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The car's interface is far more complicated than most of the others on that list, and I'd say is a perfect example of a bad one: look at how hard it is to learn, how much worse new drivers are at it, and how many deaths are caused by it every year.

The ideal car user interface (for car-as-a-tool, not car-as-a-toy) is "set destination, go." Or some sort of browse mode where you just tell it when you want to make a turn.

There are similar advances available for some of those other tools: consider the table saw/router/jigsaw/etc. If you just want to get something built, do you want to learn the finer points of using and controlling all those separate tools, or would you rather just be able to say "cut it to look like this" and let a computer do the driving? (I'd love to have a nice CNC setup in a workshop someday...)
And $3.99/item 1-day shipping, which I find comes in handy quite often.
It's ironical that this news and the one on "Papers, Please" are at the top of HN at the same time. kind of looks like Russia is warping back to his former soviet state.
I'm almost $100 ahead on shipping this year already and it's only March.
My biggest gripe with Amazon isn't the rising cost of prime, but, it's with the fact that my long-standing amazon account (seriously, I've had this account since 1999) is now being throttled. When I'm using my prime account, and select two day shipping, most items don't leave Amazon's warehouse until two or three days later, meaning I'm getting my "Free Two day shipping" items nearly a week later.

I love Amazon.com -- I use it for a lot of things (to the tune of almost 8K in the last six months), but, watching my account get throttled like this makes me not only want to step away from amazon prime, but, from amazon in general -- if you can't be honest with me that you're going to throttle my account/shipping speeds, please let me know. I'll gladly upgrade to next day shipping, but that doesn't mean shit if you're going to sit on my order at the warehouse side for two or three days.
Well, for starters, if most calls are internal to the US, half of those ten minutes will be shared with another phone (unless you're just counting outgoing calls, not ingoing calls, for the "magic" 10 minute number). So if you're talking average talk time, you need to divide by two. The effect of conference calls is probably(?) negligible however.

Now, lets take a number, say 4PB/day, or 120 PB/month, say that we put each call to S3, and that each call lasts 2 minutes (on average), so 5x317x30x10^6~ 1.5 Billion puts/month, and lets say 1.5 Million gets, and a full 120PB in/out internal transfer -- that comes to just about 19M USD/Month on S3. That's certainly within NSAs budget -- and Amazon can provide that with a profit margin (assuming, they can, in fact, provide that service).
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When you start to justify things with "... during the wartime" you end up with atrocities like the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Thank you very much! Will share these on here later.
Oh, France is awful, very bureaucratic. Worst country I have seen for documentation.
It had simply been some time since I had worked with MySQL.

I didn't fully understand prepared statments when I began creating the site (as I had never worked with them before), so I put in a check to make sure that nobody was trying to inject anything via SQL when registering, but I realize that is all for nothing now when using prepared statements.

Every user's password is hashed using the default PHP 'PASSWORD_DEFAULT', which according to this page uses BCRYPT: http://www.php.net/manual/en/password.constants.php

Needless to say, I have removed the password restrictions... now the only restriction is that it must be at least 6 characters in length, and must be no more than 5,000 characters in length. You should be able to use any kind of crazy UTF8 combination of characters you can muster.

Not only that, but attackers are limited to 3 attempts per IP per hour when trying to log in via brute force.
Reminds me of the (apocryphal?) stories about colleges that pave only the paths that people were already taking across their campuses.
> When I'm using my prime account, and select two day shipping, most items don't leave Amazon's warehouse until two or three days later, meaning I'm getting my "Free Two day shipping" items nearly a week later.

Exactly. I got Prime mainly for the shipping advantages. I could order things and not worry about accruing an order big enough to qualify for free shipping. But if the actual speed of shipping does not improve, why am I paying for it?

I will probably go back to accumulating orders big enough to qualify for Super Saver shipping.
Optical Intellimouse came out in 1999 -

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/1999/apr99/eyepr.a...

DEC used three button puck-style mice, the one you saw was likely attached to a DECStation and I think DEC had been using them for quite a while, maybe from the mid to late 80s. Here's logitech's first mouse from 1982 which is also a puck.

http://www.oldmouse.com/mouse/logitech/p4.shtml
Local retailers always have the option to sell their products via Fulfillment By Amazon.
Neither of which are available on Android - very frustrating.
> Interesting, I'll have to compare pipelines in Go to pipelines in Haskell

check out the "power series, power serious" paper by doug-macllroy. he does that...
I would point out that Mint.com was a startup at first, and I can't see how it or Intuit can prevent further competitors, e.g. personal capital. So... While I do prefer free tax filing tools over QuickTax, I'm not sure Mint is to blame. If anything, by using a free service, aren't you costing them money?

Edit: I might be mistaken as in Canada (where I am) it's not as easy as pay what the Government says you owe, but in turn the system does let you login to view your (bigger company) tax forms, your last return results; other relevant forms haven't been too hard for me to get ahold of digitally. Digital deposits are quick and there's multiple competing Windows and web-based clients that are both free (not just for low incomes) and certified as compatible by the CRA for each year's tax season. This has pushed more than one company to offer their products free or at a discount, but I actually really like one of the Windows clients so I'll use it next time.
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The lethality of cars had nothing to do with the point I was responding to.
Did he actually mean .22 LR, or maybe .223?
I say we support Dropbox for secure storage and dump our images and videos on Google Drive and see how long they store that cheap. Don't just buy a g and throw a few things in there, make them earn this low-balling war.
Binary blobs running on user boxes can collect direct, identifiable, evidence. Spying an IP address from afar that may or may not be proxied/NAT'd is flimsy circumstantial evidence at best.
I truly hate media that trivializes serious philosophical positions.

The boombox isn't just as intelligent as the dog, but it may be indistinguishable sound-wise from the dog. If you can make a computer perform an "intelligent" task, then I don't care what's going on underneath. I would still call it intelligent.
Try it on Ubuntu or Mint then! Talk about clunky, you have no choice but to get the stuff from the web and download. That's why I stick with Dropbox.
I think one huge difference is that a channel in Go is a stream of data, in which each element can cause the consuming code to wait for new responses. In your example, the future can only return one bit of data.

Afaik, what Go does is just an implementation of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communicating_sequential_proces... which is also available in some other languages (Clojure is the one that comes to mind for me). In Java, I think a closer analogy is a http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurren... which lets the producer and consumer threads automatically work in lock step as well.
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I have production servers that have been up 3+ years, and others that died within 30 days. On AWS. So having a similar experience on DO wouldn't worry me unless it was every node.
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Yeah. Stop being such pervs, independent news outlets!
Well at least something they and the States can agree about.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bea-edwards/the-us-and-austral...
I love my trackpad. You don't know what you're talking about. This is just another opportunity for you to shit post Apple.
This isn't fake.
Seriously. Look at this fucking manual: http://publicstrategist.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/wp51b...
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I'm from Russia, and you know, average Russian didn't feel that major independent news sites are blocked. May be they're blocked, but we actually don't give a f..k about them. We have other independent news sites. So my position is like the West is trying to force hysteria.

Please don't think that we don't have freedoms here. We have much more freedom that you can ever imagine. As well, we don't need to be protected by the bulwark of democracy - US.

We're just fine!
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=467321

Search for "My name is Jesse" and read on...
Honeycombs are a difficult structure to manufacture. They often get mentioned in relation to 3d printing as one of the useful application. They're actually a very strong structure for the amount of material used and were even hand pieced together from wood for some aircraft during world war 2 rather than using more easily manufactured materials due to this advantage.
I am hopeful that I live long enough for the next great breakthrough to happen. The treatment that I am on didn't get FDA approval until late 2011 and is actually working to shrink the tumors. Unfortunately, they don't know where mine originated and it has progressed so quickly that they don't give me good odds. I literally went from being fine one day to having cancer the next. There were no external signs and the internal tumors are huge, ranging in size from golf balls to soft balls.

I have hope but I'm also being realistic based on how my treatment has progressed. I have to plan for the reality that I may not have more than 9 months and hope that I'm still here in 15 years. It's a very difficult place to be emotionally.

With regards to MD Anderson, I've heard great things from them, however, I trust my doctors and they work with many of the doctors from MD Anderson. Before they did my gamma knife treatment they actually sent the MRI results over to a neuro-surgeon peer group to ensure that the right actions were being taken. They have taken no chances and are doing the right thing as far as I'm concerned. I continue to do my own research looking for the next best thing and will definitely consider MD Anderson should I find that they have something better available than the treatments I'm on.
I have seen a lot of companies work fine this way, so I disagree.
Depressing that someone facing death would worry about Disney World and Casa Bonita. I spent a vacation at Disney World when I was 9 years old and recognized it as a plastic mold-injected bore--not in those words at the time, but good god I knew it was a tiresome waste of life, even at that age. Casa Bonita is a South Park episode. Enough said about that.

But hey, you're the one who didn't buy life insurance like a responsible parent, so a non-sad sob story is your only chance of paying off your SUV. Great. Why do I care about your SUV? Also, why do I care whether you get a pricey funeral rather than a county funeral? Also, why are you more important than all of us who are born to die?

Also, why was this posted?
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And if you can make a robot perform some of the tasks dogs can do (walking around without any foreknowledge of the environment, for one), I'd call it a significant advancement in AI. Those tasks just aren't related to making noises...
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The problem with the approach you describe is the notion of a "front-end team". In my view, that's not a team.

In the kind of organization I describe, teams have business purposes and are cross functional. So in your example, there'd be a pizza-direct-to-desk team. In that case, you don't need centralized management of everything.

Plenty of organizations work this way. Spotify, which has done a number of talks on their organization, works just fine with cross-functional teams focused on individual purposes. I interviewed some team members at YouTube, and they had a similar structure.
>So, they don't use IP Telephony then?

A lot of VoIP deployments simply ignore the whole DNS side of things, or at best use an A record. Especially in wholesale, it's IP only (using domains breaks some things), and authentication is based on IP, too. (Source IP on a UDP packet - very secure.)
Cheers p4bl0, I appreciate your comments very much.

You're right, the site is heavily targeted towards cryptocurrencies, but my goal is to keep it filled with more of the high level talk surrounding cryptocurrencies. The articles about the search for Satoshi were a poor choice to list on the frontpage, I agree. Consdering there was next to no evidence in any of them.

I have just made a note to look for more information on http://eprint.iacr.org/ daily, and the /r/funny inconsistency has been changed to r/funny.

I must admit (if it wasn't obvious from my username) that I am primarily a Bitcoin fan. I posted the resources I know best about to the library.php page because I want it to be accurate.

You can now find eprint.iacr.org and iacr.org in the library under the Cryptography heading ;) (And I must say, I found it humorous that iacr.org does not employ TLS)

Again, I really appreciate your comments. Thank you for taking the time to look through the site. I wish you the best of luck in completing your PhD.
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My first mouse was a Mouse Systems serial mouse - in my 286 - today I picked up a NIB PS/2 Mouse Systems mouse with pad.
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I had that original Intellimouse, and it was definitely 1999. I had a G3 minitower and USB was still the new hotness. I actually had to buy a USB card to stick in my G3. I also got myself one Gravis Gamepad Pro controllers at the same time. USB Overdrive got a hell of a workout back then.
Is that really disruption though? It kinda just sounds like regular ol' business. I only ask because your comment is making me question my understanding of "disruption".
That's not easy! But you're right, it probably needs to be done.
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I believe that's what the ForkJoinPool is for.

http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/concurren...
I wouldn't say that it's made me physically sick. I am physically sick but it's the emotional toll that is the worst. Just knowing that this body is dying and there is nothing I can do is frustrating and when I consider what it means for those around me I become an emotional wreck. I could care less if I die, but I do care about what it will do to my wife, my kids, my mother, my grandmother, my aunts, uncles, cousins, close friends, even complete strangers who took the time to send me $5 and a few simple words of encouragement. These are lives that I've touched in some way and my death will impact them. Some more than others but it will still impact them. Doing what I can to lessen that impact and make it a more positive experience for them is the least I can do as my final act of thanks towards humanity.
I absolutely am not playing the martyr. I raised an issue that I felt was of importance. The fact that others disagree is something I'm willing to live with, but it by no means sways me.
And the feminist punk bands, the homosexuals, and the murdered journalists -- how are they doing lately?
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I'm not sure how that trackpad was set, but I can jump across my MBP 15" diagonal with less than 2" of finger movement (more of a flick, really).

After a few weeks of using it, the trackpad and its gestures have become second nature and have made me more productive by effectively disappearing into the background. It doesn't feel like there's an interface between me and the cursor anymore. Of course, YMMV.
I guess, if you live in an oppressive regime and have to use whatever means are available, you get a good training. Alternatively, if the society is comparably more free and you don't use your rights, you tend to forget about them - why, most of the time it works by default. But when suddenly something doesn't work - you don't know what to do.

Compare to approaches Russian opposition is taking. They have to know law, often know (much) better than judges which don't follow the law anyway - but at least the opposition reasoning and their logical constructions could be heard. I guess, not anymore - state-controlled media isn't going to provide objective coverage of "criminals" in courts.
There are some confounding factors:

- The growth rate is slowing. The growth in absolute terms is still sufficient to make the line look near linear when you look at it over such a long time span, especially given that life expectancy is also increasing almost everywhere (see my last point below).

- The growth rate is fairly low. E.g. around 2005, the growth rate was about 1.1%, and the decline is slow (e.g. it's projected to get to around 0.33% or so around middle of the century), so seeing the change on a graph that plots billions of people against a period of decades gets tricky.

- There are large temporal distortions due to changes in life expectancy, and the size of generations. To give an extreme example: Consider if a population to begin with was static - births and deaths were perfectly matched. Now consider if this population stopped having children, yet at the same time, everyone started living 40 years longer. In this (totally impossible of course) scenario, it would take 40 years from the birthrate collapsed until the population size would start dropping. While something that extremely obviously would not happen, less extreme variations are. E.g. some areas of China has a birth rate of well below 1 child per woman, and the country as a whole is well below 2, while you need somewat more than 2 to maintain a population (to account for men + people who never procreate), but the population is still increasing because population is still young on average due to the massive population growth in the 50's and 60's coupled with rapidly increasing life expectancy.

This last point means that we're still seeing a combination of the effect of birth rates going as far back as at least 1950's and all increases in life expectancy since, that correctly reflects current growth, but gives us a very distorted idea of where the population size is headed.
I'm glad I could help. I've felt so helpless with back pain in the past that I love to share this book with anyone who's had similar problems. It's hard to imagine that the problem is so trivial, for which we seek really expensive solutions through herman millers & the likes.
I appreciate your comments. I'm surprised you noticed the collapsing threads due to the lack of comments on Cryptanalys.is thus far, but there have been some.

I'm working on a read-only version of the homepage that users without JS will be redirected to (And more politely informed that they must enable JS in order to participate) but nobody should be stopped from reading the website simply for not being able to run JS. You are right.
Any ideas on how it would work if I inc in India, but operate in the US (I'm in the US on F1 visa)

I'm an Indian citizen
You have good taste :P
(by which I mean, that's literally the same set up as me)
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I have one and love it as well. A giant modern trackpad in all its gesture-interface glory is a pretty awesome experience. I still like to use a mouse for precise tasks, but for web browsing, documentation reading, and general use.. it really can't be beaten.
There seems to be some serious low-hanging fruit here with regard to improving these numbers. Imagine if you took the billions currently spent by the TSA and applied it to road safety?

Given what the rest of world does with airport security, it's possible to maintain airport security while at the same time freeing up massive resources which could be channeled into education (seriously, no seatbelts in 2014? ), policing of drunk driving, zero tolerance for speeding and so on.

Of course this won't happen. Regardless of the fact it is waay more dangerous to drive to the airport than it is to fly on a plane - it's easy to do a big song and dance at the airport to "make flying safer" (hint: it's exactly as safe as it is everywhere else where they don't succumb to the TSA rhetoric).

Americans don't care about the TSA at airports precisely because most Americans don't fly. So politically it costs no votes, (and with enough rhetoric some Americans even believe it's making things safer) whereas if you started creating or enforcing speed restrictions or drunk driving there'd be endless Libertarian arguments about the perils of big government, and the "freedom" of motor cyclists to not wear a helmet if they so choose.

There actually could be a really useful agency with the words Trasportation and Safety in the name, but it isn't the one that currently exists.
I just tried to get something delivered 1-day yesterday and it was $7.99. Bulky item, though, maybe it's higher for that.
Apple's defaults for cursor speed have always been really slow, which is sad because their trackpads are some of the few that are precise and accurate enough to work well with high sensitivity settings.
You don't get a more impressive list because these are the only remaining sources. The rest are suppressed - by various means. Echo of Moscow could be the last - and might be closed not because it's oppositional but just because it's more balanced than government-influenced media.
I would not contribute if companies (e.g. Google) could just take the data and not give back to OSM.

ODBL isn't perfect but share-alike is important for OSM.
Yep. I'm using an intellimouse from c.a. 2001 as my main pointing device. It's a 5 button + wheel, usb/ps2 version. I've also got a simpler 3 button + wheel one, but it's newer, and doesn't feel as nice.
Have you tried IBMs Cloud? When you're done with AWS you're still struggling with IBM ridiculous contract papers and aren't even anywhere near launching any servers.
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Reading the slides make me think this is full of nothing :|
How is 802.11ac speed making things "more cloud"? Because you get slightly more bandwidth -maybe- if you have a new laptop and also you dont have everyone using it?
I don't get it.

Requiring VPN everywhere, how is that cloudy?

Finally, using stuff like AWS is nice, but unless they have a specific contract (which they may since they advertise them a lot), its a LOT more expensive when you start having a lot of processing (ie big companies like netflix)