regarding salary caps and non-poaching agreements. A lot of US-based companies are afraid to train qualified people, like some firms do successfully in the UK (training humanities students from Oxford or Cambridge in software engineering), because they think other companies will poach their talent and therefore their training budget will be spent on their competitors. I think that's a short-sighted view, but that's what I see now.
Agiles definition seems to get redefined every time a discussion like this appears on HN.
More drugs getting legalized? Incest no longer being taboo? Polygamy?
> It would be nice if you provided concrete examples, because I've had very much the opposite experience as you

He said, while providing no concrete examples :)
You are assuming not only that an attacker can see all packets all the time, but also at all points in the network, which is unlikely in practice.
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making sense or not, it has happened,
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These types of arguments should be made by peer reviewers. Addressing these makes the paper (and research) stronger.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of internal corruption in academia, which makes this feedback ineffective. If you apply for a grant, you already have to outline results of our research. Heather Sarsons, the author, is a doctoral fellow in the "Inequality and Social Policy program". She is paid to find inequality. If she won't find any, she would be unsuccessful. The same holds for colleagues--who actually do peer review. They are on the same ship.

It's not a critique of this work, but the overall climate in academia. About 80% of papers in health science was found to be unreproducible. Guess why.
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Down for me as well.
I still have an account, but I only check in maybe once or twice a week now (via Tinfoil for Facebook) for a less than a minute to see if I have any private messages or invites to events from friends.

Feels like one less thing to think about that didn't actually offer me anything of real value in the end.
Which parts of "being Firefox" did the Firefox versions in Debian stable, where the only changes were backported security patches, fail?
Yes, Computer Architecture course for EE at UAEU.
It must be a witch hunt at VW right now...

Not that any witches exist of course, just for a scapegoat.
Bigcommerce looks interesting.

I have a client that uses Woocommerce, and to be honest it has a huge support requirement, because WordPress and all the plugins updates/security problems.

Can anyone recommend any competing services to Bigcommerce which I should review?
Yeah, it's a Windows thing, forgot to add.
Yeah, just a portion of it (a modified fork of the GL bindings). We wrap our own framework around the bindings and combine that with SDL2, plus Cairo/Pango for vector drawing and writing text to textures, libogg/libopus for audio files, Assimp for 3D assets, etc.
Offshore' Welsh town unites in its anger at Britain's corporate tax avoiders
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Such an audit scheme would introduce huge bureaucracy and cost immense amounts of money. It also opens the door for all kinds of corruption. Who decides which things are ok to spend money on "for children"? Lobbyists?
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That's correct. Additionally, although there are many ways to work around these static code checks Apple performs at app review time (due to Objective C's runtime capabilities), you can bet an app as popular as f.lux would get pulled very quickly with potentially long-term damage to their relationship with Apple*

(* See https://ifixit.org/blog/7401/ifixit-app-pulled/ )
Very true, and an interesting comment. It is interesting to see the other platforms attempting to model themselves after this (such as the Windows application store or whatever it is called), although you obviously have the power to install and run whatever you want there.

I truly hope that OSX does not become the crippled/locked-down OS that iOS is. I know the new rootless feature is a warning sign, as is only allowing signed applications to run.

The hard part for us as developers is that we have to eat and pay bills, so all fleeing to Linux to write desktop software there won't pay our bills. The wide adoption of these Internet appliances (eg. iPad) means we railroaded into writing for them, or find another occupation.
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Not quite. There is a difference between assuming you can't do anything about the situation and giving up.
Sure, will do! In the meanwhile, I randomly discovered the awesome Pythonista (http://omz-software.com/pythonista/).

Pythonista would make possible to run QuickLedger on the mobile, and it could be expanded to automatically update the main ledger, hosted on another machine or on some Dropbox-like container.
> what's wrong with that?

What's wrong is a potential increase in income inequality and worst wealth distribution.

A corporation or somebody from a upper class will be getting richer from the work being done while the guy(s) doing the work with the basic income will stay at the same level. I don't think we should increase our inequality metrics even further.
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In general when there is an ambiguity about something we come up with a standard. For example, at some point in history we standardized the names for the days of the week (language depended). For numbers of the week there is ISO8601. In Europe widely accepted.
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I’d guess so. The original Chrome for iOS announcement [1] said:

it’s been challenging to re-use critical Chromium infrastructure components. That said, there is a lot of code we do leverage, such as the network layer, the sync and bookmarks infrastructure, omnibox, metrics and crash reporting, and a growing portion of content.

[1] https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...
"Gay marriage is an obvious one, (Australian) treatment of refugees, anything else?"

I'm pretty sure gay marriage will be seen as just as normal and wholesome in 50 years as it is today or even more so. Though there will be fewer gay people if the theory that homosexuality is genetic proves out unless we have a boom in surrogacy.

The German and EU treatment of supposed refugees will be seen as a tragic moment, probably. Australia's current policy will be the one that any rich liberal nations that persist in being rich and liberal in fifty years will have chosen. Look at the UN population projections. It's clear that indiscriminate migration will overwhelm nations with lower than sustainable birth rates. Those that import many millions of people from backwards nations with extra high birth rates will see their founding populations reduced to tiny minorities and their countries newly backwards.

Prohibition is the obvious choice.
It's a pity that the proponents there have to resort to including mathematical impossibilities on their list....
"A basic income, coupled with a flat tax, is capable of mimicking all aspects of our current progressive (bracketed) taxation scheme, but without brackets."

Basic income realigns people's incentives. It might be better than a really badly designed welfare system at removing "welfare traps", but it also can be expected to have a whole host of negative aspects in comparison to other possible configurations of the payment of government subsidies.
If that's what you actually want to do, why don't you negotiate with your employer to work 1 day a week for 1,600 euros a month? You'd have twice what this basic income pays and you'd have 80% of the free time you want. That has to be a good deal, right.

The fact is, there are very few people in your position, and fewer still who'd give up their considerable income in order to not work. Very few of us work just to live; we all want more than that. The number of high earners who'd quit their jobs is minimal. However... The number of low earners who'd quit is much bigger. That's the problem that society will need to deal with - the cost of things like retail and domestic services like cleaning will go up considerably because people won't do the work unless it pays relatively well.
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I definitely had Windows Defender enable itself (and delete some files I wanted to keep). It was pretty frustrating. I disabled it in group policy which should [i hope?] keep it off.
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> So that's how it is nowadays, pay the Apple extortion fee it's good for you .

That's not what OP is saying, though. The f.lux folks were leveraging private APIs, that are unpublished and not part of the set of tools you're authorized to build commercial apps on for iOS. Apple doesn't want to support those APIs for whatever reason, so they're not included in the toolset. Just because you can find a way to do something (like distributing binaries to have users compile into their own version of an app, trusting that the distributor is trustworthy, that the distribution hasn't been corrupted somehow, that...) doesn't mean it should be allowed willy nilly.

Strong requirements like this at some level have kept quality in the average iOS app high.

I recently dumped Android for iOS again because I got sick after 4 years of my devices never quite working right. If I don't have to spend so much time on my iPhone policing apps from randomly deciding to go off the reserve (like happened even with quite popular apps on Android), I'll take that over complete unfettered license to muck about in the operating system.

Cause that as a practice just doesn't turn out well. For every f.lux there's 100 development operations who are gonna screw something up.
I'd love to see fringe behavior, I couldn't find anything like these, how their system react to limit cases. I'm sure they're overly conservative and always overstimate margins so they can handle crazy drivers, but surely there's a limit.
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I come here to learn about articles and topics and discuss them with people who can debate calmly and rationally.

I don't get any of that on Facebook.
Hi! Author here, thanks for posting this :D I'm happy to answer any questions you may have :) I'll read through the comments when I have time!
Ask HN: A 787 Dreamliner has less than 1/10th of the code of a modern car. Why?
Premium class automobile has 100 million lines[1] or of that order, whereas a Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner require less than 1/10th of that. LoC is no measure of complexity of a system but it is still an indicator of how much is going on inside. So what is it that an airplane doesn't have but a modern car has?

[1]http://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/systems/this-car-runs-on-code

* 2009 link but coming from IEEE, I believe it is credible enough.

*Not sure if it really qualifies to be Ask HN question
HN not only shadow bans commenters, they will also poison placement of comments (algorythmically) in a sub thread based on who writes the comment.
But where does React come into play?
Interesting, did he mention any specifics? They seem to be aiming to create a general platform that's not specific to games. They also do have a few marketing / business managers which might be why it sounded like vapourware? As far as I can tell they have a lot of talent in the engineering department.
I agree, I don't see the logic in removing progressive taxation.

Progressive taxation is a recognition that there is a disproportionate benefit in living in an ordered and lawful society for those with high income (and assets, though we seem to have lost the plot on taxation of assets). You depend on the efforts of a lot of people, each of whom has benefitted from the state's education and infrastructure. Your products benefit from the state's legal support, your money from the state's stability, and so on. Progressive taxation is a recognition that those benefits don't scale linearly: those at the highest incomes benefit not only from the linear support of their wealth, but the exponential support of society.
If I had a pound for every person I know who makes snooty remarks about "not even owning a TV" but actually watches BBC iPlayer and Netflix TV episodes on their laptop... well, I'd have at least £3.
GPU Based 16.7M Particle System on iPad Pro
I'll take a look, it's probably because of webgl context disposal, also crashes in android Firefox :(
I work on software that's used globally. We've found that ISO week conventions (starts on Monday, day-month-year, week numbering as described in the article) are good enough for everyone except the US. We have just two settings for our date system: ISO and US. I think the US has a peculiar attitude towards standards. You also see it with miles vs kilometers, Fahrenheit vs Celsius, and a bunch of more obscure standards particular to our industry. It takes more effort to make our software ready for the US than for the rest of the world combined. (Although admittedly we don't support right-to-left.)
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Also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10552626.
Academia is particularly political. I've worked in industry and seen a lot of politics there too, but in academia the problem is much worse. I think that this article is just examining one consequence of the politics in academia, which is that people sometimes come across as assholes. The article doesn't get to the root cause of the problem.

For a while now, I've been trying to understand why there is so much political behaviour in academia, as I really don't like it and I'm not interested in participating. Recently, I found the answer perfectly summarised in this essay by Ben Horowitz:

http://www.bhorowitz.com/how_to_minimize_politics_in_your_co...

Ben also explains how to solve this problem, and I couldn't agree more.

This essay is included in his book, "The Hard Thing about Hard Things," which gets a lot of mentions on here and is definitely worth a read.
because if you bring in an influx of color and foreign diversity, you get people who have less in common, less shared values and don't look out for each other. Get a massive influx of brown muslims in your white country, then find out that you no longer cooperate with each other like you did before. It's basically the way in the U.S. that the two party system also uses race and immigration to drive another wedge between citizens. Believe me, you want homogenity. It's better for progress than diversity. Everyone tells the story that diversity somehow is strength. Nope, never has been, it's a story that just feels good but isn't true. The U.S. progresses in spite of diversity and conflict, not because of it.
It seems more and more apparent that large sections of modern science are quackery. Will we fix this somehow and look back on this era from the future, and wonder about the many millions spent on serious people in white coats who basically produced random noise with a dash of prejudice and a touch of click-bait?