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> “We’ve built a molecular-scale transistor ...

A co-author makes bolder claims. I guess in context, the meaning is different, more of a metaphor. And even though, diodes can form some logic gates (diode-logic).

> ... simple chemical changes within a molecule, can have a profound influence on the electronic structure of molecules, leading to different electrical properties.”

But what's really interesting is the size of 14 atoms in the core of the molecule. How does that compare to 14 nm feature-sizes of different FET-technologies?
There's a reason I still play 60-year-old guitars through tube amps and other ratty old gear.

It's kinda my escape from 1's and 0's. Sometimes I'm convinced we dove too fast into this whole digital everything, thing.
Sorry, "hot spot" would be more accurate.
Hey rudimental, Garrett (co-founder of Flock), we built this product because there wasnt a better way to solve crime in our neighborhoods.

Police are only able to solve 13% of cases due to lack of evidence. We are simply trying to provide the police with the evidence they need to do their job.

We believe this type of technology is inevitable (look at our highways and major city roads already). We believe the data should be owned by the community and not the government.

We care deeply about privacy which is why we (a) sell to neighborhoods and not the government, (b) only focus on cars/license plates and (c) allow residents to opt-out if they want to.
I think one element of limiting access to courts is forcing binding arbitration (http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170605/NEWS/170609...). Are there others?
Lol, thank you for this.
Thank you for being open about your own lack of control with the internet.

You're not alone.
Look into https://duplicacy.com/.

Not completely open source (commercial constraints), but may work for you.
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So, are you or are you not in agreement that monetary compensation after accidents (or crimes) is more likely to occur in the United States than in Europe regardless of the mechanism of getting such compensation (through the courts or through an insurance company)?
Which electric toothbrush?

I've had both Sonicare and Oral-B, and I prefer Sonicare, especially when I replace the heads a little bit sooner than recommended. (I loved them both though)
I suppose you're right, I just know that privacy has become more of a known issue than it was 10 years ago. I guess users don't back that knowledge up with action by switching browsers.
Whoever does branding at Google must have no idea how this stuff seems to average people who don't work at Google. They dropped the "Nexus" branding that likely cost tens of millions+ to build. They called their next phone the "Pixel" after they had a laptop called the "Pixel". They did "Chrome OS" despite the browser also being called "Chrome". "Fuchsia" is their other other OS but that's a pretty opaque name.

Is it really that hard to come up with any other random nonsense word for this stuff that doesn't make people think it's a different product? Why do they keep doing this? It doesn't help that their other stuff has names like "home", "now", "material", etc. It's like reductive minimalism to the point of meaninglessness. They might as well just name all their stuff with GUIDs.
>>> things they can wrap their heads around and grasp how they work

For me this is a synonym of "things they can repair, modify", that is, things they control. Maybe we feel a threshold here (threshold because this all started long ago).

Society advanced so much (to me) that anything you look at is now super advanced (be it technological, organizational, commercial). And therefore, much less controllable by oneself.
In HTML's case, the mass-market adoption and competing browser landscape meant that being anything other than lax and forgiving was a bad strategy for self-preservation: users would simply get frustrated and switch browsers to one that make better sense of the particular broken page. This conundrum explains the complicated and sometimes haphazard hoops that emerged through the efforts of browser-makers, standards-setters, and web developers to move the landscape forward: weird opt-in magic values for stricter handling, IE's eventual "is the page broken?" button, and the like.

HTML5 began as a splinter effort to write down what browsers actually do and mix in enough wishlists of what browsers should do, so it's only natural that they decided to codify many rules of handling broken HTML. While I too question whether it was the smart approach, it was definitely an approach that made sense to the stakeholders and authors of HTML5, who were largely actual vendors of browsers and parsers.

Even today, that browser vendors have pushed out all sorts of measures like near-mandatory TLS, stricter parsing of HTML is a goal no one really chases.

As an appropriate throwback, see Jeff Atwood on this topic in 2007 [1], complete with screenshots of different styles of browser error handling.

[1] https://blog.codinghorror.com/javascript-and-html-forgivenes...
Do you think NZ should be bucketed under Asia instead?
That assumes that one can arbitrarily exchange free hours and money. Most workers do not have that choice.
Sure, but they're all empty blocks
Yes, that's a good summary.
This was my favorite quote from the post:

"We strongly believe that quality content needs to be paid for by consumers — not advertisers — so creators can do their best work, and to align the incentives of everyone involved."

My Medium publication was the first outside studio to publish for their members, so I got to feel that difference first hand.

Previously, I always thought we were publishing articles that were helpful. But then I realized that we were often stopping short. We'd hope that people would click through to the "real" product. Or we'd run out of energy because good writing is time consuming.

So, writing for Medium's Members was the first time I ever blogged with an editorial budget and no pressure to satisfy advertisers.

Just as a writer and editor, changing the audience makes writing so much more fun. You want your writing to be this precious and perfect end product.

But all the baggage of being free cuts into that vision.

So, Amen to Medium for creating a place for the highest quality articles. I'm super excited to write more, to publish more and to read what other people do there.
I only skimmed the RAPPOR paper, but can you discuss the worst-case scenario where an NSA-like adversary is able to each data point when it arrives? Assuming this happens from the start, how much information would she be be able to obtain?

> We can also review the actual code that ships in Firefox, which is a big plus over the Chrome implementation.

Sure, but note that it's been implemented already and will be pushed to the users as an add-on, without going through the full release process. Even this HN post seems to have been prematurely buried.

It would have been possible for this to be deployed without anyone knowing. Post-hoc reviewing of functionality as sensitive as this is not the ideal solution.
Google Search is the default search engine on Google Chrome. Ads on Google Search is where a large part of Google's billions of dollars comes from.

Ergo, Google Chrome is one of the most valuable properties Google has.

Thinks like being able to dictate how the rest of the Internet behaves by adding warnings on different things, removing certificates, blocking advertising competitors, determining web standards, etc. are all just side perks.
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The commercial internet brought an unprecedented increase in the speed of communication.

Blockchains... Bring a secure, distributed ledger. That's nice, but this isn't Amazon replacing the Sears catalog.
Founder of StartupsAnonymous here. Was cool to see this come up in my feed. Thanks for sharing with the HN community ... happy to answer any questions.
This is a big one: its a browser they don't have to pay to have google made the default search engine:
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/14/google-paying-apple-3-billio...

It lets them use it as a jumping off point for some hardware:
https://www.google.com/chromebook/find/?utm_source=en-ha-na-...

And it appears they now have an enterprise version:
https://www.blog.google/topics/connected-workspaces/introduc...

I'm sure there's more, but I imagine, financially, I could have stopped after the first one.
> The kids themselves don’t get phones at all. When my 12-year-old daughter walks home from school without one, I intentionally have no idea where she is, just like nobody knew where kids were when I was growing up. How rare it is these days not to be able to know something.

Brilliant, but she's 12. There's an astounding difference between "knowing where my daughter is" and "enabling my daughter to call for help (e.g., 911) if she's in an emergency." You don't have to be a helicopter parent and track her location to give her the ability to have a tangible, modern benefit of a phone: the ability to immediately have police or paramedics if she needs them.
Google has slowed the adoption of ad-blocking by not making it a default in Chrome. That's a huge win for their main revenue stream.
The article clearly addresses this point. It mentions that many often store their powerwalls outside of their home and have battery manage systems to monitor the health of their powerwalls (i.e. power down when too hot).
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Early in my IT career my hands on experience was mostly limited to packaged ERP/CRM software. SAP, Siebel, and JDEdwards. The work was mostly functional or configuration. About 12 years ago I moved into a managerial position that lead to a director job with absolutely no hands on during that time. Honestly, I became bored out of my mind. My position was eventually eliminated and I opted to drop out of the IT world altogether to work in a completely unrelated industry for the 3 last years. I've been considering going back to my IT roots but it seems to me a lot of the non-techical roles are drying up. I'm considering a bootcamp for full stack development to retool my skill sets to be more technical based. Does it seem likely that industry will value my previous managerial experience combined with the relatively limited knowledge I'd gain in coding bootcamp?
I always found the vibrations of electric toothbrushes incredibly unpleasant.
My concern is that Mozilla has been on a "Sure, you can provide feedback, but we're gonna do it anyway" streak. Pocket is quite unnecessary, and would be a great candidate for an add-on. I don't know their reasons for bringing it in, but it seems pretty cut and dry that there were a lot of users who didn't want it even after it was cleaned up, and Mozilla ignored them.
I take my hearing aid out when I'm at the barber, because he sprays my hair with water, and I don't want him to snip my hearing aid with the scissors. I thought everyone with these hearing aids took them out, but the author mentioned being able to hear his hairdresser, and I'm like... wait, what?

Do other people with hearing aids wear them during hair cuts? Taking mine out leaves me deaf for the duration of the session. I don't like it, and I always feel like I'm missing out on some common social engagement. Everyone else seems to enjoy talking to their hairdresser, but since I can't hear, I have to sit there silently and listen.

A bit baffled, but wondering if I should just start leaving them in.
What is the mysterious 'white noise' and radio signal near St. Petersburg?
Hey sumoboy, you are right. Just having a picture of a suspect's face is rarely enough to prosecute. We constantly hear from Police that a license plate is the trick to start building a case.

Re: Pricing -- hard to put a price on something that can actually solve crime. In addition, most of our customers/prospects see more benefit to the technology than just solving crime (i.e., speeders).
Thi is a nice ego boost for you but I wish you had answered some of the questions that folks have posted.

What good is a backup tool if you a) can't restore using the native tool and b) you can't restore files from more than 30 days.
> what are your factors for deciding the best time to visit?

I used almost exclusively weather data. My scoring process is linked to near the date ranges I provide, so hopefully that is clear.

I would love to make better use of the number of people visiting. I had a really hard time getting additional travel data for what times are busiest, but I did my best with Google data. I'd even be willing to pay for tourist data by week or month, but I don't believe it exists on the scale I'd need it. If I find it, though, I'll be sure to iterate!

> Lastly, I don't recommend bucketing NZ under Australia :)

Good call. I changed the heading to "Australia & Oceania"
Outside of a specific legal, moral, or philosophical framework, the meaning of "Free Speech" likely varies too much from observer to observer to have much value in discussion.
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especially considering that people usually do not quote the following part of the quote : "Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%".
I wasn't specific, but you could go back to romans in the south and south-west.
I'm still on a smartphone, but I took away notification permissions from anything that doesn't need it. It's helped a lot with not looking at my phone more than I want to. If anybody wants an intermediate step before you switch back to a flip phone, give this a shot.

Looking at you, Facebook, with your "Somebody you don't actually care about posted for the first time in a while."
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Generally speaking, only gated communities are on private streets. Otherwise, every street is public and managed by the local city/county.
Dr. Cathy Bodine at Denver-Anschutz is doing this exact thing. It's not on the website but Totemic should contact her. They were using the Pebble previous to that company auto-bricking last year. She has had a lot of students working with that tech and using it out in the local community to great success. Dr. Sliker is also very very good with this stuff.

http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...

http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/Engineering/resea...
> Goldman Sachs and McKinsey put out a lot of free research because this thoughtful leadership help establish them as an authority for their main business.

That is, those departments are the advertising and PR branches for their main businesses. How can I trust the veracity of their claims knowing that their ultimate goal is to give me a favorable opinion of their parent organizations? This is the exact problem news organizations have always faced, but in the past attempted to counter with different sources of income and spreading advertising income between many clients.

What we have here is the equivalent of a technology newspaper fully owned and subsidized by Oracle. How much should I trust their assessment of different RDBMS systems? Should I trust articles in Facebook's equivalent that are telling me that all the concern over React's license are overblown?
Awesome stuff. With the obligatory "don't kill yourself doing something you shouldn't".

(Slightly off topic) It's funny how affordable solar seems when you remove the marketing and installation cost from it. Scale when you can. This sort of storage solution allows that.
This took me a couple re-reads to get. Very nice.
Funny but ironic, b/c your list is actually in reverse order, from low to high risk, not high to low. The lowest risk thing to do is actually just buy BTC & ETH and let the associated frenzy of ICOs and cryptoassets drive them higher while remaining relatively liquid and legal. #2 - #4 are sequentially higher risk from potentially illiquid (tokens) to grey area (ICO) to illegal, and the SEC has shown they have patience, reach, and savvy.
Yes! There's a few cities I visit very often but I ONLY visit in the "off season." Everything is much cheaper, things don't sell out, I don't get bothered by stupid events I have no interest in, parking is free or reduced price, I don't have to sit in traffic, and crowds are non-existent. I'd rather avoid crowds than pretty much any other factor other than maybe price.
Most consumer-goods markets have relatively elastic demand and high levels of competition. Companies have little ability to "pass on costs" in such markets.
This is super cool. Any comparison with Weld?
https://weld-project.github.io/
If you sell equity, and will pay dividends, why not just do an IPO? The SEC will treat you as a security anyways.
You're kidding right? Founders/employees take "money off the table", even if the companies haven't generated a cent in profit.
Wow, the more you know. Never would I have imagined something like this, but here it is.
> The customers don't have any recourse to say "no, that's a shitty settlement, we want 100% of what we're owed not 10% of it"

They definitely do, they can decide to opt-out, and retain the right to sue the company on that issue. But those who opt-out would have to go start their own lawsuit. For small matters where you were wronged by $120, and you only get $30 back, this is definitely not worth it to start your own lawsuit, the best action here is to take the money and boycott that company if possible. For bigger amounts, like lemon-law cars, it might be worth it, especially if the payouts look too small. For instance, $300 refund if you had to do multiple transmissions repair on your car doesn't seem that great, given that a transmission repair can cost from $500 to thousands of $ each. In that case it can make sense to opt-out.

> or "hey, 50% is too much for the lawyers, I'd rather take $0 than the shitty deal we were offered".

The article says they usually get $2 for $10, which can still look high I agree, but definitely not 50%.
Hah yes! I've always wondered why word doesn't have a dark theme. When I was a recruiter I was always working in word and outlook and it hurt my poor eyes. I wasn't allowed to install a blue light dampener either :( Luckily found settings on my monitor to cut the blues, but still.
Funny how litigation in the United States being based on the idea that access to the courts to redress grievances being fundamental for a civil society then causes that very same society to go out of its way to deny those rights to others.

Fairly incredible actually if you think about it for a while.
Sometimes they do!

https://www.rt.com/business/man-outsmarts-banks-wins-court-2...
Imagine people start driving through a park. Pedestrians and bicyclists complain. Drivers respond: This is just a more efficient use of space. If you prevent cars from driving into the park, they'll just cause more traffic along the arterials--that's not fair.

Streets are not fungible "vehicular transportation widgets." They serve many purposes. In many places, relatively quiet neighborhood streets serve as unofficial (but sometimes official) transportation infrastructure for pedestrians and bicyclists, as well as spaces for community. They can only serve this purpose if they are low-traffic. Taking your kids on errands on a cargo bike, or letting them walk to school or to a neighbor's house, or letting them play basketball on the street, or teaching them how to ride a bike--all possible on a low-traffic neighborhood street, all very ill-advised on a high-traffic one.

Higher traffic on these streets expands the space available for motor vehicles, but it literally destroys transportation infrastructure for bicyclists and pedestrians. As someone who lives on a major arterial but commutes (by bike, with kids) on quiet neighborhood streets, I strongly support the diversion of traffic to the former.
Credit report => another shit thing that doesn't exist in EU.
> Actually, the situation i long for is before the creation of the LLC, where shareholders were responsible for paying for the corporations lawsuits. LLCs are fairly recent invention, and also one that hurt consumers a lot.

Er, what? Shareholders are not responsible for paying corporate liabilities (except in rare circumstances where the corporate form is part of a fraud). The creation of the LLC as a new form of business changed nothing in this regard.
Most likely the justification is that they're not making enough money from the Home plan and instead of raising prices, they're cutting the lower plan.

Their actual list of feature differences [1] doesn't show much else in the way of justification.

[1] https://support.code42.com/Administrator/Small_Business/Get_...
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> I was exposed to Motorola 68K assembly in college and it completely changed my world--lots of C++ things I considered voodoo suddenly made total sense

Heh. I had this the other way around - picked up 68k asm for fun long before C/C++, and couldn't understand why people had such difficulty with the concepts in those.

I've never learned x86 - partly because I worry that I'd enjoy it too much and waste oodles of time "optimizing" things that don't need it. Probably useful to be able to at least read it, though.
Can you believe the people of Florida rewarded the chief of HCA for defrauding the taxpayers of America, by electing him to be their governor!
Everything is good in moderation. I have begun banning myself from sites like HN or putting my cell phone in do not disturb mode. I am not sure why these vapid "productivity posts" only have either or options and why it must be 100% one side or another.
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> So if you're on monthly billing, you've got about 60 - 90 days.

I got such a mail, mentioning:

"We will honor your existing CrashPlan for Home subscription, keeping your data safe, as always, until your current subscription expires.

To allow you time to transition to a new backup solution, we've extended your subscription (at no cost to you) by 60 days. Your new subscription expiration date is 09/13/2017."

There's no way I can fit 60 days between today and Sep. 13. I was about to ask about this, only to discover that their mail came from a noreply@ address...
those are associated with ... well, the chrome (the menu border, searchbar, etc.)
I always bring those "disposable" vibrating toothbrushes camping. The battery lasts longer than the brush does.
I didn't know Textpattern was still around, much less widely used. I'd used it in college to set up my first blog ages ago and it was a great introduction in the then-new notion of 'content management systems'. Is it still a thing? Wordpress seems to be the first, last, and everything in-between in this space now, it seems.
This is probably the perfect OS for any shared terminal: libraries, internet cafes, etc. You don't need native apps, just a locked down browser that can keep your settings and bookmarks across devices.
I did the same for Facebook - no more notifications. Unfortunately, that also stops notifications from Messenger which I'd prefer to get, but oh well.
Oh, what a shame! My family is a heavy user of the computer-to-computer backups that CrashPlan for Home offers. It's great knowing all of the data on our family computers is securely backed up so that I can fetch the drive from a 20 minute drive to the office or my parent's house.

In case of catastrophic failure, where on-site backups would also be destroyed or corrupted, I would hate to have a drive shipped from the United States to me. It would probably take forever.

Is there a alternative available that does computer-to-computer backups, and supports Mac and Linux?