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In my last job I ended up wasting around half of my time fixing Excel / user errors (despite complaining to management multiple times about how error prone it was).
* OneNote

* DokuWiki (on sandstorm.io lately)

* Workflowy

* (a few years ago) activeinbox (IIRC) a gtd overlay on top of gmail

* Keep

The thing is all these have issues that have prevented me from settling down with any of them.
Why can't kids play on a street designed only for traffic to houses on that street? I played on the street all the time as a child. Of course, my streets weren't flooded with drivers trying to save a few minutes by driving through residential areas.
Exactly, for readability a printout should be 10 characters per inch, which on 8.5 x 11 paper means 80 characters max with .25" margins on either side. It would perhaps be better argued as the tyranny of 10 point type :-)
This isn't Angular, though. It's specifically Angular Material.
Primates apart, the reason for exceptionally fast "boot" for ZX-Spectrum (and most of hobby/home/game-console computers from that time) was that software was stored in the ROM that CPU was able to execute directly from. Also hardware was much simpler and did not require arcane initialization for SDRAM [1] and such. So power-on initialization was literally something like "set stack pointer and few global variables; clear the screen; print prompt; done"

Nowadays, everything is on external media (external as in "outside of CPU's memory address space"), so executable code should be loaded into the RAM first (and likely assembled from 100s of DLLs or .so's in that process). And before that, you need to initialize at least 3 hardware components (SDRAM, mass storage controller and mass storage device itself; often this list is much longer).

That said, embedded systems booting in under 1 second were available 6 years ago [2]. Not many seem to be interested.

[1] http://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/96831/sdram-i...

[2] http://www.slideshare.net/andrewmurraympc/elce-the
...and not so surprisingly ("Mailtrain is going into partially paid mode") hey they all end up the same way (wanting your money) regardless of how or why they started...
Here's a news article about this and how to avoid it if you ever have to go on a program like the Daily Show.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2014-09-23/don-t-eve...
> I would think the problem is the volume of traffic faced by pedestrians and neighbors, not specifically who drives.

Possibly, but that wasn't the phrasing, and I suspect that wasn't the mindset.

> Compared to changing Waze, this is "fair". But are you really happier then?

Yes. Because if they apply to the local authority to get a road blocked for through traffic, that's the proper process to enact change at the right level.
> Comedy Central/Viacom is not UNICEF and John Oliver is not a career humanitarian

His show is on HBO, not Comedy Central.
I wish facebook execs would come back to Twitter and other competing social media. Facebook seemed to have issued an executive ban a few years ago and they all went silent.

Disclaimer: this is personal observation.
I struggle to see how would might scale to a multi-billion dollar venture...or rather many given the opportunity cost that the distraction of a television show is likely to create.
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Thanks. Interesting to see the similarities across the answers here. Some things as a younger person I hadn't thought of.
It seams like a lot, but then I think about military spending and at least its less then that.

Can't really compare them more than that though.. I'm not trying to start something. Just a thought.
Rather than expecting the password hash library to store something into your application DB, you should be managing the access to that DB yourself.

You do manage it yourself. Password hashing library doesn't access your database, it produces a string that you store, which includes salt and password hash.

In our case, we use an immutable attribute of each user as their hash

What? You really need to talk to security-competent people.
Google seems to have a hard time with this. It seems like a majority of announcements at I/O are half a year away (or more) from being released.
Very few people lock their doors in my town.
I don't understand. Your expectation is that if you buy a home, you should be able to prohibit people from using the public street in front of it?
How is that any different? ISPs don't let just anybody know who the subscriber is at a given IP (though if you do reverse lookups, many ISPs so leak a lot of locality information, so still a good idea to use some VPN instead of no VPN).

My Streisand hosted on AWS looks to the outside like anybody else's Streisand hosted on AWS, doesn't it?

Similarly, my f-secure egress looks like anybody else's f-secure egress, so what's the difference?

I don't really know, I don't use a VPN. Really asking.
Likely because of the VT100:

http://vt100.net/docs/tp83/chapter5.html

> 132 column × 14 lines (VT100, VT101, VT125) display

> Allows you a larger format for detailed or spread sheet work so you can preview reports prior to printing. (Note: The advanced video option, which is standard with the VT102 and VT131, provides 132 column × 24 lines display.)
good point. i did not.

also you are clearly part of the 10% that know why. most installations ive seen did not use the whitelist approach and assumedbit ships with a good blacklist.

btw: chrome unloads tabs. especially pinned ones seem to be WAY less ram heavy when unused. i dont know about firefox tho.
OT: A good way to explore more about vertical indoor farming is playing the game Minecraft on a public server (the reddit server (nerd.nu) is good). You will see many working examples that will simply blow your mind away.
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Ah, the new form of conspiracy theory: the scientific/technologist tinfoil hat group.

The thing that makes what these different people are talking about seem so absurd is they pose theoretical situations, and ask "What If?", and then just stop right there and don't critically examine the situation at all. All the "What If?"s then drive a sort of nagging horror at all the possible negative outcomes, and then you become Ray Kurzweil.

The biggest fallacy of the Singularity is the accelerating change hypothesis. In order for accelerating change to work, you not only have to invent new things, you have to adopt & apply them. Recently there was a story posted about how it took hundreds of years after the discovery of stainless steel for it to begin to be adopted by companies and individuals. And the reasons for the lack of adoption are almost always due to one thing: limitation of the human brain.

We still don't know much about the brain. As long as everyone's brain remains stuck in this meatsack and evolves at a very slow rate, so will the social adaptation of technological change and the investment therein. And that will limit not only our ability to develop AI, but how and where we use it.

To me it's far more likely that a true AI will first be used to manufacture cheerios than control a military weapons system, even though the military weapons system is where the biggest dollar investment in AI will be. The cheerios manufacturing plant will have a practical problem that only AI can solve, meanwhile the weapons system will probably only use AI for a single task and it'll be phased out in favor of a less buggy, cheaper, more effective weapons system.
Cool demo. Did the author post the source anywhere? This would be a great reference for do-it-yourself-ers.
You shouldn't need tribal knowledge like that to drive safely and to keep others safe; the roads should be marked well for everyone, and all drivers should be cautious in all neighborhood settings.
Just to add a bit of context around that PDF - "Topic 431 - Canceled Debt – Is It Taxable or Not?"

https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc431.html
So you don't question the motivations of a televangelist minister with private jets as long as he spends some money on what appear to be altruistic purposes? If I said that guy is just using peoples emotions and beliefs to generate revenue would that be "offensive to just about everybody".
Passing that kind of information as Excel file is as horrible as passing it scribbled on a piece of tissue.

If someone sold my debt (which is already stinky because after that I have relationship with a party I never entered any relationship with) I'd hope that what's being sold is bit more than my name with "iou" and some numbers. If not original agreement, then at least a statement from notary that had seen my credit agreement and someone who attests at some high penalty that it was not paid yet.
No, Elm is definitely less complex and generally targetted for newcomers to the FP and pure world.

In haskell there are like a 100 ways of doing anything and it's very hard (for me at least) to figure out where even to begin. Elm tries to reduce options and lets noobs like me get going.
I use Doxie [1], Amazon Basics Shredder [2] and OneDrive. My experience with all three was good but I don't have data.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Doxie-One-Standalone-Portable-Document...
[2]:http://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics-6-Sheet-Cross-Cut-Credit-...
rr aspires to be your primary debugging tool, replacing — well, enhancing — gdb. You record a failure once, then debug the recording, deterministically, as many times as you want. The same execution is replayed every time.

rr also provides efficient reverse execution under gdb. Set breakpoints and data watchpoints and quickly reverse-execute to where they were hit.

rr works on real applications such as Firefox, with low overhead. It is being used by many developers inside and outside Mozilla to fix real bugs.

http://rr-project.org/
Doesn't he have a team of writers whose job it is to understand the subject matter?
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I think this might be a case of two-way causation, though.

~80 characters is a good, readable target, but that's not what we have. For a long time, we've had a militant standardization on <81 characters, even in cases where the results are obviously worse than a long line. I imagine that all of us have read or written code containing a line break that blatantly decreased clarity.

So the question remains: why 80? 80-ish, sure, but why such a fixed standard? I don't know enough history to say if that's down to Hollerith cards, or the consequences of auto-formatters, or something else, but there's a more definite question than "what's a good width" here.
Maybe.

"Topic 431 - Canceled Debt – Is It Taxable or Not?"
https://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc431.html
True, but John Yoo is lawyer than had been thinking about his ideas (read: rationalizations) for years, written books, taught classes and so on. You couldn't really expect Stewart to win the argument...
I think the last figure I saw for military spending was 650bn a year.

Of course if you cut that by half you'd lose a lot of workers many of those with families (in one respect you could look at the military as a jobs program, what was the last time the US had more than 10% of it's total military personal actually fighting a war).
I think the biggest problem here is that we have too much media coverage and scrutiny on stuff like this today. 24x7 financial news, 24x7 tech news, and 24x7 financial/tech news!

Here's the deal - these are HUGE bets, with a HUGE risk of failure, and a HUGE reward. As a society we should be focusing on the willingness to take these bets, and allowing them to fail without pointing an laughing like a bunch of school kids at a science fair.

Scientific history is full of failure, and examples of failure leading to discovery and advancement. Let's embrace it and repeat after me - "Failure is Always an Option".
DISCLAIMER: I work for GM.

I was shocked to read that GM was the second major (first if you don't count Tesla as major) automaker to set up a responsible disclosure program. [1]

1. http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/01/gm-embraces-white-ha...
This reminds me of the way South Park feels sometimes when (in my opinion) they're off the mark by a bit.

The show is really funny until you're on the wrong side of the one of their jokes. Or when they oversimplify something you know a lot about.

Preachy is the appropriate word. I really wish he (and his writers) would watch that. Somewhere in the rumor mills there is a story about John Stewart disagreeing with his writers because of how left and preachy they were as well.
Looks like the page has been HN-ed, not loading anymore. Google cache has the content if anyone else has the issue.
Elm is a great language for web. It's evolving but there are some bits that need some rework/improvement/rethought like the canvas performance and managing random number generation. This is difficult with purely functional architecture. But there are a quite a lot of good thought gone into making the whole functional programming user friendly and a pleasant experience. Kudos to the creators/maintainers
He stated exactly how much they paid for that $15m debt in the video and even how they wrote off most of the cost of the taxes they would have had to pay it in the video.
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Does it actually do static type checking? Because I don't see anything about types in the documentation. It looks like just a more sophisticated linter, which is very different from what TypeScript and Flow bring to the table.
What makes it a fact that the erosion of property rights is more so a driving issue that the price of oil?
I think you answered your own question: "a street designed only for traffic".
Prediction: 'dadada' would feature in the next most passwords list.
I think these maybe missing:

- My friends don't use this app, so there is the chicken & egg problem that exists with all social networking services (can I see public drawings?)

- Assuming chicken & egg problem did not exist or you have solved it, how often the friends I am in touch with would draw a message in a particular place and send it to me and how often do I remember to check their message when I pass by that place?

Wouldn't it attract more people if it would have been public so I could see any drawings, information about the building or poster images by anyone?

Pivoting towards a pure anonymous entertainment/game maybe necessary?

Overall it is a cool idea but would people use it without a big pivot? I doubt so or if they do I'm missing something here
Yes there is, in the video, Oliver mentions how they hired a company that specializes in handling the tax implications so they wouldn't have to pay the full amount.
Depends on the legislation - some places have "living streets", where 1. the speed limit is low, and more importantly, 2. the driver has to give way to "pedestrians and playing children". http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Spielstrasse.jpg

Still - a pretty bad overreaction from the "Dad" :(
By just simply closing Issues/PRs and not engaging the community better, lots of developers are going to be reluctant to invest time/effort in using Angular Material 2 due to the potential of a future Angular Material 3 surge.
(Sorry to take so long to reply – I wish HN had a comment reply notification!)

Well, there would be two problems with that:

1. LAVA works on source, and app devs aren't required to submit source code to the app store. It's possible in principle to extend it to binaries as well, but binary modification is actually rather tricky.

2. If you can insert a backdoor, you really only need to insert one. At that point, the advantages of LAVA mostly go away – you're going to be able to insert a single backdoor by hand pretty easily, and the result is likely to be a lot stealthier than the bugs LAVA injects (e.g., think of something like this: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/the-linux-backdoor... ).
The economics of selling your own hardware [video]
ok, "will not gain from directly leveraging goods acquired in a break-in against the same victims of such break-in". Thieves usually don't try to sell your TV back to you, and the ones who do are widely mocked.

But you know what I meant.
Of course it does. Care to explain why you think it doesn't?
Yes, but traffic calming usually involves some or all of: planning studies, committee meetings, community outreach, and voting, and building & maintaining physical infrastructure.

Changing the app to just not route through there is far cheaper, easier, and faster.
uMatrix is amazing, but does takes more time to set up. It pays off though - page load times and page sizes are on average ~50% less.
> What attack is this even preventing

I think the thought is the security practice of compartmentalization. If you lose the private key you use for GitHub, Amazon, DigitalOcean, your home servers, etc... you've effectively given root away.

Now if my laptop is compromised, it doesn't matter if I have one key or ten, I've lost them all. But if there's something heartbleed-esque that allows individual private keys to be stolen when pushing commits to GitHub, I've at least isolated damage to my GitHub account.
These lines are blurry to the point of invisibility, that's why they had public vote (and for other reasons). See, what I find perfectly OK for given situation, you don't. Majority decided as they did. There might be a million Swiss citizens which agree with you, another million (or two) who don't care much but the rest expressed their opinion.
> "Though it'll take time for communities to plan and implement solutions"

By default yeah, but it doesn't have to! I think a lot of places get into a problem where perfect is the enemy of good - they hold off on traffic calming projects because of cost. Narrowing a road by constructing new sidewalks is expensive, after all.

But you don't need to do it perfectly - New York City redesigned vast portions of of its streets using nothing more than paint and traffic cones. No concrete needs to be poured nor streets torn up to get the process started - and even better, because these changes are fully reversible, they can often be implemented quickly without the usual multiple rounds of bureaucracy.

In NYC the redesign of many streets was simply done by the city, and kept permanently once the quantified results proved the efficacy of the setup. Easier to ask forgiveness (especially when you have hard data) than permission and all that.
I don't think it's fair to compare John Oliver to a televangelist minister with private jets.
Some of the approaches are, some aren't. SIFT itself builds upon knowledge that is much older than it. Either way it doesn't matter. The OP was arguing that the many years of man effort put into SIFT was a complete waste. I am saying that this is very shortsighted, as non-machine learning vision techniques have heavily influenced how we approach and think about vision problems even when using ML.
Oh my gosh ... the fortran computed goto is back ... See http://www.lahey.com/docs/lfprohelp/F95ARComputed_GOTOStmt.h...
At least in Takoma Park's case, these are decisions made 50 years ago coming home to roost -- that is, the decision not to build any highways through northern DC.
Set up Windows Server Update Services[1] and you can control every single update that presents itself to your machines. Here's a screenshot from my WSUS which shows the pending W10 upgrades I have not yet approved: https://imgur.com/0LN5N7n.png

[1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/bb332157
> best vertices (and perhaps how we got there). And the simplex method will also do this when presented with a connected component of vertices all of which have the same objective value.

It has been a while since I did implemented the simplex method, but I don't think this is accurate. There is only ever one basis stored. You don't need a collection of them to fix stalling/cycling.

> Dijkstra's algorithm doesn't backtrack either

I suppose this was a poor choice of language. The algorithm doesn't backtrack, but the whole point of the wavefront is to allow you to be noncommittal about which way you're going -- you explore many paths at once, something that would be very expensive to do on a simplex (where the big cost is the number of edges explored, not the number of edges on the shortest path.)

Edit: I guess you could see the simplex method as Astar with the heap key being just the heuristic (no "cost to this point" term.) Because of the structure of the graph, there's no need to keep the heap at all.
Waze can have giant screw-ups. I live in a valley with one major freeway. Every now and then a major accident at a choke point on the freeway will stop all traffic. Waze will then tell drivers of 2 alternate routes on surface streets. Both routes, however, re-connect to the freeway below this choke point. Now instead of just the freeway having gridlock, every thoroughfare in the valley is gridlocked and locals cannot even get out of their house or back to their house from local shopping.
Locking doors isn't just to prevent burglars, especially if you live around bars. I don't know how many times a group of aggressive drunk football hooligans has got off the elevator on the wrong floor, then tried to get into my apartment thinking it is theirs or a friends. If my door wasn't locked I'd be confronted with 6-7 violent goofs in my living room @ 3am.
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I didn't make the jump with him and quit watching Comedy Central after Colbert signed off.
Don't know about the ad, but I remember the 80's.
To get to 12 tickets an hour, you need at least 12 offenders an hour which is probably the bottleneck the GP alluded to.

That said, 5 minutes per ticket pretty much requires offenders to present themselves in a nice, orderly line. A more normal scenario where the officer has to cruise around, pull someone over, get out, talk to the person ("no no, I'm not passing through, my sick uncle lives over there"), write the ticket and get back in the patrol car, I'd guess closer to 15 minutes as a lower bound.

Also, doesn't Waze have a feature where you can warn other driver against this kind of thing? That would further reduce the ticket-rate.
You went all aspie on it and missed the point.
Thank you. Yes, I need to work on the landing page and add more technical details there.

I have been focusing on making API and infrastructure robust as well as having a really good iOS app to go with the platform.

Next I will need to focus on the website a bit more to make it look better as well as the admin dashboard. And after that, Android app.
This is a pretty interesting idea!

- The current selection needs to be much more obvious. The box-shadow isn't enough.
- It would be cool to realtime see the HTML that's being generated. The HTML should be indented.
- "Edit" should take arguments rather than switching focus to the element.
- After creating an element, it should be selected (not it's parent)
- Easily link to 3rd party css, eg. bootstrap
Change the description from Tools for app store optimization on Google Play to Tools for app store optimization on Google Play and App Store
This is not going replace farming anymore than me growing a spinach plant in a pot at home.

It's actually a little disappointing to see just how out of touch the people in this thread are with farming. Growing food outside, in the ground is always going to be cheaper than building a building.
Mobile phones included ?
Milo seems good.
One can confirm that the backup restores byte-for-byte the same data that was archived. That would be sufficient for me!