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> The more I think about it I don't think they should.

And I agree. In a perfect world, justice would be only about intent. But we can't read people's hearts, and we can't explore all circumstances that would lead one to a punishable act. Worse, imperfect attempts at this can easily be abused by evil people to harm innocents. Therefore our legal system sticks to the only thing it can reliably measure - outcomes, sprinkling in some consideration for intent when the latter is obvious.

In a perfect world, we could probably also separate compensating victims from punishing the perpetrators. If I steal and wreck your car to save my wife who needs to get to the hospital ASAP, then in a perfect world I should go free and pay exactly nothing, but you should get a new car (or monetary equivalent) plus some reasonable opportunity costs compensation. Who would pay? The society, out of "shit happens" fund. But to work, this again would require probing intent, in order to avoid turning stealing cars into a replacement for taxi service. Since we can't reliably probe intent, we're stuck with punishing outcomes and creating incentive structures preventing such perversions from developing.
Namecheap changed their UI and ignoring users
Someone at Namecheap decided to change their functional domain management interface into "better" one - driven by javascript, with humongous fonts, message popups and dynamic forms that makes any domain editing and management job a time wasting disaster.
Namecheap called it "more user friendly and has a modern design".

I thought 1and1 and Godaddy were unbeatable but never expected my favorite namecheap to beat them to pulp in pissing off so many users in such a short period of time.

As a response to their customers namecheap published a thread:
https://blog.namecheap.com/we-are-listening/
Where ironically "listening" ears were closed to any new comments due to overwhelming negative feedback.

Namecheap stance is instead of giving users the interface and productivity they really liked - they intent to continue forcing users to "like" their new disastrous UI by promising to publish "Get Started wizards" to ease pain:
https://community.namecheap.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=...

I welcome feedback here and let make namecheap listen to us - the customers that loved and recommended namecheap to all our friends and clients.

I also welcome to discuss alternatives to show namecheap that ignoring users is not an option and is not acceptable.
The calculators were released in 1999 and 512-bit RSA was strong enough for that time period.

"Moody used two free implementations of the general number field sieve, msieve and ggnfs; the computation took 73 days on a 1.9 GHz dual-core processor. This demonstrates the progress of hardware development: the factorization of the similar 512-bit RSA-155 in 1999 using the same algorithm required a large dedicated research group, 8000 MIPS-years of computing time, and a Cray C916 supercomputer."[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_signing_key_...
Scientific Consensus Is Almost Never Wrong

on topics covered in Geology 101

except for that one time
Here's the deal:

Self-driving cars will succeed, but only when relegated to dedicated, communal, self-driving equivalents of HOV lanes. In a controlled environment, when it's only necessary to deal with exceptions, self-driving cars will rule. Outside the HOV lane, self-driving cars will be more like GPS-Assist++. Human required, but the broadstrokes navagation off-loaded to the computer. The last mile problem of figuring out where to park, last minute adjustments, etc., will still be human-led.
One thing Jet has to its advantage in trying to dethrone Amazon: They figured out how to defeat Amazon's Most-Favored Nation (MFN) clause, which requires sellers to NOT offer their products for lower prices on other venues.

It works like this: Jet buys the product from the merchant at the MFN price, then sells it to the customer for whatever price Jet chooses. Yes, the price could be higher, but probably will be lower than the merchant's (and therefore, Amazon's) price. They do this by sacrificing part of their commission the merchant pays Jet, and giving it to the customer instead.

They even have ways for the merchant to choose the same thing, for example, if the customer opts out of free returns, the merchant can pass a percentage along to the customer. Amazon can't get upset about that, because even though their MFN clause requires promotions to be consistent across platforms, there is a loophole in the case of Amazon tech stack not supporting the type of promotion being offered. Amazon has no way to rebate the customer for opting out of a free return.

Jet will deliver on its promise of lower cost shopping. Whether that substantially helps them unseat Amazon remains to be seen.
> On smartphones, its share of browser usage is virtually nonexistent

that's surprising b/c i've had a good experience with firefox on android: i particularly like the "send tab to desktop browser" feature, and although i'm still using adb for debug, newer versions apparently do debugging direct with desktop browser instances, no adb needed. for all i know, chrome has similar features as well, so i'll just say that i haven't found firefox mobile lacking.

i was totally unaware that mozilla was making that much money (or any significant amount of money) from corporate deals, but that's probably b/c i'm naieve. proprotionally larger donations will go to wikipedia instead of mozilla in the future.
> But if the other person is, for example, was the victim
> for a crime, then you might apologise even though you
> weren't the person who broke into their house.

Saying "I'm sorry" to someone that has suffered a tragedy isn't an example of offering an apology, it's an offering of sympathy. It's a bit strange that we overload the phrase in this way, but I can't imagine a situation where the distinction wouldn't be clear from context.
Firefox still doesn't support some basic Mac OS X features like rubber scrolling and contextual menus. And it is known how slowly they've adapted Lion style fullscreen and invisible scrollbars. Chrome folks, on the other hand, keep up with Mac OS X updates very quickly. Nowadays, Mozilla cares more about stuff like diversifying profits (Pocket integration for example) than making user-friendly browser.
Yes, because it is imperative to teach and learn by rote. If any idea is commonly held to be true, there is no reason to have any discourse. Even for ideas that seem to be binary this is just ridiculous -- you will note that this position would preclude discussing topics and discoveries regarding a round earth, DNA, electricity, and many other understood "truths" over human history.

Discourse and unpopular ideas drive discovery and learning more than memorization ever will. It does not mean that unpopular views are "right" it means that the act of understanding, listening to other perspectives and being able to construct your own beliefs in that discourse is a net win and absolutely core to higher learning; even if the unpopular view is garbage.
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That reads to me more like trying to actually diversify the attendance, rather than trying to hide the overrepresentation of Google. Google faces the same problem at other conferences, for what it's worth. There were some Lisa / USENIX type things focused on "site reliability engineering" where Google was noticeably overrepresented.
That would be foolish.

Firefox is the only major browser not controlled by one of Google's major competitors. Even without a deal for the search engine default, there are all sorts of reasons that is valuable to Google (collaboration on web standards, an insurance policy for browser design mistakes, not all Firefox users would switch to Chrome and so on).
Ask HN: How do you manage your Gist on GitHub?
Do you have any life-hacks or tips about making good use of Gist?
Given that eating from the tree of knowledge is sin ...

=)
I can only imagine what the liquidation preference on a round like this must be...
For anything more than traffic tickets, predictable is not what I'd call it.

I've seen someone charged with kidnapping get it lowered to a misdemeanor (in that particular case it was appropriate).
Ask HN: What Would It Take to Create the 10,000 Year Clock Version of Evernote
A recent thread asked what would happen if Evernote disappeared. If there's an implied question, it's "What would a 10,000 Year Clock version of Evernote look like?"

Would it require physical media? Would it require self-replicating robotics to port and restore itself?
I use Firefox on Android as well, primarily because of Firefox Sync and its client-side encryption.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10627472
Not sure I like the adversarial title, but it's great that the changes are going over well. Firefox does a lot to better the entire ecosystem that is the Web, and I'm super glad they're around.

Also generally my first move when I install FF on a new machine is to switch out the default search provider so... This doesn't affect me too much
The product doesn't need updating and they have no competition so why lower the prices?

If you want something newer with more power and more features they also have the Nspire line of calculators but the TI-89/TI-83 basically the staple calculator for highschool math.
At one point in our history, it was contrary to known and upheld belief that the world was round. Given your position would we have ever had the debate and changed popular belief considering it was absurd by its very nature?
Looks like Linux Foundation decided to stop helping SFC defend Linux when the GPL got teeth.

https://lwn.net/Articles/665739/
I wonder what they'd do if Yahoo decides not to renew their deal with them. Would they go back to Google or go to Bing? What if no search provider thinks they are worth the amount they are getting with their current deals?
Four of my coworkers agreed that this comment has excellent PR value for mainstream market. It uses a whole lot of words say basically nothing but with much optimism and faith in the company as the expected result. Well-written. :)
I love Firefox, their addon api is pretty fucking sweet. I've made 2 super simple addons, one to kill a paywall on my local guardian site and a second just last night to easily set lightblue background with black text using a context-menu button, literally took 10 minutes. Can't beat Mozilla documentation.
Interesting. Is that a single account or multiple as Google charges per use right?

Have you not found any risk in users using the service as a cheap design and build and then hosting the sites else where after?
Right, I think thats why people are baffled at the heavy investment in jet.com. They pivoted to a neat feature but it is hardly an Amazon-killer type of feature.
> Criminal law punishes moral culpability, not bad
> outcomes

That's untrue for (at least) many traffic violations. You'll get a considerably less harsh sentence for DUI than if you kill someone while DUI, where arguably the moral culpability is identical.
"Being cheaper" worked out pretty well for Walmart. Amazon definitely has scale, and advantages of doing things in-house. Amazon's current problem though, they have spread themselves too thin, reporting losses a quarter ago, and AWS appears to be what is carrying them now. They could be ripe for an aggressive competitor to come in and cut their throat in retail. Do to Amazon what Amazon did to Borders.
It's open source if you use timekit.io (their backend essentially .... ). So not really.
FYI, you've written "your" in recent comments when you meant to write "you're".

> I would think your not saying that [...] I get that your trying to use it to support the next sentence [...]

I offer this feedback in the spirit that writing well is important and valuable to practice.
Yes, Firefox on Android is awesome. My favorite features:

1. The best options for delegating from websites to installed apps I've seen (via the long-press menu or by touching the Android when it appears in the URL bar).

2. Extensions. For me, browsing is practically uncivilized without Self-Destructing Cookies and there are lots of other useful ones.

3. The new "Open later" feature, where Firefox collects the URLs you click on, but doesn't load them until you switch to it. Among other things, it is a great way to collect links to look at from the Google Search app.

My only real annoyance with it are the occasional sites that make broken mobile browser assumptions so I end up spoofing Android Chrome or Mobile Safari. At least there's Phony, so the spoofing is pretty easy.
"that sought to provide a better customer experience"

First concrete thing you've said. Always a way to get into a market crowded with incumbents, esp if account reps have personal touch. Fix anything that annoys people and $$$'s result. Good luck to you on that part as you have a good chance of making it there.

"As for your other comment, apps and ATMs are already being used as an advertising channel. I wouldn't be surprised if we see (much) more of this."

Figures haha.
Great questions!

1) Surface coating lifetime is mostly a temperature-related effect. By controlling the temperature (i.e. avoiding unintentional too-high-temp excursions), you get longer lifetime. Plus we start with a thicker/heavier cast aluminum base than you may be used to on low-end non-stick pans. This reduces hot spots and uneven thermal expansion which both contribute to relatively shorter working lifetimes of low-end cookware.

2) We get delicious browned crusts on steaks etc in roughly the 380-420 degree F surface temperature range. You get a nice controlled browned crust, rather than a fully black crust. IMHO this is way better!
Dunno, I think that depends on the content. I'm building a js-css-webgl game, and I find Safari is lucky to break 50% of the performance I get from Chrome/FF.
Need to change MBP charger every 6-12 months because of the crappy cable. It's super fustrating.
What a hash of her ideas. I recommend reading her directly and see what she actually said.
Have you not used redis? Every command[0] begins its documentation with its time complexity.

[0]http://redis.io/commands
> Mozilla cares more about stuff like diversifying profits (Pocket integration for example)

That's not a good example -- Mozilla supposedly didn't get any money to add Pocket.

Why they added that Pocket integration (with no easy way to uninstall it like an extension, and yes I know you can goto the ever so user-friendly about:config and make changes), I'll never know. After tons of complaints about that bundleware, Mozilla continues to leave it in.
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This is an easy one to answer.

Teachers/Professors don't know how to debug programs only how to teach beginning programming.

You won't find a class on debugging. Books are not written on debugging only on learning how to code.

I worked for a community college as a student worker, and I worked in a computer lab and debugged the student's programs. I learned as many languages as I could. The teachers/professors could not debug the programs so they gave them to me to debug for them.

If you take a MOOC or go to a Programming Bootcamp they don't teach you how to debug. They teach you how to code.

Debugging is part of a quality control process that isn't taught but should be taught. In a business management only cares about how much time it takes to finish a project and doesn't care if the code is buggy. It used to be an issue of writing bug free code when computers were slower and has less memory but since RAM is cheap and computers are faster now bugs that usually slowed down programs don't matter anymore.

I was known for my debugging skills, could alter algorithms so they ran faster, could fix memory leaks so programs uses less RAM, would set up buffers to speed up database access etc. But it took extra time to do those sort of things. Management kept cutting the deadlines for completing projects where it wasn't possible to debug code anymore. Fix it later, ship buggy code and let the users reboot their PCs when they have a problem.

You find so many programmers these days that don't know how to debug the code, because they were never taught how. So it is full of security holes, runs slow, has memory leaks, slow database connections, but it is good enough in that it compiles without errors and can be shipped.

I became a dinosaur around 2003, nobody wanted to hire a debugger anymore. Sloppy code was in, managed code was out.
You didn't actually say you were building a fraternity. You said "I'm building a social club and support group for engineers/designers/product people, some wearing a second hat of founder/investor."

You mentioned fraternity only in this way: "Imagine something like a mini-fraternity (in only the good ways) with dinners, retreats, bonfires, product jam sessions, meditation, improv, basketball, whatever people want to do socially & professionally".

It should be clear you are not describing an attempt to make Silicon Valley "Animal House," except to those who are going out of their way to find problems. In my opinion you have nothing that needs apologizing for.
Thanks for the info. Question about...

"OpenVMS and NonStop (NSK) do not compete. Entirely different products and markets."

Outside legacy market, I thought they both advertised as being for business-critical systems that can't afford downtime. I remembered plenty of HP advertisements on that for OpenVMS & its clustering. NonStop obviously does that stuff with even better availability due to FT HW/SW. What makes you say they don't compete?

Note: I'm not talking about the five 9's, HW-supported stuff that OpenVMS probably can't touch.
More simply, I'd observe that tolls and mass transit aren't rivalrous: for that matter, one could earmark funds from the former to pay for the latter.

I don't see why assuming too that a particular toll scheme that didn't work in a particular place means that no such schemes can work anywhere under any system.
Thinking about this more... first of all it should have been, where P(q)=="probability of q":

alpha = E[E[P(alpha|data)|given data]]

Now we can simplify. Say x=alpha, y=data, z="given data", the E operator can be an arbitrary function f, and applying function f twice is denoted as f#. We get:

x=f#(P(x|y)|z))

We know P(a|b)=P(a & b)/P(b) and p(a & b)=P(a)P(b), so

x=f#{[P(z)P(x)P(y)]/P(y)}=f#{P(z)P(x)}

Denote the inverse of f# as F, then:

F(x)=P(z)P(x)

Now, z was "given data" which has probability 1. So,

F(x)=P(x)

In other words, there is method to your madness.
Does flexbox affect rendering speed of browsers as well or is it mostly about removing the limitations of css grid systems?
Pinboard.in fits the bill nicely. In fact, I'm reading this thread after bookmaking it earlier in the day. :)
Wallaby.js author here. Just thought I'd mention that we are working on AVA and tape support in wallaby: https://github.com/sindresorhus/ava/issues/141
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Except this pest is so numerous they over-eat an area, ruining that area and starving all other grazing animals, then starve themselves so they must expand to conquer other areas or die out themselves. Here they're expanding.

You use the word "ecosystem" so you must realise it's a system which requires balance, not just blindly saying "don't kill this animal".

The people behind these culls are nature conservationists considering the entire ecosystem and all its participants, not moronic hunters eradicating a species for trophies or sport.
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Dinosaur books for children in libraries across the country (public or school) are frequently quite old, or at least out of date.

Not terribly surprising when you consider it is a topic that sits on the very edge of human knowledge, but so often attracts the interests of children. Same problem exists for space books. When I was a kid I had a few space books that referred to men "one day" landing on the moon. This was 20 years after that had actually happened.
Can't Jet just adjust their offering within a few weeks to match the tried and true practices that amazon.com - the $314.6 billion company - has developed over 21 years?
In 1965, there was a giant Dinoland exhibit at the NY World's Fair. The Brontosaurus was a "big" (heh, heh) feature.[1] That was viewed by millions of visitors from all around the world. So, even if scientists decided in 1903 to deprecate it, obviously not everyone agreed.

I had one of these plastic molded Brontosaurs as a kid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Childrens_Museum_of_I...

IIRC you got to watch the moulding machine at the fair make it for you once you put your $0.50 into it.

Edit: forgot to add, in the 1960s in primetime, and in syndication for much longer, Fred Flintstone operated a "bronto-crane". I'm sure that had a lot to do with keeping Brontosaurus active in kid's imaginations.

[1] http://nywf64.com/sinclair06.shtml
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flintstones#The_Flintstone...
They're still completely dependent on money from someone for default search status.
There's no way that the cost of these individual components can be used to justify the price tag. That's pure delusion.
Thanks! We are most likely to go ahead with PrimerCSS (http://primercss.io/) combined with few elements from Bootstrap.
When driving from Kalgoorlie (a remote mining town in the middle of the desert) to Perth (the capital city in that state) one must complete the 6 hour drive across featureless plains during the daylight hours only.

Trying to drive at night will result in kangaroos approaching your headlights, then your passenger vehicle is hitting a 200lb (90kg) mammal whilst driving at 70mph (110kmh) which is never going to end well.
This article is all well and good, but the BIG problem are traffic lights. Traffic lights are undoubtedly the problem.

What can replace lights? Roundabouts. Plain and simple OR a startup that can compete with the current traffic light system.
Adding Salesforce probably could be beneficial
As an Engineer, I've been avoiding this conclusion for a while. Chalked it up to faulty conclusions from liberal arts majors jealous of funding cuts or a lack thereof (/s).

But this conversation is becoming more and more prevalent. Perhaps STEAM education (http://stemtosteam.org/) and not a purely focussed STEM education is the answer
But that can only happen if the US has a defense forces[1] spending similar to Ireland.

[1] This is just the obvious example, include here any where that the US gov out spends the Irish.
We are all on NSA's lists now.
Also keeping Firefox around is basically insurance against (some) antitrust lawsuits (not just for Google, for whatever browser maker sponsors them).
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Are you trolling? A startup for traffic lights? Versus actual civil engineers who aren't idiots and who have probably fully explored the solution space of traffic handling arrangements?

Traffic is a political problem, not an engineering problem.
> Has any government ever viewed their own actions any differently?

Yes. There used to be a time when war was seen as more glorious, and not shielded behind euphemisms.
I already want to bomb the shit out of everyone who talks against javascript.
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The only currently running software that will be running in 100 years will be Win XP, IE 6, and the corporate apps that depend on them.

In 10,000 years, assuming we're still around and society and technology have progressed mostly continuously, I don't think the idea of a single piece of software will have survived. Except for your physical interaction with yourself and others, every aspect of your existence in society will be data, and the global system that moves it around. You won't need a "note taker," because everything you do for your entire life will be recorded, and available to you[1], corporations or their replacements, and governments or their replacements.

[1] And when I said "you" I supposed I also should have added "or our replacements."
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