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I can understand the psychological aspects, but I can't accept that economists see that as a serious issue. It is like "oh dear, we can not cheat our citizens anymore", like saying "governments need the ability to defraud the population". They should instead seek to educate the population.
As a user the most important thing is be honest. If you like a suggestion but don't have any intention to implement it or don't have the time: tell me. I've submitted feedback to companies before, been told it's a fantastic suggestion and then nothing has changed, after 2+ years. If my suggestion is fantastic why aren't you implementing it? No time, or it doesn't fit with the companies vision? Tell me!
If you choose to go with a template take a look at Automattic's TOS (http://en.wordpress.com/tos/) which is licensed under Creative Commons. You can make changes according to your own site and reuse it freely.
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What's needed right away is a "badge of security approval" from an independent third party, which verifies not just the technological side, but the customer-service side too.

That sounds so good and the appeal of this kind of problematic scheme is what makes security such a hard, one that we likely won't see easily solved.

Aside from the usefulness or not of the stuff on your checklist, any "badge of security approval" is basically outsourced security. And that won't work because any wholesale security provider must provide one-size-fits-all security and one-size-fits-all fails because it must either so secure no one could break and so be far too unwieldy for most uses or it must be fairly flimsy and so fail exactly when the use case becomes critical (and of course trusting any third party expands your perimeter of trust in a fashion that you might not aware of).

The physical locks and strong boxes we have are scaled according to what we're facing and still real human beings to keep an idea of whether they are really secure. I live in a good neighborhood. I've lived in bad neighborhoods. It's part of becoming an adult. The lock on my gate is flimsy but it's enough. But I watch to see if the neighborhood is going down hill, if there's some factor which would make me a target. It's a paltry measure but it actually has pretty well. My security level can't be carte blanch guaranteed by anyone. Even if I hire security service, I'm not ultimately leaving everything to them.

Outsourced security won't work in the sense of entirely outsourced security*. The information age can't really get away from the "rings of trust" situation where the most highly entities can not really, should not be trusted to give away their trustedness on a wholesale basis. Some people can and should rely on outsourced security but the biggest targets should not and cannot.

And it is all a matter of levels. Average consumers can trust the browser bar (more than a lot of things) because they aren't special targets. That's OK.
Not trying to be smart here but the term "cheapest" cannot just be evaluated in terms of short term money. You also need to look at factors such as ease of setup, long term overhead costs, customer service headache etc. Considering all these together, Stripe seems to be doing pretty well compared to their customers.
I thought they were limited to driving on the highway in the empty parts of nevada?
Important detail: "It’s not clear how many of these 300,000 miles were driven on Google’s secret racecourse, by the way."
In theory autonomous care would be able to include a number of other factor to decide if they are on the road or not. Including, GPS, wifi signals, the grade of the road, the texture of the road, etc.
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What I’m interested in is whether they counted hypothetical accidents. As far as I know, there always has to be someone in the driver’s seat, ready to step in at any time. How often did that person have to step in? Now that would be an interesting metric, especially when plotted over time.

As is, it should be pretty unlikely for the autonomous cars to cause accidents, even if they were much less reliable than human drivers (since there is always a human ready to step in).

I think autonomous cars are awesome and very clearly the future, but I find it hard to believe that humans never had to step in, especially not in the beginning. I mean, that’s why they do those extensive test drives, right? To find bugs that they can squash.
What type of accidents though? Do people get in a number of fender benders over their lives? or head on at 65mph?

What sort of accidents will GoogleCar be prone to? Fender benders, or a head on at 65mph every 500K?

I'm very hopeful about this. Most people don't want to drive most of the time. As long as I can still drive my V12 Aston martin manually when I want to, this is awesome.
Even if the truck's "supervisor" is paid as much as drivers are today, trucking companies are very hungry to get more miles driven in fewer days. These will let trucks drive for more than 11 hours, thus I believe we'll see these as soon as they're approved.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855610 And yes, ~100% of the trades at an exchange are driven by greed, with or without HFT.
Looks to me like the time of the day.
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I'd love to see it handle the 17th century layout of central london as well.

http://goo.gl/maps/PBaU1
Also note getting the count of articles by language, in fact all the language tools, require hover. This thing is unusable on tablets or phones.
Headline makes absolutely no sense.
This is a huge reason to use registry protection services

In this case it's a bit of a red herring given that his private address is right there on his personal website -- the whois is just an extra, completely unnecessary, step. Hide behind a whois protection service, but anyone motivated can get your address easily.

A personal address is not a secret bit of information. Pretending that it is brings nothing but an illusion of security. The same goes for many other laughably easy to acquire bits of information about someone -- what primary school you went to, one's mother's maiden name, etc: These are things that we've never treated as secret, and it's only the laziest of hackers that it discourages.
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It is an option you need to approve on the Mac the iPhone automatically backers itself up so it is a non issue unless your computer or Mac is not backed up too.
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LOve the idea.
Be careful with that strategy, as sometimes sites will force you to provide answers to security questions to access your account. Probably better to treat each question as its own password, despite the hassle.
Maybe if you had some sort of AR setup that projected what you were interested in onto the environment. E.g., passengers would be able to read a book as if it was on a billboard floating on the horizon. Would that be enough to combat the effect?
that is for a car with no human in it, afaik. the google cars drive on normal roads with other cars present
Presumably share volume, though I'm not sure what the multiplier is (my guess would be 1000x).
Yup, just like Ubuntu. Gnuplot does not depend heavily on whatever window manager you are using's config anyway, it just needs the X server (similar to R stats)

Good luck
"domain specific" means something like, your code implements the thing you spent the last 10 years becoming an expert on, which you hopefully understand to such a degree that expert coding will be no help in trying to replicate it.
Thanks Wells, there goes my $100 app store credit...
Careful, he bite..
Unfortunately it's not an 'if and only if.'

As a programmer, I create plenty of things that I don't understand.
Seriously cool and scary technology. "many of the startups are going for "killer apps" first." he wrote this with no irony intended! I'm considering getting a degree in "bio-informatics"
The book seems to be out-of-stock/back-ordered everywhere, but I was able to find a sample chapter, and it looks interesting:

http://www.worldscientific.com/doi/suppl/10.1142/p837/suppl_...
>i wouldn't be surprised if it's these wall st. types that are pushing the limits further even if deemed unsafe.

It's human greed. Those 'wall st. types' and those brilliant computer scientists are all in it to make as much money as possible. Those you looked up to as hero's were not corrupted by those you wish to look down on, they all went into it wanting the same thing. The environment changed allowing them to try and get it faster.
Why is Quora getting too much access into my Facebook data?
Consensus number seems to be $440M in losses on the bulk liquidation of $4.5B in unwanted positions to Goldman Sachs. This represents about a 10% loss.

GS does bulk liquidations like this and typically takes a haircut of 2-5%, presumably based on a risk and liquidity assessment.
Looking at the competition for time today, many games on devices are $0.99 USD. A $1.50 USD game better be a heck of a cool experience.

For my part, I stopped going to arcades when the price went over $0.50 USD. It was more fun just to rent some games for the weekend.
> Autonomous cars are the next big tech that changes the world - I put them up there with computer, Internet, and smart phone.

I wouldn't be so sure. Yeah, it might prove to be a very good thing for the United States, but for the rest of world there's first Europe's public transport networks (I'm 31, don't have a driver's license, I live in Europe, I'm doing perfectly fine, thank you), and short of us reaching the Singularity I honestly don't see any of these cars driving in the crazy traffic of Cairo, Istanbul, or any other metropolis from the rest of Asia or Africa.
I would recommend "Assembly Language Step By Step, for Linux!" by Jeff Duntemann -- covers 32 bit only, but is an excellent introduction to assembly language on the Linux platform. I learned assembly language on X86 when he had the DOS edition of that book in the early 90s. You can get the info here: http://www.duntemann.com/assembly.html
"The map is not the territory," kept coming to mind as I read this.

To me, this is the difference between having a collection of explicit thoughts about a domain (a mental model), and having a deeply embodied understanding of it, a relationship that is less explicit and more intuitive. The former is possible to create very quickly by analogy and understanding related topics, while the latter comes from intimate, repeated, engaged experience.

While explicit mental models are useful for communicating, comparing, and understanding in mechanical terms, the intuitive, embodied understanding that comes from experience is the key to high performance.
Intern from Teselagen here. <shameless plug> We have a private Beta that you can sign up for on our website if editing your own DNA sequences is appealing to you: http://www.teselagen.com/user/registration </shameless plug>

It's pretty cool to see Synthetic Biology getting coverage on HN. One of the really interesting ideas that scientists are starting to grab a hold of is that of "biological parts". People have started compiling these biological circuit elements and figuring out how they work when exposed to different stimuli [1]. The ultimate aim is to standardize the usage of these parts so that you could design an organism in your browser, figure out whether it will work or not (based on a super-secret algorithm), and get the resulting functional organism shipped to your lab bench in a couple of days. As a reference, right now it can take up to 2 months to even create an initial DNA product with traditional methods. From there, it could take months to get your organism working correctly. New DNA synthesis techniques will dramatically speed up some of the initial steps (something Teselagen has done).

An addition to the article I'd make is that Teselagen is actually letting people leverage new DNA synthesis techniques produced by a couple of groups (the Venter institute is one) to design better biological circuits (as in faster, better, stronger). If you are interested in reading about how scientists have begun to overcome some of the many barriers to biological circuit design, there's a good intro to advances in DNA synthesis techniques here: http://j5.jbei.org/j5manual/pages/1.html

[1] partsregistry.org
This is old news, and shouldn't be here. The current status is that the Crown (NZ govt) is appealing the ruling mentioned in the article. The most interesting new information is that the search was conducted in a very heavy handed SWAT-style manner, by the Special Tactics Group, without justification. The STG uses "a check-box threat assessment which led to the assault team being used in the raid.

The "yes" box was ticked next to questions about whether Dotcom was armed, had a history of violence, was showing current signs of violence and had issued threats to kill.

Mr Davison said the police documents also claimed officers faced the threat of injury or death if the specialist squad was not used.

But under questioning, the sergeant was unable to point to any information supporting the claim police officers were in danger during the raid."

Source: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
I'll take that over feeling like I'm about to die while a careless driver is at the wheel any day.
Yeah, it's got a really self-helpy title & cover, but it's actually pretty methodical and rigorous.
Good points. Without any statistics about the frequency and nature of situations where the human driver still has to intervene, numbers like '300K miles without an accident' are meaningless. For all I know the Google cars might have had a near-accident every 10 miles if it weren't for the human driver that's always there to save the AI when it fails. The fact that Google never discloses anything besides mile counts, and only lets outsiders take a ride with the Google cars under extremely controlled situations, is quite telling. Statements about Google car achievements like this are not much more than propaganda to me, until Google starts to share actual in-depth details about the performance of the cars. If it really works as well as they claim it does, what can they lose by disclosing everything?

Myself, I'm extremely skeptical about self-driving cars, and I've never understood why I seem to be massively outnumbered by people who are utterly convinced it is possible to create AI that can handle the billions of different and sometimes completely arbitrary traffic situations you'll encounter while driving on current road infrastructure. Sure enough it will work great 90% of the time in some places, but that's not enough. It needs to work 99% of the time everywhere. Simply looking at the achievements made in AI in the last 50 years or something doesn't really warrant a whole lot of optimism we'll get there anytime soon.
Not necessary (see SoundCloud for instance). The whole problem is that the copyright license is just overbroad and not limited at all.
A snow-covered road is a situation where:

1. Road indicators are difficult to identify
2. Roadway has less traction than usual
3. Humans are having emotional reactions (joy, terror) which impacts their processing abilities.

3 is mitigated by design. 1 is a sensor issue, it's also a problem that very accurate GPS can solve.

There are many causes of slick road surfaces, from snow and ice to excessive water, spilled materials, collision debris, and low-quality roadways (dirt and gravel roads). Driving in reduced-traction situations shouldn't be an edge-case.
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HFT should b illegal. Period.

What value is there in any system where trades over "pennies millions of times per second" is provided at all to real world conditions/humans.

This is simply a tool by a few to make money in an invisible, unregulated and uncontrollable space.

This is simply not sane.
It could quite easily be one high-ranking manager who decided and pushed through such a campaign, and now uses company money to pay for research that "proves" its success and enables him to brush off those who doubt it but lack similar clout.

This kind of thing is par of the course for company politics. But probably unlikely to persist this long.
You would also need to enter your username or email address, though, and that's hard to do over the phone... I guess voice-to-text is improving, so that might be an option.
If you take a look at a page like http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/eng/3189881249.html

You can see that they added a <meta name="robots" content="NOARCHIVE,NOFOLLOW"> tag. So Google will index it and show it, but it won't cache the full text. This change means that companies like 3taps can no longer get the full text from the Google cache, while still allowing search results to show in searches.
It's really good that you're thinking of paying back India / helping the country. India definitely needs more of its best talent to go back there are start new companies and really improve the country. Most of the best minds leave the country for elsewhere, and it's understandable why. But perhaps you can change the environment and perhaps more people will stay there then. (maybe - this will probably take years)
Ah, I was using OS X.
Facebook allows online gambling on platform overseas
$100/hour is indeed very doable.

Stop and think. Suppose that you have have a $120k full-time dev. (This is by no means the top of the dev market.) Once you get through benefits, office space, HR, etc, at a typical company you cost 2x your salary, so that dev is costing you $240k/year. If that person works 50 weeks a year, 5 days a week, 6 hours a day (just because a person is present 8 hours does not mean that they worked 8 hours) the cost of that full-time dev is $160/hour. Day in. Day out.

Contractors avoid many of those costs in return for higher direct pay. And you only hire that contractor when there is a good fit between what you need and what that contractor can do. A smart contractor who knows what to ask for is therefore able to get surprisingly good rates.

And step #1 is knowing what you are worth. Step #2 is knowing how to negotiate. There are a lot of good books you can pick up on the topic. I personally picked up Start With No and Bargaining For Advantage a few years back. A 2 digit investment in materials, and a 2 digit expenditure in hours has easily been worth over 6 figures to my bank account. I expect it to have paid off 7 figures before I retire. Can you think of anything else with an equivalent ROI?
There is a chain. There is the World Wide Web, which is a mass indiscriminate content creator. Then you have 4chan, which functions as both an individual content creator on the WWW, and as a giant aggregator. 4chan users aggregate funny pictures they recontextualize from bad advertising, screenshots of incomprehensible dialog in TV shows, the best webcomics, etc. 4chan is a mostly a massive dumping ground filled with garbage, but because of the ephemeral nature of threads, result in only content that frequently gets reposted has a chance to survive the churn. Most people cannot stand this, and stay away. But 4chan is populated by content-addicted denizens, who process, filter and promote good memes. And then turn right around and push this content back out onto the more "respectable" and filtered, less-chaotic sites like Reddit and CheezeBurger Network, Facebook, which are meme-propagating machines in their own right. But they primarily get access to the content that was subjected to the vicious selection process of 4chan to begin with.

I think the process by which 4chan operates in media is far more sophisticated, less centralized, less commercial and (perhaps surprisingly) less cynical than celebrity gossip that is created en-masse for money by large national media corporations for top-down consumption. By the time a meme makes it to facebook it's been largely stripped of its participatory power and becomes a one-way medium, but that's just at the periphery of the meme-propogation, the people that just consume it with their electronic feed tubes. But the process of creating this content before it gets to the edge web is a chaotic, churning process of evolutionary competition, mutation, selection.

This is worthy of study. It is participatory culture in the making, what the creative commons and the free culture movement always wanted. There may not be a lot _fundamentally_ new here, except in the context of the 'net in which it is being created. And the medium shapes the message. The web is a "new place." and there are people in it that are, right now, creating the native language of a place that has never existed before. These are exciting times. I think that the messageboard one day will be recognized for it importannce in the history of the WWW, and the Internet in general.
Huge trade surplus before? When? http://www.indexmundi.com/g/g.aspx?c=gm&v=85 and http://www.tradingeconomics.com/germany/balance-of-trade

It correlates too well with the introduction of the Euro to be just random.

The issue is exactly that the Euro constantly devalues the German output - thus not slowing its increase in a natural way.
We have (one of the) largest freight-train networks in the world. It's great for things like that.

Trains are basically semi-autonomous, and out of the way of cars anyway.
Eating food from a tube could also give us a lot more free time but we don't do it because it is not an enjoyable experience. We not only enjoy the flavors and textures that regular food provides, we also enjoy the rituals that accompany eating. In this regard driving cars is somewhat similar. A lot of people enjoy driving and many actually find it therapeutic. Some exceptions do exist, like driving in heavy traffic, driving long distances, and driving to places where parking spaces are limited, but better public transportation would solve those problems much more efficiently than autonomous cars ever will.

So, while autonomous cars could and probably will replace regular cars in places that have regular roads and good infrastructure they will definitely face a lot of resistance from consumers.
The article didn't talk about Seattle specifically, but we have five major pinball/arcade destinations.

Shorty's in Belltown - a bar with 16 pinball machines and 13 arcade machines

Narwhal in Capital Hill - a bar with 8 pinball machines and many arcade games

Full Tilt Ice Cream - an Ice Cream parlor in Ballard with 13 pinball machines and several arcade games

Seattle Pinball Museum - an arcade in the International District with 31 new and classic pinball machines

Add-a-Ball - a bar in Fremont with 11 pinball machines

As well as several other restaurants / bars / arcades / game shops with several pinball and arcade games.

At least in Seattle, we do have many arcade destinations.
What Would a Twitter IPO be Worth?
I am a 'technical co-founder' and I can't say how many times I'm approached by people who want me to build some application for them in exchange for 10-20% of equity. What do they bring to the table? In most cases it's just their 'idea'. So usually my question to them is - why can't I just take this idea and execute it on my own?

If you want to find a good technical co-founder - be good at sales. Business is successful when you can 1) build a product 2) sell it. Well, part 2 is the hardest one in 99% of cases. If some biz co-founder can nail it - he/she will have no problem finding a tech co-founder.
Google and Oracle ordered to disclose bloggers they paid to influence
Seeing Through Walls With a Wireless Router
Hiccup - a Python extension framework for Burp Suite
Any chance on getting indicative pricing for Enterprise.

I generally hate hidden pricing and using products with it because it generally means the company attempts to charge whatever it can get away with and is afraid of having their clients find or what others are paying.
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