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> if you accept that health benefits can outweigh personal freedom, where do you draw the line?

I don't see cigarettes as a personal freedom issue. As long as you find people insensitive enough to smoke in public areas and force those of us that don't smoke to breathe their toxic air, cigarettes should be taxed just like other pollutants are. Taxes are one of the few ways that capitalism has of dealing with externalities.
Ha ha, the effing path length limit drove me crazy! There'd be 50 node_modules folders and Windows wouldn't let you delete anything; It was nuts! I had to start renaming directories to "a", "b", "c", and so on until I cut the size down. I like JS for quick personal projects, but I'm glad I don't use it professionally anymore.
I'll try by best not to sound like a raging sociopath here.

In pure economic terms, curing cancer has little benefit to society. Cancer is not any one specific disease. It's a class of diseases, of which there are thousands (or more) of variants.

We may stumble on some amazingly technologically advanced cure to some forms of cancer but the more rare the form, the less likely there will ever be a treatment.

Most people get upset when you talk about humans as assets because we're indoctrinated at a very young age to value human life above all else.

If you can, in fact, speak about humans in economic terms of supply/demand. We have an overabundance of people, and nothing useful to give them jobs to do.

It's like the current oil market. Oil was highly valued due to the inelasticity of supply. Now that there is a glut of over supply and inelasticity greatly reduced, the value has dropped dramatically.

The supply of humans capable of doing useful work used to be somewhat constrained. Now, we have more people than can be reasonably assigned to do useful work without essentially paying them to warm a chair. Yet, like the oil market nothing is stopping people from having more kids and increasing the supply. The government even directly subsidizes people for the number of children they have due the persistent belief that GDP is directly dependent on population.

People can increase their value proposition by earning many degrees and racking up huge amounts of debt but, unless you're going to work in the industries that are thriving, it's a buyers market for employers.

Business owners have their choice pick of the herd. They can keep wages as low as possible and skim more cream off the top because there's a line out the door of people waiting the replace a worker who quits.

Who knows, maybe this is just the supply limit (ie in environmental science terms) as it applies to the human population. Poverty and misery is the expected result of making too many people before we can come up with enough useful reasons to sustain them.
Fair enough- I wasn't familiar with Rust's backwards compatibility guarantees and had heard a bit about breakage, so thanks for pointing that out.
Suggestion: add links of comments. Many people like reading comments at Hacker News. Users have to open the original HN home page to open comments.

btw, I created another HN web client: Hacker News Room http://hackernewsroom.com
Or maybe because it's not seeing many new SSIDs because you mostly go to the same four or five places in the same routes.
Direct link: http://rstl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/84/177.full.p...
> Sales decline each week after payday, then recover after payday.

This has always been true. My dad, a career Air Force officer, would shake his head at the servicemen who ate steak after payday, and were down to eating beans by the next.

Heck, I read Ambrose's book about the building of the intercontinental railroad in the 1860s, where he describes the profligate spending of the construction crews immediately after payday, and the Hell On Wheels camps that sprung up to take that money, providing hookers and blackjack.
I think you just misunderstand what "subculture" means. "sub" here has a meaning like "subset", not like "subhuman".
J2ObjC 1.0 release
Seems like Ember is working towards this: https://github.com/tildeio/ember-cli-fastboot
If this community can't pin point the problem together, then there is something up here. Clearly this warrants Google, Apple, the telcos and someone from an electronic forensic team each putting a part time expert into a team to figure this out for everyones benefit - themselves and this couple.

Of course the reality is that key Google and Apple staff know exactly what has caused this and don't have a ready solution so are keeping quiet.

In any case, if there are Google or Apple employees reading, perhaps you can suggest this idea to someone internally in the chance there may be some progress before someone innocent gets killed for 'stealing' a phone.
A smaller startup too small to have a subsidiary. Or to just do it as a contractor or as part of general negotiations.
Theses aren't Google Ads.

It's interesting that you thought they are. What made you think that?
Someone asked about my return policy today. I didn't have one, but I do now
Pay people to get IUDs or vascectomies. Some might argue that this is corrosive, but:

1) If a single mother/father only spent 1 hour a week taking care of their kid, they would surely be punished for neglect. So we are willing to literally coerce people who choose to be parents into working at least 52*18...938 hours. At a minimum wage of $5.35, that is at least $5,000 of coercion.

2) If we have a workable basic income, then someone shouldn't find themselves in the desperate position of having a medical procedure done to make ends meet unless we don't have universal healthcare.
Not. We banned DDT also because we care about human health.

There is evidence of adverse human health effects resulting from long-term exposure to DDT, including reproductive health effects at birth (preterm birth and low birth weight); growth reduction in boys, earlier puberty in girls and neurodevelopmental impairment in infants.

There is also evidence of neurotoxic effects in adults. Adverse pregnancies and breast cancer in women; and reduction in semen quality and development of pancreatic cancers in men.

Source: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780444522...
it just seems time is too valuable (after working 9 hours a day and feeling pretty tired) to work on some stupid idea just for fun when you know it will lead to nothing

I've had that before, with an idea that's fun, but not fun enough. I thought maybe I was getting sick of programming.

Now I work 9 hours a day, feeling pretty tired, and still go on to work on my idea until 1am or 2am. 3am if I can make it.

If you aren't energetic enough to work on an idea for fun after 9 hours of tiring work, the idea isn't fun enough, and not worth quitting full time employment.

But on the other hand if despite 9 hour of tiring work, you find yourself working till the wee hours every night working on your idea, perhaps consider maybe there's something interesting in your mind?

That's the situation I'm in. I'm planning a year or two without working in a year's time to work on this idea. Not because I have no energy to work on it after 9 hours of work everyday, but because the idea is so interesting to me even after 9 hours of work, I find myself working an additional 6 hours on it. It's on my mind in the shower, on the way to work, at lunch, in afternoon tea break, on the way home, eating dinner, when I am working on it, when I'm in bed, as soon as I wake up. (And I try to resist thinking about it when the director of the company is sitting next to me. I hope he didn't catch me writing this comment. ;)) My ideas were the same ones I've had for the past decade, except I've refined them as time gone by. An idea that was once stupid and won't lead to anywhere, is now an idea I can't take my mind off, an idea, for me, that will lead to everything.

Keep living. Look for a new job if you're sick of it. But I don't think you're tired because you don't have time to work on your ideas. I think you're tired because you haven't found or refined your existing ideas to a state where it will be so interesting to you you're working on it even as your eyelids struggle to keep opened. You don't have the time for ideas that aren't that interesting, but when you have an idea that's interesting enough to you, you will find you always manage to find some time for it.
Yup they will all do that. The key is to not work with bigcorp.
If the hypervisor is providing the security, I don't see how the unikernel can be said to be any more secure than anything else run under a hypervisor. Moreover, I don't see why the hypervisor should be in a better position to be secure than a kernel.
This is a really interesting observation. I've never heard someone mention a "buffer/holding effect" before, but that makes a lot of sense.

I wonder if it's something like... the average individual spends half of whatever cash they have available every year... but the average business that takes investment lets 6 to 12 months of it sit in accounts. I realize the bank would then loan against the money in those accounts, but is it "turtles all the way down"?

I'll have to refresh my understanding of fractional reserve banking, but I don't think a loan from Bank A being put into Bank B and so on can lead to infinite money supply. If I remember correctly it somehow leads to some multiple of the input money being generated. Here's a Wikipedia article about it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_multiplier#Reserves_firs...

At some point all the institutions sitting on their money eventually does result in that money being sat on, and not being circulated through the economy.
No worries. Every 1.x+1 is backwards compatible with 1.x, modulo some details. Usually breakage is mentioned in the context of the nightly ecosystem, which has no particular guarantee. We also reserve the right to fix soundness bugs, though we try to make upgrading easy in those situations of and when they occur (we've only had one or two so far).
I was in a similar spot almost two years ago. I actually didn't mind the work that I did, but it just became rather dull.

So I quit and traveled. It does seem like traveling is the "default" thing to do to cure one's ennui. What I can say is that being in a new locale doesn't magically give you newfound motivation/inspiration etc, and depending on your personality it can be quite isolating.

Over the years I've kept a list of things I'd like to build if I ever found the time. Now I'm just going down the list and seeing what sticks.

The way I see it, if you really do hate your job then quitting is simply a matter of time - better sooner rather than later, for both you and your employer.
That would fall under the third point. However, they have some big advantages that other companies do not get. For example, if you buy a bad iPhone once, that is really bad for Apple.

Google as a search engine falls under a strange category. On one hand, users put more trust in what they see on Google, making the ad inventory more valuable. On the other hand, if something bad happens they understand it isn't from Google -- something which may not be as clear cut as say, purchasing a defective product off Amazon from a third party seller. (Then there is the revenue that comes for display ads, syndicated search feeds, things that 99% of users had no idea it was Google gaining much of the monetary benefit in the first place.)

On top of all of this a large portion of users who do click on ads on Google have no idea they even clicked an ad in the first place.
They take a 30% cut, not 15%.
> Here is one - the alternative to ads everyone proposes is people pay for their content directly. Except there are catastrophic barriers to entry for such a business model

Not really. Sure, that's an alternate that people propose, but not one I think will ever take off. And honestly, I don't care. I think the "funded" web has a lot of potential, but it has just ended up squandered.

> ...but that model doesn't align with western shareholder-value driven markets at all.

So? I don't really care about that market. For a long time people made software without being paid. I write free (as in beer and speech) software in my spare time. It's cheaper than ever to run your own server. I don't view the "western shareholder-value" market as valuable to the internet as your making it out to be.
Most HPKP deployments pin to root or intermediate certificates of CAs (usually 2 separate CA entities, in case something happens to the primary CA) - meaning in a typical scenario, the attack surface is approximately the same.

Not sure if this approach is common in native applications that pin to keys as well.
It seems to be a jQuery bit of code querying the api every 10 seconds.

No push or anything of the sort, so that's a bit of a shame.
Persistence is not required for an exploit. Repeatability is just as bad. Restarting in response to compromise means every compromise is a DoS.
The article provides information about the problem. I'm surprised a lot of the comments here seem to attaching other values to it - it's socialists attacking Amazon or it discourages companies hiring. It can be useful to know what's going on without over moralizing what happened or whether it should be spoken of. And there might be practical solutions - say shelters that allow day sleeping. Maybe Amazon could rent a cheap house and let the workers stay there.
Nice thing about that conference: they're letting people volunteer and get free entrance.
And once again, the "standard to rule them all" dream * insert relevant xkcd strip here * , finding a keyboard layout that would allow easy typing in French and all France's languages (Breton, Basque, etc) and dialects (Catalan, Provençal, etc). Impossible task to bring both easy typing and support for all of those.

It seems to me that it's a problem (or bunch of problems) that already has a solution(s). I'm right now using a QWERTY layout under Linux. I can code and type English directly, use the compose key to type in French, German and Breton and use a keyboard input (currently fcitx) to type in Chinese. Add to this the fact that you can easily input complex signs that you wouldn't find on keyboards like µ or €. And all this is actually pretty easy to use. I'm sure there are equivalents in Microsoft and MacOS. Why look further?
The findmyfriends feature on my iPhone has been 100% accurate in identifying where my friends are. If I had a child who went missing, and findmyfriends showed that they were in a house, I would absolutely hope that the police would go to the house and rescue my child.

I would also hope that the police would have enough sense to prevent any occupants from the house from going into the house and potentially destroying/hiding any evidence, and/or, powering down the iPhone.

As it was, I think the police showed restraint by not going into the house until they had a warrant.
Here's another good one: https://youtu.be/okk0BGV9oY0
Nim sacrifices a lot. It's garbage collected with a non-thread-safe GC (last I checked). It has undefined behavior, which makes me not confident that people won't discover security problems. It wouldn't be suitable for the project I'm working on, which has to be as fast as it would be if it were written in C++, free of GC overhead (which does not just consist of pauses), and absolutely memory safe. (That doesn't mean I wouldn't use it for other projects.)

Fixing these issues in Nim would make it much more like Rust. In particular, it would have all the cognitive overhead you're criticizing Rust for.

If you want to show that it's possible to achieve all of the use cases of Rust without the cognitive overhead, just citing Nim won't cut it. You need to (a) explain how to do memory safety without garbage collection (reference counting being, of course, a form of GC) without introducing new concepts like Rust does, (b) explain why everyone who thinks they can't afford GC is wrong, or (c) explain why memory safety isn't important even for security-critical software. I don't think (a) is possible, and I don't think (b) or (c) are correct.
I've seen it, and taken a look around in there!
Don't try to time the market, it's a fool's game. Do regular purchases of a broad index ETF (exchange traded fund, low fees!), AKA dollar cost averaging as another child mentions. If you are worried about downswings, keep your portfolio balanced to roughly 50% equities and 50% bonds (there are broad bond index ETFs too).
> It's possible that they have a home router with its default SSID

The guy is an engineer. I'm pretty sure their SSID has a silly in-jokey name.
> Let it sit in a bank account!

Money does not sit in bank accounts. The banks loan it out. It's why there are things like "free checking" - the banks make money by loaning it out, not storing it for you.
Am I sure? I've done no verification. But while I'm occasionally frustrated with the holder of that account I've seen no particular reason to believe that they are not who they claim to be. I am sure that the account holder claims to be Paul Lutus, as the link is on his profile.

'How is it possible that someone with a "wide background in science" has not heard about conservation of momentum?'

It's probably not; but this comment thread (wading through the jibes, snipes, and nonsense) doesn't seem to demonstrate with much clarity that he hasn't.
Obviously. That doesn't mean pinning is impossible or useless against other threats though, so I don't think the argument makes sense in that general way. I bet there are tons of apps running/with backends running on AWS that should have certificate pinning.
I always wonder why people want everything helpful to be the result of some purely altruistic action, when there's at least as much help to be gained from mutually beneficial partnerships. Symbiotic relationships not only require less friction to implement, but they're also a lot more sustainable in the long run, since both parties get something out of it as opposed to just one.

Yes, amazon obviously benefits from having a larger labor pool to chose from when hiring the poor, but why is this a bad thing?

If you had the opportunity to go make Warren Buffett an extra $1 Billion, but you'd only get a 1% cut of it, would you say that's a bad deal? I would hope not, because 1% of $1,000,000,000 is still $10 Million. You'd have to be either crazy or filthy rich already to turn that down just because it'd make a wealthy person wealthier.

A seasonal amazon warehouse job might not be the most luxurious, but it still has an unusually low barrier to entry, and is likely to be sustainable for amazon to provide it regularly. Even most of the wealthiest billionaires had to start out by doing annoying grunt-work at some point in their careers.
Well, if the government is going to drop money from helicopters, I would at least prefer they ATTEMPT to do so in a way that might lead to some scientific advancement. They could also just send everyone a check for $1000, but although that would create some demand, it wouldn't likely lead to investments in long-term payoff high-risk science. I understand and somewhat sympathize with the idea that we don't want the government telling us to do with our money, and maybe we should let people spend that $1000 however they want, but I'm proposing trying to kill two birds with one stone here and also at least ATTEMPT to put the money initially in the hands of people trying to create something rather than just consume some basic goods.
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You missed an opportunity to explain what your startup does, no link in the blog entry, blog only contains that one entry. Also +3 years at it is not a good indicator for getting at YC which as per Sam's post prefers very early startups but good luck anyways.
It's like how when PayPal is processing your payments and they connect you with really successful people who take in the same kind of payments so you can learn from them and get their advice, and then connect you with other people who just take in a lot of payments in general for their advice too.
No one who has children (and raised them without a nanny) would ever think this way. Kids are far too much work. $50k/yr wouldn't be enough
I'll try harder next time.
Can't agree more
> Impossible on OS X and Linux without shelling out $$$.

I've never used it, so I can't endorse it, but this was among the first results in a google search for "linux per application firewall":

http://douaneapp.com/

I guess there has been progress in this space since you last looked.

There is also SELinux controls that can be used... so -IIRC- you could create a per-app firewall with that. :) I would be slightly surprised if there weren't pretty reasonable GUIs for managing such SELinux rules.
Thank you for this. I don't understand why other posts are so heavily weighted with arguments of "Oh, so they didn't solve the homeless problem, so now the whole problem is their fault?" Amazon either took advantage of the scheme, or rushed in - maybe even with the best of intentions - without thinking through or committing to what was actually required to make it a success.
Doubt the name really matters much. Just avoid anything too Dilbert/Office Space/Motivational Poster sounding. Schwolf Recruiting sounds fine, for instance.
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The problem is likely that the location where these phones are really at is near the WiFi router that used to be at this address. No amount of messing with their router will help with fixing this, since those phones aren't there to begin with. The couple might have better luck hitting up the previous tenants/owners.

Based on this line from the article, I'm almost certain that this is the real answer:

> It started the first month that Christina Lee and Michael Saba started living together.
FWIW, I'm not mathematically-inclined and haven't found Coq to be painful to use. As soon as I really want verified code, doing stuff in Coq seems like the easiest path because the proof automation tooling is pretty great, especially if you follow the approach in Certified Programming with Dependent Types[0].

I also like Alloy[1] for messing around with logical data structure definitions interactively.

[0] http://adam.chlipala.net/cpdt/

[1] http://alloy.mit.edu/alloy/