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My take is these are justifications not backed up by insights.

Here's a couple of excerpts from your link we can discuss.

>Income is important because it measures the ability of a nation’s population to purchase necessities as well as discretionary goods and services

>Environmental stewardship helps ensure that citizens have access to clean water and are not subject to unhealthy pollution levels or the adverse climate effects caused by unchecked carbon emissions. In addition, the preservation of plants and animals and their habitats is increasingly recognized as an important objective.

Sure to us in the US (or other developed countries) these both sound reasonable.

But let's say you live in rural Lesotho or other rural village in a developing country.

Does marginal income increase
your well-being? Maybe, maybe not. We don't know if the marginal dollar is enough to raise well-being nor if it is being spent on investments or items which increase well-being. e.g. does the marginsl dollar on average get spent on vices? Is this good or bad?

What if you're urban India? Does increasing environmental stewardship increase well-being? What if it's at the expense of increased costs for farmers which increases food costs? Is this a net negative or positive for well-being?

Furthermore, how do we define well-being? There needs to be some baselone in the study which sets the level for 'good' well-being vs bad 'well-being'.

My frustration comes from setting up an NGO to tackle some of these issues. We met and were advised by similar social enterprise groups that put forth pillars of livelihood or well-being without ever checking back with humans and what real people need. It's easy to say "this sounds reasonable" and implement solutions based on these assumptions. It's tougher to be boots on the ground and solve real problems.
Many of the things in my book are on line in different places. The technique I use in the book is here: https://www.cmcrossroads.com/article/makefile-optimization-e... It uses a different technique and requires replacing $(FOO) with $(call cache,FOO) everywhere.

The book comprises everything I've written about GNU make edited, rechecked and cleaned up with additions to cover new GNU make features and a couple of other things I hadn't written before.
Sony are great - key, unlock bootloader, flash twrp, install. Not that much harder than installing linux on modern laptop - enter bios, disable secureboot, curse 4 times until you find the second secure boot setting you also need to disable, exit bios, curse till you find the boot menu hotkey for this exact laptop, boot, install
I personally want unlockable bootloader and AOSP. Cyanogen is the closest we have to AOSP that is mainstream.
Pokemon Go Java API.

The Python version has been out for weeks now and I thought this was the Golang version.
Yes, that's what happened. I was thinking about your response and left it in my inbox to respond to. Figured I'd write something up for public consumption instead and as I'd done it differently in my book figured a blog post was appropriate.
" but the the court will cheerfully seize your assets that it can."

And how in the world would the courts do that? This is crytocurrencies we are talking about. The contracts I am talking about would be done anonymously between two people who have never met before, and have no chance in a million years of finding out who the other person is, or where they are. Thats the whole point!

I'm sure courts would love to confiscate all of the bitcoin donated to wikileaks or that is used to buy drugs on the internet. They've made a few high profile arrests and confiscations, but nothing on the scale of mass arrests of silk road customers, even though they would if they could.
in a system where the mining business is private and speculative, it might not be alright to hold mining farms/pools morally or legally accountable.
Your accent is so weird. It's pronounced B-A-I-D-U not G-O-O-G-L-E. My friend who was a white English teacher in China told me!
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There's a lot of security research going on at lots of places in all sorts of ways and that's great. But most of it results in better theoretical understanding. It doesn't result in an OS that can be used on commodity hardware in a production context. Good luck running Firefox on top of a some research OS written in Modula 3.
None of this will change until bankers start getting prosecuted.
The point is "optional security is bad security" because when stuff doesn't work it gets turned off. So _nobody_ turns those things on.

In OpenBSD all the mitigations are enabled all the time, and with pledge beeing the responsibility of the coder, no extra effort needed from the sys admin.
Right, but this is no different from implementing Add or Copy or FnMut or Placer, or calling sizeof or transmute or black_box, or using UnsafeCell. So its not "special" in any way. I don't disagree that its a compiler hook; that's what I called it in the first place :) I disagree that its makes the library in any way "special" or a pseudo library.

I can write a linear algebra library that gives you Vec3d and Matrix4d and the ability to multiply/add such types using regular multiplication operators. I can also write a Gc<T> library that lets you wrap some values in a GC heap allocation, which will have some extra stack maps being generated. It doesn't feel much different to me, both are equally worthy of being called libraries.

Anyway, expect a blog post soon. :)
Look at Wechat's ecosystem in China then you will realize thats Facebook Messenger's future.

China’s WeChat Foretells Facebook / Microsoft Bot Platforms’ Future

>>> https://chatbotsmagazine.com/chinas-wechat-foretells-faceboo...
React with Flowtype gives you typed templates (or whatever you call the render() merhods).
You need to read this long list of sources which prove that Bitcoin is not anonymous: http://www.bitcoinisnotanonymous.com/
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> tracking of where all the active drivers are, pinging maybe once a minute.

Once every 5 seconds will be more accurate.
I agree that Apple has international operatings allowing them to shift taxes to lower-tax jurisdictions. That's partly how they evade paying taxes.

One trick is to park it abroad and lobby for tax-amnesty (a horrible name btw):

- http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-03/jokowi-see...

- http://archive.fortune.com/2011/02/16/news/companies/repatri...

Another one is to use the money parked abroad (i.e. not yet taxed) to buy expensive things and then write down most of the asset a year or two later.

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"[they] are not loopholes or tax breaks. They're reasonable and sometimes
intrinsically necessary tax rules that can be arbitraged in an
international system"

Sounds exactly like tax-evasion to me! :)

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Also, to be clear, I love capitalism and happen to think that 35% corporate tax is a bit too high (~25 feels reasonable).

What I don't like is larger firms having lower rates (unfair) and many countries loosing out on tax revenue with a few 'tax havens' getting loads of tax-revenue while producing nothing of value -- Luxembourg, Lichtenstein, British Virgin Islands, Ireland (to some extent) etc.
And what about the tens of thousands of bitcoin addresses that have sent or received money to silk road addresses?

Have THOSE people been arrested? We KNOW that they used money to pay for drugs. Doesn't mean the courts can do anything about it.

Sure, there have been a few high profile arrests. That tends to happen if you start mailing thousands of drugs to people using the postal system.

And just like in the real world, if someone finds your physical wallet, they can confiscate it.

But the amazing thing is that we are sending money over the internet, and there is nothing anyone can do to stop it. No bank account freezes. And no confiscations unless they physically find you in the real world (but at that point, they can do whatever they want to you, so you've already lost.).
And you've got standardisation, across an entire rail ecosystm (that's rail, not Rails), in which locomotives, rolling stock, couplings, etc., etc., etc., all need to work together.

An advantage of standardisation is you get, well, standardisation. Such as US President Herbert Hoover implemented by setting up the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), which specified standards for screws and nuts and bolts. I'm not sure if Bendix transmissions were included, but come WWII, it was possible for the US War Department to order something like five million Jeep transmissions from several dozen suppliers, any of which could (at least in theory) be interchanged or have parts swapped between them.

The disadvantage is that you may find yourself very effectively stuck at a local optimum that's far from a global optimum, with murderous path dependencies.

I've been grousing over a set of TV propaganda videos created by the Mont Pelerin Society / Cato Institution through Johan Norberg and his "Free to Choose Media" production company (at least the propaganda slant is fairly obvious). The 2nd installement of his series on Adam Smith spends much of its time aboard a supersized cargo carrier, waxing rhapsodic about the wonders of the market in coming up with such a marvelously efficient system.

Except that it took the US Navy to standardise container sizes. After some 20 years of dickering over container sizes, materiel transport needs of the Vietnam War finally forced standarisation.

(Another US regulatory body, the Interstate Commerce Commission, meanwhile, had been happily impeding progress thanks to its regulatory capture by the railroad industry, and I won't even begin to mention the Texas Railroad Commission, which has little to do with railroads and was exceptionally significant well beyond Texas, at least for a time).
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A lot of towns actually have right to farm bylaws. There are some restrictions--I think it's a 5 acre minimum acreage in my town. So I agree with your general point but agriculture is considered normal use of property in many places.
Thanks, something I'll keep in mind.

The Samsung hardware, fetters and chains excepted, is tolerable. The software is crap.
In this case adaptability equals centralization
Ask HN: Best places to advertise for developers (non-startup)
The big recruitment groups (Stackoverflow, github etc) tend to be startup/large corporates.

Where should smaller companies, who have different requirements advertise?
Additional verification? Call the customer, email them, put a BIG RED notice at the top of e-banking for each login, delay the transaction a reasonable time(hell, it's probably only executed at midnight).
Can't imagine that KYC only works for governement investigations.
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Well I have tried it plenty of times and have never experienced any negative effects.

Moreover, and perhaps more importantly-- I have tried it plenty of times and have never experienced any negative effects.
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Done by AMD, Imagination, Valve and Google, sponsored by Khronos, out of kindness and without any hidden agenda to push Vulkan....
Out of my 5 banks, 3 use physical 2fa RSA tokens (and 2 support 2fa apps) and 2 use those crappy code cards for 2fa. Are American banks really that bad?
Yeah wikipedia would be part of something like this. I already have all their data dumps and I have a lot of other cool DBs like musicBrainz, lots of stack exchange stuff, some "top" movies lists, lots of books, etc. I like to hoard data and hd space is cheap.
The ports tree is obviously not audited by OpenBSD. The code comes from all over the net and the only thing OpenBSD does is enforce security mitigations/64bit time_t/arc4random/other coding practices in the base system, fix broken ports, send patches upstream and try to drag the whole open-source software community to better coding practices.
I agree that Haskellers tend to get ridiculously over-excited about category theory, but it's simply not true that there's only "one category in play". Categories abound in Haskell, for example the Kleisli category, and any instance of Category that isn't (->).
What I'm really wondering about is their app. The UI of the app can be impacted without an app update. For example the UI during the pride parade. Or minute of silence ( http://gizmodo.com/uber-makes-riders-take-a-moment-of-silenc... )

I wonder what's the architecture of the app and the API for this.
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From the reddit discussion[0], this appears to be a misreading of the law and it is actually talking about online ad publishers blocking competitors' ads through malicious software.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/4u2jd4/china_wil...
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Tumblers? Or even just transfer between crytpo currencies.

I even pulled a quote from your sources:

"Bitcoin “laundry services” do exist: Bitcoinlaundry, Bitmix, and Bitlaundry are several examples. Once you pass your money through such a service, it is much harder and almost impossible for law enforcement personnel to establish their origin."
I wonder if there are any studies that show this type of stimulation would be effective for Dyslexia?
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Looks great! You could definitely Chargé more though ;-)
My bank sent me a new card with the same PIN as my old card. Somewhere my bank has a backup of each and every PIN.

Now, it may be encrypted (not during renewal) or hashed (10000 values, <1s verification) but neither gives any security. (It's safer however than sending a new PIN with the card or in another letter)
It's a scenario I've witnessed a few times too many now. Often an unsupported feature X is becoming critical to the team, so users reproduce large chunks of the corporate system in a separate spreadsheet in order to support the feature themselves, then build upon that.

Without the ability to react quickly that smaller businesses have, I noticed that some form of resistance from IT is usually a big factor: lack of resources, divergent priorities or visions, unclear benefits from hypothetical feature, limited architecture, end-of-life maintenance states that end up lasting years, etc.

Reality changes, systems fall behind, users adapt and spreadsheets are born.

One root cause is that it's comparatively hard to add new data in a RDBMS - it usually requires a full development life cycle. On the other hand, spreadsheets are free, provide immediate benefits, allow users to define and refine requirements as they go, and can be abandoned at the drop of a hat (low risk). Quite the conundrum!

From the article:

> At present, Bakke’s tool enables query construction on an existing database, but it doesn’t enable the direct entry or modification of data. He expects to begin adding that functionality over the next six months

Querying data is a problem with many good solutions nowadays, the bigger question is where and how to write that new data the users want to play with (other than in a spreadsheet).
So let me get this straight -- for these "unnofficial" APIs, someone just scraped a bunch of packets from their phone while letting Pokemon Go run on it? Then investigated to see what the communication from client to server looks like, then implemented an API that mimicks that communication?

If that's all so, could the PoGo devs simply enforce some type of device authentication to 'shut down' these APIs, or otherwise take different steps to make unofficial APIs less compatible/more difficult/effectively impossible?
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What about landing, it looks like it's landing directly on the battery. Would be nice to have a stand or plate to protect the battery. Looks really fast though.
So what it achieves is silences any discussion and pretends that no controversial topics exist. I don't think there's much value in this HN's "fear of controversy". Fact is, almost ALL things that are "gratifying intellectual curiosity" have some controversy in it, so the system doesn't deliver what it's made to do. After this too aggressive filter on topics, what's left is some very niche topics without controversy, since they are too niche for the majority to have any opinion or prior knowledge on it, or so uninteresting nobody even bothers to comment.

Just open HN at any given moment and tell me honestly - how many articles do you actually read and think they are genuinely interesting?

I can tell you this - a couple years back, when HN was just starting to get popular, the algorithm was different, and I found almost 90% of top stories so interesting it was worth to read them, and the remaining 10% I usually read anyway because it was something I just didn't knew about yet, but could be safely said they were interesting to people who knows what it's about based on the way stories were ranked.

Now I open NH and AT BEST I read 1-2 articles, often 0, because it is full of either some obscure stuff, often without even upvotes, but new, or it is something everyone agree on, which is often an article about common sense. Sad.
cool concept, nice find. I want something like this that I can host, no satellites needed, I can customize, let friends connect remotely, be able to do really cool searches using regex, have some big databases, etc.

I guess it's along the lines of scraping/crawling/local browsing, etc. Basically creating my own internet that I can invite people to, annotate, collaborate in, etc.

I'm working on an open communications platform at the moment and am contemplating creating a microservice to enable something like this - but I don't want to reinvent the wheel if someone has already done it well.
Haskell's web frameworks help, but it's nothing to do with purity. In fact any web framework can do this, you segregate user-supplied data and ensure it can never be supplied to an untrusted function without explicit cleaning.

Perl and Ruby have included this as a 'tainted' flag, many functions cannot be called with a tainted string.
You should be excited about this case because it seeks to overturn the anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA. It is notable because it's backed by the EFF, notable researchers, and a top law firm. If it succeeds, it would be a huge win for our right to hack--many have posted stories about how those provisions affected them.
You certainly have an interesting argument but it doesn't sound convincing. Can you explain more about how 1970s technology can solve the problems Uber is facing in 2016?
I always read this "few pre-paid pennies" statement, but that does not seem to include energy cost and carbon footprint of the miners doing proof-of-work?
I saw in the examples you can catch Pokemon with this API, does that method give you an automatic excellent throw every time then?

Also, does this API depend on running on Android?
Once you start filling your electric car every night from a plug in your garage, the idea of (weekly?) driving to one of a handful of special hydrogen fueling stations is seriously unattractive. In fact, filling up the old gasoline car becomes annoying.

This article definitely reads like a PR piece from an oil company (which is, after all, where the hydrogen comes from). The New York Times has a history of biased journalism against electric cars...
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Layout code is always "normal code that can be optimized by the compiler". Why wouldn't it be?

I think you're referring to applying optimizations to static UI with constant data structures, but that can be done with retained mode too, and I doubt it actually is going to help.
I just gave that as an example to illustrate the point about those security measures. There's others in real OS's and products in production now plus more that existed decades into the past. And quite a few, including one I named, can handle Firefox. Good, wild guess though as untrustworthy browsers designed for untrustworthy UNIXen are hard. ;) Look up OP2 Web Browser or IBOS Illinois Browser Operating System next time if you want architectures designed for secure OS's. Chrome's security was a knockoff of a predecessor of one.
"The older the quirkier" would explain both your experience and older people preferring not to bond with older people.
I have liked a post before that criticized Trump, and FB suggested that I might be interested in the "Trump for President" page. So, their algorithm isn't the best.

Also, be ware of "like this to help me" scams. Sometimes you will see things like a girl holding a sign saying things like "My Dad said he would quit smoking if I get a million likes, help me" or stuff like that. A lot of the times those a BS posts made to manipulate people into liking them. Once they get a bunch of likes, they sell the page that made that post to someone else. It used to be a girl asking for help page, and now it's a Nazi memorabilia page.

There are quite a few ways to game FB.
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Had the author offered an alternative? Namely, can E^2 be calculated in practice?
There is. Programming is a non-linear field, while welding is a linear one, unless you become a successful welding-artist.
You know that saying : "I didn't have time to write a short letter so I wrote a long one".

With this kind of technology stack you end up when you try to move fast. I'm sure that if more time and thought would have been put into it, it would have been more elegant and simple. But has time these days ?
Could someone please start something called 'Pokemon news'?
Some of them are experimenting on their children.
Yeah, ok - excepts that, first of all, non-vegan cooking has more or less the same steps. I.e. you can still decide that your steak needs some more salt, or spices, I never heard of people eating their beef "unflavoured" because the cow measured salt by thirst.
So what triggered my curiosity was that you were presenting this like extra work needed for vegan dishes only. Maybe I misunderstood.
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What? All Samsung phones, at least in Europe, come unlocked and can be reflashed easily.
Presumably by someone at Uber

Why would you assume that? Especially since the blog post is already a few days old, and the submitter doesn't have any other Uber-related posts.
What do you find to be wrong about this situation, and what kind of protection are you looking for? How would it help in this scenario - force Cyanogen to keep the employees on, and go bankrupt, or lay off most employees and probably still go bankrupt (but with some chance of survival)?
Why is Honeycomb useless?

You might have specific usage patterns where shows but I would say that there's anything wrong with Honeycomb but, rather, that the major problem is that the hardware itself doesn't really stretch enough to run newer Androids or newer websites/applications. I'd just keep the less resource-hungry Honeycomb installed until the hardware can no longer do modern content.
Creator here. We use .5mm FR10 (fiberglass) plated batteries, to keep them safe in a crash. We considered using CF, but CF is conductive. We will probably make an optional bottom battery plate. The battery on the bottom balances out the had, making the drone super agile.
If you can read Chinese, you will find that the law is overall very pro-consumer. As others on Reddit have pointed out, this "ad-blocking" that is outlawed most probably refers to the kind of ad-blocking by other ad companies in order to insert their own ads.