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We have some free buses but I choose to use the pay buses to avoid the over crowding. Maybe there's room for both.
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The Cost of the Death Penalty
I wrote dnscrypt-proxy as a weekend project, and I still work on it on my spare time. And I'm a strong supporter of DNSSEC.

Unbound didn't support SSL back then, so that was a quick hack to achieve something similar. Let Unbound do caching, DNSSEC validation and filtering, and still authenticate DNS queries&responses between my remote Unbound server and my laptop.
Yeah, I was talking with some other activists about applying lessons from the SOPA/CISPA victory to the Patriot Act/FISA, and three people at the same time three time "it's all part of the same fight ..."
Notice that it was written by Mat Honan.
Well sure you could do that. But I don't believe that reading say 50 bytes at a time is very efficient even when you factor in automatic syscall batching.

But this is all speculation. I didn't any consideration for this problem in the paper at all so I don't have the impression it was on the researchers' radar.
Er... it's not like this just happened. The retraction being discussed was in 1998.
The fact he's running free and wild in the US shows that they don't take the Belize government's allegations seriously. Nor should they...
I work for Tokutek. Slava, thanks for the kind words. Just to clear up any possible confusion, this is the product. We release and support TokuMX. The research started roughly a year ago (the blog posts we've done are out there), and it has led to this.

We consider this to be full featured in the sense that we have a feature set that we feel users can deploy in production. As with any product, as users give feedback on what more they would like to see, be it existing MongoDB features or something else, we will use that feedback to enhance the product.
I agree that is indeed very generous! I am not sure I need it though, as I am fine having the main lobster page be a subpage of my personal wiki for the moment. That said, if it gets popular, it might be useful. Wanna hang on to it for the moment? Or email me about it - my username at gmail
Personally I think Microsoft will have to drop the price of the xbox one to match the PS4. I think people will look at the Kinect and ask if it's really worth paying an extra $100 for. The answer will be a resounding no.
First of all, we don't know whether they were lying. Second of all, if they were, they may have been forced by the government to lie. The FISA requests they were getting also came with gag orders.
James Gandolfini dead at 51
I didn't take it personal :)

I completely agree that "the children" is a minor blip in the entire program, but it is a blip that has a lot of emotional response attached to it.

I again agree that current laws can't even compare to something of this scale. But laws about minors and their entrapment or protection might be enough to waken the laymen on this apparent abuse of power.
Thanks, Matt... But it's pretty evident from your customer support tickets that your customers were alerting you to this issue (and their privacy concerns) since at least 2011... But you've clearly done nothing to fix it since then.

It's hard to believe you take customer privacy very seriously when you've made evidence to the contrary so easily searchable in Google.
It's Microsoft.
I worked at 3rd and Pine McDonalds in downtown Seattle for about a year while at UW, and I went to grad school at the U of U in SLC.

Downtown SLC is quite different in size from Seattle; you could walk the ride-free area in SLC in about 30 minutes, the ride free area in Seattle is much larger, more like 1.5 hours. Also, SLC didn't have many homeless people, while Seattle attracted most of the homeless people from the PNW, including lots from the nearby reservations and even Alaska (Alaska exports their homeless problems to us and LA).
> I'm sure you're right in that every woman wouldn't turn to prostitution just because it became legal

Prostitution is legal where I live (Australia) and I can confirm that not every woman has turned to prostitution.
Except that publishers won't agree to such a deal, meaning that any console implementing such a policy would lose third-party support resulting in significantly decreased sales units, and ultimately billion dollar loses for the console manufacturer.
Very cool!! I live in a small town in the mountains in Central Arizona and it located the micro brewery a few hundred yards from my house.
If any time a drone is launched, it's recorded to a publicly available website with its intended mission, freely available, I'd have far fewer qualms with their implementation. I don't disagree that there are good uses for these technologies. Just with how we don't not only know nothing about them, but we don't even know how to know anything about them, and often have no way to learn anything about them at all.
How was customer payment information NOT disclosed?! It is on Google!! The URLs should be protected by authentication! It should be impossible for Google or anyone else to access it without a login. It does not matter that some customers shared it on social sites. Saying there is no problem if the social sharing doesn't occur is security through obscurity.
> Whether this constitutes a separate pipeline or not is debatable.

If this comes down to the semantics of "separate pipeline" then maybe that is pointless. There is some new stuff at the start and end of processing, as you say, but all the middle is shared, and that is by far the bulk of the code.

IMO it comes down to the fact that one developer wrote all the new stuff at the start and the end in a few short months. Compared to a team that took years to write IonMonkey and other parts of the JS engine that are shared. So calling this a new VM or new JIT is definitely wrong, and even calling it a new pipeline feels like an odd choice of words, since the "pipeline" used on asm.js code is almost entirely of the existing SpiderMonkey VM.
It's because lawyers are often (to make a broad generalization), terribly risk-averse. Judges can sometimes disapprove of not giving the law it's "proper respect" (see Chad Johnson's recent stint in jail after being let off). Also, oftentimes lawyers can just drop the relevant facts at hand into a template. I'd bet the lawyer sending the C&D has sent a huge number of other C&D's worded pretty much identically.
It hasn't been released yet, but once it's tightly integrated with AOO it'll be put under an Apache license.
Scraping IMDB with Python
I guess Google really started taking advantage of "today's digital internet"

> Adding "no follow" tags to your Robots.txt file is a smart step but it's simply not enough on today's digital internet.
Best Part -

"Jake swears that was his actual cost. Looking at his website, I believe him." LOL
That's how I originally read it, and I think that's a valid reading. I think Orwell probably wanted readers to get that appearance. But the use of the subjunctive "would have" suggests--though doesn't prove--something more.

Your example explains the past tense but not the subjunctive mood. For example, would one say "Captain Picard would have lived many years after Captain Kirk"? To use the construction "would have" in this way casts the event as something that could have happened, but didn't. Similarly, Orwell's constructions paint the events after the publishing of the "perfected" Eleventh Edition, some time after 1984, as events that were planned but that never took place. If it were just anticipation of a future event that wasn't yet in the fictional timeline, I would expect "would" or "may have".

It's ambiguous, but it seems to me like he went out of his way to leave both readings open.
Quitting a high growth startup to be happy
They certainly would not, since that would add far to much administrative overhead when they want to add new companies to the list in the future.
Thanks!
- considering adding "full" closures at some point, so far haven't felt the need. We'll see how unbearable this gets eventually :)
- it does have a GC, which needs to be manually invoked. In games, that means you can decide to run it only on level start/end, etc
It was a solution to the problem that people couldn't get where they needed to go because downtown buses was always full of homeless people, who needed somewhere warm to get out of the weather, but didn't actually need to go anywhere. Metro's job is to operate a transportation system, not to operate a homeless shelter, and the fact that homeless people were riding back and forth across the downtown ride free zone made it much more difficult for Metro to do its actual job.

It may reassure you to know that a local social services group now operates a free "Downtown Circulator" bus which runs in a loop around the area of the old ride free zone. Any homeless or impoverished people who actually need to travel around the downtown area for free can still do so.
It might be an end-run around the 4th amendment if the government was ordering companies to do mass surveillance (though we can argue about whether the 4th amendment has anything to do with surveillance at all). But the government doesn't need to do that. The companies already do all the surveillance, and people happily hand over to those companies their data. Is it an end-run around the 4th amendment for the government to then compel companies to provide this data? It's not like the subpoena is a new and novel legal instrument. Even in 1790 the government could compel companies to hand over all the information they had about a target of investigation.
Main problem being explaining it concisely so all the journalists at E3 understand.
"nor do I want to have every web site be able to track them by globally routable IPv6 address everywhere I go."

So, you would rather use one address for everything, making it easy as pie to track you? You can pretty much pick IPv6 addresses at random (under your router prefix), and you have (many many many) more addresses than the whole IPv4 address space to choose from (it's a 128 bit address space and providers typically give a /48, /56, or /64 prefix at worst... that's 128-64=64 bits... that's 2^63.9999... more addresses than IPv4). In short, you don't really "map" the IPv6 space the same way you do the IPv4 space.

Taking credit for someone else's work very much is a useful analogy: if I can only speak through a third party, and I need that third party's permission to speak, let alone be spoken to, I quickly resent him or her. This is quite the case with current NAT solutions, with system administrators restricting "their" networks, making communication difficult for everyone else (by holding the only globally-routable address or "allocating" only a few; everyone else is second-class).
This is pretty exciting. A couple of questions:

How are you (Tokutek) planning to keep up to date with the MongoDB tree?

Are you planning on talking to the MongoDB folks about upstreaming this? Or will it be a pure fork with no sharing either way?
warning: site does not know how to use location.href, it's a pain to go back if you are using a mobile browser.
This is pretty neat. I wonder what the economics of this system will look like though.

(100$ - Stripe fee to accept money) - Stripe fee to give money == ???
How does it compare to DNSSIG? (http://dnssig.org)?
TokuMX is indeed a complete product, not an experiment. We're proud of it and ready to support it yesterday :)

I completely agree that pluggable storage engines are an interesting topic. But we went the integrated route (ie: no storage API) probably for the same reason: things get simpler and easier to implement when the stack is shorter.
He didn't hear from monster cable again, so it seems to have worked.

Choosing a stupidly generic word for a trademark seems to mean spending a lot of money on lawyers to protect that mark, especially if you're aggressive as Monster is about it.

(http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123869022704882969.html#arti...) alternate location (http://www.tabberone.com/Trademarks/HallOfShame/MonsterCable...) (The rest of that website is rather unpleasant).
I love DuckDuckGo, but there is one problem, the search results are generally poor. I have to revert to google very regularly to find what I want, particularly for technical searches. I am going to persist, but at this stage I am limiting it to things I don't want on my permanent record, like when I am searching for things like 'herpes'.
> I hated Sundays on the boat because that was always "Steak & Lobster" day, and I was the one asshole who didn't like steak and didn't like lobster.

You aren't an asshole; you're a vegetarian. I hear that's quite respectable these days. Myself, I'll have your steak and lobster - thanks!
Total Google searches: 28174
> Their core product, enabling developers to charge credit cards, wasn’t the first to the market. It is, instead, the best.

This is what I love about stripe. It may seem to an outsider like HN is full of Stripe fanboys but to someone who has worked with 10-20 other payment gateways its a godsend. Documentation that is simple, a reliable api, webhooks that work and a fantastic team behind it make stripe so much better than the other big players.
This is not a question of whether the behavior can be disabled. It's enabled by default. The default is what counts in every situation like this.
You are both right. My use of C# is deliberately basic to give users of other languages a good chance to follow it too.
What I am wondering is how can DDG show correct PPC results with out collecting user data. They must transfer searches to bing in order to display correct adverts.

http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216405-a...
They could market it as a "360 mode"... it's exactly the features currently available in the xbox 360, nothing more.
There's money in that.

Yahoo better act like they know what they are doing. I'm sure their technical team does, but management doesn't always listen to the engineers, sometimes management just says "MAKE IT HAPPEN."
> ie NSA co-operation

This is so ridiculous it's not worth talking about. The chances of snooping due to the console being hacked are slightly higher, but where are all the people complaining that most laptops, tablets, and phones (which generally have significantly less software security) have built-in software controlled cameras and microphones? Laptops usually have indicator lights for cameras, but not microphones, and the other two have no indicators and follow you wherever you go.
the bank transfer fee is $0.25 USD. pretty standard for ACH

https://stripe.com/us/help/pricing#transfers
The FBI Admits to Using Drones for Domestic Surveillance
I am just getting started with Angular on an app this week, thanks for sharing this! Looking forward to digging in.
It scores extremely, extremely well on 2.

Regarding 3 it has had coroutines built into the language since the last 10~15 years, much before the language Go made it more mainstream. preemptive threads is more recent. It does have a stop the world garbage collector, which is not good for concurrent applications, but the semantics allows one to avoid creating garbage to a large extent. Libraries is chicken and egg, one needs higher level of adoption to drive this. 5 could be a legitimate concern, but I dont think its going to be any worse than Scala or C++ in this respect.

As far as language design goes, Skaller the author is a well regarded PL theorist active on LTU.

I am not saying this the best, end all language, but one that has enough interesting features that would be interest to the early-adopter rich crowd that we have here. It certainly has grabbed my eye balls
I didn't notice the #x{foo}, though was thinking that should be the default (safe-first), and if you want unsafe/raw have that be explicit.
man that really fucking sucks
Right, like dropbox which was "coming soon".
I don't get why this is on the HN front page. dnscrypt is 2 years old, and nothing special happened to it lately. Did I miss something?
At least this is the first Steambox (will be released very late) and not the Steambox 3 (will never be released).
Should Your Birthplace Determine Your Future?
Producer Factory: where success has a price
Why wouldn't it be online?
In 2002 I made a paypal account with my yahoo email address. I attached my bank account to it, the same one I still use.

I haven't used that paypal account or that email address in years. A while back I realised the folly of this and removed as much information as I could from the account.

But, what if I'd just forgotten about it? Now anyone who registers my (common) yahoo email, attempts a password reset on the popular websites, can drain my bank account.
Has anyone realized all of this has to do with clkbank.com NOT ClickBank.com

Looks like a fake site all together...
We use stripe for our app, http://follower.io, and it was sooo simple to get setup! I love how their docs even adapt to your account, showing you API calls with your keys already in it!
I don't get what you're saying here. You don't need VM's to abstract away resources - containers do that just fine.

Containers are - depending somewhat on the container technology used - from a user perspective just like a VM that happens to be restricted to running the same kernel as the host and use less resources. Some container systems may leak more in terms of abstractions and/or might not be designed to be as secure, and so there's certainly scenarios where certain types of containers are not appropriate, but that's an issue of specific implementations.

In the systems I deploy, containers takes care of all of what you describe all by themselves.
Thanks I'll let @Tynan know
Because 1) we want as many barriers to tyranny as possible. We should not be relying upon government self-restraint. And 2) "I was only following orders" is not a defense against wrong doing.
Why? Was Scribd an Ycombinator company? Is pg the devil?
An interesting tidbit from this article is the quote of the quote of the quote of Gen. Alexander asking for an intentionally "ill-defined" law. I've never heard of such a strategy before. Is this a new thing, or are there documented examples of laws that were made intentionally vague in order to give their beneficiaries more power or latitude than anyone would rationally agree to explicitly? Off the top of my head, Florida's "Stand Your Ground" law might qualify.
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A history of fonts (Vimeo)
But now you have Person A and Person B playing the game at the same time with only 1 purchase of the game.
Yes, wear really is to the 4th power, and yread got his conclusion exactly backward.

(Someone once evoked it like this: Would you rather have 300 1lb kittens walk on you, or one 300lb human?)

But the wear is per tire, not per vehicle. So you have to divide the bus weight by the ratio of number of wheels compared to a car.
I've said this before, but each payment provider out there has benefits the others don't, which is a little annoying. For example, Balanced is inferior in almost all regards to Stripe except in one major area: Payment speed. Stripe offers 7-day rolling payouts (shorter for larger merchants), but Balanced offers next day payments and same day for Wells Fargo customers!

Square offers same-day payouts and the best in-person dongle experience. But - and I have NO idea why this is - they offer no web API. Ridiculous.

Stripe has the best third-party plugin support and best documentation.

For now, I use Stripe, and they've worked with me to speed up payments. But you can't beat same-day payments that Balanced offers (I do use WF) and if Balanced ever starts funding and encouraging developers to work on plugins for major shopping carts, I will switch immediately.
See http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hua...
The only thing the NSA is accomplishing right now are encouraging innovations in privacy to help people avoid detection. And, gosh, I wonder who will be the first to seize onto that? Mmm, criminals perhaps?
> For example, Balanced is inferior in almost all regards to Stripe except in one major area: Payment speed.

We'll fix this.
If the NSA is tapping fiber at providers, a la Room 641A, then the companies behavior is completely irrelevant to the spying, and the NSA watches all traffic in and out of their networks anyway.

So your choice, as a European, seems to be utilize networks that don't pass through America at all, or have the NSA spy on you. I apologize for the inconvenience.
James Gandolfini has died
I think a scribd link gets added to the end rather than substituted for the entire link?
Ah. Whoosh. Yep. Thanks.
He has videos on his youtube channel he hasn't posted to Egghead.io
Right, so the important thing to keep in mind (and this is different from Balanced), is that you are making a standard Charge object. It's business as usual.

When you pay money out to users, it is deducted from your Stripe balance. In that sense, the initial charge, and the transfer later, are not explicitly connected to each other. It's up to you to persist some business logic on the application side.

In our case, we build in Stripe's fees (the standard 2.9% + $0.30) and make an assumption about our transfer fees (25 cents per transfer) to make sure we come out on top. The payer (when we create the Charge object) is paying this fee.

That way, when I gift money to a couple, they are receiving EXACTLY what I intended to send them. We don't want the couple feel in any way like there's a "gotcha" — someone sent you $25, but you can withdrawal only $22! We are, of course, transparent to the payer about the additional fees they're covering.

We let users withdrawal their full amount. This is in part to encourage fewer transfer fees, but it also simplifies things for our end-user.

It's been great to work with Stripe. I can't say enough about the quality of their staff and the love and care they put into their API. It's something we should all appreciate and replicate.

Chris
Do you think this move was absolutely necessary for MakerBot? 3D hobbyists out there, how do you feel about this?
You should double-check the compositing. It looks like the iPhone layer is being drawn directly on top of the Android layer. So there is a good chance that if you reverse the composting order, the map will light up green.

The correct approach would be to decide a winner, or do some blending for every pixel on the map.
It's pretty common to have multiple domains, especially affiliate marketing websites. ClickBooth has clickboothlnk.com, NeverBlue has many random alphanumeric domains.

This certainly is Clickbank.com
It's not like the subpoena is a new legal instrument

True, but there isn't an 18th century analogue to a company that has all of your personal correspondence.
That's an interesting point. The problem doesn't stem from things being free as much as from people's perception of free things.

My former professor, who specialized in developing public relations campaigns for social causes, used to say that it's best to avoid words like "public" and "free" because it makes people think of lower-quality things — public rest rooms, for instance.

It's better for campaigns to use language that doesn't conjure these associations — or, in some cases, charge a nominal fee.

For example, a nonprofit whose mission was to give away condoms in Africa ended up charging a small price for each condom; message testing showed that the audience didn't trust free contraception, so, ironically, charging for the product made it more accessible.
I think DNSSIG is (at least designed) more for relationships among DNS servers and especially to protect the integrity of the DNS records, while this project seems more for securing the client-to-relay channel, with (I guess) focus on confidentiality.
Is anyone bothered that the government misuses a term meta data?
They are collecting data about us. They aren't collecting information about our schema.