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Exactly. You can offload HTTP to anyone, an HTTP proxy is absolutely trivial to set up, and an HTTP cache is even easier.

FTP is not nearly as trivial, plus it's a stupid, broken protocol that deserves to die. The whole thing is a giant bag of hurt.
This is my huge problem with the article - it argues we have no control over speeding. And then it suggests places that ticket aggressively are behaving irresponsibly, to the point of villafying a town in Missouri for enforcing its speeding laws. All while skirting the fact that there is a clear correlation between higher speeds and higher fatality rates.

Everyone knows a place cops like to hang out, and slows down accordingly.

Why not enforce speed limits more frequently so people obey them? Why suggest a worse solution (encouraging all drivers to go faster) instead of punishing more people for driving irresponsibly?
Moved from South FL to Bay Area... you cannot make me go back.

Add flying cockroaches the size of tri-folded dollar bill to
chaostheory's accurate depiction (that when I sent to my wife had her saying, "I could have written that word for word!").
There appears to be desire to adhere to whatever legal framework to give power and authority to status based on education and history. However, certain things are absolute and trumps any legal framework. Math and science don't change or abide by human laws. Discrediting work based on credentials may work in other fields, but you can't discredit math and science *by anything other than themselves.
> Public FTP servers where where I downloaded most of the software for my computers, back in the 90s. There's nothing really like it anymore

Modulo UI details, the common download-only public side of public FTP servers is a pretty similar experience to a pretty barebones file download web site. Anonymous file download web sites are, to put it mildly, not rare.
One of the things that helped to lure me to the Bay Area was the "abundance of outdoor activities." I pretty much rarely get time to go out to do these things in reality, doing the normal Bay Area 8AM-6PM, plus the two hours to commute each way because look at cost of living anywhere near employment.
The solution is narrower lanes on side streets. Narrower lanes naturally makes people drive more slowly. Lowering the speed limit won't solve it. Bonus: making lanes narrower also makes room for bike lanes.
Anyone who hasn't driven in congested roadways like 880 or new jersey turnpike cannot understand that left lane as passing completely breaks down when you have too many cars and too many exits. We just have too many goddamn cars.
Yeah, a lot of our courses were designed with government work in mind. CMMI.. Ooph.
I just did a search for "software engineer" in Oregon on Indeed. Shopify and many others are using the term engineer in their job listings. Are candidates referring to themselves as engineers to get these jobs? Are they then putting themselves at risk?
It felt good to see this on HN, and it felt better to read it in bold, dark, black text.
This comes across as unreasonable to me. Of course I am not trolling. I am responding directly to the comment above me, and I'm not aware of why you would say something so accusatory. Yes, I could be wrong about this, and I'm aware this is a controversial topic now, but I'm not sure what you are asking me to "not do." I think disagreement should be met with facts to support why you disagree, not with insults.
Probably not. Depends on the claim and the logic behind it.
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> Because they're devout Muslims who favour the mainstream interpretation of Islamic theology

I'm a Muslim and this is the first time I hear that this is the "mainstream" position. Do you have any reasonable sources for that claim?
Finally scrappy guileless startup Google can stick it to the bloated megacorp Uber /s
It effects developers who use the affiliate code on links from their site/social to the App Store as a way of knocking the 30% down a bit.
That was my point! The details - specifically, which laws are just, and which aren't - are of paramount importance here.
ORS 672.005(1)(b) simply describes 'stuff an engineer does', in terrifyingly broad strokes.

If "professional services or creative work" could be read as "services or creative work, either of which are done for money," perhaps it would be okay?
They could create a new version of Windows to mark this retry. Maybe they could call it Windows RT.
> I don't think you can get out of an American high school without learning about Pol Pot.

I didn't learn about the Khmer Rouge in school (high school in Texas, graduated 2004). But I learned about it quickly afterward.
Using the title "engineer" in conjunction with "submitting the critique and calculations [...] to members of the public for consideration and modification [...] of traffic signals", I believe, is the critical part here.

If he had merely submitted the "critique and calculations" for "consideration" as a concerned citizen, he would have not gotten a fine. Simply put, he called himself an engineer and suggested that public infrastructure be changed. In Oregon, when you're not licensed by the state, you can't use the title "Engineer", and you definitely don't want to use it while trying to suggest modifications to public infrastructure.

I'm not equating the two in terms of "I believe both situations are completely just"... but doing what he did is akin to a thief walking himself into the police station. The purpose of the Board of Engineers in most states is not to decide what is "good engineering practice" and what is "bad engineering practice", it's to regulate licensure and set the bar for who is qualified to be an "Engineer" in the eyes of the state. He mis-navigated the American system, for better or worse, and paid a fine that is meant to dissuade people from doing things like this:

http://laist.com/2016/01/30/fake_civil_engineers_may_have_bu...
> is it fraud (in the US) to claim that you are a member of a profession that you are not?

Architect, Lawyer and Medical Doctor, for sure.
Of course the point of a license is to help those who can get licensed at the expense of those who cannot. The ethical systems of licensing have a point, where society wants to favor those who can get a license. Driver's licenses are a good example of this - we as a society want to artificially restrict the supply of drivers to those who can pass examinations for vision, knowing the rules of the road, and ability to follow certain professional rules (eg, not driving drunk). Or electricians, where the cabal of people who know electrical code has a distinct advantage for society (that is, not burning down their buildings via faulty wiring).
This article makes it sound like 85th percentile speed is the one and only way speed limits are set. This in not true. Often times, 85th percentile speed is a starting point. Other metrics that come into play are pace and mode. The pace of a traffic stream is defined as the 10 mph increment in speed in which the highest percentage of drivers is observed. Mode is the most commonly reported speed. Beyond these statistics based measure, roadside environment is considered. The number of access points per mile, functional classification, geometry, and traffic volumes are relevant when assigning speed limits.

There is very little benefit to increasing speed limits beyond the 85th percentile. The capacity of the roadway does not increase because of the increased headway between vehicles. As vehicles speed up, the distance between vehicles increases and thus the total number of vehicles that can occupy a given segment of roadway is decreased. At 30 mph, about 36 vehicles can fit within a one mile stretch (assuming 3 second following distance, 15 ft long vehicles and one travel lane). Under the same assumptions only about 16 vehicles would fit in a one mile section at 70 mph. However, slow speeds everywhere is not reasonable and that is why some measure of central tendency is used to establish speed limits.
Leaving aside the (hopefully) unlikely case of the authorities deciding to install malware on my laptop, I've had experience of the roughness with which checked baggage is treated and getting things stolen from said baggage. That makes me very wary of checking delicate electronics, unless the airports and airlines substantially improve their baggage handling.

If this goes ahead, I can see myself travelling without a laptop for short trips, and sending it ahead via DHL for longer ones, taking a disk image on a USB stick for backup.
There is no reliable evidence of people in the Bay Area being smarter or more capable on average than other major metropolitan areas. The average Bay Area resident may be slightly more educated but that doesn't necessarily prove anything about their level of heritable intelligence.
As a Canadian, the career benefit is zilch, because most of Canada's software career opportunities pale in comparison to the USA (pay is half or less, house prices are pretty close in price in employment centers!) . And in the USA, nobody cares about that when you write software.
Okay, there's some disagreement about terminology here. Does "hidden" refer to a tax or fee rolled into the price? Or does "hidden" mean "only visible later, at checkout?" Guess it depends on whether you're talking about tax being hidden, or total price being hidden.

> Sales taxes that are not included in marked prices are a form of hidden fee, and reduce the visibility of prices.

No disagreement there. Separate sales tax makes every price a computation, and the local optimization is to remove all that computational overhead. I'm not sure the local optimum of invisible tax is a global optimum, however. General public awareness of taxation might be worth the cost in the long run.
> They infact have a larger incentive to remained hardline and aligned with the gulf states like Saudi.

You mean "aligned with Saudi". None of the other Gulf states are anywhere near as culturally backwards as KSA.
Actually friendly, like go out of the way to help you friendly.

One counter-point: not sure if this is still the case, but a few years ago Provo, Utah (just south of SLC) used to have the highest per capita usage of anti-depressants. Interpret that how you will :P
> I've seen it argued that shoulders/sidewalks actually make roads more dangerous, because drivers drive faster when they're present.

It depends on a lot of factors. The presence of a separated sidewalk might imply a hard separation between vehicular and pedestrian traffic which can increase speeds. Deliberately blurring those boundaries, as is often done in small European cities, makes the road more ambiguous and this leads to slower, more cautious drivers.

Confidence equals speed. Long, straight, wide roads with ample room for stopping encourage people to drive faster. Narrow, winding, difficult to navigate roads are naturally approached with more caution. The trend has been to straighten out and widen narrow roads, to eliminate any impediments to "traffic flow", which often makes for roads over-engineered for their intended speeds.

The presence of a sidewalk doesn't make people drive faster, but the philosophy of separation of traffic flows that leads to sidewalks being used does.
> It's about cost, too. HTTP can be cached very efficiently, but FTP not at all.

It's ironic that you mention cost and caching but lot of services used for software distribution of one kind of another (e.g. Github releases) are following the "HTTPS everywhere" mantra and HTTPS can't be cached anywhere other than at the client.
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Not just in the Valley, and not just in the case of M&A events; generally companies sign agreements with their executives to defend them in the case of lawsuits for actions they take in their professional roles. Often, to avoid conflicts of interests between corporate counsel and individual counsel, this works out as the company paying either directly for lawyers for the company officer, or paying for individual liability insurance.
SCO?
cough http://adhdeurope.eu/
HN screwed up my comment. It's not supposed to be "question mark, a, question mark, a, ...". I meant to write "question mark, a, star, question mark, a, star, ...".
I live near the Germany border and the speed limits here in France just consistently produce some of the most dangerous behaviors I've witnessed, while crossing the border and it's just fine, even if people sometimes pass you on the right, and even if, like anywhere, shitty dicks do exist. Also, it's far from a stress free experience in France when there are speed checks at every corner and you spend your time looking at your speedometer and on the lookout for controls even if you respect the speed limit instead of the road and other drivers, because it's so easy to ever so slightly drive above the limit as it's set to such an unnatural value. You just feel coerced, constantly watched and judged as guilty by default and it's terrible. Worse, there is a whole category of people that feel safe as long as they dutifully respect the limit and since it's so low they get bored and text or phone or play with the kids or fiddle with their GPS, not feeling responsible the least about hurling more than a metric ton of metal at speeds that are anyway entirely unnatural. In Germany you just drive and since there is quite the gradient of speed alongside the perpendicular axis of the road, it's just fine and you feel safe at whatever speed you drive: people just don't close-call zoom past you at 200+kph when you cruise at 120kph. It's just surprising at first because you got that message shoehorned at every moment that speed kills and speeders are the worst scumbags on earth, but as soon as you learn to drive socially so to speak and not like an individualist prick isolated in your cage of metal, things get really better. The road is best lived together, pay respect to the flow which you're part of and you'll be damn fine.
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This is one of the great unrecognized problems with the economy at the moment. I'm not so sure about engineering, but it's created all sorts of monopolies in health care that have nothing really to do with actual safety risks or any kind of rational approach to mitigating risk, and everything to do with protecting guild members.

License = union.
Well, the actual anthem is "Tiens voila du budin" - it's far older and more acceptable.

The Piaf song is more an edgy marching song for those elements in the legion who don't feel any loyalty to the milquetoast French civilians and reminisce fondly about when the Legion putsched against de Gaulle in the 60s...
WinSxS (Windows Side By Side) assemblies were introduced to avoid dll hell by allowing Windows to store multiple versions of installed dll's. So even a minor security patch may leave the former version around because other apps may use/expect it. I think that might add some bloat over time? Also Windows Update installer caches. A ton of Windows updates actually leave their installers around in case you want to uninstall them. That can add up! I've seen it easily get to 1-2 GB.
I am guessing it is because of vote banks. There might be a chance that a good percentage of the people don't want really want the law - but they are moderate/silent. At least, I hope so.
> FTP is not nearly as trivial, plus it's a stupid, broken protocol that deserves to die.

I agree with you, but FTP has one very valid use case left: easy file sharing, especially for shared hosting. FTP clients are native to every popular OS, from Android to Windows (only exceptions I know are Win Mobile and iOS), and there's a lot of ecosystem built around FTP.

There is SCP and SFTP but they don't really have any kind of widespread usage in the non-professional world.
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In the US it's only of use in industries where life safety is important (you have to sign off on potentially harmful technology) or to serve as an expert witness in court.

Getting one generally requires at least one existing PE who can vouch for the quality of your work which creates a chicken and egg problem if there are no PEs where you work.
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This only happens on poorly designed roads that cannot handle their traffic flow. Most people in most places will obey the left passing rule only so long as there are enough lanes that the traffic fits in lanes - 1 so one can always be open.

Since the US infrastructure system is a colossal piece of shit, highways built 40 years ago still stand exactly as they were then today having to accommodate multiple times more traffic than they were ever meant to. This breaks down the road rules when its bumper to bumper and every lane is backed up.
I don't see how. I'm not falsely claiming that I'm a lawyer. I'm falsely claiming that someone else is a lawyer—a fictional person. (I write claims in the voices of fictional people all the time; I'm a novelist.) Is it because I would presumably be writing the letter with a first-person-viewpoint prose style?

If so, then would it change anything if I just wrote a letter as myself, saying that I would contact my named, fictitious lawyer and have them draw up a suit against the recipient?

Or, on a completely different (ridiculous) tangent: if a program generates an email claiming that it's a lawyer (not from a template written by a person; from genuine black-box deep-learning text generation, hooked straight up to an email client, without foreknowledge or expectation from the author that this would be the result), has the author of the program committed a crime? I would assume the author in that case more parallels the owner of an animal that did something that would have been a crime if a human did it, but is very blurry without the presumed mens rea humanity brings to the table.
So is what he discussed actually relevant and is this an attempt to silence someone ?
Why yes, I do:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_law

... And more specifically:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_blasphemy

Blasphemy is punishable in the vast majority of Islamic countries. Most Muslims worldwide support these laws, and most schools of Islamic jurisprudence support their position in Islamic law.

It's probably not true of most Muslims in Western countries however. I have a sneaking suspicion - but no way of proving it - that people who think this sort of thing is nuts are more likely to want to emigrate to countries without it.

Note that blasphemy is also punishable in many Western countries. This is driven by the same problem: religion. Usually Christianity.
This was an interesting read, thanks. My assumption, as someone who worked with cervicospinal injuries professionally, some whiplash doesn't go away quickly because it damages areas that are largely avascular, like cartilage and bone and connective tissue which take much much more time to heal than soft tissue like the rotatores and multifidi of the neck
Interesting. I did not know that. Would the same hold true outside iOS targets?
Perhaps. Here in Texas, practicing engineering without a license will result in a fine and a cease and desist, with criminal charges on subsequent occurrences.
I see your point about the "manly man" but I think that's not as important as you might think.

Case in point: Bernie Sanders. Also before Trump surged ahead, Jeb "low energy" Bush was the GOP front-runner.

It's true that Trump ultimately won, but I don't think his "manly man" image was the key factor. Recall '08 when Obama defeated the Maverick and his gun-toting mama bear VP.
Thanks for the summary. I haven't read the book yet, but I'll have to sometime. It's interesting that on one side you have Carnegie's "make them feel important to make them interested in you" and on the other side you have the pick-up artists' (I'm not defending them) "neg them to make them interested in you". In one variant you lift the other person up and in the other you push them down, both with the idea of wanting them to talk to you more.

I've heard that men that tease each other (in one sense making them feel less important) in groups do it as a bonding experience, because the fact that you can tease the other person without them punching you is a sign that you're members of the same group. On the other hand, gently teasing someone in a group can make them feel more important as well, since you're suggesting that they're important enough to deserve being teased.

With Carnegie on one side and the pick-up artists on the other, I'll obviously side with Carnegie's more positive view of human interactions. It also fits well with a tenet in improvisational theater that you should always make the other actor look good. You both benefit from that, especially if they do the same to you. If you make them look good, the audience thinks you're both good, and the other actor will want to play more scenes with you. It seems like an obvious suggestion, but what it does is it shifts your focus from what you can do to look good yourself to what you can do to make the other person look good, which is often a lot easier anyway. It takes you out of your own head and makes you more attentive and focused on the other person, so that you can respond to and amplify the good thing they do.
I don't know if its still available for iPad (I have the 1st iPad) but I used to use an app called AudioNote (I think).

With this app you could record audio, and any notes you took are synchronised to this audio. It was super useful...
I mean, these are some of the most hard-line extremists alive. Of course they aren't going to reform their blasphemy laws.

Pakistan is a backwards theocracy, which created the Taliban and has been attempting to spread their awful model of governance ever since. I imagine they wish to set an example.
MacOS 10 wasn't rebranded from OS X until 2016, a full year after Windows 10 GA - and I doubt anyone outside a select few at Apple knew that the OS X line was going to be renamed.

In any case, your reasoning doesn't really make sense. I can run a program that was written for Windows XP on Windows 10 without the need from a app-compat layer. Given that a developer can hide/show all sorts of random functionality with an if-branch-on-version - the user will see a broken or strange app and it won't be clear (and MS probably didn't have the means to detect) that the app should run in compatibility mode.

I still believe that MS wanted to ship an OS that "just worked" and did so under 10, than trying to compete in version numbers with an OS that has had 10 in its name for last 18 years.
I'd say the US invests in infrastructure, specifically, roads, the interstate system is an amazing way to get around and much more flexible than trains. For numerous reasons other forms of public infrastructure not centered around cars get much less investment.
You're in for a treat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversies
I've had good luck with plants.usda.gov identifying plants by geographical location. Just use the advanced search, choose the location you found the plant, e.g. state:county, and as much information as you can deduce, flower color, growth form, etc. It'll usually provide pictures and interesting things like whether Native Americans used it medicinally, etc.
Those 'more modern' operating systems have roots and parts in their codebase that are just as old, if not older, than Windows. All platforms are continously adding new pieces and sometimes rewriting old. But I know for a fact that there are parts under Android's hood that a computer scientist from the 1970 would've found familiar.

There is no reason to ditch the backwards compatibility in my opinion. All components can be kept functional alongside each other (like how UWA can function next to Win32) with some extra effort. I love the fact that there's a host of applications that target Win32 that I've been using since windows 2000 and still work on windows 10.
That and the Shouting Fire thing are both directly harmful. Calling yourself an engineer, not a PE, without a a PE is not directly harmful, and the Constitution overrides state laws that claim otherwise. My money is on him in this one.