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>I will never understand why people think insurance companies will be a barrier to adoption. Insurance companies are going to love this. I think the tipping point will be when insurance rates on driving your own car skyrocket.

Yes. The logic goes like this. 'Currently I'm an insured driver'. I will have a car with no driver. It therefore cannot be insured.

Where I live cars are already insured for third-party personal damages, regardless of who is driving them. It's a fixed-cost premium attached and paid at vehicle registration time. Thus, if you are injured in a motor vehicle accident, regardless of who is at fault, you (or your heirs) will be paid compensation in a regulated environment. This is a functioning market which doesn't adjust for driver age or experience, but instead collectively insures all vehicles on the road, and pays out when a claim is made. Periodically, when more than one insurer is involved, they will negotiate an 'at fault' percentage in order to work out which ratio at which the claims are attributed to each insurer. This may involve discussion of the drivers actions (to determine fault), but the payout is always made - because the vehicle itself is the thing that is insured.

In this system, the only way the driver can become liable for the claim is if they specifically and deliberately engaged in a criminal act, such as driving an unregistered vehicle, or driving under influence. Mere speeding or red-light running doesn't void the insurance (as these are traffic infringements rather than criminal acts). And in these cases, the insurance company still pays out the compensation, but may proceed to recover the compensation from the driver that broke the law.

This type of system would easily be translated to driverless vehicles. The owner of the vehicle would pay a registration fee, and a portion of that fee would be passed onto the owners choice of insurer (or a valid certificate of insurance would need to be presented for registration, which is the same thing). As long as the insurance was paid, then third-party personal and property damage would be paid out to any accident claimants. If the insurance company then decided someone was directly liable for causing the claim (such as tampering with vehicle systems or negligent coding) then they could recover the claim money.

Such a system would be a vast improvement on the current situation, whereby it's the driver that is insured, and because of the various risk factors, insurance premiums are all over the place. As a result, the riskiest drivers also tend to be the ones lacking insurance, which is the worst case for someone who needs to make a claim.

But then insurance is one of the most misunderstood products around, so I guess it's not surprising that ignorance of how it works abounds.
You're saying that an Apple killswitch would be a good thing that users would want?
> There are those who want to live the libertarian dream.

Surely, there are people that care about the quality of what goes in their body (certainly you and I do, at least). Those people would be willing to pay a small price to ensure that what they eat is not poison. Without the FDA, there would probably be numerous entities that evaluate food products and place their mark of approval on those products that pass a rigorous set of tests. Consumers that care about food quality will be willing to spend more to buy food with that mark of approval. If the company approves too many bad products, they lose reputation and go out of business.

In fact, there are already organizations that test the quality of products, like Consumer Reports. Personally, I find Amazon reviews to be very helpful when purchasing things, and if I bought my food from Amazon (I hope so one day!) I would read the reviews before buying food I don't know about.

> FDA and the supposed agencies entrusted by public to protect the public from poisons in the food have deemed to have failed many times.

I agree. Let's get rid of the FDA, we don't need.
Maybe EFF and Reason jumped the gun/got duped?
Should be able to be improved once its in use and they have enough usage reports. For now I'm guessing there is too many false positives during typing itself, eg moving your hand toward the mouse or something else. There is also all those peckers out there to think about doing weird and strange hovering motions. In the future, if they can map out enough false positives they could potentially fix it.

Also, I'm sure someone with this tech could make use of a certain gesture that activates one-to-one style mapping for a certain period of time / until a button is pressed.
i always pressumed the source of the phrase was due to being "logged" by the software. eg a user is "logging on" because he is literally going on the log. If you review the server logs youd see the user on (or in) the log.

the same kind of verbage is used in all similiar scenarios. you check in at a hotel for instance.. Check, sign, log, etc etc are all really just various words that roughly mean the same thing. Log just happens to be whats popular on the web.
AFAICT, It's one of the cheapest bluetooth keyboards [1] on Amazon. They just hacked in some new electronics.

I recognized it immediately because I also had to tear off the plastic casing. It shipped to me with a loose connection.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Ultra-Slim-Bluetooth-Wireless-Keyboard...
CISPA Zombie Bill Is Back, With Fewer Privacy Concerns...Maybe?
The science is never done. I hate, HATE, hate when people treat science like we already have all of the answers.

> and GMO foods have decisively been shown to have no health impact.

No, the studies done thus far, with specific controls they've used and the ideas they've test for, haven't found anything. There is no such thing as decisive in science. The science could change tomorrow. What's harder to change is the laws we've put in place because of industry interests.

The United States has a long history of taking the side of big business. Even with food. Look at the food pyramid that I was taught as the "healthiest" way to eat when I went to school. Today things have changed and we've learned a lot of backstory on how much of what we learned during that period was based on industry lobbying and not science.

I don't want us to make the same mistake again. Genetic engineering is a very young science. It doesn't belong in our food yet. I'm not saying we should ban GMOs. But I think it's fair to label foods that have GMOs in them for those of us that don't want to take part in the giant human trial.

At one point we were all cool with asbestos in our homes, lead in our paint, chemicals in our water and doctors endorsed smoking. Stop pretending like this isn't a big gamble.
"Where is the data supporting this claim? I don't believe it is true."

This is one central premise of TDD and is not proven or disproven yet. What we can say is that previous software methodologies were lacking, and cannot prove or disprove their superiority over TDD with regards to this statement. If you distill all debates about TDD down to their essence, it revolves around this premise.

I am fine with someone being skeptical of this claim, but I would prefer if they offered A) a measure we can use to test this hypothesis and B) a contrasting methodology that performs better with regards to the measurements provided in A. The single biggest outstanding problem in software engineering is finding a metric by which we can judge software quality objectively. Because it is such an elusive goal other less precise proxies for software quality have been proposed to stand in for the more complex metric. TDD hangs it's shingle on "testability". Even though this has obvious defects, I've seen no evidence for any other objective measure as a more precise indicator of software quality and quite a few advantages to "testability". Namely, it is measurable.

"Why do you think so many of us feel that it is an ideology? Are we seeing ghosts and imagining the whole thing?"

No, I'm sure that you have encountered well meaning but flawed practitioners of TDD. Your skepticism of their process doesn't bother me. What bothers me is your (and DHH's) painting of all TDD folks as cultists. I don't believe this stuff because Uncle Bob told me to believe it. I believe it because my experience shows that rigorous use of TDD practices trend toward better software than a lack of rigor outside of an objective measure for software quality.

If you have an alternate rigorous approach that you believe trends (or better yet is provably) better in software quality, by all means outline it. I know that TDD is flawed and am happy to find its successor.

Let me ask you this, prior to the rise of TDD, how prevalent do you think automated testing was? If it was very prevalent why is it only after the rise of TDD that automated testing became a central part of any build workflow and the entire concept of Continuous Integration/Deployment developed?

In my experience, automated testing prior to the rise of TDD was not wide spread. But maybe I was seeing ghosts and imagining that.
In the raw video, the engine shuts down at 0:23, and before that you can see the engine blasting the water. It's not coming down that fast, so I'm pretty sure it's a lot lower than a few thousand feet when that good frame appears earlier.
I don't think Stripe auto-updates. There's a service called Churnbuster whose sole purpose is to deal with this issue: http://churnbuster.io/
But are they successful because of this, or despite it?
Right. OK so I had it placed correctly. Heroku is for guys that are not experienced in hosting, deployment, operations, or scaling. And that's a lot of small guys.

Where your customers get bitten is when their needs outgrow you, and it happens in weird ways (routing performance, multiple database types, scaling profile, management tools), and its different for each customer.

And you've nailed it as far as your target audience. So really, supporting extra bells and whistles for PHP is a way to capture more of that market - the small to medium shop run by a couple of dudes who have some shared host PHP app knowledge.

So, Heroku's value is really in its add-on services, not its hosting, or its scaling. PHP shops feed your every day hosting provider, so if Heroku can consolidate that market its a big win for Heroku. The taste in my mouth is this was spun as innovation when its not.
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rmujica, out of curiosity, how did you run across the pastebin?
And yet entanglement causes changes to occur instantaneously over unlimited distances. What's worse, there are many readings of it where one's own consciousness impacts that change.

These things occur, that is a given. How or why is left to interpretations like the Many Worlds interpretation, the Transactional interpretation, the Bohm interpretation, Quantum Information, etc. The point is these interpretations are more of the philosophical ramblings of scientists saying "It's the way I think it is because X and Y and Z."

Psi is an interesting topic. I think the likelihood of it existing is small, but if you'd asked anybody in 1900 what the likelihood of quantum physics existing was in the form it has ultimately been found, you would have been laughed out of the room without an answer (even though even Newton had at least some reservations about whether light was a particle or a wave).
Ask HN: What are the best resources for people graduating coding bootcamps? 
I'm just graduating Thinkful.com for both their Front-end and Ruby on Rails course. I've also built the web app for my startup.

However, while there is an abundance of resources for newbies, there is not so much for people who are shall we say "intermediate" or "internship level" who many not want to read a book.

What I'm really looking for is either project based programs, interactive programming challenges, or tutorial series. And yes, I am familiar with Railscasts. Pro member!
While I admire the goal, this solution makes me sad. If a dog needs more exercise, then it should be exercised more often. A responsible pet owner should know their schedule and lifestyle, and choose a dog whose exercise needs match that.

I find it unfortunate that some pet owners would absolve their responsibility towards their pet with a machine. There is great value to the relationship between a pet and its owner during both feeding and training. While it's neat that we live in an age where technology allows us such "conveniences", I think there is a point where you must ask yourself what is the point of life if you don't actually do anything meaningful? Bonding with a dog, if you have not experienced it, is a lot more meaningful than just making sure they don't shit on your rug while you're gone.
This feature has been available for quite some time, so no. Plenty of people don't know about it though.
I wish I could see where you're coming from, but it doesn't seem simpler to me as compared to angular, just different. I need to read through the code for React like I did for Angular.
On second thought you can ignore my entire post. We already tried that in America. I suggest you read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle. It didn't work.

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... You would be willing to trust what you put into your body to Consumer Reports? A magazine where, for a small fee, you can buy a positive review?

Your argument would be sound if, and only if, we could assume that the public would or could be fully informed as to the validity / accuracy of the various services that would pop up to replace the FDA.

Instead what would happen is the various services would simply find it more profitable to pend good reviews most of the time, just enough to be seen as good or slightly better than their peers for their particular advertising demographic. All of their peers, of course, would also take money to buy good reviews, so no single agency, or group of agencies could be trust worthy for any real amount of the time.

And while the FDA may fall into some similar traps as the above, the biggest difference would be that the FDA, by being seperate from the marketplace, has only its reputation and fear of its wrath to keep its value and budget. By contrast, the free market agencies that would pop up would have as a primary tool the ability to use advertising and marketing to ensure that even if their service is completely illegitimate, a portion of the marketplace would be convinced of its validity, because customers are not 100% knowledgeable on every matter.

And the best part, why would any of these agencies ever spend research money on their products? Sure, enough for the marketing to sound legitimate, perhaps, but not enough to thoroughly test their products, that could only shrink out number of corporate clients. So you can say goodbye to any science that might have come from agencies like the FDA actually conducting investigations.

So in short, all you would have created is a group of competing standards, non of which would have their customer's health as a primary concern, all actively advertising potential poisons to consumers, while simultaneously hurting agricultural research.
I built a tool to compare the relationship of different n-note equal temperment tunings a few years ago[1]. The UI is a bit obtuse, but it compares the frequencies of the n-note system with the frequencies of the older just intonation system. In 19 Tone Equal Temperment, the Eb and A are within 1 cent of what they would be in a just intonation tuning, which is pretty cool. I find 22 TET interesting as well.

[1] http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~mawillia/music/
I only get one upvote, but +100.
What is the purpose of GMO labeling?

What is engineering of food? If GMOs are "bad" what about hybrids developed via selective breeding? Am I poisoning myself by planting a "Better Boy" tomato that is disease resistant, or should I plant some heirloom tomato?

There is no answer to these questions. There are opinions.
There is also the likelihood of the development of 'close area' networks, where a car ahead that spots the debris (and either hits or avoids) passes down a message along the chain, so that following vehicles are alerted and all begin to slow down in unison. Development efforts have been spent on this technology for existing vehicles, with the idea of alerting a driver to a hazard before they can visibly see it. This is especially important in low-visibility fog/snow conditions where massive pileups can occur.
It isn't. This is especially true if you aren't geographically constrained. These are all places you can get a powerful VM or a Dedicated for less than $100/month as well.

I'm not sure who the parent posts have talked to but I've never had a problem finding one. Especially if it was a colo deal with liability insurance, etc.

French Companies:

OVH aka SoYouStart

Online.NET

UK:

Linode

Netherlands:

Virtually anyone but the first that comes to mind is WorldStream
They said "mechanical keyboard" which got my hopes up, but nope, it's a bog-standard rubber-dome deal.
Bummer the quality is so poor. I was really hoping for something really, really cool to watch. I'm guessing this is more than just a GoPro taped to the side so it is surprising to me that the video failed so hard. It also surprises me that they didn't have several cameras just in case. But in the interest of staying positive, I guess they learned a few more things to avoid next time. I am super excited about the progress SpaceX has made and will continue to make. I can't even count the number of times I've watched the "low launch and ground landing" videos. So cool to watch history in the making.
Why? Japan spent a lot of effort on IPv6 and what did it get them?
Why? To get widespread ipv6 support, I'd suppose.
These are folks that I've worked with and talked to regularly for 9 years, so I think you're overstating how people within Google see me; we're just colleagues.

In general, Google's internal culture is open and honest, but we also provide anonymous ways to give feedback within the company[1], so something like this would bubble up in a visible way.

[1] See for example the description of "Googlegeist," an annual survey where Google employees can give anonymous feedback, at http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2013/01/...
Exactly. I don't know why they are not pushing it though.
Thanks. I'm also looking into bookmark sync. They have Firefox Sync ( https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/sync/ ) but I haven't tried it out yet.
I guess being a car enthusiast, I am not surprised a tow company refused to tow an expensive car they are not familiar with. When the 350Z just came out and was relatively rare, some tow companies refused to deal with them because they required a flatbed and special care due to super low clearance.

This is relatively common, though not in issue in most large metro areas.
It does not.
I came to know this tool while using Twitter ads (they had a $50 promotion). Seems the strategy is to engage with analytics and push towards promoting tweets. But I havent seen/read much about this tool. They need to develop it much more to give out useful analytics (try comparing this with facebook's page analytics)

Here are the shortcomings of the tool:

- Clicks on URL: It shows the overall clicks on the url, if you use it multiple times, it will be summed up

- No reach metrics for your tweets

- Filters: No filters on date ranges, difficult to dig out tweets

- No sorting of tweets by number of retweets etc.

- No sentiment analysis

All of these shortcomings could result into 2-3 products itself.

Some useful things are:

- Follower trends

- Interests and segmentation of your followers

- High level overview of how your tweets are doing.
you do realize it's a research paper; they're not trying to sell it to you right now.
There are other benefits. It's a federal crime to tamper with US Postal mail or private mailboxes. It's also a federal crime to commit fraud by using the USPS.

It's somewhat like fax, there are differential legal protections in place that make it a preferred service for certain scenarios.
Super-Strong Graphene Has an Achilles' Heel
Great SpaceX interview question, or greatest SpaceX interview question?
Had no idea a Tesla could do that! A really good question then...
Presumably the real interesting data comes from the sensors, and the camera was just an add on, possibly only for publicity with no real technical value, so they did not go to great lengths to make sure it would record well.
>Tip: Most laptops have an SD card reader

Not all of them will boot for you though. Mine doesn't.
> AOL's investigation is still underway, however, we have determined that there was unauthorized access to information regarding a significant number of user accounts. This information included AOL users' email addresses, postal addresses, address book contact information, encrypted passwords and encrypted answers ..., as well as certain employee information.

Here we go again.
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You would be willing to trust what you put into your body to Consumer Reports? A magazine where, for a small fee, you can buy a positive review?

Do you have a source for the claim (which I'm pretty sure is an extraordinary claim) that one can buy a favorable review in Consumer Reports magazine, published by the nonprofit organization Consumers Union? I did the expected Google search before replying here, and I can't find any evidence for that claim, much less the extraordinary evidence I would need to believe that claim as a long-time (occasional) reader of Consumer Reports.
Oklahoma botches first execution in 80 years
Sorry, I know isn't that interesting or constructive but I have to say: in UX terms, Firefox just NAILED IT.

I have used for just a short term (a whole day) and I probably gonna find this or that to dislike. But so far I'm in love with it.
The problem wasn't the camera, it was receiving the telemetry. As Elon said after the launch, they captured telemetry from a plane, and the plane had to stay pretty far away.