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Is it legal for a civilian to physically block a vehicle that is illegally parked and trying to leave? Or is that another two-tier system, where it's okay to block corporate vehicles but not individual vehicles?
> I'm maybe too much of an optimist , but I've always felt like we're(Americans) a bit less realpolitik than the rest of the world, and that if it were to come to shooting Americans for political gain, somebody would say something.

Sure haven't been shy about shooting non-Americans for political gain in the last century, though.

> I've heard nobody in France complain about the DGSE's complete unfettered usage of everyone's data.

Tell me about it. Guess it wasn't as important as gay marriage, football or the road tax.
There's not really a way to do that uniformly right now on any system that isn't Linux. I agree that it would be ideal, but the core philosophy behind Vagrant is a single configuration recipe to create portable environments (development). You can do a lot of things in shell scripts, but its still easier to have it all in one place in an easily grokable format.
I am afrair Putin never was chief if the KGB. He was quite the ordinary ranked officer located in Germany. Hence the funny parallel with Lenin, who was also accused to be the Geman spy during the WW1.
Good point. Knowing it could be done would have been good enough for her, because then she would have known to ask someone to help her. If you have at least an idea of what's possible, you can then have a good idea when it makes sense to ask the expert to give you a little help.

She certainly would never _need_ to know how to do it herself, although there's nothing wrong with that. If she were asking the expert for something every day, then it might make sense to teach her more, but if the requests are infrequent and not time-consuming, then the productivity wins can be had without teaching someone something she doesn't need to know.
I get the rationale of targeting Google's private bus fleet. There's nothing like a giant bus billboard rolling through your neighborhood to remind you of gentrification and the exorbitant rent prices. I do, however, find it pretty difficult to sympathize with the protesters. Would these people have preferred everyone on the bus to have driven their cars instead?

I suppose you could argue that the buses themselves are enabling gentrification, because if they weren't there, more people might stay in the valley instead of living in the city. That's a pretty tenuous connection though because you could argue that it would have happened anyway (I did the commute over ten years ago between Potrero and Palo Alto).

If Google wanted to alleviate some of the vitriol, they could offer to allow non-Googlers to use the bus (like Stanford's Marguerite system) either for free or some kind of nominal charge. I realize that's a headache, but instead of getting bad publicity, they turn it on its head and the "two tier" comments ring pretty hollow.
1) if you don't write your own collection you don't need CanBuildFrom
2) What is so hard to understand about CanBuildFrom[-From, -Elem, +To]. It's an object that will return a builder for a collection: See http://www.dotkam.com/2012/05/08/scala-fun-with-canbuildfrom... for an explanation. In Java one would call it a Factory ;-)
Possibly good indeed. Spending that money now against our great-grandchildren's future earnings might not be in their best interest.

Besides, don't we have enough on our plate with CO2? Sure, theoretically we could focus on both, but we seem to be doing a pretty bad job with the CO2.

Also, I'd probably rather drain these non-renewable fresh-water sources and spend the saved money on improving the quality of life of those who need it most (developing world), all the while with a long-term focus on better energy for desalination/reuse. To be fair, though, this entire paragraph is a pipe-dream.
But the price is cheaper if you redefine liberty.
People insist on looking at this through their default prism of "closed source bad, open source good". But people with crypto experience have other prisms; for instance, "competent, well-vetted crypto" versus "amateur enthusiast crypto". Sometimes open source is also competent and well-vetted, but vetting is expensive, and there is a lot of amateur crypto out there.
It's considered acceptable if you are talking about her pre-transition life.
It was tried in New York City as well, with a mix of private and public rail/subway systems leading into the 30s and 40s [1]. It's an interesting read.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_New_York_City_Su...
Good thing we have smart people like you and those who voted up this comment who have resisted all the brainwashing.
"it does nothing but positive things for the employees, the city, and the environment."

When you say something like this you really have to realize that there may be some bias here. I think these protestors feel pretty negative about this, I can't imagine that it's for no reason.
interesting to see that you did this, brad...

-bowerbird
> I hate that quote. It starts fine, but then reaches a stupid conclusion.

The thing at the end is the premise that the rest comes from, not the conclusion it reaches.
It's all subjective.
Curious: if you disagree with a permitting process for the private buses, what would you prefer the outcome to be?
i had the good fortune of just auditing ;) i was there for music DSP, not CS
So I like paying people for a service that satisfies a desire. That means I have to like cable companies too (who I've not dealt with in 2 years)?

Do you have another means of contributing to the artists, actors, directors, crews that make the shows/movies you torrent so that they can receive compensation and continue to make the media you enjoy? Or do you strictly avoid all media that isn't CC-licensed?
I'm not a huge fan of the new design. Nothing is really strongly defined so my eyes have no idea where to look. Everything just blurs into each other.
And now you both owe $100 Million in sales tax ;)
I'm biased as I'm related to the creator (he's my brother and co-founder) but this is incredibly easy to use. We've used it at Hipmob to process all our invoices (whenever a customer requests one).

Femi (the creator) is also super responsive so drop him a line if you have feature requests! (fomojola@ideasynthesis.com)
Yeah sure but that doesn't give you the right to say, slap the kid. You have to go through formal channels like talking to his/her parents.

New people people coming in to a city have to learn to live in that city. But the opposite is equally true. The people in the city will have to learn to live with those new people. You don't get extra privileges for 'being there first'
I don't entirely agree. I see your point, but let's not make perfection the enemy of progress.
The more vendors that take bitcoin, regardless of what they do with it after they receive it, the more viable the currency is. "Real People" want a currency they can spend. So the more vendors that accept bitcoin the more long term widespread adoption bitcoin will have. Which is what you want right?
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I am thrilled about this as well.

Most of my projects right now have had all of their Vagrant plugin dependencies, including Vagrant itself, in the Gemfile because I wanted to make sure any developer could get a workable development environment without worrying too much about Vagrant versions. On one hand I like the fact that I can install up-to-date plugins this way, but on the other hand I just want it to work out of the box.

Although I doubt we'll be able to get away from this. More likely it will cause other frustrations such as needing to override a plugin with a monkey patch, etc.
Hm, I wonder why I see no Cisco and Amazon on logos, there. After all the money Cisco is loosing are they still reluctant to go against the USA gov, who knows what kind of contracts were made...
The part where you have to do semantic contortions in order to make it a true statement. If anyone's guilty of butchering everyday language in order to make an obscure academic edge case, it's your redefinition of extortion to include taxation. Common sense does not make people think "extortion" when they hear "taxation".
The Turnpike trusts were just government organizations that attempted to fund government roads with a per-use toll. They were a far cry from private road systems.
"Go" is not an acronym.
well, he's wrong and he's not wrong. If bitcoin becomes a global exchange, then it will be worth a fair bit more than one million each.

but the protocol can be changed to have more significant digits, so things can be divided more.
It is entirely unclear what they are protesting, other than 'not working at Google.'

The alleged trespass of using 'public infrastructure for private profit' is unsupported. People pick up and drop off people at the sidewalk (required, no stopping in the middle of the street).

The staged appearance of a guy who is a union organizer (reported elsewhere) added a bit of melodrama.

Looking at the action critically, what is to be gained by calling attention to Google, Facebook, and others providing their own bus fleets?
Thanks John!

Good point on the post-sign up flow, it certainly warrants something more than an alert at the top of the page. I agree that it's nice to be able to store individual snippets, but I look at the web and see how fast it moves, there are patterns that many sites across the site share, that I think people would benefit from exploring and sharing publicly. That said, an Iceberg-like feature might be a cool way to collect various elements from different sites :).

I also definitely agree on the public vs. private work feature. I am thinking about having private Collections for pre-release/private/beta work, and the public Collections for things that are already out there. As there is currently no distinction between the two, I've surprisingly found myself less preoccupied whether something is "out there" and can be copied by someone else, and more preoccupied on just trying to do things right.

Thanks again for your feedback! Much appreciated!
You seemed to miss the guys point. If you park somewhere illegally and someone blocks you in, getting upset that they are doing something illegal while ignoring the fact that you are doing something similarly illegal everyday is pretty weird imo...
I started the vagrant-spec project to address this. A system like Vagrant is hard to fully unit test because there are a lot of side-effecty things that it does. In many cases, the best way to test it is to run things in a real-life scenario.

vagrant-spec includes a acceptance suite that we're going to be building up in order to test more of the features in a black box manner. It is slow to run but if we verify that things are passing before a release, we should be able to catch most daily use cases.

Vagrant 1.4 is the first release to run through vagrant-spec and while there are some early bug reports in some fringe areas of Vagrant trickling in, Vagrant seems to be a drop-in upgrade for most users. This shows that it is working, to some extent. And it'll only get better.

Of course, if you're nervous about it, it doesn't hurt to wait for a 1.4.1 or so on.
I live in the suburbs and I don't even see my neighbors during the week. Tech workers work long hours, especially if you have kids, here's how it tends to work:

Drop off kids at 8am. Head off to work. Arrive at work by 9. Work until 6 or 7pm. Pick up kids from after school. Eat dinner. Do homework. Play with kids. Put kids to sleep. Catch up on work emails or emergencies. End up going to bed late.

Work life balance in tech is in someways worse than non-tech, because tech workers take their work with them everywhere.

There's not going to be a lot of time for socializing at block parties.
Ask HN: Resources for teaching kids robotics? 
I was asked by my kids' small, private school to teach either a robotics elective to the Jr. High kids (grades 7 & 8) or a club (for grades 3 - 8) next semester.

From what I understand, it's too late to get involved in the Lego robotics leagues. I've done plenty of Arduino hacking so I'm leaning towards that route.

Anyone have recommendations for kits/tutorials that would be good for that age?
Oh my! That one might be corresponded with artificial probabilistic bug intriduction just to keep happy uniformity of the distribution.
Assuming that everyone has a reasonable point, is also a bias. There are protests over gay marriage and "get the government out of medicare" and all kinds of ridiculous things.
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Can someone much older than I answer this - were there protests in NYC when rental prices skyrocketed?
I interviewed with them a few times last month, and then HR told me they were re - evaluating their employment needs.

And here I thought it was something I had said. ..
How about a torrent hosted on s3?

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/S3Torrent.htm...
Does anyone know why other technologies didn't catch on? I could imagine more powerful regulators in other countries being one factor and lower cost as another but I really don't know whether those are the real drivers or not.
Nope:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-id-fix-healthcaregov-mysel...
It makes me wonder how much "political theatre" slips right under our noses. The only reason this one was ever called out as fake is that it was too good/bad to be true. What if it were just mediocre?

I run a mildly-popular breaking news Twitter account, and as soon as something big starts to happen there are a lot of people trying to influence the story on their behalf. Spammers want to drive traffic, political parties and partisan hacks start to swing the story their way, governmental PR agencies start going to work, etc.

It's always interesting to use a Google reverse image search or TinEye on any stock photography used to stir up emotions in journalism and see if they actually came from the event the are purported to. Even some of the most well-established and reputable news sites will pull out old stock footage that looks good to spice up an event.

For example, there are currently thousands of people protesting a failed trade agreement with the UN on the main square in Kyiv, Ukraine. Instantly on Twitter there are "pictures of protestors" that a quick search proves are actually of Russian gangsters from 2008. Or "pictures of the protestors from today" that are really protestors from the Orange Revolution on the same square in 2005. Russia Today was saying a "couple thousand" focused the debate on the Lenin statue (not the couple hundred thousand protesting what was essentially a pro-Russian government), etc.

We are deceived (probably myself included) much more frequently than we let on or are aware. The number of reporters out there aren't enough to uncover and dispel the lies and rumors that are spreading rapidly with nearly every news event. There's just too much happening too fast.
However, if anyone at google or facebook gets caught doing that, it will have a hard time finding a job. At the NSA is probably encouraged behavior and I'm pretty no one is loosing his job over spying someone there, it's what they do after all.
Because cars, and suburbia. Suburbia is inherently less efficient than cities (where resources are shared). So yes, there is moral high ground.

When the south bay can compete with the cities amenities, then we will see those who value those amenities move south. Until then, the problem will perpetuate.
No. At least the ones I've heard from, they want employees of companies in the South Bay and Peninsula to live outside of San Francisco. They believe that the mass influx of money is driving long time residents out, and that building more housing is the wrong solution. I remember reading one article that suggested there should be a wait list to get to live in the city.
Actually, the mixing properties are incredibly important. Even under the ocean much oil isn't in big cavities, it's in porous rock. If this is the case with fresh water, the structure containing the fresh water might actually sufficiently support the salt water on top of it as we reduce the internal pressure when extracting fresh water.

Even if not, we can drill and extract fresh water at one end and pump in salt water at the other, until the water we get out becomes too saline. In porous rock the mix rate would be quite low; kind of like pumping salt water into a sponge at one end and extracting the fresh water at the other end (for a while).

This is quite a common practice in the oil industry.

Finally, salt water is more dense than fresh water. If these reservoirs underwater actually are big cavities; we can just pump salt water in the bottom and pump fresh water out the top.

NB: When I say "we can just", I mean, take a wild best guess about where the bottom and top of the well is based on crazy amounts of uncertain data extracted on a well-by-well basis.
Persona login doesn't work for me.
If it was illegally parked, couldn't they just call the police to ticket the bus? If the city has chosen to allow the buses to use the Muni stops then the fight should be with the regulators/city not with Google. For example, in the Mission, you're allowed to park in the middle of the street on Sundays because of the need to accommodate churchgoers. This seems like another application of special rules that "common citizens" cannot normally do.

At the end of the day though, the bus protest is not really about the bus but about the overall situation with housing, power, and inequality.
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Moxie,

Thanks very much for posting this, here. I would have missed it otherwise.

I've only waded into the first letter, but already I'm struck by the window it offers into depth of personality and thought, as opposed to simply the superficial sensation of much of what is in the news.

An "artistic" perspective as being one of deep thought, reflection, and action upon society. Punk as one element in an essential dynamic that serves to define same and carry it forward.

I look forward to reading through the rest.
It's ridiculous considering the variety of activities that require internet.
According to the usage chart for the last few months when I log into TWC our house uses more than 5GB a day (we have 3 adults and a kid in the house).
Right, but even what you said isn't really within shouting distance of reality.

Certainly, many naive people would expect such a performance hit; personally, I'd strongly expect that the actual performance is predicated on the architecture and the expertise of the teams involved and that any differences between the languages become either apples to oranges or noise.
Question 1: Do you think the underlying complaints of the protests, which are presumably about problems like gentrification, are valid?

Question 2: If so, what do you propose the people do?

As to one of your questions:

Presumably, the protesters want the city and those companies to sit together and create a public transport system that works for everybody. It's fine to have lines and stops specifically laid out to be beneficial to the primary users, as long as everybody else can ride along. That's what tends to happen over on this side of the pond, and I find it an exceedingly reasonable suggestion, because everybody would win even more.
I really appreciate the response, Moxie. I admire your work and your privacy advocacy and I downloaded TextSecure after seeing it here and associated with your name. I'll take another look and see if that link can solve my (technical) issues.
Whether you're desalinating or just doing runoff management you're mucking about with the Earth's water cycle either way.

The bigger issue is actually just using waste water recycling, which is today a feasible proposition but for public perception.
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It's written in Scala, so perhaps the reference is to the source code rather than the client interface ...

... or maybe you're just overthinking it.
What? This is like saying that peaceniks are, in reality, the most violent of all. That after leaving Love-All-Equal Unitarian Church, the church-goers spend time studying the strategies of Hermann Goering. That's utter hogwash.

For some reason, neither Scandinavia, nor Canada, nor Switzerland appear on the list as perpetrators. And when Italy does, it's when the country is run by a decidedly illiberal corporatist/fascist.

Indeed, for some reason, liberalism -- that is, the philosophy based on the ideas of freedom and universal human equality under the law -- is seen as antithetical to violent mendacity.
Wow...that sounds exactly like the same sort of staging as "Pallywood":

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=0b4_1375922321

Sobering to realize it happens here.

...although it's also a reminder that all news/media is distorted to tell its own story. Albeit some more than others.
Google Play Location Services are backed with GPS and/or network location(!?)

It's just a wrapper that has some nice functionality around trying to preserve battery use by sharing location requests between the multiple applications that need it. See [1] for the details. Here is a useful quote:

Applications cannot specify the exact location sources, such as GPS, that are used by the LocationClient. In fact, the system may have multiple location sources (providers) running and may fuse the results from several sources into a single Location object.

How do you think Google works out your location otherwise?

[1] https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/g...
Govt is the cause of water shortages

http://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/10/ryan-mcmaken/socialist-wa...
The corporate buses often stop at public bus stops, sometimes blocking MUNI buses from the stop.
This should change your mind about creating your own games
I don't know anyone personally that uses LinkedIn as a medium for establishing a friendship.

People already have Facebook for that, or even Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ and so on. I generally never turn down connection requests from LinkedIn (even if I don't know the person) unless the requester is interested in ridiculous stuff such as 'advancing our careers by giving each other endorsements'. Yes, someone specifically sent me such a message and it made me remove them from my connection list.

I've also connected with quite a lot of people I 'met' through various Coursera courses I took and that seemed smart/interesting, but not with the intention of friending them. They sometimes make insightful comments to LinkedIn groups they're subscribed...I can read this in the Updates section. Sometimes they launch new business ventures and I'm happy for them they put the Startup Engineering course to good use. None of these people have bothered me with anything, but I have the opportunity to learn something by watching them evolve.
A false flag action. We have some more serious examples discussed in other thread that popped up today:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6875352.
I've been a vocal supporter of most of Apple's policies over the years but they really are on the wrong side of history with this one.

Apple should embrace change (think different!) by accepting bitcoins themselves and let related innovation thrive on the App Stores. In the end it's all about the digital wallet which means more sales of mobile devices.

So please, dear Apple understand that the decentralized Internet of money is here. It won't go away so better get all in!
Two questions: comparison to jquery supersized? How does it handle portrait photos?
I have seen a 1 000 000 USD note once, backed 'by American dream'. Looked solid.
First, i never said reasonable point, you did. I don't think its disingenuous to assume that a large group of people protesting have even a single reason to be doing so.

The person I'm responding to seems to believe they have NO REASON to be protesting. I'm simply saying that I don't think a bunch of people went and wasted their AM for no good reason.