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My point was that HN comments of Page Rank would have been the same; some would have said it's not significantly better. And that's OK. Understanding what's 10x better conceptually can be difficult even for the experts.

It's all about customers: do they get the communication and do they respond to it? In our case, so far, they do.

My main point remains: you (and many HN commenters) would have scored an early Google in 'existing competition' and written it off also. And Larry and Sergey certainly wouldn't have "chosen to take that on board" because it's meaningless.
> Value is correlated to many things, but timing is one that cannot be ignored.

The real estate market as a general rule moves slower then the stock market (when it does crash in a day or a week). Timing the stock market is hard, much more doable with the real estate market.

Example Houston, clearly the area is losing oil and gas jobs which make a decent chunk of their economy and also drive commerce downstream locally (car sales, entertainment, etc...) but the house prices currently do not reflect that reality in Houston.
Seems like this is Apple's current explanation:

> Yes. Two-factor authentication is a new service built directly into iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. It uses different methods to trust devices and deliver verification codes, and offers a more streamlined user experience. The current two-step verification feature will continue to work separately for users who are already enrolled.

Wish they would expound a bit more...
Interesting. This would seem to imply that revenue is flat or down given Apple's previous intransigence on this front.

Personal experience tends to back this up. I can't think of anybody in my immediate circle who actually paid for something in the last year on their iPad/iPhone.
I'm on Mac but I use it for recording my desktop multiple times per work.
I have an hp50g and it kind of sucks in infix mode compared to RPN mode IMO. Everything is hidden behind layers and layers of menus sort of like the TI calculators (which is the point I guess?)
The intent is to cause fear, alarm, and distress.

That's not pranking someone.
"As Finley demonstrated, it’s not impossible to hunt down suspects who use these technologies – it’s just extremely time-consuming and resource-intensive."

Here's the big problem. It can be impossible. If the swatter exercises extreme caution, never registers any device or service in their name, never uses their public IP address for so much as a Google search on "how to swat" and doesn't brag about it online, it is in fact impossible to trace. This makes it tough going into an investigation because you don't know if it's some stupid kid or someone who knows a thing or two about how to remain truly anonymous online. To this point, you'll note there's a common thread in all the stories of this type. It's some stupid kid who gets caught and I highly doubt that's because only kids are swatting. It's because they are catching the dumb ones.
I'm curious why their request to use the song was denied.
That's a pretty strong statement to justify with 'no doubt'.

DOD has a zillion ways they support the families of KIA soldiers. Even just looking at economics, losing 10 soldiers isn't cheap.
Could someone provide a short summary of what this is about?
>s, which itself is scaremongering relative to what the bill itself says

I hate that valid criticism of a bills effects as described by lawyers and legal experts is trashed as "scaremongering".

It's not scaremongering and just because the bill appears benign to your laymans eyes does not mean it is in fact benign in a court or regulators eyes.
i am porting since months all my internal packages to npm. The full source stack should be there in a few weeks, all to Github (gbaumgart). Kind of messy thing if you worked with svn externals ;-)

Thank you, gonna let you know!
Ha! "Term of art" is another good one.
My normal home phone line is VoIP. What then?
And people still call TLS SSL. Habits form, technologies change.
If the people choose independence, for better or worse, there's nothing that the west could have done about it. What do you suggest, that colonialists crush the independence movements to keep governing? That would fly in the face of what one could call basic decent governance. Not to mention the intention of the colonizers which very arguably was to extract value for themselves first, and then maybe help africans accomplish something somewhere down the list.
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In what way is that snippet even partially incorrect? In what way is it elitist?

Are you arguing that most states do matter more than the DC-Boston corridor? That region as a state would be the 3rd most populous, and 1st in GDP.

Are you arguing that the country isn't divided between connected metropolises and disconnected backwaters? Maybe you take offense at the phrase "backwater", but regardless, the rural areas of this country are disconnected in many ways: they have extremely few transportation options, low import/export capacity, slow and sparse internet and cell coverage.

The article isn't arguing that power be ripped from rural areas, but that in order to let the very important urban areas, where most of the population and economic activity is, thrive, they shouldn't be so hindered by state boundaries and politics.

Urban areas that cover multiple states have more in common internally, than states do between their internal urban and rural areas. This shouldn't be a controversial idea.

And in what way do states represent the political will of the citizens? Did any of us actually vote to determine the current state configurations? No, those were mostly done either by pre-independence forces, like England, or by the Federal government. Today's citizens certainly didn't have a say. Power to the people indeed.
Nice catch--I didn't notice that. Should've had an article of its own.
Maybe the richer states can buy up the bankrupt states and eventually we'll end up with the state of New York and the state of California, probably a few city-state holdouts.
Uber, Lyft drivers in SF must get business licenses
Yes, that is the Guardian's current project.

http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/why-has-the-gua...
There's a difference between costly and overpriced--the global 1% who own most of the real estate in SF can't seem to understand.
>> You can be prosecuted in French for ridiculing the Holocaust.

I think that is a good thing, especially with rise of anti-semitism in different parts of the world.

Ridiculing the Holocaust or any other Genocide is not a free speech, it is a hate speech.
The ambiguity of this whole post is really weird. No specifics on what was asked, or of who asked. Under what circumstances would it actually make sense for any official representative of a company to reach out to the operator of the Pale Moon forums to ask them to do... basically nothing? No specific requests were made, apparently, and no criteria were provided.
What in the world.. I would expect better..

Africa is not a country, you can't speak about it as such. The North, West, East and South are as different as any two random countries in the world and within each there is even more diversity.

South Africa is a first world country, Nigeria is a crazy mix of poverty and development, Kenya is bursting with technology innovators taking their first steps, Burundi is barely hanging in there.

You can't use the term Africa and make any general statement about it, it is just too damn big and varied. Most people just have no concept of the scale there, but I always love pointing people to this map to help:
http://static02.mediaite.com/geekosystem/uploads/2010/10/tru...

Yes there is tremendous opportunity in various countries there, and yes, they come with caveats, but please, let's stop treating an entire continent as if it was a country.
Not so long ago, Singapore was a swampy backwater with no natural resources while Zimbabwe/Rhodesia was an agricultural powerhouse rich in natural resources. Was Lee Kuan Yew just way more competent and benevolent than Robert Mugabe?
I should probably point out that my personal machine is a Dell XPS 15 (infinity display), on which I run Arch.

Almost everything works, but I'm having trouble with a couple of things:

Graphics. It has switchable intel/nvidia but I get a better performance out of the intel chip still.
Battery life is about 2.5/3 hours.
I haven't tested bluetooth.
The fan sometimes comes up without any apparent reason. Palm detection and gestures don't work, but the trackpad is ok otherwise

The display is gorgeous, the machine is a beast and I'm very happy with it otherwise.
For me to consider your proposal you will have to explain California's high speed rail system which has been grossly warped from the original vision and promise by purely local interests.
The EFF really needs to spend their bullets more carefully. And instead of these panicked press releases in response to the normal machinations of government, perhaps find a way to get their opinions heard and words inked while the bills are being drafted.

Their only tool has been a hammer for decades now. And it's wearing thin.

You can't kill every bill just because something is poorly worded -- even if you scare smarty/lefty internet people into believing the whole point is the worst possible construction. Frankly, we don't have that much power. Time to build up the rest of the toolbox.
Roundup wasn't a bad herbicide to choose, and still isn't. Given your choice of compounds, it has quite low environmental persistence and toxicity relative.

Just thinking about it, you'd want it to affect a metabolic pathway that's not present in other taxa, or at least animals, so the Shikimic Acid pathway fits the bill.

You also want something that degrades rapidly so that it doesn't accumulate in the environment. Now, there are a lot of people arguing that glyphosate doesn't degrade quickly enough, and that's fair, but it's still pretty good as far as these things go.

Finally, you need to have a resistance gene to use in the first place, which glyphosate had.

So, assuming an input-intensive monoculture, glyphosate is easily a lesser of evils. The argument then becomes that it enables a broken system of monoculture, which is a quite a different issue than what most argue.

As for the other arguments, the IP issue is a longstanding one, nothing new to GMOs. Plant patents are one of only 4 types issued in the US; it goes way back. Since the advent of hybrid crops, everyone farming has been at the mercy of the companies with the best inbreds. The 'bug' issue isn't that compelling, either; we've been testing and vetting new hybrids for decades, and the risks are very similar. Biology is often 'fuzzy', but when it gets down to it, you can see what pathways are effected, look at metabolites, etc. It's quite easy to look at two similar things and see exactly how they differ.
Pale Moon team got as it seems some request from Mozilla to silence the Pale Moon forums Mozilla critics.
I respect your experience and insight. No one can fully understand being a stay at home mom unless they are one. My experience is a little different. My wife would do close to 0 housework, wake up at 1pm and watch the kids until I got home and then she'd go lock herself in her room. Trying to change any of that always ended with her being aggressive physically. I'm sure she'd have her own side to that story. I agree that raising kids can be extremely difficult but I've dealt w/ a level of crazy I wasn't prepared for
What about tools like Docker or VirtualBox? Every time those high-frequency release software are updated, you need to request sudo using the audit tool or request for IT to update?

I can't even imagine writing a kernel hardware driver in a corporate setup if they at subjecting development environments to strict lockdown.
Reviews are easily gamed, which seems to be the number one way to rank higher, and releasing a new version of an app wipes out reviews, which penalizes apps that are frequently improved and rewards forgotten apps. This is also driving the development of frameworks and tools that allow app updates without going through the App Store, such as react native, which I assume Apple doesn't want to encourage. Please reward apps that provide real value, that people constantly use after installing, rather than apps that game the system.
Regardless of my opinion about the article itself, your message reminded me of this great quote from Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine:

"When you live in a capitalistic society, the currency of the dissemination of information goes through capitalistic channels. Would Noam Chomsky object to his works being sold at Barnes & Noble? No, because that's where people buy their books. We're not interested in preaching to just the converted. It's great to play abandoned squats run by anarchists, but it's also great to be able to reach people with a revolutionary message, people from Granada Hills to Stuttgart."
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Thats a jump in logic.

How does reality being racist imply that a fact is racist? And not other things? Is everything racists under a racist reality? How do we draw these lines?
No I mean it would take me 20 years. I'm sure people who make their own scopes for a living could hack one up fast.

(BTW I make microscopes for a hobby and the cheap EM scopes blow me away)
>leaving 'local' I.T. workers out of a job.

Well, I'm not really sure that the local guy deserves a job any more than the guy in India does.

I do agree with your post, generally, though I remain skeptical about certain things, like "more pride and care", for example. Remember, this argument is about "buy local", as in radius. It isn't about factory vs small-farm. As a Canadian, I can buy Alberta beef in my grocery store. When I'm in Alberta, that's top quality local. When I'm elsewhere, it's suddenly...bad?
I am familiar with the argument, but note that Randgalt said:

> it's not as if the money is just sitting there and 1% are taking most of it

Well, the money is just sitting there. Additionally, of all the money that exists, banks effectively take ~10% off-the-top annually through interest privilege, giving them (and their shareholders) a headstart. Everyone else gets to fight from what's left before it gets destroyed in a principal payment.
Heh. The list I could make for you my friend. For one, there is a dynamic contrast 'feature' that can't be disabled from linux. When you look at dark screens, it will decrease the brightness of the backlight. The goal here was when looking at light screens it increases the brightness to make it look like it has great contrast.
Suspend and powersaving is an issue (see MJG59's blogpost about the chipset), almost unworkable if you don't get powersaving sata working first.
Thunderbolt support is non-existent. 1/3 of the time I hot unplug a displayport monitor my machine freezes.
You can't disable the keyboard backlight, it turns back on whenever you press a key.
Oh, and no one on the sputnik team has tested the displaylink video out adapter they sell with the device.
Oh, and my alt key popped off 31 days after getting the machine.
Looks like it's a different process now https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT204921
> this is not necessarily a bad thing

Can you elaborate on how it's a good, or neutral, thing? Startups may be imperfect creatures, but I perceive them to have a net-positive influence on the economy (and, to be clear, I don't work for one). How is their absence from the Japanese economy a good thing?
No. There is no fucking way anyone can consider swatting a prank. The one mischaracterizing the intent here is you.
The minecraft modding scene is horrific. Forum posts as homepages, adfly for file hosting, closed source mods whose maintainers are hostile to feedback, compatibility issues between everything...

... and yet somehow it WORKS, and probably provides kids with a better introduction to having to hack with computer technology than anything most kids have had to deal with since having to edit HIMEM in your autoexec.bat to get a soundblaster to work with Doom was a thing.
Then 'most people' aren't your target audience. That doesn't mean there isn't a well sized target audience.
>your points about corruption are arguments against government in general

This is not the case. The first step of "divide and conquer" is "divide."

>If I have no power over another, then my corruption affects only me.

That's how how corruption works. It's not a property of individuals, it's a property of institutions.

>corruption at the local level affects a limited number of people

At first. Then two corrupt local levels team up, and there's nobody to stop them. Corrupt organizations don't require regulatory action to form alliances. Even if you decentralize everything on paper, they will be centralized in practice, because corruption causes some people to have disproportionate means to get what they want.
1. The point of Tofino is to fast-track UI tests within a team of 6 people. Firefox isn't switching to Blink.

2. "Mozilla" told Pale Moon to police their forums? I'd be curious who at Mozilla did this.

3. A couple Mozilla devs out of tons of them took the bait and got a bit angry in chat logs or Twitter. Does that somehow mean that the huge Mozilla organization is scared? Have you seen the way people like Tobin talk in the chat logs? It looks like he's basically trying to get a rise out of people for no good reason.

This is cheesy drama between maybe 4 devs and doesn't really have a place on HN.
Pale Moon is a fork of Firefox. The maintainer has a long history of an at-times-antagonistic relationship with the core FF development team. This appears to be another footnote in that long history where he claims to be receiving pressure from some mysterious Mozilla employee, in this case to censor his forums in some unspecified way.
Some clarity is badly needed here. If you don't know some fairly arcane details of what's going on in Internet regulation, this looks as though it just prevents the FCC from setting price floors and price ceilings, which would be fine.

What's actually going on is fairly complicated, because there are five different parties involved: the consumer, a consumer ISP such as Verizon or Comcast, a backbone provider such as Cogent or Level 3, a business ISP such as Linode or AWS, and a business with a web site. The wires look like this:

Consumer --- Consumer-ISP --- Backbone-provider --- Business-ISP --- Website

And the flow of money looks like this:

Consumer --> Consumer-ISP --> Backbone-provider <-- Business-ISP <-- Website

For each connection, there is someone paying money who can take their money elsewhere if that connection is too slow. What's happening is that some consumer ISPs aren't happy with only being paid by consumers, and want websites to also pay them. That would make the flow of money look like this:

Consumer --> Consumer-ISP --> Backbone-provider <-- Business-ISP <-- Website
^_____________________________________________________|

The problem is that this arrangement would have businesses paying money to ISPs that they didn't choose, and can't walk away from. From a consumer's perspective, if a web site is slow, it looks like the website's fault rather than their ISP's fault, which distorts the incentives. This sort of arrangement isn't really compatible with free-market incentives, since the flow of money doesn't match who's providing services to who; it's less like normal business, and more like extortion.

Unfortunately, I don't expect Congress to have access to clear explanations of all of this. But if you happen to have a congressperson's ear: rather than convince them of a position, please make sure they understand the full shape of what's happening. They're smart enough to draw the correct conclusion, but are constantly bombarded by misinformation.
Thank you for this clarification. I just recently noticed and enabled two step authentication, and would have assumed I was already using the new auth without your post.
If the President is vowing to veto it, you can probably rest assured it's more than just "normal machinations of the government", as long as that implies "nothing to be concerned about".
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> An ethnic group or ethnicity is a category of people who identify with each other based on common language, ancestral, social, cultural, or national experiences.

Seems to fit to me.
I wouldn't blame the TPP, I'd blame the powers behind the TPP. This is an effort that's been going on in parallel along many fronts.
You are not alone.

Here is how I understand it, there are two methods:
1. Two-Step verification
2. Two-Factor authentication

1 is the old method. 2 is new.

With method 1 you can add devices manually as 'trusted'. Auth is a simple 4 digit code and contains no interesting info.

With method 2 devices are automatically added if they are supported and you sign in. You cannot add devices via your account info manually. Codes are 6 digit and auth dialog includes a map with approximate location of login attempt.
The new method also seems to be a more 'native' and better experience.

Obviously, method 2 is preferred due to the 6-digit code and more info about the potential attacker (or trustee for those who do such things).
"Note that I agree we need to treat swatting as a serious and potentially dangerous crime ... But what do we do when all the perps are juveniles?"

Try them as adults. You cannot tell me with a straight face that someone trying to pull this crap does not know exactly what they're doing.
It's cheesy drama between maybe 4 devs and has no place on HN.
I'm not a Mozilla employee. It's sad to see one of the very few genuinely good companies get attacked by uniformed users looking for controversy to get worked up about. Creating an account to post this link here and the comments in the linked thread are perfect examples of that.

We don't know what Mozilla said, officially or unofficially. We don't know if it was a random employee or an official company statement. They also haven't been given a chance to defend themselves. Let's not assume the worst because it gives people something new to rage about on twitter.
Setting aside the irony of demanding an argument considering the, uh, brevity of your post I was responding to, you've still missed my point. Attention disproportionate to substance is hype by definition and hype for new (or "new") things is not remotely uncommon, so shouldn't be puzzling. See: the Hype cycle, etc.
You are correct. They just changed the name. I've had this set up for a long time, and when I go into he settings in shows enabled.