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let's unpack the unpack.

> Wireless infrastructure is immature and [the government can't spend].

The exact same thing could be said for the computer industry in the 40s and 50s, which was almost entirely funded by the government, precisely because only it could spend enough money for big risk long term stuff. Ditto the internet itself. Ditto the airplane. Therefore there is ample evidence that the government can spend, and spend big, on strategic stuff, and there is ample evidence that, over decades, it pays off bigtime.

> capital expenses are high, recoup etc

That's why you want the government in, because it has a much longer investment recoup horizon, and the government, unlike private networks, benefits from the general indirect economic growth advantages of good mobile infrastructure. That's precisely why it is the government that builds roads, often at a project-specific NPV loss, but at a huge NPV positive for the economy, which it taxes. In other words, only the government is able to capture the collateral positives of good infrastructure, giving it a higher incentive to spend more than private companies.

> competitive cycle rinse repeat etc

Quarterly targets are a strong disincentive to long term capital intensive projects. Most such projects undertaken by the private sector have, at a minimum, government concessions to allow restriction of competition, pricing guarantees, or outright government financial support. Notice the whole thing where municipalities cannot expand their internet service? There you go.

In general the whole dogma that the government is always useless at everything, is very pre-2008, ie. dangerously incorrect.
Thanks for the comment, it explains why I see so much Red Pill negativity and poor connotations. I figured it was irrational assumptions from the other side of the aisle.
Apple sent out invitations for a new Mac announcement on October 27
Couldn't that refer to buyers of their customers vs the actual customer count?
Instead of paying fines they should refund their customers for things like that.
"manure has been spread"

Are you doing organic farming? Just asking out of interest.
This whole article is about how the "best seller" chargers and cables are fakes that can burn your house down and destroy your electronics. I just checked and the 2nd best selling item in laptop chargers category is a fake Macbook charger.
your point is valid... however i think its going to get into the same feedback loop as regular movie studios. fundamentally even if you have 100 million to make 5 films, you really cant afford a 20 million dollar flop. As long as your a rational actor your going to start chasing hits and trying to minimize flops by 'standardizing' your films.

The fundamental problem is in my opinion we want folks with millions on the line to not act like rational actors but instead do it 'for the art'... this will happen from time to time but will not really be the norm i think.
If we don't finally see a foldable/detachable/touch screen this time I'm selling my Apple stock for good.
Exactly this. Our second daughter has had so many cuts and bruises because we couldn't be all over her when looking after the first one in her terrible twos - and that way she's a much more relaxed and courageous child FWIW. I guess after the third you're happy when none of the kamikaze kids have any serious injuries at the end of the day.

Having more than one child changes you in a very interesting way - you get a little more relaxed. Parents of only children IMHO are much more prone to getting helicopter parents.
I think this article touches on a very interesting philosophical paradox of human nature. It's hard to state pithily, but I'll try. We're all slaves to something or someone (Bob Dylan's "Gotta Serve Somebody" comes to mind). There's no way to escape that... a well-functioning society is made up of laborers serving other people (if you disagree, you haven't made any money). So in a sense "freedom" comes from voluntary service.
Depending on the configuration logging can also hide race conditions, since the OS usually synchronizes access to file handles and such.
The MBA's think they are out smarting their customers. Maybe customers will run towards the simple truth?

Although, I'm still shocked when I hear people are still paying $70/month for cell/data coverage.

I only know of one company that attempts to tell the truth, and not bury it in pages of TOS, but I haven't jumped in yet.
For everyday life stuff, I agree. Even in school I never wrote down test dates, or what I had to work on. For projects at work, kind of impossible to remember every little tick box to check off.
I would think that cuts both ways. SiftScience only needs to have a few big retail clients and they'll be doing a huge volume. More to the point I would think Stripe's strength here is their weakness....they're only as good as the users they have on Stripe vs Sift which might have a broader mix of datasets. Of course, as Stripe continues to grow that weakness will diminish.
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Well you can always just move to a small town where the rent is cheap.

Oh wait, there's no decent-paying jobs there...
Not obviously. If we're going to quibble over details, we might as well do it properly. The astro- root can also translate as a non-stellar celestial body, since at the time the word meaning was established, the planets were considered "wanderer" stars. Also, asteroids are not stars, but bear a related etymological root.

Cosmos, on the other hand, derives from the entire universe. Obviously, the universe surrounds us completely, but if you're willing to call someone in LEO a cosmonaut, I'm not certain you couldn't say the same about someone driving a car on the planet's surface to the grocery store to buy milk. Both are traveling through the cosmos. Where's the cutoff? Earth escape velocity? Solar escape velocity? Galactic escape velocity? People in LEO just aren't going fast enough.

I have no qualms about calling the flight personnel of the Apollo program "astronauts", as their goal was to reach another celestial body, even if it was not literally a star, and several of them actually made it there. "Selenauts" would also have been appropriate.

But since 1972, we have only been sending humans as far as LEO. Maybe "lacunauts" would be better for those in space, but not traveling to other celestial bodies?
More evidence from the leaks: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/wikileaks-10-most-damning-c...
It seems like it might be counter productive to widely publicize this. They might have law/contract on their side but Sprint certainly has much deeper pockets.
On your designs, is it just that the user reviews some comps or is it something they can interact with (e.g. InVision)?

In my experience, a lot of issues around a design doesn't actually come out until someone uses it.

The other side is that one reason why code reviews work is that a developer who reviews the code has incentive to pay attention as a bug introduced here may be something they have to fix later. A few minutes now might save a few hours down the line. If your design is only being reviewed by product people and a huge problem is missed, it isn't the reviewer who has to fix it.
Tasks can be saved to a GitHub gist. This works well across multiple computers if you're not using the app on two computers at the same time.
There's no server here, GitHub API is called directly from the application.
That concern requires pretending (against all evidence) the Chinese haven't thoroughly penetrated US defense contractors' networks and personnel. http://www.reuters.com/article/usa-fighter-hacking-idUSL2N0E...

We managed to cooperate with Russia, too.

> Space is too important for nationalist dick-measuring contests in LEO...

I posit that's exactly what the policy forbidding China from collaborating with NASA is.
We'd have to stop linking to most online journalism if we did that.
And no git command lets you change what public history looks like unless you --force the push.

So the check is in a different place. That doesn't seem to me to imply that Mercurial's history is "immutable" and git's is "mutable", especially since those words have precise meanings, and even WITH the --force, git doesn't change anything in the history, it just writes out a new history and updates the branch ref to point to the new history.

The only thing mutated (in both systems) is the ref to the branch head, right? So aside from warnings and errors being in different places (both before publish time), what is the difference between the two that leads you to argue that one is immutable and one isn't?
Ask HN: What are some good examples for large forms broken down elegantly
I am currently working on a startup in a legal/compliance niche, and need to take users through a process to file a report, which requires inputting ~40 fields of information.

What are some good examples/techniques applied to simplifying large/complex processes to make them user friendly and less daunting for the users?
Because with higher speeds, it returns to idle faster.

2G is also far less power efficient per byte.

The most efficient phone using today's technology would be a category 10 or higher LTE modem /w no 2/3G modems at all. Radio is on for a very short time, then switches back off.
The question is a bit more complicated than just belittling someone's disorder.

Wurtzel wrote Prozac Nation, which was nominally an account of her own depression and a broader reflection what personal struggles with depression look like in America. It was widely seen as revealing but unpleasantly self-indulgent and unreflective of common experiences with depression.

That might clarify why DFW, struggling with depression himself, was rather less than kind to Wurtzel and her book. Narcissism is something to sympathize with, certainly, but seeing a popular book portray narcissism and a rather entitled life as representative of depression put a lot of people's hackles up. The context, and the move from "disorder" to "book about having a different disorder", are vital.

None of which is a simple endorsement of DFW, but it's at least worthwhile context for the piece.
ATT also has data caps (now 1TB and $10 per 150GB), compared with the cable companies (in my area) and google which don't. That doesn't seem to stop about 1/2 of my neighbors from using them though (you can usually tell those people because they leave the default ATT SSIDs on their wifi APs).

Once a year or so, it seems they hire some kids to come through the neighborhood selling service door to door. Every time I ask them, do you still have caps? Usually they stare at me blankly, but I then politely tell them I'm not even going to consider their service as long as I'm going to have to worry about a internet bill that could be larger in a single month than what I pay all year for my cable subscription (which literally got 10x better within a couple months of google announcing they were going to target my city).
> I'm critical of all wisdom sayings.

Wisdom is knowing which saying applies to the situation.

"Many hands make light work" but "too many cooks spoil the soup".
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[flagged] doesn't mean you can't keep discussing; that's what [dead] means.

I'm happy to keep discussing, because I appreciate your concern for the integrity of the content here. However, I'm having trouble following what your last comment is saying.
Where did you find a bike that fit a two year old? I have a balance bike for my kid but he can't stand over it yet
The primaries in the US, while conceptually similar, is very different because the French two round system is intended to allow other parties by letting you test the waters first.

Incidentally, I wasn't even allowed to vote for the primaries in my state since it requires me to register as a member of the party six months prior.
> If you could increase the odds of winning a game by 5% using a million bucks of IBM 7094 mainframes and a million LoC in COBOL then gramps would have done it and made a profit to boot and maybe you can make a couple dimes by modernizing the hardware, but I assure you the algorithms and constraints are baked into the business logic cake and the win/loss percentage won't change.

"Moneyball" demonstrates that your assumption is incorrect.

In addition, you have to collect data, first, before you can analyze it. The limitation blocking "Moneyball" from happening was the fact that the statistics didn't exist for a long time.

Several of my friends were among the people who originally helped Bill James by scoring all the games they went to and then sending the papers in the mail.

Sometimes, something really does require "one clever person" in order to put it all together.
Then in the important thing to think of is, would you want your kid to be the few that did not survive. I agree you need to give kids freedom and all that, but I can't blame parents for trying their best to not put their kids in harm that can be avoided.
I think the "golden age" of online fraud is coming to an end quickly. I've posted quite heavily on Stripe and fraud threads on HN previously if you want to read my comment history.

This is a big step for Stripe. I've often asked why they didn't have an integration with MaxMind or SiftScience already set up. They've been building their own behind-the-scenes the entire time! This feature is fantastic if you are a merchant and want to avoid fraud.

To me, the more interesting side of online credit card fraud is the merchant/payment processor side. Stripe has a cult-like following in the fraud world because it's known as the the easiest target. They make it so easy to sign up and process transactions compared to other services like Authorize.net/BrainTree/etc. They've shed this label recently, in part because the biggest forum thread discussing it was closed. The other reason was because it became so much more difficult. With this release, I think it's simply because they could identify accounts with high numbers of suspected fraudulent transactions. All the fraudsters were used to just signing up, running charges on their webstore with sock5, and waiting 2 days for bank transfers. Now Stripe can identify those transactions well in advance and assign each account a risk score. Previously, Stripe had to identify the account risk by sales volume, chargebacks, bank account provider, sign up IP, and every one's favourite privacy invader IESnare.

Fraudster's have one last shining hope against Stripe. Passing their card data to Stripe via API, instead of Stripe.JS/Checkout. Radar only works with Stripe.JS/Checkout. Setting up your own web server to pass card information prevents them from ever seeing any IP address except the web server. All you have to do to get them to be okay with this is to turn over a PCI self-compliance form. Rumour on the internet has it that there's a pre-built web application specifically for charging Stripe accounts via API.

I'm still looking for a job in fraud prevention friends at Stripe :D
Universities are composed of colleges in USA. You seem to have more of a 'Canadian' definition, where college means something like "community college" in USA.
I agree about C needing memory management and exceptions. That's why I said I liked C++ when that's all there was. Classes were nice sumyntactic sugar.

But the language jumped the shark starting with C++0x
Nice work!

I built something similar a few years ago: https://hollyapp.com/
MIT has a swim test requirement for to 21-year-old students to graduate in order to prevent children from drowning? Am I parsing your sentence correctly?
"Natural" isn't a regulated word, as far as I know.
Yep. I had a friend who worked the Super Bowl, his only job was to detect and locate (and handle) rogue sources of RF energy.
The word hate is no longer useful, because it's become a shorthand pejorative to be wielded by the Left. Don't like Obama, you hate black people, don't like Hillary you hate women, etc.
And if you have more children, the prospect of losing one is less daunting, so we don't need to spent ever-increasing sums to eliminate risk.

RAID is not just for computers...
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It's probably different to different people, but I'm having trouble with old movies for a similar reason - they feel too slow to me. The plot doesn't develop fast enough; sometimes I actually can't make heads or tails of it, because some events are spaced out in a way that breaks the casual relationship in my mind.

The what it differs from what you described is that I don't mind active, decision-rich entertainment. I love video games. I just have too short of an attention span to really enjoy old, slow-paced movies :/.
Cool. It looks like they have 500-1000 Android installs. As context, Expensify has over 1M Android installs, and over 4M total users. So I think Bedrock is probably operating 4-5 orders of magnitude more activity, at least in this case.
There website throws a lot of jargon at me but fails (at least I couldn't find it) to tell me how I would run an application on the decentralised compute :(
Apple’s holding a Mac event on October 27th: “hello again”
One thing which really frustrates and surprises me is that techology should be helping to free children, not constraining them.

Parents universally have cell phones and many kids do as well these days. These should be a huge enabler for freedom—if something happens while you're roaming or home alone, you can easily call a parent. It seems unequivocally safer to leave children alone today than it was 20-30 years ago.

This isn't even including the fact that crime rates are substantially lower today. It's really hard to find any empirical justification for the tide of over-protective parenting.
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I've read Infinite Jest three times -- the second reading being immediately after the first, of course, since the narrative is circular and the first part makes full sense only when you cruise into it from the last bits. I read it for the third time this year due to all of the 20th anniversary publicity and enjoyed it even more.

Other kilo-page doorstop-sized single narratives that I've read and recommend include Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon, Wm. Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. (The world is also full of good single narratives that span multiple thick volumes, of course.)
> below replacement in some places

And in other places, the total fertility rate is over 8x.

> Global population is expected to peak then decline

ORLY, "expected" by whom? Is it the same people who expected mosquitoes to be extinct by the end of the 20th century because people don't ride horses anymore?
> maybe in 50 years do we reach the stage where an individual life is not this gospel thing but a pragmatic one

This was most of human history until recently. Disease, famine, war, and general lack of control over our environment and each other.
How did this get past all the safety testing? Oh wait.. thats right.. It says "supplements" which means its not regulated so that testing is required. Enjoy the liver injuries!
When I was told that Skittles were not sold in the high school vending machines any longer and that a bottle of vanilla in your children's bedroom was another sign I knew Parenting was just like my career -if I didn't keep up on the latest I would fall behind.

Parenting is like version control and awareness.
Not to detract from your overall argument, but dinging The Pale King for not getting anywhere is a bit unfair, what with him dying before completing it.
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>Just trim down the first 2 paragraphs and the last one and you will filter out the noise without any lose of the actual signal.

No. It's not the readers' responsibility to approach an article and then have explicitly filter out the casual outrage-baiting and thinly veiled, poorly informed political advocacy which is par for the course in most online media. If they want us to read their articles, they can damn well not insult our intelligence in the process. Until then, there's plenty of other things to read.
You can hide a lot behind the (perfectly valid) "tolerance does not include tolerance of intolerance" idea.
The risk of your child abduction is very, very, very high in America these days. All you have to do is read news stories about what happens when parents let their kids go somewhere without supervision: the cops are called, CPS is called, and the kids are seized (or threatened to be seized).

Yes, there is a huge danger of your children being abducted, if you are not a helicopter parent. It's not some shadowy molester however, it's the government which will abduct your child.
I think what Mercurial brings here is that even if you have a repo and you do a force-push you keep all the heads. Thus it's almost like a history of changes.

I think if you do a code-review and you get the final state of the repo to check, you can nicely tell how it was evolved/squashed/re-ordered.

I find that workflow much more useful than just rewriting history like in git (i know about reflog)
hmm.. did you build a backtester that runs every time you test a rule ?
Not a bad idea, but this isn't a thing browsers currently do, and the average person can't do that with ease. Especially considering this web app is aimed at non-tech savvy individuals.
Even if an artist doesn't finance production, you can still show up at the record company with a demo tape and a fan following. There is also a long history of artists starting their own studios and record labels.
Traditionally the way that carriers deal with bandwidth congestion is to wait until people start screaming (and networks start breaking) before they invest in innovation. There are a bunch of technologies that could ease congestion and deliver significantly better wireless performance but they would require an investment that doesn't make sense for carriers (it's not like carriers can extract more money from you if the network is better...).

That is to say, subscriber ARPU does not increase with network investment, so why invest in the network until it becomes a drag on subscriber growth?

Source: I was a manager at ATT when the network in San Francisco basically died with the introduction of the iPhone 3G. It stayed that way until ATT added new towers and upgraded the software on the towers for better spectrum utilization.
Well, when a person says "I don't give a damn about diversity" - for me it's far from "hate speech". Or when Trump insults some journalist, it's stupid and childish, but it's just an insult, not hate speech. And the fact that the journalist is a woman, doesn't make him "sexist".

My definition of hate speech is when Trump says "hey, {black people,white people,men,women,gays} are garbage, they shouldn't have rights, and I don't want them to exist".

Does he say that?
Maybe we should promote homeopathy more, because at the very least that's only distilled water that doesn't do anything. Would be pretty funny to see a government supply of free homeopathic medicines. I imagine the placebo effect would have a very real impact in reducing medical expenses nation-wide.
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Worst part is that most sellers are labelling themselves as whoever they like. You will find several cables with sub heading "by Apple" only to find out in fine print that it is some Chinese company faking it. There is no concept of "verified dealer" on Amazon. You can basically put up an underwear on Amazon and say its "by Apple". One reason GoPro is down is because tons of knock off directly sold by Chinese firms at fraction price and which clearly undermines all their investment and effort in design.

http://imgur.com/a/sZxIZ
What's this about horses? Google isn't finding relevant links (except that mosquitos and horses are correlated)
Perhaps, but it's important to actually run that calculation. After all, shutting down web payments entirely would totally eliminate fraud—but also cripple your business in the process.

Personally, I will never use a 3D Secure system these days. If you require it, I'll simply skip purchasing.