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> This method is rarely used, instead for the domain validation most certificate authorities ask the domain owner to place a certain file in their websites.

This statement strikes me as odd. Email-based validation is the most common validation method used by most CAs for DV certificates. The only exceptions that come to mind are WoSign and Let's Encrypt.

The vulnerability is pretty bad, though. Good catch.
someone I know at apple told me that they have trouble getting enough memory for the millions of phones that they sell.
$122K in RDU seems very high for a developer/engineer, strange.
Elon Musk says that eventually we will move to VTOL supersonic electric jets, but he is too busy with other projects to implement it.

Have you thought about this idea, and in what time frame do you think someone might try to implement it?

Elon's basic idea is that air-breathing jets are limited to altitudes at which oxygen tops out, and then are mostly fighting drag from nitrogen. Electric ones can go to higher altitudes and experience less drag at much higher speeds. However wings designed to do that won't help you get off the ground, therefore you need vertical take off and landing. Which eliminates the need for a large airport, allowing you to locate more conveniently to major cities.
Most people live in a single state, work a single job, don't itemize deductions, and maybe have a 401k. For them the tax code is actually very simple.

It's when you have relationships with multiple states and countries, businesses, complex investments, and sophisticated tax minimization strategies (taking advantage of all the deductions you can find, etc) that things get unwieldy.
> By all means history should remember his failings here and elsewhere.

The original post was discussing the history:

> I think the disturbing part is people, even now, deny this is the reason Nixon pushed for it. I just can't understand it. :/

> Nixon basically shat on the results of his own commissions by members of his own party when he didn't like the results. History is littered with evidence this man had an agenda yet people act like the "Drug War" wasn't created as a political tool.

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> I just mean the responsibility for the state of things today, and for improving it, lies solidly on other shoulders today. And that is where the focus should be. There should be no support for a narrative of "oh, but those were the bad old days, things are better now". They are not.

That has nothing to do with what I was saying. Literally the entire content of my post [beyond quotes] was discussing past history concerning a single president.

Stop tilting at windmills.

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Edit since I'm rate limited and don't care that much:

Look, the historical context of stuff like this interests me.

If you find it boring...shrugs
Is "Stock Value/Bonus" annual amortized or total?
If this will be your first iPhone, you've picked a good one to get started with. My first and only iPhone, after nearly 5 years, is the iPhone 4S which is seemingly an identical body as this SE. And it is a rock-solid, perfect little machine. I've dropped it countless times on brick and cement and it has no scratches on it after all this time -- never even put a case on it. These larger, thin phones that have come since have been a lot more fragile.
Discoverability is incredibly important though. I can see it being useful in games, but there's no reason it should be a core part of how normal apps function since it's not discoverable. Your average user is using over a dozen apps; absent UI clues, there's no way they are going to know which parts of each of the many different screens in each app can interact with it, and what specifically it'll do.
A vulnerability of this level is inexcusable. StartSSL ought to be removed from all major browsers.
> has a huge cost for society

Has a huge cost for the government, yes, but whether or not its a cost to society depends on the marginal benefit of the government having that dollar, vs the marginal benefit of keeping that dollar in public hands.

A corrupt government would be the extreme case of where that dollar is likely best kept from the tax man, but this is far from exclusive to corrupt governments.
Could you update the last item, about stock, to include annual , so it's clear. 100k over 4 years is different than over 1 year.
That's exactly what I was going to do. Only reason I even had the keynote on tbh.

Am changing jobs and will be using my own laptop from now on, but guess I'll have to dust off eek a bit of life out of my aging MacBook Air - as I resent spending that much money on a laptop with year old hardware.

On the plus side Apple did just save me from spending £2,000 ;)
my only issue is, I haven't found reason to ever buy a newer model. I purchased Air models for my parents and took back the iPad2 they had. For the tablet work "I" do there is nothing the news do I need except do what I already do a bit faster.

they certainly are great for consuming content. I think the next major trick will be cell connectivity as the only option with a flat rate outside of contract.
If the battery lasts 1.5 days, people have to start charging their phones in the middle of the day - which is usually a bad time and a huge inconvenience. If you have to charge it every day, you don't notice it, if the battery runs out in your lunch break, you will curse Apple for the bad battery life.

In contrast, if you charge your phone daily anyway, you don't gain anything by 0.5 days of added battery life.
Good to hear. I actually think that maintaining the streak is pretty cool -- even if it seems like an alarming pace at first glance. Sounds like you're taking a healthy approach to the project. Best of luck!
My thoughts as well. With the recent advances doing image similarity and content based search should be fairly simple and probably more effective with pre-trained convnets.
Add every tiny fraction and you get a significant fraction.

Not even remotely true in this case. Aviation accounts for about 2% of carbon emissions, by my cursory Google search. Boom aircraft will, in the absolute best of outcomes, never account for more than a very small fraction of that number. And a small fraction of 2% is still, no matter how one tries to spin it, a very small fraction.

In any event, power (P) required to increase velocity (V) is a cubic relationship (P=FV, where F is the drag force, which has as one of its components V^2), so doubling speed requires 8 times the power. There are ways to mitigate that increase -- fly higher to reduce air density, reduce drag by using specialized airfoils and reducing excrescence, take advantage of increasing engine efficiencies, etc. -- but I think it's safe to say that a supersonic aircraft will always require gobs more fuel than its subsonic cousins. By your logic then, one should probably never be manufactured.

Full disclosure: I once worked as an aerospace engineer.
We didn't considered open source games AT ALL. Thanks. The only PC game we've considered is H1Z1. Is Saurbraten and Nexuiz free for alls or teams?
> that one will only get you if you're just plain not paying attention

Or you dropped in from above...
The downside is not simply in the value of the missed taxes; it's the fact that the best business is now determined by tax evasion capability.

Instead of "the most dominant market players are the ones with the best products", we get "the most dominant market players are the ones who have some combined aptitude in product value and tax evasion". That is, some resources are wastefully diverted to tax evasion instead of to making better products.

A smart dude who could have been working towards self driving cars is instead finding ever-cleverer ways to hide money or game the tax code.
Fair enough, I should have specified "iOS device". Though I would argue that the MagSafe change doesn't count as it still retains the same functionality, it's just a different form factor.
Wow, I remember when you had to do this yourself on your Apple, with x = fre(0).
It's so, so, so, very awesome. I no longer carry a paper notebook for taking notes.

But, you could figure out yourself if you like it in approximately 30 seconds at an apple store; try it out in the notes app and a few other drawing apps. You'll know immediately if it's right for you.
So... what are the modern day equivalents?

I do think drugs still apply, but not as much. But for things like encryption and private communications, there are others. And like with drugs, the thing they target aren't innocent. Many drugs are bad, some are downright horrendous. Part of the genius of their plan is that they do stick to things that aren't innocent and just make them even more guilty than they already are.
In addition to making a buck through market segmentation, there are probably challenges sourcing NAND flash that meets Apple's power/performance requirements in sufficient quantities.
> postfix + opendkim + smtp + tls + spamassassin + fail2ban is not too difficult a setup to achieve

If I was running a mail service company of some sort then of course it's easy enough to do this. Unfortunately time, effort, focus and money is best spent elsewhere in the company. Maybe one day, but for now it's far easier to scratch out 3 of the 4 resources by throwing money at the companies that do this sort of work.

Especially when you start looking at features like email->HTTP POST request with parsing built in.
If anything, Apple wants the iPad Pros to replace Laptops for most people. They clearly are hardly interested in Macs and power users anymore as most upgrades go without an Event and mac sales are a minor factor in their gigantic revenue.
> In a cashless society, it becomes possible (if not inevitable) the enforcement of that taxation will become even more onerous.

Automation
I remember when Dicknose made fun of Samsung for the one handed mode, and when Apple copied it he had to eat his hat.
I think the form would benefit from having the calendar year as well, as these numbers change enough over a few years.
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Frozen 2: Will Disney Really Make the Sequel?
HN is not a monolith. I'm sure someone here wants to take my guns but not my 'shrooms (and vice versa), but for the most part those issues are not intrinsically connected. You'll see more of a crossover at other sites, but that just reflects the two longstanding modes of acceptable USA political discourse.
I don't disagree with you. I'm not being an Apple apologist, just commenting why from their viewpoint it makes sense to bring the very best features into the fold of standard, native, functionality.
the issue I have is that the offers I receive through mail do not necessarily exist on the website. I can call and get the offer but only that way. Then to top it off, my current Comcast account is not even listed as an available option, meaning the speed and price I pay is no where to be found on the website.

when your product offering is so confused how do they expect the experience to be good?
CCA spent $1 million per year. Apple spent $1.24 million in lobbying in three months. Facebook spent $2.44 million in three months. Microsoft spent $11 million on lobbying per year. Google spent $19 million on lobbying per year.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/15/04/22/apples-lobbying-co...

https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D00000011...
+1. I've had a T420 for about 5-6 years now. Added an SSD to it and it still works great. It's my secondary laptop now, and I have the 2015 X1 Carbon that is my daily-driver that I couldn't be happier with. It's light, portable, and its battery is a champ. I run Win 8.1 with things like Chrome, Visual Studio, Word/Excel, light Photoshop/Illustrator, and some Xubuntu virtual machines. I'd recommend either of these laptops. In fact, we just bought a few more T420's for the office, gave them SSDs, and installed Xubuntu. They work great.
You'd think there'd be some service you could subscribe to that'd do this for you. Like an on-contract corporate buyer, but for consumer services.
Former Evangelist team member for Mailjet here.

Mailjet added an Inbound API called ParseAPI. Even if the name is different they are able to process inbound emails :-)

https://www.mailjet.com/feature/parse-api/

Quite an handy list tho. Great work!
I think the current view that iOS takes of file management takes it out of the realm of "good productivity device", full stop. The hardware is there. The software isn't particularly close yet, in my opinion.
Tech Manufacturing Remains Alive in U.S
Agreed. The more I hear about StartSSL the more I want to run away.
I'd argue that you should suggest an input format for some of the answers. This would help normalize the incoming data.

For example, you could have (City, State) for the location, and (numbers only) for numeric input fields.
> Gotta love the HN crowd.

Please don't. The "crowd" includes you, and such generalizations are mostly bias.
You take it up to the roof, drop it, and use d=0.5 g*t^2 to calculate the height of the building.
> As Steve Jobs famously said, "customers don't know what they want." This change of motivation in their product development is a significant one.

I wonder... What visionary, long term, skunkworks projects did Steve initiate into the pipeline before he fell ill? It should be safe to assume there were a number of secret exploratory rods into the fire, if the end of his career there was similar to the rest of it. Some should be emerging from dev right around now.

Where are they now and why aren't we seeing them? Did Steve run out of ideas? Or did they all get mothballed in favor of safer alternatives?
I'm not sure what the point of having a tablet if it must look and be used like a laptop.

The other thing with these keyboards is that when the tablet is held in table mode, you have your fingers on the keys, which is a pain.

I tend to agree with the post above. Good for reading, not the right tool for editing.
"has not yet" lived up to the hope/hype "for me", perhaps? I think they're slowly, but surely, broadening the number of people that can use the iPad and iOS for their computing.
I don't think this counts, as the Lightning connector retained the same functionality as the 30-pin connector. Sure, you can't connect old 30-pin cables or accessories without an adapter, but no functionality was lost.
How does it work? Isn't 911 just a voice call?
What type of intake design are you using? Comparable to the F-22A fixed square intakes?

Are you using current turbofan engines (GE F110?) or something exotic?
Agreeee :D
This seems to be for Managed VM [1] only, so it's a case of better documentation & tooling, but no new functionality. You can already run arbitrary code of any language on Managed VM instances.

[1] Managed VM is a sort of meet-half-way service from Google that is quite freeform like Compute Engine, but also offers access to a good chunk of App Engine's services. Still, it's very much not the standard App Engine.
FYI asking people what they do outside work is often a big HR no-no because it can easily fall into illegal but accidental discriminatory questions that are unrelated to the job which can be unnecessary PR and legal risks for your company.

I like the attributes you're probing but I'd keep it within the context of engineering and programming if that's what you're hiring for. That's part of the reason open source and github projects are such strong signals in hiring.
Whilst I am very liberal (classical sense) on many issues, including guns, you can't compare drugs with guns.

Much more meaningful to compare hand guns with explosives and other weapons, and drugs with alcohol and generally self-harm.
Apple's Strategy to Save iPad: Turn It into a PC
Presumably, the website is a general point-of-contact for the parent corporation, while the offers might be specific to your region. If it were a grocer or a pizza place, the deals specifically for you would likely be behind a "find your store" form. But Comcast likely wants to pretend they don't discriminate by region, so they just don't expose that at all.
BART on the brink, can’t afford to lose any more cars
> isn't it proof that the larger phone provides a worse user experience?

I think it's proof that they weren't willing to make some significant changes in iOS to account for this size change. The back button being in the top left of the screen is, in retrospect, a pretty bad idea. Android gets many things wrong, but having a back button easily accessible in the bottom bar is very user-friendly.

Instead iOS has this double tap thing, and also added swiping to go back. It's better than nothing, but buttons at the top of the screen still feels like a mistake.
Literally the entire content of my post [beyond quotes] was discussing past history concerning a single president.

Which is what I was responding to. No windmills here.

I believe it's fine as a historical exercise, but useless with respect to the state of drug policy etc. today. And think the effort much better targeted elsewhere as focusing on this piece of the history is, in my view, actively distracting from anything useful. Vilifying Nixon is easy and boring.

And yes, I think to the degree that it has traction, it does support a fallacious narrative about the current state of things - or at least is trotted out in support of it, which I'll grant is not quite the same thing.

Just my two cents.
Zika and birth defects: what we know and what we don’t
One could debate the merits of tiling vs overlapping windows for a range of form factors ...

Since most android apps are not tablet optimized, we wind up with multiple phone (not tablet) optimized apps sharing the screen.

I'd rather just have one tablet optimized app using the screen (and easy way to switch between) than multiple phone-optimized apps sharing the screen.
I wonder how well this will work: wife has an iPhone 5C but hates it because it's an 8GB model. Facebook already takes up 500MB with its caches and she's constantly removing apps. Pictures also take up room - with Photo Stream on there are 4 copies of each pic on your phone...
Ouch, such a gross way of thinking. And people wonder why things are getting so divisive. No matter who you are, there are lots of people who disagree with you on public policy who aren't morons. Treating them like morons encourages them to hate you and not listen to anything you say.
This is some warped stats findings. You want to divide iPad sales because it's in a different class yet compare them with all Surface tablets and Hybrids combined but still elect not to include MacBooks in this separate class.

Apparently iPad Pro and iPads are in a different price point but the current Surface product lines: Surface 3, Surface Pro 4 and Surface Book which are nearly doubled in cost respectively, are not. Then apparently an iPad with a larger screen is a brand new "entirely different" class, but Surface Tablet and Surface Books are not.

Then you go on about the launch quarter like it's the only reason why iPad Pro outsold all Surfaces, but both iPhone and iPads go on to outsell their launch quarters in the next year - this is what you get when you grow sales.

I'm surprised you didn't top it off by saying that Apple deliberately withheld introducing the iPad Pro to midway through the quarter so they could sell more units in that quarter.
> A fiddly add-on keyboard is never going to make for a good productivity experience.

I would suggesting trying a "fiddly add-on keyboard" first before saying that :). Maybe the iPad Pro's keyboard is like that and I certainly thought that about the surface pro 4 until I decided to spend some time playing with it. Coming from only Macs for the past 6 years I gave in and bought a surface pro 4. Then I did the launch hackathon with it where I coded for 48 straight hours.

It's a FANTASTIC productivity device. Granted it may not be the best fit for everyone but I wouldn't cast absolute doubt on it without spending some time playing with it.

> What's the point of making an OS X machine in tablet form factor

I don't think anyone specifically said it had to be OS X but it would be nice to have a touch screen and have access to iOS apps at the same time at you have access to "real" apps to get work done. I had an iPad before giving it to one of my kids because I couldn't do very much on it productivity wise. As a programmer who doesn't work on games: 99% of my code could run, without issue, on an iPhone 4's processor. I wanted something portable that I could read with, play casual games on but also get real work done. iOS just can't do that for many professions.
E911, or Enhanced 911, is much more than just a voice call. For some time, E911 calls have sent sensor data from smartphones to the 911 dispatch, such as latitude and longitude. Soon, the FCC is going to mandate all barometer-carrying smartphones to send the barometric pressure when an E911 call is made.

https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-9A1.pdf
It was a little bit of an odd case to begin with. The idea is kind of that there's a cause of action around state policy creating an inter-state "nuisance" in arguable violation of federal law, but there's no real precedent for that kind of thing in common law, and certainly not in statutory law.

If one were to establish such a cause of action, it would have major implications around things like differing environmental regulations, firearms laws, labor laws, tax policy, welfare, heck even fireworks sales.

I'm not surprised the SC didn't want to leap into that giant legal cluster headache.
> The installation process he just described was acceptable in the late 1990s but things have moved on since then.

Not in the industrial space they haven't. Plant managers don't understand or care about anything other than keeping their lines operating.
Make the winnings be a multiplier of the tax paid on the receipt.
> It's very difficult and costly. We are right on the edge of success or failure in this maintenance.
Further, if we were to actually pave the road (a true fantasy) it would be completely, totally unthinkable with regard to cost. Asphalt is paid for by the square foot and it isn't cheap. When you drive by a very quick section of asphalt road being resurfaced ... say 200-400 meters or something - very short ... understand that that is millions of dollars in asphalt work. Millions.
Can you build some roads and bridges without the government ? Sure, of course you can. Will they approach, in any category, even the bare minimum acceptable standard that you hold ? No.

1) If it's expensive to do for the private sector, it's expensive to do for the government, no part of the cost equation changes.

2) It only seems "cheaper" b/c the private sector would have to ask for money by providing enough value enough for you to part with your money, while government doesn't, and raises money by pointing guns at people. However, to avoid the free-rider problem, you can use assurance contracts to raise the construction money and tolls to pay for maintenance, similar to what governments would do anyways.

3) American infrastructure was rated a D+ by the ASCE, so in what way is having government the sole provider of infrastructure a guarantee of quality?

4) slightly unrelated, but do you really think we'd have the same level of urban sprawl, needing a car to get anywhere in suburbia and such a heavy reliance on fossil fuels if roads were built through market forces rather than government subsidy?
This is a technical thing. The court decided that Nebraska and Oklahoma can sue the Federal government for failure to enforce Federal law, but cannot sue another state.
What, really? I would figure GPS coords+altitude would be more useful than raw barometric pressure.
> Very few thinking people without a personal economic interest support the drug war at this late hour

Quite a lot of people still oppose legalization of other drugs. See http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/17/drug-legalization-p... for an example; I'm certain that more recent polls exist.