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The ban got overturned for exceeding the authority of the health department.
They'll probably still be liable. I'm not sure it is something the consumer can indemnify them of.
Most places only care that you were a student with active edu. I graduated years ago and I still use the edu without problem. Most things say you need to be a student from university. Which I am/was. Very few places say actively enrolled student. It's a legal gray area in my opinion.
> Why would you reward a tractor company that sells you stuff under screwy conditions?

Probably because that tractor company is the only one left by either suing its competition, colluding with them to both adopt anti-consumer license agreements, buying them out, or lobbying politicians to making competition illegal by abuse of patent or copyright law.
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I think all the questions are right, but I find that ENPS (like NPS) to be of questionable value, at best. (The research & calculations behind NPS are suspect and non-predictive, and are probably used in the wrong way by most organizations. I can see ENPS being even worse, especially given that most HR groups within organizations have marginal competency in what they are supposed to be competent at, much less statistics.)
"go through whatever means necessary" sounds like questionable rhetoric to support your position. The difficulty involved in torrenting is quite low and there's arguably little moral reason to avoid doing so in this case since the problem is these people usually aren't allowed to purchase the content.
You are dropping important context. See also [1].

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6260
Google used to implement this, DDG still implements this, most small->medium XMPP servers still implement this. For a while, Facebook was the odd one out for not supporting it.

Spam was less of a problem than e.g. spam on AIM. There's the fact that it's not any harder to sign up for AIM than a XMPP network, it's not popular enough and the audience too tech-savvy for spammers to bother, and if a specific host was a bad apple it's easy to BL them.
Netflix has an obvious economic incentive to allow location spoofing. As long as you are paying them, they make money. I read a statistic that claimed Netflix had ~300k users in Australia, even though Netflix was technically "not available" in Australia.

The content rights-holders are the ones dependent on the licensing restrictions. They're the ones who get upset when users circumvent those restrictions, not Netflix.

Netflix faces two threats: 1) economic loss from foreign subscribers canceling their subscription because location spoofing no longer works, and 2) economic loss from rights-holders suing Netflix for a negligently insufficient blocking system.

It is in Netflix's best interest to only haphazardly block spoofing, i.e. implement a weak technical system, as long as they can legally prove they are making a "best effort" to detect and block location spoofing. Of course, any semi-technical person knows that even a best effort will fail, because any sort of blocking system is an endless game of cat-and-mouse that Netflix can never win.

Basically, yeah, they're "blocking" proxies, but ;-) ;-) ;-), they know you can still do it.
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not for long.

what i want to know: where are people from portland moving to?
So who has control?

Why are we(the shareholders) paying the top CEOs if they cant control their company?

Why should they be rewarded for hurting us?

How do cultures get established and reinforced if not through management's expectations and actions?

I think all of these questions point to the fact that we are letting those reaping the benefits abrogate the responsibilities.

I definitely think that they should be tied more closely together if we want something like market forces to help resolve the problems at hand instead of paying people to effect NO change (or effectively random change).
The website is beautiful and performant (Safari on iPhone 6+). Great job. I also love this idea. I was looking for something just like it.

EDIT:

https://www.linkpack.io/terms/

I would love to see an inplementation of this from an org with a more DuckDuckGo-like philosophy. Where personal and tracking information is simply not collected.
CentOS/RHEL 6.7 has:

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_5.3p1 OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013

So... not vulnerable? Posted article says: This affects OpenSSH versions 5.4 through 7.1.
> I get the benevolent vibes when I see comments like golergka's.

Thanks, but why? My comment works in completely capitalist self-interest way, even when you forget about all the joy of programming.
"This is the only asset class with significantly above average gains for decades."

One can't just look at the increase in value of Real Estate over time, one must also consider the cost of holding that asset. Unlike many other assets Real Estate is very expensive to own (taxes, maintenance, mortgage interest). That all adds up.

Over the long term it's typically better to own than rent (in part because our tax system significantly favors owners over renters). However, people that talk about buying more house than they need (or a far more expensive house than they need) and then say "but it's an investment so it's OK" usually have no clue. Long term it's hard to consistently 'make' money on a home you live in.

Commercial or investment real estate is a whole different ball game... but when it comes to your own home the best financial decision is usually to live modestly (and understand that a bigger or fancier house is a cost and no "an investment").
The owners of Yahoo don't care if there are more good things to come or even if Yahoo is gutted and killed as long as they don't have to pay taxes on their windfall Alibaba gains.
I found an article[0] from the end of 2014 that mentions they are using linux for some Open Compute project based switches (OCX models), as well as Yocto Linux as KVM hypervisor for JunOS on some models.

[0] http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/nethub/juniper-emb...
What you are saying is only true if the overall market is steady.. i.e. all your friends keep their jobs in case you lose your job. For example:

Let's say you save 200k, and buy a house for 1 million. You take out a loan from the bank for 800k.

Opps market correction. You lose your job, and a lot of your friends do too. Your house is now worth 600k. You either sell for 600k and pay the bank another 200k for a total loss of 400k, or you go the bankruptcy route and "only" lose 200k and your credit for 7 years.

Weather or not you had 200k positive equity for 6 months has nothing to do with it. Positive equity is great when something bad happens to YOU and YOU need to get out, but if it happens to everyone - that positive equity very quickly flips to negative equity.
Which proves that the intelligence community is above congress. We have more than 3 branches of government and they are all certainly NOT ALL EQUAL.
Not really. They used the forever frame, dynamic script tags with jsonp, dynamic <img> tags, and other tricks (at least at the beginning).
> But more and more I hear people say they feel justified pirating anything not on netflix

As somebody from a "2nd world & irrelevant" country (Czech Republic, we are in the EU), the situation is:

* Netflix launched here with the global launch, not even Netflix' own shows are fully on Netflix, because Netflix licensed them to the local TV channels;

* Hulu is not available outside the US (it says so when I go there);

* Amazon TV, iTunes do not operate here;

* there are local "TV streaming" competitors but they usually only have Czech (i.e. bad) TV shows.

I believe this is a situation common in many of the countries where Netflix recently launched -- and that was the complaint that started this thread.
You've gone through significant effort to PAY for content because you enjoy it and respect its creators, yet you are nevertheless rebuffed. They don't want your money, simply because of where you live (nothing personal). You can now either steal that show or abstain - oh and that pang of bewildered insult that you feel, you're not entitled to it, the law is the law.

Somehow I'm having a bit of difficulty empathizing with the law here.
> when different bases are being used for the axes.

um... there is a constant for converting between any two log bases... so I have no clue what you are claiming is wrong. It is a factor of 1.5849625007211563 for converting between log base 2 and log base 3...

A log scale is a log scale is a log scale. There is no "log-base 3" or "log-base 2" scale.
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Google or Facebook — may be, they're known for their exceptional engineer culture. But Amazon and other beurocracy-heavy companies with manager-oriented culture look like a disadvantage in the CV to me.
There's an online game from 2001 that I can't find any information on. I went as far as contacting the trademark owners and even they don't have anything, any source code, any images. Pre-internet and pre-google will probably mean the same soon.
After seeing this article, I noticed my Nest hadn't been "online" since December 26th.

It could not see any wifi ssid's: not mine, not my neighbors', nor my iPhone's hotspot held right next to it. It was fully charged, not sluggish -- none of the problems listed as 'typical problems'.

I went through the menu system and did a reset. I think that was a soft reboot. Still no success.

Then I found you could reset it by pushing it in for 10 seconds until it turns off. It seemed more like a hard reset, and voila -- network back up.

It's anecdotal, but this firmware update doesn't seem to be just about the charging. They seem to have messed up the wireless capabilities until a hard reset is performed.
I wish someone would make a good open-source library for this complicated and annoying but valuable task.

We did some work in 2014 on an archive of all stories posted to HN, with the goals of (a) having a lightweight, readable version of everything quickly available and (b) doing analytics on the content. But we got bogged down on getting the actual content programmatically across the full spectrum of cases. This is one of those problems where not merely one devil is in the details but a whole legion of them, and not the glamorous kind. Getting it right would have sucked up all our resources, and the APIs out there (e.g. Readability) came with problems too, so we dropped the project.

But for a programmer who enjoys the snake-pit-of-corner-cases type of challenge, this would make a fine project, one with real public-service potential. We can't work on it ourselves, but we'd consider funding it.
It would allow them to add a criminal charge of possessing an illegal cell phone to people who have encrypted cell phones, then possibly force them to decrypt it through intimidation.
Even if you fully sympathize with their desire to enable law enforcement, the bill would effectively ban iPhones and no one who voted for it would ever hold office again.
Currency is a class of asset. A currency is an asset that maintains value, is highly liquid (fungible), and can serve as a unit of account. Of the three criteria, “real estate” as described by the OP only falls short in the third instance. Hence it is as “currency-like” as certain more traditional components of the monetary supply.

This is unusual since real estate is typically not very liquid, or at least wasn't considered to be liquid ‘enough’ and typically earns rates of return (net of maintenance) and had high opportunity costs (much how cigarettes in POW camps can only serve as currency if the prisoner decides not to actually smoke them, homes owned by those who dwell in them are not available for liquidation).
It's especially annoying if you log-in on a SaaS service to find out their redesign makes things worse. Actions that took one click, now take three clicks. As they seperated their single products into different products, removing navigation elements, introducing long animations, don't update their CSS for mobile devices, etc.
That's good to know, next time I'm evaluating whether to switch text editors (which happens plenty) - I'll have to keep that in mind (or more importantly try and not discount Atom immediately because 'Oh yeah, doesn't it have a problem with $HOME/.git?')
>it boggles my mind how comfortably everybody seems able to justify it.

People perform any number of mental gymnastics in order to justify their own interests. I'm reading A Struggle for Power right now and the 10 years before the American Revolution was basically one long exercise in mental gymnastics by both sides.

We act on our interests and justify them post facto.
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Have any old Zip disks laying around (or did you ever)? How accessible are the contents to you today?

Now imagine trying to get that data 150 years from now.
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In my example I'm talking about a seed stage startup where the engineer being hired is going to be a critical part of the team and has relevant experience. No board, no major dilution yet. Don't get me wrong, 2% is much more applicable than 5%, but I don't think 5% would be unheard of.

A month ago I talked with a founder of a company with a huge angel round in the bank looking for an experienced technical lead, and he was very comfortable giving ~2-3% equity for it (smart guy!).

Perhaps 0.5%-1% is more common, but that doesn't mean you should take the job at that level. I was answering the question of what this type of hire is worth, not what they commonly get.
From the article
"So there I was, right out on the razors-edge, implementing production networks with an untested OS on brand new hardware. And oh how it failed."

Doing Enterprise IT Arch work, I turned down more than one hot new system and put others through significant lab work, to avoid this fun. It's hard, it's expensive and it's why I wish more hardware was open.
I most often run into using super() with __init__(). This makes the problem with calling super from a specific superclass very obvious. Every class along the hierarchy needs to ensure that it's __init__() gets called (or you end up with a Franken-object that hasn't been properly initialized).

I can't remember a time when I've had a class that multiply inherits and I want to change which superclass overrides on a per-method basis (i.e. given class A(B, C), some method A.foo() should call B.foo() and some method A.bar() should call C.bar(), although both B and C can both bar() and foo()). However, I grant that that _could_ happen. I don't have a solution right now that's better than explicitly referring to the unbound method of the subclass to whose implementation you want to refer.
Completely agree. Strong evidence for this too when you view his link to his annotations on one of the first versions. The API hardly changed.
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People often ask me: "If there were no copyright law, how would studios earn money?"

What artists and moviemakers could do is, sell the right to see contents before others. Assuming that DRM is cracked and leaked after some time and will inevitably fall into the "public domain", users would not buy "a song" or "a movie", but the lifestyle of watching it directly out from the factory, while others would have to wait until it's cracked.

When the season 2, 3 and 4 of Arrow aren't available in Europe, we know that Netflix isn't selling the lifestyle of being up-to-date with fashion.
I agree. Like even in the Minneapolis area, the salary is probably more like 70-80k/yr for a senior developer unless you're with a much larger company and you have some specialized skills on top of project management experience then the number I can see sorta push above 80k/yr. But honestly, I've never seen it such figures beyond that for senior developer positions around here.

By then, most people I assume have to much into a management track to see larger numbers (more responsibilities and the like with come with it).
There may be another link between QE and housing: I suspect a large motivator of QE was to avoid deflation, which could have caused a large number of foreclosures. So the notion of QE propping up home prices might have been the intended effect.

Edit: this also seems in accord with your notion of housing as a currency. If dollar inflation is tied to home prices, then to allow prices to drop is to deflate the dollar - something our government won't allow. So home prices have to be protected as a form of anti-deflationary measures.
The Ember docs recently changed to brown on light orange. https://guides.emberjs.com/v2.2.0/

I get that it's their brand colours, but really? Look how much more readable the older docs are: https://guides.emberjs.com/v2.1.0/
> the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when

That's just stupid, or there is some very sick collusion and conflict of interests going on there. Normal creators should be interested in maximizing reach, not in limiting it. The more reach they get - the higher should be their profit.
For example, the "zip code" for a Canadian Postal Code of K8Q 5T6 is 856XX, where the last two digits can be anything. So make a valid address for zip 85601, enter it into Hulu as the address for your Canadian credit card, and both Hulu and the bank will accept it as valid. (Or at least some banks will, the first card I tried didn't work. The second one did).
In addition to this, OpenBSD develops PacketFilter, aka PF, and so OpenBSD is the place to go for the latest and greatest from that project (and many other OpenBSD projects).
That's not really true. For one, there is surprisingly little legal precedent for forcing someone to give up a password. It's a gray area on the edge of a 5th amendment violation. Secondly, consider the case of finding a dead body with a locked iPhone in the pocket. That phone is a brick for all eternity. Thirdly, snooping without someone's knowledge is very frequently supported by court orders. It's not a violation of due process or privacy.
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If there wasn't an extreme housing shortage and expectations for it to continue long-term then such investors wouldn't be interested in the first place. It's a symptom, and probably not much of a cause.
>renewable subsidies are huge, or at least have been as of late.

relative to what? Fossil fuels in the US still get huge subsidies.
> Streaming always requires a license because it involves making a copy.

This does not apply in Germany.

Copies that exist purely in cache, or, copies, that stop working after some time, are always legal, and you need no license for that.

It’s why streaming music from a chinese website is legal.
Let the law go through and watch it have no effect whatsoever.

Perhaps if Apple wanted to make a statement, they could cease selling iPhones in NY and let the populous let them fix it by protesting to their elected officials.

If push comes to shove, the bill is pretty poorly written. At the time of selling the smartphone, the seller sold an unlocked and unencrypted device. It's only after the user logs into the device that any encryption / locking is carried out. Every seller can demonstrate that they can turn on and access any unused phone that they happen to carry. "Here's the default code 0000, go nuts officer!"

Assuming the above doesn't hold water, we can do another little thought experiment. I note that Matthew Titon (the bill's sponsor) is a former Lawyer. My simplistic understanding of the rules of the bar (IANAL) suggest that a lawyer that used such an unlockable / decryptable phone would be potentially breaking the rules of the bar when it comes to confidentiality. Hence no-one in that profession would be advised to buy a new phone in NY State that was used for work purposes if this bill went through.

Another counterpoint to consider, let's say that China decided to legislate that no phone could be manufactured in China without an ability for the Chinese government to unlock / decrypt the device. How willing would US officials be to use such a phone?

This bill really highlights that people that don't understand technology shouldn't attempt legislating against it without consultation with actual professionals.
Unless you're doing some very specialized in-demand work I seriously doubt anyone will make 150k/yr at the start.
Why do you have "democratic" in scare-quotes? That action is completely democratic. If a bunch of jerks buy up 60% of a town and move in, and now comprise a majority of the population, then they have every right to vote for horrible new laws (assuming they don't get trumped by state or federal laws of course). That's the nature of democracy. If you're opposed to that, then you're by definition opposed to democracy.

Luckily, modern democracies involve multiple layers of government (town/city, county, state, federal) to serve as a moderating effect to prevent some little town full of jerks legislating blatantly horrible stuff, but those jerks do have the right to move where they want, buy property, and to vote. To deny them those rights is undemocratic.

>Imagine a group that believes it should be able to practice virgin sacrifice, ..... Do the rest of us just sit by and say, .....

Well, it depends. Are they in a town within your country? Then obviously higher-level laws are going to prevent that kind of thing, and the feds have the right to send in the National Guard and take over the place for violating state and federal laws so blatantly, then prosecute everyone involved. However, if they're a separate country (and the group is the country; i.e. the country as a whole believes in this crap), then it's a little trickier. What is your proposal about how to deal with this screwed-up society? Invade, and install a puppet government? When has that ever gone well in the past? Not recently. Turn it into an imperial possession where the citizens there have no rights except what the imperial governor decrees? Maybe, but this also means you opposed democracy. Apply pressure from outside with things like sanctions? That seems to be the modern method, and doesn't seem to work too well either (look at the wonders it's done for North Korea). Honestly, this is something you could debate all day long, there's no easy answer.
Would be good to see a plot of housing prices in SF during the last bubble and the post-bubble ramifications. We've been here before so not including that graph seems strange.
How one gets into anti-malware/virus business nowadays? I mean, e.g. you have to get a signatures database somewhere - are these available on the market?
We use WinSCP also, a file copying utility; it would be useful to know whether that's affected if anybody has that info.
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Technically Wicket is an Apache project too...
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yep. This is a common argument against using % of income for housing burden as a measure.

If you make $200K, paying 40% of your salary for housing is much less of a burden than if you make $20k. (e.g. you are left with a much larger amount of money to pay for necessities like food, and probably still have quite a large disposable income)
No, it would not. The law only criminalizes the "sale or lease" of such a device, not possession.
The argument about exposure is a general argument against home ownership. If you own a home in Detroit and work for Ford, you are doubly exposed to the region's financial health. If you live in Houston and work for an oil company you are doubly exposed. This is why I think home ownership is overrated. We should be looking for policies that enable people to adapt to changing economic situations, even if that means moving from place to place, and home ownership (which we heavily incentivize in the US) actively hampers that.