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Yep, the buttons on the shirt are reversed on the left image compared to the other two...
I asked most of my friends and they all say they don't really care. There's really only a small vocal minority that even understands the ramifications.
> What is the damage to society and economy an average criminal causes over the course of a year?

Those incarcerated for drug use could potentially be making the government a profit. The only negative effects on society are associated with the supply line, not the individual's behaviour. If some drugs were legalised the net benefit to society would be positive, increased income via taxation and improved relations between the police and the public(a large portion of which are drugs users).
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these are latest updates

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/06/kotlin-m5-3-idea-13...

http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2013/04/kotlin-m5-2-intelli...
Well, if you want to ask those kinds of questions, then you have to start asking, how much does it cost society to let some pothead remain free? Because that's another aspect of this problem: incarcerating people for victimless crimes.
Hi dsyph3r - the app will be available on Android too. I'll follow up with the relevant link tomorrow when it's live. Looking forward to seeing you on on the app!
>Food stamps comes to mind.

How are food stamps demeaning?

My family was on food stamps for a few months after my dad left. This was over 10 years ago and even then they gave you an EBT card, not actual stamps.

At most grocery stores you swipe it yourself, so it looks like you're just using a debit card.
I'm not sure about those claims, but I don't think your examples is really a counterexample. The free fare --> drastically higher utilization argument seems like something that would apply more in the steady state; nobody is going to sell their car for the one day a year that fares are free, and one of the main advantages of taking a bus is erased if you already have a car.
I would imagine the helicopter costs less than the drone.
I really like your last point -- Seattle is pretty "homeless friendly" in the big picture (rumors of other cities buying bus passes for their homeless to send them here have circulated for years).

But there was a big debate when the county eliminated the "ride free" bus zone in downtown, which was a major transportation benefit for the homeless to catch rides to social services. When the county got rid of the ride free service, they stepped up with a transportation van that would loop once an hour between areas where the homeless congregated and loop around to the shelters, food banks, the Urban Rest Stop (free showers and laundry, no questions asked -- http://www.urbanreststop.org/), etc, still offering the homeless ease of access to these services, but also sort of "classifying" them on this bus as being very specifically in need.

I'm not going to pretend to be an expert on the psychology of class designation, but I'd much prefer the homeless rode with the rest of the people in our city. I think it raises social awareness when you avoid segregation like this.
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Portland, Oregon also discontinued the "Fareless Square" free downtown transit because of this.
Alot of these articles miss an important part of the equation by just looking at the direct costs to taxpayers to run prison facilities. There are alot more costs to the incarceration mentality than just that.

There is the cost of the entire justice system - police, judges, attorneys, and so on.

Add to that the lost productivity of inmates who could be holding down jobs instead of just twiddling their thumbs.

Then you have costs borne by the inmates' families to visit them, make up for their absence etc.

I think the overall cost to American society from locking up so many people is staggering when you add it all up. Unfortunately people still vote for politicians who promise to be "tough(er) on crime" and the cycle continues...
Don't get hung up on the word "monopoly" here. The relevant issue being discussed is centralization vs decentralization.
This is really just a distraction.

Currently Russia is using Syria and this as a distraction for much more low-profile energy consolidation moves in Eastern Europe. Russia doesn't care a white about NSA surveillance (they do the same thing after all with impunity) - what they do care about is keeping world focus away from moves to consolidate influence in their periphery.
> My travel time in the car is generally half of the bus time. I consider that time lost.

I consider it time gained :) I bus to work every day, takes just over an hour each direction. By car, it takes 20-30 minutes each direction. That's about 2 hours I spend catching up on news and reading books every day, as opposed to an hour staring at someone else's bumper. It's definitely a different judgment for every person.

I'm in Minneapolis/St Paul. Can't wait for our new East-West light rail line to open next year. It was a major factor in choosing where I purchased my house.
Hey mfjordvald,

We were not aware of your article at all, and if it's "basically a copy" it was entirely coincidental. I think the way you're looking at is very negative though -- any and all efforts to improve understanding of a great and powerful dev tool I think are a positive thing for the community.

I'd love to see your article too, could you link to it?
My favorite Mathematics game is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connect_Six

Mathematically fair
This is definitely the correct solution to the problem with BSD sockets - nobody actually treats network connections as files. All of that file overhead and unix integration is entirely wasted. All of the advances that have been made in message passing systems/buses have passed over BSD sockets because everyone is of the opinion that BSD sockets are already perfect. Most of that view comes from the very simple fact that everything uses BSD sockets - even Windows.

Hopefully this research spurs on others to create new implementations, because I bet that there are many improvements possible in the basic socket idea.
I've done something similar in Apache with mod_vhostalias, where you set a VirtualDocumentRoot that specifies the pattern to match against and the dynamic directory path to serve up.
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Are incognito and AdBlock meant to protect against PRISM? I don't quite understand what the point is. Why not just log out if you're still using Google anyway?
Agreed, but also http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/06/19/nuke_plants_to_keep_...
You're forgetting one of they key points of buses in dense places: Parking!

Here in DC I can out-drive the bus on any route in the city, but when you factor in 20+ dollars/day for parking downtown, or spending 30 minutes finding a street spot, the bus wins hands down.
A friend of mine wrote a 'memoir' of his start in mathematics research as a schoolboy in St Petersburg: http://windowsontheory.org/2013/04/12/research-life-stories-...

Incidentally, he was on the team finishing in 2nd place in 1998 ACM finals.
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That's not a great rational to not use drones.

You're throwing away tons of money maintaining helicopters that you don't need most of the time because it's too hard to regulate the use of drones?

That's like forcing police officers to only use 18th century muskets so they don't shoot too much
The Economist is worthless when it comes to the science of economics, so it's expected but still amusing to see a sloppily incorrect use of "free" next to a site called "economist.com". What makes it truly great is seeing it on the top of HN, where everyone's straining to evade this meaning.
Does Netflix release that original content DRM free? They claimed that their interest in DRM is driven by media companies. So let them prove it by releasing their own content DRM free.
What hotel was it?
I have yet to meet someone in person, millennial or otherwise, who cares. Hell, my wife and I care strongly about several political issues (privatized prisons, for-profit schools, the environment, abortion rights, public pensions, privatized water, in her case the 2nd amendment) and she totally doesn't care and I struggle to care. I'm really more disappointed with the attempts to keep it secret than the actual program--I think the program is legal and there is no reason it needs to be kept secret.
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So, it's a desktop client, that runs in a browser. This feels like the worst of both worlds; you have to leave it on if you don't want to miss anything, you can't access it from elsewhere, and you're constrained to a webapp UI.
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I believe that parent assumes that food stamps are physical stamps instead of EBT cards.
Your ISP probably has these installed on every one of their racks:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/packet-forensics/
Your analogy still does not resolve why only one party in the trial gets to see the evidence in its entirety before it is destroyed.

Why would the defense (i.e. the owner of the data) not have the same opportunity as the prosecution to review their own material?

The only counter-argument that I can see is that Mega should continue paying their hosting bills for as long as the government wants to drag the trial on for. Which very well was a possible intent from the start. In which case, the entire thing seems like a government strong-arm, of which I am not in favor.
The big problem Netflix faces in the long run is its production cost model. It's well known within Hollywood that Netflix basically went to market and announced that it would pay 1.5x (or whatever) the going Hollywood rate for original material. Hence, it's actually absorbing all the cost inefficiencies of Hollywood and magnifying them. It's driving up prices and adding more inefficiency to the system. (FYI, Amazon is currently in town and doing the same).

Their ostensible gameplan is to do this in the short run, in order to get a hit or two on their hands -- at which point they can start dictating terms, rather than being dictated to. This is similar to HBO's playbook, from back when it first entered the scripted development market. It's a very big gamble. It paid off for HBO, and in recent years it's been paying off for basic cable channels like AMC. But Netflix has a very different revenue model that is challenged by heavy, loss leading production costs. It's also starting to face a lot of competition for essentially the same service rendered to consumers.

The question of whether this "can only be good" for consumers is a much thornier one. Economics suggests that more players in the distribution ecosystem will lower costs for consumers. And Netflix has already done a pretty great job lowering marginal costs of consumption. But Netflix isn't really disrupting anyone on the content side, at least not yet; that's largely because the studio system is really savvy about protecting itself from disruption.
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In a way, his work supports the work of UNIX and Ritchie. He states that tech work on a large scale is often like setting pavement. UNIX APIs are a progression of that. The fact that many can use a computer without understanding the underpinnings of an OS is a testament to Jobs.
A lot of the difference I believe has to do with how we consume news, and more specifically from where. My parents (baby boomers) consume news in a very traditional way. They read the local newspaper, and watch network news. On the other hand, myself, and other people my age get news from the internet. The difference is a lot of the articles that really are fueling the outrage are not coming from "traditional" sources. The Guardian for instance is not something my parents would ever read.
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Firefox is an excellent browser, but falls behind chrome because (in addition) insists with some poor design decisions.

Three layers on top (buttons, tabs, url-bar), imagine if I enable bookmarks :P

Darker than others... forget the hacker look, come to the light

Simple tasks easy to do with Chrome web inspector are way more complicated in Firefox

Too many buttons, too many options (people like simplicity)
Not too far from the truth. Here a couple of judges busted taking bribes for filling private prisons.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-10747919

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/luzerne-s-other-disgraced-j...

Also this: http://www.texasprisonbidness.org/
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True, automating surveillance has always been about efficiency in terms of $ spent on enforcement vs value at risk. While LA keeps at least 2 and maybe 3 helicopters pretty much in the air all the time, they can't actually be everywhere all the time. But a couple of dozen drones could in fact provide continuous surveillance of parts of the city (as could ARGUS [1]). I know that at least one police force made the argument that the city could approve either the drone or more officers. I'll have to go track down some of the debates to see if anyone has made your point about scale on the record.

[1] A contact suggested that the ARGUS demos were done at an altitude to not appear creepy since if you fly that thing at 10,000' its picking out daisies in your hard that are missing petals.
Polls that touch a wide audience should be taken with a grain of salt. When you ask someone who doesn't really know what's going on "do you care?" their response doesn't mean much. This is true of just about everything, and transcends age. I would rather see polls like this come with an intensive questionnaire to correlate knowledge about the recent revelations of an NSA surveillance state with their answers.

For instance:

"Do you think PRISM is a powerful tool to prevent major terrorist attacks?"
48% yes, 52% no

A powerful tool which has yet to provide leads into a potential threat (rather, traditional means have still been significantly more effective), and which failed spectacularly to even hint at the Boston Marathon bombing? There's too much data. People can easily use code words or encrypt their communications. It's horribly and totally unreliable, and warrants are already a thing.

"Is Bradley Manning a hero?"
31% yes, 69% no

"Should Edward Snowden be prosecuted for disclosing classified information?"
56% yes, 44% no

"Do you consider Edward Snowden a hero?"
34% yes, 66% no

But then...

"Are you glad that Edward Snowden revealed the secret surveillance program?"
75% yes, 25% no

That seems like strong cognitive dissonance. Is it possible the people answering this poll are getting their information from a source that bashes the person/act, minimizes the program (or discloses no information about it or how it could be abused), but is happy it's a talking point? Maybe NBC and Fox News?
You mean the way things used to be before GMail showed up? Back when we had mail quotas? Back when 10MB of email storage was the norm?
Let's say that we could fix democracy next week. What about technologically capable governments with no democracy, or attenuated democracy? The week before the PRISM story broke, the news was that US government and industry was getting p0wnd by foreign hackers.
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Most likely so, but I haven't read any about any figures about exactly what percentage of MU users we "legitimate", storing personal or business documents/images/files etc vs videos, music and other questionable files.

If it's more of the latter, then I suspect the user base would largely be unaffected.
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My takeaway is that they first started with a product that challenged some of the biggest players. A video distribution platform? Up against YouTube and Vimeo?

But that wasn't the end goal - they just built something, anything, to start a conversation with customers and learn of new needs in the area. After learning of new needs they pivoted and built a new product.

It's not about the idea necessarily - it's about learning and execution.
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There are many well documented cases showing that both Nature and Science are particularly susceptible to these types of shenanigans. I don't know if this is unique to them because of their particular competitive spirit, or if distaste in examination extends to most journals and it's just that Nature and Science see far more scrutiny than other journals.

These high profile journals serve the purpose of publicizing discoveries that are thought to have far-reaching interest in science. However, at the same time, they have the strictest limitations on publications, meaning that the methods section, the foundation of science, are rarely described in any detail. So they have some of the worst practices for publication while supposedly chronicling the most important discoveries.

So while Nature/Science papers make the news and make people's careers, it's important to downweight the certainty of the finding until there is independent verification.
What you’re describing is also known as Theseus’ Paradox, and has been with us for 2 millennia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
For now drones cost more than helicopters. On NPR the other day they mentioned the drones used for border security are 18 million each. Maybe that will change with time, and maybe it won't. The only reason to use a drone vs a helicopter over American soil at the moment is the stealth factor of a much smaller bird in the air.
Leaseweb is a Dutch company. They must listen to Dutch police.
It's not your article that's depressing, it's the fact that nginx documentation hasn't come further than this over the years. Obviously there's still a need for even basic nginx information and there's absolutely no blame from me for filling that need. If anything I should blame myself for not marketing my own stuff more. :)

The article I mentioned can be found here: http://blog.martinfjordvald.com/2010/07/nginx-primer/
> alternative transit options that could relieve excess demand would be driven out of business (because who can compete with free?).

Alternatives don't just compete on price, but also things like convenience. In fact, even in the current system, it's damn hard (impossible?) to find a transportation alternative that's priced lower than a bus. Muni in SF costs $2 a ride (plus free transfers for a few hours), and the only cheaper transport is walking, which can't "go out of business". If I take a taxi, it's not because they're offering $1 fares, it's because it's faster, more direct, and more comfortable, and that advantage will only increase in a free-bus scenario (because presumably buses will be more crowded).
It's a lot less than 12-15k for the Gold tier; more like a couple $1-2k bodies and $3k of lenses (which could be used), which is pretty standard for even the lowest end professional. The $100/yr membership at that tier is more of an issue.

For the top tier, it's probably $10-20k of gear, and $500/yr.
I guess I'm one of the few here who disagrees with this article.

Maintaining a bus and subway system is extremely expensive in terms of resources, both in terms of equipment expenses, salaries (for employees who could be providing other benefits to society instead of operating a bus) fuel, and use of land.

There is no 100% certainty that buses/subways are more efficient than cars. Luckily however, we have a way to tell which is more efficient: The free market! The free market is not perfect, but it is likely that a person who pays a fare to ride a bus is getting significant value from that bus ride, and if the fare CAN COVER THE EXPENSES of running the buses, then we can be confident that buses are an efficient mode of transportation.

If you just make the buses free, people may take more roundabout trips to get to where they need to go, just to be able to make use of the free bus, causing inefficiency and waste. Or, it may cause people to take more inefficient taxi trips (because the bus doesn't take them to their precise destination like a personal car would) or they may do a million other things that are damaging to the environment and wasteful (like eating out more because they can take free bus trips to restaurants.) These scenarios may sound silly, but the fact is that removing price signals from public transportation is a terrible idea because it can have a multitude of unexpected consequences.

If you read this post and think I'm crazy and say to yourself "What an idiot, cars are obviously guaranteed to be less efficient than buses" I would argue you don't understand how incentives behave in a complex system.

If you think cars are so horrible, you should work to stop subsidies to oil companies so that gas prices reflect the true cost of energy. But in my view there is absolutely no way making public buses free is going to make cities more efficient and/or help the environment.

EDIT: Just to be clear, I'm not saying we should get rid of all public transport subsidies (this is a harder argument to make, I'm not sure where I stand on it.) I'm just saying we shouldn't make them 100% free because price signals are valuable.
Google or any other online service could gain a lot of trust by offering open source clients that enable encryption by default and easy to use ephemeral-key systems for real time communication and PKI for email and documents in their cloud.
Parking was number 3, though I'll admit I may have underplayed it.
I can point to many computer games that were distributed through MegaUpload - perfectly legal games - that have now disappeared, at least from public view.

So they should just upload it somewhere else now, or through bittorrent. They certainly shouldn't have been using MU as a source control repository or as their only copy.
I saw you make this argument elsewhere in the thread. Do you have a source? I would expect the opposite to be true- at least until drones become more prevalent. There is a lot more that goes into these systems than a model-sized self flying aircraft.

On a somewhat related note, there was a recent AMA on reddit from a drone pilot: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ghkm7/iama_drone_sens...