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While I have sympathy for homeowners in this case I have none for the local politicians that are complaining about it. As a Waze and Google Maps user if there is a faster route down a side street vs the interstate I'm of course going to take it. I'll follow all the laws of that side street naturally (25 mph zone for example) but I still have every right to drive down it if its a public street that is maintained by public taxes.

With that said, if these local politicians really cared about fixed the problem vs just complaining about traffic they would work within their region to fix the root problems of traffic. Provide alternate transportation options including bike lanes, trains, buses, etc. Stop building office parks out in the middle of nowhere. Start building dense, walk-able, AFFORDABLE neighborhoods close to jobs and services. Encourage local business to have people telecommute or work alternate hours.
I hate geoblocking, but looking trough the site I only felt like facepalm. It's the same as poverty sucks so let's give 1000$ a month to everybody and somehow where the money will come from will be figured out by someone.
Email, maps, phones...

They are tremendously successful in areas beyond search ads, but it's easier to remember the failures.

Also, reducing their successes down to their monetisation strategy isn't exactly fair. Search is the product, ads are the business plan.

I'd say that what Google aren't good at, is anything that can't be easily quantified. Anything where they can't just examine reams of data and A/B test to success. If it involves some sort of intuition or informed design, that is where Google fails.

EDIT: I might also add that future speculative profits are also something that can't be easily quantified. Hence all the myriad project cancellations.
Serious question: Does that count as a 15 million dollar tax write off?
The author's style seems a necessary component for serious academic research given the culture of excellence. Only English departments give credit for blatantly non-objective literature. Even fucking philosophy reads this way.
Were this valid I would expect marsupials to be smarter than humans based on ratio of birth size to adult size. Or is a pouch considered an exo-womb?
Maybe Nick Offerman? He has a distinctly libertarian bent to his comedy.
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> he was perfectly able to explain (using comedy) why he believed something without implying that you are lesser for disagreeing with it.

Not completely. If there was a subculture that he didn't get along with, he'd feel completely at home with completely steam rolling them. (I.e. Dungeons and Dragons) What I liked about Colbert is that he would try to jump into the culture and make absurd jokes with the community.
Not just that, but if you've tried to write a serious project using Material 1 (I have), you'll know just how incomplete and feature-lacking Material 1 is. I personally would never touch Material again. Not in the next 3 years at the very minimum.
The part that sucks is that you can't access BBC Worldwide content from the UK, only from other countries.
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ISPs don't let just anybody know who the subscriber is at a given IP

They certainly let law enforcement and intelligence agencies know, often without a warrant.

Please read my comment as if the threat model includes panopticon governments, not common skids running aircrack-ng.
It is (usually) available through licensing. And there's a major cost (deal, legal, infrastructure) to making content available in a new country. Who should cover that cost if the demand is too low?
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Sounds about right.
For what it's worth, they're working on changing that now that Node.js exists.
True, but most of the advice given here seems to be about preventing MITM-type of attacks and general traffic sniffing
This reminds me of the time in my doctoral program when I turned in a draft journal article to my advisor. He returned it a week later with no marks or written commentary whatsoever, other than telling me "do it again." I asked what was wrong with it and what I needed to do differently on the next draft. He replied "this isn't excellent. Don't give it back to me until it's excellent." I asked what excellence entailed and he said "you just know."

People ask me if I learned anything in grad school.
I don't believe a single word you said, and neither does anyone else.

[These links are for others viewing this thread, who don't have iPhones and haven't seen it]

http://osxdaily.com/2016/01/04/stop-ios-software-update-noti...

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/209498/is-there-a-w...
Preemies are premature babies, apparently.
> Why should a service, that is advert free and wholly paid for by the UK licence payers, be free to people elsewhere?

Because UK residents would have access to the online streams of other EU public broadcasters for free as well.
I understand neurostatic means the opposite of neuroplasticity.

Google is indeed unhelpful; I had never Googled "neurostatic", and it's possible I have the term wrong. That said, I seem to recall reading it somewhere.

Interestingly, the lead-in for Neuroplasticity on Wikipedia[1] states:

> [Neuroplastic] contrasts with the previous scientific consensus that the brain develops during a critical period in early childhood, then remains relatively unchangeable (or "static") afterward.

So I feel cautiously confident that I did read it, quite possibly in old medical textbooks that are not online.

I used "precepts" just because it felt like it conveyed the right concept in context.

I hope that helps.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
I believe you've just described debt collection.

The collections agency starts offering you to settle your debt at the highest possible amount and slowly negotiates down. For any amount above $0 they receive from you is a marginal benefit for them.

i.e. marginal benefit > marginal cost for any collection above $0 since buying their list of debtors is a sunk cost.
KeypassX 2.0 was in alpha for years (though I never noticed a bug). I don't think it was available in distribution packages until quite recently.

That being said, I'm decent with C++, and yet auditing its code is a little daunting.
It didn't improve privacy a bit, but it produced costs and enabled lawyers (at least in Germany) to earn some easy money with a new breed of "Abmahnungen".
As a paying member, why can't other people around the world experience the shows I've funded. It doesn't cost anything to release a torrent and I'm happy to spread our culture.
Regular SMS is among the least secure communication mechanisms available. I trust Facebook a thousand times more than Verizon.

iMessage is nice, but many of the people I converse with regularly aren't in the Apple ecosystem.
I agree with you 100%. I think the reason people get huffy about online content vs. shoes for example, is there's no _technical_ reason why a video I have hosted in US shouldn't be watchable in the UK, and people intuitively understand that. There are only regulatory and political reasons which are difficult to understand and therefore get boiled down to "bullshit."
But that's not advice. It's the same as telling a video game player that to win you need to "get a higher score than the enemy" and "play really well". And when someone loses, "I gave them such great advice, and yet they messed it up!"

"Listen to your users" is not advice, it's the end goal. What's the most effective way to listen to your users? Professional playtesting? Open alpha/beta? Forums, IRC channel, a subreddit? Frequently scheduled AMA with the devs? Infrequently scheduled AMA with the devs?
> why 80?

Because 80 is a very good approximation to 80-ish.
The issue is that the BBC already sold the rights to those other countries. In most cases, it can force the local rights-owners (who paid good money to BBC) to hand them back.
Passwords are simple and convenient. Everyone basically understands how they work, and you can keep them in your head (not that you should).

EDIT: I'm not saying passwords are ideal, just giving context as to why they haven't been replaced.
Isn't the general stance that this is too new and scary for the average user?
What's missing is that this DAO structure has a self-evolving nature and can modify its own decision making structure, something that no "old-fashioned" structure can do.
I actually just built one with a C2758 (8 core atom) supermicro board. I put PFsense on it and it's been running great. I have gigabit internet at home, so I opted for the more powerful box. A lot of people on the pfsense forums seem to use one form of these boards.

2 core: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SR...

4 core: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SR...

8 core: http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Atom/X10/A1SR...
My understanding is marsupials have the problem that when they're born they need to have a solid enough skull to grasp onto the teats in the pouch, which ends up limiting the potential final brain size the skull can grow to.
That must be some kind of insular slang.
Actually, annual maximums on ("essential") benefits are illegal under the ACA[1] - the only "annual maximums" allowed are for {deductible, out of pocket}, at which point they are supposed to cover 100% of covered claims.

I don't obviously see the specific anecdote you're discussing in the thread, so I can't tell if what transpired is because it (somehow) didn't blow either of those thresholds, or because it wasn't an "essential" benefit, or simply pre-dated those terms of the ACA becoming effective.

[1] - http://www.hhs.gov/healthcare/about-the-law/benefit-limits/i...
$400/hour would still be plenty. Usually they go after speeders, which are really easy to catch, because everybody speeds. It's often an unwritten rule that you don't get ticketed unless you're going 10+ over the limit, but revenue-hungry jurisdictions don't need to honor that. I'm sure Waze cuts down on this, but they can hit a trouble/lucrative spot for a day or three, then move on.
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CyanogenMod without Google apps (gapps) is good enough (for normal life, not a Snowden-style situation, obviously). microG is a great open source replacement for gapps.

If you do want Google apps, at least turn off all the creepy features like Google Now, location history, etc.
If I visit the UK I can watch the BBC (I did not pay).
If a UK visits another country he can't (he payed).
Geolocation does not make sense.
Well, for one, the fact that your private key can be copied without you knowing it. At least for now, the only guaranteed read-only-for-owner storage is our brain.
It's not that they are incapable, but they made a mistake when they designed the Android ecosystem(or they didn't have a real choice or time) - and now there are all sort of misalignment of incentives. Also the consumer electronics ecosystem tends towards disposability anyway.

But the automotive ecosystem in general is more aligned with long service, it's one of their main income sources. And since Google will most likely partner with some automotive OEM/OEM's, the infrastructure would be there, so it would be easier to align incentives(altough cars-as-a-service makes it a bit different, it may be for the better i think).
To be fair, Google has also failed at many of its attempts to compete with established players. They haven't made a dent in Amazon for shopping, Facebook for social, etc. I suspect they're strongly looking to create new markets because they're aware of how difficult it is to break into established ones. And Google doesn't seem to be happy settling for "third biggest social network".
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>the immigrant needs to be paid more than citizens

Not exactly: "You must be paid at least the actual or prevailing wage for your occupation, whichever is higher." [0]

See [1] for info in your area, and you'll understand the potential for taking some latitude with this rule.

>If you're going to propose that "loosening" the restrictions means removing this one rule...

Not sure who is proposing loosening this one rule. My point to the GP was only that removing or significantly loosening the sponsorship rule would not lead to an increase in wages for all, as he/she claimed.

[0] https://www.uscis.gov/eir/visa-guide/h-1b-specialty-occupati...

[1] http://www.flcdatacenter.com/OesWizardStart.aspx
Well, we Swiss just rejected that same idea. No such thing as a free lunch.
http://www.swissinfo.ch/directdemocracy/vote-june-6_basic-in...
How about giving it a shot, at least? Can I even authenticate with Facebook or Gmail using a secure token? - as far as I know I can't. At least make it possible for the savvy user, and let the average user catch up as usability improves.
We don't know. There those who in it and there are some who are brought in on different terms and then the rules changed on them. Anyway this will make it easier to enforce because both sides can prove their point by showing bank records of payment. By give the employee sufficient leverage and the employer criminal penalties, it puts the employer on guard to do things correctly and legally.
How about being made available under the same price people in other countries pay and not being treated like a second class human?
>As for individual track records, it is true that some researchers are good racehorses and worth betting on. That's the common meaning of excellence.

Sure, but the point is that almost all science consists of plowing fields, not racing. If you only hire racehorses, you're leaving the fields unplanted by the workhorses.

Aaaaand agricultural metaphors get inaccurate very quickly, but oh well.
Some of the difference:

> differentiating medical from non-medical collection agency accounts. This will help ensure that medical collections have a lower impact on the score, commensurate with the credit risk they represent. These enhancements help lenders because it leads to a more predictive score. The median FICO Score for consumers whose only major negative references are medical collections will increase by 25 points.

http://www.fico.com/en/newsroom/fico-score-9-introduces-refi...

http://time.com/money/3092005/fico-credit-score-changes-fair...
Usually when I hear about Apache Sparc, there is Scala being mentioned too. Does Scala have the best support for it and what's the situation on .NET side? (F#?)
> most of the options do nothing or work differently than you'd expect

Please give examples.
Do you mean that's not a big enough gap?
Passwords are NOT simple and convenient, they are cumbersome and hard-to-remember, cause huge security problems, and are basically only standing on top of the crutch of email forgot-your-password systems.
Someone should try badadada - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQQlCGHOBGI
Yeah, this is clearly not good science. I actually hate this article.
If the organization (and it's paying members, depending on the governance model) could come to that decision, that'd be great, but that's certainly not the default for most organizations that produce such high-value content (I personally think the BBC is one of the best news outfits in the world).

Also, some paying members might prefer to charge those who don't directly contribute to offset the cost of their own contributions.
The approach in the UK is increasingly to regard the gridlock as an educational opportunity, whereby drivers learn to leave their cars at home and take public transport. combined with decent public transport investment, heavy road calming on non-main roads and progressive removal of parking spaces in town centres it's really having a very positive impact for everybody except the people who bizarrely still choose to sit in the gridlock.
This would be a good deal less irritating if it was written as an essay and not a slideshow.
I thoroughly detest the use of the thinly weighted Raleway font on websites. I can barely read it despite having relatively good eyesight. Please ensure that you're using fonts of the appropriate weight for a given context.

The use of such a thin font as body text on a white background violates even the most basic accessibility guidlines.
> Why can't existing garbage collectors be compiled to WA?

Yes I think that's the idea.
Sure, but does the additional cost of licensing to individuals make economic sense?

It almost sounds as if people want companies to be forced to make their content available at a desirable price to anyone in the planet, no matter the cost of it.

In other words, people are talking as if they have the "right" to see that content.
TUF[1] would also prevent this (and a whole host more potential attacks against updating). It's what TBB uses and everyone should use.

[1]: https://theupdateframework.github.io/
LA traffic defies reason.

I've hit gridlock at 3am on the 101 before. The whole city feels like it was designed to be some elaborate torture device for commuters.
To me, the most promising thing about elm is how much improvement it has seen. The last minor version was a huge leap forward for building real things AND for beginners. The makers of elm (seems to mostly be Evan Czaplicki) think about things the same way I do, except they are thinking about it more than I do and more carefully. Whether it's elm or anything else, I'm glad the tool-explosion has let more people use tools they vibe with. Hopefully it will help more random people (like me) do more cool stuff.
Maybe they could charge a small per-share voting fee which would be destroyed (or used in some clever, non-game-able way).

I could even imagine automatically refunding the fee for those casting losing votes to avoid wars of attrition... I guess that's essentially an auction.
Their car will be a failure/footnote. Car manufacturers are already doing far more interesting things than Google is in the space. While Google is obsessed with replacing human drivers, and telling people to just trust the car, companies like Volkswagen have worked on self-driving UI that works with the user, telling them before the car makes a maneuver and such. While Google hasn't tested in snow, other car makers (like Ford) have.

Google's really only power in the self-driving car space is that Google is rolling out Apple-level marketing on the topic. People associate "self-driving car" with "Google" by default, because that's where all the media hype is.

But when it comes down to market time, car manufacturers know how to make cars. They know how to make vehicle interfaces people are comfortable and familiar with. They know how to built reliable, relatively bug-free products that don't need a software update every week to work correctly.
But it is the simplest way to assure that vast majority of people who paid can watch and vice versa.
And thus if the tradeoff is worth it for you, then you should be free to use it. But do not foist it on the rest of us.
Certainly knowing an area can breed inattention, or risky behavior based on familiarity. My hunch is that it still works out to be safer on average, but admittedly I have no data for that.

I was always under the impression that accidents happen close to home because that's where people spend most of their time so they get a lot more chances to have an accident there.
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Being able to carry (or buy online) a bought DVD/BluRay from USA and watch it EU and then being denied the ability to buy and stream of that exact same content is the definition of "bullshit".
You can easily build a secure token machine that prevents this possibility. And compare this to the huge hole of having millions of people with the password 'password', the possibility of someone occasionally having their secret key stolen seems significantly less damaging.
CO2 reduction is great, but isn't profitable in itself.
About three or four years ago he tried to do an ama but it didn't really take off. Asides the obvious outing himself, there were plenty of other clues confirming him. Also, I'm pretty sure he has more than one handle.

By the way, I think most of us realize pg and Mark are on very good terms. Way back, I'm thinking 6'ish years back, Facebook and YC had official connections (YC startups would get access to some of Facebook's tools or some such thing, I don't fully remember. But I think YC reduced the profile of this connection because HN went all up in arms over this back then.
Although I find geoblocking super annoying as well (personally), I don't see a compelling argument why site owners should not have the right to decide freely who can access their page and who not? It's they who provide the service, so it should be their call.
The error messages in Elm really are outstanding. I've never used a language that has such clear, concise, and human-friendly error messages. It's a high water mark, and I hope other programming languages are inspired to try to equal what Elm has accomplished.
i do wonder what the ARM license is being used for - acting as an interface to the cores themselves?
If you really want good types with your JS, there's always Purescript. (I'm half serious.)
Why not just switch to using The Update Framework (TUF)[1]. It solves many, many, many attacks against updating systems and we really should be using it everywhere.

[1]: https://theupdateframework.github.io/
> Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about.

In fairness, I've literally never seen an accurate media report about one of the topics I know far more deeply than the average technically educated person (a particular NASA project, a certain narrow specialization in physics, and a language/culture I have spoken/lived-in for much of my life).

Not even "oversimplified". They are literally always wrong or misleading.
Two continents, even.
Maybe ahahah is another password - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNYcviXK4rg
Google authenticator is only one-factor, possession of the shared secret in the phone. That's why it requires 'two-steps'.
I would imagine that it's harder to pull of a bank-heist-equivalent in a city like Newark - with police, FBI, etc. nearby and usually on call - than out in the country where the nearest law enforcement might consist of a sleepy sheriff and a deputy.
> The problem with that is that such a system doesn't work for a public health insurance if rich people can avoid their contribution to solidarity.

1) There is still nothing bad (immoral) at accepting a society where some people will "avoid their contribution to solidarity". Like I said up-thread: we can't code compassion into law, and every time we tried it, the long term consequences have been more damaging than beneficial.

2) I am not "rich", and I'd rather have the option. I want the best care that is possible at the most affordable price. The "public" system is not really free.

> Germany already has this two class system within their health system.

That is quite a bit of hyperbole, and wrong. There is nothing classist about a business that needs money to operate.

If anything, the real classism in Germany shows when you see something like the Künstlersozialkasse, where the Government pays part of the health insurance only to some type of people.