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Why is your particular anecdote worth more than everyone else's?
Unfortunately, one can't build a rail line overnight. Especially when Austinites themselves voted down the larger-scale project that was on the ballot in 2000. Shot ourselves in both feet.

With this city's growth, it will be very very bad for at least 20 years to come. The Mayor himself basically said so on an AMA yesterday.
I always wonder why we make cars that can go so fast. Even my car with a 1.4L engine making 100 HP can easily do 100mph, even though there's almost no place in the US where that's legal, and no place in my state where it's legal. The fastest speed limit in my state is 70mph. Why not speed-limit cars to 70mph by default, with an option to disable this limiter in a controlled fashion if the person wants to go out on a racetrack where these speeds are legal?

There are obviously arguments in favor of personal liberty that would make some people uncomfortable with this, but they shouldn't be. No one should be. If the speed limit on the road is 70mph, there is no reason for your car to be doing more than 70mph on the road, period. I don't care that you want to pass a vehicle that is only doing 69mph, you'll either lower your speed or pass them at 1mph (which, at least in my state, is also illegal. To pass someone, they must be doing at least 5mph under the speed limit, and you can't break the speed limit in order to pass someone).

Now, it wouldn't help in this situation, but it's something that's always bothered me. As we make better and better performing entry-level cars, we can't change the laws of physics. 90mph isn't unheard of as a common cruising speed on a road where the minimum speed limit is 45mph. That's just stupid and dangerous.
Those all seem like fairly standard requirements to operate at Google's scale and interoperate with their services - publicly perform seems kinda dangerous but I trust Google not to show secret data in a keynote. They are broad, but they also restrict to for their services, which are also broad but does presumably mean if they stop offering any relevant service they're not going to have a license to use your data for something else.
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Sweet. Like a mini Jason Lewis (http://www.jasonexplorer.com/adventurer_jason_lewis_about/)
I don't think I've read anything about FB lobbying for stricter PII laws. Until that happens, I'll write up this little "rant" as a lip service and nothing more.
I've got a fair bit running on both DO and Linode. Fairly happy with both but still for anything CPU bound (to me the speed part of that), Linode is substantially outperforming DO still and both leave Rackspace Cloud in the dust.

So for me, on average a $20 Linode has less RAM but performs better for CPU bound tasks than a $20 DO Droplet.
The current Oculus prototypes and all future versions of the Rift feature translational head tracking as well as rotational tracking, so leaning forward brings you closer to the content in front of you. The general goal of the system is to avoid having it feel like there is anything fixed to your head, and it appears that they will succeed in delivering this to consumers by the end of this year. Google for their Crystal Cove prototype for more videos showing it off.

As far as the weight, it's not any heavier than a pair of beats headphones, or the gaming headphones I already wear at my desk. It's mostly a display, some lenses, and a bunch of empty space - it's not too heavy. Plus you have the benefit of a more comfortable sitting position.
If you're using Cloud, Chef may be good enough
Details details. Well first they would need physical access and then they would also need to know which drive number was owned by which person (not super difficult for sure but a system could be designed where it was more "swiss" in style of identification) and then they would have to break the encryption if they gained access.

I am not and wasn't specifically doing this for NSA reasons more
just typical reasons why you wanted to keep an offsite backup and not
have it on the same drive (and mounted) in a way that would make it
less likely to get taken by hackers because it wasn't physically connected
to the network.

So the question is, what is more secure (and not saying there aren't
drawbacks..)

- Files stored by google, dropbox whatever
- Files stored at your aunt's
- Files stored in a secure data center only physically mounted at specific
times (1 time every 2 weeks say) and otherwise in a locked vault identified by number.
Needing ssh key to gain access which only you have. And only you know the time
it will be mounted for that matter. And maybe a text message back to your cell
as well (how is all of that for security by obscurity?)

For that matter safe deposit boxes aren't that expensive if
you have a local bank you could simply store a clone copy of your
drive there and it would be essentially safe from fire, theft
and the NSA since they wouldn't know it was there to even gain
(legal) access to it, right?
If you still have that one... ;) atom@koeltzs.ch Thanks in advance!
DUI is a problem, and any human loss is painful, especially when avoidable. All that said, I feel like DUI is an overblown problem, in a way. 8 people dead per 1 million estimates incidents of DUI with a max. toll of 10k lives is not insignificant, and human loss is always bad. However, I disagree with your thesis. Curing cancer, raising the standard of living for the poor, and the death toll to obesity are all much more impactful things on society, though DUI is more 'senseless' and painful for victims.

I think limiting the need to drive is the only feasible option.

* You won't stop people from drinking in places where they can't sleep. Drinking at a bar costs 5-6x as much as drinking at someone's home, and yet people are constantly going out to be in a public drinking environment.

* Hopefully, we won't see mandated technology on vehicles requiring alcohol inspections for driving. Privacy, constitutional and technological issues all exist there. Yes, I know the devices exist, but they're clumsy, frustrating, and in the US are only used for people convicted of a 1st time DUI.

Solution: Incentivize people to walk or taxi home, or have a designated driver.

* By far the biggest immediate change that could be made: Make taxi services as cheap as possible. Stop limiting competition like Uber and the pedbikes in Austin from competition; while there are public safety concerns regarding drivers, I think the economic and safety benefits outweigh the risks. Cheap, responsive drivers = less drunk driving, period. ESPECIALLY in places like Texas, or most of the US, where public transit isn't ubiquitous.

* Allow mixed development and stop making suburban islands. If the hip bars are a three block walk from the houses and apartment complexes, fewer people will need to drive. Or, if you're making a suburban neighborhood, build the bar/drug store/grocer right into the town!

* The following thing is a dangerous and controversial thing to say, because it might imply that DUI is "okay": If you're going to drive after drinking, be honest with yourself. Don't say "I'm totally fine to drive". When you're exhausted on a trip, you don't just say you're fine and keep driving. You either pull over and sleep (get a cab) or you recognize your state and roll down the windows, turn on the radio, splash some water on your face, get a Red Bull, etc. If you are inebriated, say "I am drunk, don't speed, check my mirrors, watch out at all the intersections." That is a big cause of accidents, I'd be willing to bet. Whenever you see government propaganda about the dangers of DUI, it's the couple stumbling to the car, kissing each other, and not paying attention to driving. It's not good to drive when your body is impaired in ANY way, but the big problem is not recognizing your impaired state and focusing on the road.

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Postscript: DUI checkpoints are shit, and I don't care what the Supreme Court says. It's an invitation for the police to create probable cause and search your entire self and vehicle, your insurance, and if you piss them off, your cell phone. Even if you're sober, avoid them/fight them whenever possible.
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True, but "far from worst in the country" and "capable of dealing with the city's growth" are two different things. I'm originally from Arlington, Texas, which actually held the distinction until very recently of being the largest city in North America with absolutely no form of public transport whatsoever. I've seen both ends of the spectrum, and Austin still falls far short of where we need to be.

There's also the problem of finding a ride home after the bars close, which is far less doable given our current system. We also need to rapidly expand the light rail system, but efforts to do so seem to be floundering at City Hall.
Lightworks seems promising, and they announced they would be going open-source over 3 years ago. Sadly, it still hasn't happened.

Last I heard, they said it would happen after a Mac version is released, but it's hard to find more info.

http://www.lwks.com
Agreed. But my point is not that it is a zero sum game. My point is that some things are zero sum games. And you will win those if you work harder.
In trello's case they have a browser app, ios, and android. Having one well designed api makes these easier to build and maintain. It appears to be working pretty well for them. I use trello in browser, on an iphone, and on an ipad, and they all work together very seamlessly.
I can't believe there are people here who think Google Drive could be discontinued. It's an absolutely ridiculous notion. It's like thinking pigs could fly.

They might as well discontinue Gmail and Google Apps.
If you want to work on files with people (other than supported by google docs) you both need the desktop app installed. Far more people have the Dropbox desktop app installed than Google drive.

I find Dropbox websharing far easier, right-click share and it puts the link on the clipboard. Google drive makes you go through a dialog.

Google Drive doesn't have history for non google doc files. We use it as a simple version control for all our documents.
I've called President Obama to express my frustration over the damage the government is creating for all of our future.

This is why I am leaving government.

I am about the same age as Zuck and have been working in government at many levels for about 12 years now and I work with people who have been working policy for over 40 years. The president couldn't care less what most of us think think...but because Zuck has shitloads of money and manages this massive platform his voice apparently matters when it comes to national policy over people who do it on a daily basis. Don't misread this as a hit on Zuckerberg, it's not at all, it's just illuminating who the government listens to. Nothing new of course, but it does hit home over and over.
The same thing happened to me in China when I tried to speak Mandarin. Fortunately, however, there were many people who couldn't switch to English because they didn't speak it.
I've been using DO for a few months. I recently set up an AWS instance to use as a proxy, as I wanted something cheap in East Asia temporarily, and AWS's Tokyo region fit the bill.

Holy crap is AWS bizarre to set up. I got it done without too much trouble in the end, but man, the UI is just atrocious. It took way too long just to find the right place to go to get started with the process.
Google has a history of shutting even profitable projects. Dropbox doesn't.

There is a legitimate reason to be wary of relying on anything Google.
I don't know, but there seems to be an awful lot of rationalization taking place in this and your previous comment.

As a person who drinks socially and is well-aware of my limits, I've rarely moved past a slight buzz. So, when I see a person state that they've repeatedly been drunk to the point of losing consciousness, I think, "now, why would a person do that?" I would have to think that there is at least some impairment when an already extremely inebriated person decides to continue drinking to the point where the only thing that stops him is that he physically cannot continue because he is unconscious.

Yet, you are questioning the judgment of someone who, instead of repeatedly drinking himself into a potential coma, stops somewhere short of that and decides he can operate a vehicle.

I just don't see the difference except that, of course, you can claim moral superiority in that you are presumably only endangering yourself vs. others. But, therein lies the rationalization. And, of course, if you repeatedly drink to the point wherein you literally lose control of your body, then perhaps it's only a matter of time before you endanger someone else somewhere along the continuum of inebriation.
I see your point, but this layout is used also for variable height images, variable lenght text, compound layouts, etc. The equivalent of pagination on Android is usually done using pull to refresh (horizontal swipe gestures are usually used to change topics more or less).

For something completely client side it is possible either to specify a fixed height or change the smoothScrollbar attribute of the listview (it is more expensive though and not used very much).

Nobody complains, I guess everyone is just used to the way it is. :D
What I believe was meant was that we in Austin will be hearing about this case for the next year, which we undoubtedly will. Thankfully the crime rate in Austin is such that capital murder cases tend to grab the headlines for quite some time.
China actually has free 10TB offer.
http://www.weiyun.com/act/10t-en.html
Not that I would recommend it as replacement for Dropbox or Drive though.
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> Surprisingly .NET is much higher in demand than any of the other technologies.

It's always funny when technology hipsters are surprised that the wider world doesn't share their anti-MS biases.
> When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government.

Does it really matter who they're protecting us from?
It's pretty common to incorporate in Delaware even if you have little or no physical nexus there, for a variety of reasons: http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/brandywine-to-broad.... This probably applies more to large companies though. I imagine there's some overhead relative to incorporating locally if you're a small business.

What constitutes a physical nexus can be a bit hard to define at the margins. (See e.g. Amazon's fights with a number of states.) But it usually means you're selling something there as opposed to just having employees. A physical nexus usually just relates to collecting sales taxes though. I've never heard of having to incorporate in additional states although maybe that's sometimes the case.

(I know that the small NH company I used to work for certainly didn't incorporate in additional states when they hired non-NH residents. They DID have to handle state withholding on payroll but that sort of thing is handled pretty transparently by payroll processing companies like ADP.)
While this particular study isn't the best, one thing I have always noticed about Node.js is that the ratio of hype to job openings is way off compared to other languages in the past.
Why? What's the situation where you would need to go faster than the speed limit?
Disclosure: I'm currently attending medical school in New York.

It seems incredibly irresponsible for a doctor to prescribe things based on an internet conversation without a physical exam. You can't auscultate (listen to with a stethoscope), visually inspect, run labs, do basic imaging, etc. over an anonymous internet forum, which are basic facilities that anybody should expect a doctor in the US to utilize. It is plainly evident, once you become involved in clinical encounters, that you discover things on exam that the patient didn't know about, forgot to tell you, or wouldn't be able to find themselves. These findings are often critical for diagnosis. Telling the patient to take a certain drug without that data is dangerous and irresponsible.

You could certainly offer general "advice", but this will never be a substitute for seeing a doctor. Perhaps interfaces with video and sound are able to up the bandwidth of internet medicine but currently there is still too wide of a gap between that and actually laying hands on the patient.

I was not surprised to find that this is exactly what the linked document of related policies by state medical boards states for New York (http://www.fsmb.org/pdf/InternetPrescribing-law&policylangua...):

Section 80.63 of the controlled substance regulations requires a practitioner to physically examine a patient prior to initially prescribing a controlled substance. Issuing a prescription for a
controlled substance solely on the basis of a questionnaire or other medical history submitted to a practitioner over
the Internet does not meet the requirement of a physical examination or establish a legitimate practitioner-patient
relationship and is not a valid prescription.

I cannot find anything controversial about that. I am all for forums linking doctors to talk to more patients, even for payment, but keep the "MD" out of the name because this is not a true substitute for seeing a doctor.
off topic and a silly question: "bookmark tool that uses the dropbox API", what do you mean by that?
Denmark has high taxes for the poor and middle class, relative to the US, but taxes on the rich aren't really much higher.
The incidents definitely are depressingly typical on a long enough time scale and with a large enough area. Maybe self-driving cars will eventually solve this problem, assuming they don't come with their own problems too. Granted, we felt the same way about airplanes, but it certainly seems that far more airplane crashes are a matter of human error than something the pilot couldn't have controlled. I would love to be able to just nap while my car chauffeured me between San Marcos and Austin every day though...

Seeing as I live in Austin though, I suspect we'll all hear about this on the news occasionally, if only for summaries of the proceedings as they unfold over time.
I have no idea if the parent is accurate, but I understand them to be talking about life insurance, not health insurance.
Question remains about how profitable these prices are for google.
How should they do it?

Do you listen to everyone equally? Can it even be done?
I stopped reading when the author implied that the U.S healthcare systems woes were due to supply and demand. This is a shallow view of a completely broken system. The supply and demand ratio is comparable to that of other wealthy nations, yet almost every other wealthy nation has kept their health care industry in check.
i set up a google voice # for sales and support inquiries, which gets routed to my cell phone.

if anyone cares enough to want to speak with a company rep, as the CEO i'm more than happy to be that person. in fact i should be, for as long as i possibly can. you need to know your customers, and how else can you effectively train your sales and support reps?

anecdotally: Adora Cheung learned the cleaning biz as a cleaner. after raising $30M, she posed as a secret cleaner on Thanksgiving as a way of expressing gratitude. literally got her hands dirty. ;>
OVH scares me. This is the company that mismanaged their pricing structure (for hosting/VPS) and as a result shut down all orders for quite a while.
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I like thinking about this question.

I have no experience in this but I'll give it a shot.

The keys to staying healthy are diet and exercise absolutely since they probably with through lunch it would be good to provide your employees a good and healthy, yet affordable lunch. It would be best to ask around to see what your employees would like and maybe set up a catering service for them or order to go from a reputable healthy restaurant, or just have your employees cook if you have the facilities available. Basically just have them eat healthier, gift cards to places like sweet tomatoes might help too.

Next is exercise. I can't help but think of that one 'The Office' episode where they are separated into groups and whichever team loses the most weight win something. If you already have groups at your company, either keep it, or switch it up, but don't put the overweight people together, and groups of 3-4 would be optimal.I like to think that people who don't exercise alone, would function better if they have a goal and have a group to encourage/punish them. But some might oppose as some just refuse to work out. Then there are those who already work out or those who just refuse to, and they can just opt out.

Just my 2 cents as I sit here in my lawn chair.
It's a little bit weird how a few years ago all those powerful tech company heads were meeting with the President. Then finally it came out that they all had made deals directly with the NSA and colluded to give them access to user's data. And now all of these companies seem to be working very hard to reverse all of it. It's a good thing that they are, and they seem to be genuinely doing it. But it's still seems a bit odd. Zuckerberg talks about the government needing to be more transparent, but FB and the like haven't explained the details of the previous deal they made with the government. I imagine because they are still somehow gagged. I wonder how many drafts of this message went through FB lawyers.
>Just because they're largely minors doesn't, to me, mean that their parents have the right to deny them a future in favor of whatever their personal reasons may be. Yes, this is an infringement on the 'rights' of parents, but I don't think parents have the right to treat children like property in the first place.

So the issue is that the parents are forcing a decision on the child, in violation of the child's rights? What if the child wants to be homeschooled?
I would be careful with Exoscale. They are using two datacenters from Equinix which is a US based company spending hundreds if millions in new data centers in Switzerland.

In addition Exoscale states: "The datacenter company guarantees us that no data shall be stored outside of Switzerland." Which would indicated that they do not own their own hardware. That would mean Equinix owns it.

I do not trust Equinix and it is scary how many data centers they operate in Zürich alone now. I wonder where they get all that money to build them? NSA?
If I'm going to switch from DropBox it'll be to Space Monkey, and the only reason I've yet to is that I work on music with a friend in the UK and it's not available there yet.
heaven help you if you manage to start an instance that has n permanent storage then reboot it. apparently that's the default, and you need to (imo) go out of your way to get permanent storage. I understand the use case for the former, but the UI and docs for the latter use case were, last I looked, pretty difficult to grok.

Yeah, AWS has some functionality/scaling features that DO and Linode don't, but it's a smaller set of functionality than I think some people initially assume.
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That's a bit of a stretch, even for equivocation.

Did you read the article in question? http://vpsexperience.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/googler-speaks...

It took four comments, out of context, and made it into a slam. Bias of the rant aside, DO says that it was because of a TOS violation on privacy and defamation. It comes pretty close to outing where the person lives, what websites they run, and certainly makes plenty of assumptions about the four comments.

It reads like someone bitter lost an internet argument when they couldn't bait the employee into saying something incriminating, and they wanted revenge.
It is somehow ironic for Mark Zuckerberg to be frustraed over Government Surveilance.
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