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We need to stop thinking of the government and corporations as distinctly separate.

Officials from government own stocks in corporations, serve on their boards, and often get cushy jobs in the very corporations they "regulated" or acquired government contracts for when they retire from "public service".

Corporate executives also demonstrate their selfless commitment to the public good by going to work for the government and regulate their former employers.

Corporations are taxed and that tax money flows from the government back to corporations. Corporations spend millions lobbying, bribing, and electing government officials to enact laws and contracts favorable to them. Often it's the same people who govern both corporations and the government, and profit from both.

They have their hands in each other's pockets and scratch each other's backs.
Seems like it's oriented toward lobbying and keeping AI from being regulated.
why do you use the word faste? Does it mean something different from the usual word related to not eating, "fast"?
I don't want to sound pragmatic, but I will consider the driverless car successful if we get it working in places like Kansas or eastern Colorado, and completely ignore highly unpredictable, densely populated urban areas.

If you are taking a long trip, or hauling freight, then I'd rather get out on the open road, turn on the AutoPilot and take a nap, or do something more productive with my time.
You could approximate what would happen by summing the medals won by all EU countries, and comparing it with a hypothetical team composed of the top N (3?) EU athletes per event.

You might find http://www.medalspercapita.com/ interesting.
Is it easy to get a job in Switzerland as developer + EU citizen? Is it likely to change because of immigration regulations?
Interesting article. However, the title is somewhat misleading, since the article makes clear that the murder rate for humans varies enormously according to social circumstances.
> In the case of Yahoo, I still hold the hypothesis that they underestimated the (Negative feedback on a breakdown in security)

Yahoo's stock is up (+53% since February, with a small dip in late June). Where is the miscalculation?

Volkswagen is back to positive sales growth, and their stock has recovered 50% since their discovery last September. Their calculation was correct, too.
They are already incorporating "unwritten rules" of driving into self-driving cars; things like rolling forward early at a 4-way stop to keep your place in line.

Boston is one of the worst cities to drive in (IMO much of Rhode Island is worse though). The "Boston Left" (also heard it called "Mass. left") is particularly jarring to non-locals.
>shows that dietary fats and dietary cholesterol barely make any sort of impact on the subject's cholesterol.

>Rather it is dietary carbohydrates and genetics which are the primary contributor to raised cholesterol and arterial blockage.
So what about APOE4 individuals, which compose at least 20% of the population, who will see massively spiking LDL with higher saturated fat intake?

Yes, it's based on genetics, but also intrinsically tied to dietary (saturated) fat intake.
> Apple can't figure out that I don't want to say 'ducking' after hundreds of times of dismissing it with their keyboard.

Or they can predict, but don't because it's a swear word and it's a product decision.

Apple's historical secrecy does hurt them here. However, they have taken the stance to not slurp everything up and pack it off to the mothership like Google, which I understand has led to some interesting work on resource constrained models (since it has to run on your device) and data anonymization.
Interestedly, North Dakota per capita Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of 66,507 while New York (not NYC) had 63,929 while Mississippi was dead last (for US States) at 31,894.

NYC itself has got to have a pretty high value given DC is 160,563.

I think its a bit problematic for a very different reason, North Dakota is mostly exporting raw materials (crops and oil) where NYC is services. I'm not sure people really get how the system fits together. To me, the friction points (borders, regulations, shipping, etc.) are the dividers. Not sure how one weighs how much those add to get regions.
how much wine do you drink (if you dont mind me asking)

your basically saying you follow a low carb diet but drink alcohol and that is you main source of crabs right?
The Effect of State Marijuana Legalizations
Manpages can have a rather large amount of interactivity. Documents can be formatted as text, as HTML, with links, etc. The problem is that manpages are an afterthought in too much of the Linux ecosystem, so people have low expectations and low beliefs in what they can actually do. They can have tables, they can have equations, they can have graphics.
> You don't need to increase police activity at all. Police just need to care and process evidence provided by autonomous vehicle companies (or, hell, by citizens).

We can give them (especially the rural and small-town ones) one hell of an incentive by banning speed limit enforcement, or at least confiscating all revenue from speeding tickets, while leaving enforcement of other infractions unencumbered.
> proved to be absolutely false

I'm perfectly willing to be shown that I'm wrong, but I'll need more than just a sentence from you saying so.

You said "proved" - can you show me the proof?
there is no "minor XSS"... it either was XSS or it wasn't. and just because XSS couldn't directly leak any info doesn't mean it couldn't be used on a bigger scale to leak all the same info from individual users who had access to subsets of data that could be aggregated.

you're all idiots.
That's not always true, you don't need to have two full copies of the library at all times. See Geoff Collyer's explanation here: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/dynamic-linking/ (but note that the memory use that he cites may not be that relevant).

I am also not convinced that this is a significant impediment for all workloads. For a lot of applications, the time wasted due to inefficient cache use is a fraction of the time spent waiting for stuff to be delivered over the network.
Not to me, but perhaps in Capitol Hill it is and that's what the parent meant.
Is hot reloading that big of a problem?
> It's literally replacing a function call with an RPC call.

Until you want to make five function calls, in a transactional manner.

Architecting correct transaction semantics in a monolithic application is often much easier then doing so across five microservices.
For many many years, the number one reason people told me why they used apple products was privacy and that with apple I'm not a product. It's how they could justify paying the high premium for apple products.

It would be very interesting if they get into the advertising business. Harvesting data about my usage it and using that data to charge more for ads that are well targeted.

It would mean that in addition to apple selling a product at a premium, the users would also become a product.

Combine this with things like the disappearing head phone jack, and apple is becoming actively hostile towards its users.
Actually that sounds like some shade tossed on this endevour. i.e. They were either not asked, or had to pony up money that only a multibillion dollar megacorp could part with.
Many Apple customers discover an issue with their devices just after the eligibility period for repairs (typically three years) expires.
I am curious. Does anyone know someone who has tried this on themselves yet?
Congrats, Rosie, always nice to hear about these 6 year "overnight success" stories.
> It is really just more of an observation.

Or maybe some instruction into how to assemble the organization.
All you have to do is type "fucking" ONCE, then tap the word "fucking" in quotes, on the left-hand side of the suggestions/corrections bar, and the word is learned as an acceptable dictionary word. Permanently. Forever. And that persists when you change devices.

Anyone feigning ignorance of this feature at this point just isn't trying very hard.
Agreed. I stopped clicking on TC links long ago.
Link to previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11355976
Same has happened to me twice, although I'm pretty sure the mailman is scanning items as delivered in order to make a quota and then waiting until the next day to deliver them.
That explains how "fuckery" ended up in my dictionary
My guess: December.
Probably the articles you've read and evangelists you've listened to were biased but it would seem your believe system is jaded by the fact that the one person you think would be suited to pair programming is what you'd call a mediocre programmer. That's fine, but don't you think that is a little closed minded? You're evectively saying that you think the majority of pair programmers are just mediocre and aren't trying hard enough to solve problems on their own.

Forgetting the social side of things and forgetting the typing or the bugs, you must be be able to agree that two heads on one problem is better than one? Having another person to brainstorm some solutions to a problem with is faster and often gets a better solution that either of you would come up with alone?
Cheese contains huge quantities of fat and protein, both of which are nutrients that I want to eat. What on earth do you mean by "without substantial nutritional value"? Are you of the impression that calories are bad? Listen, my doctor says that if I don't get at least a thousand calories a day, I might die.
Well, GKH is One Of Them. He's less likely to attract their ire, and if he does, at the end of the day, they have to answer to him.

But in a fight between GKH and T'so, I'll take T'so. /dev/random's ...interesting design aside, I frankly trust T'so far more than I trust GKH, who backs LP, a person I emphatically do not trust, in a lot of things.
Transfer pricing is not 'tax evasion' - it's 'tax avoidance'.

To be clear, 'tax evasion' is illegal.

Most companies do what they can to avoid paying taxes, which is rational in some ways, but they usually don't do anything illegal.

It's important that we don't mix the two :)
I lived in Los Angeles for more than five years before accidentally seeing the Hollywood sign. (The Vasa is much better.)
Because many people don't feel comfortable with having a legal gun pointing to the neck of their frontend or mobile platform.
Hydrogen is a nightmare to work with, and store. Other high energy-density chemicals tend to be complex hydrocarbons... So you're still burning oil - it just happens to be made from coal, or algae slush, or whatnot.
Don't Hide DRM in a Security Update
I also think that it's a great excerpt. We often overlook the processes that lead to an event.
Cooperative behavior is the best for throughput, however it can lead to deadlocks. Competitive behavior slows overall throughput, but helps eliminate deadlocks in the system.
Why the Warrant to Hack in the Playpen Case Was an Unconstitutional Warrant
Not a dumb question at all. Actually a very fundamental question.
...and that still doesn't make it a POC.
AT&T Sues Nashville to Keep Google Fiber at Bay
Good, there's enough fear mongering about it when we don't even know where to start when it comes to building an AGI.
> I have thought about making a better, smarter, bigger mailbox. A mailbox that would be more secure.

Like this? http://www.steelmailbox.com/html/dvault.html

> Say if you could buy a mailbox that would scan your mail, and alert you you through an email? A larger mailbox you could lock remotely after recept of a important delivery.

All that technology-stuff seems like extra complexity for little value. Why lock it remotely when you could design it with a one-way door and regular key lock and have it locked all the time? What use are the email notifications/scans of the outside of the items if you can't do anything until you're at home anyway? There might be a small amount of benefit to being notified if the mailbox has items in it to retrieve, but I'm not sure if it's enough to justify the cost and complexity of the feature.
> To reverse the gov must buy the bond back with money from general taxation, on doing so the bond is redeemed and destroyed, and the central bank erases the money it received back in tandem with the bond.

Which is never going to happen. (at least in this political system) Currently Western governments can barely keep things running by increasing their debt at an almost exponential rate.
Risk versus technological change is a dynamical system, yet many of the sky-is-falling estimates for the insurance industry myopically forecast assuming an invariant risk set-point.

For an alternate perspective of a potential (lucrative) future for insurance, see my post here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12245312
IMHO ethics will effectively be the defining characteristic of AI in the future. The companies who innovate AI, however, will probably never mention it except as marketing copy.

That leaves literally everyone else holding the bag in regards to judging the industries actions and holding it accountable for transgressions. I'm not sure how that will work out, but I'm not terribly hopeful...
My company pays for an annual external audit, and I do most of the negotiations.

About half the companies don't want the audit results going anywhere else. About half are OK with distribution under NDA. In between, there are companies which will negotiate the right to distribute, usually with an explicit indemnity clause, and on the far end are a minority of companies that tell you that the results are work for hire and entirely your prerogative.

The major concern is that the customer will misrepresent the results in some way, or even represent them accurately but then change the underlying service to open up a vulnerability. Either way, nobody really wants to be in the news...
A quick google search results in multiple well cited articles discussing it.
I suspect a lot of substances we now know to be edible were first tested on prisoners.
That's a really good question and part of it is that this shit is super hard and takes forever and it's totally binary: it works or it doesn't and you spend a lot of time in the "doesn't" and that is soul-crushing for anyone. So there's that barrier to cross, haha. But I think you're asking more about what decisions as we designed/planned our mesh network topology has enabled us to do this.... and I think it's because we started by focusing on an MVP and then became philosophically attached to that MVP in the long-term for different reasons beyond just being a practical place to start.

What that meant for us is we decided to focus specifically on burst data. As a result our hardware can be lighter/smaller/less expensive and our networking protocols can scale to do things that other mesh projects have failed at.

For goTenna/goTenna Mesh, not doing real-time high-bandwidth media transmissions is a feature not a bug. Plus, focusing on packetized burst data transmissions doesn't preclude us from even sending a whole Netflix show over goTenna if we wanted to, because you could technically send a video over in lots of small packets and reconstruct it at the other end. Everything, after all, are 1's and 0's. (BTW with our SDK you can do that if you'd like! We're still gonna be focused on text & GPS in our own apps for now - for both goTenna v1 and goTenna Mesh).

Because we didn't have the choice of working on beautiful licensed spectrum used by limited users and less subject to regulations by government. We always had to by definition design goTenna (and now goTenna Mesh) to work on public spectrum which is a scarce and shared resource with potentially unlimited users and regulations that we have to fit into.

TL;DR: Focusing on burst data has been a really great way of scaling our technology from the first intelligent protocols that power v1 (which we call Aspen Prime) and goTenna Mesh (Aspen Grove).

Also perseverance. And naivete probably helped too because it's easier to get into something difficult when you have no clue how hard it's gonna be. We've learned a lot along the way since our first working prototypes in early 2013.

(Sorry if I sound barely coherent right now; I haven't slept in a few days leading up to goTenna Mesh launch!)
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Google has a significant presence, though my understanding is it's mostly sales.

Chicago has a well-diversified economy, so it's not dominated by any one industry or company. There are a ton of bigcorp jobs, but they're more likely to be for companies like Hyatt, Walgreens, McDonalds, United, Allstate, etc. Legal and finance (particularly quantitative & algorithmic trading) are big as well.
Historically, Apple is known to focus more on hardware than software. Hence, failures in maps, search and other aspects compared to Google.
Which they pretty much have to - what happens if you drop your phone and break it?
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I was on an ABA panel discussion once that debated whether lawyers should contribute to Wikipedia. The irony is that while lawyers use wikipedia for all sorts of things, experienced lawyers rarely contribute. (Wikipedia's legal pages are full of inaccuracies inserted by well-meaning but naive law students.) The thought was to have certain articles written and maintained by lawyers, or an ABA committee, with perhaps an ABA logo attached. The problem was that as soon as anyone else makes an edit, that badge of respectability is meaningless. An article curated by an expert also runs contrary to the purpose of a wiki.

I would caution against many of these articles so dominated by a single person. They may be great. They may be 100% accurate and full of lots of interesting detail, but they do not necessarily have a broad base to support their upkeep once that one person moves on. I've also seen some rather messy arguments where the original author takes subsequent edits very personally. There is advantage to not allowing one person or group to become too attached to a particular article.
Hustles are all about commitment, and one of the ways you can tell you're being hustled is when your side has to establish its decisionmaking ASAP while their decision process then can take however long they feel like.
Idealized Commit Logs: Code Simplification via Program Slicing – Alan Shreve
>They aren't even released yet. You've never tried them. You have no idea whatsoever.

This is a funny assertion.

I've used a microphone before, I've used headphones before, and I've used Siri before.

Call me brazen but I believe I can imagine the advanced world that will exist post Apple wireless earbuds, dual beaming microphones and all.

You seem really impassioned about for a product that you also haven't used and the media has generally laughed at and dismissed.

You also didn't actually respond to my main point about them, that Siri never delivered on its value proposition. If it had, it might be considered a great product.
Out of genuine curiosity, could you link me to an existing guide from the Linux community that is based on manpages and features images and/or other interactive content?
When all of your nodes are immutable and stateless, you have a really tough time doing logging, new account signup, and storing any information at all on behalf of your customers.

So not all of the nodes can be immutable and stateless.
By the same token, show me the computer that beat Lee Sedol find food, avoid poison and predators, seek a mate, etc. We're not bad at creating highly specialized AI, we seem to suck at creating competent generalists.
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You could have made the effort of reading his messages in this very sub-thread before answering. Not that I agree with him, but he has his 'vision' too.
Except that it works on Linux and Mac.
search for ".ach" or "nacha"... find the directory for queued transactions... alter them to transfer money to a different account at a different bank... cash out money from the other account. drink mai tais all day at the beach.
>>Human drivers aren't exactly great at handling edge cases either, but they certainly handle them better than the computers do at the moment and for the near future.

Citation needed.
>There is also no mechanism for figuring out whether you have all the existing blocks, meaning any blockchain based timeserver could still be tricked into reporting an earlier date by preventing him from receiving the newest blocks.

I feel like what I was hinting at wouldn't quite work like this, but rather a timeserver in this system would do something like take an average of past block times, compare that with cpu time, and derive a best guess at the current time- obviously there is variance from block to block, but statistically might tend towards an accurate representation of time.

Similarly, you could set your client to only update if 80-90% of the blockchain running servers agreed on the time.
If Homer was the smarter, calmer, saner parent most of the time and Marge was the dumber, short-tempered, crazy parent most of the time, The Simpsons would get slammed for attacking women. Same if Bart was the smart, obedient, respectful child and Lisa that less smart, rebellious child.

Similar if Lenny and Carl's roles were reversed. The Simpsons would be slammed for making the black guy the dumber one.

It's simply safer to make it so white (well, yellow in The Simpsons universe...) males are the ones who are dumb, impulsive, try out hare-brained schemes, and so on, and since it is out of those things that most of the comedy arises, those characters are going to get the most words.
So...perhaps the author of this marginalia is questioning whether cheese thinks (or is alive in some sense), rather than whether making cheese is a rational pursuit? The next one "Is cheese animal, and do we eat it alive?" makes me think it's much more likely the former than the latter.

That would be an interesting question, and maybe illuminating of the general knowledge about microscopic processes back then. Some cheese, of course, has bacterial cultures involved in the making of, and so some cheese is alive, by some definition. In the usual case, though, I guess it is adding acid to milk/cream and letting it coagulate into curds and then pressing it; so the answer is probably mostly no, if we assume a relatively clean environment for making and storing the cheese. But, perhaps the writer of the marginalia is wondering if it is a process like making beer, or other fermentation that is actually using live cultures (I don't know how well the "liveness" of yeast and other cultures was understood back then; though I suspect they understood it better than the average modern non-baker/non-brewer, since so many people made their own bread and beer).
Even Netflix, the poster child for this style of managing systems, allows engineers to SSH in to machines. In fact, their system and Facebook's system for performing SSH auth were discussed on HN recently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11746425
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12482212
You just "pied pipered" it :)