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Really.

1) A plumber in Texas wishes to publicly support ISIS with materiel and advertise NASCAR style, or

2) A plumber in Texas sold his truck to someone, and through a chain of sales, that truck ended up in Syria.

I really despise the population sometimes.
Exactly. To give a related example...look at Windows 10. I want to buy a new computer and will be in the market very soon. But I'm desperately clinging to my Windows 7 OS, and worried I won't be able to find something that ISN'T Windows 10.

In fact, I have newfound urgency around this because I'll bet very soon I won't be able to find any Windows 8 computers on the market.
I am a little confused at why PouchDB isnt listed on the comparisons page, I am fairly certain they sent a comparison listing and asked me to review it at some point but in all fairness they did investigate and give reasons to not use PouchDB, this post is linked http://www.servicedenuages.fr/en/generic-storage-ecosystem

In my extremely biased position (as the maintainer of PouchDB) I would really have liked to still see this based on the CouchDB protocol / PouchDB codebase, it is true that neither Couch or PouchDB have particularly expressive and powerful permission systems (which is what the main downside looks to be) however I have been very aware of that building PouchDB and have made a lot of effort to ensure a powerful and flexible permissions system can be built on top of it (for example https://github.com/thaliproject/node_acl_pouchdb)

I do think that when you are tasked with providing cloud services for existing Mozilla products that there is a lot more risk involved in leveraging an existing established ecosystem like Couch / PouchDB however so its fairly likely that for Mozilla services this was the best choice (the same in reverse is true however also when looking at this as a generic library).

As for a disclaimer, I am a maintainer of PouchDB and a Mozilla developer. I have worked / talked to this team about Kinto, work on some features that use it and they are doing awesome stuff, some of which Pouch may possibly look to do as well.
An article on peer-2-peer payments, and not a single mention of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies?
"The Ford dealership that he sold his vehicle to cannot reasonably claim innocence"

Why do you say that? You don't think that it's quite reasonable that the process of removing a decal happens at another point in the disposal chain (later on, not at the dealer by convention)? Further to this point do you think that the standard of care should be "remove at dealership (and take a picture to document) because maybe this truck will be one that is used by ISIS (or someone who commits a murder or other crime)? Can he sue the dealer? Of course. But by a reasonable standard this is not an anticipated event. Also there are many trucks that are around where the decals are removed but you can still see the residue and previous information. What do you expect ... that they are going to paint over every single vehicle because maybe it might fall into the wrong hands? This is not a big problem relative to the amount of trucks or cars that end up being used in crimes. And we don't need more laws to prevent this type of outlier event, we have enough already.
True - having absolutely no communication is a good way to get put into the back room and fired in a round of budget cuts because nobody knows what you do, but I consider that to be relatively uncommon rather than the rule. A minimum amount of soft skills are required for almost any job.
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While I get your point of view, I'm not entirely happy with it's assumptions.

1) The "regulations pilots observe" by default give them absolute priority over _all_ airspace without limitation, even though the vast majority of "general air transportation" does not require that. Why is the airspace at 500 feet above my local park "reserved" for "general air transportation"? Sure, maybe once a decade or so a police or news helicopter ventures into that space, but only because they're coming from the assumption that nobody else has any right to be there. I question that assumption.

2) "The general public can decide" has a similar problem. "The general public" couldn't care less whether _my_ choice of potentially dangerous hobby is deemed illegal or not. How many of "the general public" voted in favour of, say, knitters being allowed to carry "potentially dangerous knitting needles" on commercial flights? Are grandmothers a "small entitled minority"? Claiming that public votes for things small groups of people want to be allowed to continue doing are the "right and democratic way" to decide regulations is shortsighted and demonstrates ignorance of the way people are.

I don't claim there are _zero_ risks associated with "drones", but I'd like the discussion and regulation to be a lot more driven by the actual risks and their relative likelyhood and seriousness compared to many other perfectly acceptable things.

There are lots of things that people are regularly injured or killed by: http://danger.mongabay.com/injury_death.htm

Let's just keep "drones" in perspective, and not kneejerk react to "new things".
when I was home-schooled, my dad bought me this https://www.parallax.com/product/boe-bot-robot

It really sparked my interest in CS. I'm not saying it's the best thing out there, but there certainly is no bullshit GUI...
I take your point; soldering individual boards scales badly (although the pitch for the USB+power contact points only looks a little worse than for the GPIO pins: http://hackaday.com/2015/11/28/first-raspberry-pi-zero-hack-... ).
The link to the code is in the paper as well. After reading the media hype around the paper I thought I should read the paper, and like you, was surprised to find a very readable paper. Although I think to really understand the mechanism I am going to have to read the code, because without that this just looks like a good parlor trick (because the permutation in stroke output is kind of a fun but minor piece of code, yet a big part of the media breathlessness.)

There should be a flurry of activity as practitioners take these concepts and start applying them to other fields, such as static code analysis. Much of the magic seems to be in the choice of atoms that you feed in to the algorithm.
Wow, that's great. One immediate bit of insight from the top right of the chart is how the modern email client is almost universally an iOS app, with other platforms if you're lucky.
> The Ford dealership that he sold his vehicle to cannot reasonably claim innocence, and has put this man's, and his family's, life in danger.

Sure, they can; they can, for instance, deny that the oral promise to remove the decal ever occurred, and suggest that it was concocted by the plumber to place the blame elsewhere after the images of the vehicle became public.

> I'd like to see an investigation, however, why a perfectly working truck was shipped overseas and left the American market.

An investigation? Someone thought that the overseas resale value was high enough that, even with the cost of exporting it, it was worth them offering more at auction then anyone else, including domestic purchasers. This isn't exactly a mysterious or unusual event.
"they'll forever be remembered as the dealership that sold a vehicle to terrorists"

Actually it's quite possible that they will have a net gain from the publicity. I think a person with normal intelligence would realize that this is an unfortunate occurrence and that obviously the dealer did not "sell the car to terrorists" (seriously..) Would it prevent you from buying a car from them? (Wouldn't bother me at all).
People are funny about what they believe. For many, seeing it on TV makes it true.

Plumber has truck. Plumber's truck ends up on TV being used by ISIS. Ergo, Plumber must be supporter of ISIS.

This is further harmed by it being surprising to people that trucks could be profitably shipped all the way to the Middle East.
I've been involved in robotics for a long time. The thing that I find attractive is that they engage three different engineering disciplines, electrical, mechanical, and software. However, that same diversity can often dissuade a student who is interested but becomes intimidated by the steep learning curve.

The other thing about robotics is that you really need a goal, otherwise people lose interest. The HBRC started the table top challenge which was good for a variety of reasons, 1) it was approachable, 2) it needed only a table top to work, and 3) it had enough complexity (in stages) to keep people challenged. DPRG created a number of challenges as well that were similarly staged.

So first ascertain which of the three disciplines they are most likely to be successful at. And start there. Parallax offers a number of good kits which are easy to program and the Makershed has the Arduino based robots.

Second come up with a goal, an objective that you seek to accomplish. Working toward that will give you the feeling of accomplishment you need to stay interested and feel like you are going somewhere.

Third, decide on your budget and set your scale appropriately. For low budget robotics you can build robots using converted servos for motors that roll around on tables, but for higher budgets you might want to build "Magellen" robots which can navigate around outdoors. If you really want to burn money quickly I suggest starting a battlebots team :-).
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I'm sure page 67 of the Philips Hue T&C states in 3-point font that Philips Hue is only compatible with itself and they reserve the right to pull the plug on third-party product compatibility at any time.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to deduct charitable contributions - up to say, 10K per year. There exist people who sit on huge amounts of unrealized capital gains. If they donate 100M in stock, then they can sell 100M in stock without ever paying any taxes whatsoever.
To be fair, did Philips ever list that as a feature when you bought it?

I purchased a few Hue products myself, but never once expected it to be an open platform or even compatible with non-Hue products (even if I wish that were the case).
Seattle is first city in US to give Uber/Lyft drivers ability to unionize
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>if a young mother dedicates 99% of her life (but not billions because she doesn't have it) into charity

That is the point. He is not dedicating 99% of his life, he is moving money around. If an average person gives 5% of his income to charity he is losing power and losing opportunities. He is sacrificing his well being and that of his immediate family for charity. If someone with as much money as Zuckerberg or Gates does it he is increasing his power and his opportunities. They still get influence, they earn karma points, they get a legacy, they still decide.

The average guy giving is a hero, Zuckerberg is not.
You'd only reinvent Emacs.
This exact case is true in software consulting and various other industries, and the way to solve it is with not-to-exceed (NTE) billing. If every other industry can solve it, why can't medical?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10699423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10707917
Why is the British government doing research into something that terrorists could use to further their extremist agendas?
I think the critics are mostly, maybe at a subconscious level annoyed by the unfairness of Zuckerberg first having a fortunate upbringing / IQ, then making $45bn before turning 30 and then doing saint like stuff. So they try to knock him down which I guess is understandable, and rationalise it in various not totally logical ways which I guess is human nature.
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As Yahoo! spent $450M over 4 years to deliver food catered by Bon Appetit to its workforce, starvation must not be an issue for the employees. (Source: http://www.businessinsider.de/yahoo-shareholder-presentation...)
>I am not "buying a surgery for cash" for something as critical as my spine. Or knees. Or appendectomy. Or anything else.

That's fine. But I might want to. Have you considered this?
I feel as you do. As much as I am loathe to accept anything coming out of one of these organizations as an open-source project, I think it may actually do us more harm than good by attacking this project out of protest for the way they use their tools.

We can be as negative as we wish towards these agencies, but rejecting any and all attempts at communicating with the open source community is a strong way to reinforce their already insular culture. Embracing these projects in some way or another can possibly work as positive feedback toward greater organizational transparency, if not by the brass, than by the developers and engineers that work in these organizations.
It impossible to overstate how wrong you are. Read some of my comments in this thread.

One of the absolute worst mistakes you can make as a developer is to assume that what you don't know or understand must be easy. That's the path to ultimate project doom -- don't do it.
> for most buildings wood is far, far easier to maintain.

Interesting. I always thought of it as (relatively) delicate.
If that's shameful, who should be ashamed?

- Yahoo's current management, for pretending there's anything to save?

- Yahoo's past management, for blowing their phenomenal brand equity?

- Yahoo's employees, for sticking around?

- Yahoo's investors, for owning this dog despite knowing the situation when they bought it?

- Congress, for having a braindead tax code?

- The press, for continuing to publish countless stories about a company that hasn't been relevant for at least a decade?

- Us, for continuing to read and comment on them?

- Someone else?
I wonder if this is a case where the actual Uber could overcome the lack of efficiency that the Doctor wasn't able to achieve on his own. Uber as a service doesn't work with just one driver. That driver would be crisscrossing around the city constantly picking up fares, just like the doctor was with his patients.

Instead, the service works by matching up riders and drivers that are close together. If the problem with the described medical practice is lack of efficiency and too much time spent in travel, perhaps Uber could make a system for multiple doctors which involves less travel time so long as patients didn't require a specific provider. Also, Uber could take advantage of the fact that its drivers' time is significantly less valuable than the doctors' time and have them pick up supplies from the pharmacy so that when they pick up the doctor, all the supplies for the next appointment are already in the car and the doctor can head straight to the next appointment.

As with many things, scale matters and trying to be a solo provider of an Uber-like service is unlikely to work.
Looking through Pubmed (!) you find many papers that are in favour of the Roemer Effect.
Is it at all clear that Zuckerberg is getting any tax benefit from moving his shares? I believe the "foundation", which is not a non-profit, will still pay taxes when it sells FB shares. If the LLC donates to a non-profit then it will get a tax benefit.

IANAL, so please someone who is actually informed feel free to correct me. A lot of what I've seen written is completely un-nuanced and probably wrong.
> I want to buy a new computer and will be in the market very soon. But I'm desperately clinging to my Windows 7 OS, and worried I won't be able to find something that ISN'T Windows 10.

Its pretty easy to find computers that aren't Windows 10 (e.g., OS X machines are readily available, as are Chromebooks, and there are even sold-with-Linux computers); its harder to find ones that are Windows-but-not-10, but that's a different thing.
"Our customers will be more motivated to buy Philips Hue products since they're already invested in the existing system".

We all need to put our support behind the most open of the open source lighting control/home automation options! Then the open options will be the most compatible options. If we do it right, then proprietary bulbs will just work with themselves, and the marketplace will punish them.
Seattle will be the first city in the US to let Uber drivers unionize
I'm not sure I understand your question or agree with its premise. The subsidy comes in the form the government benefits (WIC, SNAP, ACA, etc) that would otherwise be covered by an employer out of the revenue they generate from sales. Whether the safety net subsidizes Costco or not I can't say, as I don't have the data around how many Costco employees use these benefits from the government.

Basically, the low prices you see at Wal Mart couldn't exist if the company paid their workers a wage that reflected the benefits given by the government. Additionally, Wal-Mart receives a significant amount of money in the form of the SNAP payments themselves from their customers. It's basically like the government food store, except the family that runs has a net worth of more than $100B.

I don't understand your second sentence. Costco has employees that they pay $0?
Not to say there aren't issues with this, but I think there is also something to be said around expectations. If your company is not healthy, perks tend to suffer because at the end of the day, they don't matter if you have to fire everyone. There's a certain type of individual who picks a company based on perks, and when a company is in trouble, you'd much rather have employees that are there for the business and the mission.

Now, that said, this is Silicon Valley. Free food and company phones are table stakes for any company wanting to hire and retain top tech talent. Combined with the fact that these two perks in particular enable improvements in employee productivity, and I think that would be a very dumb move.
This article is very one-sided. It's simply an interview with the author of the paper. I would very much like to see what other experts in the field are saying, especially because I think the causation claims here are pretty bold for a register-based study.

Also, this: "Our study is not out to scare women" in the same interview as "We have to remember that thalidomide was labeled as 'safe' for use during pregnancy." If you're bringing up thalidomide, you're absolutely out to scare women. It's like Godwin's Law for discussions about drugs in pregnancy.
Looks over at my first gen iPad stuck back on iOS 5...

It still works fine, but it's hardly because Apple are doing me any favours (past building a good product back in 2010, and "supporting it" with OS updates until 2013...)
Forex EA that made 100$ into 10K in 2015 back test?
Looking to get one of these for my nephew during the holidays
TL;DR version: If there's any quantum phenomena going on in that device, it is only happening within the 8-qubit domains and not between them.

Bonus food for thought: how much more of a speedup factor would an ASIC farm provide compared to a general purpose CPU for that particular use case if you threw $150M on it?
It's important to be aware of the absolute risk even when the relative increase is 87%. In this case the risks are always below 1.5%. I haven't read the paper, but the presence of depression (rather than the SSRIs) could also be a cause for the increase. They might want to look at depressed pregnant women who are treated with alternatives to try to deal with that confounding factor.
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Are you running the nouveau driver? If you are, know that it's notoriously unstable and crashy, especially older versions of it.

I've installed and run Linux on many computers over the past $WAY_TOO_LONG. Anecdotes aren't data, but your experience is an outlier these days.

Regardless. I gather that you're trying to slyly imply that your bad experience with Ubuntu means that Free Software is synonymous with low quality or something.

That's a silly thing to do.
> The law that created Medicare specifically stated it was to subsidize residencies “until the community undertakes to bear such education costs in some other way.” Understandably, no one has stepped up to replace the federal government gravy train.

It seems like you don't want Medicare to be responsible for the funding of residency programs, and you'll get no disagreement from me on that point. In an ideal world, this would not come Medicare, because Medicare is the least efficient funding source for - well, pretty much anything.

But the fact remains that residency programs are not a profit center for hospitals, and hospitals cannot absorb an extra $9.8 billion/year just to train residents. And there's no other funding source for these programs at most hospitals that doesn't ultimately make its way back to the patient in some form.

It's also worth mentioning that the Balanced Budget Act capped Medicare's funding for residency programs specifically to reduce the number of residency slots available and avoid an "oversupply" of doctors. It's not that the AAMC is looking for free money so that they can keep the number of physicians artificially low, as you're implying; the external funding is what drove the increase in the number of physicians in the first place.

If you want residency programs to be funded by someone other than Medicare, that's fine, but just realize that the free-market would reach equilibrium at even fewer residency slots than we have today.
I don't see why can't one attach a camera to an RC plane. You didn't answer "what changed / why now".
See also politicians and societies...
In a sea of difficult-to-deal-with insurance providers, United Healthcare stands out as a particularly awful provider.

If I could snap my fingers and magically disappear any single insurance provider, it'd be United.

For my wife's specialty (ophthalmology), they're they only insurer in our region that requires a referral from a primary care provider for a visit. So, if you have blue-cross and have trouble with your vision, you can just go see an ophthalmologist.

If you have United, you need to call your primary care provider, explain your problem over the phone or (in some cases) go in for a visit, and get them to refer you to an ophthalmologist.

It's a hassle for us, but much much more of a hassle for primary care providers who are wasting tons of time on referrals and paperwork an in effort to save United money. It's a good part of the reason that primary care providers have to have the most support-staff per physician[1], despite having relatively lower reimbursement rates.

[1] http://www.mgma.com/Libraries/Assets/Key-Findings-CostSurvey...
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We'll move to another tool.

Do you still have your IRC logs from 15 years ago? That's a loaded question. I know some people do, but most people don't and most people don't need them.

We put things all over the place that include "what ifs" – what about files in dropbox, or emails in gmail?

Everything includes some level of trust and some level of acceptance of ephemerality or potential loss.

Personally, everything in Slack is work related, not personal, so it can go away, just like I could get fired, or quit, and never have access to it again. If there's something I want to keep, I'll keep it somewhere I believe is safe and permanent, that's up to me, not Slack, or the tools I use.

I also have a reasonable expectation that Slack would provide some sort of export/dump of data, similar to what twitpic did, or any other business does when they sunset. This doesn't always happen, and it's not fair to assume it would, but I trust Slack because they've done a very good job at being responsive to their customers' needs thus far.