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It's not scaremongering exactly, just a normal bump in the road for a publicly traded company, particularly early on. Tesla still has to prove itself and it faces tremendous resistance from the incumbents (read: every other car manufacturer out there, except maybe Toyota, but that's my personal opinion).

More likely it's just bad timing. This week we have a shutdown of the US gov't, and there's a video of a Tesla car on fire. Combine these with one analysts pessimism and it's easy to see why the stock would fall.

Remember Peter Lynch's advice from "One Up on Wall Street" - if the price drops but the fundamentals are still good, hang on or buy more.
You mean by unsealing the court records, such as the unsealed court records which form the basis of this article?
I don't think it matters since the mass data surveillance thing was started by the Bush Administration...
Have looked at it but configuration behind NAT router is a bear. Guess there is a reason LogMeIn bought Hamachi. Not trivial to authenticate and tunnel behind NAT.
This is functionally the same thing as https://github.com/habnabit/passacre , only tied to a cellphone in exchange for sparing the user the burden to remember their login. It would be interesting if the SQRL website code would also display the nonce under the QR and the user could download a desktop program to paste the nonce in. Even if it weren't open source, as long as both windows/linux binaries are available, people could even set it up on a server of their own so they'd just paste the nonce at a private url.
I read the book only a year or two after it came out, so I don't remember much of the details other than the importance of fuel.

However, I don't think there's a way to create an interesting war simulation that is based on current geopolitical reality. Even without the US as a counterbalance, could today's Russia pose a threat to western (or eastern) Europe, or conquer and control oil production in a significant part of the Middle East? With the US involved, there isn't the prospect of achieving anything, even as part of a wild gamble.

I think Daniel Drezner described the context pretty well here:

https://www.google.com/search?q=russia+is+not+america's+geop...
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Only took them, what, a decade? Maybe longer?

Things like this breed distrust in the government. If they had reacted in a couple of years after wifi became prevalent you could easily argue the "we need more testing" angle and people would buy it. But after 10+ years there's no good excuse.

What other stuff is happening right now that the government says is "unsafe" (and thus banned) which is actually safe, and what is "safe" (and thus not banned) which is not?

The only way for a government to have a believable claim to legitimacy is to work ruthlessly to minimize false positives and false negatives and if/when they happen to root out the source of the problem and ensure it'll never happen again. Sadly we rarely see much or any of this.
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Don't worry, we can make it up by breaking all our windows.
> I’m sure any open-source clones will rabidly follow it—just as GNOME and KDE for years slavishly copied off Windows, instead of trying to fix its most obvious flaws.

I find it amusingly ironic that a post which is calling people out on casual ignorance and dismissal of the effort that goes into other people's software makes its point by... casual ignorance and dismissal of the effort that goes into other people's software.
The pamphlet part might be true (I think this would be considered protected free speech anyways), but the other things you list are not on silk road.
I've found it useful in thinking through all possible directions to take the application or software when mapping out in the beginning stages. But as mentioned above it is done loosely on a whiteboard to brain storm.
Don't assume. The Hacker News donation drive was incredibly embarrassing the last time - with plenty of excuses for not donating: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6469485.

John Gruber at Daring Fireball has been doing a lot of work to encourage people to donate. I think the latest uptick has been the fireball effect at work.
The US is 5-10x larger in population than the other single-payer-ish systems usually cited. (And, more culturally/politically/geographically varied.)

Also, we in the US tend to have bigger problems running giant federal bureaucracies, compared to these other smaller, more-unified nations. (How many government shutdowns have they had in the past 40 years?) Our existing single-payer-ish health bureacracies, like Medicare, suffer more fraud and cost-problems, and have a harder time enforcing steely-eyed rationing (aka "death panels") than elsewhere.

These smaller systems also benefit as free-riders from positive externalities thrown off by the United States' eccentric overexpenditures - like drug and new-treatment beta-testing. (If we become more like them, their own medical indicators could get worse.)

So the argument can't just be, "make it work like over there", when nothing here works quite like there, and our challenges of scale, culture, and politics are larger.
Yeah, 'cause it's so easy to see how he looked and what he felt as he was typing those lines... /s
Or they want you to look at ads as part of reading the content. Which is not really how I care to read things, but that doesn't make it evil.

Where does the false pretense come in? The popover crap?

Some anecdata: I just viewed that same article on my phone, an Android G2. Zero trouble. No font-size issues (though I could have upped the font size without zooming in the whole page; I'm amazed at sites that manage to prevent that).

No popover stuff. There was a smallish banner ad at the very top. I apparently got a page designed for a mobile device, because there was no sidebar stuff either.

Could this be an iPad issue?
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It actually doesn't if you want real care, but feel free to work without facts :)
I wonder why didn't the FBI just use some OCR tool to scan the key?
When a developer says "That looks/sounds easy; I could knock that up in a weekend!" about a project, they have to be especially more careful about who is within earshot.

Heaven forfend a manager type gets a whiff of an over-optimistic estimate -- that's a great recipe for a completely avoidable death-march.
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Freenet does not have such problems as Tor. That's because the informaton is distributed around the entire network and accessed via a DHT. So there is no need for onion routing nor is there one host to take down. All people can be arrested for is running the program, if it can be proven that they did.
That really was my whole point. He got in over his head and he got smacked down for it. Now he's going to prison. It's laughable.
> But is a reduction in GDP really a "cost"?

Yes.

> To who?

It's creation of value that would otherwise happen that is not happening; its a net cost to the nation as a whole. Which particular firms and individuals are paying it is, perhaps, harder to determine.
Yes, you can put a fixed-length buffer of bytes (e.g. `[u8, .. 1024]` is 1kb) on the stack and use that as the backing vector for the string.
I don't think that is the case. After the auth app communicates with the server you just need to click the login button on the original page. I don't think the auth app needs to load a specific url.
I think many sane ones do have a corporate credit card for small purchases.

But others don't, the one I work for has a generic process for software/development tools, which must be budgeted for one year in advance.
It's my turn to call out Hacker News now. How did a submission from 2009 that isn't really relevant now as it was in reference to comments made on Hacker News back in 2009 make it to the homepage? I'll sit back and watch people bite though. And for the record, I know there were numerous clones of SO made. Probably not in a weekend, but come on, the hardest part about Stack Overflow isn't how it is coded, it's scaling the site up for the millions of views it probably gets on a daily basis. You can build a clone of Stack Overflow using Wordpress with Buddypress, a Markdown plugin, JSON API plugin and the Cubepoints plugin.

Articles like this always make me laugh, especially when talked 4 years after they were written.
Let's face it, at most one if your identities can be tied to your actual real-world activities. Otherwise people can find enough correlations to out you. Witness JK Rowling's new book.
Writing is on the wall with mobile.

Here is a great presentation on the topic, Mobile is Eating the World. http://www.slideshare.net/bge20/2013-05-bea

Disclaimer: I'm biased. I work for http://mokriya.com
That's me, thanks! We're glad you think we have a little more polish, but to be honest, we're really excited about any replacement to passwords making waves in the tech world. Ultimately, no single group is going to be able to tackle this problem alone, so the more critical thought we have, the better off we all are.

If anyone has any questions about Clef, I'd be happy to answer them, but I also don't want to distract from the discussion going on around this proposal.
I'd like to see a comparison of free downloads numbers over the same timeframe. Are apps as a whole being downloaded less, as people get bored of the novelty? or are free apps remaining to be downloaded as regularly?

The reason I ask is I've been surprised how many mobile websites have popups suggesting I pin them to my homepage, where before they would have said "download me in the app store".
>> He coulda put out a hit on the agents investigating him and significantly delayed the proceedings.

That's terrible, I can't believe you would suggest that.

>> And sure, millions of people could have his back

You are sounding pretty out there. Not many people would support your violent suggestion.
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Esquire UK recently launched their redesign and has much better UX: http://www.esquire.co.uk/

Perhaps they might apply the same design for the US sometime in the future.
It is "Nurture over Nature" approach. From wiki about Laszlo Polgar, father of Polgar sisters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r :

>He is interested in the proper method of rearing children, believing that "geniuses are made, not born".

>He home-schooled their three daughters, primarily in chess, and all three went on to become strong players. An early result was Susan's winning the Budapest Chess Championship for girls under 11 at the age of four. Also his daughter, Judit, could defeat him at chess when she was just five.

Judit became the best female chess player ever and was the youngest GM back then when she was 15.
This sort of thing is a good indication of the technical maturity level of a programmer. Over simplifying the design of software and "feature list" thinking are perfect examples of technical immaturity and naivete. Even a very simple system with a small number of moving parts requires a lot of skilled and subtle work in order to ensure it works reliably, at the appropriate level of performance, and in a way that is usable. In a way good programmers make it more difficult for younger programmers to notice these things, since an elegant design might reflect innumerable man-hours of careful decision making and improvement but it works so well and so smoothly and with so few parts that it can seem almost trivial.

When someone sees a line of code such as the classic "fast inverse square root" it's obvious that it's necessary to take a step back, to realize that you're not going to understand the depths of what's going on intuitively, that there is likely a lot of deep optimization and balancing going on with that code. But when we see code that doesn't have a big clanking WTF in the middle of it, when we see code that seems to make intuitive sense, we don't tend to ponder the optimization and tradeoffs that went into it. But in truth those can be just as deep and just as profound for ordinary looking code as for obviously clever stuff. That goes double when you only use the software.

Consider a thought experiment: replicating google. The naive answer is that it's easy, all you need is a big DB, a web crawler to load up the DB, and a search frontend. And that might work, but it would be terrible. It would be horrendously expensive and produce profoundly disappointing results with even more profoundly disappointing performance. From an end-user perspective google is simple, but the complexities and the elegances underneath are the important bits, and those are much more challenging to replicate.
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When you buy a phone with AT&T, roughly half of the monthly cost goes towards paying back the ~$200-400 loan they gave you to subsidize the phone (it works out to some absurd interest rate, roughly 15-30% depending on what assumptions you make). Of course, they charge this even if you don't get your phone subsidized through them so in that case it ends up just being really expensive.

With Straight Talk, they don't subsidize the cost of the phone, so they charge less on a monthly basis.
I dunno. That's exactly the way you should expect crypto to be broken: "don't attack the encryption, attack how it's used"
It might be ironic either way (irony is inherently subjective), but as irony is based on contrast between reality and expectations and expectations of the results of an "action taken because I don't have any money" and those of an "action taken because, independent of how much money I have, I am legally prohibited to spend it except for certain narrowly-prescribed purposes, none of which is 'efficiency'" are different in ways which, at least arguably, are relevant to whether or not "this action results, in net, in greater costs for less benefits" conflicts with them.
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Indeed, and the polish is what makes Clef awesome and a pleasure to use. Their Wordpress plugin is a great way to drive adoption, but I find myself wishing more sites supported it.
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To businesses, individuals and eventually governments at every level in lost tax revenue. By not spending the government is effectively removing money from the system. Over the medium term a reduction in GDP may cost even more as the Federal Reserve may feel the need to provide stimulus to counteract the effect, increasing its liabilities and interest costs.
It's entertaining to me that the google code repo created for the purpose of cloning Stack Exchange "in a weekend"[1] contains nothing.

The 3 issues are kind of funny as well.

http://code.google.com/p/hackerexchange/source/browse/#svn
Tried to drive up a set of stairs; was promptly placed inside the geometry.
On the other hand, it seems like a poor idea to say he is a hero. It certainly seems like he decided that in this case of a legitimate court order(Snowden, right wrong or otherwise, did break a bunch of US laws) he wasn't going to comply --- though by his own admission he could comply for just one account --- and is using the fact that there is a gag order to in fact make his actions seem nobler than they were.
I'm sorry? I don't know if you meant to reply to my comment. When I said 'I might be biased', I meant 'towards talking about professional programmers over academics'.
It's not really germane to this discussion; I was just giving an example of the fact that it can be tricky for the government to seize assets in a prosecution (considering the fact that it can be difficult to de-complect where funds come from).

I talked a little bit more about my dad's situation in a comment a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3067094
That's precisely the point - his site is so beyond ugly, that it detracts from his message. He's not talking about programming here - but discussing presentation of visual information. His utter disregard for his readers makes me question his competence in this question.

It's like we had a genius color-blind guy critique a Rothko painting.
Meh. I can't get too upset about overconservative flight safety regulations. Yes, the risk was utterly minuscule from the get-go, but the cost of an accident in-flight is being weighed against the cost of your fellow citizens not being allowed to log into Facebook.
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> but feel free to work without facts :)

Like you, no thanks.
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> ....which would explain why every first world country uses it except the US?

Which is why almost every country outside of the US has a lower standard of care than we do. I'd be fine if we had a "minimum safety net" which covered catastrophic care, but thats not what was put into law. I also think a government mandated requirement to purchase a commercial product is probably not a good thing.
Except that I have coworkers that have no clue whatsoever and ran into deadlocks. Hmmm.. Deadlocks? That's probably a transaction problem. MS SQL is buggy, right? We just don't use transations anymore and pass on the wisdom that transactions are slow and don't work. The _transactions_ cause deadlocks. Evil transactions..

SQL works well, if you invest time understanding the theory and the limitations. If you care about the implementation you're going to use (whether it's MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL or whatnot).

Unfortunately my rather sad experience is that people give a damn about it and will use the trial&error approach, until they cannot reproduce deadlocks/critical errors in their local 'runs on my Thinkpad' VM.

(I really need to quit)
Why would court records be sealed at all, and why would there be any speculation about the chain of events if you were given the very basic information about a case?
Throwaway accounts usually mean throwaway opinions. Do something more important with your life.
> The US is 5-10x larger in population than the other single-payer-ish systems usually cited. (And, more culturally/politically/geographically varied.)

I see this argument all the time, and never an elaboration.

I understand going from 1,000 to 1,000,000 people incurring growing pains, but I have a hard time understanding why people seem to think a system that works for 80,000,000 people in Germany wouldn't be scalable to 300,000,000.
> It certainly seems like he decided that in this case of a legitimate court order(Snowden, right wrong or otherwise, did break a bunch of US laws) he wasn't going to comply --- though by his own admission he could comply for just one account

Why do you think that makes it a bad idea to call him a hero? Far from being a reason not to appreciate him, it seems to me that what you describe is the very action that people are describing as heroic.
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Another perspective is that your default position should be to distrust everything that the government communicates, and only accept as believable those things that you have identified yourself as being true.

With regard to safety rules - there are usually two issues at hand, neither of which have anything to do with safety (particularly your safety).

On the one hand, you have people who believe it is always better to err on the side of safety - whether that means you taking your shoes off every time you board a plane, patting down/scanning every single passenger, or saying you can't read a kindle during takeoff - there is ZERO cost to the person requiring that rule, and even an infinitesimal risk (say, 1 in a billion) means that there is real cost to the individual/group saying we can forego those precautions.

Because the inconvenience/costs of the "Safety Rules" are born by others, but the potential (no matter how small) cost of not having that rule is borne by the individual who said it was no longer needed - the default position will ALWAYS be to add more safety rules.

Pushing the other direction is $$$. Anytime people with $$$ are involved, all sorts of safety rules are dropped. There wasn't a big kindle/laptop lobby pushing for the dropping of the NoElectronics rule, which is why it lasted so long.
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Lets disregard the age of the article for one moment. I think that the author is making a good point, developers oversimplify applications and when they begin to work it turns out that it's a hundred times more complicated then initially thought. Very valid.
The shutdown temporarily costs money since the leeches working for the government which itself produces NOTHING aren't leeching at the moment. Money isn't getting printed or borrowed to artificially boost the economy and the current house of cards set up by all the huge debt accumululation.

Theoretically they should get real jobs in the private sector producing real wealth. Unfortunately there needs to be some serious economic correction to get rid of all the crap currently in the system before things would start to really improve. But cutting the government down to size is absolutely essential for this to even begin to happen.
Let's forget computers for a while and think about good ol' pen and paper. Ask yourself these questions:

Do you use a desk?
Do you use paper?
Do you use folders?
How big is your desk?
How do you keep the papers on your desk?
Do you hold up one sheet to read and one sheet exclusively?
Do you keep a bunch of sheets side-by-side and compare them to each other?
Do you like to open folders repeatedly or open a few papers from each folder?

No amount of design innovation can suppress the quirks and foibles of human nature. Quite often, aesthetic engineering survives an encounter with a user just as well as a battle plan does while encountering the enemy.
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So IHS is just counting the money saved by not paying non-essential employees as a "cost"? That's pretty bogus.
The restrictions predate wifi; they are based on supposed risk from EMF interference. You can't listen to your iPod during takeoff either ("please shut off all portable electronic devices").