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Sure. Technically, they don't need arms at all. That doesn't mean that the 'well-armed' part of 'well-armed militia' should just be ignored.
>The service is essentially public, like education, health, and roads.

Could not disagree more. I am not a Facebook user. While I have benefited much from education, health, and roads, and would stand to lose a lot were they not present even if I chose not to use those services. As a non-Facebook user, my life has not been negatively impacted by not using it, nor has it been positively impacted by other's using it.

The value of this service is so low that I would absolutely be opposed to the state getting involved in providing Facebook alternatives, and would really not want my taxes going towards it. Let those who value it pay for it (whether financially or through their data).
Well, sure, in 2009 it was far worse, maybe 1000:10:1. However today isn’t exactly a walk in the park.
Yes. Also, I worked at the downtown McDonald’s then (3rd and pine), which was pretty run down and a hangout for homeless at night, so my impression is pretty biased. Not sure if this is still true, but back then many of the homeless were Native Americans, which is unique to the PNW (and Vancouver) grit, I guess.
Indeed, especially when most computers and phones are literally covered in the target fingerprints.
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For example you could have three boxes, only one of which has food in it. Paint that box with UV fluorescent material like that which is on their beaks and repeatedly show the bird where the food is and let it eat it. Then stop showing it and let it go to the box on its own. Then start switching around the location of the boxes and show the bird which box has food in it. Then keep switching the location of the boxes but don’t show the bird where the food is. Do this in all of the different lighting conditions that the bird would typically come across in nature. See if under any of these conditions the bird can consistently identify which of the boxes has food in it. If it can and if it’s not due to smell or sound then it has to be because of what it can see. Ensure that other than the fluorescence there is no other visual distinction that makes the box identifiable. Do this by making new boxes every now and then and replacing the old boxes with those.
If you post something that might slightly suggest totally unfettered capitalism has negative consequences, you might be outed as not being a blind devotee of Ayn Rand.
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Myst and Riven are fond memories for me. Riven was a real masterpiece, though; after the success of Myst they went to town on it. I never paid much attention to the sequels, since gur raqvat bs Evira onfvpnyyl cerpyhqrf frdhryf, and they weren't made by the Miller brothers. In my own personal mind-canon Riven is the end of the series.

Riven's use of puzzles is actually very good when compared to other adventure games of the day; pretty much all of the puzzles are justified in the context of the world that you're in. It's like an anthropologist-archaeologist simulator: you're visiting an unknown world and you have to figure out a lot very quickly, which personally I found a very compelling hook.

This doesn't mean that some of the puzzles aren't very difficult... the game is genuinely hard and use of guides was very common. (I ended up using one myself when I played it as a kid; I somewhat regret this.) But in this era of dumbing-down I actually think it's to the game's credit that it expects a lot of intelligence out of you (how many games expect you to erirefr ratvarre na haxabja ahzore flfgrz?), and it goes to a lot of effort to give you what you need to work with.

There are a few exceptions... a certain pair of double doors was a pretty cheap trick, for example.

What's nice is that the adventure genre seems to be experiencing a (small) revival; I think Portal started it. Before Portal the use of modern rendering technology and first-person perspective was, bizarrely, almost exclusively used for FPSes, with anything else tending to use e.g. third-person 3D. Only with Portal did people seem to sit up and notice the potential of first-person non-FPS gameplay. Before, there seemed to be an attitude that anything not an FPS shouldn't be first person -- I recall reading that when Mirror's Edge was proposed, apparently executives were skeptical and pushed for a third-person perspective. Now we have things like Portal 2, The Talos Principle, etc.
Yes, and that was due to existing EU data protection law, which gives you the right to access your personal data.

The GDPR states that it must be accessible in a common digital format which is new.
The people who make up the tech industry been a huge proponent of regulating all sorts of things at all scales, from individual actions to small businesses to large corporations.

The use of the FB/CA "scandal" to promote knee jerk legislation that burdens the tech industry is just tech being on the receiving end of something they have no qualms about advocating for when it happens to a different industry.
Yes, this is basically correct. There's an open RFC to add futures to libcore; https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2395

But we have no plans on pulling anything more than that in.

> so that there can be better integration of ownership/borrow checking with async tasks?

It's more about conventions and stability; traits are a great thing to put in the stdlib so the entire ecosystem can use them as an interface.
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Don't lions eat meat?
Silicon Valley brought this to itself. I used to warn of this before, too, that they can't continue to do "evil stuff" and expect to have people's backing when the governments will come after them to regulate them for whatever reason. But they continued because they saw that nobody leaves them over the crap they pull so they thought there must be no consequences to their anti-consumer moves.

The only downside I see is that governments will use this excuse to bring more censorship and anti-encryption laws, too, and I hate that Silicon Valley companies put is in a position where we have to either put up with their crap or side with governments and get some bad internet laws passed.

But right now, I think it's time to rein in on the Silicon Valley companies over their abuse of user data. Then we can deal with the abuse of user data by ISPs, data brokers, and everyone else. Ideally, this would be solved with a GDPR-like law, so that even ISPs "lose" in this scenario, and the consumers win. If we're lucky we may be able to stave off the government from trying to put an anti-encryption bill into the whole thing.
As someone that is programming a finance tech app, every regulation is bad for the future.

I am not afraid of regulation but its an annoying burden to keep big players big, and small players non-existent.

Most people do not have the money or motivation I have, and those people lose out because of regulations.

Never let a good tragedy go to waste.
> Have fun getting ticketed for operating in the wrong area without checking local laws.

I've seen more than one food truck which eventually became a stationary establishment because there was only one (desirable) place they could work out legal status. It's pretty common for local laws to include "no selling food from a non-storefront within X feet of a restaurant", which can quickly close off all the good territory.
It's a shame, Uber won't work on this nearly as hard as the founders did. Like you said founders delude themselves that buyers will help make their vision a reality. Even Facebook, seemingly the best, most hands off startup buyer, is now consuming WhatsApp and Instagram and moving out the original founders.

But...

From Uber's perspective, they have a lot of cash right now. They are worried about a self driving future where Waymo takes all the rides from them. Drivers are expensive (at least half the ride price), and electric assist bikes removes driver wages from the ride expense. And really what is Uber's big monopoly advantage? Just the 2 sided market, but it's local. With a 1000 drivers + advertising you could compete in a local market with them. Right now they are subsidizing a lot of their rides with the world's largest pool of capital, but eventually their capital will run down. If this is a good business they will get competition.

The shared bike business is capital intensive (buying bikes, building infrastructure) but that capital actually buys you some monopoly moat power. It's a really tough business for a startup to be in, but a pretty good fit for a big company. Uber could also do some cool things like a long haul Uber carpool to a bunch of Jump bikes just outside of downtown. Ie. shuttle up 101 to SF, Jump bike to get you through traffic.

For the Jump founder, they have been working on social bikes since 2010, the Uber deal probably includes a cash payout for some of their stock (often after a year). A reasonable guess is that the first 7 years of that were starvation times with a capital intensive business and low capital. At this point the founders might have 20 to 60 percent of the company, with half their stock paid for in cash they might get 10 to 30 million dollars in a year plus the same amount in Uber stock, which is pretty liquid. Plus whatever new grant in Uber stock they get for staying on (it would not be weird if this was another 5-10 million per executive over 5 years). And fundraising is just a massive pain.

From the Jump CEO's perspective:

Sell
$10-40 million / founder, almost certain payout
Never fundraise again
Lose company (everyone pretends, but that's what happened)
Still get to run company for a few years
Slowly watch your good culture be consumed by Uber's bad culture.

Compete
Compete with
- the 3 electric scooter startups that have launched in SF in last 2 weeks
- Uber and Lyft
- buses
- Go bikes
- self owned bikes and ebikes
- driving personal cars
2-7 years of hard work before cash, but then more money
Go before Board of Supervisors meetings to explain your plan for fishing bikes out of the bay
Keep company and autonomy
Make vision a reality

The world loses a lot when great startups like this don't compete, but it's understandable that founders sell.
Are you in the lab grown meat industry?
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thanks for that! it was an instant-star.

However, my approach was to start with an more-or-less small project with react / redux / typescript. In the beginning it was a pain, but now it works.. mostly.
That's exactly it. I'm in a perpetual state of being "tired", but rarely ever (outside of specific timing windows) in a state of being sleepy. This is partly because I also have a correlated condition called "Delayed Sleep Phase Disorder" which means my natural circadian rhythm is shifted (and unfortunately not in alignment with social norms for when I should be alert and asleep).

Sleepiness is the feeling you experience right before you actually fall asleep; the overwhelming relaxation that drags you into the unconscious. Tiredness is being too exhausted to feel or express emotion. You're awake, but mentally absent, and incapable of completing any productive task. It's one of the most frustrating feelings in the world to be unable to do something as simple as sleep. I'm extremely jealous of the people, like my roommate in college, who can seemingly will themselves into sleep within 5 minutes of laying their head down.

My insomnia was especially difficult to deal with while I was in school because it made me prone to stupid mistakes on exams. I would often misread or glaze over important details, especially on any trick or multiple choice questions, and in more than one class those little mistakes cost me grade points. It also often didn't matter how much I would study as my memory retention was horrible. Anyone who's read a book whilst tired can attest how difficult it is to not only process the words on the page, but to remember them for later.
I work on gpl'd systems software that is very relevant to my interests but I look to the future and can't see myself doing this for many more years, software as a whole is just so depressingly mundane
you can delete other people's task histroy. please fix this.
Interesting example. Railways in my country are State-managed and I don't find them a good service at all. Are yours?
Are there places built that nobody owns? What are you saying?
The point is to investigate new airframe technologies, not fully integrated flight systems which the commercial world can handle with DoD contracts.
I think people are understandably wary of new regulations, namely because:

* The US isn't immune at all to regulatory capture [0]

* It's highly likely there are already existing regulations and laws that cover this but merely aren't being enforced (in which case, why would these new regulations be enforced either?)

* ISPs undoubtedly have a huge conflict of interest here

Which isn't to say that new laws are always a bad idea, more that they should be a measured response and not a knee-jerk reaction spawned by bad actors.

It's also far easier to point out badly crafted and/or ill-intentioned law proposals than it is to create effective and fair legislation, but both are necessary for the process to move forward.

That is, I think many people would agree with you (one need only read the comments on any of the threads about Equifax), but think this is basically an untenable place to start from.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_Stat...
Most of what I've read on techdirt over the past couple years seems to represent a bad faith effort to frame the current situation as "ISPs vs. Silicon Valley and the users", where the reality of the situation is "ISPs and Silicon Valley vs. the users" (and there's a recent situation in California where the ISPs teamed up with Silicon Valley to prove that point). It's hard to give the benefit of the doubt to that site at this point.

..and I say this as someone who used to be a big fan of that site. It's disappointing.
> It's a bug with their system

Confident about that? It's certainly not the only service I get break in attempts on, fwiw
> I’m legit worried for the next generation of kids who grow up on YouTube consuming endless amounts of ads and crappy entertainment.

That's what we grew up on, too. I was hoping that streaming video would let me cut ads out of my kids' lives, but... they just changed form.
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The ISPs are in an all out attack on competitors like Facebook/Google/Netflix/others. ISPs bought their way into the market with the ISP privacy protections being removed [1][2] and net neutrality being killed rather than innovating. The privacy protections being removed helped lessen the FCC grip on privacy and helped their case, with legislators not the people, to remove FCC net neutrality protections.

It is obvious everywhere that massive PR pushes are going on and astroturfing to a heavy degree everywhere ISP competitors on the advertising/privacy/data space are.

Instead of innovating their way in with products people want and improving their networks so people pay more, the ISPs are trying to win this via bribing for legislation and mud slinging. They bought their way in with the ISP privacy protections being removed under the FCC to the FTC because they have more leverage there.

It is sad ISPs have resorted to this instead of innovating and creating products people want by improving them rather than trying to slow down competitors via bribing and lobbying.

ISPs were once a beacon of innovation bringing in broadband, now they are in the milking it phase.

[1] https://eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/five-creepy-things-your-is...

[2] https://www.flake.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/2017/3/op-ed-f...
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Forgive me ignorance, but wouldn't backends needs to store a "hash" of your fingerprint to validate? This essentially means a single giant password.
I have also seen that happen in multiple occasions (not me but coworkers of mine).
Which software niches are on the rise?
My team and I did the research on users' interest in different software niches.

Our findings will be useful for tech companies and teams who develop and sell products (SaaS or on-premise).

This was our approach:

1) We analyzed 500+ software categories in Capterra.

2) With the help of AdWords, we extracted search queries for each software category. Data was gathered for the last three years (2015-2017) and later was broken down by months.

3) We compared changes in the volume of queries for each category.

Note that research doesn't include market size numbers.

You always have to take market size into account. A decrease in growth rate of CRM software market, for example, will be compensated by its volume.

If you take a bigger bite (=market share) out of the market pie month over month, you'll win. Considering you also have resources to compete with "big fish." Otherwise, competition will eat you alive.

In our research, we are evaluating the dynamics of software demand. Our goal is to find perspective niches that are growing independently of their current size. Perhaps, they'll become "a hit" very soon.

Leave a comment if you want me to drop a research link here.
The problem isn't just carbon mass (i.e. CO2 in the atmosphere), but the fact that methane is a much stronger greenhouse gas than CO2 per unit carbon.

The total size of the launch market today is infinitesimal (~100 launches per year and vast majority less than a tenth the payload capacity of BFR). But BFR is being built to change that by orders of magnitude. Long-haul point-to-point transport of people means potentially hundreds of thousands to millions of flights per year. Long road to get there, though, and the primary obstacle may just be the incredible airline safety record (to make it close, you probably need to include lifetime saved by making the trips shorter).
The article is a bit light on specifics, but I hope that this (or something like it) comes to pass. I'm not convinced of the security of the current batch of biometric authentication schemes, but I have some confidence that the organizations developing this standard know enough about what they're doing to avoid the obvious blunders.
For the record, we have a one and half year old son :D
Other than reasons like others mentioned: security and/or not following public CA guidelines, there are also other government sites with invalid TLS certificates due to incompetence. I.E. https://www.12306.cn, the TLS cert is valid and signed by DigiCert but the common name field was not matching the domain the site is serving. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Also, I recalled they would asked you to download their own root cert to during the checkout process. This is a high-speed rail ticketing site being used by billions of people every year. Go figure.
What is meat? Can you please elaborate?
50 bucks a month what a joke.
I was lucky enough to get to go to weirdstuff a few times over the past year, and it’s sad to see it go. I have witnessed the fall of surplus stores over the last decade or so. It seems like they lost touch with what hobbyists want. You’d see piles of corporate IP phones, which no one would find interesting. Piles of rackmount servers for way too much. Piles of hard drives from 1988 that almost certainly won’t hold data. It was bleak. Meanwhile, hobbyist electronics is thriving. Arduinos are flying off the shelves at Amazon.
It says nothing in the text of the first amendment that direct threats of violence are not covered. If that restriction is compatible with the first amendment I don't see why a future right to be forgotten can't be.
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With all its warts, the new machine should be significantly faster than your 2012 with a SATA SSD, especially if memory swapping is involved. It sounds like there's something wrong with it.

That said, every time this thread comes up (about weekly, but I ain't complaining) people recommend Thinkpads (eg X1 Carbon) and Dell XPS 13 laptops.
> Then much of modern business is unethical.

Well... yeah.
> Also, I find it weird to give a kindergartener unsupervised access to any internet device. They don't understand the threats they're confronting.

That was the selling point of Youtube Kids—it wasn't supposed to be unsupervised access to the internet. It was supposed to be curated.
I think they meant that the business model of a hitman specifically, because of, y'know, the killing.

So, the reductio would be demonstrating that the "who pays isn't the same as who 'receives' the thing" isn't a sufficient defense in every case.
Maybe a valid rephrasing would be "This makes young people more able to take actions that older folks with more obligations would consider to be giant risks".
I might be misunderstanding your suggestion, but a rotating launcher will have somewhat absurd structural stress (and be generally more dangerous) compared to a linear accelerator.
You need to get feedback from potential users. Where do your users hang out?
> ISPs were once a beacon of innovation bringing in broadband

I don't remember this time period. Any examples?
Wish Silicon Valley had followed good old time tested laws like Free Speech.

They deserve crappy new laws.
The issue is not physical breaches by "dusting" fingerprint.
1. A fingerprint is something you cannot change, cannot revoke if leaked and cannot be unique across different sites.

2. A fingerprint hash isn't a cryptographic hash because you need to be able to match to nearby matches. A small variation in input needs to have a small variation in the hash so a distance function can be applied.

Those are terrible properties for a password.
Are we talking about real agribusiness in the Central Valley or are we talking about a couple "family farms" in Cupertino or wherever?

In the former case, are these people are at any competitive disadvantage relative to rural areas of other states?

As for the latter case....well how much sentimentality are you going to attach to land uses from the past? Sure, Silicon Valley is built on some of the highest quality farmland in the country but most of the farms are gone now. If you want to keep whatever few are left there are probably more targeted ways of doing that.
> that fact played a significant role in the portuguese economic crisis

Citation needed, or stop spreading disinformation