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> "I'm more excited for GM than I am for Cruise," he said. "To me, that is going to mean GM beats Toyota."

I wonder if that will play out
I'd hope some of your improvements make it back to xhyve
That's a salvage title, not something most people are comfortable with.

You certainly can find a car for that or much less, but not a 2012 Camry.
I don't think the white majority finds that behavior acceptable either. Twice as many white people are killed by cops every year as black people for example (and yes, I understand the population ratios, my point is it's still a lot of white people also being killed by cops). I think it's primarily a question of: how to stop it, what reforms to make, where to start?
If we are talking about something like a phone bill, where you may incur charges during billing period and pay at the end, then you are correct and the company can take you to court because you are in debt to them for services provided that you have not paid for.

If we are talking about subscriptions where you pay for a month of service up front, then there is no debt. If they fail in charging another month to the provided credit card, then they are under no obligation to renew your subscription. Assuming they do not, then you have not recieved any service that you did not pay for. Their only claim is that you promised to by another month; however this claim is weak because you could have properly canceled your subscription before buying the next month anyway (and, in most cases, you would still get access until the period you had paid for anyway).
I remember reading a PaulG essay[1] that explains why the above scenario happens. Willingness to take big chances might not hurt a small company as it does to a big company. Big companies try to maintain their position in their market rather than take big chances again & lose their position[2].

That essay goes on to say that this creates a chance for startups to make their presence felt, because big companies don't want to take risks anymore.

[1] - I can't find the link right now. Will update this post, when I do

[2] - This is slightly related to Gambler's fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gambler%27s_fallacy
I think I understand the intent. I was responding to the parent's idea that we should simply not watch movies with questionable content. I agree with that but also am glad this tool exists. I'm not sure under what circumstances it would be used for less filtering. Are you suggesting movie studios release uncut films and let the audience pick the rating? That's a novel idea.
It's sad, however the ethics of human worth are much harder now, with human-caused global events even prompting creation of official organizations, such as
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_M...
You are wrong. I am depressed and this made me feel better. You are painting depressed people with too broad of a brush.
Interesting prediction. Can we make it more precise and put money and odds behind it?

We should probably give it a timeframe. I say over the next ten years?

Nailing down `great product' will be harder.

By `internally', I assume you mean not from a recent acquisition?
Listen, why do you automatically assume that depressed people need to be enouraged to feel like their depression is totally cool and normal? I think that people are social beings and a lot of the time something is missing... it is something that needs to be fixed before it gets out of hand. What about drug addictions for example?
I live in Japan now and domestic flights here are amazing. Airlines recommend you buy your ticket 30 minute before departure and be at the airport 15 minutes before when they start boarding. There's never more than 2-3 people in line in front of you at security. There are no liquid regulations - they have a sniffer for drink bottles. Of course airports all have good public transport connections.
You mean the Koch brothers, the same ones in favor of: ending police militarization, ending mass-incarceration, ending our military adventurism, and are in favor of gay marriage? Sounds pretty great to me.
We just put some up in our office. For now, they look great (about a month of use)
Bus rapid transit specifically refers to bus lines on dedicated right-of-way.

However, once you are going to the trouble of building dedicated right-of-way, the incremental cost of making it rail isn't too bad compared to the enormous efficiency/scalability of rail over buses.
I couldn't disagree with you more, Google Photos is garbage compared to Picasa. There's no folders and no tags (for writing a quick description that applies to a bunch of pictures), no manual face tagging (for when the magic fails, or tagging pets, or tagging people that were there but not in the photo, or just tagging things that aren't faces), no people pane (where you can select two or more people to quickly see all the photos of them together), no batch editing of any kind really, no bulk mechanism to give your feedback to the facial recognition engine to help it learn (did Google Photos perfect that technology? Is that why it doesn't need our help anymore? No. It just misses half the faces Picasa would've caught)

In lieu of these basic requirements, Photos presumes to be able to create collages automatically for me (sure put all those pictures that are basically identical together) and albums (oh yes call that one "Trip to California" it's not like I don't fucking live in California). Not to mention all of this is happening in a browser that is clearly sweating to scroll hundreds of thumbnails across my screen where Picasa would effortlessly zoom and resize on the fly.

I honestly don't see how Photos could ever deliver a superior user experience to Picasa without first abandoning the idea that it's all going to happen in a browser. I'm also curious what your use-case is that Photos is actually superior to Picasa in your opinion, are you a heavy user?
No. If the only potential customers are huge car companies, they're going to prefer to build their own self-driving car tech to paying a high price for Google's.
Can we admit there is a downturn now, or are we still collectively denying it?
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Offering unlimited space was a mistake from the start. Cutting down on their free tier though is a bad move.

I use OneDrive partly cause I got 5 licenses of Office along with it for my family - which is a steal considering what you get even if its 1TB and not unlimited. If you compare Office 365 Home pricing with the popular Dropbox for example you'll see its absolutely worth it. My concern though is what happens if MS decides to cut down from 1TB to 100GB next month...
Of course that's why we write functions. But we can't share a function with others and across projects... so we make it into a module to do that.

It's like (micro)crowdsourcing (the smallest components of) the standard library that JavaScript never had.

Some bit of logic could go from being DRY in one project, to DRY in all of my projects, ... to eventually be DRY in all projects. It's globally DRY.
... because none of them are going to succeed? That's an excellent reason to cut.

Just look at Google's financials. If they "sacrifice the future" and nuke everything other than search and search advertisements, they'd make a LOT more profit.
This is what everyone should do ideally, but that means your solution is conscientiousness, and good luck spreading that across all your dependencies.
> and their core services have been stagnating

I don't think some core services like Android & Chrome are stagnating. They may not be much superior to their competitors to blow them out of the water, but they do seem to be moving ahead in those sectors.

I agree with the fact that they didn't come out with new products/brands that stuck, but their progress with existing products seems to be in the right direction.
Psychology in crisis: Scientist's striking confession explains how we got here
Isn't that what they said about phones before 2007?
This is so sad, yet also heart warming. It takes clarity of mind to discuss depression in an obituary. Most people will not mention it so openly as a cause of death, but it is common and accounted for 2.2% of deaths in 2014 (42,773) [1]. We don't have a clear solution that works for everyone. We suggest staying active, or visiting doctors who may or may not prescribe anti-depressants.

A powerful one I don't often hear suggested is meditation. The book Mindfulness in Plain English [2] is a good introduction. We can all benefit from pushing pause on our train of thoughts once in awhile.

[1] http://www.save.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.viewPage&page_...

[2] http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma4/mpe.html
As people get older they don't require quite as much rest. I know people in their 60s who say they feel completely rested with just 7 hours.
Are you sure?

I've looked at these, and every single one that I investigated involved some kind of activation process that meant giving up identifying information (or lying, which I'm not willing to do).
I think Facebook, as a slightly younger company, seems to be on the same path as Google. Brilliant engineers, concerns around privacy, similar business models, big acquisitions, huge ambitions, etc.

What would prevent Facebook from taking Google's path in a few years (assuming a similar scenario continues)?
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282480
They are not going to come so soon, the fully automated ones. I have watched with interest for years the Google Self Driving Car project and they release very little actual information about the stage they are at and the problems they are solving.
Ansible-shell can do that. (https://github.com/dominis/ansible-shell/blob/master/README....)
It seems that not all people suffering from depression are the same, what helps some might push others deeper into depression.

But ignoring it and treating it like it's just a mood rather than a disease (as so often happens) helps no one. If this woman uses her sister's death to bring attention to depression as a disease that too often results in death, then good for her. She's not trying to cure the world, just trying to prevent her sister's death from being in vain.
Again, if you have agreed to their terms and conditions, then you are under obligation to abide by them (within reason; there are limits on what can go into a T&C). The T&C almost certainly obliges you to pay them. Can anyone cite precedent for failure to pay magically releasing someone from that agreement?
It seems like everywhere you look you see signs of a downturn -- less investment, less free stuff, more layoffs.
I'd love to alpha test this, my email is listed in my HN profile if you'd like to get in contact.
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I find a large part of depression is not being able to recognize the "sometimes" aspect of your second point. The author isn't pushing happy rainbows - "any time I was struggling, any time depression and anxiety overwhelmed me" -- it's about how difficult depression makes it to see a way through the shitty periods.
The following may be a better url since it gives both the abstract and a link to the submitted paper pdf:

http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2014/4565/
Do you have a source for that? I've never heard any science which actually backs up this statement. Granted, most of the research we see is done on 20-30 year-old college students.
sure, you can execute commands via SSH on multiple nodes using labels as a selector.

> tsh --proxy=work ssh os=linux df

also, as mikeokner noticed, if you already using ansible, ansible-shell should work out of the box as well.
Those who assert must prove.
> there is a lot of hate for Python's "kitchen sink" library in JavaScript world

Is there? Most "js people" have never had the pleasureful experience of working with a "pleasantly opinionated" language like Python and the similar feel of its libraries, even the 3rd party ones.

Really, there's something really awesome in the Python ecosystem that should be spread to others before node takes over the world: If done right, being opinionated ("one way to do it") and centrally planned (a BDFL or smth like that) is A GOOD THING for an open-source language/infrastructure project! And it's also good if you extend the philosophy to the libraries and frameworks. Don't ditch the baby with the bathwater!

But I have a really hard time translating this message to "node-speak" unfortunately... Thanks for the "saves money" tip though, never thought of that, will try it ;)
Great:  Chief of staff LOST Blackberry tied to secret server
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> US infrastructure construction is routinely 3 - 10x more expensive on a like-for-like basis compared to other developed nations.

> The primary cause appears to be the way the US solicits and manages infrastructure projects which leads to massive bloat and inefficiency.

This is depressing. What can we, as voters or political donors or investors or entrepreneurs, do to fix it?

The US has well organized and effective political advocacy groups for a number of causes. For example, there's one whose sole focus is maximizing people's gun rights.

We need one for ending bureaucratic bloat, corruption, rent seeking and pork. A group whose sole goal is to fix government so we can get projects done cleanly and on time and at reasonable cost.
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Greater:  State Department never provided secure BlackBerry
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355673
This is more along the lines of what I was thinking.
As "we all know", security isn't security, it's merely a case of "how long do we have?".
Pirates do go after the contents of ships, that's a fact.
I have nothing to cite for the following, but I can't imagine that the pirates actually want people on board. To a business - unfortunately - people are replaceable for much less than what their cargo costs.

360 degree long-range turrets and sticking to international water seem like the best strategy they have here. :^)
Google, Microsoft and Apple have problems finding the next big thing, that's true. But, at the same time, Apple sits on millions of apps developed by external devs, same with Google and Microsoft. Each company has attracted a ton of developer investment and that portfolio will remain valuable.
My bank in Sweden offers this automatically when you use their website. Not with as a nice UX as this, it is a popup with a flash app in it, but still good enough to be very usable.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=sv&sl=sv&tl=en&u=h...
Of Canons and Marginal Poets
Well, I won't recommend it to you unless you have a specific reason to do it (but just for fun... counts).

As a haswell user the only thing I have to say is, before Linux 4.4, the new P-state driver was awful specially for the powersave preset.

Other than that, probably won't worth it. Sure you can make it boot fast and use less memory, but in general is marginal. I used to have a linux-ck kernel and for some reason it stabilized my gaming in wine. Skyrim didn't crash/freeze as often, other than that... with my i3 I only squeezed 1-2 fps in my bad 20 something fps. But now wine got better, and I didn't rebuild the linux-ck anymore.
"Those a mucky definitions."

There was exactly one definition in my comment: that of a public good. The remainder was my reasoning for why roads and trains do not fit that definition of a public good. With which part(s) do you disagree?

"If you're arguing that roads are a public good..."

I'm not arguing that. That's why I started my comment with "No, they're not".

I'm not sure how to respond to the rest of your comment, as your main point (that public transit is good) is orthogonal to mine.
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We have plenty of ice and snow in Sweden... http://www.arriva.se/sites/default/files/styles/469x304/publ...
Nobody wants to go through that again.
I wasn't trying to come up with a lower bound, I was trying to make the numbers round off nicely and reasonably to make a point.
Exactly, just like a monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors!
> Every line is a maintenance burden - just reading and understanding the code is what takes most of the time. Lines of code (and notably not any measure of "complexity" of those lines that's been tried) is the one thing that correlates with bug rates.

I'm sorry but that is just a horrible way to look at programming.

You shouldn't NEED to go out and look for an already done solution if it's elementary and takes minutes, if that, to write. Ever.

This is just sloppy.

> So figure out a process and resolve that, once and for all.

Tell yourself that; that was simply a counter argument to your false claim. Regardless it's fixable.

> There's no point just cutting 10% (say) of your dependencies and hoping that you won't encounter the problem on your more important dependencies.

This doesn't even make sense. What are you trying to convey here? The more dependencies you can cut out the more reproducible your builds will be. Period. Which is important when you're dealing with code that gets rapidly deployed to many production boxes.

> That's exactly why people were depending on this library.

If using left pad gave them time back because the original author could do it better, faster and cheaper...I'm not sure programming is the right type of work for these people.

What's next, are you going to outsource all your for and while loops to a module? You know, so you have less things to "maintain"?
Sexual surveillance and repression goes back to the dawn of civilization and the origin of language. Everybody wants to know who is having sex with who. This is, I fear, the ultimate question of Douglas Adam's Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy. It is difficult for a human being to resist the temptation to ask who is having sex with who, especially after spending decades building a system that is designed to answer exactly that question (a.k.a "artificial intelligence" or perhaps "artificial gossip" would be a better term).

> Gossip, according to Robin Dunbar in his book Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, does for group-living humans what manual grooming does for other primates — it allows individuals to service their relationships and so maintain their alliances on the basis of the principle: if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Dunbar argues that as humans began living in increasingly larger social groups, the task of manually grooming all one's friends and acquaintances became so time-consuming as to be unaffordable.[51] In response to this problem, humans developed 'a cheap and ultra-efficient form of grooming' — vocal grooming. To keep your allies happy, you now needed only to 'groom' them with low-cost vocal sounds, servicing multiple allies simultaneously while keeping both hands free for other tasks. Vocal grooming then evolved gradually into vocal language — initially in the form of 'gossip.'[51] Dunbar’s hypothesis seems to be supported by the fact that the structure of language shows adaptations to the function of narration in general.[52]

> Critics of this theory point out that the very efficiency of 'vocal grooming' — the fact that words are so cheap — would have undermined its capacity to signal commitment of the kind conveyed by time-consuming and costly manual grooming.[53] A further criticism is that the theory does nothing to explain the crucial transition from vocal grooming — the production of pleasing but meaningless sounds — to the cognitive complexities of syntactical speech.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language#The_gossip_...
Since you didn't mention it, YC has a Fellowship program.

https://fellowship.ycombinator.com/
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https://sleepfoundation.org/media-center/press-release/natio...
They definitely do but for every iOS user to simultaneously start downloading the same U2 album, they must have added tons of extra redundancy in place for the servers not to go down. That would have been a huge unexpected amount of requests for a single album if they had actually "forgotten" about it.
Gizmo is cleary referring to services where you pay upfront for, e.g., one month of service with some form of auto-renewal. He's not talking about failing to pay for services rendered in advance of payment.
Online storage is a physical object that requires dedicated infrastructure, whereas software can be built and forgotten about.
It may be up to the merchant, technically, but in reality systems such as Authorize.Net allow you to configure it at the gateway to reject transactions based on various AVS criteria. Many of my clients also only allow shipping to the AVS verified billing address as a way to weed out much of the fraud. For many products, only allowing shipping to the billing address is a reasonable restriction.
Apple designing its own servers to avoid snooping
>Her appointment was broadly seen as an effort to restore confidence in investors who were alarmed by increased spending and speculative investments in new technologies.

I hate that this is how the world is.
@boling11, why does privacy.com need access to my online banking on an ongoing basis, after the initial signup is finished?

I have changed my online banking password after signing up successfully, and I received an email complaining that "Our connection to your bank is broken".

I can understand the need for initially providing my banking credentials for AML/KYC reasons, but I feel uncomfortable with your company continuing to use those after the initial check.

Why can't you just use the routing/account numbers for ACH after the initial signup?
Purely for personal gain... can you explain your post?

Are you saying she was surprised by the news' idiocy?
This is how Google Photos fits into my overall workflow. I absolutely love it but it's not the most important or critical piece.

https://medium.com/@jmathai/my-automated-photo-workflow-usin...
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Your USB cable, the spy: the NSA’s catalog of surveillance magic (2013)
I'm really struggling not to make a "...sucks" joke.

...damn.
This is so great. It's like watching an early 20th century period piece unfold.
I've been watching YouTube lately and I noticed a trend: content quality is becoming better, people (the YouTuber) are making serious money from YouTube.

I also learned that YouTube is now providing YouTube Space for rent in multiple countries to help YouTuber to create better high quality content.

I think after YouTube has their own CEO, it's been making progress to expand its brand.

I'm seeing YouTuber from Canada (https://www.youtube.com/user/ehbeefamily), from Indonesia (https://www.youtube.com/user/LastDayProd), from New York (https://www.youtube.com/user/caseyneistat), or even for a specific niche (Asian American: https://www.youtube.com/user/FungBrosComedy, Japan: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqwxJts-6yF33rupyF_DCsA) doing serious work to produce good quality content.

Old contents are also being re-published at YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/show/pocoyoinenglish (probably making money via ads continuously as well).

My family viewing habit is shifting from TV Cable to YouTube slowly to the point where we're considering to abandon TV Cable (kinda hard cause sports and all that).

I believe YouTube is head-down quietly building better product/experience for long-term.

I sense that Google enterprise groups are in similar trajectory after the Alphabet split (case and point: Google Cloud Platform, it's not AWS/Azure yet but it's beginning to show some improvement from its previous stance).
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In the 90s we had one as well: MD5 RC4 RSA all share Ron Rivest as an author.
Here in Japan there are a lot of overwalks[0] over busy roads or intersections so people don't have to wait for cars.

[0]Not Japan, but one of these http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/31825728.jpg