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>Consumer protection rules should require up-front labeling of final price paid, including all taxes, shipping, and fees.

I disagree specifically with the taxes not being added on a sale separately. I live in Mexico, a country that does mark any sale price as the sale price + taxes. Your taxes are already included in the final price. I will attempt to explain why I believe this is a bad thing below.

It's hard to appreciate it as someone on your side who grew up always seeing the taxed amount in receipts and the like, but here in Mexico people are largely uneducated about how much they are paying for purchase taxes. We are currently paying 16%[1] on purchase taxes aside from frontier states.

Every time this comes out in conversation people tend to be shocked, usually thinking the amount paid would be less. The sad part of this is that it's common not to know, if I had to guess around 95% of the community likely doesn't know how much purchase tax is, with a big part of the other 5% being business owners that have to deal with it in a daily basis.

What I believe is that constantly seeing how much you are being charged when it comes to your taxes makes you politically aware of how much your state is charging you. Having this number hidden for you is certainly convenient, I won't lie about that. Having the number you see on a shelf be the exact same number you are going to pay certainly is easier, however, I believe this knowledge by the population helps towards keeping politicians honest.

Since all of your citizens are painfully aware of exactly how much you are paying on every purchase, raising that number becomes substantially harder, since it would be met with much bigger backlash.

This is a theory that I have bouncing around in my head, and I don't have any hard evidence to back it up, but in conclusion I think that having visible taxes helps educate the population, and keep the government honest. Which would be my argument against hiding that number in a "purchase total" figure.

[1] http://www.itimbre.com/impuestos/
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That is their conclusion (which I addressed in my comment). Read the table:

Table 1 says that seat belts had a non-fatal rate of 99.89% and restraint systems had a non-fatal rate of 99.88%.

They flat-out say that they had to adjust it to get those numbers:

"Table 2 summarizes little difference in the unadjusted risk for death between users of child restraint systems and users of seat belts (RR, 1.03; 95% confidence interval, 0.72-1.46). After adjusting for seating position, vehicle type, model year, driver and passenger ages, and driver survival status, children in child restraint systems had a 21% reduction in risk for death compared with children in seat belts, although this difference was only marginally significant (RR, 0.79; 95% confidence interval, 0.59-1.05). After excluding the cases of serious child restraint system and seat belt misuse from FARS, children in child restraint systems had a 28% reduction in risk for death compared with children in seat belts (RR, 0.72; 95% confidence interval, 0.54-0.97)."

If you read further down in their conclusions, they seem to have a real hard-on over Levitt. I am not saying that they are wrong, but the data (un-modified) supports Levitt's conclusion.
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Spam doesn't bother me anymore, but unsolicited phone calls do. The majority of phone calls that come in are not legitimate.
Yes there is trickry. A "Free Trial" does not mean 10 days for $300 which is what it essentially is whenever someone forgets to cancel. This is the same technique slimy online businesses (i.e. credit reporting agencies) use all the time along with making it hard to cancel. They even made it quarterly so that they can make three months off of you instead of one.

If you think I'm being obnoxious you should perhaps reflect on your own behavior. Others in this thread clearly agree that this is a dark pattern.
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There are templates: for example

void print1(auto x){std::cout<< x;}

is a function template

template <class T>
void print1(T x){std::cout<< x;}

This is not valid C++14 however, so it doesn't compile. If you replace these, you'll probably still get a stack overflow while expanding the templates because there are almost 7000 arguments to a single function call.
"Further, Table 1 says that seat belts had a non-fatal rate of 99.89% and restraint systems had a non-fatal rate of 99.88%."

Um, no, I'm afraid.

Table 1 describes the characteristics of the data set. 99.89% of the "seat belt" sample were non-fatal accidents and 0.11% were fatal; that and the row immediately above it sum to 100%. A fatal accident is defined as one in which someone died, including a pedestrian.
Unfortunately I can't get to the new site (without changing my DNS servers) because Verizon is resolving krebsonsecurity.com to loopback. Presumably doing it for (poor) DDOS mitigation, but this sort of censorship is ridiculous.

$ nslookup krebsonsecurity.com 71.242.0.12
Server: 71.242.0.12
Address: 71.242.0.12#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: krebsonsecurity.com
Address: 127.0.0.1

EDIT: I see downthread that this is a DNS propagation issue. Nevermind.
> Well then, that's your problem: C++ is trying to be both low-level and high level at the same time. This isn't a good idea, IMHO.

It is a very good idea and C++ isn't alone there.

Professional Basic dialects, Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Modula-2, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Ada, D, Rust, Mesa/Cedar all share this idea that you can program at both levels, depending on the needs of the use case.
The Holocaust, commitment to the spread of Communism throughout the globe ... that kind of stuff.
That's certainly the favorite phrase of malicious people. They just need to act stupid to get de-facto pardoned.
I've mostly given up refined sugar too. I cook a lot for myself, and almost never have a prepared dessert (a handful of dates or figs, more likely, or an apple).

Once or twice a week I'll have a dessert item while I'm out at a coffee shop, and what gets me now is how unbelievably overly sweet those things taste. It's too much some of the time, even for something as mild as a rice crispy square. Sugared soda or a donut with icing? I simply can't take it anymore, it's far, far too sweet.

And my hunger is sooo much more even-keeled these days, less of a consciousness-dominating craving, more of a hint that it's time for food.
It's great that the EFF has outlined this material in such detail, but, as with many issues of legal epistemology, we need to remember that the state has an interest in not understanding these things, and it will continue to fail to understand until political pressure forces a different course.

A similar example: the tests used to detect the presence of certain chemical substances ("narcotics field tests") are laughably unreliable[0], but police agencies across the USA continue to use them, and courts continue to accept their results as probable cause.

It is not difficult to explain to someone, in under 5 minutes, why IP addresses are insufficient to determine either identity or location, but the state chooses not the understand this information.

That is its nature, and also the reason to be optimistic that it is subject to deprecation in the information age.

0: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/02/26/...
and I quote from the article, "It is not clear why Amazon’s algorithm now pushes its own products ahead of better deals offered by others."

Really now? Can you be that obtuse? It's to sell directly and make more profit than having a 3rd party sell an item.

Tl;Dr. Amazon prefers to return Amazon's stuff on top of searches. News at 11.
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You're implying that medium.com is more than a blogspam site in the first place.
...The difference is, Scheme's macro system (syntax-rules: there are others) is elegant and simple, whereas C++ templates are still an insane inconsistant hack. They're just a standard insane, inconsistant hack.

But the other thing about the Scheme macro system is that while its (relative) simplicity, elegance, safety, and power lead to its adoption by other languages (most famously, JS (in the form of an external preprocessor) and rust), it's actually quite underpowered by Lisp standards, and thus most implementations provide a nonstandard system for hygenic imperative macros, usually either er/ir macros, sc/rsc macros, or syntax-case. Of the three, I'd say syntax-case is an overly complex mess, and that the other two both have merits.

So since TMP is doing similar substitutions (AFAICT: I haven't done the deep dive) to syntax-rules, it's got very real, and relatively common, limits. And as C++ slowly expands in scope, it will have to deal with problems that syntax-rules has already solved (what if a function creates a lambda or takes a function pointer argument called ioctl, and your template expansion calls ioctl?), and TMP hasn't AFAICT.

And even when they fix all that, they'll still have C++, which is about as regular as the Linux Kernel relase schedule combined with The DevTeam's.
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how old are you and did you go through the American public school system? From 7th grade on up our lockers were randomly searched by police and K9 dogs walked through the school parking lot. I'm not saying they have no right to do that, but it was pretty routine for the police to be involved. My high school had less than 200 pupils.
The result still seems compelling to me. If I can reduce the risk of my child being killed in a car accident by 28% (even if the raw numbers are small) I'm going to do it.

I don't want to change the goal posts here, but death isn't the only thing these booster seats protect against. A properly used booster seat reduces the relative risk of non-fatal injury by more than half[1]. That is also extremely compelling to me.

[1]: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/mobile/article.aspx?articleid=19...
If you're not already aware of the character of the Islamic Republic and what its goals are then here's a start I guess:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12575423

and for example

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMIA_bombing
How is this "letter" has been winning so many "points"? There are no references to the real world, it could be any angry ex employee talking about any city with a relatively young startup ecosystem.
I concur.

I was disappointed in the propublica article since they usually do very good work.

Amazon always shows the option to see other sellers and even prompts you when there is a lower price that might not have prime shipping.

Most of the time I pay the more expensive price for the following reasons:

1) It is sold by amazon. I know I don't have to worry about the possible issues dealing with third party sellers.
2) The product arrives faster. As a prime member, most items are shipped 2 day. If I look at the other options they are usually 1 week or more out.
3) I trust amazon. This one is the irrational reason due to the fact I could probably save money by looking at a meta shopping engine or ebay. I have a long history as a prime member and trust their pricing and their customer service.

I do think you hit upon something with batching of orders. We rarely buy one off items and typically put things in our cart for an order a couple of times a month. Even then, Amazon offers full transparency. When you revisit your cart, Amazon shows you the price changes and offers to show you lower prices without prime.
I will usually pay a little more to have Amazon fulfill as well, but that is completely orthogonal to my desire for more transparent pricing from all merchants.

Yes there are options, but if sites can store billing information, they can store shipping preferences. They can pick a reasonable default.

In fact, they already have all the necessary information, you can tell by the way some online merchants will have a single price in bold, then below that in fine print +$x shipping + $x tax, like so:
http://imgur.com/krReEkz

They just don't have any interest in advertising more accurate (and thus higher) prices than their competitors.

They know the numbers, there's no reason to hide the final price here, except that the competitive market is forcing anti-consumer behavior.
I use Dropbox...I find search to be lacking. I would also prefer a system of tags instead of a folder structure.
It's actually rather difficult to fake interest in a conversation convincingly, at least in my personal experience. There's only so much nodding and murmured words of agreement one can do before people catch on.
I agree. To truly learn and appreciate programming, you have to be able to enjoy it, first and foremost, and, unlike, say, Pascal, Python or JavaScript, the languages like Java, C, and especially C++ make that extremely hard for a novice programmer. This is because before you even begin to appreciate the ideas based on which those languages were designed and the languages' sophisticated features, you need to face the problems that these languages are trying to solve, and that takes time and programming experience.

It may sound strange, but I find assembly to be an appropriate language to learn programming. Not only your focus will be on what you are doing rather than on the language itself, you will get a feeling of what is really going on, and you will quickly appreciate - and fully understand - the the reason why C is useful and that it is a good, well designed programming language. (In the same way, with enough experience using C, one comes to appreciate C++.)
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That study is cited in every debate about helmet use, yet it was barely scientific -- the researcher was his own test subject.

It would be interesting to see if the effect is reproducible under better experimental controls, such as analyzing video recordings from places where there is a lot of mixed car and bike traffic. Of course the analysis would have to be automated to avoid bias.

The data could then be combined with an estimate of the actual increase of crash risk correlated with passing distance, e.g., how many crashes are due to drivers passing too closely. What actual risk is being influenced here?

In my experience (anecdotal of course) of near-misses, the drivers were not aware of my presence at all, typically because they only look for what they expect to see. It's hard to imagine a mechanism in their brains, scanning for helmets but not cyclists.
I was part of the C++ teaching group on CS labs on my university back in 1999.

The majority of them surely were able to get shit done in C++ at the end of the semester.
Not sure how to feel about this, are there any laws that prevent minorities and women to become tech founders?
Just don't discriminate people and that should be enough.
As accepting only white males into certain programs would be considered racist, so is this IMO.
Pretty much exactly the point I was trying to make about RAII. Thanks for explaining better than I did :-).
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Alright, I should have said "homicide" or "murder". Dying of old age doesn't really count.

Also, homicides on home soil should be MORE publicized, because it has the potential for real-world impact on regular peoples lives (i.e. the people consuming this "news").

i.e. if I hear tons of soldiers are being murdered in Iraq, that really can't hurt me, today, and I don't need to change my life because of it.

In contrast, if I hear more than one person per day is being murdered in the city I live in, then that's possibly real impact to my life and that of my loved ones! I need to know that so I can make decisions based on that data. (i.e. if it went up to 10 per day, I'm getting the hell out)
Not all of us are Americans, and we have no problem leaving children alone in an apartment for an hour.
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This comment and many of your others are over the line with respect to the guidelines. The "think harder" part in particular.
That is GCC C, not ANSI C.
Hi-res PDF of that bay map: http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2000/of00-444/of00-444_8b.pdf
You should probably also not turn to someone heavily invested in Bitcoin, since they have a lot to lose...
It doesn't surprise me that Andreessen takes such an interest in Hollywood considering that VCs are today's talent agents. Betting on future stars, dealing with big egos, building businesses which promise their customers similar things (fame, wealth, respect)
I'm sure you do.
Gmail and other popular mail providers should implement something like this.

It would be a big step forward in spam fighting.
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I think you're equating collectivism with community, and the two aren't inextricably linked.

Collectivism is the philosophy that a central set of practices and behaviors be enforced across a group, placing the group's will (often via force-backed punishment) over individual beliefs and choices. That's quite a bit different that a close-knit community that features voluntary interaction for mutual benefit.

The latter form of true community is great, but in the US we're gravitating more and more toward forcing views about safety, security, and social behavior on others through criminalization of once ordinary personal choices.
The krebsonsecurity.com site was really pointed to 127.0.0.1 by its owner recently (see https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/779144394360381440), so it's probably just a DNS cache at Verizon which hasn't expired yet. Give it some time.
A wild claim without any source. The owner set the IP to localhost himself.

https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/779144394360381440
I took a quick read of the wiki article and it doesn't seem rare at all. Do you have counterfactuals to the wiki article and it's references?
I've noticed in the last couple of months that amazon will tag things as AMAZON CHOICE or BEST SELLER that Amazon doesn't sell itself.

For instance, if you search for mouse pad in the US you'll see the Amazon Choice is a third party product as is the Best Seller.

The Amazon Choice has this right under the price:

Note: Available at a lower price from other sellers, potentially without free Prime shipping.

When you click on it you see you can save $1.30 if you're willing to wait 3 weeks. To me, this is handled properly.
My operating system does not have networking.

The mouse or joystick or pad is called an "input pointer" IP
Huh? Exactly what century was this post written from exactly?
It's not Lisp, but OTOH, C++ doesn't need puzzles: Template Metaprogramming, as well as many other parts of the language, are already one. And god help you if multiple programmers on a project use different subsets of the language...
Protecting a journalists free speech is in line with the original do not evil motto. It's also great advertising for GCE capabilities around handling DDoS.
More often than not, it's not ISPs ignoring TTLs as you describe, it is an improperly configured SOA record. There's more TTLs you (as owner of domain) control involved in the caching of a record than just the TTL on an A/AAAA record.

As to your point about "propagation", argumentum ad populum applies.
You're still limited by physics, they will have horrible (borderline useless) low-light performance and limited resolution.
That's why you never initiate aggression, unless in fear of immediate harm - but if someone initiates it with you, be well prepared to drop them.
He is saying you cannot change gender norms. If you try, you will fail in your own life.
Really great point, I'm definitely sympathetic to that concern and don't want to allow "hidden taxes."

I think there's a risk though, I don't think people here realize how much the state is charging either, they just slide a card and never look at a receipt.

And in general, while I want people to know the price of taxes, if that comes at the cost of not knowing the price of goods, then I worry that cost is very steep. Government transparency is a priority for me, but price transparency a slightly higher one.

Maybe an ideal compromise here would be a bolded final price, with a breakdown of how much in tax and fees beside that, or broken out on any receipt.
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Looks great! Is it possible / in the works to port back to 2.x?
Maybe in the 21st century, the USA could be argued to be "good guys", but it's early in the century.

In the last 20th Century, the USA definitely weren't the "good guys", perhaps the "least bad" guys, but not good. They overthrew and helped overthrow a multitude of democratically elected and popular governments because they didn't suit the interests of the USA (which extends to not just the US govt, but also corporations, especially fruit companies).

Manifest dynasty and American Imperialism never died out at the end of the 19th century.

There is a reason why articles like this [0], this [1], and this [2] exist.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_United_S...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_authoritarian_regimes_...
C++ has less distinction though, and it's so huge that even Bjarne can't keep the whole language in his head. The net result is that many people use the low-level parts of the language for high-level work and vice-versa.
Pardon me, I guess this is sarcasm, but I do not get the reference/joke.
>"The problem is on the beltway behind closed doors"

I think you me "in" the Beltway. The Beltway is the actual highway that encircles Washington, D.C.
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> There's an obvious contradiction: How do we (Hacker News readers at least) agree that this is crazy but society keeps doing craziness like "arresting a mom for letting her kids, 8 and 9, wait at the condo for an hour".

Because HN isn't a statistically representative sample of society as a whole.
I'm not dull, but the vast majority of the people in my industry are.

Pokemon Go does not count as a hobby, btw.
To connect the conversation to David Brin, futurologist, philosopher, and author, this sounds an awful like the crystal spheres in Existence.
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While in this case I was wrong, DNS poisoning is certainly not out of the realm of what Verizon will do, and when a site resolves properly on one ISP and not another, I don't think it's a "wild claim" to assume that it's the ISP's fault.
Me neither - I just assumed it was one of the MGTOW crazies.
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A sad day in the history of Switzerland. Especially in times of Snowden and mass surveillance revelations.
> not taken seriously by tv audience

last time I checked, most people still think they are legit in France.
There is a missing bracket in there somewhere and the bit of my brain that does lexical parsing forced me to eventually abort processing.
Source and direction would be killer features.

Imagine holter monitors that can sit beside your bed as you sleep (tossing and turning), instead of wearing them, or instant continuous ECG data during triage.

Many heart attacks are misdiagnosed (especially in women) and instant continuous ECG readings (possibly from multiple people at once) would be incredible!
A good exercise program is well-known to improve how good and confident you feel about yourself. Eating healthy, making personal care a priority all have a good effect.
How good and confident you feel about yourself is not immutable -- even clinically depressed people benefit from exercise (note I didn't say cured, but I said benefit -- and that is scientifically proven). Having a schedule that includes and prioritizes the steps you can take to improve your sense of well-being is a very good strategy. These things don't work in one day, obviously, but over time the effects are huge.