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Not sure I'm understanding your rebuttal - in your example are the doctors the politicians, or the providers of the voting system? If the two doctors are the politicians, then I think you are misunderstanding my point, and probably the objection raised that I was referring to. If your doctors are the people running the voting blockchain, then that's the whole purpose of having the chain - that it's mathematically verifiable by "anyone." This would be like if all the doctors in the world have a chance to oversee the operation and make sure it goes down smoothly.
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And who's Monica?

OP plz
Seriously... there should be a framework that takes care of all that for you.

We built this framework. And it took us four YEARS. Ok, it also does a ton more stuff than just make the app work across devices.

But, the web rocks. Seriously. PhoneGap lets you basically stuff the web app into a fullscreen shell and go to town. And the best part is that you gey to control updates, totally legally without Apple holding you up. Have a front-end bug? Fix it for everyone tomorrow! Have a new feature you want to roll out to only 5% of your users? YOU CAN! And then A/B test it. Whoa. Like how would you A/B test with the app store? Yeah, that.

Also... when invitation links are clicked, where do you think the mobile user goes?

TO THE WEB.

And so... you need a web experience anyway, that does more than say "Please download our app. Here is a nice picture and description so you can clutter your phone now."

And finally... web push notifications? Yes, this is one of the TWO BIGGEST THINGS MISSING in iOS Safari. (The other is access to the address book, with permission of course.)

But I think that's about to change at WWDC. Android Chrome has Web Push!
They actually do delete.
And I know about https://download-chromium.appspot.com/?platform=Win&type=con...

But there's no Win64 and even the latest 32 bits stable release is not there yet ("Updated 2 months ago"). I don't want bleeding edge.
We are all on multiple lists...
You're not the kind of person who likes to give choices to people, are you?
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I thought initially that they did this so as to prevent their "goodwill" from getting misused by other customers. But then I realized their warranty should cover replacement and repair , regardless, for 4 years, 50000 miles [1]. What gives Tesla?

1.https://www.teslamotors.com/sites/default/files/pdfs/Model_S...
What exactly differentiates a "2007 website" from a "2016 app"?
Morality existed for millions of years before religion. It exists because humans are a social species and we need ways to cooperate. Morality doesn't need a justification any more than objects falling downward needs a justification. It comes from the structure of human nature.

What can't be justified from nature is the many arbitrary rules religionists came up with, like treating cows as holy, not eating pork or shellfish, wearing tassels on your clothing or funny hats, etc. etc.
I won't hold my breath
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One of his failures is that he didn't understand how things work. He's an idealist and technical person. I was a technical person that dug my head into how things work as well in terms of media and whistleblowing. Thing is, they often don't.

The corporate media in the U.S. that dominates most coverage is about anything that holds audiences' attention to get them to look at ads. That means more noise and theatrics than signal. Their owners even benefit from the power structure in the U.S. that financially and politically favors elites. Their media organizations, if they play ball a bit, even get interviews with elites in government or on boards of those in business. Finally, they maximize attention span and engagement by creating echo-chambers where people see what they want to see with minimal deviation.

Against this backdrop, it's no surprise change will rarely happen. There's a pattern that emerges, though, where events make waves. There's a rise where event spreads to many media outlets. They each modify their presentation to reflect views of their target audience. Occasionally, if it threatens elite status quo, they'll self-suppress it in favor of talking points that please their viewers but are ultimately harmless. Much shouting happens, politicians might introduce bills which might go somewhere (or get neutered), and eventually the wave subsides to let next story and its wave flow in. Interestingly, we often see lots of focus on sensationalist crap nobody can do anything about during key moments like treaty negotiations or bills eliminating citizen's rights that makes people miss those things.

Altogether, Snowden shouldn't have expected any effect in the U.S. in terms of laws or change except a temporary reaction. He and others would've had to have all the talking points mapped out with counterpoints and even alternatives that various parties would compromise on. They'd have to drop it immediately when the wave hits. Otherwise, Americans either wouldn't give a shit or would look at things through the lens their media outlet presented them. That's the majority.

You don't need to make him more heard. He's too weak in this area to be effective anyway. There's groups like EFF and independent bloggers doing a great job writing up the risks, showing alternatives, illustrating ineffectiveness, exposing incompetence, and so on. Just promote them with Snowden's work being cited as reference material and examples where it's most effective. Whatever you do, though, needs to be written with laypeople in mind to bring it to the level they care about.

John Oliver interview shows nicely Snowden's disconnect plus a fictional programs that excellently brings the points home to laypeople. Need more stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEVlyP4_11M
> The claims define what a patent covers.

And then it covers all of them. The whole market. It's like if you owned a ranch house on a beach and that caused you to become the owner of every ranch house on every beach, and if someone built a new one somewhere else on some land that isn't yours then you would become the owner of it too. That's not how real property works.

And you're confusing the value of the market with control over it. It's possible to have a total monopoly on some useless junk nobody wants.
To clarify vt240's reply: If you were playing with coax, that would have been 10base-2. 10base-T is twisted pair Cat3 cable that used the same 8P8C connectors we use today.
If your understanding of success is "be an entrepreneur who makes decisions", then there is no luck involved. But that is not most entrepreneurs' understanding of success. So this isn't about making decisions, it's about having those decisions be accepted and rewarded by a reactionary and fickle culture. And that takes a lot of luck.
They are all close enough in mass for colloquial use though. It doesn't affect your understanding of this article if a ton / tonne is 1000 kg, 1016 kg, or 907 kg. I agree with the parent tho - let's just all start using metric :-)
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I don't understand why you would want to be an apologist for Tesla.

It's unconscionable to require a NDA as a condition to performing warranty work. Between crap like this and their aggressive, litigious pushback about accident fault analysis, I'd say it's foolish to buy these cars.

I've owned Dodge, Pontiac, Cadillac, BMW, and Honda cars. Each of those companies and their dealers have plenty of noxious behaviors, but nothing as extreme as this.
Bridged rooms are namespaced by whoever runs the bridge - e.g. #freenode_#python:matrix.org is the alias for the bridge to #python on Freenode that's run by matrix.org. Similarly #efnet_#python:matrix.org would be the alias for the EFnet room, if we ran an #efnet bridge. It's possible for a malicious user to try to bridge unrelated rooms together, but this is an abuse problem no different to someone floodjoining or otherwise trying to harm a room.

Handling spam and abuse in general is a huge issue for Matrix which we're putting massive focus on at the moment (in fact, it's why we're in SF at the Decentralized Web Summit currently). The whole decentralized web movement has a crisis on the horizon if there isn't a decentralized identity/reputation/abuse system of some kind to track miscreants and help admins and users mitigate spam.

Edit: in other words, right now a server admin would have to manually blacklist bad servers. In future there'd be a decentralised data structure of some kind (stellar ledger, blockchain, matrix DAG, IPFS DAG or whatever) tracking the greylist of servers/users/gateways to help decide who you want to talk to.
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I don't know what's supposed to be sad about this story. It's interesting, reassuring even about the high level of scrutiny physicists are in if geniuses like Heisenberg even have such troubles. But sad?
Does Tango come with software to stitch together a 3d model with a texture? For example, could I use it to scan a shoe or other discrete object in front of a bluescreen?

That's probably the first question on any web retailers mind.
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I remember buying a networking kit at Best Buy in the late 90s and then with 3 of my friends spending hours just trying to get the computers to ping each other.

There was also always someone who would have to reformat and reinstall Windows.
Will check this out next time I'm in an Apple Store...
+1.

Apart from one internal project which mistakenly had all it's app server instances in -2b (ooops!) - all my production mobile app backends are spread across the 3 Sydney AZs. That's a few dozen EC2 app servers across about 15 projects.

My monitoring reported a worst case of 57 seconds of degraded connectivity - which was an instance in -2b going offline and the ELB not taking it out of the rotation very quickly, the app running on that had interruption, but only while waiting for the timeouts. Crashlytics and GA crash reporting didn't bat an eyelid... I had under 70 users active at the time, 1/3rd of them may have seen a minute or less of loading spinner if they'd fired of a UI blocking api call during those 57 seconds. I'm not looking _super_ closely, but nothing I'm monitoring apart from EC2 - like RDS, S3, ELB, SNS - showed _any_ glitches (I'd _probably_ have caught even single digit second problems for _some_ of that...)

I'm actually quite happy with how everything went - we don't go to any particular heroic lengths to ensure HA or uptime, we just follow recommended best practice, and at least in this outage, that worked out fine for us (except for that project where all the app servers were in -2b, and I'm happy to wear that as our fuckup)
If you're referring to Monero, can you explain how it's "designed" to provide massive increases in wealth for early adopters? Is it the volunteer contributions? Lack of ICO? Perhaps it's the fact that the current market price is lower than when the coin was released two years ago. That surely gives the early adopters an advantage....
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It's pretty accurate. Also, see the John Oliver interview I posted in the comments. It's designed to appeal to less technical people plus get honest reactions out of him. The two interviews together are pretty good.
Kind of how I felt about it from the beginning. All of the stories seemed to be mostly about him being kind of a jerk to women or maybe in general (which may be quite true), but were painted in a way to sound like he almost raped someone.

And that's indeed a very good parallel with what happened to Assange. The issue was never about rape, but that's basically how the story was being told in the media and what most people got out of it.
The search term is in the url.
Ah yes, Big Eco. They will surely crush us underfoot along with the struggling Big Oil, which merely lacks the vast resources which would certainly be required to refute this obviously bogus science.
I think they're claiming that this particular failure is not covered by warranty.
Back at Uni during a job fair, I needed to stand out from the thousand or so other coders. I noticed companies were all trying to give out their free shit with their name on it, so I decided I'd try that myself.

So I made T-Shirts with my resume ironed on the front. Best $100 in marketing I ever spent, and got me multiple interviews and a lot of laughs. IBM hated it.
I think if your boolean is coming from user input then refactoring your method to accept user input, and then wrapping your method with a helper function that does the user input call would still be good advice.

At some point applying "anti-if" does involve major refactoring, so the outer style of your code might need to change a bit.

Of course like all design patterns it's more of a thought experiment than a total prescription IMO. But taking the thought experiment to its logical conclusion can also yield interesting results.

Some people might throw out strawman arguments about design patterns, but I'll end up reading the strawman and be like " yeah that does sound like a good idea". It's pretty hard to overestimate the value of regularity in code.
>Now. Try to publish anything that portrays blacks, women and gays negatively.

Lots gets published negative about those groups. Take the best-selling book <The Bell Curve> which argues that blacks have lower iq's. You say the elites push an agenda, but often that is because non-elites persuaded them to change their views. For instance, gays were pariah's until recently.

>I'm saying everyone re-writes history. Everyone makes it up. Everyone interprets it for their own political agenda.

That's simply not true. Lots of people are at least somewhat willing to be persuaded by arguments. Lots of people are willing to change their political philosophy if they are presented with reasons. I know I have changed my views on a number of important issues over the years. It is a slow process, but it happens a lot in this country. Look at how the conservative movement rose from nothing over the course of decades, fighting the elites all the way. Just because you are not objective and open to persuasion doesn't mean everyone else in the world is like you.

You know, in some countries of the world the government is so oppressive that is impossible to work to make things better, but in other countries it is possible, at least some of the time, but to do that generally requires an accurate understanding of the past. What you are saying is it is impossible to get this, and the implication is that it is impossible to make the world better. Is that what you believe? Note when I say make the world better, I mean according to a set of universal values, not ones that favor your group or country over all others. Apparently you believe such values don't exist, have I got you right on that?

I am wondering why you are so sure that it is impossible for human beings to look at history objectively. I can think of three possible reasons. One is that you just have a cynical personality. The second is you are just selfish and don't care. The third is that you are being paid by an authoritarian government like Russia or China to spread cynicism so people will give up trying to get at the truth and make the world better.
The guy had 70,000 miles on his car. https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/suspension-problem-o...
Thanks.

My site is not live on the Internet yet. On my development computer, it appears that the site works as intended, but I'm still testing, say, alpha testing. Then when I invite in people, call that beta testing.

For what is "wrong", I am just guessing that I might have encountered some of the problems mentioned in the OP.

Or, maybe even the simple, old HTML, CSS, and JavaScript I'm sending to the users might have problems on some Web browsers on some mobile devices? I don't have a mobile device, certainly not a big collection of them, for testing. So, likely the beta test will be the first real test if my simple, old HTML, etc. will work on various Web browsers on iPhone, Android, tablets, old/new laptops, etc.

But no doubt other Web site developers here on HN have already been there, done that.

Or, for the question, what precautions, considerations, limitations, etc. have to honor to have a relatively simple Web page display and act as intended on a wide range of client devices?

Thanks!
Would Google be forced to pay less per click, disincentivizing advertisers? I'm not sure.
> (after she, Greenwald and MacAskill had done the most important part)

They are also targets. I made no claim about the relative importance of Appelbaum's involvement, which is completely off-topic. He gave the talk at 30c3, which makes him a figurehead and thus a target.

> he's never been important from a tech/operations point of view

So what? That doesn't make him any less of a target from agencies that are pissed off about their documents being leaked to the public. The TLAs would love to make an example out of any of the people involved.

> I'm also sure that he'd like you to think otherwise.

That's your interpretation. To be clear, I haven't stated my interpretation, as my only point was that Appelbaum is absolutely on the short list of people we know are the target of state agencies so dismissing the possibility of their involvement is foolish.
To some extent this is a reflection on the company's Canadian culture. Canadians tend, to the extent that can ever be generalized about a nation of people, to be pro-government and assume that the government may not be perfect but has the best interests of its citizens at heart. For example, Americans refer to their government decisions as 'they decided', but Canadians say 'we decided'.

Given this, I'm not surprised BB thinks they're doing the right thing by helping governments spy on their people.

Source: I'm a Canadian who has lived in the US for 8 years. I was quite patriotic in my youth, so I've spent some time reflecting on the differences between Canada and the US.
Which is still not normally visible to an outsider in an HTTPS request... (other than the cases we're discussing in the sub-thread where the company has installed a root CA and is seeing all of the traffic anyway).
I did this autocomplete exercise with several candidates about 6 months ago, and Hillary-related search autocomplete terms were (by far) the most damning and amusing.

If this is true (and based on my exercise, it is), I'll be deactivating my accounts and adding 127.0.0.1 google.com www.google.com accounts.google.com to my /etc/hosts file.
And yet Toyota sees the future not in electric cars but in hydrogen fuel cells.

Toyota does not see the future in electric vehicles. Their hybrids are a good stopgap but they aren't into EVs at the moment. If you look at their history they went from full electric (ie. Rav4 EV) to hybrids to fuel cells.
I always find it amusing when you sign up for a service, and then for the next little while, half the ads you see are for that service. "Uh... but I've already signed up..."
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>> The story isn't about the suspension failures. The story is about the nondisclosure.

Tesla wouldn't need the nondisclosure agreements if the suspension failures were not story worthy.
Thank you. I experienced the same feelings. It's interesting how eliminating the extra button press makes the technology not 20% more useful, but maybe 10x more useful (IMO).

There are constraints. For example, the Alexa service can't do dictation, so building certain types of applications doesn't make sense.

But, after experiencing the Echo, it's hard to imagine a future without this type of computing - where you speak a sentence and it maps to a function carried out on a server. It's a very natural and fun way to get things done.
> it seems to me that they've given them the world's dumbest board ... hiring a shitload of salespeople without building the product.

That wasn't the board, that was the CEO.

> a company founded entirely by engineers doesn't seem like it would ever entirely give up on the product.

When did they? They fought, they whined, they tried to form a conspiracy, and finally they bargained and compromised. I don't recall them ever giving up.
HTTPS protects everything but the domain name. If you're not using SNI it might protect the domain too.
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They are not maintenance free but avoiding the continuous explosions combustible engines certainly leads to lower maintenance. It's not just wishful thinking.
What short list? I know he's had access to some of them, along with other journalists, but I've never seen anything about him having all of them.
No, my friend, the people who are crushed when the rent-seekers come out to play are the poor. That's why it's a bad idea to divert scarce resources in pursuit of worthless (indeed, probably harmful) pursuits like CO2 sequestration.
How do you know this for a fact?

If the roles were reversed would you delete? Or would you just like and say you did?
Yes! The first company foolish enough to employ me as a junior dev would have Snipes games on Friday afternoons between anyone who wasn't fielding a customer support call.

Sometimes I would be on the phone to someone while navigating around the maze trying to bounce a few stars round the corners at people - and then have to explain what the screams were in the background.
Driving 15mph above the speed limit and then ignoring the cop pulling you over is acting like you are above the law and will not end well.
Since there is no independent dealer network, sole source repair centers, sole source parts network, and a computer logging any unauthorized activity which may void the warranty, you are probably fucked.
The number of permutations for testing scenarios across android versions as well as hardware manufacturers is significantly bigger than the number of available browsers. The difference between browsers is well documented and as far as I'm concerned finite. How many versions of Android are worth supporting? What about the differences between manufacturers. Browser differences are generally known and well documented. Can you say the same for Android?

There are many scenarios where I agree it is significantly harder to create a user experience building a web app that can compare with the native experience. But the premise of the article is that it is cheaper to build on 2 separate native platforms than it is to build web app?

The part that gets me is the author complains about things like multiple line ellipses and autocomplete text boxes. Here's a better question - why are multiple line ellipses core to your business? What value does a multiple line ellipse do for the app?
I laughed hard at this... The one poor guy who had family computer and required a large amount of work to be playable....
Seriously? I laughed out loud at the "tabs vs spaces" scene since I have seen it played out exactly like that at several jobs.
I'd love to read more about this. Do you have a writeup somewhere?
But in this case, there are a lot of somewhat experienced people who (mistakenly) think conferences are likely to be valuable. Those are the folks who would be wise to listen to such advice.
> Peter Gregory = Peter Thiel
> Russ Hanneman = Mark Cuban

it's so obvious when you look at the sources - Peter Thiel and Blueseed/libertarian idealist offshore things, and the oil rig offshore thing in the first season.

and WHO PUT RADIO ON THE INTERNET?!?!?! THAT'S RIGHT - ME. Never met Mark Cuban, is he really anything like that?
I took the Elon Musk challenge and spent $2 a day on food for a month
Their servers did catch on fire.
I remember a trick of connecting at a standard speed and then running a certain AT command that reduced the latency considerably - from 250ms down to 180 or so. Can't remember what it was but it made a very big difference to Quakeworld. The client prediction made it very playable on a sub-200 ping.
that was pretty awesome for incoherent babble.