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Increasing taxes and redistribution for "quality of life" necessarily decreases savings and investment. investment is where long term quality of life is determined.
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I don't really care if they charge for it or not, as long as it's easy and available on the premises. Going out for lunch is annoying and inefficient.
I got rid of mine when I discovered that I could buy a new printer AND and an extra refill of the new ink for less than I could buy just ink for my old Lexmark.

Trashed it and never looked back.
You have 1400 karma, how did you not figure out what the downvote button is for up until now?
I've never viewed these sorts of regulative barriers as anything more than a headache for Google. There's going to be some government somewhere on earth that will be gung ho about self-driving cars. Americans will not stand for the US not being #1, so regulators will be forced to do a rather quick 180 on this.
At the time of writing, this post is 11 minutes old, but the status page says they have been down for 5.

Hmm!
I love the idea of labor unions in the private sector. It gives small voices some power against exploitation, and collective bargaining is something the anarcho-syndicalist bit of me loves to see happen as a form of self-governance.

No matter how I look at it, I can't see any net good for voters when public employees unionize. Public employees are meant to serve the community they are employed in. The benefits of taking a government job are supposed to be in that you have a direct result in helping the communities around you; instead, the benefits most people see in government jobs are fat pensions and a bureaucracy that, if you're clever enough, you can get lost enough in to where you don't actually need to work to get paid. If anything ever hits the fan, you have multimillion-dollar, politically-connected attorneys ready to serve you.

In the case of police unions, it strengthens the "thin blue line" into a powerful bureaucracy that only looks out for the interests of its members, very often to the detriment of the people these public servants are supposed to be serving (and always in cases such as we've seen in Chicagoland recently.)

I would love counterexamples to this thought. I can't seem to find any of recent noteworthiness, but that could be due to the current anti-law-enforcement/anti-government streak getting pageviews in the news these days.
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Haiku comes to mind. It's an open source reimplementation of BeOS. Unfortunately it's still alpha like ReactOS.
Throughout history there are many cases of the lone tinkerer who achieves the breakthrough going up against much better funded adversaries.

Take the case of the Wright Brothers who faced two well funded adversaries. Samuel Pierpont Langley had a chair at Harvard, worked at the Smithsonian and had among others funding him $50K from the US War Department. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was an avid aviation enthusiast and an already wealthy man. One of Bell's assistants was Glenn Curtiss who went on to found his own plane company.

Who would bet on two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio? No one, yet they were the first to fly.

The first popular microcomputer would surely come from IBM or HP yet it didn't. Two guys in a Cupertino garage built it and neither of them was a college graduate.

This guy may fail but I am not going to bet against him. In fact I hope they televise the race between the Comma and the Tesla. I'll bring the popcorn.
I know it's far from production ready. But he's demonstrated an ability to put together quite a diverse collection of hardware and software and get it all to work together. I'm impressed.
Diagrams are really good looking, anyone know of a tool to create attractive diagrams, quickly?
For children it is true that they have no control over the income level which they are born into, but that changes in adulthood when one has autonomy. Adults capable of making decisions that can change the course of their lives, whether they do that or not depends on their choices.
Link to the relevant scene [kind of NSFW]:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5eGo1vE41w

I can say I've had a lot of moments where I run into a situation in my actual life that makes me feel like I'm living in an episode of this show. It's a modern-day Twilight zone, and although I wouldn't say it's always a hit, when it's good, it's really good.
Tablets are computers.
I think generally when every alarm bell in your monitoring system goes off the first thing you do is question whether monitoring is broken. When you confirm there is a problem this big, you panic and try to fix it really fast. Then you call your other on-call guys and tell them you actually have an "oh, shit" situation.

Once you recognize there's a serious problem, THEN you make the public announcement. Ah, the life of ops.
Love this idea, but I do not recommend the book. It's clearly a science article that has been stretched into 250 pages. Same idea, repeated repeated repeated.

I highly recommend a summary, unless you think you'll benefit from reading twenty examples of the same concept. It's one of the few books that I started but didn't finish this year.
Not every story has two sides, nor necessarily are those two sides (when they exist) equally valid. The idea that journalists should always check "both sides of the story" basically manufactures false dichotomies.
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I guess this methodology is nice, but consider how hard it can be to even file a complaint:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8v7lF5ttlQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h08jwjYVNAE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfLwdyMbSHE

As you can see, the cops, in true fascist form, take extremely unkindly to the concept of filing complaints. I highly doubt that the numbers used by 538 are inclusive, given how many complaints never make it to the official statistics or how many times citizens are abused and don't file a complaint for fear of further abuse.

To be fair, there's also not much data on which reports may be false, but who cares about mincing a minuscule percentage of the crystal clear data: the police in the US are a gang of criminals on the streets who are utterly out of control and have to be severely and immediately curbed/reduced for the sake of public safety. The cops can't stop slaughtering unarmed people. The cops can't stop seizing people's property. The cops won't stop covering up bad behavior of other cops. If one of a gang's members murders someone and the others cover it up, do we simper that it was only "one bad apple" and that the rest of the gang members are fine? No.

Whether in Chicago or elsewhere, the police are completely self servingly corrupt, and cover up for their fellows rather than clean house and support justice. I guarantee that there cannot be racial peace in this country without a public defeat being chalked for the police nationwide. The rest of us will benefit from such a defeat as well, of course.
I wouldn't consider that a benefit, since I don't want every site I visit to ping Google's servers.

I haven't researched it in depth, but it seems like an attempt to appify the Web even more and bring it under Google's control. A "webpage" just becomes a brief side trip from the Google homepage, with a giant back button to send your traffic back to Google rather than deeper into your site.

The fox (any single, large company with an interest in replacing the WWW with itself) should not be guarding the henhouse (the WWW). I mean that in reference to Chrome, appification, and things like AMP. It isn't good for publishers or for the future of the open Web.

It seems absurd for sites to put code on their pages that adds a giant "go back to Google.com" banner on top of their pages, if that's what it does.
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And the Europeans are always incredulous when they learn that the infant mortality rate in the U.S.A. is correlated with the zip code.
John Gilmore's oft quoted in these cases: "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." When, if ever, will politicians learn this? Will it take a generation that has grown up on the Internet and watched this to make them realize these actions are pretty futile?
I tried ordering from doordash about 30 minutes ago (approximately 7:20pm PST) and my card got declined, which was presumably because of this outage.
They also don't seem to count the "partial degradation" periods as downtime; Stripe.js and Checkout.js both have a 9m red bar, but Checkout.js has had a lot of "partial degradation" periods. Both sit on 99.992% uptime, though. Maybe that's not so bad; it would depend on how severe a "partial degradation" can be and still be classified that way, I suppose.
>What's the AI project that would blow people away, even if it was a shadow of a working prototype?

Robot that can build a better robot?
The news is misrepresenting what is actually happening.

A judge ruled for a 48 hour ban of WhatsApp from telcos to try to coerce WhatsApp into releasing private chat information for an ongoing criminal investigation (wild guess: they want information from politically exposed actors due to the recent corruption investigations). There are precedents, and that's a tactic local judges are using to try to get cooperation from international private companies.

This is the actual fact, but the article is conflating that with Marco Civil and other regulatory attempts that have nothing to do with this particular court ruling.

TL;DR TechCrunch publishes unchecked, alarmist news.
Absolutely agree. I'm reading the book now, and it feels like hundreds of examples to reinforce the same idea over and over again. Granted, she varies the topics (business, parenting, sports, academics, etc..) - but the takeaways are exactly the same, and in each case the data draws the same conclusions repeatedly. Still, an interesting topic and not bad for light commute reading.
That's crazy. I was in Brazil for a month. everybody was on whatsapp. Facebook a distant second for message volume.

SMS wasn't even on the radar.
>We keep kicking the can down the road, and its time to own up to the liabilities we've created.

I'm afraid it's quite impossible to 'own up' to those liabilities. Look at the debt clock:
http://www.usdebtclock.org/

The GAAP liabilities of USG amount to $100 trillion, yet the net assets of the entire US are only $116 trillion. Nearly all of the assets in the entire country would need to be sold to pay for the liability to be incurred.

I'm afraid the only solution is to reduce benefits, primarily reducing social security payments (particularly when most of the boomers are drawing on them) and cutting medical spending - probably by instituting controls on what the government will pay for in terms of end-of-life care.
This is insane, this judge must be on a power trip. WhatsApp is now part of Brazilian social life and economy. Everyone here is part of many groups of friends, family or workmates, that is where most instant communication happens.

In my company, our deployment engineers, who usually are on very remote places with bad and unreliable internet, rely on WhatsApp. I'm not saying this is the best practice, but this is simply the way Brazil works right now. Even the mobile phone companies offer plans with free WhatsApp connection, because that is what most people here care about. Another example: In Brazil, 9 in 10 doctors use WhatsApp to talk to patients (http://www.cityam.com/230372/digital-health-wearables-and-ap...).

To disregard all the people and businesses that rely on WhatsApp for whatever reason is unbelievable. But this is not without precedent, once another Brazilian judge blocked YouTube for a whole day because it refused to take down a celebrity video.

This says a lot about the over-sized, inefficient, and stupid state we have, always meddling and intervening.
(Caitlyn. Caitlyn Jenner. Surely the definition of "transgender" couldn't have eluded you while you were making a point about her being transgender?)
Tracing the Wright's development process, it's the first example I know of of a directed research and development program. The Wrights formulated a clear goal, identified the problems needing solutions, developed a series of prototypes aimed at proving each solution, did laboratory experiments to resolve others, invented physical theories to resolve still more, carefully documented their progress, etc.

I.e. they did much more than simply throw some ideas and parts together and see what stuck, like every other contemporary experimenter.
It wasn't Congress that decided that.

It is a single judge that gave an order to block the service for 48 hours.

It can be reversed if another judge decides the "liminar" (I don't know how to say this in English, it's a temporary decision) shouldn't been given.
Carol Dweck (the first name mentioned in that article) is the author of the book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000FCKPHG/ref=dp-kindle-re...
This is the place the Olympics are going to be this summer. I can't help but hope the people use it as a stage to protest, but would imagine the media would largely ignore it.
How is this any better than a database?
It sounds like you've dismissed any economist who doesn't agree with you.

You claim raising the minimum wage would never raise prices nor cause unemployment to rise. Ok, let's set it to $1000 a hr. Do you really think that would have no effect on either of those? Maybe there's some range on increase where the effects are offset by other effects but it's not lying to believe those effects will become real at some point.
From someone living in Brazil, this article is a clickbait full of misinformation.

First off, we are nowhere near "shutting down social web". WhatsApp was shutdown by a court order because they did not comply with a subpoena to hand over information from a user in July and August. I recently submitted a link with a local (Brazilian) newspaper explaining the issue.

>If Brazil’s conservative Congress gets its way, they’re going to take down the entire social web as we know it, with bills circulating through the legislature to criminalize posting social media content and to allow the government to spy on its citizens.

Conservatives are not the only ones trying to censor the internet in here, absolutely every politician wants it.

>It’s an about-face from last year, when President Dilma Rousseff approved Marco Civil, a groundbreaking Internet “Bill of Rights”, as a response to the Snowden revelations that the NSA was spying on Brazil. The landmark bill, Brazil’s first internet legislation, protects net neutrality, user privacy and freedom of speech.

On the contrary! Marco Civil threatens user privacy (more below), and the "net neutrality" part has lead to just the same that happened today: Mobile companies were forced to shutdown their "free WhatsApp and Facebook" plans, making millions get blocked from WhatsApp[4]. Anyway, back to the privacy issues, article 11 of the text[1] is the more worrying one. Some highlights:

§ 2º A autoridade policial ou administrativa poderá requerer cautelarmente que
os registros de conexão sejam guardados por prazo superior ao previsto no
caput.
§ 4º O provedor responsável pela guarda dos registros deverá manter sigilo em
relação ao requerimento previsto no § 2º

It says basically that police can require records of visited CONTENT without a court order and the ISP is required to supply that without informing the user. Somewhere else in the text it forces ISPs to store user history for a year. If the text really wanted to protect user privacy it would say something about cryptography, which isn't mentioned anywhere in the text.

Article 2 says there must be a "social purpose" for websites and that gov. may take websites down if it feels it doesn't serve the public interest. Brazilian govt. already has a history of censoring YouTube and Facebook videos involving politicians, judges or celebrities[5][2][3].

[1] http://www.camara.gov.br/proposicoesWeb/prop_mostrarintegra?...

[2] http://oglobo.globo.com/tecnologia/para-nao-sair-do-ar-no-br...

[3] http://www.conjur.com.br/2012-ago-08/google-retirar-ar-video...

[4] http://gizmodo.uol.com.br/tim-claro-twitter-gratis/

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYQktiGLhw
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The National Socialists were a legitimate, popular political party in Germany, until they went too far off the rails for anyone to pull them back on.

Given the very serious discussions in US politics about placing US citizens in concentration camps and refusing them re-entry to the country based on their religion, the question about at what point a party becomes the National Socialists must be a legitimate one to ask. Clearly we're not there yet. But also, clearly there's a nonzero chance that we might find ourselves there very soon.
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Can't you just hash your mysql database instead of a blockchain? Where's the efficiency in using a private blockchain?
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That sounds like a more interesting story - do you have any links to learn more about it? (even if they are in Portuguese) Thanks!
my simple answer is, encryption works by creating a function which is vastly more costly in one direction (encryption) than the other (cracking).

for any computing power available, if you apply x seconds of computation to encrypt with a complex key, it will take a multiple of x years to crack it.

as long as that multiple remains, which cryptology seeks to improve, just applying more computing power will never obsolete modern encryption methods.
Well the problem with the growth mindset is that ultimately you die, so your growth does a nosedive eventually.

If something excites or intrigues you, then do it. But don't delude yourself that your personal growth really matters.
It's linked in the article: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/mercado/2015/12/1719934-justica...
The response from the government was that they shouldn't strike. What does the government think they should do? Are they implying some other viable action?
If it must be Linux, there's always https://crux.nu
Love stripe, but situations like these, eek.

Alternative: accepton. Allows me to use stripe and others.

If Stripe's down, then it will allow me to accept payments via Paypal or other. Good for these scenarios.
This is exactly what the judge wants. He is trying to get Whatsapp to comply with his request. What could be a better way to do this then to drive millions of users to a competitor? The longer Whatsapp holds out, the more users leave the service, possibly for good.

Thing is, this better be a really important case. Because if users migrate and stay on Telegram, it could be much harder for Brazilian courts to get records in the future.
No better time than Christmas to have your payment platform go down :(. I can't imagine the clusterfuck at the Stripe offices atm. Overnighters ahoy!
If all you want is a job then this will be easier if your diploma says UC Berkeley vs self-taught. We can split hairs all day about exceptional cases of people being great at something without a formal education but for the great majority of people a college degree is simply the new minimal education that employers are seeking.
How do you judge what content from another outlet is just repeating what you already know and what's new? It gets pretty tedious seeing further articles that are largely duplicates of what you just read.
That's sorta the ultimate in fixed mindsets, right? That eventually we'll all be dead, and so none of it matters.

It's true, but also irrelevant. Focus on what you can do & experience while you're alive, because who cares what happens once we're dead? The scale of granularity that you use to look at life is as arbitrary as the emotional tenor of it, so why not focus in on a timescale that'll actually be interesting?
That's really interesting! I have only a passing education in quantum computers, which is why my comment is so devoid of detail... I really should learn more.
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I am from Brazil, and although bizarre decisions happened before, I can say that this time they actually went through with it, and I can't talk to my psychologist (I only communicate with her with WhatsApp, I never considered that the government would ever actually shut it down).

As for the article it is one of the most bizarrely biased articles I ever read, spouting some information that are outright lies.

Example: it says that Marco Civil law was an example of the congress favouring internet openness, that is an outright lie, the judge that banned WhatsApp for 48 hours, used Marco Civil to do it, if Marco Civil had never passed, WhatsApp would not be banned today.

Another innacuracy is saying that it is a "conservative" congress dominated by "evangelical extremists" and "military apologists"

The biggest bloc in the congress was allied with the leftist president in the elections, and still is mostly allied with said president. (the exception is "PSC", that is a socialist christian party, they tend to ignore the president wishes a lot, still it is 13 deputies out of 79 in that bloc)

Second biggest, is indeed right-leaning, but their policies resemble US democratic party of the 90s, instead of true conservatism.

Third bloc is dominated by a party with no political leanings to left, or right (they only do whatever it takes to stay in power, and have left and right politicians in their ranks). The vice-president is of that party, and they are in "opposition" only because they want the vice-president to take over.

Fourth is PT, with 59 seats, it is the president party, and is named "workers party" and has many outright communist people in it.

Next 3 groups are socialist, then there is the democrats party, that has policies like US democrats, then the rest of the parties are mostly socialist too.

In total there are from 512 lawmakers, 108 are "conservative".

Also, I've been following the votes on the Uber ban on Brazil, almost in all cases left wing parties that voted to ban Uber (and some even proposed to not only ban Uber, but make a law that make apps that call regular taxis to send lots of personal information to the governmens, including full GPS-tracked route of the person while inside the cab).

Meanwhile the big bloc that is "conservative" (the one that on my list is on the second biggest bloc in the congress) is the one that regularly vote against laws that restrict freedoms.

Still, our congress is awful, and is indeed proposing (and sometimes passing) lots and lots of bullshit laws.
I work at Stripe. We're back up now. Your customers can safely retry any failed payments. We'll post a public postmortem over the next few days with more information.

If you need any help, please drop us a line at support@stripe.com (and feel free to CC me; I'm michael@stripe.com).
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[hint for ESL folks: the adjective "free" used twice]
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This is what I keep thinking. People are talking about an imminent winter, but I don't see how VC money could drain out that fast.
>> DHS Giving Firms Free Penetration Tests

Whether they want them or not...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10695611
There's a common misinterpretation of the end of that phrase -- I blame the Osmonds:

"One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch, girl /

Oh, give it one more try /

Before you give up on love"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96HqPpjI3UY
I think Mazda made a smart move with its "Driving Matters" campaign. "Point A to Point B" econoboxes may not be long for this world, but there are many who will hold on to their manual steering for decades to come, just as they held on to their manual transmissions. Along with the driverless car revolution, I expect an utter gutting of the segment whose only selling point is being cheap and reliable, and a huge renaissance of the "fun to drive" class.