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I think you hit on the breaking point for me. The point is even if I went bankrupt I could come back. But if I cant afford the surgery that saves my life, there's no coming back (that I'm aware of). So yes, when I travel abroad I do buy health insurance. But I dont carry tenants insurance (for my possessions) or buy other insurances... I guess if I were so leveraged like a farmer I'd have more fear. But i have almost exactly $0 debt at any given time meaning even if I were to lose my job, I'd be fine.

If I had 4 kids and a mortgage and a tractor payment and... and.. debt and leverage, I guess I'd be a lot more worried.
I like this, especially because it means votes become more valuable.

Consider, too, that the system is self-referential. You could use the system to debate the relative merits of vote and comment limits, for example.
It's about how you phrase things - and your intentions. It's the difference between...

The Affordable Care Act will never work because it's too expensive.

And...

What steps can we take to make affordable healthcare more financially viable?
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Worst graph ever. I know! Let's do linear extrapolation from a graph with a non-linear dependent axis!
From an anonymous friend: most of the hard learning happens with practical work. He has an MS in EE, and he felt like he knew nothing until he really dug in and put in the coding hours.
That's an excuse which can be abused for anything up to making a police state. It's all about how far is acceptable. Surely not "all kinds".
That's funny because in the US, "bose" means crappy speakers with big marketing budget.
Their problems are special and important.
All true. Now explain why if 5% of bitcoins were destroyed that would result in a 5% increase in the value of the remaining bitcoins.
To tack on another argument: Google Maps. Google sharply increased the price of using the Maps API, then decreased it when developers started leaving for other alternatives, such as OpenStreetMap: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/22/google-maps-api-gets-massiv...
One reason being he died unexpectedly (assassination). The Nobel Peace Prize also wasn't awarded that year due to no suitable living candidates, which can be considered an acknowledgement of him.
something even more important... they do not tap email. or they are stuborn as hell and took that personally.

think about it... what does it even matter that lavabit exists?!? email is plain text. they already have ATT and verizon in their bed. they could tap that plain text anywhere.

unless all the parties ever only used decent MX i think...
MI5 say Snowden has given terrorists 'The gift to evade us and strike at will'
If only LTCM were still around :(
i can do something interesting with __set and __get , but i really just want it to be part of the language. Nice ideas in the meantime tho.
My understanding was that there were legal and technical barriers to prioritizing payments. I wouldn't count on this happening, if it requires new law to be passed or ancient computer systems to be overhauled within the next week or so.
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That depends on whether you have enough investment or revenue to actually pay the best people.
So, people put smoke detectors in bad places. Why do they do this? The boxes in the UK clearly tell you where to put them.

Other people move into that property, and remove the batteries. Leaving the cover open? Leaving a flashing LED? Leaving a "no battery chirp"?

> Drilling holes in the walls and ceilings, re-patching the the old installation point and doing this over and over to try and find a balance point of safe and convenient

Measure twice, cut once and all that. :-p

I realise that I made many posts about this, but I do agree with you. Many people do it, and it is a problem, and it's good that companies are thinking about getting working detectors into homes, and I look forward to hearing about Nest saving lives because people have working detectors and not detectors without batteries or somesuch.
>People don't want hobos rummaging through their garbage

I have no objection to them doing so at my house in SF. They few I've spoken to about it seemed very nice.

>Stealing all of the bottles out of recycling bins...

Are you sure it's stealing? AFAIK, it's only stealing if the bin is on/at the curb. I believe it's otherwise legal.

>...out of recycling bins is also not accomplishing anything.

The question is: is the system as a whole accomplishing anything? The removal of cans from residential bins is the unintended consequence of a wider rule, which has (according to the article) reduced litter levels in CA considerably. All systems have unintended consequences. What alternative system do you propose that reduces litter and increases recycling rates? What side effects does it have?

Finally (I'm going out on a limb here): I don't think it's our place to judge. What I see when I look out the window is a person who has the determination and energy to push a heavy cart up a hill on a cold night, and yet a person who has -- despite those traits, which society values -- found themselves in an unenviable life position right now. When I see that paradox my reaction is to allow them their wish. Not because I do or don't approve of the system, but because I approve or hard work, and applying yourself, and because the very existence of their paradox assures me that I don't know enough to do anything other than make sure I'm not getting in their way.
That doesn't seem like the right interpretation. They asked for this because Lavabit was unable, or possibly unwilling, to turn over Snowden's records, and impersonating Lavabit the next time he tried to check his email would have been the only way to get that info.

So yes, if your shopping list can't be recovered without your private SSL keys, they will take those when they have a warrant for your shopping list.
A regular file has two obvious disadvantages: first, you write all the data to disk and read it back again, which costs you time and disk space. In a pipe, the data is streamed, with the OS doing buffering for you. Second, if you have one process writing to a plain file and another process reading from it, you need some way of signaling when there's data ready to be read and when the reader should wait, or when the stream has ended. A pipe provides this for you: in blocking IO mode, the reader just issues a read() and blocks until the writer writes something.
I'm confused as to why it would leave behind h3 and h4?
I agree there are many companies that utilize software and technology very well. But the names you mention are all large firms, my personal experience is that it is smaller firms that could get a boost from technology. I think one benefit if the SAAS model is that large issues (like brand mgmt/social media) can be handled in companies that couldnt dream of having a PR dept or even someone on retainer. This also works for stuff like salesforce, accounting/payrol, the list goes on.

If I had an investment portfolio like they describe in the link, I would be looking for services on or offline that a pakage deals to help integrate business process and technology
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> im not sure if its a per executable thing or actually built into the shell?

It's built into the shell in zsh, and it must also be in bash. By way of explaining how I know, I am first going to tell you a little bit about the program called strace, but probably not backwards-talking little people:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strace

When invoked like so:

strace diff <(ls /path/to/dir/1) <(ls /path/to/dir/2)

strace positions itself between the running process which it invokes (in this case, diff) and the OS kernel. It then prints for you all of the communications traffic, in the form of system calls and return values, between the kernel and the process. Because it runs after the shell has expanded the command line, it gets to see the command line as the program sees it, as opposed to how it was typed.

Now, the output scrolls by pretty fast (there is a -o option to save the output to a file, which I neglected to bother with here), so I saw the end first:

stat("/proc/self/fd/11", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
stat("/proc/self/fd/12", {st_mode=S_IFIFO|0600, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/proc/self/fd/11", O_RDONLY) = 5
open("/proc/self/fd/12", O_RDONLY) = 7

and so on. Obviously, diff is getting information from /proc/self/fd/11 and /proc/self/fd/12. Weird. Where do those come from?

Scrolling up to the top of my xterm, we have the answer:

execve("/usr/bin/diff", ["diff", "/proc/self/fd/11", "/proc/self/fd/12"], [/* 68 vars */]) = 0

You can look up execve for yourself; the upshot is, its second argument is the argv passed in to the process by the runtime environment, which reflects the command line after shell expansion. Thus, the <(ls foodir) stuff is a shell feature, and not per-command.
no. no. no. the judge's trust talk was a falacy time waster.

- give me your bank password so i can get the $5 you own me.

- why dont i give you a check for $5?

- so i have to trust your check is good but you cant trust me with your bank password?

see? it is just crazy talk to push him around. the judge knows here his/her obedience rests. he is not even listening to the defense.
We don't know how DPR handled opsec. There could be a file sitting on the server of every withdrawal pasted into his php app since day 1. He kept a record of a lot of things he claimed he didn't (PMs, transactions). The blockchain keeps these transactions forever, so even if they just have the private keys from his wallets they can figure out withdrawals.

But I'm betting these guys were caught through plain text messaging in the internal system. Most likely they ordered stuff to themselves from another vendor and didn't bother to use PGP because most criminals are really terrible at being criminals.
I think it's a good thing that Reader shutting down or other unpopular decisions are held against Google's other products. It means that Google poisons all of its products when it screws the users of any one product. It's a very healthy marketplace reaction, in my opinion.

That said, I acknowledge that Google shutting down enterprise products is less likely than shutting down niche consumer products. Another point I want to make, however, is that shutting down a product is not the only thing that can go wrong with something from Google. For example, there are App Engine bugs affecting production that have been left open for years. There's also poor documentation of some of the interactions between Google products. For example, the best documentation of Google Apps secondary domains not being supported by App Engine is a bug report. (https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=6...)

I seem to run into an issue with App Engine every few months only to find that people have been encountering it for years and that despite being acknowledged by Google, it's just been sitting idle in the GAE issue tracker. My point is that a shutdown of GAE isn't the only thing that could go wrong with it, and who knows what GAE bugs might be encountered if one actually made a serious attempt to migrate an app away from GAE.

On balance, I don't regret picking GAE because I think the effort saved outweighs the problems.
A pipe is really just a memory buffer. When it gets full, the writing application will block and wait for the reading one to drain it. So in some respects they are primarily IPC and synchronisation mechanisms.
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The bet is that the chief executive would be compelled by a looming default to stretch the law. Naturally, stretching the law does nothing for developers' timelines.
He also mentions Lisp several times in his blog. That alone would rate a front page mention on HN. But seriously, what a wonderful smile-inducing website and page.
I think it's because of what Bruce Schneier notes about crime. Most criminals don't use mathematical probability on their actions or threat modelling. If they did they wouldn't even start in the first place after figuring out the probability of them being busted is too high.

As for the ATM magstripe stealer, a guy here ripped it off a machine and 2 thugs KOd him and took it back. They are usually watching next time you should just walk away from the ATM and see if there's 2 guys sitting in a car watching you.

There has been cases of hackers building empires, Max Vision was one of them. He met his crew in prison. Where I live there is also a software engineer police say went to prison as a white collar criminal and came out a memeber of a crew and is actively gangstering up the streets, and breaks into competitors phones to spy on them. He fled the country after a second arrest for engineering a pretty impressive fraud scheme where they managed to somehow switch the POS terminals at the local airport with their own and for a few years, stole countless cards. Passengers have to pay a 'departure fee' and since all the victims were heading out of the country it was a good scam and went unnoticed. He also survived a shooting at a nightclub where 3 rivals tried to kill him because of spying and being a "manager" for whatever criminal operation he was in charge of. So there is so-called nerds out there who went fully to the dark side. His first mugshot he is Mr. White Collar, second mugshot he is juiced/roided out with classic gangster Christian Audigier shirt and covered in crew tattoos.
Edit/Clarification: this is a negligible spike.

Can you spot the movement in 10y series? http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DGS1MO

The risk premium isn't nearly the main determinant for such government securities unless you have an actual default. Lets hope we don't get to see that mayhem.

EDIT: Some FRED Data Not Updated Due to US Government Shutdown

OK, so you'll not see, for a different reason...
Ask HN: advice for someone losing motivation
I am a self-taught developer, creating software is my passion and I
strive to progress in it.

My current workplace has brilliant people, but they're not heard and
most of them leave after a while. I want to feel like I'm contributing
to something but lately I feel my talents are wasted.

I heard around here that if you are the smartest one in a room, you
are in the wrong room. While I'm not the smartest one around,
everyone's undermined to fit as the next replaceable wheel.

I'm not there only for the paycheck, but also for the products, human
interactions and to learn. It seems I care too much for such a place.

There are some people I am still learning from, but the longer I work
there, the worse my motivation to do anything in general.

I think I'll simply resign and take some time for me far from this
overtime filled place...

Then, maybe I'll try going to university(Stanford, MIT ?) in hopes of
doing research or I'll simply look for another job which does not care
about me not having a decree.

I don't know what to ask... but I'd appreciate some input
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Feels like we're about to have a Seldon Crisis:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seldon_Crisis
I agree that there might be some issues with comment limits--you don't want to limit discussion too much.

On a different topic, why do you think this system should be anonymous? You can't limit votes unless you can authenticate someone's identity, and the best way to prove that users are real is to show who each user is.
i too would love if that article started with some definition for those terms.
This is clearly a scammer trying to get money from people.
I wish I could vote down...
Indeed. a lot of this thread seems to be assuming that the makers are morons who didn't consult anyone, and have obviously made a product that is unusable and dangerous.
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Ask HN: How do you manage fake signups on products with free plans/trials
I just hope all the millions and millions of lines of source code out there at banks have no problem with defaulting T-bills. What should we call it.. Y2K => GOVT2DUMB?
The problem with this approach is that it is unnecessary time consuming on the applicants side and that the tests aren't language agnostic. The goal to reduce the in-house effort is reasonable, however it can be achieved a lot easier. You can filter the 90% of applicants that are not qualified in tests that only take a couple of minutes. In my opinion the goal of automation in the hiring process should be limited to filtering out the obvious misfits, otherwise you risk to miss hidden talents among your applicants.

In the end you rather want to hire a brilliant engineer with little experience in the desired technology stack than a mediocre developer that is able to pass your automated tests because he has worked with the technology for years.
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Hrmmm...this is interesting.

I wonder if there are "emergency powers" that the Executive branch can invoke (kind of like - "we are under attack" type powers) that would allow them to go around Congress and just ignore the debt limit.

I can't imagine the US defaulting on it's debts....but then again....you never know.
If you are looking for feedback and ways to improve the product then a simple MVP would work. But, if you want people to sign up and use it, then I would suggest a more polished MVP.
> Nobody complains that they can [force?] Public Storage to open storage units with a warrant

If they can get a warrant from a court under fair laws, personally I don't mind the government having equivalent powers in the online world. There are people doing bad things online, and I want there to be mechanisms to minimise that.

I don't know the specifics of the Lavabit case, but from the NSA revelations, it seems like the controls and oversight are much weaker in the online world than in the physical one.
The original order wasn't for SSL keys or even Snowden's emails, it was for the envelope information and the IPs he was connecting from (see page 4 of http://cryptome.org/2013/10/lavabit-orders.pdf)

They wanted data on where Snowden was and who he was communicating with. Snowden uses PGP on top of Lavabit and presummably connecting to Lavabit securely. So at least to get his IP address, they needed Lavabit's cooperation or, baring that, the SSL keys.

It's a heavey handed approach, but not irrational.
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To emphasize your point, look at the downtime some Python users experienced just today (this is a link to the official App Engine Google Groups): https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-appengine/iRb3wrV8AB0...
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I created a kind of micro discussion/decision making system that didn't generate much interest from people I talked to and perhaps shares a flaw with this concept.

Basically if you look at what people use text for online it usually isn't anything serious, even these discussions don't have all that much gravity and HN is probably the most serious site I've seen.

Text also has less emotion and involvement attached and I think a lot of people won't connect with a text based system like this or won't feel comfortable contributing.

An idea for a way to feed peoples passions would be some kind of automatically generated video conference setup to split people into random think tank groups based on availability for each policy they indicate they want to be part of. Then perhaps one person, presumable someone that indicates they feel comfortable writing could contribute on behalf of their group to the text based policy page.
What happens when a user agent overrides your preferred font size?
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Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Radiohead made some of their best music without any major label deals or marketing budgets.

Extraordinary music does not require or benefit from commercial-scale budgets. It's always been made, and always will be, regardless of the economics.
To the people speculating the the US will default, and that the Treasury won't prioritize payments, I think you are, understandably, misdirected by the idea that Wall Street cares whether this is resolved legally or not. The market gives only the slightest of shits whether this is resolved legally.

The administration will make sure that we won't default if Congress can't act, and will most likely be dragged into court for doing so, where it will be determined that they acted illegally, but only on some technicality that nobody cares about and allows people to keep their money. Wall Street wants money, it doesn't care if your system has inner logic to get it.
Does:

sort < foo | uniq -u

not work with named pipes?
If the Feds seized the server why would it be a surprise that the SSL certificate has been compromised? The server is where the private key lives...
As long as the engineers who design and build the internet care, we can do ok.

If the protocols that run the web are so easily compromised, it raises all kinds of problems with the underlying, somewhat invisible, functions to how the world works. That manifests itself as a liability to for-profit corporations. It also is something that the cat pictures people care about -- how many of them want their webcams capturing video of them walking around their rooms naked or wake up one morning and notice their brokerage account is empty? Very few.

It is quite an irony that governments demand one set of standards for privacy and security while attempting to compromise them for their own benefit (European countries carry just as much blame here.)
This would deeply worry me... if terrorists had remotely the capability to actually destroy the country that a rogue government, one perfectly willing to gut the rule of law to serve their own, unmonitored ends, did.

What are the terrorists going to do? Spy on us? Lie to the courts? Hack people's computers? Sabotage our IT infrastructure - from development through production to operation? Destroy any notion that the laws are to be upheld?

The simple truth, from my perspective is this: 3,000 Americans dying in a highly symbolic gesture is considerably less harmful to the nation than as many dying on a war based on lies from the same corrupt agencies that are now undertaking what can only be described as a systemic attack on the rule of law.
If you really believed that kind of fear were justified, why would you post a comment like this? It seems a lot more like you are just making up excuses to support your already-formed decision to not donate.
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I thought this article (disclaimer: same parent) summed up a lot of the what-if fear circulating around in terms that everyone can understand:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-07/a-u-s-default-seen-...

Curious how likely you feel some of these possible outcomes are..
Yes but what hedge funds would do (are undoubtedly doing) is raise a huge amount of money on margin and use it to arbitrage the spread between these and related instruments with other durations. Of course this can go horribly wrong; read the book "When Genius Failed".
I live in a smallish apt, maybe 350 ft^2, and my smoke alarms never go off, even when I burn something on the stove...
"The market gives only the slightest of shits whether this is resolved legally."

Yes - the market would prefer the executive overrule the legislature versus follow it over a cliff. But nobody wants to be left holding a Treasury later ruled illegally issued and thus not entitled to payment.
Since you can get a faster processor and better display in a Nexus 7 for far less money, it better be some sort of improvement. The Reality Distortion Field isn't what it used to be.