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If you have the money to buy a luxury car, you probably aren't scrutinizing cost of ownership as much as someone buying an economy model. Plus the dealers want the extended business and high end cars are more likely to be serviced at a dealership. Thus, high end manufacturers do not focus on reliability. Another contributing factor is cutting edge features. The motorized lift gate won't go bad in your economy car because it doesn't have one.
Google customizes search results to what you want to see, at your IP level, even if you aren't logged in, from what I've observed. You'll need to mask all your traditional online traits that Google is mining and you're search results will/should change
I think like devnonymous says, SnapCircuits are a good choice. They aren't breakable and can be quite fun to play with.

But, to be honest, 5 is pretty young for them to grok a whole lot. Most of this at this age is really about building something with you. You'll be doing most of the work, and they'll just be mastering the physical aspects of it. Don't try and explain or expect too much as it can be very frustrating to them.

Mindstorms isn't really going to help much and Arduino / pi should wait until 7 or 8.

Another good choice is Minecraft Redstone Circuits. Most kids love it and it provides an immersive way for you to build electronic systems together.

(I run a program teaching kids coding + robotics in the bay area, happy to answer more questions if you have them! contact info is in my profile)
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What looks amazing from the outside might be quite stressful from the inside, and vice-versa. I think we aren't able to predict a relationship before we experience it because each person adapts to the other, and the result is undetermined before the process starts. A person becomes changed in a relation, we can't predict even how we are going to be, let alone the significant other. That has been my experience - I'm rather pessimistic at dating services being able to match people up. It's more of a game of chance.
He was talking bad about Google so you aren't supposed to question it. (kind of like the parent article).

Angry pitch fork Internet mobs don't like skeptics. They probably would have been superstitiously burning witches 1000 years ago but now there's a different work of Satan to get all frothed up about. It's ridiculous. Google has done an immeasurable amount of good in the world by bringing knowledge to millions of people. By helping cross cultural barriers and disseminate ways of thinking. Unlike most "startups" Google really has changed the world. But hey, a professor got fired and some opportunistic journalist is making un-evidenced spin, so fire the torches up. If you don't get with the mob you are obviously a witch as well.
Lots of murderers leave behind manifestos. For some reason, Kaczynski's has always been well-regarded by the media. This is a testament to its sheer political banality, rather than any "funkiness". The guy was sayin' what all the newsmen were merely thinking. "Cool!"

Now, Elliot Rodgers had a funky manifesto.
Programmer, maybe we can read tech news in an easy way
"Now that Amazon's one-click checkout patent has expired this is actually legally viable."

It would require you to add your credit card to every site that wants it at least once. It wouldn't be very convenient and people shouldn't be giving out CC info on the internet that freely.
That it’s only a heuristic would be rather the point; users would be able to select urls they wished to disable.

In fact you could probably crowd source training data for a deep learning model so that it could eventually be automated.
I drank the linux koolaid and haven't used apple software in ages, but I will consider myself informed, good to know.
This year, I've had two medical providers I'm interacting with for the first time email me health/diagnosis related material (regular old email, no cryptography nor "log into your secure email" web site involvement). I'm not sure what role HIPAA's really playing, these days.

I'm increasingly expecting "the government" (specifically, for me, in the U.S.)to step in with the old rubber hose / lead pipe and "secure" email by dint of finding ways to prosecute people who "steal" data -- even when that data is not physically/cryptographically secured at all.

Use and mainstream economic dependency have grown to the size where that is how they will "solve" the problem, I expect.
I'm suggesting that, as a sibling pointed out, there are differences beyond purely who is speculating. Investing in the structure that ICOs are outside comes with a certain level of rights and protections.

Have you considered the possibility that there may potentially be good reasons for investor accreditation systems? That the reasons for such systems might not be solely to keep the highly profitable world of venture capital the exclusive preserve of the super-rich?
I remember back 20-ish years ago when there were all sorts of one year "Multimedia Specialist" programs popping up. Same problem, extremely low bar (ie. have cash? you're in!) and the graduates end up with a bunch of basic skills but no frame of reference on how to apply them to actual problem solving.

Not sure what ever became of those colleges, but they sure pumped out the students.
a) Feedback needs to be real-time (e.g. < 10s)
b) Humans need that extra device. In home displays are key to long term daily user engagement.
c) Disaggregation doesn't show super positive results so far.

Super easy read on the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1605.00962.pdf
How is this prophetic rather than a long-tread subject?

Super obvious example are the well-publicized doubts of many scientists involved in inventing nuclear weapons.
I have relatives who are in education, and I was fairly shocked to hear how Google has taken over that space. I don't think this is a good thing at all. Not sure what can be done about it, though. If they become as dominant here as they are elsewhere, they really could control the world's information from cradle to grave. takes tin foil hat off
What do they do for reproducibility?

I'm pretty sure those types of things, such as social sciences, can be tested and reproduced, but I'd imagine there are ethical concerns.

How do you reproduce Hitler's affect on politics and not end up on the receiving end of a tribunal in Hague?
That's a lot of stuff though to be fair. This On Point episode seems very timely: http://tpr.org/post/big-business-youth-sports . I didn't catch the entire thing but they were discussing some pretty shocking dollar amounts parents spend on sports that are not football.
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How is that not fraud?
I grew up in a fairly out of the way area in a red state, but we had this cool elective in high school called simply enough "Technology". We had AutoCAD, computers, little bridge building things, etc.

One of the few lessons that really stuck with me was when the teacher was discussing technology one day and one of the students grappled with this very philosophical point. Basically the posed it as something like "we should just ban technology X because people do bad things with it". This was 1998 (dating myself) so it isn't like computers were the force they are now in everyone's mind.

What unfolded is this basic discussion: people are the ones doing the bad things. Technology is just a force or thought multiplier. He explained it so well. It sort of clicked into my brain then and that discussion still sits pretty firm in my mind.

I don't think all technology can find inherently bad uses, but most of it can. Computers are at the heart of every military technology now other than explosives. Physics are at the heart of nuclear weapons. etc. etc.

I think Ted would have still did what he did. He was a narcissist at heart. He felt his view on it was somehow that much more special than the same view we arrived at in 1998 in my high school class in many ways.

That said, ill just leave this here and say I think this guy saw further into the future than most people ever have, but I see sentiments like this all over HN these days:

50. The conservatives are fools: They whine about the decay of traditional values, yet they enthusiastically support technological progress and economic growth. Apparently it never occurs to them that you can't make rapid, drastic changes in the technology and the economy of a society without causing rapid changes in all other aspects of the society as well, and that such rapid changes inevitably break down traditional values.

51. The breakdown of traditional values to some extent implies the breakdown of the bonds that hold together traditional small-scale social groups. The disintegration of small-scale social groups is also promoted by the fact that modern conditions often require or tempt individuals to move to new locations, separating themselves from their communities. Beyond that, a technological society HAS TO weaken family ties and local communities if it is to function efficiently. In modern society an individual's loyalty must be first to the system and only secondarily to a small-scale community, because if the internal loyalties of small-scale communities were stronger than loyalty to the system, such communities would pursue their own advantage at the expense of the system.
Those standards are really confusing.

Losing the house is okay if it's a single flood, but adding on a couple $1 losses will make you ineligible??

And $4000 is extremely low in comparison. You'd think someone that pays >$500/year for insurance and has a $1000 claim every decade is a great customer.
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Yes, and and that a much more common convention than the one I favour. They do it partly because it keeps the factors of c out of the visible equations -- but I like my those cs.

Another reason is that people instinctively feel that the elements of the coordinate tuple all have to have the same units. But that's not necessary when you have a metric around. Indeed keeping irregular units is helpful because it prevents you from accidentally forgetting to multiply through by the metric.
it's fraud.
Doesn't Accelerated Mobile Pages offer something like that? That puts all your content on the Google domain, including the ads (or some version of them, I think?).
Interesting. No paywall on my phone, but paywall on the desktop . . .
Yeah people interpret the term in different ways. Personally, I just consider it to mean living on property that doesn't have utility easements on it. Generally that will put you in an area with a lot of open space.
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> You can't do a value transfer when there is no value.

Fortunately for Bitcoin, there is value. And as long as people continue to derive value from its function, it will continue to deliver it.
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Tinfoil hats for the whole planet? I love it!!!
I had a Leaf for 2 years. Maintenance costs were practically nonexistent (more than covered by the wildly overpriced, and still low, up-front prepayment). Seems all they did was change an air filter a couple times.

EXCEPT the tires. A surprisingly under-reported (hopefully because it may have been resolved) issue with EVs is they can wreck tires in a hurry. IIRC, I had to replace "65,000 mile" tires in 17,000 miles because they were near bald. That glorious incredible acceleration EV owners so enjoy when taking off from stoplights? the enormous torque tears that rubber up fast. Fortunately there are now tires built specifically for EVs and their intense strains, but I've not seen reports on how they're doing and expect they're relatively much more costly per-mile than tires for ICE vehicles.
Parent used the phrase "do no evil" which it never was but sometimes gets misinterpreted as. As you show, the actual phrase is "don't be evil." The two phrases mean quite different things.
Standards should never have allowed third-party scripts to load without insuppressible user prompts. This cluster-fuck could have been avoided.
I don't mean to preach, but that is a damn good article, don't just read the comments, read it.

So many nuggets, particularly around the maturation process that is mentioned in college where one goes from having a "dualistic" perspective to learning that the world's environment is relative, what happens to to people who reject that view, etc.
I largely agree with you, although you are condescending. American cars are pretty reliable these days (albeit not as reliable as Toyota at their best). Having wrenched on both, Ford and Chevy are excellent at making good cars as cheap as possible (or cheap cars as good as possible). Their engineering is just good enough for the vehicle to work, with no effort to go above and beyond.

And to tigershark, Ferrari and Lamborghini are both notoriously unreliable. It's just the price you pay to have good performance. If you make things more reliable, it tends to mean more metal and bigger bearings, which makes it heavier and reduces handling.

Refences:
http://www.reliabilityindex.com/manufacturer
http://www.dashboard-light.com/reports/Mid-size.html
The fallacy in your thought process is that you can't imagine how the world changes if the scalpers disappear.

Today's reality: A guy discovers a band he likes is playing in town in 10 days, hops on to stubhub, and buys a ticket at 300% markup.

Your fantasy world where scalpers magically disappear: A guy discovers a band he likes is playing in town in 10 days, hops on to Ticketmaster and buys a ticket at msrp.

Actual reality if scalpers magically disappeared and prices stayed the same: A guy finds out a band he likes is playing in town in ten days and tries to buy a ticket, but he finds out that the entire concert sold out 5 months ago and he is just shit out of luck.

You may believe that a scalper holding a ticket hostage for a higher price adds no value, but the mere fact that you buy from them at all is a testament to the value they created: they held on to a ticket that you were too fucking slow to buy, and kept it out of reach to all the people who were poorer than you, and did so long enough for you to realize that the concert existed and you wanted to buy a ticket to it. And you begrudgingly admitted that that value was worth the markup you paid the minute you consented to buying it.
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It absolutely is fraud. I worked on one of those big video exchanges and we'd sometimes see ads run through our own system multiple times. We couldn't spot it until after the ad ran because of the way the ad actually plays. It ends up a bunch of black box Russian dolls, where the spec says you call methods on the ad unit you are playing, which will just wrap another ad unit, which in turn wraps another ad unit.

We could piece together what happened sometimes after the fact, but not reliably.
I really think for this to work well, the payment system needs to be tightly integrated into the browser, something like Steam.
It looks like Sony's Android phones have this option https://www.phonearena.com/news/Sony-Xperia-Marshmallow-upda...
And look at how he's made it much worse. Clickbait headlines, political pandering. They have some good content but I'm so sick of the bad stuff I go elsewhere.
I don't get it. Google is under no "obligation" to fund something. Sure, using funding a way to convince people to do things is shitty, but at the same time, you can't really make someone fund something they don't want to. It's not like it's their duty to keep funding New America.

And honestly, we should not trust something funded by X to be unbiased towards X anyway, that's just common sense.
A credit forum has back-engineered chunks of the scoring algorithm via experiments run by members.

Your fico score is sensitive to net credit usage (quite reasonable), but also very sensitive to the usage on any individual card. eg Say you have a fico score around 800, $100k in total credit, and are using $1-2k for transactional spending that month. However, you still have an old credit card with a limit of $300, on which you charge $151. Maybe it's a gas card. Now you have an individual card reporting more than 50% utilization (but still a trivial amount of usage compared to your income and net credit.) Your score will take a 60 plus point hit.

You will also take a hit if you don't have an installment loan. Hence people find banks that allow you to prepay loans, take out $2k loans, then prepay them down to the minimum balance the bank will allow; say $1/month for the next 59 months. This can also bump your score 20-40 points.

Things like this, and their long fight against disclosing fico scores (and in particular, all your fico scores -- you have at least three relevant fico scores per credit reporting agency: the old 04-ish versions used for mortgages; fico08, commonly used for credit cards; and car ficos) can have enormous impacts on eg the cost of a mortgage. Fico is an ugly combination of stupid and/or evil.
> We all have an attention budget. If a static type system frees us from thinking about certain types of errors, then we can direct that attention to other areas of the task at hand.

A static type system also requires continuous attention. The question is, does it free attention faster than it consumes it?
Trying to predict desire might be easy, but predicting happiness in a relationship hard. It's like a weather simulation after the first 10 days - becomes too hard to compute.

Besides attraction, other things might come into play in predicting relation happiness - such as dialogue style, extraversion/introversion, specific needs of one in relation to the strengths of the other and specific situations in life the couple has to deal with. Some of these things might emerge from a psychological interview, others happen dynamically and are impossible to predict.

And most people are very time sensitive - the same person might be available now that was not a week ago. The availability for dating of some people measures in just months between long term relationships, so they are like 99% of the time unavailable even if they are compatible. Searching for a mate is hard because most compatible people are presently attached and you got to get them at the right time. That might be mitigated by going on a dating site, but unfortunately dating sites are full of people who are there for other reasons than serious relationships.
A couple questions:

1. Do the log records pass through the sequencer nodes on the way to their destination, or does the writer issue a request for the sequence number and wait for a response?

2. If you're maintaining the current epoch number (and sequencer location) in Zookeeper, and a sequencer starts going up and down, you're definitely going to have problems, because nodes will get potentially stale epoch/location data from Zookeeper. Unless, that is, you have Zookeeper run a full consensus algorithm for every single query for every single record you write, which would kill performance.

So as long as you're using single sequencer nodes, and dealing with replication, and doing some kind of leader election to pick a new sequencer node when one goes down, why not just run a normal consensus algorithm (like Raft) for storing records? The Raft leader node serves as the sequencer, it takes care of replication, it tolerates failures, it will be no slower than what you're doing now, and it will be way more reliable.
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I'm looking for some good freeway traffic simulators if anyone has a preferred library or application for that. I see some open source options, but they look a bit outdated - curious what's cutting edge.
Good grief, it's like an invisible war going on inside your browser.

> We're on a mission to drive them out of business

But if you succeed, won't you go out of business? It's like antivirus vendors: if there were no malware, there'd be no need for AV software. How do you remain ethical? If you win, will you close up shop?
I just posted about tires. My single data point is that "65,000 mile" tires lasted 17,000 thanks to high torque. Decided to replace those "eco-friendly" tires with "made for EVs" tires which cost substantially more, and I expect would last only a "normal" distance.

Between Nissan, the tire manufacturer, and contending the "factory spec" was defective by mis-design & thus at least partially covered under warranty, I managed to get the price way down.
I believe I only paid for the equipment and Fairpoint paid the installation expenses. This was about nine years ago and I didn't pay as much attention to it as I should. I was pretty occupied.

There are only six residencies in my unincorporated township. All but one have DSL, now. The one that doesn't have it, doesn't want it. They live beyond where the power and phone lines stop, anyhow.

Anyhow, they are all pretty happy and grateful. As I was moving into the area, this was a good ice breaker. I'd say that I definitely got good value for the money. I get ~12 Mbps down. More importantly, a neighbor brought me some Piccadilly, just today. Worth every penny.
No, he has an agenda as well. His position is a little less influenced now though because HBO's business model doesn't involve advertisements. I'm sure he doesn't bite the hand that feeds him either.
All our taxes are used to subsidize gasoline too.
since they receive patent licensing on exFAT, you can bet that! :)

which is the same reason that there is no implementation in the kernel, only fuse. ugh.
Genius is definitely a great way to annotate and share text on the web. Our tool is built with web creators in mind (think freelance web developers, web designers, agencies, startups etc), and is more optimized for that use case.
"And the state itself echoed the comments of Judge Furnari, noting in its press release announcing the consent order "we do not believe Tidbit was created for the purpose of invading privacy.""

What about every other ad network in existence? They are specifically designed to invade privacy. Why isn't NJ going after them?
You're also not allowed to tackle a player without the ball in American football. You're allowed to block, but when two players come together, especially at the snap, it can be a violent collision.
decentralization _does_ solve useful problems. The hard part is how do you get rich off of keeping data out of centralized servers, or having financial privacy, or creating platforms for USERS to get rich.

I'm a bitcoin maximalist but there is an upcoming ICO that i have to plug. I bought some to use, not to speculate on, but in hindsight I didn't realize there was an opportunity to make some profit.

It's a lending platform. P2P lending w/o the need of banks. You don't need credit for a loan because you put up collateral in the form of Bitcoin (or probably Ethereum as well).

I've seen all the pump/dump tokens, and i'm not interested in those. I'd actually use and benefit from this platform. I hold a pretty significant amount of BTC and I learned after selling some btc to never sell again. However, If there is a time when I need $USD, I can put up my BTC as collateral, have USD deposited to my bank account, pay interest on it, and once I've paid it all I get my BTC back as well.

It's so easy to be cynical this early, and I don't blame you but we're still 3-8 years from the "Facebook" era of crypto... you're upset because we don't have the ecosystem now, but that's also because people are still coming out with use cases.