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Uber and Lyft already require this in the US, according to a quick google search.

http://www.idrivewithuber.com/uber-driver-requirements/
https://help.lyft.com/hc/en-us/articles/213585758-Requiremen...

In India, Uber now imposes a background check that drastically exceeds the regulatory minimum (police-issued "character certificate", approx an 8k bribe).

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-12-09/uber-drive...

Sounds like criminals driving cars isn't currently a problem in the US. In India, it's a problem that regulators don't solve but Uber does.

So again, what problems that currently exist would regulation solve?
OS X basically prevents this with default install, you will have to get a hacked OS X image to do this, and that is a legal grey area depending on your country.

You can find out more by looking up hackintosh.
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I use github to figure this out by perusing the issues and history.
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The discussion pages of HN, which is somewhat 1997ish (table layout), didn't use to look good in Android Firefox. It's a little better now.
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It looks the investor wanted the company to go to BK. Maybe they were also the senior debt holder which means they could potentially get the company cheaper since senior debt holder have highest priority in getting paid back.
There is also icinga2. So how does one decide which one to use? For a mixed environment (windows, linux, etc) which monitoring tool is better when both server and client is considered?
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> I get all of my electricity from a nuclear power plant

If you use more power, that doesn't come from running the nuke plant more (we run them at 100% all the time) or building more nuke plants (politically impossible). Instead it comes from coal/oil/wind/sun: something else.
Cool, hadn't seen that before. Unfortunately, doesn't seem to be in plan9port.
> What [place] should it be?

Perhaps

echo disable 'foo.*' >> /etc/systemd/system-preset/20-regularfry.preset

as (as can be seen) some people hope one day Ubuntu will respect, per its manual?

* https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=772555

* http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/en/man5/systemd.p...

Your several cases are, respectively, the aforegiven for the administrator-chosen per-service controls,

echo enable '*' >> /etc/systemd/system-preset/99-default.preset

for the fully auto-starting system (unless specifically overridden) specified by the administrator,

echo enable '*' >> /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/99-default.preset

for the fully auto-starting system (unless overridden by administrator or specific packaging) specified by the operating system builders,

echo disable '*' >> /usr/lib/systemd/system-preset/99-default.preset

for the fully disabled requiring manual start system (unless overridden by administrator or specific packaging) specified by the operating system builders, and

echo disable '*' >> /etc/systemd/system-preset/00-admin.preset

for the fully disabled requiring manual start system specified by the administrator.
If you're sending to/from Gmail/Exchange the limit is somewhere around 100 addresses (I believe it's technically the byte-size of the field not strictly the number of addresses).

The actual spec though, AFAIK, has no limit.
It wasn't a CC, if it was then there wouldn't have been a way to stop after only some had gone out, because that's not how CC works.
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Don't hurry!

Take the time to think it out very carefully.

Evaluate the geostrategic situation.

What do you think the situation in the European Union will be in two, five, ten years, thirty years? Seriously?

Would you rather be living where you'd buy that house then?

Consider that it's rather highly probably that very soon the situation will be quite different. The Euro will probably not exist anymore (or it will just be the Mark under a new name). The European Union will either be mostly dismantled, or the situation for the citizen inside it will be very dire, both economically and sociologically.

I would definitely not want to own a lot of Euros nowadays. And I would definitely consider, for _SAFETY_ reasons, to be able to move fast and early, which means having NO immovable possession in the place I'm currently in (in Paris in my case, but that'd be the same on about most of the European Union Territory). On the other hand, I wouldn't invest on the financial market either (most currencies and bonds have a negative return, and share may crash at anytime the dollar or the euro crashes (they're basically playing chicken)). If you don't find something to invest into soon, then the only thing to store your wealth that seems safe and easily movable is gold.

You're still young. You could consider finding a safe place elsewhere in the world. It could be in Germany or in Europe, if you choose it carefully (but remember, almost all the Spanish territory was unsafe for 700 years). But it might be easier for long term to find such a place farther. If I was your age, I'd consider very seriously Russia, and their offer for free land in the far East. A good alternative would be Mars, if you can get selected for a flight there. I could also mention other plans (in which you invest this money and become ludicrously rich), but they're rather improbable.
So? They have changed their business model. They're entitled to do so.

If you care so much about the poor, you might as well subsidize a MOOC for them, instead of demanding Coursera to do so.
Picasso didn't invent one style - he invented lots of styles. So it's nonsense to say this video is "in the style of" Picasso.

It's more like an insta-Picasso plug-in for one particular form of abstraction.

It's interesting and unusual, and yes, it would be better with constraints.

I'm not sure I'd want to look at it on a big screen though.

>of course a deeplearning net can't actually do cubism.

One of the interesting things to fall out of this research is the realisation that a lot of art - even figurative art - is based on abstraction of visual invariants.

There's no reason that creative abstraction can't be automated to create new styles.

The difference when humans do it is the level of psychological insight and feel for what's visually important and interesting in a scene.

That can probably be automated too, but it's a very much harder problem.

The challenge for most developers in this space is that they have a much more superficial understanding of art (and music, and writing) than they believe they do, so a lot of content and detail that's important to experienced viewers gets ignored. The result is superficial lookalike output - pastiche.

Technically, the superficial output is an achievement in itself, but it's still a way short of being artistically innovative in its own right.
SciFi usually offers this sort of explaination: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Directive
The problem is most of those aren't even true, e.g. c.f. my notes on VAM:

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-efficacy

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-statistical-prob...

http://www.alexkrupp.com/Citevault.html#vam-implementation

Most of which are from the primary sources referenced in Diane Ravitch's book:

https://www.amazon.com/Death-Great-American-School-System/dp...
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Maybe you can read the article and correct yourself?

1/24 patients died during the trial (no causal link was specified), and the treatment was given to progressive MS patients (PPMS or SPMS).
Does anyone have like, a map or presentation or article or something that will give me an intuition of how vast maths is?
Oh wow, that's rather awesome :D
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You can disable the remote management and the entire embedded network stack though.
Are the pavements really that clean or is that photo with the stairs just unrealistic?
I guess it's possible, although that would require near constant vacuuming.
This is fascinating. I wonder if it will accelerate the pace of restoration of temples in the area. When I visited, there were many temple complexes completely overrun with vegetation -- to the point where they filmed Indiana Jones there!
I hope they get sufficient preorders so they can start manufacturing it.

I currently have a 125W TDP AMD processor with "just" 8 cores, looking forward to a Power8 workstation that should have 64 logical CPU cores at 130W TDP [1] and avoids the Intel ME/AMD PSP trap.

[1] https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/faq.php
Having deployed apps to the app store, and on one occasion a bug was caught, that saved it from going out to the users. It's far from perfect, but it does have an effect. I think due to the mass amount of apps & users, shit is inevitable :(
Remember this isnt a proven technology yet (lithium brine mining). There are tons of promising projects in the sheltered environment of chemistry labs that dont scale up in the real world due to unforseen complications. I'd say 9 out 10 promising battery announcements fall into this category.
Google scrubbing the auto-completion of negative searches on Hillary Clinton?
I live in Tokyo and I think it's great. You can often see people at McDonalds early in the morning after a night out catching a nap before the trains start running. Just buy a coffee or something, grab a table, take an hour nap -- great. And this is Japan so you don't have to worry about your stuff getting stolen! Even if you sleep at the train station!

I also commonly see people taking naps during lunchtime in Starbucks. Someone will come in, grab a coffee, take a nap for 30 min, drink the coffee and go back to work. There's nothing wrong with that! (other than I want the table :P)

Unfortunately the corporate culture is not where it should be. There are some companies that want to be like western startups where taking a nap on the office sofa wouldn't raise an eyebrow but those are very rare. In most Japanese companies it would be totally unacceptable to sleep in the office.
That is a specious retort. You don't need to pwn the browser to track a user.
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Trusting Intel on producing a CPU, and trusting Intel with ME are completely different levels of trust.
If I could run my own software on the Intel ME, I wouldn't mind.

In some sense having Intel ME is worse than having Windows as your OS: at least you can apply security patches for Windows, and should you choose to do so you can replace it with your favourite OS.
However Intel ME is entirely closed source and locked down: probably running out-of-date software with several unpatched vulnerabilities with no way for the user to inspect it, patch it, turn it off with a jumper or replace it.
Compared to overall lifecycle energy costs of something like a car, the one-time cost to boil one of the manufacturing components up front isn't very much. Better to boil a lithium soup once than to burn gasoline to power your car for fifteen years. Plus renewable energy is easier to use in manufacturing processes than it is in mobile applications (like vehicles). Check out the history of aluminum manufacturing, for example -- it's been heavily dependent on renewable energy in the form of hydroelectric power for almost a century.
Have you asked Amazon the same question? It works fine for them since 1994.
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The beauty of the jungle is kinda the point.

Not hard to poison a tree ;)

It's on purpose.
Would you mind saying which treaties, please, I'm interested in researching this further.
https://zedshaw.com/2016/06/10/riot-games-is-violating-calif...
If they know in the offer round already that they want a deal from Microsoft, then why is the title "how Microsoft beat Apple"? They didn't do anything to beat Apple if they had already won.
My mistake - I thought the leasing program was for a physical machine. Still an interesting option.
The jaded, bitter part of me hopes this will be another nail in the coffin for XaaS and the recent trend of centralizing everything onto Web services.

The rest of me which is more jaded and bitter knows that it won't.
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what if life didn't evolve here but arrive on other space debris? Has that theory been ruled out?
I always thought it meant the turn towards art, literature, film, etc. whose themes are actually in earnest, after decades of every bloody thing being ironic.

TL;DR: "We got tired of being sarcastic all the time, so this time we decided to say something we actually mean."
The problem with ME is that enables a number of additional attacks, even if it's not backdoored.
Other than PR, what would a Mars manned mission provide that a moon-base and 'cargo flights to the moon' wouldn't?

If the aim is to perfect human survival off-earth, then surely the moon is a better goal. I know we've been to the moon, but only for a few hours. We're nowhere near the tech/cargo transfer needed to put a manned base on it.

Are we going to put a few people on Mars, lose interest in that right away, wait another 40 years and then aim for Europa?

[edit: Thank you all for the responses.]
I am reminded of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11667485 at this point.
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> blame the OS. iOS can block apps [...]

Well, to be fair, you can disable notifications from apps since android 4.0 (which is a long time back)

And Android 6.0 and up should automatically disable background running apps (https://developer.android.com/training/monitoring-device-sta...) unless there is a good reason for them to be running

But apps can still work around these restrictions (even on iOS; for eg the facebook app was caught "accidentally" playing silent audio.) Even if that was truly a bug, the point remains that it's better to use the website unless you want something specific (offline access, push notifications, etc...)
The new subscriptions pay model with the 15% cut after one year. In my opinion Apple doesn't deserve any cut of the recurring money since they don't have to do anything to earn it.

Maybe it isn't a benefit to developers, in which case we'll find out, because no one will be using it. Is that really what you expect will happen, though?

It's ridiculous to argue that it's a bad deal or somehow unfair because Apple doesn't incur costs in proportion to the cut they are taking. Welcome to the free market where prices are set according to what customers are willing to pay, and not according to how much it costs to provide the particular service.
Legal fees are incredibly high right now partly because of frivolous lawsuits. Loser pays would drive down costs making bankruptcy a lot less likely. Besides, if this had been a pure 1st Amendment case, deep pockets like the ACLU could act like an insurance policy and pick up some of the day-to-day expenses, but the savings from not continuously defending yourself against frivolous lawsuits and getting reimbursed when you win would reduce the need for outside assistance.
Good point. I'm a dev lead in an "enterprise" company (retail). I spend my time in Balsamiq Mockups and Visio. Meeting topics are usually complex enought that we spend the time discussing a single diagram/flow.
The stairs are not clean or rather there are plenty of unclean stairs in Japan. Relative to other cities I'm not sure. None of the stations smell like piss like SF and Paris at least
I long for days when it won't really matter how you feel about stem cell research.
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Would humans remain human on Mars?
That's a peculiarly specific range...
> There's a long history in the United States

Headline: Canadian Doctors.

Americans can hide themselves away from the world in made up religious ideas, the rest of the world will get on.
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Violence and war are unequal - the strong (and male) take from the weak the old the young and the nursing. Laws are a compact between the strong and the rest, that with defence from the strong we will get peace and sharing and status. Status is the coinage society bribes the strong to prevent them just taking all they want. At some point society manages to produce through peace and trade more than could be stolen and the deal becomes profitable for both sides.

And different guards guard each other. Balance of power etc
My comment had nothing to do with whether it was an ad or not. I don't really care whether they're monetizing their video or not... going to their site is a bad experience.
You'll still be left with free market like system - and the result won't be far from what we have today. For example the incentives around something like facebook will be similar.

No - you really need benevolent dictatorship at the site/content level.
There is a certain irony on a site about keyboard accessibility having this in their style-sheet: "font-weight: 300;" with the result that it produces significantly reduced readability of the site (and thereby reduces the "visual accessibility").
I'm a web developer who got the bug to get into robotics about four years ago as a hobby. I ended up joining a FIRST [1] robotics team as a programming mentor and I've learned a lot [2].

[1] FIRST http://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8319J1BEHwM
What you think logically should happen is not what actually happens. Read about the accounting, marketing, and legal aspects of what are called goodwill and brand equity.
Direct link to paper: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/46742/1/fp1187-altadmri.pdf
Japan is renowned for being clean, they're still stairs though.
What would your ideal online world be?
Without extreme religious persecution at home or the prospect of being extremely wealthy "abroad", will there be that many people interested in going to Mars?
It was confirmed by Josh, co-founder of Let's Encrypt: https://twitter.com/0xjosh/status/741487697059946497.
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Diane Ravitch, such an unbiased source. Lets assume the counterfactual - that teacher performance has no measurable effect. The logical conclusion is that since quality is irrelevant, we should focus on cost. I assume that you support this conclusion? Diane Ravitch certainly doesn't.

The bulk of your notes show simply that variance is high, that the effect of teachers fades over time, and that the effect of teachers is small. None of this implies VAM doesn't work.

Many of your sources don't even agree with you. For instance, the Mathematica evaluation suggests a 74% accuracy rate!

Some years back I recall we discussed this, and I suggested you go learn about the difference between variance and bias. Have you done this?

Incidentally, you do bring up yet another solid scientific conclusion that cuts against non-conservative ideologies: teachers don't matter much at all.
Past:

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11870546
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I think the point is better understanding the history of Khmer civilization
I feel like it's been held back for a decade or two by, mostly, the religious right, and I wonder how many people's lives are worse off as a result.
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Thanks. If anything that backs up my main point that most programming languages are multi-paradigm.
Would taking trucks off of the road actually help this much?
Mickey Mouse is a trademark too, so once out of copyright one could release a cartoon featuring the character but not a "Mickey Mouse cartoon" per se. It's not clear to me if you could even call the mouse Mickey and avoid infringing the trademark.
Off topic: Your ¹²³ thing is really cool. Do you mind if I use it too?
Generally they are kept very clean and the photo is not at all unrealistic. The cultural norm is to never litter, instead if necessary trash is taken home with you to dispose of for example.

That said, what might contribute to the cleanliness in the photo though is that it was possibly taken after the last train (all trains stop after around midnight), so it's not unlikely the stairs are exceptionally clean because they had just been cleaned before.

On a slightly unrelated note regarding having to be vacuumed constantly, the stairs being clean and the extremely low rate of unemployment in japan might not be unrelated, and on topic it might also not be unrelated to the prevalence of sleeping in situations that would be utterly unacceptable in other countries, such as meetings :)
Nothing is capped. Because of the potential for paying twice as much to sue someone, only cases where the plaintiff has a good chance of winning make it to court, thereby putting less demand on legal services. Gawker was not bankrupted by their own legal fees, but by the damages they were ordered to pay out of their own pockets, so nothing is justifying a cap on what the loser must pay in terms of legal fees here. The main point of bringing up loser pays is to reduce the chance that a lawsuit with no chance of winning can bankrupt someone such as Mother Jones.
Isn't it true then that most work is provided for free by the peers?
In the absence of tea, this colonists will sink a Tesla in the Vale Marinaris to declare independence?
The reason for this screw up was guessed by a Twitter user, and his theory was confirmed by Josh from Let's Encrypt [1].

The whole mess was caused by the Python `email` package, and specifically the behavior of the `MIMEMultipart` object [2]. When you reuse the same `MIMEMultipart` object for multiple emails, each destination address is appended. The same problem takes place when you use Python 3 [3].

[1]: https://twitter.com/0xjosh/status/741487697059946497

[2]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.mime.html#email.mime...

[3]: http://i.imgur.com/XwWlUXv.png
Indeed. Furthermore, the NYT tells us that we are apparently irrational if we believe the probability of advanced life appearing is less than 10^-22.
What are U-NII-2 channels used for? I've not come across that term before.

As an alternative suggestion, couldn't the transmit power be capped in hardware? I don't see why you'd need to have hardware that could exceed the specified transmit limits, other than to save money for the manufacturers (allowing them to tweak transmit power in software to meet the regulations in different countries, assuming the maximum transmit power for wireless routers varies from country to country).

As a side note, the L4Re hypervisor the article proposes using looks very promising, first I've heard of it, was hoping someone would make a hypervisor based on a provably secure kernel like L4 one day, seems like it already exists.

http://kernkonzept.com/l4re.html
Their media kit claims 78 million online viewers vs. 5 million wealthy newspaper audience. I think more people click to read the article than turn a paper page to read it. Newspapers are online media companies now that happen to also produce limited paper versions.

Perhaps I'm missing your point?
50% faster this, 200% faster that... Wake me up if any of this is noticeable in real-world use of the browser. Because it hardly ever is due to external bottlenecks (network latency, cache reading, etc. etc.)
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