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We changed the URL from http://www.kansas.com/news/local/crime/article192111974.html. That one has the advantage of being the regional newspaper coverage, but the Krebs article (found via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16032329) seems a bit more substantive. If people object, I'm happy to change it back later.
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My theory to explain the price surge is that cryptotraders are looking for non-correlation against Bitcoin which is currently trading at such a high value that it is making a lot of people nervous. Ripple is the largest coin that didn’t participate in the rapid marketcap gains that the BTC bullmarket pulled ethereum, litecoin, etc into. A lot of traders hear ‘centralized blockchain’ and think that makes it a good hedge against bitcoin’s distributed nature - doesn’t seem to be a lot of understanding about how these bank partnerships work or what an investment in an XRP token actually gets you.
> virtually all

Provide a link to the annual report for a single public company that does this and I will accept your claim.

Edit:

See the annual report for Priceline which owns Booking.com, Kayak, etc.

http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/PCLN/5793618865x0xS10...

P.33 They report real revenue of 10.7B with no mention bookings

P.41 They report gross bookings of 68B for the same period
I just skimmed the article, but it seemed a lot like a rip off of "The Pragmatic Programmer" to me.
I'm pretty sure Bloomberg has a pro-fossil slant: watch yourself.
It depends. Easily communicated product ideas can be validated on day 0 by talking to users.

Less easily communicated ideas often need at least a demo. Dropbox is one example.
That makes your first comment completely irrelevant with respect to its parent. It's also a stretch to say that you need to do anything to make AOSP work as it should simply because it contains extra noop APIs.
Star Trek comes to mind for me. PADDs, though (ironically enough) bulkier and clunkier than any real-world tablet device today, are treated as basically disposable. Characters are usually shown with one at a time, but it's implied they can get as many as they want, with a few scenes where a character has five or six PADDs laid out to compare different texts in a physical way despite them (presumably) all accessing the same data source.
Cigarettes cost about $0.10 a pack to manufacture so maybe $0.50 price for highly marketed brands. Price these days, with the added tax and sudo-tax lawsuit settlement, $5-$10 a pack. About 10x so 1000% tax or so. 20% seems mild especially considering normal sales tax in CA is around 10%.

I don't see a fundamental reason the cost of weed won't be around the price of tobacco in a fully legalized and big-ag growing environment. 5-10 years?
Its completely crazy. The world has gone nuts
It's not just "the new hot". Using pure CSS over a JS + CSS library like bootstrap has performance implications for your code. Besides avoiding yet another dependency, native CSS grid renders faster. Also, CSS grid being a native feature, you can use those skills in any project, anywhere, even one that isn't using Bootstrap.
Totally. But the vast majority of containers I use do not get a bind mount to the Docker socket... for which user namespaces would be a very nice feature.
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They are expensive because of the batteries, but battery price per kWh is dropping in a moores-law kind of way. Give it a few more years and there wont be any compelling reason to buy a dinosaur juice car.
I suppose the cheap second hand car market might take a bit longer.
Nah, Docker has taken lots of strides in the right direction for security over the years, Twistlock or not, albeit with a few weird dangling remainders. They'd love to turn user ns on by default but it'd break lots of existing stuff. Many more users would be mad about having that on by default than leaving it off.

Disclaimer: I worked at Docker for 3 years.
It doesn't, until it does... When the whole scenery is fraught with fraud and dubious ROI, you pull the plug and see how well you do without any advertisement.

http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/p-g-slashe/309936/

Plus, the money lost to fraud could have been better spent elsewhere.
Because he knows how to talk to them. He has a reputation for not divulging his sources, but is also not judgmental. He sees people like darkhats not as evil but as inevitable outcomes of security deficiencies, which meshes with their own perceptions. All of Krebs' topics are international in scope. Him being Canadian also really helps. He doesn't slip into all the various microagressions that drive so many people up the wall. He stays away from politics, or at least doesn't insert politics or religion into discussions where they aren't warranted.
Interesting. What's a specific example of how QT or swing is superior to web tech?
What evidence do you have of that?
> Today's cannabis is, in general, much more potent than it used to be.

I hear that a lot (especially from anti-legalization people), but I don't believe it makes any difference. What makes a difference to the consumer is the amount of cannabinoids consumed, not the concentration in a given amount of weed.

The typical weed consumption experience is to vaporize/smoke/eat some small amount, and reiterate until satisfaction. Once the sweet spot is reached the experience becomes less enjoyable. If your weed is twice as much potent, you'll iterate two times less...

One could imagine a scenario where a user is caught off-guard by a super strong weed, but I don't see this happening. Standard THC rates are 15-20%(?) you're not going to get much more than that amount and you will always notice at the first inhalation if the weed is more potent than what you're used to.

Edibles are different and need more caution. You can eat an arbitrary amount of cannabinoid and get sick. But this is not related to the weed potency.

I totally agree with you that schools should teach harm reduction strategies (don't smoke week but use vaporizers, be careful with edibles, don't drive, don't make it a habit). I also think that prevention should focus on the real risks of regular cannabis usage, which exist and are not benign (de-socialization, learning impairment...) instead of trying to scare people with things that are extremely unlikely to happen.
It doesn't make sense on a server, but on a desktop, unless it's actively thrashing, swapping is normally fine. It's not cool to kill off the user's possibly unsaved work with a few random process terminations.

There are other, more cooperative ways of doing it. For example, always save enough state to restore after a kill when becoming a background task. But it's also more work.
And don't forget that Lenin was a mushroom.
Sorry, but this is not true masonry because the heights of the items are fixed. Masonry layouts have dynamic height elements.
With stable national currencies like US dollar, there are debts, expenses, taxes, etc. that are denominated in the currency. And there is a national economy producing products and services for which people can pay with US Dollar. And financial infrastructure and laws to support the economy and currency.
Tiny, yet still we bump on each other on the interwebs :D

If anyone is interested in Boundless economy, it's a budding one. For serious traders this should be a prime time to start.
About a month ago I bought a used electric car as complement to our gasoline-powered family car. We live deep in the French countryside and virtually all our day-to-day rides are within 25km of home, and we drive about 1500km/month, not including long drives.

By my calculations we're saving about 150€/month on fuel, while the car itself costs 230€ including insurance and charging, so we basically get a second car for 80€/month, and lower the maintenance costs and depreciation on the gas guzzler. Other benefits are near-zero maintenance (no oil change, less brake wear), zero registration cost, a quiet and fun ride, and zero pollution!

For our situation an electric makes perfect sense! I'm actually looking forward to trading our first car for an electric, once it becomes economically viable.
The real point here: “Although today’s drivers aren’t too excited about battery cars, tougher regulations in places like China and the power-thirsty needs of driverless features could help speed the transition along”

It’s all about China. They have proven far more willing to impose their will on the market than any other country. China could very well ban all fossil fuel vehicles in one act and make king of whatever companies can supply them with electric cars.

Too much of the article is spent hand wringing over the US Market. The US Market is mature, stable, boring, and midsized. The real action is China and India.
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I'm not sold on that analogy. After all, fireworks are recreational explosives and we could count up a lot of destructive but non-malicious explosions as well as malicious but ineffective explosions (pipe bombs defused by robots or blown up in controlled fashion by bomb squads).

In the case of SWATting, the fraud is obviously meant to jeopardize the liberty of the targeted subject, and the jeopardy of their life at the same time is highly predictable, even that doesn't let the police officers off the hook.
Yeah, definitely turn it on where possible, just important to realize that it's not a panacea (some people really hyped it up to be before the feature was released and criticized Docker for not having it at all). As always, gotta try and find the right sweet spot between convenience and attack surface.
Historically, there have been a variety of reasons why electric cars did not take substantial market share. You likely know what they are: Range anxiety, lack of charging infrastructure, poor performance, funky styling, 'general dorkiness', .... The current independents have focused on these issues and in many cases, clearly eliminated them. Moreover, the market itself has evolved with the US in particular finally starting to wake up to environmental issues (T notwithstanding), and China making strident environmental policy out of pure desperation.

Add to the situation that a popular figurehead with a superhero alter-ego is leading the way with awe-inspiring (crash inducing) feats of science and technology, and I think we'll all be surprised at how fast electric vehicles become mainstream.
This list made me realize I have only ever seen Entropic Organizations. Is there even any other kind?
I don't do freelance anymore, but all my past freelancing projects have been using NodeJS.

I never learned it in college and only picked it up for an internship but it's has definitely proved very useful.
And with C++14 the stdlib provides out of the box alternatives for most syscalls. No cross platform woes needed.

Also, they do use Python. One of it's advantage is that it's easy to integrate with native code. So you should implement the hot parts in C++.
Haven't GM and Nissan both shipped more "mass market" electric cars than Tesla?
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037132.
Anxiety likely has more to do with how dangerous their job is than their moral fiber.
I don’t get it. You are acting as if the brownouts are typical behavior of a year-old battery in a phone?

The real scandal is the shoddy design and engineering that led to brownouts that necessitated either a massive recall or this throttling.
I think people tell themselves this, but it's not at all clear from his articles --- which are excellent --- that it's true. He's sure got no problem judging this clown, or the Mirai worm author.
Fantastic. Reminds me of https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/05/01/29/2017244/piezo-a...
True, except knowledge about the game, which will be enormous asset once 1.0 hits.

Also, it will not be wiped as in deleted forever, devs are pondering ideas about making those [archived] planets public or including builds in some way into new planets.
It's obvious to see that these strategies do work by looking at the effective corporate tax rate of all the companies mentioned. I've never heard of audits like you are talking about for the top few tech companies (Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook), do you have a pointer?

One of the points in this presentation was that for intangible goods, it's much easier to pull these schemes off, so it makes complete sense to me that Coke would get hit but tech companies would not.
Agreed. I drive a Leaf and I think the switchover is going to come faster than people think. Nonetheless its an interesting article despite its slightly sniffy attitude to electrics because it highlights the scary predicament that the big automakers find themselves in.
Developing a new car model is not done in a few months, they take years. So it's understandable that car companies start to plan the future now.

They also don't know if the demand will follow an S-curve and when. Disruptive changes are difficult to predict (probably predictions 11-12 years ago said Nokia would still dominate mobile phone market in 2017 :D)

The demand will grow as battery prices go down, and range of electric cars increases. When an electric car has the same price and range than a petrol car (and probably before, as maintenance costs for an electric car are lower), there will be no rational reason to buy a combustion car. It's only a matter of time
There are several sellers of so-called 'proxy' Magic: The Gathering cards. The two most known sellers are call themselves Black Lotus[1] and Villa Zheng[2]. They generally have the same product, printed somewhere in China on playing card stock. They typically are easily identifiable by their too glossy finish and not very good back coloration.

The idea purported by these sellers is that these cards are not intended to be sold as the real thing - even the price they sell the cards at reflects that. They're meant to be used in place of the real thing in your own decks either because you cannot afford the actual card that it is replacing, you have a damaged copy of the card that it is replacing, or you refuse to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a piece of cardboard. Undoubtedly some unscrupulous people try to pass these as real, and there's a large subreddit and section of the proxy community that tries to prevent this - reporting eBay sellers and generally informing people that they exist.

[1] Example of Black Lotus's product - you can see the old dual lands and power 9 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yozhleRg2SA

[2] Example of Villa Zheng's product - you can see that it's the same as Black Lotus and also contains the old dual lands and Power 9 as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRINgS8R-7w
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I've been itching to buy an electric car, but my current hybrid is still fine and gets ~45mpg. Additionally, the heavy incentives and constant model improvements have caused resale values to continuously plummet [1], so there's no rush for me to buy. I can get a lot more electric car for a lot less money just by waiting a bit.

[1] A cursory craigslist search lists Nissan Leafs for $5.5k @26k miles, and 2014 BMW i3s ~$13k @45k miles. Electric cars seem to hold their values very poorly.
+1 to that. The devs have also hammered out many of the core systems and are focusing a lot on balancing - which means lots of changes to watch & speculate how they'll effect the economy
I don't give them the benefit of the doubt and do have a problem with how ineffectively they're prosecuted for their conduct. But it's worth bearing in mind that in these SWAT-ing scenarios, they're deliberately put into the one uncommon circumstance that drives practically all of the rest of their abuse. It's a singularly evil thing to do.
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A bit of a correction: that article is talking about Wichita Falls, which is in Texas. This swatting/shooting is Wichita, Kansas.
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> guns, cars, explosives

all of which are regulated, unlike calls to SWAT..
I don’t think companies like Toyota are scared of Tesla. I think they’re skeptical of American consumers’ sudden shift in willingness to buy electric, after decades of mixed signals (to put it lightly). The Prius was a huge hit, and every automaker wants to hit that sweet spot next. It’s not about technology alone. You need to read the buyers, and America vacillates wildly between being eager to ditch ice, and stubbornly anti-green.
And if something doesn't work without Google Play Services, it might work with microG instead.
If you can trust your administrators then you don't need to worry about shell escapes in editors.

The idea for sudoedit is that it allows you to allow non-root users to safely edit files, and if they shell out of their editor then they've not gained root rights - they edit a temporary file as a regular user and then sudo moves the file into place after it is edited.
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Two things this article leaves out, both relating to China.

First, China has mandated that its domestic automakers sell 12% of their vehicles as all-electric or hybrid by 2020. There's your jumpstart for demand, as artificial as it may be. Policies in parts of Europe will help as well.

Second, China has several dozen domestic automakers, which must account for a fairly large share of these 127 battery-electric models mentioned in the article. Though the article also says 75 models have been announced that will sell in the US, and as far as I know none of the purely domestic Chinese automakers are in the US market today.
Except that data is there to prove the point - more guns correlates with more deaths. Regardless how you compare - different states inside US or different countries.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/2/16399418/u...
Apparently Linux privilege escalation bugs are now "Docker container escapes"? Thanks to Twistlock for a detailed article but call it what it is, a Linux vulnerability not specific to Docker.
Not selling the biggest island in the world for $2.4 bln in today monies was a mistake?

That's like the price of two London skyscrapers.

Denmark has a 305 bln GDP. That money would barely register.

Sure, today Greenland is not very useful, but what about in 50 years? Who knows what Denmark may be able to do with it then. And Denmark is not exactly a country with vast tracts of unused land.

If Greenland was mine, I wouldn't even pick up the phone for an offer < $100 bln.
Ok, I deserved that.

That said, it would be _really_ nice if the mods took those kinds of posts seriously - "I can't think of anything constructive to say, so I'll just find something to crap on and try to score points".
yeah, cause Kremlin presents being "free and democratic" as being "subjugated to the US" to its general population.

unfortunately, Russians who could see past that little trick were either exterminated or emigrated long ago.
Based on an estimate from another Bloomberg article (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-05/latest-bu...), the price will halve by 2025. That's 7 years, not quite Moore territory, and we're still talking about mid range or more expensive cars. I'd imagine a $3500 second hand electric car to be 2030+ territory, not quite "a few more years" :)
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This is not really such an obvious consequence as you make it out to be. Technology can channel different aspects of human nature more or less intensively. Bitcoin for example is a design which puts forward more of the „bad“ sides... through its design it channels greed at the expense of sustainability. Interestingly it only works if people participate and accept it, so we actually have a strong lever that we can work against it. Just don’t participate.

So to sum up... I think it’s mor appropriate to say the fundamental issue is how we design around human nature to create a world worth living...
Practice with colleagues. I find networking events impossible if I go by myself but fun if I go with someone from work.
As far as specific books go - find something that fits your culture. Lots of people from the USA rate Dale Carnegie highly, but as a British person that approach doesn’t feel quite right.
General interest psychology can be readable and enlightening. Thinking Fast and Slow. Emotional Intelligence. Maybe something on Mindfulness if you aren’t familiar with focussing on your own feelings and emotions.
> I might have lifted my Apple Watch and said “Hey Siri, record a note.” If I was using the Apple Neutron Star Edition Apple WatchOS, it would have had to correct for time dilation between time at my waist and time at my shoulder.

Would it, really? Using a back-of-the-envelope calculation using a formula pulled from Wikipedia[1], and assuming:

1. The Apple Watch needs to stay within 50 milliseconds as Apple advertises

2. The neutron star is around two solar masses and has a radius of 10 km, and isn't spinning faster than 1,000 times a second

3. The distance between your waist and shoulder is about a meter

it should take a couple hundred seconds before Apple Watch drifts out of sync. Should be long enough for Siri to record your note :)

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_time_dilation#Ou...
> You've conflated employing fraud with direct use of force.

He's conflating employing fraud to harm others with direct use of force. Put another way, should it matter whether you caused harm (and I'm assuming that means physical harm for this argument) using fraud or whether you paid someone to inflict it?

I think perhaps you interpreted the harm from fraud he was referring to as financial harm, but this specific issue is all about fraud that caused bodily harm.
This is one of the reasons I bailed on accounting as a possible study in college. I really liked the idea of accounting for the whole of a massive business and understanding every unit, but most of the advanced stuff ended up being "here's how to get creative and not go to prison over it". Obfuscation over clarification. Really strange profession.
One datapoint, but I witnessed an anxiety attack on a first time cannabis user (who consumed homegrown indica - sativa are usually more difficult to grow indoor as they get taller).

My conviction is that all these theories on strains having such different effects is mostly BS. Until we have scientific evidence, I stay very skeptical.
And if you expect to use them, try microG - the free software reimplementation of Google Play Services.
If you ask me, this "slow roll-out" of legal cannabis in the United States has been planned and directed entirely by big business the entire time.
Don't you think the response from Apple (lowering battery replacement costs, modifying the OS to show the user what is happening) is a clear indicator that they really fid feel a backlash rather than the usual Apple bashing by non Apple customers?
Nissan had, at some point, sold more Leafs than Tesla ahad sold Model S's, because Tesla didn't really start selling cars in large numbers till 2013 so Nissan had a bit of a head start. I don't think GM have sold that many pure electrics although the Bolt is out-producing the Model 3 right at this moment.

But if you factor in Tesla's plans for the next 24 months or so, which they seem capable of pulling off, then no-one else is going to be able to catch up with them for five years or so.
Well it's already pretty hard to exploit Android, the kernel is the weak point at the moment.
I've studied the grsecurity code a lot and if you can exploit that stuff you can get high paying jobs for either red team or blue ;)
Making it harder and driving up the cost to use/write exploits and ofcourse making everyone more secure is the end goal for the sec team :D
What about the officer that shot the guy? What about the person responsible for dispatching a whole assault team based on a single call?