skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All car companies are working on this stuff, not just Elon, and with excellent political backing. So this is silly. Exxon and the like are doing just fine, it will be a long time until 95% of the world will be able to afford stuff like this. And that's not including the thousands of other uses for oil and natural gas. Plus Exxon has lost a lot of political power in the post-Bush era and no-one is buying their pseudo-science reports anymore.
This is sort of orthogonal, but certain types of businesses do get taxes on their net income in the form of sales tax. So Cupertino gets a cut of every sale that happens at a McDonalds in tehir border, but not a cut of the sales made possible by the workers in corporate buildings.

There isn't an easy solution (since Apple does get taxes in other jurisdictions based on sales).

But a lot of cities are frustrated that a bank branch provides little taxes while a mcdonalds in teh same spot would bring in a ton of taxes.
Wright has permanently damaged other people's reputations, and put substantial effort into impersonating another person. I don't know if "victim" is appropriate.

At any rate, this conversation is about whether or not he is Satoshi. This is cryptography, there is no need to convince people. There is either definitively absolute evidence, or there is not. And as @lucozade put it, "he's given about as much reason to believe he is Satoshi as I have".
I don't know if postgres allows one to treat boolean as 0 and 1 natively but in t-sql, the equivalent would be something like:

DECLARE @orders TABLE (
category VARCHAR(5),
express_delivered INT
);

INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'food', 1);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'food', 0);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'shoes',0);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'shoes',0);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'auto', 1);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'auto', 1);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'book', 1);
INSERT INTO @orders (category, express_delivered) VALUES ( 'book', 0);

SELECT
category,
CASE WHEN SUM(express_delivered) = 0 THEN 0 ELSE 1 END AS ever_been_express_delivered
FROM @orders
GROUP BY category
Their recent fight with FBI for one. Granted, they're not saints, but at the very list they stirred up some controversy.
Author here - happy to answer any questions
I don't think they were implying it's an alternative, but rather very foreign-feeling.
QBasic offers structured programming. QBasic has both subroutines and functions and the IDE actually displays them in their own window, separate from the main program and other subroutines and functions. It also has if blocks, loops, etc. I don't see what else you need for structured programming. When I was young I was able to create many complex games including breakout, tennis, basketball, arcade shooters, etc. with QBasic alone.
Indeed, this is the main reason I'm using Signal (and badgering my friends into using it). I want to increase the volume of encrypted non-sensitive stuff, so that the "list" doesn't have predictive value.
Why does that website look like it's straight out of 1995? It's a government website, isn't it? Shouldn't it look more modern and professional?
The guy sounds like a pathological liar and narcissist. Amazing so many were sucked in to his bullshit. The journalists involved should be embarrassed as they look like utter fools.
True. Lotus Notes on a Mac in particular ;-)
Ah, the thing, the thing is that they are and they are not bullshit. It depends on how generous we are with the statements. Suppose that someone you respect, but that doesn't have much command of English, wrote this. And try to figure out the meaning:

1. Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty.

What we perceive depends on what we know.

2. Good health imparts reality to subtle creativity.

Being healthy, i.e. balanced, will show you solutions that you wouldn't see otherwise.

3. Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena.

The solution to the existential pain of eternity is to focus on everything that is happening to you this millisecond.

4.The future explains irrational facts.

In the future, things that don't make sense now, will.

10. ...the essence of nature is joy.

For the most part, nature is just delighted to be. Don't believe me? Go play with a puppy.
The Javascript Trap

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.en.html
Yup, Google literally saved my life. If it were up to both doctors (yup, I did get a second opinion), I would be dead today.

My condition is neither rare nor difficult to diagnose. My symptoms might as well have been lifted from a textbook.

My family member wasn't so lucky and died due to: a) Doctors again unwilling to diagnose in time until symptoms were impossible to ignore. b) They abandoned a treatment that was working for one that didn't. -- Not to mention that time he almost died during treatment because of a medication dosage mixup.

It's an industry run by imbeciles. Those within it who want reform are met with so much resistance it's maddening -- just having these stats out in the open is a triumph. I too can't wait to see the day a piece of software knocks them off their high horse.
It has become popular, but it is still wrong. If you're a nested dependency, then DON'T require end developers to be aware that you're there. Doing so makes you a leaky abstraction.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.htm...

Though the author does have a point that fault here could be put on the library that added the dependency without a default logging behavior. However I'd still blame SLF4J for making the default case suboptimal.
I'd be more concerned about Seattle.
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I was in the same boat at that age. I was trying to build a text-based BassTour clone in QBasic, and the book my dad bought from Radioshack didn't get into OOP. It would have made it much easier to do than that static-state version I cobbled together.
I think you are misinterpreting what I am saying. I am not saying that you can't judge a single action as being irrational, I am saying that you can make the rational decision and still lose. Therefore, the mere fact that some action lead to a bad result is not sufficient to show that the decision was irrational.
This is awful and I'm glad I stayed away from the 3 month trial because I would hate for this to happen to me.

Also: I know of a few people who would love for this to happen because it would open up a lot of space in their hard drive which is almost completely full. "I subscribed to Apple Music and freed up 100 GB! Sweet!"

That being said there should definitely be a way to avoid this and I would personally prefer it to be opt-in than opt-out.
Does this impact the reachabilityForLocalWiFi method in apple's Reachability sample, which appears to use an IPV4 address internally:

// IN_LINKLOCALNETNUM is defined in <netinet/in.h> as 169.254.0.0.

localWifiAddress.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(IN_LINKLOCALNETNUM);
It was new to me and was worth a wry grin.
Although, there was at one point an anarchist organization called the weather underground: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_Underground I understand they had a "brick reallocation committee" that reallocated bricks through windows.

As objectionable as such behavior might be, I find the understated names pretty amusing.
Maybe for the company. The correct term for the "OS" (or more like glorified program loader, amirite) is, of course, `Mickey$loth WinDOS'.
Why can't you live off of the same salary as the 'cheap' workers? Sounds to me that you think you are entitled to something...
"client developer not properly verifying the server certificate" makes it sound possible, but I think I understand the problem now maybe.

The 3rd party CA may have issued a cert to malicious party that issued another cert to their man in the middle.

You can't be sure unless you are your own CA, but then you aren't a 3rd party anymore.
Asymmetric cryptography means that the private key doesn't need to be stored on the client or the server.

If you have someone's public key, and no other key material whatsoever, you can encrypt something in a way that only they can read it. Even you can't decrypt it.

(Because asymmetric cryptography is slow, if your messages are large you'd typically encrypt the data with a symmetric key, and then encrypt just that key asymmetrically.)
The warning was quoted from the source, so your beef is with The Guardian.

MetaFilter has no shortage of strong language and it's not against any kind of community guideline if it's not being used in an intentionally shitty way; as a moderation staff we've pretty clearly set those expectations straight on the rare occasions that someone has complained about sensibility-offending surfeit of fucks and shits and damns in this or that conversation. I mostly just expect it to be done with a degree of skill and thought.

The exception there is slurs and the like; there's strong language and then there's racist/misogynist/homophobic/etc epithets, and the latter subclass is a different beast entirely that in specific discussions of language can bear mention rather than use when the distinction is clear. But that sort of thing otherwise can, indeed, fuck right off.
But they're not a "sharing economy" company. They show up on the normal Who Has Your Back list.
They're not on this list because they're not in these [sharing economy] marketplaces. They have been and likely will continue to be a part of the primary "Who has your back?" review ([1] e.g).

[1] https://www.eff.org/who-has-your-back-government-data-reques...
Fair enough. "break into your computer" does sound like getting hacked by them, which wasn't technically true, at least from what I know. Thanks for pointing that out.
QBasic supports subroutines (called SUB for procedures and FUNCTION for functions). You can write very structured code with QBasic; pretty much the only thing it lacks is pointers, but it's a very capable language otherwise.
This reminds me of that old Steve Martin movie, The Jerk, where the protagonist finds out that he's in the phone book.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7aIf1YnbbU
Yes, but browsers design goal is to allow educated users to distinguish fake and legitimate sites (URL bar should never be forgeable). With mobile apps, the app can display anything and there is no way for even well educated user to recognize forgeries.
Since OP mentioned mobile, which IRC client would you recommend on Android. Maintaining a persistent connection is battery draining. Weechat + https://www.glowing-bear.org is what I've been using but you don't get notifications that way.
I don’t understand why deletion would even be necessary in a case like this. Are people filling up their drives that quickly? If a “service” thinks that some data has become redundant, just move the original out of the way and tell the user where it went and what’s in that stash.
All I can think of is my Wife's photography collection. She has terabytes of photos. Imagine the day "iPhoto" works like this (which is probably not too far off).

We have her do a manual backup periodically, but now I am going to automate that and make it robust. I am honestly afraid for the future of that data. This is just another part of why I am glad all of my own important data is on Linux machines that I have relatively strong control over, and backup automatically.

What a time to be alive! I can't wait until they can edit your memories out of your brain and store them on the cloud, you know for more capacity and safer recall.
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I want devices that I, the owner, control, whether I'm a small business or enterprise or individual. This is important for many reasons, from security to freedom-to-tinker to using the device I own in the way I want.

It was once an accepted standard in IT. Now, can anyone name a current handheld or desktop system that provides end-user control?

If you don't think security, including privacy, is important, consider what a U.S. president with fascistic tendancies would do with all this access to citizen's devices and data (and how many companies would risk their enterprises when he leaned on them?).
I test on iPad, iPod Touch, a half dozen Android devices, and on emulators. Works well everywhere, even with platform-specific differences in design to match different platform paradigms. And I have happy clients.

I've run into this attitude before, though. It seems to be the last bastion of denial of folks who have spent a lot of time learning one platform and who don't want to learn something new. Sorry, but there are better ways.
This seems pretty draconic. To compare with a recent law passed here, in Belgium:

- A fee of 4.000 Euro to bring a product to market.

- Juice bottles of maximum 10ml

- No remote selling of e-cigarettes (but liquids are for some reason allowed)

- No advertising (with some exceptions)
It's a mix of things; Deck, AdSense (for all the trouble they're still a major and these days fairly steady source of revenue), mostly-passive Amazon affiliate, and direct support from the MetaFilter community.

We've looked at other ad rubrics and been disappointed with the specific performance we've seen in a couple test cases, but the volatility of the ad economy means that it's certainly something we'll be reexamining continuously as time goes by.
Standardized DRM Will Make Us Less Safe
My usual tip for getting into something that seems incomprehensible:

Just start building stuff in it. Start with Hello World or something else ridiculously simple. If it doesn't work, then debug and fix it until it does. If it works, then add some features until it stops working, then fix it. Repeat until it does something useful. Find some demo apps and examine them to give you some direction on how to do things. Work through any tutorials you find.

Angular 1 seems like a good starting place to me. It has some complexities, but it's one file to use and is all bare Javascript. You can at least get something simple working before you have to figure out how to set up build pipelines for Typescript or JSX or something. You can even do some useful stuff in it with no Javascript at all - the default form validation stuff is pretty nice.
I would expect the local device audit log to store the server's signed acknowledgement too. With 2-party asymmetric signing this should be pretty much airtight.
Microsoft enterprise/SMB sales process (via channel partners) is a laughable disaster.

Recent task: Run a Windows Server VM on Azure, with 4 remote desktop users connecting in.

Result: almost a MONTH of back and fourth with THREE different MSPs since none of them knew details of proper licensing. In fact, even Azure support did not know licensing terms and said just to contact the MSPs, who in turn advised we contact Azure support. In the end, after a couple of days of googling and reading obscure MSDN entries, we THINK we got the right licensing approach.

Oh, and total cost difference between different MSPs on even such a small order was over 40%.

Sadly, its currently a classic example of "please take my money" and the company doing everything in their power not to. Until microsoft clears up their licensing terms and makes pricing transparent, they will be hated.
I think my biggest bug here is that as far as I understand this flow, it essentially says that a given certificate that is generated and signed by a third party (Teller in this case) would be expected to bundle this private certificate with the application. Isn't it possible to extract the certificate from the app bundle after the fact? Or am I missing something here...
I used to watch murder mysteries, seinfeld, and shark tank on JTV.

Good times.
I wonder if there is a way of distributing a signed file that contains the IP address of sci-hub over a distributed medium?

Someone else would just need to write a small script that copied it into the system's host file - but make it generic enough that it works for anything. That would help non-technical users.

This would stop courts from going after centralised name servers.

There really needs to be a way of decentralising name servers.
Curious if it's better to purchase an existing plant (and presumably upgrade), formulate a new one, or just extend their existing plant to reach this goal.

Sounds a lot like software dev (buy, rewrite, or build on top of...)
True!
And what about office printers? =)
The 2 machine types I dislike interacting with the most.
I found the few article's I read on the blog had pretty high quality content. Did you read any of them?
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Any delays simply create additional sunken cost that will regained at a future point. Most, if not all other manufacturers will run into the same scaling issues.
Super interesting comparing this to the one we have on Interview Cake:
https://www.interviewcake.com/article/big-o-notation-time-an...

I like how Rob Bell's piece has headings with the most common time costs--sorta makes it easier to see at a glance what you're going to get, and I imagine gives folks a quick sense of, "Right, I've seen that! Been /wondering/ what that means."
i haven't heard this, this is interesting any links with more info?
I must say I disagree. I found most of those descriptions to be indicative of a pathological personality, and certainly not 'normal.'
I'd argue that programming isn't like other skills in this regard. Obviously if you're teaching something like the violin, where there's one right way to hold the bow and learning how to play holding the bow in any other way will ultimately hamper you, sure, it's worth it to drill the One True Way.

But coding isn't like that. Sure, GOTOs as a means for control flow, suck for most serious applications compared to the readily-available alternatives, it's not like you can't build your own control flow mechanisms with their own properties out of the GOTO primitive, and learning how these work and fail is really good practice.

Time spent mucking about doing the wrong thing in coding teaches you how to ascertain the right way. Other skills don't necessarily offer this.
You're lucky El Capitan works for you.

Usually with iPhone/iPod Video upgrades, getting the latest version of iOS with an older device can significantly degrade performance. (And I'm sure it's the same with iPads.)

At least on a Macbook you can reinstall the operating system, but an iPhone 4 is stuck like that.
...And?

You're not answering:

> To flip that around, there exist applications where battery storage isn't reasonable. Is it thus also bizarre to bring batteries?

The post I was replying to called talking about hydro storage "bizarre". I was pointing out that it isn't. The logic here seems analogous to saying that compact cars suck because you can't use them as a dump truck.
That they actually search to take contact beyond a few phone calls.
The rest of that page suggests they haven't decided yet. They say "Barring abuse or attack, we will not impose limits errors for any application without contacting the customer. Customers whose usage claims a disproportionate percentage of resources for their current plan level may be asked to upgrade to the plan level that matches their needs." I currently have a $200/month business subscription (for https://cloud.sagemath.com), which was required for websockets before today, and will very likely switch to a $20/month pro subscription. We typically have up to about 500 concurrent connections on our site. Incidentally, we switched to using CloudFlare about a month ago after being hit by a DDOS attack (400MB/s incoming traffic).

[Edit: actually, we're not switching since only the business plan provides "Advanced DDoS protection - layer 3 and 4", which was why we are using CloudFlare in the first place.]
Yes, that's a fair point. I was thinking only of journal articles and conference proceedings. One way of making money off textbooks is to be a professor in an institution with a large number of students and make them a requirement for the course. It also helps to make a few small changes every year and call it a new edition, so each year the next class of students has to buy new ones instead of used copies from the previous year's class. I question whether this practice is worth defending.
> but right now they're still not on par with gasoline vehicles for the population as a whole (not even in a smaller country like Japan.)

Completely untrue. The average round trip daily commute in the US is ~45 miles. Even mediocre electric vehicles like the Leaf and the Bolt can do that.

I'm assuming Tesla's Model 3 is what causes EV demand to take off. ~200 mile range + Supercharger access = electric mobility is solved.
In your head. Or rather, you encrypt all your super secret private data with a good password that you never write down, and copy the encrypted archive everywhere.
Who wants to finish this Open Source Ember.js redesign?
Or perhaps, just maybe, the situation is being mis-reported? "No, Apple Music is not deleting tracks off your hard drive — unless you tell it to"[0]

[0]http://www.imore.com/no-apple-music-not-deleting-tracks-your...
It's Congress's work, so it's likely a compromise between parties.
> Can you present data to back this up?

I framed it the way I did because all I have is anecdotes. When I say "a lot of people are addicted to nicotine that weren't before" this is substantiated by my personal knowledge of around three dozen individuals.

> I'm really skeptical of your claim that e-cigarettes are introducing more people to smoking.

There are more than three hundred million people in the US. E-cigs are a multibillion dollar industry. It would be astonishing if there was no one introduced to nicotine by e-cigs.

> vaping indoors was pretty common a couple years ago, it's been more than a year since I saw anyone do it in Chicago.

> As the parent of someone who was a middle schooler just last year, let me add that I would be flabbergasted to see one of them vaping,

Some of this is probably cultural. I've never been to Chicago, but Chicago friends tell me that people are generally much health-focused in Chicago. I live in a southern rural area, and from what a teacher friend tells me and from my own observation, about a third of local middle schoolers vape. I can definitely believe this is an outlier, but even that's too much, in my opinion, considering it didn't have to be that way. There are much fewer smokers, and that's been about constant.
Neat. We've been using CF websockets for some time now on the Enterprise plan. If you're intending to use CF websockets, be prepared for random (and potentially massive) connection drops, and be sure you're architected to handle these disconnects gracefully. Cloudflare rolling restarts have caused hundreds of thousands of websocket connections to be disconnected in a matter of minutes for us. If you plan to operate at that scale, make sure you're able to tolerate the thundering herd of reconnecting clients as cloudflare disconnects them.
How much for the hot-sauce.
Both enable building web sites. Granted SPAs and MPAs are different, at the end of the day it's just building things for users.
Do you disagree with that approach?

I live about 3 miles from a large fault line, and am OK with it - my concern is that my family does not get crushed when/if the predicted big earthquake hits. As long as that is true, I do accept that I will have a lot of repair work to do, and will lose some objects. I am not going to live my life pouring money into preserving material goods, or preserving all of my home, when I can spend that same money rebuilding, when/if that day comes.
Marketing and labeling restrictions are something most of the vaping community could support, as well as requirements to list ingredients used in liquids. The burdensome fees to get a product through regulatory approval is another matter entirely and could effectively destroy the harm reduction (not elimination) these products can provide over cigarettes.