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We're already heading down that route [1]. Although I can't see it ever being an offense to manually drive your car, the car will just automatically take over the driving duties if it doesn't like the way you are driving.

[1] http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120803/carnews/120809942
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The first software recall on the driving software might be the end of it. Its going to take a while, probably a generation or two of people.
Actually, it is not "the government" doing this. It is somebody scraping an official web site containing every law, processing it and pushing the result to this repository.
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I typically don't sign an NDA when it's just someone's idea. If they've already invested a significant amount of their own money and look to have traction, I may. If it's a situation where I'm more like just a contractor coming in to an established company, I'll sign an NDA (and have signed short-term non-competes as well too if need be).

When I don't sign an NDA, often (this doesn't happen every day, but on the order of 6-8 times per year) I'll get some line about how this is a great idea and I'm a fool to let it pass. Or that the other person has to do this to protect themselves because I could just steal the idea and make all the money. Or some variation of one of those. I simply state that if they're looking for a true partner, starting off on by distrusting me that much, and making the relationship extremely one-sided (based on the language in the NDA as it may be), is a recipe for failure.

Recently someone approached me with an NDA, and had a business for something that millions of people need (not a want, mind you, a need), and they'd each be willing to pay $100/year for it. I wasn't told what it was until I signed the NDA, which I didn't. But I asked "how will you deal with the competition?" and was told "there won't be any". "Really? You're creating a market that doesn't exist right now, and generating hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue within a few years, and you think there will be no competition at all?" "Correct".

I politely declined at that point, and pointed out that even if I'd signed the NDA, I wouldn't be able to 'partner' with someone that naive about business.
Most people around HN don't seem to have a problem with using a non-free and closed source operating system. Ultimately, it's all about trusting a company. People who use OSX trust Apple, without asking to see the source code of any part of it. Likewise, in the case of cloud users, it will be trusting another company such as Dropbox or Google. For private data, you can encrypt. For critical data, you can keep local copies.
the readme has a german section right above the english one.
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It's mind boggling that a programming language from Google would be given a completely unsearchable moniker.
One defence that is already in place occurs at the DNA printing level. Because of the cost of this equipment, most DNA printing is outsourced to third parties. These guys compare the DNA you send them to that of known pathogens like Anthrax and if your DNA matches they won't print it. There are many other people thinking about this space and what other safeguards we need, one of the main ones is the early detection system you talk about... with cheap DNA sequencing on a future iPhone maybe this will help!
I guess that's fair, but since it seems like that's how it got gamed, they should definitely be more strict and send only to your primary or backup number.
No, that's not right (might as well make it three comments in a row :)

THere's no strike price on recent Facebook employee's equity; they receive RSUs, not stock options.

Edit: here's an article describing it a bit more: http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-ipo-stock-price-recr... Due to many different employee's RSUs vesting in very small time window, there could be a whole bunch of other problems with flooding the market, as well as the and tax difficulties for employees that can't spread out their RSU income over multiple years.
The last 4 digits of your credit card are not really meant to be secret. They typically printed on every receipt for anything you buy.

Your Apple cloud password, however, is supposed to be secret.
>> The problem I can see is that its not totally type safe as you still need to run the code to check that your entity is compatible with the underlying table at runtime. If I am wrong here please correct me.

With pleasure. You are wrong. SLICK (formerly known as ScalaQuery) is Typesafe.

>> I am working with Play! at the moment and while the DB access is the best I have come across in the Java world

I've been working with Scalaquery with Play 2 for two months now. The experience has been fantastic. I haven't really had any queries I haven't been able to create even complex joins.

The approach where queries are made like Scala collections is really intuitive. Compared to you I just started using linq recently for a work related project. Basically coming from the other end and I've been quite pleased that the SQ skills I've built over the past month transferred over reasonably well. I only have good things to say about Slick. You should try it out.
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I'm disappointed that the author chose to use the linkbaity verb "demand" in the title, but used the appropriate verb "require" in the article body. This is an important legislative development and the title gives the reader a poor impression of the article's potential merit.
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I think CL abandoned the trespass to chattels argument when PadMapper switched to 3taps. Couldn't CL file DMCA requests given the exclusivity agreement they now have with their users?

I agree that marketplace data should be decentralized. I hope it works out for you.
that risk can be mitigated by having the API customer (say, an iPhone app developer) buy API credits that are exchanged at the time of API call between the app and picplum. Then it's the app developer's job to collect payment from their app user and PicPlum won't get burned.
Not to spoil the pile on, but I think that's just a mistake. You know, the kind humans make?

That said, I agree the redesign is misguided. But it's certainly gotten them some attention.
Our freight network is great, but trucks are now a vital partner to trains and go more places. If all the trucks in the US stopped and only trains ran, we'd be in a serious world of hurt.
Some exceptions do exist, like driving in heavy traffic

Which is a large "exception", since by definition lots of driving occurs in heavy traffic.
Wouldn't the exception be for lines whose slope is irrational? (i.e. that can't be represented by a ratio of integers), so the repeating pattern is analogous to the repeating pattern in a decimal representation of a rational number.
There are so many things I can think of. The taxi/rental/on demand model is far more likely to happen because who needs to own a car 100% of the time. Ride sharing is also easier - I suspect many people would be happy going a few minutes out of their way for halving the cost of their journey. (Computer systems would automatically manage supply and matching demand, as well as pricing.)

Not only do you need less parking for fewer cars, but you could have less parking for the same number of cars. For example there is no need for stores to have huge car parks - customer and employee cars can go and wait somewhere else and only return to the front door just as you come out with your goods. This can lead to far denser human centric areas.

Some roads can actually be decommissioned. Vehicles can load balance across existing alternatives and respond far quicker to developing bottlenecks. Occupied vehicles can be given priority over shorter routes than non-occupied ones.

Deliveries can be done without drivers. For example the delivery vehicle can drive to your home, work or anywhere else and you enter a code to get your items vending machine style.

It will give people greater freedom. For example if your vision isn't acceptable, or you have physical issues then it won't matter. In general the maladies that come with age won't affect mobility anywhere near as much as they do today.

Drives can be over longer distances as there is no driver fatigue. Perhaps there could be sleeper cars for when you want to go somewhere overnight.

Heck they can even do things like deal with you in the vehicle while you are driving to an airport or a border. You could show your passport, answer questions, check luggage etc. And then go straight through the border or walk straight to your gate at airport, or even be driven to a closer access point to the gate.

And I suspect we never get flying cars out of this. When the two dimensional earth surface is used so much more efficiently, why expand into 3 dimensions? And since we can increase the speed the more vehicles are automated, what advantage does flight have?
The intention of this blog is to give fashion advice to guys who truly want help. Of course there will be guys out there who are content with the way they dress, but there are a handful that really do want honest help and don't have a place to go. If you find value in 140 Stitches, great. If not, that's okay too.
They should definitely do this for bills also, so you can easily see who has incorporated what into each bill, and how the bill is evolving as it happens
I wish the site presented a simple list of quotes, instead of having a fancy-dancy-not-working-all-that-well interface.
Either Apple, or the Apple Model.

Hardware >> Software >> Support.

All from one manufacturer.
i don't get it at all.

what's the value here?
It's too bad the feature is named 'Find My Mac' instead of 'Remote Wipe'.
FTA:

> I was taking pictures of something that was really wasn’t anything shocking for them. There was no police line. Ive been doing this a long time and its frustrating. Im credentialed. They asked for the credential, I’m shooting, the next thing I know I’m in jail and my equipment is confiscated.

Serious question: Why does/should it matter that he is credentialed?
That's really just a negative externality of inefficient suburban development. If the 'burbs didn't exist in the first place, there would be no need to subsidize their barely-used mass transit services.
Good question. I don't have an answer as I have only been recently evaluating them myself. I was pretty close to trying out https://github.com/Mathew/django-ab because of its simplicity.
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This is not an official project, "just" someone who registered the organization "Bundesregierung" ("Federal Government") at github and processed the official XMLs into markdown.
I can't imagine guys wearing only Hackathon shirts either; that was just an example. My target audience is any guy who wants some fashion advice.
I don't think you are morally correct just because you haven't gotten any complaints.

In fact, until you make it possible for people to permanently delete things, you are not. The reason you haven't gotten any complaints is that the people who deleted things on purpose don't send you an email and don't know it can be undone.
I think we're vigorously in agreement here - the last 4 CC digits are certainly not identifying, and I'm perhaps a little less forgiving that you in letting Apple off for thinking so. I'm also not happy with Amazon's assumption that they should be displaying them quite so easily (although at least they don't display them until you're far enough "in" to an account - and it's not easy to work out an alternative way to distinguish between several different CC's when you can have more than one linked to your account).

(And, there are many alternative and easier ways to acquire most people's cellphone number - no need to meet someone or get them to give you a business card… But your point still stands…)
Did you read the full article? Didn't you notice how the attacker got the last 4 digits?

### Amazon actually gave the attacker full control of the Amazon account. ###

All the attacker had to do was simply call amazon and ask to add a new credit card, the only verification was billing address. The attacker called back in 5 mins asking to change the email account on file, which required the last 4 digits of the fake card just added. The attacker then did a password reset.

Basically, most people don't realize Amazon had a HUGE GAPING wide whole in their security. Any attacker could steal any ones Amazon account! These are accounts that have thousands of dollars of affilate money, AWS servers running major web sites, credit cards on file, etc.

So yes, the fact that Amazon gave the last 4 digits out isn't a big deal, you are right. These numbers are printed on receipts. However, the fact that they gave the whole account away is a big deal.
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Right. Did I say something contradicting that? Google could have decided not to offer application-specific passwords at all, but from any individual user's perspective, that's exactly equivalent to just not using them. At least having application-specific passwords gives you the option, and is at least as secure as giving your master password away to every client application.

I suppose there is one possible negative consequence to users who opt not to use app-specific passwords: their existence alone removes some of the incentive for client applications to implement 2-factor themselves (which I don't know if Google even has an API for). And sure, it would be nice to have features like access control on a per password basis (e.g., so I could allow Pidgin to access only gchat, but no other part of my account). But the implication that the mere existence of application-specific passwords somehow makes Google's 2 factor auth useless is just wrong.
The so-called designer in question here is being paid to lie or is sticking up for Apple because she a) used to work for Apple and b) most likely have stock in Apple. How can someone confuse any of Samsung's phones with an iPhone? The screens are sized differently, different logos, the Samsung phones have multiple buttons in comparison to the one button on an iPhone.

Each and every day in this court case Apple are losing credibility and looking ridiculous in the process, this won't end well for them due to their biased "experts" tainting their case.
I'd believe that Oracle has employed people to attack PJ's integrity, before I'd believe that PJ is in the employ of Google.

There's a problem with making these kinds of vague (and not so vague) accusations against PJ in a place like this. Many of us remember the SCO v. IBM case, and have been following Groklaw for years. SCO tried slinging the same kind of mud at PJ you're slinging now. None of it stuck, because it was obviously unfounded and obviously disingenuous.
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Great! Thanks. Look forward to finding a chance to check this out some more.
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are people aware that the internet archive includes netlabels with a huge amount of free music? http://archive.org/details/netlabels (there is some decent chilean electronica at http://archive.org/details/pueblo_nuevo for example; clinical have experimental jazz http://archive.org/details/clinicalarchives (some of it is a bit freaky for me, but their collections are ok))

trying to work out if it's available via torrent now...
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It does. Being properly engineered, it's semantically accessible with any browser or scraper or mashup. Sacrificing that for a site as important as Wikipedia doesn't even deserve serious consideration.
If Acer abandons Microsoft expect them to go broke shortly after. A pretty stupid move for a manufacturer who manufactures PC's and what is the number one operating system that PC's run? Windows. Goodbye Acer, your horribly designed computers, inability to innovate on both design and price will not be missed.
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I also just finished Ready Player One and enjoyed it. What are you folks reading these days?
If only they'd accept pull requests.
Blodget made some good points:

http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lockup-release-2012-...

You want a high IPO price, but not so high that you can't meet expectations and disappoint. Get tagged as an underperformer and it makes it hard to do future stock acquisitions, financings, hires.
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Really? He didn't say there was nothing to see here. He said his rights were violated (and given his professional history, he seems capable of making that determination). He said he was appalled at his treatment, at the individual police who did this to him, and the people who are backing up the police who did this to him.

His equivocation was intended to head off the "police are all nazis because one of them took my camera and arrested me when I was in the middle of a crime scene and interfering with the police" attitude that's all too common. He pointed out that there is a line between responsible documentation of events, and interference, and that line is crossed sometimes, and people criticize the police anyway, and that's not right.
Shoulda added a ";)" I suppose.

But to any of you reading this far, don't let being on windows be a deterrent. There are many excellent run-time distros out there to play around on. Google "run time Linux" for more.

And I wholeheartedly agree; it is quite fun (and rewarding) to learn.

:)
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What the title doesn't say is: $22 million in annual sales via Bitcoin. The currency used on the site is Bitcoin, not credit card or 3rd party payment gateways here which is what I find the most remarkable about all of this.
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I didn't realize that they were using RSUs. That does change the equation.

I would be curious what a tax lawyer would say about AMT liability. But AFAIK you're right, there is no problem.
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Ah, right you are! Didn't notice it thanks to the anchor link.

Doesn't change the commit history's melange of English and German.
I understand that for some, the ill fitting clothes are a fashion statement, and that's great! I could talk all day about personal style and wearing clothes that make you feel good. However, there are guys out there who actually want some advice because they really don't know what to wear. That's what I'm here for. If you're one of the guys saying fuck you to the status quo, then more power to ya. :)
I don't think that that is actually true.

My small tangential involvement with attempting to collect, centralise and index scientific data show me scientists are very reluctant to share their data; at least prematurely.

Two main reasons appear to be:

1. The sheer amount of time it takes. It means coordinating and discussing and cooperating with a bunch of often non-scientists who do not have the same goals as you.

2. Premature release might lead to premature criticism, or even someone publishing a paper on the same topic as you, partly referencing your data on which you worked so long and so hard.

* my experience was with physical science mostly (marine, oceanographic, atmospheric) but some life science.
Note that the URL in the one-liner references the master branch, which can be updated at will by jtwaleson. A much better idea would be to use a link to a specific version if you are going to make claims towards its cleanliness:

curl -O https://raw.github.com/jtwaleson/decrypt/f004b7eab7b949a55ea3c784fb9bac244aa0296e/decrypt.py; chmod +x decrypt.py; ls -la | ./decrypt.py
Have you considered 2 factor authentication? If you are concerned about security 2FA can give you more protection-
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They get paid for bodies and until HR folks get savvy, they pick the place that has the least work involved and most bodies.
That's not why stuff gets deleted from wikipedia, the USERS do that, because they have processes and policies which encourage it. That's a much more difficult problem to address, because you can't fix it with technology. Same problem affects a redesign... That said, I have seen some encouraging evidence that the community wants to address the usability of the tools and UI on wikipedia, and the engineers working at the foundation have their own ideas which are a little more realistic, for example:

http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Athena
The Nokia one was spot on too.
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I'd suggest The Diamond Age as a logical continuation from Snow Crash because it's also awesome and because it's very (very) loosely a sequel. It has a different tone and pace and theme, however.
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I see no reason not to use a password manager (ex: keychain on macos) to keep different usernames and passwords for each account. It is very little overhead (at least with keychain).

And yes I mean different user names even if it is required to be a valid email id. If you use gmail, you can use "yourid+RandomNumberOrAnything@gmail.com" as the email address. This is additional protection against remote hackers since guessing the account name of one account doesn't get you the names of accounts on other services.

And yes ABSOLUTELY NO reason to not have 2 factor auth for your google account.
Maybe it could detect earthquakes too by noticing bulk motions of the phone base?
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Merrill shorted FB at the IPO? I seriously doubt that. First of all, I don't think there would be enough inventory to borrow for a few days. Secondly, the borrow cost would have been astronomical for those first few days. There was a WSJ article that talked about the borrow dropping from 40% to 6% about a week after the IPO. Are you talking about that period?
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This is exactly why I've thought it was so strange so few companies seemed interested in this kind of collaboration, in practice.

But just a brief look at the August HN hiring thread makes me a little more hopeful :-)