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The effective approach that has let Uber thrive in battles like this is to leverage thier community.

Everywhere you look at the Uber debate, the story is told as members of the community standing up to the old guard – but the airbnb story right now feels like an insurgent brand standing up to the authorities.

With Uber, the story always resembles this: http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/10/dc-city-council-shelves-ube...
Show HN: I made a simple text typing carousel JavaScript plugin
Drones that can Kill without Explicit Human Direction
I wonder what our ( http://dhruvaray.github.io/spa-eye/ ) future is going to look like?
I created service that performs predefined search and notify via email if new results appears. You can search job aggregation websites.
the service url is http://vertascan.com
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How did he come to be in this terrible situation where he was forced to make such a decision?
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There is a developer friendly virtual machine called Bochs. It can be hooked to a debugger so you can see what is happening. I prefer DDD for debugging hooked to GDB (backend).

Here is an assembly cheat sheet that I like a lot: http://www.jegerlehner.ch/intel/

Also GCC can output assembly if you want to see what simple C code looks like in assembly http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137038/how-do-you-get-ass...

Finally I would say that the recommended method of learning about all of this and more is to take a course at uni. You should take C programming and operating system architecture where you should learn assembly. Then you should take a course where you get to build you own OS (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3151/index-eng...) followed by a course on multi core architecture (http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF5063/)
That's fair. I tried to include this perspective as well. Personally I want to agree that this behavior is never ever justified, but do you know that being respectful has no impact on the number of actual violators that are caught? Instead, I expect there is a trade off, and I would sacrifice respect for increased efficacy, to an extent. Furthermore, the resources required to remove agents that misbehave compete with the resources to find violators. Ultimately, I think it's hard to tell from here if we're sacrificing too much respect given the results.

I'd rather not have to become an expert in border control; I pay taxes so that someone else can do that. I can see, however, that many people find it hard to trust that someone else might know more than them. I think it's a shame that there is not enough transparency; is assuming the worst and crying foul without proper data really the best we can do?
Yes, particularly for the second "hit" that he arranged (the one in the Complaint). However, the first "hit" (outlined in the Maryland indictment) seems to have been more of a set piece entrapment-alike. This was when he popped his online-hitman cherry, and it was the most difficult one for him. He seems quite distraught and upset in the messages, he has trusted this guy ("The Employee") as an admin, he loaned him the money for the "substance that would test positive as cocaine", he likely socialized with him and revealed a great deal of personal information.

I think the Feds played him (Ross Ulbricht) in this case and totally set him up for a fall. I accept that he stepped off that cliff himself, but I think it is likely that he was guided the whole way there by the Feds.

After this first hit, orchestrated from start to finish (?) by the feds, the second one seemed easier. He had learned to live with himself after the deed was done, he had pushed beyond that moral barrier of "don't have other people tortured and killed", and he had learned that violence can solve problems.

Now, as to whether this second "hit" was just him negotiating with a scammer, or whether he believed he was actually having someone killed. I think it is clear that without that first job, that first hand held walk through the dark side of the underground, he wouldn't have reacted that way.

I think he would have been less susceptible to the manipulations of the feds if he was in a normal social peer group. If he had some rational people who weren't inside the Silk Road bubble who could say "you want to have someone killed because they stole some SHA256 hashsums? Are you fucking insane?!?"
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In Australia, citizens have a duty to pay taxes, defend their country (if required to do so), serve on a jury (if their name is drawn), and vote. That's the cost of living in a democracy.

If voting was compulsory, only lunatics would vote. I wouldn't voluntarily pay taxes, sign up to fight a war, or serve on a jury either - I'm not crazy; but I think it's important that these things get done.
Debugging Thunderbird using Firefox Developer Tools
Exactly my point!!
The only issue with Ubuntu Touch is that no one knows how much traction it will get, or if it will continue to be developed. Firefox OS already has traction, devices are already in the wild, and likely will have staying power (Mozilla seems to get alot of their projects and standards out there).
The Nobel has been around longer than the LHC, they have nothing to do with each other.
Raunchy strip Video of British Airways
I've never seen these before. I disabled blocking and was, on my first load, presented with this:

http://i.imgur.com/aYE5GC7.png
Nice one on pdsh! Hadn't heard of it before but will definitely be using it from now on. No more bash for loops with ssh :)
I suggest something is wrong with your MacBook.

My 2012 MBA with an SSD and 8GB of RAM cold boots to the desktop in ~8 seconds. (It was ~6 when I bought it..)

I'm hoping a clean install of 10.9 will speed it up again a bit.
http://javascriptissexy.com
This site gives guidelines on how to use all the web materials in effective way to learn javascript.
Making Mischief - The Magical App Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
Oh, I definitely think that they'll have to give up the data eventually, but considering that their business model is at stake, they have to at least try to hold out.

I'm not a proponent of AirBnB's business model, but I can understand their attempt a refusal.
An Opinionated Guide to Getting Set Up for Rails Development (Mac)
Using Postgres UUIDs as Primary Keys on Rails
I appreciate that point, but that's not really the nature of the gangs you see these days in Chicago, LA, etc. Aggressive RICO prosecution over the last few decades have already weeded out many of the "professional" gangs. What's left are a lot of gangs with amorphous leadership and quite young memberships, arising from conditions in segregated inner cities.
I thought a QR code could be effectively any size - I certainly remember a Japanese billboard that used shadows etc.

A QR code can have ~4000 chars of a-z and ~3000 Latin1 iirc

so with my limited gpg knowledge that handles my public key quite happily.

would be interested on the business card front though
>If indeed the ruling elite is hastening us toward a singularity, as corporate and State projects would seem to suggest

Includes this terrible clause by the time I made it to the conclusion. Article misses the whole point of singularity optimism.
PaSH (Product and Service Hybrid) is the New SaaS
Systems with excessively complex interfaces of any kind in cars are bad. I drove a Sync-equipped Ford last year. The infotainment system and several functions directly related to vehicle control were operated with buttons on the steering wheel, but several things that were single-function in most older cars and aftermarket sound systems required looking at a screen or memorizing a sequence of several button presses.

Particularly bothersome, the option to disable traction control was buried four levels deep in a menu system.
The small improvement in iPhone battery capacity
Unfortunately it's only available via WayBackMachine now but there was a fun Webapp in a 140 character tweet challenge back in the day (2009!) - http://web.archive.org/web/20111221094809/http://f055.net/ar...
> I'm so sick of being sickened. I hate that this is becoming the norm and we can't do anything about it.

There's only one thing you can do "about" it: Get the fuck out of the USSA while you can. Yes, this is a radical idea, but you can't deny it's starting to make a lot of sense.

Seriously. You personally can't affect what's happening all around you. Voting doesn't change anything. Writing to "your representatives" (hih!) doesn't change anything.

So what's left? You can't do anything about what's happening to your country and, by extension, you. But what you can do, is remove yourself from harm's way and go somewhere else.
New camera sensor captures images at 1000+ FPS
For comparison, does anybody know what kind of boot times to expect with CoreOS?
How Company Culture Demotivates People
Which phone can do realtime 4k encoding? Can you tell me which SoC it uses?

Edit: It's the Acer Liquid S2, with Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 SoC
It's not and can be tuned using compiler options as mentioned in TFA. Definitely not standard.
And British hosts, please don't offer to knock your American houseguests up in the morning, or any other time.
One could argue the real problem here is C's weak typing and lack of a proper boolean type.
If you happen to do the Rorschach test and only see pants, please don't blame the test conductor.
I really wonder what this is for. Isn't AVX-256 code usually already limited by memory bandwidth? There are design tradeoffs between memory latency and memory bandwidth and in order for Intel CPUs to keep their advantage in high single threaded performance they have to lean towards the low latency side of things.

Is this aimed at Larrabee?
googles

> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamic_acid

so wait, the natural protein that correlates with being a fast learner and thinker also causes anxiety, insomnia, and irritability?

I am so not surprised in the slightest.
That's not the original issue. The problem is that the compiler silently predefines an undocumented macro. If the compiler silently predefined an undocumented variable, type, or function called "linux" or "unix", that too can be a problem. E.g., if there were a global function linux() on Linux systems only and you tried to define a global variable linux in your code, you'd get an error, too.

The clean solution is to do what clang does and generate informative error messages. In the case of macros, by showing the macro expansion history. For example, the following (using __STDC__ instead of linux for portability):

foo.c:2:7: error: expected identifier or '('
int __STDC__ = 1;
^
<built-in>:159:18: note: expanded from here
#define __STDC__ 1

Note that there can be other reasons to have macros that are syntactically different from functions and variables, but this isn't one of them.
Don't Snoop Me Bro
How about just ditching contrived interview questions because companies have no good science or data to establish the correlation with hiring the best people?

It seems past performance would be more reliable. What have you created and what was your role in it? Can you articulate your passion for the problems we are solving? Can you show that your colleagues respected your work and benefited from collaborating with you?
Only when unparenthesized (e.g, if (x = 0) { ... }, but not if ((x = 0)) { ... }). And the author of this mysterious bit of code has helpfully thrown some parentheses around the assignment...
Organized criminals seem a lot better at keeping their operations and methods hidden than the CIA. Perhaps the CIA should do some case studies?
YC-backed Survata (another consumer survey service) released a logo testing tool last month:
http://survata.com/logo-surveys

Startups considering new logo options should check it out!

Disclosure: I'm a Survata co-founder
I've been to London twice and Berlin once. For the most part I felt safe in both cities, but one night getting off the tube in London on the way back to my hotel my friends and I were verbally accosted by a bunch of locals because they overheard our American accents. Being New Yorkers, we ignored them because they were a bunch of drunks being stupid, which we're pretty used to. Still, if I had been alone, or female, it would have been a lot scarier.

I'd still go back though; that was one experience one night that could happen anywhere.

I've been to San Francisco too, but my wife and I didn't do much wandering around at night. During the day it seemed fine everyplace we went, though there was a small alley right by our hotel that was apparently used as a toilet. Again, as a New Yorker I'm pretty familiar with being around homeless people, so what I found odd was that the leakage across the sidewalk wasn't cleaned up by the city, hotel, or shopowners around the alley first thing in the morning. Instead, it was just left there for days as far as I could tell. At the time I didn't know how common that is is SF. I didn't feel unsafe by it though, except for the threat to the cleanliness of my shoes.
Microsoft Office 2007 came with a new feature, instead of going to the new ribbon at the top you could now highlight a chunk of text and a floating mini-toolbar would appear in which you could access the most-used commands: bold, underline, etc.

I remember the program manager demonstrating this to the closed group and announcing proudly that Office now had a `floater`.

At which point all of the Brits and South Africans either sniggered or plain exploded with laughter.

It took a while for things to settle before it emerged that the Americans in the room didn't see what was so funny, and the Brits and South Africans interpretation of a `floater` was a turd floating in a swimming pool.

The name was changed by the next time we saw the feature, if I recall correctly they went for the far less ambiguous "mini toolbar".
Seems to me like Intel and AMD aren't very forward thinking, adding new instructions and registers every year or two. As if the x86 instruction set wasn't bloated enough, now they're going to have instructions with 4-byte prefixes, and new registers you can only access with AVX. What's next after that, AVX-1024 with 6-byte prefixes? Meanwhile this renders MMX and SSE sort of redundant. Seems to me we might be better served with some kind of vector coprocessor and instructions that can operate directly on large vectors in memory, instead of doubling the size of the vector registers all the time and making x86 an ever harder target to generate efficient code for.

Maybe this is another area where ARM can beat x86. Have a better planned out vector instruction set that can be expanded without adding hundreds of new instructions all the time, and more compact machine code.
> solely

This is the word that makes clear that you're either legitimately grossly ignorant of the reasoning behind the laws, or you're incredibly dishonest.

Either way it makes clear that you and your opinions don't deserve respect.
Hey Xux,

What issue were you having with the "take the tour" button?
Peak soil: Why nutrition is disappearing from our food
new Date(2013, 9, 9)

is eval-able, though of course Javascript is hampered by having standardized a clumsy API that predates Joda-Time (e.g., days are one-based but months are zero-based) and it's far too late to get JSON implementations to support any constructor or function calls.

Also odd that the spec only has the railroad diagrams from json.org, when any implementor would find the BNF grammar more code-ready and probably easier to follow.
You mean Ctrl + l?
Whether a public work like the LHC is worth the investment is a political decision. A award that only measured its scientific accomplishments could never tell you whether it was worth the investment or not.
Let's say you have a dog, and you want to make it as smart as a person. How would you do that? Giving it drugs won't work. The dog is limited by the brain structures that make it distinct from a human. Regardless of whatever drugs or supplements you give it, the dog will always act like a dog. Maybe it will be slightly smarter, but not in any truly astonishing way. Maybe with the right drug, it could learn 100 words instead of 20. But the dog won't be able to do everything a person can do.

The same goes for people. There's no way you'd be able to make a person meaningfully smarter through supplementation or drugs.
Average investor vs Bitcoin
Reddit Co-Founder talks about Silk Road and Bitcoin on NBC
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I remember before I got my SSD I'd have to wait for the clock in the menu bar to update before I could use anything.
But it's not like the recipient could invalidate the transaction even if it had that information.
I think part of this conditioning from taking tests in school. For twelve or more years of your life, in any situation where you are asked to demonstrate your knowledge, a null response is treated in the same negative fashion as an incorrect response, and getting outside help is disallowed. No wonder we try and guess, we've literally been trained for years that it's the best approach! Compounding that, an interview is the one situation in "the real world" that most resembles a testing situation from grade school, which will bring back all those bad habits.
>You have nothing that is flammable in your house?

Curtains I guess. And wooden furniture. The only real hazard is the sofa and thats a good 1.5 meters away from anything that could cause a flame.

>What about electric fires?

Nope. Our electrical codes have always been light years ahead of everyone else & other places are still trying to catch up. e.g. SA required ELCBs in 1954. UK in 2008. USA...hopefully soon.

We also don't get tornadoes, floods, earthquakes or blizzard. Well actually we do have earthquakes but you'd need to pay attention to notice.

The only real danger in terms of fire is lightning. For that the at risk places have these massive free standing lightning spikes ( http://i.imgur.com/Sv0pdre.jpg ). They're like 30m or something so if the calculations are right then its +- bulletproof. Finding a pic on google was quite a mission, so I'm actually kinda curious now how other countries solve the lightning problem.

>What if your computer caught fire in the middle of the night?

Its on an aluminium stand, which in turn is on ceramic tiles. I'd imagine the ELCB would trip long before it even caused a flame though.

Lots of things are wrong with South Africa (Crime, HIV, road deaths etc), but they nailed the electrical codes & fire dangers 50 years ago.
The right to privacy simply doesn't exist.

You've posted at least a dozen responses in this thread and it is plain you have no idea what you are talking about in almost every one of them. Are you unfamiliar with the 14th Amendment?

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

the Due Process Clause is also the foundation of a constitutional right to privacy. The Court first ruled that privacy was protected by the Constitution in Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)

I guess we could forgive you for not being aware of the 14th Amendment - it's not cited much. But it was the basis of Roe v Wade, arguably the most famous Supreme Court case ever:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade

Decided simultaneously with a companion case, Doe v. Bolton, the Court ruled 7–2 that a right to privacy under the due process clause of the 14th Amendment extended to a woman's decision to have an abortion

Sticking with Wikipedia - they have a whole article on the Right to Privacy. As related to the United States:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_privacy#United_States

The U.S. Supreme Court has found that the Constitution implicitly grants a right to privacy against governmental intrusion.

It is unbelievable that someone like you will post a dozen responses to people filled with such unbelievably false statements. It is no wonder people are downvoting you.
It is covered in the Complaint. Essentially someone using the alias FriendlyChemist (FC) gained illegal access to a vendor's account, and possibly to a lot more. This gave FC a large trove of PII on SilkRoad buyers and sellers (names, addresses, etc). FC attempted to blackmail Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) saying he would release the information publicly unless DPR paid him $500,000... which he needed because he was in debt to his upstream drug supplier.

DPR then asked to be put in contact with the upstream supplier so he could "sort something out".

The timeline of events is here: http://grugq.tumblr.com/post/62928607375/dread-pirate-robert...
Some commenters, and possibly the author, want this advice to extend to job interviews, but the reason an interviewer is pushing you to answer a question isn't that they want you to be right or wrong. A good interviewer wants to get a look into how you think and how you approach a problem.

An even better interviewer will make that clear, by telling you "there's no trick here", "I don't know the answer myself, let's see what we can figure out", or "there's no one right answer, I just want to know what you can see here". A trick I've employed a fair bit lately to get a reserved interviewee to start working with a question is "What is the worst solution we could provide to attack this problem?" I'll even possibly go as far as offering my own horrible solution, and asking them where we fo to improve on this.

And I do mean worst. I haven't met a candidate yet who can't at least throw out ideas on how to improve my horrible solutions, and at that point the ball is rolling.
A good interview question should give space for exploration - it shouldn't involve esoteric questions or things that are easily google-able. Good interview questions will give you insight into the candidate's thought process, not what they've memorized beyond fundamentals. So the results of this study seem irrelevant.
I don't see why this is surprising.

When you rent out a space there are laws designed to protect the renter, and many leases have clauses prohibiting subletting. Odds are many of these laws/contracts are being broken, so what do you expect?

Because it's an internet start-up you're allowed to break the law?
This is very strange timing for me, I was positive there was a Nobel in maths and nearly said that instead of Medicine as the final quiz question last night! Would have cost me £300 if I did and this thread would have been horrible.
> "But then you need to be prepared to be called out when you are wrong."

I really don't think that I am not. You had me convinced that I was wrong for a while there.

I think your latest reply to kelnos, while completely misunderstanding his point, actually confirms my suspicion about what you actually think. I'll let kelnos and you hash this out though; I'm out.
It is also simpler, in the sense that it presents a left-to-right order that visually illustrates the pipeline, without the incongruous left-facing angle bracket.
Exactly. ECUs are notoriously closed-source and communicate using opaque and proprietary protocols, especially since vast swaths of them aren't even managed by the auto manufacturers (Honda et al just buy ECUs, do some cursory functionality verification, and off it goes).

Fuck infotainment in cars, at least until self-driving cars become ubiquitous. Nowadays it's common to have a dozen ECUs in any car made in the past three years.

The security in these ECUs is definitely a concern, especially since lots of them have 3G/LTE radios in them. And there are hundreds of thousands of these cars, everywhere across the planet. It's a massive attack surface that definitely needs attention well before self-driving cars get rolled out to consumers.
Someone who would know told me that the sales numbers in places where the devices have been released are above what they were even hoping for, though they did not get more specific than that. Take that bit of third-hand hearsay for whatever you think it's worth.
Make your startup a bit more social