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You're being facetious but I will address a few of your points regardless.

>Going for a walk? (Are there sidewalks anymore?) Have you negotiated with each individual sidewalk owner for right of passage?

If you like walking around your neighborhood, then you'd probably live in a neighborhood where you'd either have ownership rights or an easement to walk around a bit.

If you like walking around at work, you'll probably want to work somewhere that has those opportunities available.

Around businesses? Obviously every business can make their own rules about their property but I would guess most businesses would welcome people, potential customers, walking in front of their store.

As for roads I will let the reader research that out; there's been plenty written on private roads. Private roads predate our current public road system so I'm not sure what's so unfathomable about them.

>Lucky thing you saved some extra breathable air coupons

Air is probably too abundant for people to want to try to commercialize. It would be a failing business.

>I was struck when I read that last line at how dismal a world it would be to live in

It's unfortunate that you lack the imagination. In the past several centuries we have seen a level of personal freedom which is unprecedented. With that increased freedom we have the highest standard of living, ever. Now when someone comes along and theorizes on how we might increase that freedom you seem to fear the possibility of change--like the slave afraid of what's beyond his plantation.

Luckily, this isn't really written for you. There will be those who will read this and wonder "Could we really make private roads work?", they will do the research and come to their own conclusion. You may think this fringe, and it may be, but it does not take long for the fringe to grow.
But in this case, they specifically said that the researchers were unable to escalate. How does he know? Either the researchers violated the rules by trying and failing, or they didn't try and he's simply lying to make himself look better. By your reasoning and their policy, those are the only two possibilities.

What are we supposed to conclude from this? Under the current rules and assuming the description of what happened is accurate, it would seem you'll potentially be punished for establishing the full extent of a breach, unless it's not so bad, in which case you're rewarded for failing. In addition to being illogical and unfair, it also incentivizes OpSec to delude themselves and everyone else about their true security risks.
Preorders begin on April 29 2016. There was no mention of price and availability. It should be priced at $699 unless HTC diverges from its usual policy of pricing the same models at the same prices; though promotions can be different between carriers for the same models. Looking at the hardware, the same model that supports AT&T and T-Mobile also has the frequency bands for Verizon, indicating that the early May availability could be the same for all three models.
It's not about people paying to listen to podcasts. Podcasts have to become the new radio. The definition of podcast is an RSS feed with a link pointing to an audio file. Additional metadata has to be inserted into that standard with a link to an advertising agent (meaning an entity that will allocate payment per stream) and a link to the appropriate payment processing agent. And of course software must be updated to process that information.

In short you need advertising-supported podcasts that will pay per listen.
Ask HN: How much free time do you get per day?
This should not include the time where you have to read blogs, learn something to keep up with your industry.
and here I remember that the PDF of the Turbo Pascal manual was so many multiples of the compiler's size I needed a calculator to figure it out
> You realise that those 4 year olds grow up right?

No, I didn't realize that 4 year olds grow up. Thank you for clearing that up.
I should have used quotes (") around market but I already used my quota of quotes today..
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US mass incarceration is terrible problem, it's well known that the US has more prisoners than any other country and one of the highest per capita rates of imprisonment in the world.

The war on drugs, mandatory minimum sentencing, brutal probation regimes that throw ex-prisoners back into prison for minor offenses all play a part.

This is systematic problem, media-driven attacks on criminals are a reliable "dog-whistle" issue for politicians and so-forth.

It is encouraging to me when folks involved in this system put forward a critique and try to stop the overall downward trend here.

It is "nice" when someone engages in this sort of act of pure human kindness but this seem like exactly the sort of things that doesn't scale, that doesn't recognize larger problems and basically puts things down as a simple problem for veterans rather than a problem our whole society faces.

Anyone who's spent a bit of time watching courts knows that a given judges sees dozens of people per day who get essentially assembly line justice with 90% of them being sad people who made sad choices with the courts meting out one more level penalties likely to continue these people's downward spiral. It's nice when a judge does one semi-good thing - but I can only see nice, not encouraging, here.
It's the same principle -- however bad some harm X is in the abstract (be it death or environmental catastrophe), it doesn't justify arbitrary measures to fight it, be it more cameras tracking your movement or $20/kg taxes on plastic bags, because in every practical sense the actual harm is bounded.
It's a common English idiom, but even though I've been here over twice as long as your account date I can't say I've noticed an infestation of "curious" comments... though given curiosity is a hacker virtue, perhaps it's not surprising there may be more of it here? I still am genuinely curious how GGP would have dev boards priced instead -- the market is pretty much limited to students (the ones at good schools have the schools pay for the boards, or the schools get discounts) or professionals (who again expense through their company), what's the incentive to lower prices?
I'm with kittypryde. I'll take a cite on that.

Last I heard, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Adobe, and a huge slew of smaller tech companies (if you want to stay in the same industry as Apple) had all colluded together to suppress wages.

I have a hard time believing anyone who claims this was an exception to a rule. It seems far more likely to believe it is the rule.
Sixty tasks might not be that onerous, particularly if they're very finely grained. For example,
1. Fill out form to request ID card.
2. [+1 hr] Get picture taken for card.
3. [+2 day] Pick up new ID card at front desk.

1. Ask employee to bring in a blank check.
2. [+1 day] Use check to complete direct deposit form.
3. [+2 weeks] Check with employee to make sure direct deposit went through.

We're 10% of the way there and we haven't done any sort of actual orientation, set up any accounts, or done any training.
Criminal background checks are actually surprisingly hard to do. There are cheap ones that will search a subset, but doing it thoroughly actually requires physically going to courthouses in the county for all prior addresses. Even then, you can miss records if they are in counties where the person doesn't live.
I think the point is that nobody is going to want to use their current iPhone in 7.5 years, let alone 75. That is partly because people like shiny new things, but also because your current iPhone will lose iOS compatibility long before that time.
My science fair experiment was literally building a cannon. I lit hairspray on fire and shot potatoes at a wall and don't even remember signing a waiver.
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Now imagine that without Google Privacy, better cameras, and shot from the air.
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> The point is that this is not a "know it or not" question. You should be able to derive this answer, even if you've never seen it before, by combining things that you should have seen, because they show up all the time in CS.

Sure, you don't absolutely need to know the problem to be able to derive an answer on the spot, but the problem with a widely known question like this is that candidates who already know it will have an almost insurmountable advantage over those who have never heard of it before, which makes it in essence a "know it or not" question.

There is very little you can do to distinguish between the candidates who knew the question beforehand but feigned ignorance versus those who actually managed to figure it out on the spot.
No. The female rate increased less than the male rate.

The male rate was already 3 times the female rate, and increased slightly more -- but because the female rate was so low to begin with, the female rate represented a 200% increase.

Out of 100,000 -- females started off at 0.5 and increased to 1.5.

Males otoh, started off at 1.5 and increased to 2.6.
Ah yes, we can't sacrifice the all-important branding!
Even if you can get free shipping on Amazon items, the amount of time they spend stalling the shipment is ridiculous. It's better to boycott Amazon because of their anti-consumer attitudes.
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Will they put the same restrictions on Ios apps. No one has been able to make Apple open its hardware to non appstore apps. Would be interesting if in the future they ask for that as well.
Isn't that exactly what happened with the Powa article that was on HN in March?
Well said.

There's a neat section of the highly enjoyable book Wall St. by Doug Henwood (free at http://www.wallstreetthebook.com/WallStreet.pdf) which discusses why "the firm" exists. Basically turning your "going for a walk" scenario back onto the corporate world like so:

Why is it that companies with fixed payrolls, buildings, etc., exist? In a fully marketized world, we would contract, daily, with providers for all services, including day-to-day secretarial services, copying services, coding, document and report production, research, everything.

Starting at page 249:

"In a famous paper that was largely responsible for his winning of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Economics, Ronald H. Coase ... posed the question, largely unasked in classical economics, of why firms exist. [...] Not every aspect of economic activity can be encompassed by the price system. [...] In such cases, the price system hardly enters the picture. Or, in Coase’s concise definition, “the distinguishing mark of the firm is the supersession of the price mechanism.” But under capitalism, the scope of conscious planning rarely extends beyond a firm’s boundaries..."

The whole section is well worth reading. Henwood engages many objections of armchair economists.
I don't think they're talking about having your kids 3d print a clone of you using your dna, but about having medical info available in case your cancer is hereditary. You seem to be into giving your body to science, so it's not a crazy suggestion.
Could you explain that, please? I had understood that the 3 rounds of QE essentially achieved this?
> Programmers are so sensitive, and honestly all your "sighing" is obnoxious.

> I'm actually not annoyed

TIL that programmers can be both sensitive and deny being sensitive.
You know you just created this account to praise this product, right?
How is this strawman even a little bit relevant to the question posed? You don't write your password down on everything you touch even though it is revocable.
See #1249–1253[+] of the Code of Canon Law for the Latin Church (a.k.a. Western Church).

[+] http://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_P4O.HTM
In my country, a study was done to construct a new runway in the airport. The study specified certain thickness for the runway.

The construction contractors built it thinner, to save costs, and the result is that it cracked.

Because of this, this is how much money they ended spending:

- Initial runway (0.5x cost)

- Removing runway to make room for the new one (0.5x cost)

- Constructing new runway (1.0x cost)

We have a proverb there... "the lazy works twice". This pretty much applies.
Can you see any dramatic irony here?

People use words in a variety of ways - communication: a search for a language that is also yours!
> the system rapidly compensates and settles on a price that implies a number of people value it at that price.

I think this is not true. The system tries to settle on a price that implies a sufficient number of people value it at more than that price. Yet, the system ejects players (business failure) which means that the price/market was not accurately gauged (either too high or too low). And this process of ejection is very slow. Price discovery is not an efficient process, and I think Hayek's information problem applies to free markets "only slightly less than" it applies to governments.

In short, markets are not efficient, nor is there really much good evidence that they should be, just a belief.

> value is also subjective

Yes, it is. And that is exactly the reason why even your weak statement "a number of people value it at least that price" - is far far weaker than the OP's statement that markets approximate some representation of social value.

I'm personally a staunch defender of free markets, but my defense is not based on effectiveness of markets in organizing society, rather that centralized clearance of value backed by a state entity is an unacceptable and discriminatory marginalization of dissenting value opinions backed by the rod of state enforcement.
Hey, India took this opportunity in the 70s, to not much avail. It didn't change the status of women and Indira Gandhi was a corrupt autocrat. A Clinton presidency is not a feminist milestone any more than the Queen's 90th birthday was.
That's a public website, no Google privacy is relevant.
Foxconn is Taiwanese and has many factories around the world already.
Cool, so would ya mind voting for Trump since he is the same as Hilary anyway? ok, thx!
Indeed, or any other case where the application is granted permission to do something sensitive (camera?) and abuses that trust. Even in those cases, though, it is an improvement to know the access exists, and to have control over it.

Some more details about snap interfaces:

http://blog.labix.org/2016/04/22/snappy-interfaces
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It's interesting that you're either purposefully cherry picking my comments or just not reading them. If you read my response above you would see that markets do not merely allow shoplifters to get away with it and I never suggested they should.

>Generally speaking, we give monopoly powers of force to the Police. Private security forces are not allowed to use guns or tasers for example.

>The effectiveness of unarmed security guards hired by insurance companies does jack-shit with regards to stopping a 7-11 gun-assisted theft.

I'm not sure where this limitation of no guns for private security guards is coming from. I know plenty of private security guards who carry guns.

>Okay. The dump is owned by my county.

So you admit that what you were describing was a red herring and not a market failure.

>And if the dump is a private, 3rd party entity... how do you expect the dump to actually force people to pay for the services?

What do you mean "force people to pay for the services"? If I go to an accountant and use their services, I pay them for it. That's what we agreed to. If I didn't agree to pay him he wouldn't perform the service. Why would this be different? No force necessary.
> It's about time to acknowledge that the web is increasingly being used to access full-blown applications more often than "webpages."

I think that is orthogonal to bloat. Sure, a complex app will always have more to load and compute than a static page with one blog post on it, but that doesn't mean an app can't be bloated on top of that, just like pages with just a single blog post on them can be bloated.
How could they? The communist party would have to literally read every book and watch every movie for approval, so to really go by the rules, the only content they could offer is media in favor of the cultural revolution. I doubt Apple even tried to play it like that, so why be surprised when it's shut down?
If you can find a way to use their backup tool to download an arbitrary user's profile, and they don't pay you out at $1M, "BS" can be safely called.
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Google Privacy is the program which blurs (things that looks like) faces and license plates.
The problem has less to do with the frameworks chosen by the main website's developers, but rather the countless third party services which are mandated by marketing/business realities.

Think Facebook pixel, google analytics (et al), Optimizely, Mixpanel, various "widgets", etc...

In other words: you probably don't really have this problem unless you're working with a large team and for profit.

Easiest way to win these battles is to show real-life "Before"/"After" examples of your site with and without bloaty services to whomever is advocating for their importance.
Surely even without maps the problem is the same: the route is unmarked.
Normally it wouldn't. But as I understand, in FB's case the last hop will be served by a fleet of extremely well connected, high-bandwidth edge nodes. And I would be sorely surprised if they didn't have peering agreements in practically all internet exchanges.

So under the faster onion routing, when accessing FB.onion your roundtrip is total of 6 hops. Hops 3 and 4 will be made to an edge node network, so the "last hop in" and "first hop out" will be, on average, faster. Even if the circuit was reconfigured midway through the session, the fast innermost hop would still exist.[~]

It's just another timing attack, with passive traffic analysis. I wonder how much one could do with active attacks.

~: I have no knowledge how FB has configured their Tor network connectivity, but I do know that the private key is not held on a single termination point. (The traffic volume is too much for a standalone node.) Hence I am making an educated guess that their onion address is advertised from multiple edge systems.
A lot of the confiscation does not make that claim even. It's mere suspicion.
Sure you could. Airplanes fly in the atmosphere all the time. Rockets put satellites into orbit.
>I think you're overlooking the fact that there are non-corrupt reasons to be against bringing back Glass-Steagal.

I'd love to hear your attempt at these.
> It's interesting how Jews, Christians (Catholic only?) and Muslims all have a somewhat related dietary restriction philosophy. It's not surprising seeing how all developed in the same region the Levant area where the local cultures must have had similar customs before all the religions developed. Catholicism is so close to Judaism I can understand the relation but Islam only developed over 500 years later after Christianity maybe a remnant of their former Jewish and Christian practice?

Islam has roots in Judaism, so it should not be surprising that they have similar dietary philosophy as well.
I am curious if this was caused by the export restrictions on Xeon & Xeon Phi chips to the Chinese government due to the concerns about their super-computers.

If that is the cause, it could be interesting as we may end up with AMD (and the rest of us) getting the benefits of heavy research into upcoming processors, simply as they become a strategic material for the Chinese government.

The competition would benefit all of us.
Not sure about the conclusion but you're absolutely right about the problem. This is why the social networks are eating such a great percentage of screen time: pure content, outside of web applications, is better suited in a single format rather than the superfluous loud magazines that currently pepper the web.

Perhaps rather than native apps what we need is the return of gopher. I think that's what Apple's trying to do with Apple News.
See

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tale_of_Genji

For what is is worth, women played an early role in Japanese literature, probably because men thought there wasn't any status to be had writing fiction. Funny enough, many Japanese comic creators such as Rumiko Takahashi and Naoko Takeuchi are women too, but nobody in the U.S. compares to male creators such as Wolfman, Lee, Kirby, etc.
So... no new solar panels for SF then?
> There will be kids showing off homemade spacecraft, Ebola test kits, and environmentally safe batteries.

Homemade spacecraft - okay we've all had fantasies of doing this and depending on how far you've gone with it the primary material starts off with sofa cushions or cardboard. The sky is limit (no pun intended) for ideas on it. Environmentally safe batteries- okay there's a lot of room for this one too (potatoes come to mind).

Not sure about the last one though. How does a child develop an Ebola test kit?!

"Dad can you get me some Ebola ... it's for a science fair project!"
Why are you asking when you can see for yourself in the video?
>Nice argument. I guess we're done here. If you want to debate about philosophy and morals with me, the bare minimum requirement is that you do care.

I think you've taken it the wrong way. I truly have no idea what you're getting at. Just because the cost of me buying Cheerios includes the privileged of someone else using the bathroom, it does not denote a market failure.

You, seemingly, have taken the stance that a business hiring security personnel is a manifestation of a market failure. It's a non-sequitur.
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> If you read my response above you would see that markets do not merely allow shoplifters to get away with it

Please. Explain.

Bob shoplift from a store. How does the insurance company stop him from shoplifing from the store again?

A Police Officer puts him in Jail. He spends some time thinking about it and eventually decides shoplifting isn't worth jailtime.

But private 3rd party citizens do NOT have the ability to use force on others. And that's a good thing.

Without the Police acting as a stick, you simply don't have a deterrence. Yes, Walmart hires greeters and purchases insurance policies against shoplifting. That doesn't stop the shoplifters I see shuffling through Walmart. If a Walmart greeter starts to confront a shoplifter, they just say "lol nope" and leave.

An Officer threating them with jail? That's something that gets a shoplifter's attention.

> So you admit that what you were describing was a red herring and not a market failure.

I'm saying that the County is using taxes to pay for the Dump (and similarly, raising a "bag tax" to discourage the use of plastic bags is a good thing). And according to you anarcho-capitalists, you guys typically consider the forceful removal of money from the private citizenry to be immoral.

I'm defending the use of taxes to solve this market failure. Because taxes are NOT a function of a free-market economy. You should know the basics of your own argument dude.

If you don't think raising taxes is a problem, then you have no qualms or counter-arguments from me. I'm presuming a few things about your argument because I've heard this philosophy many times before. I feel like cutting to the chase.

So, are you for or against taxes? I assume you're against, which is why I'm stating my arguments in this way.