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Estonia's e-voting system has well-known flaws: http://estoniaevoting.org/

Voting requires authentication, verifiability and anonymity.

Online electronic voting only allows you to pick two.

They may be lo-fi, but paper ballots work very well here, and engineering a secure Internet voting system which maintains these attributes is a difficult problem.

The people who understand computer security and voting systems well will never design an Internet voting system, because they know it can't be safe. Unfortunately, that means we're left with systems deployed by those who don't understand these well.
Echoing Spooky23's comment: "Really?" Did you really bring in Nazi Germany into a discussion on Airbnb and its practices and now illegality for short term rentals?
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That's one way to do it but we (Sentry) don't do that. Our server software is BSD licensed.
At least in the UK, such a term would have to be brought to your attention before the sale, very clearly, for it to be part of the contract. Writing that in the manual would have no effect.
See: Bloomberg's redesign last year or so.
There's sort of a silver bullet: Individual offices around an open area.

Want to work alone? Close door.

Want to work alone but be aware of things going on? Leave the door open.

Can't stand working alone? Go to the open area.
You should add a 4th V which is very important to why advertisers are liking SnapChat, which is Volume. SnapChat ads naturally have sound on and users expect it to be that way; another element to its similarities to television advertising.
I would totally pay 1-2k upfront (assuming I owned the home or was planing to stay at least 5 years) if I "owned" the fiber and could choose my own ISP.

At that level of competition, it could easily drive the prices down into the $10-20 range for high bandwidth, which would probably break even with current cable internet prices now.

I pay nearly $100/mo for 300Mbps/20Mbps since I have about 9 active users in my home. I pay about $1.2k per year in internet, so $1-2k upfront for cheaper monthly pricing and more competitive features.
I have been doing projects in the healthcare area.

In what concerns computers to control robots, measurement devices and doing ETL data processing of data readers, on the projects I have been involved it is 100% Windows native WPF applications, with the legacy ones being a mix of MFC and Windows Forms.
You're supposed to approach the council, not the cops.

If you document it and complain to the council you can get them shut down.

e.g. http://www.homesandproperty.co.uk/property-news/kensington-a...

You can find out who to contact here:

https://www.gov.uk/report-noise-pollution-to-council

Also, if you got organised with a few other residents you would have a lot more sway and probably be able to get councillors involved. It depends on how much effort you're willing to put in.
I've followed Estonia's efforts in online voting for quite a while and it always reminds me of the premise about platforms of the greatest scale acquiring the most attention by bad actors (and typically leading to more exploits accordingly).

How would Estonia's online voting hold up to the kind of global assault that a US system would inevitably draw for example? If Russia, China and the US all went to work on trying to influence (or damage) the outcome by attacking Estonia's voting system, what would happen? All online voting systems will not all receive the same level of assault or garner the same kind of attention toward that end. The best technology companies in the world find it difficult to create an atmosphere of extremely high level security around information, transactions, etc. Outside of very large monetary theft, could there be a juicer target than being the group or hacker that collapses the US online voting system? It would make the front page of every newspaper on earth and would cause as much or more immediate financial damage than 9/11 did. The US stock market would at least temporarily shed hundreds of billions of dollars the next open day.

There is a very strong argument to be made that one size will never and could never fit all when it comes to online voting.
Then you've been pre-suaded.
I might dispute bug bounties, which are nice in theory but can be a nightmare in practice, and have a somewhat limited upside.
Thats a common situation, but we explicitly refuse to do that. I have a strong opinion that it doesn't represent what open source should be, and thats absolutely free software. I do understand that some things are considered necessary, but we're trying to prove thats not the case.

It's also something that can limit the adoption of your product. I've worked with companies in the past have either refused to use allow GPL software, or would have a significant audit process you'd have to go through to be able to use it.
Renter in NYC here (looks like you're one as well).

* I didn't lose the ability to rent my apartment out - that was always against the rules/law. My LL just put in new electronic locks in on my building to make sure it was significantly harder to lend apartments in the building out on Airbnb.

* As far as affordable places for family, I've always dissuaded them from renting from a largely unregulated market where quality can be difficult to determine in advance and the pitfalls of renting something unsavory could be bedbugs or worse. I live in a neighborhood well served by fairly affordable hotels nearby (in Manhattan!) which can be price competitive with Airbnb, and significantly more regulated.

I view this as a positive - this law did not change anyone's ability to rent out a bedroom in an apartment or house that they are also staying in, and stays over 30 days are still legal. It feels like a win/win to me.
Snapchat already makes like 700 million in revenue. (edit: jk they hope to make 300 million and then hope to do much more than that by 2017)

The real question is "do all these companies buying ads actually make a return on investment" and the answer is DOESN'T MATTER! Lots of ad dollars still to move away from older methods into digital media lol

Maybe there will be a Netflix documentary in the year 2027 about what caused the burst of the collateralized ad market and financial crises of the roaring 20s, with the undertone of "why didn't anybody see this coming"

but in 2017, that absolutely does not matter.
I'm not an artist either, but it is occasionally useful to be able to interact with a screen with fingers or a stylus instead of a mouse. Also, the screen has a 3:2 aspect ratio. :D
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There's a sales technique where the first person to state a value causes other people to pick values around it. So Snapchat struck first and says that they are worth 40 billion. Minions listen to that and think that 35 billion would be a bargain.
"Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them."

(I'd also like to know more details, but bringing up Trump can only lead to doom)
What did you try and what bugs did you run into?
You can be banned from airbnb or get a low score
Not in the robotics sense where you map out a hallway of a building or something. But it does map facial landmarks very well (and I suppose that will also give you localization relative to the face).
Just like we need to adapt to poor eyesight instead of relying on these "glasses" everyone keeps raving about. /s

I find it hard to take your statement seriously
FB really made it when the captured the old people. The issue is the the 12-20 years are quite mercurial. 15 years ago it was AIM,MSN, Yahoo chat, then myspace, then facebook. Now its snap chat and instagram. Its hard to keep the market since when you get friend request from Mom or Dad do you really want to be in that social network anymore?
It's often worse in that the noisy person hinders their coworkers, while no one hinders them -- particularly in a work culture that lauds "open" and discourages a limiting response on the part of others towards that person.

Meanwhile, the quiet people are not keeping the noisy one from their work or working effectively if and when they choose to concentrate.

Result? The noisy people "succeed".

I consider it a cousin of bullying.

And, it explains a lot about contemporary Western corporate culture -- to its detriment, in my opinion.
Sales oriented companies derive a majority of their accounting book value from their client list. When a salesman leaves, they can solicit clients and thereby the value of the company can rapidly diminish. Fair is fair, right? What's best for the customer is best for the economy, right?

...well, now imagine an industry where sales oriented companies have essentially no stable book value. They cannot get loans securitized by the value of their book, and therefor cannot invest in growth or innovation. In the end it is a race to the bottom.

A reasonable balance exists whereby employees are bound by a 2-3 year non-compete clause that prevents them from stealing clients. Markets are still competitive within 2-3 years, and since everyone has these clauses, employee value is retained.
(Dons tin-foil hat.)

Two good possibilities that I can think of. First, Russia seems to definitely prefer Trump. They might want to create some kind of chaos/disturbance to make the vote "invalid" in some way. But that attack might be early on the day of, trying to create enough insanity that people didn't go to the polls.

Second, Trump has made noises about not accepting the results of the election. He has the potential to trigger a civil war (or at least widespread unrest and violence) by his choice of words immediately after the polls close. The US government might want to slow the propagation of inflammatory words at that time; shutting down the internet seems like a reasonable step in that direction.
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> when robots take over every job

My wife tries to make me dinner most nights. Honestly I feel better most times if I make it myself. I find it relaxing. I also enjoy driving a 7 speed manual transmission in my car (a 911). Most of them sold are PDK's. To me that makes it to easy, even if (as they argue) the performance is better. Most times I enjoy driving, not all of the time but I wouldn't consider it a benefit to have a self driving car except in certain situations it would be helpful.
I worked at Groupon from 2010-2012. I realized that a lot of the problem with the daily deal industry was that a) there was only going to be one winner, because of network effects, and b) no one knew how big the prize would be for being the winner, so it was not clear how much $$ to raise or spend to make it worth it. It doesn't matter how much you spend on a war if you lose.
OK, but this article is talking about significantly higher hotel prices ("big boost in the arm"), while any estimate of the fraction of housing units allocated to airbnb implies insignificantly lower housing prices, so your desired tradeoff is not happening.
Okay but then you can't compare that to Stockholm proper. It should be exceedingly obvious to anyone who has even Google image searched the two cities that NYC is much denser.
How does their system work and how effective is it?
While it's obvious that Tesla did whatever they could in Q3, it's worth noting that that's the strategy for loaner cars: they are supposed to be new, loaded cars, so that owners with a 2-3 year old car are tempted to upgrade.

Given the new sensors, they need to update the loaner fleet.
Thanks for that. Are you aware of any numbers on the size savings you get for a typical app using jlink?
>heart problems, but IIRC also immune system health and strokes, and perhaps even cancer.

^ The leading causes of death in the US.

Maybe if we didn't work so hard, we would be happier and healthier, which would in turn would create a positive feedback loop because we then wouldn't have to pay so much for medical insurance?
The money they raised in their IPO gave them a very long runway. As of a year ago or so they had just over a $1B cash on hand.
Which they were.
How about flip the cause<—>effect:

People that suffer when stressed, feel bad about stress.
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I checked the Q3 email [1] and while it is indeed about motivating their teams to reach profitability, it doesn't mention any discount.
Nope.

> The municipalities own (most of) the networks

The municipalities use his tax money.
Taxing soft drinks is not like removing accountability from parents. It's really quite similar to taxing tobacco. Cigarettes cause huge public health problems, resulting in massive costs to the government eventually (plus loss of productivity). Taxes are used to discourage the use of cigarettes, and it's worked: here in the US, smoking is at an all-time low I'm pretty sure. Smokers are pariahs now: they have to go stand outside in the rain (50 feet from the building entrance, away from any canopies) to get their fix. It's really great IMO: I don't have to constantly breathe that crap like I did 30+ years ago.

Taxing soft drinks is no different. Soft drinks are making the whole population (not just children) obese, so discouraging people from consuming them improves public health.

This isn't a parenting issue any more than having your local health department do free STD screenings is. It's a public health issue, which affects people of ALL ages. It's entirely appropriate for the government (at whatever level) to enact policies to try to improve public health, whether it's positive (STD testing, free condoms) or punitive (taxes on undesirable things). It's entirely valid for a government to have extra taxes on things which cause disproportionate costs to society, such as alcohol, cigarettes, and soft drinks, and to attempt to encourage positive behavior (such as how many US states have lower or zero sales taxes on (some) groceries, in order to reduce the burden on the poor and encourage people to prepare their own low-cost food instead of eating fast food).

If you want to complain about the State interfering with parenting and being a nanny, the laws in some US states basically forcing parents to be "helicopter parents" and forbidding children from walking around outside without adult supervision should be your target.

Fundamentally, my belief is that the government has a responsibility to provide for the general welfare of society, but in order to do so it needs to use evidence-based thinking. It also needs to balance this responsibility with the human rights of its citizens and the desire for freedom. There's mountains of evidence that tobacco is extremely bad for public health, and there's plenty of evidence that alcohol is also bad (except here, it seems to be OK and harmless in small quantities, like a glass of wine with dinner, but is a real problem when someone is addicted or drinks and drives), so regulating and taxing these things is justifiable. There's plenty of evidence now that soft drinks are associated with obesity, so the same applies here. There's zero evidence that having kids walk around by themselves at the age of ~8-10 is associated with a statistically significant risk of kidnapping, so there's no justification for the helicopter parent laws. And there's zero evidence that marijuana is as dangerous as cocaine or heroin, or any more dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, so there's no justification for criminalizing it instead of just regulating it the way we do those two things.
I was going to suggest rsync.net as well. That, and attic/borg for the actual backups.

See http://www.rsync.net/products/attic.html for the discount (3ct/GB/month).
There are newer currencies that claim to have solved the problem. But the vast majority of them do not understand the problems that Bitcoin is trying to solve, and make security tradeoffs that would be considered unacceptable in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Those that show promise are yet-incomplete. Most don't provide practical scaling benefits greater than 5x, not a strong number considering the amount of scaling we'd like to see is closer to 10,000x.
There's still a lot of those on public network. Either via uPNP, or directly. Shodan (https://www.shodan.io/search?query=port%3A23) says Total results: 3,957,271

And that's only on the default port.
True, I'm not opposed to branding or designer wear, it's just something about seeing a face just covered in them and then sharing it...
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Yes, I believe. As such it will be on the balance sheet but generally deferred revenue shouldn't have an impact on the income statement given accrual accounting. It will be recognized as revenue as the product is delivered. (It will affect the cash flow statement as well, of course.)
It isn't technically a failure, it's could just be a numbers thing, though I admittedly don't have any numbers. If the upcoming new MacBook Pro doesn't set the heather on fire from a technical standpoint then I guess this is the commercially the level of hardware they're going to settle with trend-wise.

I saw the same thing happen with Dell's high end Precision laptops a few years back. Once upon a time you got a full 17" 1920x1200 display and an outstanding specification that would almost match the power of their desktop Precision range. But then the displays changed to cheaper 1080p panels, the processor, memory and GPU offerings were less than stellar and that was that. They settled on new revisions that were good enough, but not the impressive flagship models they once manufactured. I think this is maybe happening to Apple and the MB Pro range.
In regards to the first point, who won? Groupon the company got a ton of cash but man they're in rough shape these days. They're not even really in the same business space either.
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I am currently working in a very crowded open office. We have small desks where we sit almost elbow to elbow, the place is all hard surfaces (it's an old industrial building made into office space), and there is a fair amount of noise.

But none of this would bother me except for the fact that one senior person has decided to have speakers installed in the ceiling, and we have to listen to non-stop spotify playing top 40 or whatever, all day every day.

The constant music drives me insane, it just drones on and on. I wear noise cancelling headphones with rain sounds to drown it out but I don't like wearing headphones all day and it hinders collaborating with my neighbours. I can't tell if management is clueless or simply does not give a toss. Probably both.
Why mongo is terrible: http://www.mongodb-is-web-scale.com/

Mongo is a bad choice for 99% of projects. Unless you're 100% sure your data is unstructured and will never ever relate to anything else, it's probably bad.

Mongo is designed for unstructured data. That is data which has a very loose relationship to any other object, and data which changes often or is unpredictable. To top it off, Mongo doesn't have transactions. Without transactions, you have to implement them by hand with something like Redis, which is rather iffy.

You almost always have structured data. A wish list would probably relate to products, which relate to merchants such as Amazon, Newegg, Ebay, etc.

Those relationships are a pain to express in Mongo. In-fact it even ends up being slower to express them in mongo, because of it's lack of JOINs, since they don't expect you to have relations.

I personally recommend MariaDB (MySQL fork, included by default on most linux distros now to replace mysql-server). Despite it's poor reputation, it's used (in some form) by practically every big company, including Facebook and Google.

PostgreSQL is another great option. I've found it a bit more difficult to find guides for Postgres, which is why I recommend it second to MariaDB/MySQL.

Postgres is not flawless, it has awkward quirks, like the fact you cannot sanely upgrade postgres versions without exporting all of your data, and then re-loading it again. However, it is regarded as the most powerful open source database, and possibly the most reliable database.
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>What I wonder about, given that we have no cities running on majority wireless point to points, is what happens when you hit scale?

As long as there is line of sight, the tower has fiber, the hardware upgraded as the network grows and beamforming technology continues to improve it shouldn't be an issue.
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Beyond un-acceptable!! I'm a person of color, and this behavior from some of the smartest students to walk the earth is disappointing to say the least.

Where's the police when you need them?
Hotels ironically own some airbnb chains(Marriott runs a few floors in my building).
People forget that companies like Groupon and Zynga are still real businesses. Both are still $1B+ market caps.

As someone who went to both IPO lunches, it was a wild time. Throw Renren, and several other companies from that time period into the mix. 2012 was almost 5 years ago. Unbelievable. Well, at least tech companies actually did go public.
War may drive innovation, but it may also have other purposes. Like resetting service and management economies that spend lots of effort keeping themselves running but not producing products. People think that the more efficient businesses always win are wrong. A bureaucratic sector can wedge itself into the legal system and enforce inefficiency.
I mostly agree with you, but you're off by about an order of magnitude (±0.5) on Snap's revenue numbers. They did about $60 million in 2015, and were projecting 4x that for this year.

Source: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/snapchat-r...
Why this tweet then from today? https://twitter.com/KimDotcom/status/791364506425315328

Saying to use the NSA to get them?
Can you provide any evidence that violent movies and video games actually cause real, statistically significant problems in society?

Same goes for porn BTW, or anything that you want to restrict or regulate.
but they do help you sleep at night. the market can drop 5% in a day and not many people can stomach that emotionally.
Most investors value growth as well as income. And that's especially the case for Tesla investors, who bought a stock that has a ton of growth already priced into it.
I get the feeling that many of us will wish an Apple designer had been dubious as to whether it should.
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Great news! But not a surprise considering the great people who work there.
The biggest news in this release is gross margin.

Gross Margin Jumped from 26.7% in Q2 to 33.2% in Q3.

For reference, MRQ,

GM gross margin: 13.9%

Toyota: 23.6%

VW: 19.9%

Granted, those are not luxury auto makers, but Tesla is more profitable on a gross margin basis. That margin fuels everything from cash flow to R&D spending. 33% for an automaker is huge.
I would look at similar products in international markets(especially SE Asia) for how insanely huge Snapchat could become.
yeah... twitter could be so much greater... like completely getting out of the way with their re-ordering of timelines, and letting people use more than 140 characters.

maybe they could let people post pictures of themselves using filters, or post their favorite recipes!

you're all idiots.