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I can remember AMBER alerts having been widely broadcast on the news for at least 8 years. I imagine many people know what they are.
Happy to say that I'm going to disappoint you; I haven't had bad experiences yet. It's worth mentioning that all rentals to date have happened in San Francisco and I've personally emailed with all the lenders. I'm currently looking into insurance options.
The insurance should probably be handled by you, actually. There's different models though. Car rental services either require renters to pay a 1 time insurance fee like Zipcar or to pay a fee at rental time. AirB&B covers the insurance themselves for housing providers (I think). As a lender, I'm not going to pay anything to you to use your site. I'd guess most lenders like me would be the same way. But on the other hand, requiring an extra fee from customers may be friction in the rental process. That's why I hypothesize you should cover the insurance yourself. Test the idea, I'd love to hear about the results.

SMS notifications would be super helpful.

There should be a calendar system. I should be able to mark availability for my equipment. Rentals should automatically block out time.

Why can't we set the prices?

Also, my stuff is not available for shipping. I have to go back and look but last time I did not see a way to disable that.
They don't have special control over your phone. It's a more efficient method than sending an SMS to every phone number.
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Please don't use the R word, which is so deeply emotive and meaningful, in such an inappropriate context.
Hmm, I used awk in 1987, and it was just fine... it really hasn't changed all that much since. "nawk" ("new awk") vs. "awk" was an issue, with the former being preferable (I don't recall why offhand, other than it seemed a lot less buggy), but even that dated from the mid-'80s.

Perl certainly offered new functionality, but it felt palpably kludgier than awk. The idea that it was some sort of giant advance over awk was rather overplayed, especially within awk's domain, where awk's cleaner language design and more focused features were real advantages over perl. [When perl first showed up, I remember thinking how churlish its "a2p" script was... who'd want to switch to perl, given a working awk program?!]
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It's a use case I've pitched to friends who have recently become parents. You could be the first to do it, and then post pictures of your cute kids on the web site! It would be a great way to show off the pics you got at a much lower price than at a studio. Where are you located?
1. As mentioned in other responses, CameraLends will replace your equipment if something goes awry.
2. Paypal currently. Would you prefer something else?

You're right; reducing risk and making everything seem worry-free is going to be key. Thanks for the feedback.
I was an anarcho-capitalist for awhile. I thought it was the perfect system. There would be absolutely no incentives to do bad things. Anything a government could do, could in theory be done by a voluntary system if enough people agreed it was a good idea or it was a benefit to them to do so.

But I no longer think it's a perfect system. People don't behave like perfect rational market actors, there are edge cases like natural monopolies where normal market mechanisms don't lead to the best outcome, and then there is just enforcing altruism (like looking out for animal rights or children's rights, who couldn't buy legal services under this system, or redistributing income so you don't end up with people starving to death or in poverty.)

Of course the current system we have is so far from a perfect system it makes these problems seem trivial. But at least it seems ok and generally stable, whereas what would happen in an anarcho-capitalist world is a complete unknown.

There still might be a near-perfect system. Robin Hanson's ideas on prediction markets for making policy decisions might be a huge improvement, at least in some areas, and a semi-private legal system for some things might work. And I think libertarian policies in general are better.
Guess what the next freebie for Amazon Prime subscribers will be.
The policy will probably change soon to be the value of a replacement vs some arbitrary amount. Luckily, most gear on the site isn't super expensive.
What you can't imagine, "Amber Alert, this stock is about to go through the roof <some penny stock>"
Cop out on this one: it's my girlfriend's, so I'll just have to keep a close eye on it!
Even more amazing was the little yellow square about the size of a surface mount resistor was highlighted as 2GB of flash. I couldn't even spot the cyan square for 512MB of ram.
Rugged sporting balls that include such sensors (including cameras) seem likely in the next few years. "Here's the winning goal/basket/run/touchdown... from the perspective of the ball."

They'll use wifi or Bluetooth LE to report stats and imagery to your phone.
Start-up's non-volatile memory tech packs a terabyte per tiny layer
> I still think it was a mistake to buy OMGPOP.

tell that to the people that got in on that secondary offering ;)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-03-23/zynga-ceo-pincus-to...
1. Any static site generator with livereload. Try Docpad or Middleman.
Another page with "few simple tricks to create programming language". Looks really fake, regardless of it being real or not.

Putting bad marketing aside, are there currently areas which would require another programming language, that would provide something current languages do not provide, or make it so much better that the change would be rational?
Whether or not something is "workable" depends entirely on what it is you want it to do. The questions are which of our ancestors deemed polycentric law "unworkable", and why. The fact that something was done doesn't mean it was done for the right reason, or that it had, on the whole, beneficial effects.
So this Go server is slower than a single threaded, blocking TCP server in Ruby. And the memory? Almost the same:

require "socket"
s = TCPServer.new 'localhost', 1201
loop do
c = s.accept
if c.read(4)
c << 'Pong'
end
c.close
end
https://www.google.com/search?q=heart+transplant+food+cravin...
Transportation infrastructure in the bay area sucks. As a New Yorker, you're used to efficiently run subways and trains. In the bay area, Google busses exist for a reason.
A similar app that made it to the app store in 2009: http://iphonehangtime.com/
In practice, it's never an issue for long running web applications.

You might want to clarify that statement a bit. It almost sounds like you are implying that memory pressure is never an issue for long running web applications in java. Did you mean to say something else?
Here's my embedded MIDI/audio platform on the (ARM based) Raspberry Pi: http://www.joebutton.co.uk/blog/tags/baremetal-pi-audio/

I've neglected it lately but I'm currently picking it up again.
German cos think US as bad as China for industrial espionage and data theft
German companies believe the US now poses almost as big a risk as China when it comes to industrial espionage and data theft, a survey has revealed.
The startling finding of a survey of 400 companies conducted in mid-July underscores the shift in German public and business opinion caused by revelations about US surveillance activities.
Some 26 per cent of German managers, IT and security professionals described the US as a high-risk place for industrial espionage and data theft, according to the survey commissioned by EY, the consultancy.
This was second only to the 28 per cent of respondents who view China as a particularly high-risk country for industrial espionage. Russia was ranked third, with 12 per cent saying it posed a significant risk.
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Do you think that it would be related to the reasons for shutting down OMGPOP operations? That is, they found some nasty skeletons in the closet, and the best way to hide them is to wind down everything OMGPOP-related so that they don't have to file reports about it and it doesn't ever get audited?
How to properly do a press release
We're a European bootstrapped startup and we'll announce big news on August 22. How do I find a PR agency or a freelancer that will help us reach out beforehand. The budget is a few thousand dollar.
"Amber alert" itself is mostly just a PSA that a child has goe missing. What people are discussing is that most smartphones have a way to have emergency messages (such as this) broadcasted and displayed prominently. In this case, all its asking you to do is Keep an eye out for the vehicle. Report if found.

I have a nexus 4, and I can disable none, some or all of alerts. They're useful though. Among amber alerts, it can warn you about terrorist attacks, earthquakes/tsunamis/other natural disaster, etc.
I think you've gotten confused. Step 6 shows the 2GB flash taking up most of the body on the bottom side – you might need to mouse-over the correct image. The RAM takes up about half the neck.
This was my first Amber Alert on my smartphone and frankly I found quite annoying. My iPhone squeeled loudly and vibrated waking my sleeping girlfriend. I understand two kids may be in trouble but this seems like a very inefficient use of a very large number of people's time. We were lying in bed reading and sleeping nowhere near any cars. The signs on the highway seem completely reasonable.

Did they really send it to every modern smartphone in California? Are we expected to be on call for the police/government at 11pm?

I eventually figured out how to turn it off on an iPhone[1]. The first few results on Google were non-responsive - apparently being DDOSed by the Amber Alert!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6165049
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It's not obvious to me what that does. Does that only service one of the 100 clients or one of their 10,000 pings each? Or both?
PRISM could cost US cloud computing industry $22-$35 billion over 3 years
ITIF: "Given current conditions U.S. cloud service
providers stand to lose somewhere between 10 and 20 percent of the foreign market in the
next few years. Indeed, some foreign providers are already reporting their success.
Artmotion, Switzerland’s largest hosting company, reported a 45 percent increase in
revenuein the month after Edward Snowden revealed details of the NSA’s PRISM
program.17 And the percentage lost to foreign competitors could go higher if foreign
governments enact protectionist trade barriers that effectively cut out U.S. providers.
Already the German data protection authorities have called for suspending all data transfers
to U.S. companies under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor program because of PRISM"
Private law does/did work for nearly all definitions of 'workable'. Heck it was more scalable than the current system of law. In India private law is/was pretty common even until now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_panchayat , http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panchayati_raj

The only real problem with this kind of a set up is, systems by and large become culture centric. And this leads to medieval mindsets. Stuff like banning couples from having falling in love or having a love marriage, or laws against polygamy, support for child marriage, unfair treatment to widows, honor killings ... stuff like that.

There are also some extreme cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khap

Where does this leave us? Despite all their flaws(basically their own definitions of morality and thereby their own laws based on that) these sort of systems are the easiest and cheapest way of resolving a dispute with a very high rate of acceptable justice. Which continues be the case in many places in India today.
Longtrip, barrieri di lingua
If you could transmit sentience via light you won't have any issues at all.
A nice post, shame it didn't get on the front page.
You need a clear Scheme.

(And seriously, folks, the GNU people used to tout their Scheme interpreter, Guile, as a target for compilers.)
The USA is very fucking dangerous if it decides it doesn't like your ideologies or thinks you have too much oil or the president is a red neck whacko warmongerer.
It's noteworthy that the Washington Post sells for $250MM, compared to for example OMGPOP which sold for $200MM last year.
I like to imagine at least that our consciousnesses are abstract enough, and derive enough pleasure from art, and music, and conversation, etc., that they don't need arbitrary goal conditions like "death is relatively imminent, so get out of bed." Or at least, if they do, we'd be smart enough in the short term to manufacture goal conditions. And that they'd happily exist, and flourish even, in a new substrate.
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This could be in part because the procedural interface of mysqli is deliberately designed to be vyer similar (if not identical) to the mysql one. So maybe they just continued writing their code that way but replaced mysql by mysqli because someone told them mysqli was better and supported (which it is, but probably for other reasons).

I wonder whether a similar search for the mysqli OO interface yields the same amount of unsanitised queries. (Assumption: People using the OO interface looked through the documentation more closely and maybe understand the ways in how mysqli is better than mysql. But that's just an unfounded assumption.)
3 days of missing people + 60mph travel speed = a hell of a lot more than 500 miles.

if the vehicle is somewhere in california, they want to find it.
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But how much did the internet actually improve people's lives or change things? The major changes of our time are nowhere near as major as the ones of the last two centuries. Industrialization and mass production and trains and electricity, and massive population growth, and crazy amounts of scientific progress.

Almost all of the major improvements happened early on in the century, not so much in recent times. All the low hanging fruit has been picked. There is never again going to be a single technology that improves people's lives as much as mass adoption of electricity did (short of a singularity at least.) More efficient or even self driving cars compared to today's cars, will be nothing compared to what cars were for horses and trains. No single medical technology is going to have as big of an impact as antibiotics did. Cell phones are not nearly as big of an improvement as the first phones were.

Did the world really change and improve as much between 1970 and now as it did between 1930 and 1970? Did it change as much then as between 1890 and 1930?
SF from the sixties and seventies is also filled with predictions which were not nearly ambitious enough.

(Two examples that come immediately to mind: I recall one of Heinlein's characters describing something that seemed a lot like a microSD card. It had a capacity of something like a million words. I got the impression that it was quite expensive. And in Neuromancer, "three megabytes of hot RAM" was contraband.)

(I think actually those examples are both from the eighties, but I don't think that's particularly important in this case.)
Chromecast in India-Review
Sorry - I had registered my email address with HN but hadn't included it in the public "about" section. Should be fixed now.
Yeah, I'd be wary of benchmarks where the server and client run on the same machine.
Unfortunately this is probably going to be the most effective restraint on state-sponsored surveillance. Whereas it would be great if there was some technical solution, better if there was a political solution and perfect if ethics and constitutional law triumphed, hitting the US Government in it's wallet will probably have the greatest impact.
The possibilities with this little device(Chromecast) are endless.

Some nice apps which would be cool if they are built:

1. Play local audio and video. I think someone has already built an app for this.

2. Skype app for Chromecast

3. I am now building an app which integrates with your phone. While you are watching the TV, you will now get an alert in the TV when someone calls you along with information about who is calling you. I hope to finish this in a couple of months if I get some time.

4. Alarm app which starts casting some predefined content to the TV at the specified time.

5. Fitness app with your own personal trainer on the TV.

Please share any cool apps which you think can be built on the Chromecast
This article is completely empty. Lots of words. Saying nothing.

I read this:

"you hardly ever hear those who actually work at Foxconn speak at length and in their own terms."

Sounds like something interesting to read about, I don't know about you, but I'd certainly like to hear what the workers themself think about this. But none of that is actually in this article! So why even bring it up? Just to tease?
Seconded. Nice chap on twitter, too.

I'd also recommend any of Terrence Parr's books on ANTLR.
Quick look at the language benchmark games, and Go is not 10x slower than Java for most tests. Java is often 3-5x slower than C/C++/etc (although maybe it didn't get enough time to warm up).
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Isn't it? I have made a habit of finding such items and/or predicting them (with varying success, of course). It's amazing how much stays the same when everything changes.
A reaction-diffusion experiment using WebGL and Three.js
@chetanahuja, I think he means that long running web apps was just initialized once and will continue running until they are stopped or restarted. So even though starting up JVM may takes time, that overhead was only done once.
If you just make assumptions or guesses about external variables, could this work to get at least close to what the past looked like?

I mean the whole idea is kind of ridiculous but in theory, it might work.
You stole something from me (freedom, in this case). Coming to me and admitting it does not absolve you from guilt. You should feel guilty for a long time.

I am not wrong to castigate this type of behavior. I personally feel this sort of behavior should result in jail time, but can acknowledge that's not going to happen.

I also want everybody who reads this thread to understand how completely awful this sort of behavior is.

That you are here talking about defending Throwaway123's honor instead of being filled with rage at his behavior is an indication that our society has a long way to go before we deserve privacy again.
Awesome product! Keep up the good work.
It gives me the unicorn page everywhere (a.k.a. as 500 error).
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It's one at a time. But, since the server only performs a one-shot task without the "hang on and wait 30 seconds"-like long connections, and, the default socket backlog of TcpServer is > 100, so every client gets served within the delay of (0~99)*6ms.

In short, every round is fully served, and the concurrency level is 100.
What words do Bing and Google censor from their suggestions?
I also work in shenzhen China, not far from the factory where the girl throw herself out of window.
I heard many young boy & girl kill themselves in this way just to get some money for their poor family.
In this city, many other young people, far away from home, work hard here, and get around 2000 RMB a month, which is about 300$, it feels they are just paying their lives to get very little money.
This is a fact very true in the city I live, and I am sure worse things are happening in other place of this country.
Who else can use the channel, besides law enforcement?
GitHub status reports an increase in in unicorns: https://status.github.com/messages

7:36 UTC We're investigating an increase in unicorns.
Love it :P
Only if those low-income individuals have to pay the same for their medicine as those with higher incomes.

If the purpose of taxing medicine is to subsidise the provision of medicine to people who couldn't afford it at cost price, then that would give such people greater access.
I guess related to yesterday's ddos attack (https://status.github.com/messages)

Hope this isn't an Apple style maintenance window whilst they deal with a loss of data....
Same. Not really an exciting car to ride, unfortunately. I heard the V12 feels completely different.

I think fantasizing about cars might be more fun than owning them.
Thanks for that link. Chapter 7 helped answer some of the questions I had after reading PCI.
> That would be considered illegal by US trade laws if it could be proven or was sufficiently argumented.

But there are many other explanations which (while not as likely in the opinions of many observers) would at very least create a large slice of "reasonable doubt" (and occasionally actually be true!).
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Except that time happens and that single state policy is modified on a continual basis. These modifications are performed by coalitions of different parties with differing ideologies, leading to a constantly shifting "single ideology". Sometimes these parties and coalitions are formed as a direct response to consequences of the current policy.

Which is the point of a democracy. A democracy's central thesis is that any given policy is probably not-quite-right and that it always merits reconsideration in the near future.

> Real pluralism is about de jure authority and de facto power being distributed among many institutions in society, not concentrated entirely in a single one.

How is this not the case in a democracy? The assertion that country=government does not require that the number of institutions in the country/government be merely one. Asserting a distinction does not merely bump the number of institutions from one to two, which would be insufficiently pluralistic anyways. Pluralism comes from the liberal doctrine of individualism; it's a natural consequence of asserting the individual worthiness and dignity, which demands that the individual's concerns be considered in some fashion.

Making a false distinction between state and society is useful only for disempowering citizens who see themselves as part of one but not the other, negating their willingness to provide a voice to the cacophony of pluralism. Our disdain for politics is precisely what grants politicians so much power: because someone has to do their job and they're willing. If only the supply were higher so that the power granted by their office could be diluted by sheer interchangeability.

Why do we rely so heavily on the fourth estate to speak on our behalf? To be the voice of society holding accountable the state? Why are we ourselves not speaking? Yes, there are things stopping us, and we need to know what and why and how to remove those impediments. Instead of having our voices subsumed into mass outcries, we need to have our voices individually acknowledged. Pluralism isn't about having political speechwriters making dialogue with investigative reporters and mogul-owned pundits. It's about all of us talking.
No need to be so aggressive, but to answer your question:

1. Yes, there are probably a lot of areas that need new
programming languages or improvements of the current
programming languages, everything is quite far from
"perfect" at the moment (and it will probably always
be). There's still a huge amount of research going
in this direction.
2. Learning. Should you ever be stopped from learning
something new by the fact that something similar
already exists? Probably not. This is just business
thinking utter bullshit.
3. This "resource" was the starting point before few
quite young popular programming languages. I haven't
read it myself but it must be something good to learn
from it judging by the outcome. Show some respect.
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