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> I would take it farther and argue that no exam should be required to be an insurance broker at all.

I can see the benefits of requiring competency before being allowed to sell insurance to the public. Insurance is important. It's what you rely on to defray potentially millions of dollars in damages (up to and including the death of yourself or your spouse) when something goes horribly wrong. And it would be a huge travesty if you didn't actually have the coverage you thought you did because the unlicensed, untrained, and inexperienced agent that sold you your policy didn't correctly explain it, or didn't understand your needs.
The link does not say that. The FCC is gathering information for a proposed rule that could potentially impact hardware sold in the future. Nobody is being forced to do anything yet. There is no rule that prevents DD-WRT from being installed on a device.

So why is TP-Link locking down their firmware even though they aren't required to? You have to ask them.
So Google should consult you before they take on a new product, just to make sure you're ok with it?
The notion that you can't put the codebase wherever you want to on your own computer. A "project", as a folder, should be atomic and work regardless of where it is moved; the $GOPATH convention just breaks this encapsulation completely.

For example, when I create client-server projects, sometimes I put both client and server under the same git repository, in the same folder (whether it is a good or bad decision is another discussion). $GOPATH forces me, therefore, to put a client project in the $GOPATH tree, and this just feels ugly.

Of course, you can change $GOPATH per project, and I end up with `export $GOPATH` in makefiles, but this is rather ugly too.
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We use R in production in two ways:

1. For batch processes that run daily, hourly or minutely, where the models are rebuilt on every run, and outputs (often predictions) are written to a database
2. For computation of coefficients in large sparse regularized models, where the coefficients are written to a database and scoring is done in another language in real-time

For situations where we want real-time predictions, recommendations or optimizations, we tend to setup Python services instead. For batch processes, you can definitely store models in S3 to re-use them, and I've done that at other companies. But in general I've found it better to rebuild models frequently and cache them for short periods of time only if they are cost-prohibitive to rebuild.
I don't disagree with anything you've said here; I wasn't trying to say that insurance is unimportant or simple. My point is that the only justification for licensure over certification is a paternalistic one, and I would say the same thing about both barbers and medical doctors. Maybe I don't have enough space to make a convincing argument here, if you're curious I definitely encourage you to pick up Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom and read chapter 9; it's a pretty entertaining read.
I am one of those people who feel the reddit UI sucks and needs a make over. I really appreciate simplicity and minimalism but I don't feel reddit gets it right. For example, HN is extremely minimal, but it's also extremely clean. It's very intuitive.

Personally, I feel even 4chan is much cleaner than reddit (yes I know 4chan uses linear threads while reddit supports branching. Hence the HN example)
SF tech bro: ‘I shouldn’t have to see the pain, struggle, despair of homeless’
I read it as pointing out that if you take an extremely small number and increase it by a large percentage, the result is still pretty small.

Here, the price of gas has gone up by 6,000%. That's a lot! Except that in absolute terms, the price has gone from $0.02/gallon to $0.11/gallon. I can see larger fluctuations than that just by crossing the street in many places.
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It was done at one Strange Loop talk if I recall correctly.
I think Twitter is making the correct move here. It's always been the holy grail of Vine and others to try to create quick consumable content without making others create it.
> I went to the doctor and they said don't wait more than 3-4 hours between meals.

This is utterly crazy. If you couldn't go more than 3-4 hours between meals without experiencing dizziness, something about your diet was seriously wrong.

If you felt better after experimentally eating something different, then eating that was almost certainly healthier. Yes, even if it was donuts. Don't let cultural beliefs about food override your direct observations!
Mac Mail already will use client certs to authenticate with GMail: https://i.imgur.com/gTE6tkt.png
Can be worthwhile if you take advantage of embedded documents. Storing your data in the same form that you use it in your application, can at appropriate times be very helpful. I recently started using an ORM that does not support embedded documents when using Mongo and found I essentially had all of the problems of a NoSQL DB with none of the advantages.
I once drank 10oz of tequila at 9am. Fuck em.

Frankly there should be shipping boxes at the molest-station, with the cost paid by the thugs that insist on stripping you of your personal property.
Google and Red Hat announce cloud-based scalable file servers
"Analysts had expected a slowdown in iPhone sales in the company’s first quarter, partly due to muted enthusiasm over Apple’s most recent iPhone 6s model. Apple CEO Tim Cook also pointed to challenges related to the strong dollar"
It's not an exam to pass. A license must be earned continuously by practising within law. A license would be taken away even if you have the best knowledge but are even slightly off on ethics of practice.

A policeman can be strongest, but a sexual harassment case will disqualify him.

When I see a broker license, I know I'm dealing with a knowledgeable, honestly practising professional. Can't say that about Zenefits anymore. They must lose license.

EDIT: You can give credit to any kind of cheating with the reasoning you gave. Why is SAT I verbal section important in a student becoming an electrical engineer? He should be allowed to cheat, according to you?
> The official exchange rate used for food and medicine imports will weaken to 10 bolivars per dollar from 6.3, as of Thursday, while a second rate will be allowed to float.

How can you have multiple exchange rates on the same currency? That makes no sense. And seems like it would lead to rampant cheating, e.g. shipments of food not being classified as such, or vice-versa, whichever is advantageous at a given time.
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They probably refer that they have handed all the information they could in this specific case. There surely was some kind of authorization (from a judge perhaps -- US law is almost unknown to me) too.

As for the comment of Google, Facebook, etc, learning, I agree with you.
> If Linus can bump the kernel to 4.0 because he felt like it so can Python.

"Can" is not "should": I mean, Python can go from 3.x to Python 2020, go with year numbers for a while, then have Python XP, then go Python 7, Python 8, Python 8.1, and then skip to Python 10. But there's no good reason to do that.
You can take the analysis further and observe, as that study did, that the set of people incarcerated for violent offenses is almost entirely disjoint from the set of people incarcerated for drug offenses. There is very little overlap, not just in the current prison population but over time as well.

We should end the war on drugs, of course, but we more urgently need to end what Ta-Nahisi Coates calls "the carceral state", and that will require much stiffer medicine than drug legalization.
Concealed carry license holders are skyrocketing, as are states where no license is required (details on request).

It's a truly amazing phenomena, no doubt part of the re-normalization of carrying guns (saw my first open carrier at Wal-Mart yesterday, that's newly allowed in Missouri as of a year or so), and the graying of America (a large majority of the people taking my Missouri required concealed carry class were older sorts).

But if you're e.g. reading this from California, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, etc. vs. the 43 states with shall issue or better concealed carry regiemes, you could easily know little to nothing about it.
> First many of those crime cartels could not exist without the banning of drugs, prostitution and gambling.

That doesn't mean that it's an "invented crime." It's undeniable that drugs, gambling, and prostitution have real social costs and harms. The people are entitled to regulate commerce in their society generally, but trade in harmful things especially. When people uses organized violence to circumvent that regulation, in the pursuit of profit, that is actual crime, not invented crime.

> Large numbers of violent crimes are done by people involved in drug dealing or consuming.

You're presupposing a direction of causation here. Your average street gang does not exist because of drug dealing or consumption (and indeed, violent street gangs long predate any restrictions on drugs or alcohol). They deal in drugs because it's easy money, but arise for other reasons.
And I only listed the official ones.

Those of us, like myself, that opted into the compiler design classes had a quite a few more to play with.

I guess the problem are those universities that tend to be more focused on "languages to get a job" than doing the real work of an university.
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Thanks for sharing @mkarliner :)
It's quite likely that they would prefer violating the GPL (nothing particularly unusual) or licensing VxWorks/Windows/whatever over risking being banned in the US.
If the price of gas in Brazil is anywhere close to the global market price then this price change will barely make a dent in the profitability of smuggling. From some random internet searching it looks like the price in Brazil is fairly high, $3/gallon equivalent or more.
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Microwave ovens use magnetrons to produce the microwave radiation. Magnetrons cannot be run at anything less than full power. Some microwaves have additional coils in the magnetron that can be connected to increase the power level, but it's limited to the power levels you can get from the various combinations of coils.
For the same reason, running a normal microwave at "50% power" actually means it runs at full power for several seconds, then switches off for several seconds, then repeats. The pulses are so long because starting and stopping are hard on the magnetron.
15-20 years seems a bit steep.

If staying in a city 1 year, you almost certainly should rent.
If staying in a city for a guaranteed 30 years, you almost certainly should buy.

The exact place where those two switch over? It can vary on a lot of things. Single and gonna get married soon? Buying a studio condo may not be that smart. Married with 3 kids and stable schools and family? May tip towards the buy sooner range..

For example where I live (not major city), I cannot rent a house like the one I buy. The best house I can rent would cost 50% more than my mortgage payment, and only be about 75% as nice.
I'm been replacing ASUS RT-N16s with RT-AC56Rs. $50 refurbs in-store at Microcenter, $75 new from Walmart.com, well-supported by all the firmwares that have ARM builds.

If you can't buy them that cheap the TP-Link Archer C7 has been a better value... well, up until now.
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Maybe I should have defined what I meant by certification. The only difference between a license and a certificate is that you must have a license in order to legally practice, while a certificate is optional. There's no reason that a certificate couldn't be taken away just like a license if, say, someone fails an annual test.
How can he live in SF for years and think it's a free market? I live across the country and even I know that the housing market there is artificially constrained.

He really seems to think that homeless people grow on trees or something instead of realizing that they lived in the city before he did.
Crazy. I personally have friends; not sure if I'd pay for them
The video is fun but he makes it far more complicated than it really needed to be. Additionally the only useful piece of advice is the headset/microphone/etc, after that ATC will tell the surrogate EXACTLY what they need to do, down to the switch and position.

This video would be better split into two: One where they have no ATC contact, and another where they do.

But I strongly agree, if you have ATC contact they're going to do an ILS landing, even if that requires sending you to a bigger airport that has ILS and better ground support.
> So why is TP-Link locking down their firmware even though they aren't required to? You have to ask them.

If you read TFA you'll learn that somebody did just that.

Adam Longwill 09:26:19 pm Wow. Thank you. I'm impressed with your digging
And this limitation is due to FCC rule clarifications in 2015?
And not some other reason

Camille 09:28:15 pm Right, due to FCC
Every time I read about this stuff, it makes my belly churn when the answers to questions like "how do you recover your account, if you lose your device?" are things like "they can have an extra secure password for recovery" or "they can call and provide their <insert something vulnerable to social engineering or government interference, like a 'PostIdent' - which the government actually controls>" or "bio-metric", so, basically this new standard doesn't solve any security problem whatsoever; it just makes logging in easier and account recovery more confusing.

Why not instead work on a standard that enforces password strength beyond what is economically viable for brute forcing (which is something like 6-8 chars... not exactly a tough one)? I mean, the standard could literally just be this:

A password MUST be 8+ characters in length.

Security problem solved.

Here's a comprehensive Python library for my new standard:

def mangeletti_safe(raw_password):
return len(raw_password) >= 8

In all seriousness, we will need to, at some point, come to the realization that the key to authentication has always been and will always be based on a secret that only you know, whether that secret is your resting pulse combined with the color of the rabbit's foot in your left pocket, or your fingerprint, or a password, or a private key (which IS A PASSWORD).
There are easily many more programmers who work on potentially life-or-death systems than there are lawyers who litigate death-penalty cases in court.
I'm not actually sure I agree with this.

Consider that the people & companies investing in pre-IPO U$1B companies are extreme expert investors. They take the risk on.

Now if we're talking about post IPO, then actual financial regulations kick in and market-traders are afforded the protections that they have now (which is still sometimes significant)

Imposing additional regs on a 'privately held' company simply because they accepted enough money to give them a U$1B valuation punishes them for growth.

Additionally, valuations are sometimes voodoo calculations for example (and someone else can check my math) but is someone gave me $1 for 1/10,000,000 of my company, wouldn't that be a billion dollar valuation?

Obviously not a credible one - but - where's the line? $1M for 1/1000? It's still not a billion real dollars.

If you look at linkedin's valuation it's based on current potential for future revenue. But revenue that is like 10 or 20 years in the future. (reference: my foggy recollection of Peter Thiel's lecture in Sam Altman's startup school)

Maybe I'm confused as to how valuations actually work.
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A non-article about this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/technology/virtual-reality...
You don't integrate with a provider. You implement the protocol and let your users supply a URL. Layering on popular alternatives (Facebook, Google, etc) help, but use the Stack Exchange model. Let users do what they want to do.

That way users can be their own oAuth providers if they want.
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As an aside on the subject of welding, with less then ten hours' experience I could weld together two plates of steel (about 3mm thick) such that they withstood having the crap beaten out of them for a hour with a hammer with no visible issues at the weld. Sure, it's a very simple weld in easy circumstances and matching materials, but as you say, it wasn't anything mystical.
Come on now, NYT, there is virtually no evidence of corruption at startups being any worse than any other business or human endeavor. NYT, you're just spreading FUD because people look to you for guidance and you need to respond to their fear.

Yes, these guys (Zenefits) were, in one area, dishonest and cheated. But it's not like Cigna, PacTel, BoA, Citizens and zillion other companies are paragons of virtue. Nevermind Volkswagen.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting_scandals

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_corporate_collapses_an...
What's the gun argument
"Would "people ate less and suffered less heart diseases time ago?" qualify as C?"

No; that would fall under "no good reason". Are you sure people "ate less"? Given that we (think we) know that people of the past were also more active (although history is definitely on your side for that one), and how much more active people need to eat to sustain their activity, I would be completely unsurprised to learn that people in the past consumed more calories than the average American. You'd need to do quite a bit of science to nail this down.

Unless, of course, you've seen the relevant science, in which case it falls under B.

It's hard to escape from needing to have done science to really know what the problem is, and it's also hard to escape from the fact that all the science is really a great deal less clear than we've been led to believe by our government and public health organizations. It's clear we have problems; it's way less clear what the cause truly is. It also is reasonable to observe that you can "eat better" with less processed food, etc., and exercise is reasonably well established as helping, but why, exactly? We may speak in English of that as being one or two changes, but it's not; it's hundreds, thousands, perhaps even more changes, all at once. Which of them are relevant, and exactly how? Those questions are much less well answered. It also doesn't necessarily matter to you personally in the end. But it does mean that confident declarations about what is "really" the cause are poorly supported right now on all fronts.

I've been looking at this for many years too, and just about the only conclusions I've come to are A: less processed does seem better B: exercise does seem to be important but it's surprising how much debate about which types of exercise are good for what is still happening, again, despite what we've been led to believe and C: the consensus I was taught growing up in the 1980s is dead wrong in almost (but not quite) every detail, but that doesn't mean I know what is right.

There are still entire massive dimensions poorly explored by science; for instance, go look up the science on "intermittent fasting". One of the first things you ram into is that while there have been several studies on it, they all use the exact same schedule, which happens to be fairly unrealistic. No exploration of the space as a whole, just this one point, sampled over and over again. Does the schedule of your food intake matter? What's the best one? Science very nearly just shrugs at this question. Who knows what else we're missing?
This only works for deterministic encryption like "textbook RSA", not for any semantically secure encryption, which would produce different ciphertext each time you run it.

I would worry about trying to dual-purpose the encryption like this. If you feel like you must have a way to get the plaintext password back, which BTW you really really do NOT want that liability, but anyway, the safer choice would be to use a semantically secure encryption of the password, and then ALSO hash the password using the current best practices. Use the hash for now to authenticate users, keep the ciphertext if you must, but you'll probably regret it.
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It's not hard. The government declares that all currency exchanges must go through them, then they set the rules however they want. This leads to artificial scarcity, black markets, and other shenanigans, just like with any price control, but Venezuela is not exactly a bastion of sane governmental decisions in recent times.
I didn't even interpret that as politie. That's the kind of "polite" comment I would make if I thought you were being an an aggressive idiot and I didn't care to help you.

i.e. You think Andoid apps have the same revenue potential as iOS apps? That swell! Good for you buddy, whatever works for you is fine with me :) (Now go back to your cubicle and stop bothering me me.)
Because your proposal is defeated by a simple keylogger, or a phishing site, or with password reuse with a compromised site, or a myriad other ways that a U2F token won't.

The answer to your original question is the same as the answer to "How do you recover your account if you lose your password?". Usually, email password resets.
I tried to download someone's Go repo that operated on gifs, but on my machine it died with an error inside of the standard library's compression code, which failed with a cryptic message.

I spent the next 30 minutes trying to figure out how to add printline debugging to the standard library. I saw the precise line of code it was failing on, so I added some logging code above it to print out more info. Nothing happened. I tried to rebuild the file. There was no obvious way to do this. I googled for "golang recompile standard library." There was no clear, simple answer. I seemed to be expected to read all of the documentation in order to do this seemingly-simple thing. I went on Freenode and asked how to do it. Crickets.

I was being intellectually lazy, a cardinal sin. Obviously, the solution was to read the documentation, learn about GOPATH, learn how and why the source code was laid out the way it was, understand how to make my own package, then try to figure out how to make changes to existing packages.

But it's a step backwards. I'm staring at the code. I made changes to it. Why does it require a magical incantation to make those changes have an effect? Why can't it detect that the code changed, and do whatever's necessary to apply those changes? Or at least let me type "go make zlib.go" and be done with it? Yeah, "make" isn't a valid command. I'm supposed to "build" a package. But I'm not trying to build a package. I'm trying to run someone's freshly-cloned Go project.

The whole thing made me feel dumb and outdated.
Poor Venezuelans! I hope your corrupt and dictatorial government shall fall, like happened with Argentina.
The point is that all retail is super low margin (in this case < 10%) which is made up for in volume. For Google the only incentive is to go towards a volume play because the margins will _never_ be great. The OP's point stands - this seems odd that Google would go after such a low-margin area, considering almost everything else they do has super high margins (30%+). The challenge in the US is that volume is hard to get because of last-mile economic restrictions.