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Do you have examples of the auto industry fighting safety features? I used to own an early 70s Oldsmobile Toronado which was available with both ABS and airbags. A quick Google search suggests that Chrysler and Ford had similar braking systems in 1971, possibly even better. ABS was not required by US law until 2011. 40 years after the US domestics first offered it.

I believe Ford made a big deal out of their padded dashboards in the 1950s as well but I would have to dig up references to that.

While Volvo has a great safety record they are not even close to the only manufacturer with a history of adding safety features to their cars. Safety is good business, the US domestics have known this for decades.

The 1971 Oldsmobile Torornado brochure prominently features ABS and specifically calls out the safety features available in that year: http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/olds/71toro/bilder/6.jpg
A simple way out of that trap is to self-followup with "Take as long as you want to think it over", or "Do you have any questions about my proposal?", or the aggressive "Any objections, or do we have an agreement?" or of course the 21st Century [take out your phone while you wait].
> That and the standard narrative is just weird. We know from the fossil record that humans have had large craniums and by extension complex modern brains for at least hundreds of thousands of years. What the heck were we doing for all that time? Saying civilization is only ~10k years old is like saying "birds have had wings for millions of years but they only recently started flying."

That's nonsense, brains don't exist to enable globe-spanning civilisations (nor do globe-spanning civilisations require it as argentine ants demonstrate).

What the heck were we doing for all that time? Surviving at all was a big one (and there's suggestions of serious population bottlenecks before we got out of africa), then there was spreading throughout the planet, and then the ratcheting of ideas requires that people who could have ideas have the leisure to have and apply them so you need a certain population density and preexisting social complexity.

You could just as well wonder what we were doing for the first 10000 years of civilisation (or whatever) and why it took so long to invent computers so there must have been something fishy going on. Or look at the Antikythera mechanism and wonder what the hell we've been doing with those complex computery brains that we didn't get to programmable automation and computers for 2000 years.
Got to about the point where the author tried to say that facebook could be replaced instantly without causing any waves... Sorry, no, it can't. Basically this article is full of hot air and not much else.
The rules are simple and clear – their consequences are not.

The game ends when both players have passed in succession. Each player may pass whenever they want. That's it. It's super clear. Figuring out when you can safely pass? That takes years of study. But essentially it is a strategic decision, not part of the rules. You can pass throughout the entire game, it would just be a really dumb strategy.

Regular players make counting points more advanced than it has to be in the interest of speed (similar to how mental maths tricks can be very advanced ways of computing simple sums or products).

The score is determined by the number of pieces you can put down on the board. That's it. (From this follows, of course, that empty intersection your opponent has solidly surrounded is probably not going to count toward your score because your opponent can kill whatever you try to play in there.)
> I've never heard from anyone that choosing/using Mercurial was a poor decision.

I liked hg too, but as the passage of time has indicated choosing it for one's project would have been a mistake, as git has effectively won.
http://kc.my-junk.info/hft-books/

^^ a blog post where I collect this stuff as I answer this question so often.
Yes! ;)

I wonder if suction cups under high vacuum could work.
The miners could always revert from a hard fork that was put out under coercion, right?
Ugh. I'm almost sorry I asked.

I assumed it must have been something much more benign.. Like too lazy to throw away used ones. My frame of reference is so different than that environment, I couldn't imagine someone would do that for that reason.
"Chicken Lickens"? I'm going to assume the author means Chicken Littles. Or is that a British thing?
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These are my thoughts(no affiliation with YC) and are probably completely wrong. Unless the technology your delivering is special I would think delivery risk is minimal so why wait to apply. If your beta has paying customers you will have jumped a pretty big hurdle and might consider waiting . Otherwise, I wouldn't wait. You might mention your time line in your app.
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> we'd prefer a device that allows us to send its signals to a server we own and operate

There are lots of cameras that do that. You can even mix and match software and hardware making for real options, not just some vertically integrated service.

So is the rub that you think that such a device just shouldn't exist for anyone?
"This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Insurance Institute For Highway Safety."

No one is safe from link rot.
One of the most important properties of Zcash is "selective disclosure." Effectively, you can audit and perform proofs-of-solvency with the same security as in other cryptocurrencies.

But yes, if someone on the inside "steals" the money, nobody will figure out where it went.
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I liked The Big Short a lot, but Flash Boys was so bad that I found myself wondering how trustworthy The Big Short was.

You can see part of what's problematic about the latter book just from this Guardian summary of it. The summary would have us believe that HFT is a trick employed by giant Wall Street banks to screw over smaller players. But Katsuyama, the protagonist of Lewis' book, was a big-bank trader, paid exorbitant amounts of money to tax large block orders by pension and hedge funds, and outraged by his inability to compete with algorithms that were bidding that tax down.

I'm uncomfortable calling any giant financial firm "trustworthy", but if you were going to pick one firm that has come close to earning that label, it's Vanguard. Vanguard's chief investment officer has repeatedly and unequivocally stated that HFT firms have lowered Vanguard's costs and improve outcomes for its investors.

Here's Matt Levine writing entertainingly about how the "Flash Boys" in Lewis' book ought to have been, based on his previous books, the protagonists, and Katsuyama the villain:

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-03-31/michael-lew...
No, it was not debunked. A bunch of news articles re-posted Kotaku UK's 'evidence. Even the article you linked states:

"Kotaku UK published a comprehensive breakdown on this conspiracy theory"

The Doctor firmly denied this- and is without a doubt, a real neurosurgeon.
Unreserved recommendation for _Flash Boys: Not So Fast_ if you like nerding out on this stuff. It's much geekier than Lewis' book.
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From my understanding, the limitation is from OSX and not from Docker, as OSX does not have native support for kernel namespacing. This is why Docker on OSX runs inside of a Linux virtual machine.
IIRC it as invented to get the rooks out on the board quicker. Normally, it takes like four moves to properly get them out there (1. move pawn out of the way, 2. move rook ahead, 3. slip rook out through the side, 4. move rook onto the board.) With castling you can greatly reduce this if you've opened up the middle already.
This isn't bad:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-big-short-movie-gets-ri...

While Big Short doesn't seem as factually challenged as Flash Boys, it is over-simplified. Either Michael Lewis falls short of his goal of producing an unbiased representation complex issues in a "pop non-fiction" form, or his goal is different and he is a biased observer forming a cohesive story from a cherry-picked selection of facts.
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A few tips or best practices I've learned along the way. They would probably increase battery life and sanity.

1) Only allow notifications for texts, calls and maybe email.

2) Only allow yourself 1 screen/page for your apps. Extraneous stuff should be in folders. I have my most-used apps and 4 folders on a single iPhone homescreen (Shopping/banking; Food; Extras; Games).

I'm the last of GenX and remember many years without cell phones. But I feel bad for Millenials who never knew anything else and will probably never learn to really get control over these devices.

If I could get a T9 cellphone with voice dictated mapping built-in, I'd dump traditional smartphones altogether. Having your devices work for you rather than work you over is a huge part of the 21st century. So says grandpa.
I'm confused about what you're trying to do here. You should be able to just do `bundle update rails`, and it will re-resolve all the dependencies with the newest version that matches the version string in your Gemfile (eg. `gem 'rails', '~> 4.1.8'` will match the just-released '4.1.14.1').
Not only that, but these plugins existed years before Adobe implemented these algorithms in Photoshop.
I know a narcoleptic who is able to drive in town, but absolutely cannot drive on the autobahn-style US interstate highways between cities for very long, at any time of day.

It has to do with orexin. Orexin helps keep you awake. But you produce less of it when you are sedentary or bored. When there is mental engagement with a task, it is easier to stay awake.

The very qualities that make limited access highways useful for most of us, to get places more quickly, make them deadly for people with orexin-deficiency sleep disorders.

That's why I hope polyphasic sleep experimenters only drive on the interesting or challenging stretches of road.
How about "git, but actually usable".
You describe ES6 as some kind of exotic dependency. Actually once you get rid of ES6, the only dependencies in your list are immutable.js which is optional, and redux, which has become the well-known default.
But does it has the same scalability issues as Bitcoin?

If yes, I don't give crytocurrencies a single chance to replace the current currencies.
I stand corrected. Will edit my post and credit you.
Yes it was. Even stipulating your use of the term "front running"†, it's not hard to see how. When humans intermediated trades, spreads were denominated in dimes and quarters (and even higher as you go back further in time). Now they're pennies.

Google "odd eighths scandal" for a good starting point.

† "Front running" has a specific technical meaning, which very few people who throw the term around seem to know about: a front-runner violates a fiduciary duty they have to a client, trading against their clients for their own benefit. Market makers and prop trading firms aren't generally brokers for other people and don't have that duty; they can't "front-run" the people they out-trade.

Your real estate agent would "front run" you if they knew you wanted to buy a particular house, knew your maximum price, bought the same house for less than that price and then sold it to you at a profit. Same with your stock broker and, say, IBM stock; they have a duty of best execution to you.
Thanks for your words :)
As a Nest employee can you confirm that Dropcam has been essentially abandoned by Nest? In the 2+ years since the acquisition, nothing significant has been released, and the Nest App is far inferior to the Dropcam app.

As well, the "customer suggestion" part of the Nest community board is a graveyard of suggestions and goodwill. It's literally a waste of time because nothing has been addressed, like simple things like access to year-over-year data instead of 10 days back which is worthless.

Signed,

An unhappy owner of 3 Dropcams
The Australian aboriginies mentioned in the article never invented the wheel, you know. It seems that technological progress is only a ratchet after a certain amount of momentum has built up, and that it can just "fail to start" or "start and then fizzle out" near the beginning, going on that way for millenia.
Exactly! And I'm OK with people taking the stance "if it's not 100% private and my video needs to be sent over the internet, then I don't want the camera".

You can either have a camera that keeps a safe copy of your video in the cloud and detects unexpected activity happening in front of your camera, or you can have one that is 100% private and doesn't upload video to the cloud. You can't have both. At least not without having a huge setup in a secured room inside your home.

I understand the privacy concerns, I just argue that you can't have the ideal service without getting over them. At least not with current technology, and probably not without the right economic incentives to build a stand-alone system.
I use a Macbook Pro (2014) with Kubuntu Linux installed full-time. The battery life is about half of what it is when running OSX.

If you forget your charger, there is serious range anxiety. Luckily, I've been running PC laptops for years and have gotten completely used to bringing my charger any time I take my laptop.
Chicken Licken is another name used for Chicken Little in some variants of the tale.
It is extremely difficult to write any kind of book or movie about finance which is a) accurate b) comprehensive (covers more than a tiny slice) and c) NOT boring as hell and extremely confusing to the lay audience.

Lewis does as good a job as is possible, given the subject matter. Mostly accurate, fairly comprehensive, and not boring.
I was a Mercurial crew member for a few years (2008 to I don't know) and was very happy to be able to learn from Matt in his role as BDFL. His principled stance against layering violations and his policy to require really small commits still influence my coding every day. I hope he finds something new to give him satisfaction/joy!
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There are also papers which support the notion that arbitration is more favorable to the complainant.[1] We can all cherry-pick documents that support our prior beliefs, but if neither side can convince the other, as is the case here, I think it is more fair to say that the evidence is unclear.

Nobody has to buy insurance against employee claims, but many of the largest insurers offer it, which suggests that this is a common issue.[2]

[1] http://repository.law.umich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

[2] https://www.nationwide.com/employment-practices-liability-in...
but you don't really give any specific counter points. if Flash Boys is dreadful, i would think you would have specific points to counter it
I've actually wondered if ancient patronage systems would be better than Hollywood and other entertainment industries, that give power to studios and highly-profitable producers.
The problem with the term "perfectly identical" is that it's a weasel word that opens the door for endless moving of goalposts. Even if the physicist were to refine the process further and produce snowflakes with identical molecular configurations, you could argue that since they occupy different positions within space they are still different.
The problem, as with many a government agency coercion, is that the evidence proving it happened doesn't come to light until decades later.

From the CIA selling drugs to arm the Hmong in the Vietnam war to the NSA in ATT's room 641A, there are enough examples to know that it's possible.
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You're on Hacker News. Plenty of people here are programmers pulling in six-figure incomes (more than most managers in this nation) but only some of them have the power to fire anyone. If you say we can't call these people "middle class" (or better) we're choosing language which is either at odds with reality or at odds with communicating effectively (pick one).
"This is not true. The Nest operates perfectly fine without internet."

I'll bet that's not true.

All of the QA and QC of the product goes into its fully functional, online mode and the ability to function offline is ignored at best and at worst, intentionally allowed to decay and malfunction.

I have a good example of this:

Sonos music systems, on paper, can run without an Internet connection. This makes good sense - why wouldn't they play local music shares connected over LAN, even when Internet access is missing, right ?

But go ahead and try it sometime ... it doesn't work at all. No doubt some infinite retry connecting to the license server or the auto-update system ... some wait state or blocking that nobody ever notices since they always have Internet.

The point is, it doesn't work. You should be very suspicious of the ability for any of these things to work without Internet.
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and how are you determining what is probable? Just because you believe the government doesn't make last ditch efforts to cover up with lies, doesn't mean that is necessarily the truth. How many coups need to happen before you consider me a rather typical cynic rather than a paranoid extremist?

I very much agree with you that it's not worth focusing on, but you were acting like it was never a possibility simply because the people being attacked would be well educated.
This looks great and is now high on my todo list to test.

I am all in on docker development because I am all in on using images and containers in production via ECS. Getting a laptop and AWS talking the same abstraction is the future.

I too suffer from problems with Docker Machine and virtual box on OS X. Frequently I find myself debugging these subsystems. It's been ok because the worst case to get back to a good state is uninstall, reboot and reinstall. Annoying but passable b

I have also experimented with xhyve and it looks extremely promising but does need some new tools to make it a turnkey docker dev environment.

From my survey of this technique and the tools we need more time, energy and cooperation to get there.

Thank you and everyone else for your efforts!
What's the difference between the mobile app economy and web apps, or other hot IT fields?
> You cannot write unit tests for all plausible values sent to your functions.

While this is true, static type checks do even less for this problem. Do you even create specific types for value ranges eg IntegerBetweenZeroAnd100? You're in a vast minority if so, and I'd be interested to see how tedious it is to construct all these non-native types everywhere.

> If you omit manual type checking in your code or in the respective unit test, you may miss some subtle failure scenarios.

There's generally not much that's subtle about a wrong type. If the code is executed at all, it will usually blow up. In my experience, the subtlety comes in the values.

> I personally find that type safety cuts down the number of unit tests I write by half

I just don't buy this (but then again my team goes for near total coverage). Nowhere near 50% of our tests are testing anything that would be solved by static types.
Indeed. After winning the right to vote in 1965, King greatly redefined his scope of action targeting economic justice for the poor in general, regardless of skin color.

>I want to say to you as I move to my conclusion, as we talk about "Where do we go from here?" that we must honestly face the fact that the movement must address itself to the question of restructuring the whole of American society. (Yes) There are forty million poor people here, and one day we must ask the question, "Why are there forty million poor people in America?" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising a question about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy. (Yes) And I'm simply saying that more and more, we've got to begin to ask questions about the whole society. We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. (Yes) But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. (All right) It means that questions must be raised. And you see, my friends, when you deal with this you begin to ask the question, "Who owns the oil?" (Yes) You begin to ask the question, "Who owns the iron ore?" (Yes) You begin to ask the question, "Why is it that people have to pay water bills in a world that's two-thirds water?" (All right) These are words that must be said. (All right)

>Now, don't think you have me in a bind today. I'm not talking about communism. What I'm talking about is far beyond communism. (Yeah) My inspiration didn't come from Karl Marx (Speak); my inspiration didn't come from Engels; my inspiration didn't come from Trotsky; my inspiration didn't come from Lenin. Yes, I read Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital a long time ago (Well), and I saw that maybe Marx didn't follow Hegel enough. (All right) He took his dialectics, but he left out his idealism and his spiritualism. And he went over to a German philosopher by the name of Feuerbach, and took his materialism and made it into a system that he called "dialectical materialism." (Speak) I have to reject that.

>What I'm saying to you this morning is communism forgets that life is individual. (Yes) Capitalism forgets that life is social. (Yes, Go ahead) And the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism, but in a higher synthesis. (Speak) [applause] It is found in a higher synthesis (Come on) that combines the truths of both. (Yes) Now, when I say questioning the whole society, it means ultimately coming to see that the problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. (All right) These are the triple evils that are interrelated.

-Where do we go from here? MLK, 1967[1]

You can see plainly why the establishment labeled him as one of the greatest threats to national security.

[1] http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentse...
My first thoughts exactly.
I possess similar traits to what you mentioned here. I'm very intrigued by your words. To go with your comment about reading... I feel that there has to be a certain balance between reading (to keep up) and actually 'doing' or 'building' something to test my skills. If I read more than build, I don't feel as comfortable when I'm starting to build. If I'm building more without being caught up, I feel confident in what I'm doing, but can't happen to feel like I'm behind, or lacking modernization of my skill set. I guess 'finding' the equilibrium between the two is the 'actual' equilibrium, if that makes sense.

But anyway, thanks for the time you took to respond to me. It's much appreciated!
> but you were acting like it was never a possibility simply because the people being attacked would be well educated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_charity
I was on the island of Sint Maarten for a while. Its a hub in the Caribbean for megayachts and superyachts. You should have a look there around Christmas... Talking about helicopters, wealth and power... And there are many more of those of places and events around the world.
Condensed version here: https://medium.com/the-wtf-economy/in-his-essay-on-income-in...
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Looks like they're moving it to GitHub wiki: https://github.com/Microsoft/CNTK/wiki/Config-file-overview
Wouldn't that be every health insurance scheme, ever? What the poor old lack in wealth, they usually make up for with political power concentrated over decades so even in cases of single payer healthcare, the young will always subsidize the old.