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Traffic calming isn't decreasing the safety of a road, it's decreasing the perceived safety of driving at higher speeds.

>Make the road as safe to drive at 35MPH as it was at 30MPH, but don't make that fact obvious

What would that even look like? What would you do to increase the safe speed of road? You'd widen the lanes, limit access etc... All of these things are antithetical to making a road safer for non-motorists.
So majority of the brokers have brick and mortar operations that can't afford to compete on price. That leaves only the online brokers. Then the next step is to build a brand that attracts customer trust/loyalty, which is what Robinhood seems to be doing and to build a really nice experience which they do with their slick apps. Once customers (generally young ppl who are first time investors) are invested in the Robinhood platform, then Robinhood can up sell them on additional features/services (margin, options, API access etc). So sure Etrade could compete on price (I doubt they would want to since it would immediately hit the bottom line vs a new company not depending on broker fees), but if you look at it from a long term perspective eliminating broker fees is just step 1.
The part that sticks out to me is:

> It is crucial to note that affirmatively declining to discuss the investigation in the absence of counsel is not the same thing as remaining completely silent. If you are not in custody, your total silence, especially in the face of an accusation, can very possibly be used against you as an adoptive admission under the Federal Rules of Evidence.

I thought we had the right to remain silent. Can someone explain this?
What about essential fatty acids?
Whats the nav for both?
It is getting more and more useful. Microsoft is really working on it. I am using a VM for now to be sure to get 100% linux environment working. But I hope to be able to do all my dev work in Windows in a few months.

There is one thing missing still, it is something like iTerm 2. I am currently running terminator on linux via X11. Having a nice native Windows terminal emulator would be a big plus. There is ConEmu, but after a lot of tinkering I was unable to make proper color and mouse support working.

MacOS is a very nice system for developers, and I am very sad to move away from it. I wrote about it here: https://medium.com/the-missing-bit/leaving-macos-part-1-moti...
Nope. Especially since many of us don't have piles of irrational hatred for it.
The EIA needs to work on responsive web design.
Obligatory "Don't Talk to the Police"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
To summarize:

"Tell the agent that you have an attorney and that 'my attorney will be in contact with you.'"

"Simply state that you will not discuss the matter at all without first consulting counsel and that counsel will be in touch with him."

"Just respond that you will consult with your attorney (or 'an' attorney) and that the attorney will be in touch."

"Simply repeat your mantra that you will not discuss the matter with him in the absence of counsel."
My ideal career is actually a split one.

I'm working on turning my garage into a fully licensed winery so I can start producing hard cider commercially.

So in a perfect world, my time would be split 70/30 where 70% of my is spent making/distributing/marketing hard cider. Then 30% of my time is spent on lifestyle software businesses/applications
The reason toilets don't get used even when available in India is that Indian version of toilets are not very maintainable. First every one needs to get water from somewhere and carry it all the way with them to toilet. If water turns out not to be enough then toilet retains the waste, start becoming smelly and unhygienic. Also because of extensive water use, its unpleasant place to walk around. Toilets with flushing system uses 1950s mechanical system and often breaks down easily or gets plugged easily with no way to unplug it unless maintainer comes around (who often doesn't exist).

So the basic problem is Indian toilet tech and the whole process has not been evolved. In Western world and especially places like Japan, there are lots of people working on innovations in this area and things keep improving. In India, this area is considered to be assigned to lowest members of social cast system and thinking about it or working on it by intellectuals is considered taboo.
The article doesn't say you're liable if you lie to someone who hasn't identified themselves as a federal agent but then turns out to be one.
The bigger problem with pentests is not the current cost but, as I see it, is that security is inherently and inescapably expensive somewhere in the chain, and that vendors have been getting a free lunch for too long. The viability of security analyses/pentests will go down if your goal is to reduce the cost by an order of magnitude because the people who are any good will find something better to do--and the consumer will still pay through all the bullshit externalities.

Security needs to cost to demand talent. The real solution to this problem, I think is that failure to secure needs to cost (whether in monetary or criminal terms) or it isn't relevant to business concerns.
The only time the author mentions administrative interviews, or promises of non-investigation, is in the context of:

1.) You're a government employee, and thus not answering will result in your losing your employment

2.) You're working for a private employer who states that continued employment in contingent upon being interviewed

3.) You are the officer or director of a company that is regulated, or does business with the federal government, and not being interviewed could result in sanctions from the federal government.

I don't see it prudent to submit to an interview even when the agents assure you that the interview is only administrative or that they are not investigating you.

Other people, with advice of counsel and hopefully with counsel present, may find it appropriate in those instances to be interviewed rather than lose employment or face federal sanctions.
folders and pages would have been better.

model it after something in the real world before you appropriate words from another paradigm
>Collisions between cars are likely milder, as the vehicle velocity is limited by the roundabout geometry, but side collisions are awful, and the chance of collision seems much higher,

One study of 17 intersections found an 84% reduction in injury accidents. And a 100% reduction in fatal accidents. And every study I've seen is pretty similar in terms of injuries avoided.
I wonder what percentage of their employees have children, or come from poverty, or come from rural communities, or speak a language other than English at home, or have a criminal record, or lack formal education. Maybe we could see some age brackets too, or a distribution of political affiliations/views. Won't hold my breath for those numbers, as those are not considered components of "Diversity," but it would make it easier to take the last bit seriously:

We have always said we want Slack to be a place where people of all different backgrounds thrive.
Oops, just duplicated your comment in reply to the current-top post because the parent of my comment asked a relevant question. I searched the thread for "police" before posting it, but missed your post because "cops" instead of "police" :)
Don't understand the downvote. Understanding javascript's closure (which is a core js feature even on the client) properly without understanding pointers seems like an impossible task to me.
Ken White, a criminal defense attorney and former US prosecutor at Popehat.com, writes about these subjects, and has an entire series devoted to this sort of thing under the what-it-says-on-the-tin tag of Shut Up:

https://www.popehat.com/tag/shut-up/

His writing makes for accessible, knowledgeable and amusing posts on a very serious topic and are extremely well worth a read. But the summary version is pretty straight forward: there is no such thing as an out-of-the-blue innocent visit from Law Enforcement, ever. This is kind of common sense when you stop think about it: agents are not free and budget is not infinite. If they are actually devoting an actual warm body to talk to you, particularly a warm body to visit you, it is always, always potentially serious. It is not on a lark, they did not roll some dice and have your number come up for a community chat. They're talking to you for a reason and given their fundamental purpose that reason may be quite bad for you, whether you did anything wrong or not. The true super power of government is patience and grinding, relentless inertia. By the time they talk to you odds are high that they have already done their research, extensively. They have a legal theory and narrative already in mind. If the Feds are knocking it's time to get a lawyer, period, particularly if you're fully innocent.
I think it kind of does; see, for instance, the employer example.
It's a tactic to get them to back off. Telling them you want a lawyer present gives you time to find one before they start interrogating you. Even if you are arrested and you need someone else to find one for you, it stops them from being able to pull unethical/illegal tactics to get you to confess to things you shouldn't.
If it uses pbkdf2 with sufficient rounds and a decent password (say 5 words from diceware) it should be perfectly safe to upload the keys.

Better to keep them offline and keep ownership of the key as a second factor certainly, but encrypted keys can be a fully acceptable single factor.
It's worse than that. Over any period of time index funds beat the average actively invested money because they have the exact same returns and less fees:

https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm
You don't need a layer "on call" to tell someone that you will have an attorney get in touch with then. You then go online and find yourself council. This was one of the points of the article.
If it isnt it won't be used. No technology is adopted if it doesnt improve on current state of the art.
My read on that anecdote wasn't that the author was implying it wasn't criminal, but rather that he was constructing a narrative that the average reader could identify with. Most people don't consider themselves criminals, but most people could probably imagine finding themselves in the situation described.
It's owned by the parents, and the kids get salary and "shares" - i.e. inheritance.
You may find this interesting: The town of Carencro, Louisiana takes its name from an American Indian legend about a mastodon that died there. The name has been interpreted as either "carrion crow" for wake of vultures that feasted upon its carcass, or "carnero"--"bone pile"--for the bones of the creature itself. The fossil was discovered in the 18th century. Oral cultures have a long memory.
This wouldn't work in the case I mentioned because they actually already had a very strict definition of when water should be hot and cold. If this were vague or unclear in their culture, you could lie and say "Oh yeah, because you believe X and Y, Z is true" - ignoring the ethical questions this brings up.

But in their case water being boiled was something you did when you were sick. This already had them boiling water for sick people, the sick would get better (to some extent confirming their belief), and they'd go back to cold dirty water.
The part you seem to be missing is that the business might be valued at $6-7 million on paper, but it does not generate anywhere near that in annual revenue, let alone profits.

We already acknowledged what makes up that on-paper value.

Most of these family farms are more-or-less "lifestyle businesses"... ie. the family owns and operates the farm for a living, and profits only a normal salary annually after all expenses (equipment, repairs, employees, materials, etc)... which is spent on regular things such as toothpaste, toilet paper, shoes, food, etc.

Just like most people, they aren't banking millions per year...

Farming in America is incredibly expensive... but not incredibly lucrative. There are exceptions to this, with mega-corp-farms and what-have-you... but that's not who we're talking about here.
Recall that a lot of Roman Engineering was based off of what they learned as they colonizes/conquered. Meaning these sort of civilized solutions likely existed in other parts of Europe.

I think they went back to using lower-level solutions because of the collapse as
dimitar mentioned.
"But why, you may ask, should law-abiding citizens be alarmed about this statute? Don't the feds only pick on big-league liars?"

That's the definition of a police state.

"Police state is a term denoting a government that exercises power arbitrarily through the power of the police force." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_state
I'll have to check it out.
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I see a lot of people blaming the manufacturers, or blaming the hacker. Then coming up with analogies to support their point of view. I blame the users and don't feel bad for them at all. The analogy I'm going with is if one of your neighbors bought a canon as a piece of art, and left it pointed at your house. Ignorance is not an excuse.
This one is really good: http://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/
Since this is on front page, here's a little rant about spamming sites with your product:

Don't.

Yes, discoverability is broken. But that doesn't justify spamming, or other "growth hacking" that the Product Hunt culture has made socially acceptable (in fact, there has been a rise in clever voting manipulation tactics on Hacker News because such tactics have been normalized on PH: https://twitter.com/jiyinyiyong/status/855661997169364993).

Spamming won't magically make you go viral. And if you don't go viral, that's ok. Improve and try again.
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In general I find that C# builds are fairly quick. Nonetheless Ruby is a pleasure to work with.

As for other interpreted languages, JavaScript is a mixed bag. The Webpack/Babel stack can be smooth if hot reloading and such are set up well and work correctly, but things can quickly turn sour when other backend languages are involved with server side rendering and such.
An isolated population seed, yes. But a sub-population that can be re-seeded by the main one, no. Homo Erectus has been discovered as far as SE Asia 1 or 2 million years ago.

Also typically a population grows depending on birth-death rates which reach quick limits in places of low resources. This is self-evident from different population sizes in different geographic habitats. Instead human populations mushroomed only in select places. See Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond for more.
Yes, the Mac has good consistency. But I am very pleased with Windows window management and multimonitor support. Being able to resize multiple adjacent windows with a single drag is really nice. The window+tab and alt+tab shortcuts are complimentary and better than the mac counterpart.
same. they also forgot to add "made with <3 in san francisco" at the bottom
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Even more importantly: never say ANYTHING else. Not whether you have something to hide and not excuses as for why you can't talk right now.

The sentence regarding "my attorney will be in touch with you" should be the only thing you say.
encouraging retail investors to trade frequently and on a margin sounds like a terrible idea. Basically creating more suckers for the high frequency traders to trade against. Should rebrand the app and call it Robber-in-a-hood
Because learning makes people less stupid in our part of the world.
> Even someone who is uneducated or does not know of scientific method will reason with what they see themselves.

This is really the subject of the entire book - it's not this simple. There are many factors that are involved in someone accepting a truth that goes against what they already know.
> Without getting into the scope of the 1001 statute (I think they're probably mostly right about it), I just want to chime in with a nit about the example they chose:

He. Solomon L. Wisenberg is a man: http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1362810_1

> If you take a job at a health provider that you later learn is corrupt, and later knowingly transport false vouchers as part of your job while otherwise avoiding direct participation with the more overtly criminal parts of the enterprise, you are a criminal.

> We in this industry all need to be taking more responsibility for our individual actions and the net impact they have on society.

Yes, you're correct in an absolute sense, much as the prosecutor who indicted Martha Stewart was correct in an absolute sense. But you're incorrect in a different sense, much as the prosecutor who indicted Martha Stewart was incorrect in that same sense.
Please provide citation regarding your statement of simple minded sexuality.
> You know literally nothing about me

Isn't a credit check required to open an account?
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Yeah, I get that part, and I agree with you that most people in that situation would not consider themselves a criminal. My point is simply that they would in fact be criminals. It would be a miscarriage of justice (perhaps a small one) if there were no consequences for it.
> "This waste is dangerous for the next 10,000 years." "Holy shit! We need to build a high-tech underground fortress to contain it!"

Time is a major risk factor. Look where we were 10,000 years ago. There is relevant chance that 10,000 years in the future no one will easily understand the danger of radiation anymore, so we have to prepare for that possibility.
Not sure if there's case law specifically on this point, thus the hedging from the author with "can very possibly". The Supreme Court has ruled that when in custody, it's not enough to simply remain silent – you must invoke the right. And, it's not an invocation that's valid indefinitely. They can try to interview you again after a reasonable amount of time has passed, so you may need to invoke your right to remain silent every 24 hours.
"Why these things were less of a problem in 1960/70?"

The family as safety net was more intact, job churn wasn't as common, medical expenses weren't insane, rents weren't in constant flux, whole industries weren't being continuously disrupted...
I think it's just the reality of how software is made. There's room of innovative thinking in small startups, or at the highly technical specialized teams in mega corpX, but at the end of the day the grunt work has to be done by someone and that's going to fall to the line member.
I was a long time user until yesterday. Due to working at MSFT, I had been on the 7/8 windows phone train for a few years with a few devices, latterly a 925.

I'm not a power user, I don't use social media apps, just a few daily texts, a bit of browsing, music and podcasts. I also liked the simplicity of the UI.

Ultimately, I got tired of the crappy inbuilt podcast app and lack of decent alternatives. My wife bought me a second hand apple 5s which arrived yesterday.

I already miss the 'swipey keyboard'.
Yes, indeed. But you know what fonts each OS ships out of the box, so all you need is the set that's the union of those and then you have your fingerprinting. (Canvas will probably be slower, but I expect not by as much as you might suspect.)

I don't see how you can mess with the results of measuring successfully, though, at least not without breaking things. You'd have to make CSSOM lie all over the place to avoid it.
> this is a device that's designed to take photos and videos of you while you get dressed, and will be both connected to the internet and constantly communicating those images over the network.

So, like a smartphone?
Google is a hugely profitable company used by 100s of millions of people.

Broadcast.com was an unprofitable sham with around half a million users. It only got bought because it was 1999 and people were acting crazy. It was shut down completely within 3 years.

Comparing the two is silly.
I don't know too many of Ferris' investments, but the few I did know seemed like he would have to change the world almost to make them work. Whereas other investors might have a couple of moonshots like that, but they also have a bunch of investments that solve problems that people face right now, not ones they might face in the future.

I remember he was talking about those protein bars made out of crickets. And there is valid concerns about the future of food with synthetic meats etc. But cricket bars... I mean we are so far off from that being a mass selling product.
In English, the singular "they" is gender-neutral.
I would expect the next batch of iphones or androids to replicate this.
So then they make money of both.
Again I feel the need to repeat myself¹:

I am not in a position where I feel I need to worry about remotely exploitable 0-days in my SSH daemon. If you are, then your situation is, I feel, exceptional.

That said, perhaps those people should sponsor a project to fix this for real. This could be accomplished by having not one program, but two, one after the other, both with realistic keysizes and security. The password/key to get log in would be then be the combination of two separate keys, one for each program.

But what I have described is more or less the same as having a key/password-protected tunnel on top of SSH, so they could just use that. A 0-day in the tunnel/VPN would not allow access through SSH, and a 0-day in SSH would not matter since SSH can’t be accessed directly in the first place. This way, both the tunnel and SSH would need a 0-day at the same time for the security to fail. Like a RAID-1 array. If even this is not sufficiently secure, just increase the number of layers.

① https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619451
But how does the employer even find about this? How does the employer determine cooperation? Surely LEO can't blackmail you into cooperation by going to your employer first?
Some people are taken aback. I can see their dilemma. Lots of clients are probably backing up the same PC where the key would be if they used "private keys that remain with the client".

Then, they would have to deal with the blowback there when the most common scenario where a restore is needed happens. A backblaze customer's drive is dead/wiped/whatever. Right when the user needs their files back, the same drive(s) that were lost also has the private key.

It seems like a reasonable solution given that constraint, and that their demographic is people wanting a cheap solution.

Security isn't pushed on their front page at all really. I'd agree with your comments if they were leading with a "super secure" message. Their setup appears secure other than restoral, and you get to make the choice at that point to weigh the risk. You also have the choice of not setting a pass phrase, but encrypting your own data before upload if you want.
I skimmed through this and haven't seen anything supporting this claim.

Maybe I missed it. Could you elaborate?
I completely agree with this. I'm willing to take a few pennies hit because of HFT front running my order if it means I am saving several dollars per trade in commission. Especially when you first starting out with a tiny amount to invest, the commissions of normal brokers decimate any returns.