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Everyone has TV these days. Even the Uros islanders, living in huts on rafts on Lake Titicaca (a tribe who've become a tourist attraction), had when I visited a little TV powered by a solar panel and car battery. Although it was only black and white.

I think it would necessarily have to be somewhere deliberately cut off, and therefore probably dangerous and hard to reach. The deep inland of the Caucasus has plenty of under-touristed places like Nagorno-Karabakh: http://danhamilton.co.uk/blog/?p=180 Then there's the dictatorships like Turkmenistan, and not-quite-war-zones like the FATA of Pakistan.

(A friend of mine was lucky enough to go to the Lebanon between civil was to see the Roman ruins there. There's a lot of underappreciated under-touristed parts of the Middle East that we'll have to hope survive until the shooting stops.)
No, even so-called "free range" chickens do not. It's a bullshit marketing term in the US: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr...

Not to mention that farmed chickens are bred to be so fat they can barely walk anyway: https://www.wired.com/2008/02/chickens-cant-w/
That falls apart with the simplest IP tracking. The government has all that data anyway, I see no reason they couldn't run a "background check" and figure out exactly who you are and what you've done.

It's a false sense of security, is it not? It's probably best to assume your opponent isn't completely dumb.
so you can correlate success with trial animals to success with humans. eh ? i know its hackernews but i see a lot of people preaching about their favorite hacky fad food habits.How about asking people to live a normal healthy lifestyle. Few hours of exercise and normal food that your body can sustain.
Why don't they let him out on bail until the court is able to hear the case?
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I never had the need to store key/value pairs, but I would definitely consider a similar service. Why not?
He shouldn't have brought anything ITAR sensitive with him out of the country on his phone. At a previous job, we were explicitly told to get a "travel" laptop which was wiped clean.
It's the future! ( You must also imagine a wobbly fade before reading the comment. )
No, they do not, even if they're so-called "free range". I don't know about the EU, but in the US that term is marketing bullshit: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range#Free-range_poultr...
>First of all no one has any duty to provide the police with evidence as a 5th amendment protection.

Apparently all these amendments are open to all kinds of BS interpretation by courts, with loopholes like "you don't really expect privacy when you send snail mail", "some random gun freak is the same as a well armed militia", "corporations are people" and other such shenanigans.
Or you can just install Yalp Store from F-Droid (https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.github.yerio...) and download the apps from the Google Play Store directly to your device. You can also easily update your apps with Yalp Store.

Another possibility is to use the Java software Raccoon on your Desktop, available here: http://raccoon.onyxbits.de/
It is good news that the auction raised less than expected. It shouldn't be auctioned at all. The cell phone providers simply pass on the costs of spectrum to customers. The government should want to make cell phone use as low-cost as possible to encourage its use.
If only it were true; we might finally be rid of Taleb, who is pseudo-expert royalty.

The sad fact is that it is a revolt against actual, real expertise, and it is being led by people like Taleb--people who have created media-based careers that financially reward them for attracting attention, not being correct.
I tried this for 6 months with my doc. Didn't work for me at all. I actually came across the idea on the National Academy of Sciences web site.
Calhoun college renamed for Grace Hopper
Britain’s delusions about the green belt cause untold misery
Broader anti-racism and anti-racist-media action is needed, because otherwise this kind of arbitrary brutal border policy will win votes.

This is an issue much bigger than race and as soon as we stop compartmentalizing it into that it will be better for us all.

You turn it into another about race thing and people will tune out. You make people realize they are at risk no matter who they are and they might pay attention. That might sound tone deaf but the reality is people first and foremost care about themselves and their in-group before anything else. It's hard not to.
My comment was a direct response to the idea of "shirking licensing". Yes, they wanted to avoid licensing. But that does not imply the license was ever legally necessary.

> very clearly not fair use

Very clearly? I don't think so.
>As expected on HN I am not surprised to see people defending one's right to privacy and encryption. However, what's the solution then ? If all the "bad guys" who distribute illegal material do so encrypted volumes and refuse to give up the decryption key then what do we do ?

Why do we care for people distributing "illegal material" in the first place?

And how come this "illegal material" doesn't ever get decrypted? Catch them then.
So is it ok for the Fish and Wildlife service (example) to access devices, from, let's say, the WH?

I don't think so
Obviously the former. The home search is analoguous with handing the hard drive to the police (they're free to search it). Giving the key is analogous to voluntarily digging up a secret stash in your back yard. And I disagree with it not being black and white, if you didn't already notice that. Rights are rights.
Modeling human weight
I enjoy functional programming because it's easier to reason about the code. Often it's easier to write it, but it's true that sometimes it's harder. I find that when I need to read and understand that code later, though, functional programming is usually a win. The same factors that make it sometimes harder to write - state must be passed around explicitly, idiomatic control flow constructs are less general, mutability is explicit and discouraged - make it much easier to understand later, because the interactions between different parts of the system are very clear. Compilers can certainly transform imperative code into the same form in many cases, but the benefit of functional programming is for my ability to reason, not the compiler's.

That said, you can write spaghetti code in any language. =)
I stopped shopping there because the quality of both their produce and their salad bar food plummeted a year ago. Their fruit isn't as fresh as it used to be, and they now serve the same cheap slop at their salad/hot bar. There isn't much variety anymore, either. These things are true of any Whole Foods in SoCal I'd been visiting. I also question how well they treat their employees since they all seem perpetually malcontented. Meanwhile, Trader Joes employees continue to behave genuinely friendly and seem relatively happy. I even prefer shopping at Sprouts which doesn't have as big a selection(aside from their massive supplements section) but it's a less pretentious atmosphere and has more reasonably priced produce that's actually fresh.

Millenials(pukes in own mouth for using said term) aren't as brand-loyal as their parents were and are quick to ditch a brand when something better & faster comes along. Just because they're "Whole Foods" doesn't mean that they can stay complacent or start behaving like an average grocery store without sudden consequences.
Really nice to have a generic functional interface to S3. Thanks.
need to stop thinking from an american centric perspective.
Sometimes in Dutch vacancies for freelance roles, I see the following remark with regards to hourly rate:

"scherp aanbieden" (=> "offer sharply"?)

I see this reasonably often in mailings of recruitment agencies. I hate this and I wouldn't be very tempted to apply.
Same here... while I've appreciated the articles I've clicked through to, I do not feel their content is worth over $20/month to me. I pay for netflix, cable, etc, and don't even use it much, I mostly download for convenience, but I pay for it because I feel guilty if I don't.

If I click on a google search link, I expect to see the same content google does.. for that matter, it's part of google's own rules... WSJ should not get a pass, and google should now deindex WSJ based on those rules.
Because he cares more about the general case and the discussion here, than about the particular article?
Well unless you can tell me what makes humans so different from monkeys that you think it won't work.
it depends on customer's level of pain.

I'm currently working on a solution which many potential customers suggested they will test it right away once it's ready, and promised to get me 10 more customers in order to encourage me to work on it full time.

However, I did not get paid yet before the product is ready.

You need to find a solution where it improves the productivity of a business or a person by 10 folds.

for exmaple, if cars are not invented yet, and you promised a farmer with the invention of the truck, so they can take their produce to the city 10 times faster, and increase their productivity and revenue by 10 times. in this case, they will pay you to develop the "truck"
There are limits to that and the Government keeps attempting to increase the limits of the 5th amendment in regards to electronic documents.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201...

Above is another article on the same case.
> checksumming

Notably, APFS checksums its own metadata but not user data. Which is a little odd for a new filesystem in 2016, but there you have it.
How about a lockdown feature that sends the unlock code to a trusted 3rd party? For corporate phones that should work quite nicely, especially if unlocking would require physical connection to the trusted network.

That way you could simply put it into lockdown mode before you enter border checks and not use the phone except for minimal calling features.
How about if we reset and delete everything from the phone before crossing any international borders?
Show HN: An app to get you off your phone
I also came here thinking this is some sort of aws lambda triggered within the context of certain s3 file. I would say anyone who's heard of AWS lambda would think that way.

Maybe functional-s3?
Not sure what the man's crime is here. Does he even remember his keys after sixteen months in the slammer? I don't even remember my Gmail password after 16 days of vacation. Basically, like the article says, it like not opening a safe for an inquisitor: you are damned if you do, you are damned if you don't. Encryption is nothing new people, you are just putting your data in a safe.

We have a tendency to misconstrue, willfully misinterpret, or altogether ignore the law when it comes to prosecuting individuals who we believe to be standing on much lower moral ground. We do so because we want so badly to punish the accused that we are willing to reduce or eliminate greater good that some privacy laws are aiming to provide (i.e. Trumps silly travel ban which is based on his hatred of Muslims built upon imaginary news stories and personal exaggerations of particular recent events -- all laws out the window)
Not all companies are for-profit. And, to some people, the very definition of profit is the extra money you can get by paying workers only so much while charging customers that much more. That is to say, profit is the stolen excess value of labour that you never paid back to the worker. So in this perspective, profit is by definition gained from the exploitation of worker or consumer or both.

There are plenty examples where companies will profit even though they are "going too far." Just think of all the profit made from war while the majority of people disagree with the war.

Your ethics of "doing the right thing" while making as much profit as possible are also subjective if you consider the definition of profit that I proposed above. I know I'm saying all this in a forum based around startups but I think it's worth pointing out.
Ask HN: How does your SaaS product handle sales tax?
I'm a one-man startup building a SaaS product for my LLC in Wisconsin, and I'm fumbling around with how to handle sales tax for the subscription based model. Being a SaaS product, there is nothing "tangible" to it and it's kind of treated like a service, so a majority of states will not require you to charge sales tax. But some do.

It seems like WI doesn't charge a sales tax on SaaS products for the time being (https://www.revenue.wi.gov/Pages/FAQS/pcs-computera.aspx). However, this may change at some point, and more concerning is I believe there are some states that require the purchaser/customer to pay sales tax for the service, because _their_ state demands it.

Ironically, there's some SaaS companies that handle some of this sales tax handling for you, such as Avalara (http://developer.avalara.com). I've seen other people mention that they're only concerned about their company's nexus (i.e. where they do-business, for me, that'd be WI), and that they'll just deal with any nuanced sales tax laws in an audit if the time ever comes.

Doing some googling around, I think it's clear that the tax system hasn't caught up with the movement to SaaS.

I'm skeptical about integrating with another product on top of my card processor that will "handle" this for me, because to me it's just another point of failure, and I'd like to know what's going on. On the other hand, I'm paranoid that I could get into some legal trouble, and now would be the time to flesh some of this out (before beta).

What have you or your company done to handle sales tax for your SaaS product(s)?

Here's some Q&A I found online that ask similar questions. - https://www.proformative.com/questions/sales-tax-saas-subscriptions-sofware - https://trustfile.avalara.com/blog/5-steps-to-determine-sales-and-use-tax-on-saas-subscriptions/ - http://blog.indinero.com/saas-business-state-sales-tax
This is in response to a news story that happened in the United States, I thought we were remaining in that context. And if I'm to think outside of an American-centric viewpoint, what governing body do you point to that would protect someone's rights from being forced to provide evidence against themselves when being charged with a crime?

or

Is this something that ought not be considered either?
I am the author of WinFsp. Please let me know if you have any questions.
There's also "Don't repeat yourself" and often you cannot have both DRY and KISS and have to choose one over the other.
With modern, powerful cars, using the handbrake really is unnecessary. However until recently many European cars had only a handful of HP and incredibly low torque compared to modern diesels... Citroën 2CV: 12 to 21 HP DIN. VW Beetle: 34 to 50 HP. Even a "sport" car like a Golf GTI was 110 HP only in the 80s. The torque was also much lower.
That would work except that it's super inconvenient.
This. Well put.
How's that different than "revenge fantasy" fiction?

Slim chances of anything like that happening. Besides, there are such people in every generation. They just change what they target (after all it's about the control and the profit, not about particular victims. E.g. now they can afford to play it non-racist, since why should they care much about suppressing blacks in particular, when they can now fuck the whole population?).
How to diversify my Twitter followers?
Absolutely true. You can learn a lot from contracting / consulting. Advancing one's career definitely doesn't mean working harder at one's current job or trying to get promoted.

I'd recommend you try side gigs. Pick the one that offers you the best learning experience. Then consider trying consulting full time. If you want to break the wage ceiling, consulting is a great low-risk business.
Constructive proofs are better in the sense that they explain how a thing is true.

Consider the intermediate value theorem. The normal proof is by contradiction. However, it doesn't tell you anything about where the intermediate value is reached. One can constructively proof the theorem by bisection. This proof has the added benefit of showing you how to compute where the intermediate value is reached. Or rather, it shows that you can compute the intermediate value.

Meanwhile, the proof by contradiction doesn't tell us if we can ever compute where the intermediate value is reached. Having made the switch to CS from maths, it has struck me how useless some theorems proven by contradiction are.

You can view the issue as viewing math as truth finding in a world of platonic ideals, or math as a the study of computation.
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax ? Yeah, makes sense IMHO. Unfortunately it doesn't seem so popular politically..
> The cost of the line can't be justified unless it provides a viable alternative to flying between SF and LA,

I have no trouble imagining that the train can compete with flying between SF and LA. Even if the train has to stop in several backwater towns along the way.

The shuttle flights between SFO/SJC and LAX are completely unreliable. When I was doing the SF-LA haul regularly, I'd be delayed (delayed!) by 6+ hours at least once per month. That's longer than it takes to drive. Do you really think the high speed train will take that long to travel between LA and the Bay Area?

So what if the minimum time of the train is a little longer than a flight? The expected time enroute is still much less.
If you're a US citizen and are harassed by CBP at the border (and you know you're not doing anything wrong), you should stand up for your rights.
How can a standard guide to installing and using PGP through various different methods be a security issue?
A lot of people worked on the user space, too. I understand why both camps want to get some of the credit.
> a repeat of the BART mistake.

Probably a different mistake but BART uses 5'6" rail gauge. Standard US rail gauge is 4'8.5". This means that every railcar, every everything, has to be custom made with no economies of scale.

No one can remember why they did this.
I just purchased a home next to an AirBnB house - it's a mixed bag - well, it's pretty much all downsides.

More Uber/Lyft/taxi traffic at random hours of night - check

Strange people coming and going, pickups at all hours - check

Trash cans are never brought back from the street - check

Yard care - non existent
Socialization - zero

There's 0 contribution to the neighborhood from an AirBnB house - I say this as a person who has no problem having a roommate in my own home. There's pretty much zero incentive for an AirBnB'er to give a shit about the neighborhood (I don't blame them).

This isn't an outlier. A lot of my friends live in houses that are pretty much crash pads (Arlington/DC area), and there's the same problem - when people only live somewhere for a month or two, they don't participate in the community.
FOIA can be denied on grounds of national security, pretty sure
What's the incompatibility? It's 4' 8.5" standard gauge with 25KV AC catenary. (BART is 5' 6" with 1KV DC third rail, both of which are unique to BART.)

The construction process does seem to be insufficiently standardized. There's all that falsework and ground paving. Compare the way it's done in China, with standardized bridge sections placed on pylons by a very specialized machine.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbaD2-2Ktwc
Perhaps there's a spurious link - the kinds of families who eat after 9pm are also the kinds of families who eat too much.

Maybe. I have zero evidence, not even a circumstantial anecdote. But perhaps that's where theories like this come from.
You can't make a city transit and walking friendly by grafting rail infrastructure over a car-based design. You need to allow development on narrower streets without minimum parking requirements on every lot and you need more population density.

You'd have to actually change the rules and overcome the NIMBYs. Some problems can't be solved with cash.
If this is marketing for the book (also mentioned in the Wikipedia article) it's bloody well done.

It's probably not, since the book is 10 years old, but this is how it's done properly, I think.
Please read the article. I specifically mention ANTLR, parse trees, and why the lossless syntax is not a parse tree / concrete syntax tree.
As you said the current marketing message implies distrust and sounds like an app for the mafia dealings.

If this was my app, I probably will stress that it is against friends and families that may mess with your phone. I would skip the overly complicated technical explanation and the jargon and just say that it needs the other phone to play the video, so you don't have to worry about your SO cheeky friends.
http://ny.eater.com/2015/6/24/8838453/whole-foods-overcharge...

City Sting Reveals Whole Foods Has Been Overcharging New Yorkers Since 2010
Not indefinitely
The staff "perpetual malcontent" is also a problem at my local Whole Foods, and the thing that keeps me shopping elsewhere.
310kph is probably the maximum cursing speed. I can't find precise distance information for AVE between Zaragoza and Barcelona, but it's somewhere around 320-330 km. The minimum travel time I see listed is about 1.5 hours. So conservatively the average speed is around 220 kph or 137 mph.
Excellent points; thanks.
His books are freely available online. His latest book is Rigged: How Globalization and the Rules of the Modern Economy Were Structured to Make the Rich Richer

http://deanbaker.net/books/rigged.htm
I don't see what this has to do with Trump's travel restrictions, other than it coincidentally happened at the same time. If the author is trying to imply this correlation is causation, there is no evidence in the article. That being said, no American should have to have his phone searched at the border, even with the stated border exceptions to the Fourth Amendment.
Humans causing climate to change 170 times faster than natural forces
Do Canadians honestly believe their shit don't stink?
Is it fair to say that a major theme in The Great Gatsby is the decadence of rich people? If so, I don't understand why so many people seem to like the book, non-ironically, for the parties and the glamour. Am I missing something?
Word of mouth. If I actually cared to look for work, I could find a lot more.
There seems to be at least two levels of service with the updater services. I've only dealt with them from small merchants, and the available interface was a batch query/response interface.

We'd submit a file containing a batchof account numbers we wanted information on. This submission is by posting to a URL.

We could then poll a URL for status on that batch. When processing was complete the status changes, and an email would also sent to us. This could take two or three days.

We could then retrieve the results from a URL. They might be partial results, in which case we could keep polling that status to find out if more results were available. Some cards would never get a response.

Apple seems to have a fancier level of service from the card associations that gives access to some kind of push interface.

My bank sent me an offer to upgrade my card. This was the card that I use with Apple Pay. I accepted via online banking. Less than a minute later my phone beeped. It was a notification from Apple Pay that the new card had replaced the old card on my Apple Pay.
That was never a viable route. The vendor can entirely legitimately send you to collections for that.
Definitely, but it's worth asking.