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I am strongly against unions, I understand organizing to achieve a cause. The issue I have with unions is it became a political game and lead to several major companies running into major financial troubles because of it. Take for example GM or any other major car manufacturer in the U.S. 50 years ago the main reason Toyota was able to gobble up so much of the market was because the U.S. automakers HAD to give the unions what they wanted because the government stepped in when they would strike. Leading to outrageous pensions, 6 hour work days, etc.

Organizing to improve working conditions makes sense, but the U.S. government stepping in to FORCE employers to meet standards that the union sets is a bit out outrageous to me. If you're doing manual labor and replaceable it's mighty hard to unionize without the government support, I understand that. Unfortunately, because you are replaceable you don't have pull and SHOULD NOT have pull. If a companies working conditions are really that dangerous you can work in another factory or educate yourself and become skilled enough to be worth while to please. Not to mention, if it is that dangerous most people probably wont work in that line of work unless they have no choice, in which case they should be HAPPY to have that dangerous job because they can eat.

Call me calloused, but I would personally rather work a dangerous job and get food, as opposed to robbing my employer. We both earn our keep (the employer and me) and the market sets the price for my work. I am nothing more than a cog in the machine that is the economy.
But you've got it backwards. The point is that the "spread out" nature you're talking about was created with the idea in mind that everyone will have a car and will drive. That was a conscious decision, and not a necessary one.

Also realize that it was by design that you don't view having a car to be the luxury.
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But if you were to sample leading causes of death among 18-40yr olds then car accidents would be top.

Smoking is abhorrent but it still tends to kill the older, car accidents kill young people.
I think it's Google interests to make a simple and faster protocol.
I think the issue is that major airline crashes are so relatable since many people fly on a major carrier every so often. "It could've been me" plays. On the other hand, very, very few people take air taxis in Alaska.
That's a great question. Does anyone have any anecdotal/benchmark evidence about the performance of Firefox OS?
Funny how the video also shows them running a stop sign. I think you have to follow lights and stop signs even in the bike lane, right?
Of course, he could have said that instead.
Just have it powered by the bike...
I do feel though, that more innocent people are killed by other peoples driving mistakes than other peoples alcohol/smoking/diets.
Apple, Amazon end 'app store' lawsuit
Curious why their logo appears to be a downward-biased ticker with a negative color combination!
Ehm. The big (as in BIG BROTHER) problem is that mere continuity is a very very weak property. The fact that "small" changes turn into other "small" changes depends essentially on the "smallness".

For example (I know this is not a polynomial, but the function is related to root-finding):

f(x) = x^(1/10)

which has x=0 as a root (f(0)=0).

Take a "small" increment of x, say x=0.01

f(0.01) = 0.63+

Which, to any reasonable human being is "quite large" with respect to the increment of x.

This is even worse for Wilkinson's Polynomial, which is what the parent was trying to convey, I guess.

I know I am referring just to a related problem but this is one of those days for me...

That is: roots depend continuously on the coefficients of a polynomial but that continuity is filled with very bad behaved constants all around dancing and whirling to make the problem very very bad behaved.

EDIT: I think I have realised what I want to say.

Take P(x) = x^10, it has a (multiplicity 10 root at x=0). Then take Q(x) = x^10 - .01 (which is a "small" deformation of P(x)). Then the roots of Q are 0.63+ and -0.63+, which are "huge" compared to 0, 0.01.

Unless I am still under this terrible drosiness...
I'm not talking about "Larry And Sergey have decreed that Evil Shall Happen!" I'm talking about broad economic incentives. Since I don't work for Google, I have to treat them as a black box; I see what goes in, I see what comes out. I know nothing of the internals, I only have one friend who actually works there. If I implied there was some kind of conspiracy, that is my fault. You're right that that would be ridiculous.

I would also criticize Google for your reasons, and they may be even more important. But this isn't a thread about those things.
Thanks. At the time I was looking at it, the page was down and I was navigating the cache without any css/js. :)
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I just met Seth in-person for the first time at ansiblefest a few weeks ago, after having crossed paths with him on irc for nearly a decade. Every time I renewed a RHEL subscription at work his was a specific name I had in mind that I wanted to fund the work of. I've built my entire career on the redhat/fedora/centos/yum/cobbler/func/ansible projects he's been a major part of.

He wasn't just a prolific contributor, he was a really good guy. He helped people out in irc channels near constantly. After my first ever conference presentation he came up to me and complimented and thanked me for it. He was both a code and cultural pillar of the greater redhat community, I will miss him.
Can also use this on facebook & twitter too!
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Without living in the US it is hard for you to come up with a valid argument against prioritizing automobile infrastructure.

Population density alone makes it an issue outside of large cities like New York, because of that you'll also find most cities have pretty lackluster public transportation.

It is tragic that people are hurt and worse because of automobiles but they are a fact of life in America and cyclists are a very minor subset of the population for which taxes rarely cater.

One of the major problems with bicycling is the lack of respect between the cyclist and the motorist, it goes both ways but there are plenty of motorists who do not understand the laws and despise cyclists. But there are also many cyclists who fail to follow the laws which helps perpetuate the hate from motorists.

If more cities had the budget for dedicated cycling paths and road usage I'm sure they would use it but as it is now only some "greener" cities are able to do anything.
This handing was handed down by a federal district court. The judges on that court are appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate, and serve for life. Moreover, the Senate routinely blocks their appointment for political reasons. So what distinguishes them from SCoTUS justices in this sense?
Exactly this. Alcohol is linked to over 75,000 deaths per year [1] while bicycle related deaths are around 700 per year [2]. There needs to be much more focus on alcohol/tobacco related injuries than deaths.

1. http://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/fact-sheets/alcohol-use.htm

2. http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/bikeinjuries.ht...
My patriotism took a giant hit with USAPATRIOT. Its been in an abject freefall since Citizens United.

I used to venomously ridicule people who suggested 9/11 was a false flag event. As time has gone on, I find it more and more likely that they let it happen to justify perpetual war and the fullscale rollout of the Panopticon.

We live in a fascist state.
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Their update that data might be kept around until the 30th, but they won't have support after Friday is almost an insult to injury here. I don't understand why they wouldn't just continue to support MyRedis for some reasonable amount of time. So not worth it.
Sure, but it's neat because it uses Firebase's BaaS and apparently no other backend code.
Dropbox introduces new API features
On collision is too late. You need to know the lead up to an accident, not the flight of the device through the air afterwards.
There's nothing requiring you to specifically test every function in a class - though, as others have said, you can set the access level to default or protected to have package-level access for tests.

Strictly speaking, though, refactoring should never require new tests, unless you're specifically refactoring to increase testability. New tests should be related to specific bugs or feature requests.
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"But in reality, no matter the form of transportation, there will be deaths involved"

Sure, but:

1. This was a hit-and-run, a problem that is unique to automobiles. Buses and trains do not have a significant hit-and-run issue; they are operated by people whose job is to operate them, and they are on regular, organized schedules.

2. Automobiles are among the most dangerous forms of transportation.

On the whole, though, I agree with the sentiment: Seth's death would be just as terrible if he had been hit by a bus, train, or airplane. This is not a story about how terrible cars are, it is a story about a man's tragic death.
Personal consumption is a completely different realm than dangerous systemic infrastructure decisions. I'll give someone the right to die fat and drunk on their own, but I absolutely abhor how our roads make murderers out of us.
Not necessarily. In some regions cyclists are legally allowed to treat a stop sign as a yield sign.
Shred doesn't operate on free space at all. It overwrites the file, and assumes that the underlying filesystem will overwrite the data in place.

http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/shred...
"Please note that shred relies on a very important assumption: that the file system overwrites data in place. This is the traditional way to do things, but many modern file system designs do not satisfy this assumption. Exceptions include:

Log-structured or journaled file systems, such as those supplied with AIX and Solaris, and JFS, ReiserFS, XFS, Ext3 (in data=journal mode), BFS, NTFS, etc., when they are configured to journal data.
File systems that write redundant data and carry on even if some writes fail, such as RAID-based file systems.
File systems that make snapshots, such as Network Appliance's NFS server.
File systems that cache in temporary locations, such as NFS version 3 clients.
Compressed file systems."
Sorry, not feeling very patriotic about this. "by the people, for the people, released back to the people." Meanwhile those of the people who are physicians have had their fees sequestered by 2% http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/781630
and are awash in extra paperwork for trying to prescribe something as simple as diabetic test strips as funding is tightened: http://www.pharmacist.com/cms-cuts-reimbursement-diabetes-te...
The family wanted to keep this off social media for now. Unfortunate that you posted this.
Even better. Doesn't necessarily have to be in pill form. Alternatively you can have your kids visit a farm every weekend, although that might be leaving too much to chance.
One minor caveat I'd add- JS is slow, but you don't always have to use it. I've had great results using a little JS coupled with hardware accelerated CSS transitions, animations, etc.

Web apps are slower than native, that's undeniable, but they're only really slow when you port bad desktop practises ($("#home").animate() and the like) over to mobile.
Smoking kills people slowly, whereas bike accidents are faster. That doesn't make either better or worse, and if anything, not really comparable.
The bicycle could have been, and is in many cities (see Copenhagen or Amsterdam). The decision to include the automobile as "a staple of growth in modern society" is the reason it isn't a drop in fit. We designed our cities around dangerous, pollution producing power tools, and in doing so squashed out any hope of implementing something better.

If you think about it, the only reason the bicycle isn't a safe alternative is because there are cars on the road. I don't have statistics on this, but you almost never hear about solo bicycle accidents resulting in fatalities, only ones involving cars.

We're on our way back now, but it's a long road (so to speak).
What is broken about the security model?
Nice work! Never heard of this before. Looks like it might be a useful replacement for Redis in some cases.
What's left to thwart the MAFIAA we need a protocol to serve anonymous/unknown data, with plausible deniability.

Like this: "I'll store this blob of data on my computer and upload it to anyone who asks for it as long as I can prove that I don't know what it contains, and that I can't know what it contains."

Basically some scheme based on asymmetric encryption with the ability to verify that the blob is encrypted. (The server owner hands one part of the key to the user, the user encrypts the blob, sends it to the server which verifies that it's encrypted with the key sent to the user.)

I don't know from the top of my head what's needed to implement that.
I have passed this along to the team. They'll be watching this thread for additional feature requests...
I'm fairly certain that the US was large and spread out well before cars were invented.
People, avoid biking on roads, especially after dark. There's just too much risk for it to be worth. What a terrible tragedy. RIP Seth.
Is this a proposal to reimplement (badly) TCP inside of HTTP ? So we'll have a TCP stack running on top of a TCP stack ?

Those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it.

I predict that this will lead to unexpected performance problems due to collisions in Tx window size between TCP windows and HTTP 2.0 frames.
Ask HN: Should I make myself into a limited company?
Hello. I am just starting out as a freelancer after finishing 6th form college. I live in the UK and this means that I'm 18 and just starting to look for work as I am not going to University.

I would like to appear professional and to get work making and changing websites as well as doing programming projects for people/companies. I have been programming for quite a few years and have helped some people in the past. I am currently making changes to a website for someone and I normally charge £10 ($15) per hour for my services.

I am interested in what I should do next and have started to try to brand myself as a company. I decided to call the company If Not Equal and have registered the domain name (no website yet). Now I am thinking about registering as a limited company. Is this a good idea? I would then be able to have a bank account and checks made in the company name and I will also have some business cards made. I am thinking of registering as a limited company and issuing 1000 shares for £0.01 each (of which I would own all). Does this seem reasonable and would this lead to complications with cash flow (by being a company)? Would I still be able to transfer any payments from the company account to my own in a timely manner or would I only be able to pay out once per year or the like? In short, is it worth becoming a company?

To freelancers out there I would be very interested to hear what you personally did and any advice you have for me. Also if you know of any guides that you could recommend for people in my position that that would be very helpful.

Thank you so much for reading.
According to Wikipedia, Bittorrent as well as other filesharing solutions like Gnutella and Kad (the eMule network) can be made to work on top of I2P [1].

The wikipedia page also lists alternative solutions like GNUnet and Freenet with anonymity built-in from the start instead of bolted-on after it became a concern.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_P2P#I2P_clients
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Fatal vehicle accidents are not always vehicular homicide/manslaughter. A standard of negligence (such as being past the DUI limit) has to be established. Hit-and-run also does not necessarily result in a homicide (or assault) charge being filed.
Maybe I've just been over-exposed to too many corporate cancer "charities", but I am very suspicious of anything for "awareness".
This is great stuff. Thank you for taking the time. Sorry about the Scalia thing; I wrote that comment at 5am and was looking at (and misreading) the Oyez interface, which is wretched.

The two questions it looks like your comment broaches are:

* Is an appointment to the FISC by an appointed Article III judge so different as to approach the difference between a civilian and military appointment? If not, appointment without Senate consent likely passes muster with SCOTUS.

* Are FISC judges in any way supervised in a manner similar to the way that Coast Guard Court of Criminal Appeals judges are supervised by the Judge Advocate General of the Coast Guard? If so, they'd qualify as "inferior officers" regardless of the distinction between Federal circuit courts and the FISC.

I don't know the answer to either question, but my guess is that regarding the former the answer is "yes, the duties of a FISC judge are substantially similar to (in fact a small subset of) the duties of a general Article III judge", and my guess to the latter is "no, the supervisory role Roberts has over the FISC judges isn't meaningful enough to qualify them as inferior officers under Article II".

My guess is that a yes on either question makes it more likely than not that the USG would prevail in arguing that the FISC is an Article III court, though I still think the issue is murky.

The last couple of days have been quite an education on this. Thanks again!
Exactly! Punishing people after accidents, however much at fault they may be, is far less important or useful than preventing them in the first place.
A 20 cent stamp and a four dollar pair of jeans -- subtle recommendation to ramp up Kenyan clothing imports?
I'm very eager to see how they handle the actual exchange code.

Jekyll and static HTML make a lot of sense for a marketing/informational site (which this appears to be right now), but at some point, they're going to need a dynamic backend (right?). These exchanges will need to aggregate plan info from lots of different insurance carriers and display plans to people based on various bits of user-specific info. Perhaps they can generate static info pages for all of the plans and redirect people to these pages via JavaScript and then pass the actual enrollment off to the insurance companies.

If they have to support enrollment and dynamic content, it
will be interesting to see how they do so while adhering to their principles of simplicity.

If they don't, it will be an interesting example of how to embrace simple solutions where possible while preventing scope creep.

Either way, I'm glad to see this type of innovative development happening.
Ask HN:  Why no dupe URL checker for HN submissions?
It seems like it would be easy for this blog to report if a URL has already been submitted in the last hour. Even a warning about number of stories with same key words in link would be helpful I think.
I am obviously behind since I didn't know about this service, but does anyone know whether they offer any sort of audio watermarking similar to the video watermarking service?
That is interesting, but probably not a viable solution for _today_. Something like an always-on dashcam [1] would be the way to go. I'm thinking there are some out there whose energy is generated by pedaling your bike.

yum was good software. Vidal will be missed.

Rob Levin, lilo (founder) of FreeNode, was another person lost to a hit and run accident while he was riding his bike. What can be done to make biking safer in the states?

[1]: http://www.tachyoninc.com/bikercam.php
Not every place on Earth looks like your immediate neighborhood. For example, large chunks of Silicon Valley (not the most remote or undeveloped place in the world) are effectively inaccessible other than by car - unless you are willing to spend 3 hours commuting in each direction and are ready to subjugate your whole life to extremely sparse and inconvenient schedule of public transportation.

Like it or not, cars are the only way people can get from place with reasonable costs of living to place where it is reasonable to situate offices/industry buildings in numbers and with speed that is required by modern economy.
Dinosaurs rule Britannia!
Well, I can see it coming... A tumblr to call all startups that are acqui-hired and betraying their customers with such short notices.
Awesome!! On a realted note everyone should read / hear to the book "Ragged Dick" from early 19 hundreds (1920 I suppose) about a story (fiction)of a orphan boy who lived in the streets of NYC , used to polish shoes and who grew up to be the one of the most richest and prominent individuals.

Very inspirational stuff and remind about the early not so charming history of NY http://librivox.org/ragged-dick-by-horatio-alger-jr/
Worship? Hyperbolic bullshit. The automobile, and the high mobility it affords, is the primary cause for a lot of social and economic progress over the past century for the average person.
Not necessarily. When you ask glass for a photo, it finds the best focus lock over some time period that includes a short time before and after the command was executed. It has some sort of running buffer. This could work exactly the same way.
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I have that experience rather often myself. It takes a conscious effort to pay enough attention to how one is saying something.
Preaching to the choir, but this is why whistle blowers are especially important;

The ruling rejected the state-secrets argument. “Given
the multiple public disclosures of information regarding
the surveillance program, the court does not find that the
very subject matter of the suits constitutes a state
secret,” Judge Jeffrey White wrote in the ruling.

Everyone "knew" the NSA was wiretapping everything, but until Snowden leaked the docs, lawsuits like this were regularly shut down under 'state secret' doctrine. I don't exactly have high hopes for how it will turn out, but at least now perhaps we'll one day see Robert's tortured reasoning for why he let this happen.
What version of the emulator you are running? The most recent one 3.0.1 is pretty solid. Landscape mode and buttons works correctly.
As opposed to private providers, who are oh-so-safe? For breaches of private providers so far, see http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/administrative/breachno...

A quick sum of all the incidents in there adds up to 22 million health care records lost so far. It's hard to imagine the government could do much worse.

In case you don't feel like importing the CSV file somewhere, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkJeZCqH2PsHdDZ...

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