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In the 1980s, the rising threat of liability prompted vaccine manufacturers to pull out of the business. So Congress stepped in and created a new system for people who are injured by vaccines. Cases are handled in special hearings, and victims are paid out of a fund created by a special tax on vaccines.

That is interesting. I can't imagine the car manufacturers will be able to handle the costs of the liability by themselves (using our current model of car insurance), and you have to wonder if they should have to (how much is the "driver" responsible for? Is a "driver" in Manhattan riskier than one in Wyoming?)

It's also interesting that we might not even care if it weren't for the fact that we all have to pay for car insurance now. I mean, nobody wonders who's going to cover the liability of a subway system. Perhaps this will wind up a government service, out of reach of the personal injury lawyers. Or like guns, which enjoy some specific protections from lawsuits.
We keep up to date on the build version, but the first decimal version (4 in 5.4, is that considered the minor version?) usually involve at least some backward-incompatible changes, so there is usually a need to test the codebase against new minor versions.
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sigh Not this again.

From the images we've seen side by side, it is not a copy of someone else's work. The artwork is not identical, and is not similar enough that you have to say "they just took a copy of the artwork and altered it a little bit." That's the standard that needs to be met for the DMCA -- not "he made icons that are similar to mine," but "he downloaded my icons and used them as his own."
Scale. They won't do it if they can't make it work out financially. And who pays them? There are paralells with the banking industry here.

If a banker insures a derivative, and it goes bad, no big deal. If every banker insures the same type of derivative at the same time, and they all go bad for the same reason, you have economic meltdown. We don't want that to happen with cars.
As far as blogging-can-help goes, I've had my tweets favorited by @TWCClassAction after posting something about how they demonstrated that they were storing my password in plain text. FWIW.

Don't know if that'll come to anything.
"Tyrant"? I'm impressed of how easily people believes in propaganda showed to them against anyone who doesn't give all the oil to the USA.
Could they use a cheaper material than steel?
Title change suggestion: "Google Glass Predictions"
Then that is the market's way of pointing out that driverless cars have more accidents?

You need insurance to be on the road. If you insure your driverless car, then it is insured. End of story.
Knowledge of the billing address is a means of authentication, as is knowledge of the expiration date and the CVV2.

Right, but requiring that physical products are only ever sent to an address that is known to be associated directly with the card holder, at least the first time when you don't "know" the card holder yet, reduces the likely gain from fraud to near zero for third parties. That is a far more effective deterrent than any minor hurdle in the authentication process.

As they say in Texas, Bring It On. In the United States of America, truth is an absolute defense!

And which truth would that be? If you caused serious damage to a business by claiming this practice made them less secure, I expect they would have no difficulty at all lining up expert witnesses who say they have a very different idea of what makes things more secure. They would have the added advantage that this is a field where lots of people look very carefully at real numbers, so they could probably bring a mountain of statistical data in support of their position.
Personally, I always wait at least one year before upgrading PHP. There are always segfault or security issues or odd problems in a 5.x.0 release. It's around 5.x.4 that it becomes just stable enough to use.

About a month or two before I decide to upgrade I run the newer version locally while I'm developing (but being sure to not use any newer features). This usually weeds out any major incompatibilities and fix new warnings.

That said, I'm running 5.3 in production and have no real plans to upgrade to 5.4 anytime soon.
Since it's possible (and increasingly likely as more miners join) that two different miners will add different transactions to their chains, the clients are all programmed to ignore all but the longest block chain. This is important because it's harder to spoof a longer block chain than a shorter one, so longer block chains are more secure.
I'm sorry, but there are plenty of companies that have made great businesses out of producing less-reliable products.

If I buy a thing - almost any thing - from Walmart, I know that quality of that thing is not the first priority. A hammer from Walmart - theoretically a kind of good that can last forever - is going to be made from worse steel, the grip is going to fall off with heavy use, the wooden handle will splinter, it's going to rust. It will not last as long as a hammer purchased from Home Depot. On the other hand, it will be cheaper. Walmart is making a perfectly good business off of selling such goods.

Walmart chooses to stock lesser quality goods. We accept that as a legitimate business model. But Walmart doesn't come to my house and worsen the goods later on - they don't come and spray the hammer with salt-water to encourage me to get a new one. Digital goods don't fall apart on their own, so companies like EA which want to sell inferior goods have to take affirmative action to make them fall apart ("hey, let's link all our goods to a server, and turn the server off a few months after the good comes out"), and this doesn't sit well with us in our perceptions.
Be careful - if you have bought any other games on Origin, you will lose those too if you do a chargeback and they ban your account. You are not just losing SimCity, you are losing anything you have bought on the same account.
I don't really think it's fair to say designers are sensitive. I understand your sentiment, but generalizing personalities by profession is stereotyping and fans the flames.
I don't have advice but all I want to say is that your friend's project ROCKS!!! I'm going to be taking notes on the advice you're going to get. Thanks for the post.
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A lower headline number is nice, but the real question is, where is the u-6 rate going? http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t15.htm
Thanks! We've been working hard. Big ups to the developers on board too. They've been sweating it out longer than I have now.
>Scale. They won't do it if they can't make it work out financially.

By all accounts driverless cars are expected to significantly reduce the number of collisions. I don't see how that could be less viable than the existing system.

>And who pays them?

Who pays them now?
I mean the domain is a pretty important piece of your business (i.e. you wouldn't want to lose it), so only an 'idiot' would go with GoDaddy/Gandi/NameCheap/etc right?

You're aware that there's a difference between "go with the cheapest" and "go with the most expensive," right?
If you can't take your knowledge of "what's right" and actually change objective reality with it in a useful way, then it's dubious as to whether what you know is actually true. And IMO you would not be able to convince a female survivors group to let you in with logic, so again, I doubt strongly that it actually corresponds to truth.
I'm surprised the subpoena doesn't have anything on it that makes it seems like a judge read it. I understand that most subpoenas are just approved by the judge and issued without review, and that the opposition is expected to file a motion-to-quash if they don't like it, but this doesn't even seem to have a signature or anything from a judge.
Yea, I wish I knew that we would be dealing with Moneris by choosing to use Braintree in Canada. The signup process quickly switched from, not much different from stripe to not much different from paypal.
EA is such a bad publisher with really bad attempt to tight up their customer base through various DRM scheme that it is surprising it is not a academical example of a business not deserving their market share. Although Ubisoft seems to be a serious contender for the first place, in this league.

Personally I have refused to use their Origin market place from the start, as I do not support market fragmentation when it comes to electronic delivery service on a single plateform (Windows PC in this case). This and the really poor customer experience I have had with them in the last 10 years.
No fault only applies to personal injury.

If I'm driving along, over-correct on a turn and smash into your fence, it's my responsibility. If I do nothing wrong, but my tire blows out, I'm still responsible.

If my tire blows out because the repair shop over-inflated it, or because there is a material defect in the tire, that's where responsibility lands.

The question is, when my robot car overcorrects (ie. driver error), am I responsible, or is the manufacturer? And in what circumstances is the manufacturer negligent?

I'd dare say that once automated cars move out of California and Nevada and start showing up in Minnesota and New York, things will get complex quickly.
Of course, the authors of the driving software of the car at fault need to be the ones liable, since they are the only ones that can prevent the issue.

So, Google is liable, if all driving software ends up being licensed from them.
Petition to get SimCity refunds
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SANS evening session: "Patching your employee's brain"
I think you are probably right however you've given only two variables - # of posts over time - and I think you need to add a third: number of writers. For example, if it's "48 posts per week by one writer", then of course you are correct. If, though, it's "48 posts per week by, on average, 42 different writers" then I don't think so.
It's a bit like making a joke about Israel/Palestine.

In Northern Ireland at least, you had state-sponsored terrorism by the police, IRA blowing up civilians, thousands killed - the very worst sectarianism imaginable. Some of this continued into the 90s so yes, the wounds are still fresh.

That doesn't even delve into the long, brutal history between Ireland and England spanning centuries, a relationship that's only healing today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Troubles
What canadian merchant does stripe use? I was very close to using Stripe, but active merchant didn't provide what we needed through your API (pre-auth/settlement). I hope to use Stripe for other things down the road though.
TC is learning from BusinessInsider now? I've always hated their "The Truth About..." articles, because they are so misleading, and they just use the word "truth" to promote their bias.
moving from dublin to amsterdam the housing is a nightmare in general. But once you get the ring of it, you will be okay. There is more freelance opportunities but you need dutch working with the tax system.

It a relaxed transient culture in amsterdam and it takes time to break into circles.

And in general the weather is better than ireland.
Namecheap now accepts payments in Bitcoins
Mustache vs Swig Templating Shootout
Besides opcode caching, APC provides shared key-value storage. I don't really see why they chose Zend over APC as a standard opcache. Also, they are incompatible and cannot run together.
There is an insurmountable technical problem with high-traffic anonymity: the volume of traffic makes you stand out. The only good solution is to use something like Freenet, a peer-to-peer system where no single node is responsible for large amounts of data. The existence of Web-Freenet gateways helps a lot for dealing with people who are not running the Freenet software:

http://www.df5ea.dds.nl/pw2fgp.html
I was having flashbacks to my days and nights spent testing wafers at a semiconductor fab. Spend a shift using a misaligned microscope and walk outside and see THREE moons. But I have mad soldering skills from building probe cards.
How Facebook Prepared to Be Hacked
It seems to continue the PHP 5.4 vein in that it adds some syntactic shortcuts and some niceties that make it a bit easier / cleaner to read and write.

Personally I'm pretty happy with traits and array dereferencing against function returns. The new array literal syntax is nicer and more like other languages, in that you don't have to wrap everything with array(), instead just use the [] syntax.

Feature-wise 5.4 added traits and 5.5 has generators.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php

http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration55.new-features.php
Reminds me of I saw a documentary that followed students through med school. One of them was a former mechanic (not to mention a child prodigy and a biker- interesting guy) but he disliked the approach of med school where he would give a wrong diagnosis and his instructors would always tip toe around everyone's feelings and preface criticism with things like 'It's really interesting how you came to that conclusion..." but when he was a mechanic, someone would just say "You're doing it wrong - do it this way." And that's all he wanted - to be told if he was doing something wrong and how to do it right, but there was always this buffer of bullshit politeness in med school.
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Ah, interesting!

I would still be curious whether it's just a matter of price, though. Surely at some point the miners couldn't resist processing the transactions?
Perhaps more interesting is the 84 forks (other mirrors). Is GitHub going to remove them all?
just like now, anyone can post on any forum about anything.
that in itself doesn't make the conversation the least more interesting/etertaining/insightful though
>Your assuming someone nicked your stuff

you're

>Honestly, unless your talking about a large file with a lot of entropy your probably

you're, you're
You would hope so. But you cannot deny that the system will have to be different. The interconnected nature of the cars will matter. People may object to insuring the manufacturer of the software responsible for the crash. There is a lot to sort out that makes it a pretty tricky subject for the insurance companies, manufacturers and owners. I'm sure it can be done, but it's a big thing.

I'm thinking int he context where every car is driverless. It's probably even more complex when they aren't all driverless.
When I buy SimCity, how long will I be able to play the game for? 30 days? 100 years?

Does EA make any promises about how long they will keep their servers running? If not, what would be the minimum time they would need to keep their servers running to avoid a 'false advertising' prosecution?
>From the images we've seen all side by side this seems to be a rip of someone else's work.
C'om on man, We've all seen the images side by side and they are definitely not ripped off. Unless you've got a eye sight problem you should be able to see the differences.
If I drew a bracelet with round beads and you drew a bracelet with round beads does that mean I copied it from you? Of course not, If you look at the images you can see they're defiantly not ripped.
He could take a large, random sample of what people actually think of such a device.
It's the same here. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-general.html#protect

"Copyright, a form of intellectual property law, protects original works of authorship..."

A specific representation of gears could be copyrighted. The general concept of gears-as-icon can't be.
Given that roads are built as a permanent structure which isn't permanent, thus terribly hard to replace...

I've wondered about building roads featuring self-leveling snap-in sections. Dispersed energy from traffic could be captured to operate its active self-leveling and status-reporting functions. When a section breaks - which like any road it will - a crew is notified, brings out a new section, pops out the old, installs the new within a few minutes, and moves on. No more long-term breakdowns, huge effort ripping out old road, long period rebuilding a replacement - all due to building asphalt/concrete roads as permanent structures which aren't.

Yes, up front costs are higher, but we've been building roads long enough to know there are substantial long term maintenance and replacement costs.
How easy is it to move or at least move a business over to Amsterdam, from the US?
Interesting observation. Actually, I think most of the devs are against filtering SD, too. There is just one very vocal one against it. As far as I can tell, all of the long-time devs oppose any filtering, since SD is working within the limitations of the Bitcoin protocol as it is defined. Please correct me if I'm wrong. But I agree with you that SD could try to find some ways to reduce the quantity of spam. One simple but drastic solution would be to run their own block chain and use it as poker chips that players could easily buy with Bitcoins (once you're in the virtual currency system, exchanging currencies is trivial).
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> Programming was seen as clergy work

You probably mean "clerical"?
Right now I'd say the only major "jump" that exists is the one between PHP 4 (released +10 years ago) and PHP 5. Other than that, apps are largely backwards compatible between 5.x versions, except for a few minor changes that no dev really stresses about.

The thing about PHP is that since it's massively used around the net, rather than forcing devs to catch up with the language, PHP devs themselves try as much as possible not to break backwards compability. Which in many ways is a pity, but that seems to be the direction of the language at the moment.
Most of whom? I came up in JS on the client-side. Nothing has been more frustrating over the years than watching all of the inflexible bloat and tightly coupled BS people have been piling on to the client-side in order to pretend it was something that it is not. Web forms sucked ass. Everything Java tried to do to pretend the client-side wasn't there has left massive legacy potholes all over the web. Just deal with the thing as it is already and learn something new. You're a programmer for chrissakes. I might indulge in writing OS apps with webkit but I don't try to add a server to the process if it's just a local desktop app in order to make it more like what I'm used to. HTML, CSS and JS properly applied are doing 4/5ths of what these frameworks are pointlessly reinventing. All you have to do is learn them properly. The rest, keeping data loosely coupled, is basic 'duh' OOP. All the stuff that's already there works surprisingly well if you actually give it a chance. Or have you not noticed that web technology solutions are spreading like wildfire into other domains or that we can implement and modify GUIs using client-side-web-technology a lot faster than desktop OS UI developers have ever been able to? FFS, they don't deliver on that desire because it's proven time and time again to be a complete waste of time to try to.
What I objected to was your automatic assumption that there was something to defend and your condescending tone in obligating the GP to defend it.

It's really hard to be critical of criticism without committing the very act you're claiming to be attacking.
If you are not in control of the car at the moment of the accident, then the manufacturer is liable for providing faulty equipment.

Good intentions does not do away with liability.

For that matter, why would you even purchase insurance for a vehicle like that. It should be supplied by the manufacturer.

Possibly even the car should not be owned by you, since you are not 100% in control at all times. But that's debatable, since people are attached to car ownership.
First: What an amazing opportunity! If he is working in near-isolation and he is very focused, he can come out of that experience with some serious skills.

The answer you seek is iTunesU, IMO.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/hands-on-python-tutoria...

I learned to build iOS apps from Standford's Paul Hegarty in iTunesU. Now, I'm going back through the material because he talks about some master-level things that I probably couldn't parse on the first go-round.
can I fork DMCA?
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> From the images we've seen all side by side this seems to be a rip of someone else's work.

Well, no. It seems to be very much not that.
* Hmmm ... if I offer what I believe as a valid criticism (constructively) but it offends someone, they're going to tend to think of me as mean regardless of my intention.*

Just because something offends someone else does not force that person to think of you as "mean". I don't buy into that argument at all. I can be offended but think "That guy's just a jerk - that's the way he is" (jerk != mean). Or I can choose to think, "He maybe was a bit harsh in how he said it, but ultimately his point is correct."

You aren't "wrong" in your other ideas, but I just don't agree that offending someone causes them to think you are mean.
Generally, an attorney can issue a subpoena without a judge's approval. It's when you ignore it or challenge it that a court gets involved.
Wait what did this have to do with LV or the DMCA takedown notice? Isn't design news just a hacker news clone aimed at designers? I would assume this is just a community post. Either way you're comment is still completely off topic.
I know that small airplane manufacturers stopped production in the 80s for the same reason (liability costs) and didn't resume until a special liability limitation was passed in Congress (General Aviation Revitalization Act, 1994).

I think it shows a significant failure in our tort system that so many industries are crippled by liability unless they receive special treatment, and even then, sometimes it's not enough.
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learn python the hard way[1] is available as PDF with instruction videos if you buy it. He could download all the resources before going away.

Don't know about Linux, but there are a lot of beginner html/js/css books available.

[1] http://www.learnpythonthehardway.org/
I see no war. I see some perfectly valid points about the tone of many comments here on Hacker News. One that personally I'm tired of seeing.
Did you even go to the link? First picture on the page obviously shows narrow diagonal connector pieces as required to support weak or unsupported components.
The Obamas Love Google
Ah no thanks, i'm sticking with Midnight Commander or plain and simple shell commands.
It's a lot more similar to Cassandra than Voldemort, actually. Voldemort is more of a straight-up clone of the original Dynamo, while Cassandra and DynamoDB are second-generation, what-can-we-learn-from-Dynamo's-weak-points evolutions from there.

http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/amazon-dynamodb
Thanks for posting this--I hadn't seen the side by side comparison. If this is what's being claimed as 'copies' of their artwork, then it's clearly an empty claim. The Flat UI icons look better, to my taste.
The same entities who would be responsible if engines started randomly falling out of cars: automakers.

If driving becomes a feature of the car itself and that feature fails in a way that causes and accident, there's no other answer. Maybe they'll find some kind of loophole where the self-driving feature is only covered for X years under a warranty? I don't think it would be too far-fetched for them to argue that the sensors for automated driving can deteriorate over time, at which point the consumer's insurer would become responsible for damages caused by any failure.

That being said, it might be in our best interest (or Google's?) to shoulder some of the liability if this issue would otherwise be a major hurdle preventing the adoption of self-driving technology by automakers.