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TV licence is a big nuisance, and to me it's just old media clinging on to the power it holds. I go home and accidentally start streaming through the BBC iPlayer (I wanted to watch a catch up program but my finger slipped), am I breaking the law? Am I considered a criminal by the state?

If they want to enforce this properly they need to do it at the device level. If I'm not supposed to watch TV then make it impossible for me not to do so, put a login behind it or something.

Not to mention the ABSURD methods they go to intimidate you into paying, even when you don't watch live television (in my case, I don't even own an aerial cable), every month I get a threatening, amateur looking, in red writing, letter telling me about my crimes and that I will just end up in court.... If I kept these letters I'd have to rent a garage just to store them, have these people ever heard about saving trees? :)

It's a silly tax, with silly regulations and silly enforcement that needs to go.
Going on a tangent / Google(youtube) is a publicly traded corporation, being banned in a country to support democracy(and missing out on advertising income) is not in their list of fiduciary duties to their investors.
As such anti terrorist videos are monetizable while terrorist and antigovernment rhetoric full of bad vibes and forbidden speech is not.
Hope is not enough, it's clear that mozilla has a strong stance against power users.
Currently mentoring a startup in this space (not in the UK). For us it's because of mandatory insurance for 3rd party liability, and as a non-drone owner who's seen plenty of idiots wielding them, I'm all for it.

I prefer the light touch (ala Mopeds/Scooters) where it's simple and easy, insurance at a flat rate, easy to transfer ownership. Something akin to cars with a v5 document, etc would be overkill.

I don't really have an opinion on the weight limits, how much does something have to weigh to take out an eye, or cause a motor vehicle to crash?
I believe bonniemuffin was being sarcastic.
What's a TV license? I've genuinely never heard of that being a thing, although I'm in the US.

I own a TV but I don't watch any public broadcasts or cable, so requiring a license for that seems weird at first glance.
The "car licence" connection to paying for roads was ended in 1937 [1], and the Road Fund itself in 1956 [1]. The Vehicle Excise Duty since 1936 has just been taxation, not earmarked for anything in particular.

[1] http://www.parliament.uk/briefing-papers/SN01482.pdf , page 6
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I already have issues with my smartphone's drain-rate. Withstanding the issue of a huge ledger, you don't what to be mining on your smartphone.
I'm definitely upvoting this, as i think this is very much the right direction (I'm actually working on something similar).

After reading into it, I think for me personally it really isn't enough though.. These are some of the reasons why I'll never use it :

1. using := instead of = is straigh up worse. No way i'd use 2 characters instead of 1 for an operator that common.

2.i don't think the eventuality of bugs really justifies the repetition of public and private at EVERY SINGLE variable, that's a lot of repetitions

3. If I have to learn a new syntax, it really has to make my life easier: this Definitely includes automatic generation of all needed include statements (or import, whatever). I know there is some work to do to make it happen, but we definitely are able to do it in 2017. No way imports are something we should be doing by hand anymore

4. (also a lot of other minor things that don't add meaning, like (int argc, char argv) that really shouldn't be there)

Of course I hope it's clear that this is my very personal point of view :)
you missed the point, when you are several time zones away, your family and friends probably sleep while you are awake and active. sure, when you are near by you might be interested in instant chit-chat
Some sites maybe, but definitely not youtube.
And unfortunately the tabloid press would use this to attack people why they don't like or disagree with - Norway does not have a nasty tabloid press like some other countries.

It could also be used by criminals scoping out targets for burglary
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I miss it dearly too, buddy, it was a real joy to use.
But that does not address why the government should then broadcast that information. Obviously an income tax requires the government to know your salary, but why should it become a public record?
Sorry but you got the wrong setting here. To disable autoplay it's media.autoplay.enabled
If they're worth more than their industrial applications, how can it be economical to use them for their industrial applications?

If gold-plated contacts cost more than they're worth, nobody would make any as it would have a negative ROI.

I agree that the market cap of gold is higher than it would be if industrial applications were the only source of demand. But given that gold is used for industrial applications, it must not cost more than it is worth for those applications. Hope that makes sense.
Just ordered that one too :-).

I am actually most interested non-parametric statistics, especially to "reformulate" as many statistical tests as possible using a small number of robust primitives (like the bootstrap.) More pointers in that direction would be very welcome :-)

Tangent to a tangent: The other most enjoyable stats book I have found is "Statistical Modeling: A Fresh Approach" http://www.mosaic-web.org/go/StatisticalModeling/
I act as an advisor for DronesBench http://www.dronesbench.com and we think there should also be some sort of drone efficiency certification for the consumer market (from 250g to about 4kg, under 250g they are toys according to EASA legislation draft), same as other electro-mechanical devices or machines, with a concise parameter to be sported on the drone's plate. Too much a difference from the value declared by the vendor may imply hidden defects of the drone and therefore the possibility of a crash. We are actively proposing our DronesBench Index to IEEE and EASA for the legislation to come, with encouraging response from IEEE at the preliminary level. It remains to be seen if and how things progress in a formal way.
I don't want "similar". I want sources proving that women are paid "much less" for the same amount of the same work.
So you're a google chrome user, because this only happens in chrome.
yes its I am poorly paid you got lucky and they are vastly overpaid, of course the person you think is over paid may well think the same about you.
The UK Government is currently in a chokehold of the authoritarians. See also the prime minister's plans about crypto and the (opt-out) porn block and planned required identification to access porn.

We can only hope they don't get much done and are busy with Brexit.
O.K. yes.

I went back, looked, and yes it does support USB 3.0. Actually given the chip itself also apparently supports GigE it's a shame there isn't the option with that brought out.
With firefox go to about:config and disable media.autoplay.enabled now you have to click play for the video to start.
because of the disparity, not the information itself. if you (and everyone else applying for the job) give that info to a recruiter, the recruiter has and can act on all the info, but everyone else only has their one bit.
Bookmarks have been broken in browsers for more than a decade. Using bookmarks requires so much work and time that it makes no sense to use them.
What's the point of Bitcoin if that's just a high-value settlement network?

From the perspective of end users, all the Bitcoin advantages materialize only if they use it directly as a payment network; otherwise they are de-facto using something else and it doesn't really matter how that something else is settled in the background, it matters how that something else works and if it works differently than Bitcoin, they're using that and not really Bitcoin.

From the perspective of users (organizations) who need high-value settlement networks, the classic alternatives (e.g. Target2) are better than Bitcoin since the needs are quite different, and the advantages of cryptocurrencies aren't that useful for high-value settlement, they matter mostly for end users.
> I wanted to watch a catch up program but my finger slipped

You're required to have a TV licence to watch catch up programs: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/help/tvlicence This rule has been in force for some months now.

> am I breaking the law? Am I considered a criminal by the state?

I imagine the case law on this issue is very well understood by now. I don't know the answer but I doubt there are any legal uncertainties.

> the ABSURD methods they go to intimidate you into paying, even when you don't watch live television

I'm not sure what it's like for those like you who have device but no aerial. I have no device. Once every two years I get a letter asking me to fill in a web form to confirm I still have no device. It's annoying, sure, but your reaction seems massively over the top.
Well, that stigma sure sounds made up, where the other one is actually a real thing.
Are you sure you have a tendency for introversion? I am introvert and I have no need for "Emergency Survival Social Mode". On the contrary, now and then I want to get away from and by with just myself for a few days.
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Basically, TV Licence pays for state run TV & radio services.

In the UK, this also means we don't have any advertising on the BBC channels or website, which is nice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licence
Useless to you and me, but quite a lot of fortunes are riding on this ponzi scheme.
But most organisations aren't in showbiz where say George Clooney gest more than say a lead in a tv show.

Also BBC presenters may work on several shows and your paid per show as I understand it.
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I started writing a response but then discovered I can't do any better than the first two paragraphs of the following :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Can someone explain me the technical details as to how the mirroring of the website didn't raise any suspicion from the customer or buyer side ?

Someone mentioned here that the sites are end to end encrypted, so how exactly did the dutch police MITM such connections ?

Why do the website admins have the capability to read transactions between buyer and seller ? Is this how it generally works in these websites in the sense that the buyer and seller use the website for talking to each other ?
That seems kind of stupid given that such websites become a single point of failure outing both buyer and sellers.
Why can't they have a end of end system(with forward secrecy) and the website is just a medium for advertising your needs ?

Even if you have the website code, access to the databases etc, you shouldn't be able to know what the sellers and buyers are talking. Aren't the databases encrypted with the keys for decryption only with the seller ? Why does the website owner have access to the transcripts between everyone ?

Please correct me if any of my assumption are wrong.

EDIT: I went to the Hansa market site which has been taken down. The banner there mentions that the source code of the website was changed to allow such behaviour which makes sense. However, this should only put the new buyers/sellers at risk and leave the old ones safe. What went wrong ?
There is no switch. It's an inbuilt feature with the Chrme 57+
It still looks to me like amputating hand because you got a splinter in the finger.
What we do is to add a signature to url. For example image.jpg?w=500&sig=<hmac of w=500> so the server can validate that the request url originated from us and we can add more image sizes by just generating new urls with correct signature.

This solves the abuse issue while providing the same freedom for image sizes.

Edit: Also we use aws lambda for image resizing so scaling is not an issue and generated images are cached on s3. Storage is cheap.
10 years ago I knew guys who loved in eastern Kent who would spend 5 hours a day commuting.

I'm a home worker now, but still have to go to London far too frequently. Getting from Cheshire to Euston isn't bad - leave home at 0820, 0841 train arrives Euston at 10.25. The next 30-50 minutes slogging it out to zone 2 is a pain though.

Going the other way is where it all falls apart, as the train is only really hourly due to the connection. To guarentee making it it takes an hour to get the first 6 miles to Euston (I really should dust off the bike), 90 minutes for the next 160 miles to Crewe, then the last 5 miles can take all sorts of time.

Now I think about it giving the Brompton a service would make this far more consistent, although for maybe once every 2 weeks doesn't seem worthwhile
It took me a while to find how it interfaces with the system (driver? dedicated application? just drop model and data in a directory which appeared on mounted key?), so I'll post it here.

To access the device, you need to install a sdk which contains python scripts that allow to manipulate it (so, it seems like it's a driver embedded in utilities programs). Source: https://developer.movidius.com/getting-started
time in service accounts for some - but then again male newsreaders have longer careers
OT but I want a service where I can upload a set of images, manually tag them with a few categories and then let some kind of AI tag the rest of them based on the tags I put on the dataset. I'm not looking for a general image recognition engine. The tags are pretty abstract things like "enjoyable".
Opera with its unique cache offered the option to have full text search in history and it was great. Then quarterly profit became a priority for the board and they dropped their browser to become a google chrome advanced skin.
Great article. I laughed. I wonder if this is mostly a matter of indiscriminate visibility and a lack of friction?

In the old days, there was that moment when visiting someone's house (friend, relative maybe) and the topic of family vacations came up. Then someone suggests the slide projector. You could almost feel the silent "uggh" from the people who were not on the vacation. The worst part would be the unknown length of the slide show. (ten minutes? two hours?) But setting up the slide projector was a fair effort, so it could easily be put off "until next time you come over" (phew! Dodged a bullet!)

Now you just pop them up on FB and they are there for all to see. Compound that with the fact that FB's sharing controls are so complicated that actually just sharing with a particular subset (immediate family, grandparents, etc) is nigh impossible for ordinary mortals and there you are! Bazillions of terrible family photos a click away, or worse: a scroll away, no click needed.

Physical photos did have some advantages: at least they could be avoided! ;D
I'd be even stronger. Haskell's the most readable language I've ever used, and I was an early (ish) adopter of Python mostly because of readability.
I know large UK companies that have this problem also BME and disabled people also get paid less -- I cant say who for professional reasons
We have a national TV network which is an absolute national treasure and produces some awesome TV. The TV license just ensures that the government doesn't hold the purse strings and therefore effectively controls it. I'm happy to pay for a TV license for this reason. Also, lots of channels with no adverts on is pretty good.

As for the letters, just tell them you aren't eligible to pay. How do they know if you don't tell them?

For iPlayer, they are bringing in a BBC account which will be tied to your license fee, so you can't accidentally stream it.
then link rot and unread stays unread forever.
Ultimately people guess and judge each other based on what they think each other's salaries are even if they don't know.

Hiding information only creates confusion and prevents markets from operating efficiently.

There is no legitimate economic justification for salaries being secret. Only tradition and superstition.
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how much does something have to weigh to take out an eye, or cause a motor vehicle to crash?

I think things should be put in to context a bit. Seaguls where I live usually weigh more than 1-1.5Kg, and they are arguably more dangerous to be around if you happen to be a child holding an icecream!
This recent trend is really worrisome.
YouTube also shut down quite a lot of channels in connection with the Syrian civil war. Reddit too closed down a couple of subreddits, and admins banned users who shared ISIS related content on the /r/syriancivilwar/ subreddit.

What an utterly useless and counterproductive exercise in de facto censorship. The only thing this does is drive people deeper into the underground, even closer to actual extremists.

Extremist ideas need to be fought with rational discourse, drag them out into the open and let the sunshine disinfect them.
Trying to hide them out of sight, like they don't exist, only makes them fester all the more in secret and partly legitimizes these extremists in their view of being unjustly persecuted.
While I laud the intent, I doubt bad actors will register their drones, so it'll be a burden for legitimate pilots and no deterrent whatsoever for folks who use them to fly contraband into prison etc.
https://www.mtv.fi/uutiset/kotimaa/artikkeli/nain-helppoa-on...
If you are reading books for 4 hours on your commute vs sitting in traffic listening to weenie and the butt for 2 hours, which is "consuming time"
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From what I've read, one of the issues is that it's very difficult to maintain that extra bandwidth through the Great Firewall of China, resulting in any miners on the other side of where the block was found being at a disadvantage as they will get the blocks too late to be competitive. This will result in mining finally being 100% concentrated in China.
My company wants to ditch Scala for Java :|
Ask HN: How has Satoshi Nakamoto been so good at opsec all this time?
I don't understand it. Every other major figure online who people wanted to identify has slipped up at some time or another. Leakers like Edward Snowden? Got identified by the government. People running black market services like Dread Pirate Roberts and the guys behind AlphaBay? Identified by law enforcement. Hoaxers in the media world like JT LeRoy and the guy behind the blog 'A Gay Girl in Damascus' got identified by the public or press.

Same goes for everything from famous authors with pen names and infamous internet personalities like violentacrez from Reddit.

So how has Satoshi Nakamoto avoided all this? Has he really never made a single mistake that could give away his identity? Is he some super expert at keeping his identity secret compared to the thousands of others who've tried and been exposed.

How has Satoshi avoided having his name and personal details revealed online?
The US government is not allowed to copyright anything, and is surely a funder of many of these works. Contractors for the US government should similarly not be able to copyright work done under contract. What would happen to these copyright arguments if this became the case?
I'd like to see an experiment where people are forced to post their bank balance along with their vacation photos.
OT: Is it just me who does not see huge business opportunies in drones?

Don't get me wrong. Drones made a huge leap the recent years and from a hardware manufacturer's POV there is business. There is also great stuff like drone races, drone cams and selfie cam drones.

But will there be really much more? Are safety concerns, public regulation and limited use cases in many areas (such as urban areas) giving drones a hard time?
I believe it is that case that the UK government does not insist you have a passport to travel. Practical considerations may make it difficult without one (many private companies, for example, won't let you onto their conveyance without one because they don't want to be lumbered with taking you back again when the destination country refuses to let you in for lack of passport) and the destination country might not let you in without one, but that's not the UK government insisting you be licenced to travel. It's not illegal under UK law, I understand (or it certainly didn't used to be; the maybot did seem to run an awfully authoritarian Home Office so maybe that's changed), to simply wander down to the sea, get on a yacht, and sail across to another country.

I have myself gone to France without a passport (which may have been illegal under French law; I certainly have the right to travel there freely, but I don't know what they insist people carry), gone shopping, and come back again, and I know someone coming back through border control who simply gave his name and address.
It's not a limit. 250g is the minimum weight at which drones are regulated. There would be little point in a new law which excludes drones under 2.2 kg as that is nearly all drones.

FAA is not a good example to cite either as their position on drones is a total mess and their existing regulations are a patchwork of legacy rules designed to cover model aircraft.
Finland has the same system as Norway, and Finnish tabloids are full of the incomes & taxes of the rich and famous every year once the tax records come out. Last year, one of them published the tax records of all Finns earning over 120k EUR/year:

http://www.iltalehti.fi/verot-2016/tiedot/

http://www.iltalehti.fi/verot-2016/tiedot/top-kaikki.shtml (the top 2000)
Somehow Bitcoin reminds me of tulips.
Yes. People who don't explicitly vote should either be zero or add 1 to each side
You missed Dog License if you are doing historical ones...
What many don't realise is that the TV license is collected and administered by a private entity, serco, who make a substantial profit in operating it.

Last I checked the BBC receive something like 40% of the collected revenues.

So, while it ostensibly pays for the BBC, it's really just another arm of the octopus like serco, who run everything from prisons to call centres (in prisons!) to the dvla to the inland revenue.

They're the biggest company nobody has ever heard of.
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Does that mean that the product doesn't meet Californian regulations? How is that a selling point?
But there doesn't seem to be any nefarious agenda to that, simply that it sells papers.
How about a happy compromise: Ditch everything except mbasic.facebook.com (I have a hosts entry that does that) and messenger lite.

Both are perfectly usable and I can still have a social life, but it's not as effortless as just scrolling down so you tend to do it less and stop when you stop caring (well I do anyway). Definitely dialed back the background anxiety levels when I did that.
If I were scoping targets for burglary, I'd perhaps look for signs of assets worth stealing instead, but maybe just a sign of my inexperience
I get a letter from the BBC every month threatening me with court action if I don't buy a TV license.
"no deterrent whatsoever"?

I really don't think this is correct. It may not be a foolproof deterrent, but it's certainly a deterrent.

I don't like when this argument is trotted out for gun control and I don't like it here.
Ah the tail wagging the dog again sounds like facilities and I suspect hr have got to much power.

I know that the CEO when facilities where pushing for people to move to some industrial estate near Heathrow with zero pubic transport links "word class Telco's don't have a head office in a F%^king shed at Heathrow"
It could be the best UI ever, if it is not available it is useless.

In this particular example microsoft uses edge to push people to use the latest version of their adware/spyware OS.
Not necessarily. Being able to see what everybody else at the future company earns could put upward pressure on your salary in the long term.