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The primary issue wasn't the monetary requirement, it was the other riders on how the data was to be collected and provided to the DoJ. They would have had to trust that they were getting the data they'd requested, and that Levison wasn't altering it or excluding some of it.

I apologize for not being clear in my earlier comment: if he'd just asked for the monetary compensation, I expect he would have gotten it.
Living in a country where this stuff is practically legal (although not really is): yes, did smoke it like once a week during uni. Not that much any more, more like once or twice a year. Can't imagine developing "on it" though :s

I guess having it available in ample (i.e. Cheap) takes the excitement/suspense/mystery away...
There are multiple reasons, not just one. Each of them, like drops in a bucket, contributed to fill the bucket.

As has been alluded by the OP, till the 1940s SF actually had competing train operators. They would advertise their performance ("shortest time to inner sunset!"), for example, and riders voted with their dollars. Then all but 1 got consolidated/wiped-out, and we ended up with the MUNI (aka SFMTA). The problem is: as a monopoly, and a government-subsidised one to boot, they have absolutely no incentive to improve service. Regardless of how badly they fail, they know that the public can do A.B.S.O.L.U.T.E.L.Y. nothing!
In 1999, the voters gave more resources to SFMTA, in return asking for a modest 85% on-time performance. 15 years later, we're still waiting for it[1]. I am not an anti-union guy, and I strongly believe that unions have been a huge boon to society as a whole. But even I feel that the various MUNI unions are an impediment to performance. The slightest change in working conditions must be approved by the union. And if you piss off the union people, there's hell to pay[2]. The MUNI drivers, with barely any qualifications other than having a drivers license, make as much as starting teachers in SF _excluding_ overtime. At one time, they got language into the City's Charter (basically, the constitution of the City) that they would be guaranteed to be at least the second-highest-paid operators in the country! Thankfully, this was repealed in 2012.

And let's not get started about BART. Their latest bargaining debacle with the unions[3] shows how inept the management is.

But the bigger question is: why are these agencies not accountable? The answer to that is: elections. Elections for the posts of politicians who are supposed to provide oversight are heavily influenced by the unions, who are a massive voting bloc. Every politician seeks out the unions' endorsement, and would not dare oppose them if s/he stands any chance of being re-elected. It's the fox guarding the chicken coop.

The solution, IMHO, is privatization (and again: I'm no libertarian or "small ogvernment" nut). But I see the service I get at the local grocery store by employees making minimal wage, and compare with the shitty attitude from the overpaid MUNI employees, and wonder if privatization is the answer?

[1] http://sfpublicpress.org/news/2010-11/muni-in-elusive-quest-...

[2] http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2009/02/18/waiting-for-th...

[3] http://www.contracostatimes.com/editorial/ci_25564767/contra...
100 years ago, you could use cut and cover without enraging a bunch of UES rich people. Oh well.
I got the same results. The images are quite random.
Over the centuries New York gained control over neighboring counties. In SF nothing like that ever happened, so SF itself is tiny and surrounded by the edges of many different large counties that do whatever they want.

Also the Bay Area takes anti-development NIMBYism as a sort of state religion – people actually actively try to block development of mass transit, something that would be unthinkably absurd to someone used to NY.
Dude seriously? San Francisco is a couple of miles wide and yet it take as long to get from one side to the other using public transportation as it does for me to drive 10 times the distance.
Yeah, I checked that out previously but you're right - no valuations.

Thanks anyhow.
I think you have every right to be skeptical. The track record for our city employees and elected officials is abysmal. It is up to us, as voters, to maximize pressure on our political leaders and dole out consequence for failure.

I've outlined the tools we are using today to move forward, and I am still optimistic we will move to a world class transportation system in time.
FWIW, I run Ubuntu 14.04 on a rMBP, and suspend/resume works just fine when I close/reopen the lid. (Yes, including wireless)
Could you please share the code that updates the URL of the blog post without adding each entry to history? I take it you used history.replaceState?
Levinson did something stupid (possibly maliciously stupid, I'm not qualified to judge), the users did not do due diligence on the claims made by the service and from the looks of it Levinson is paying a price.

But that ship has sailed. He fucked up, he tried hard to limit the damage and as far as I can see he's been punished just about enough. So if you're upfront about using this as a cautionary tale then that would start with either educating users of such services or with pointing out similarities between Levinson's flawed approach and other offers of services like that. Further dumping on Levison is pointless, it's like kicking a guy that is already down.

Compare this with Karin Spaink taking on scientology knowing full well that that would bring down a lot of trouble, but doing society a great service in warning people of the dangers of that particular organization.

For users of Lavabit any kind of warning is a bit late and I think they have learned their lesson (or at least, I would hope they did).

Snake oil peddlers have been making money for years, the farmaceuticals or the broken-crypto ones look all the same from where I'm standing, they are playing with people's lives. But the ones that get caught are as far as I'm concerned neutralized, it's the ones that remain that deserve our attention, and their users as well.
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> Our website is not the product.

The problem is that it seems to be the only thing bigger than a one-click demo built with the product that is available, so it is -- whether you intend it to be or not -- the most powerful statement you have about what the utility of your product.

(It doesn't help that the broking scrolling makes it very hard to get to some of the rest of the content.)

If you think it represents the product poorly, I think you desperately need (1) to not rely on your product for your whole public-facing website (dogfooding is good, but part of that is having good judgement about fitness for purpose), and (2) build something that has a clear role that is more than a trivial demo that demonstrates the real utility of the product (something that's part of your public website, and a key and useful part and not just a demo, may be good, but it needs to be something that the product is ready to do acceptably.)

Or, if the problems really are fairly minor, then fix the problems that makes using it for your whole website and turn that into a plus.

> I promise you that if you take the time to explore actual product we're working on, you'll see that it's pretty polished, but lacks some features

Asking people to do more work to discover the value of your product is generally not a compelling way to get people on board with it. If the external visitors first impression isn't positive, its not their job to work harder to get to a positive impression.
from http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

> My secretary prints out all messages addressed to taocp@cs.stanford.edu or knuth-bug@cs.stanford.edu, so that I can reply with written comments when I have a chance.

He just does not USE email himself.
> and an editor with knowledge in that topic area removed that edit before publication.

A study in Nature actually found comparable error rates in both Britannica and Wikipedia.

Naturally, there's additional context in the Wikipedia article, "Reliability of Wikipedia:"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliability_of_Wikipedia

I don't necessarily agree with bediger4000 that all errors have become transparent. Some lay dormant for years without notice. I am sympathetic to his general point though, because I do think we were putting a dangerous amount of faith in "authoritative references" before Wikipedia. We shouldn't just question Wikipedia, we should scrutinize all sources of authority.

It's important to recognize that reliability of information isn't a binary, it is on a scale. And the best way to move up that scale is to rely on a variety of authoritative references for any given claim.

The biggest reason I find Wikipedia reliable (on those occasions when I do) is because the sources for any given article are fairly transparent. If I find a dubious claim, I can immediately dig deeper by scrutinizing the cited expertise. Many times I don't need sources. Many times when I need more certainty, I scroll to the bottom and find no reassurance (or references to printed publications that require more legwork to verify). But Wikipedia at least allows me some foothold to calibrate my trust in a given article, because editors are encouraged to "show their work."

Britannica doesn't allow me to continue my research, or verify their conclusions. I have no idea what their editors are relying on. That's not to say I "assume false," but there are limits. I trust them proportionately to their track record, which is good, but not impeccable. They're never going to be as reliable as the sum of their hidden references would have been.
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Was anyone else really uncomfortable with Panos singling out Joanna Stern during the event? I don't know if he was trying to praise or berate her, but it just looked terrible and made me feel uncomfortable about the whole thing. Really weird why they would do that--I have no idea what message they were trying to send but it doesn't seem like a good one.
That's a pretty lame rule if I may say so myself. Kinda of violates the whole spirit of the game. You have to use real words that you know how to spell. Requiring a definition, especially one that matches some chosen dictionary, opens up a lot of weird challenge problems. Definitions are much more fluid than spelling (although spellings can change over time as well). Spelling and whether or not a word is "real" tend to be much more cut and dry.
Yes, but that kills all the other go-routines in that process as well. In Erlang that would just affect the one thread.
There's actually one case where they're trying to do this:

http://sf.streetsblog.org/2012/06/27/options-for-geary-brt-c...
I submitted this link 6 hours before the OP but it didn't gain much traction. I though Hacker News had a way to prevent double submissions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7772074
What does "due diligence" by laypeople for crypto providers look like? I don't understand where you're going with this.
Can't say I like iTunes at all, but my main reasons for liking Apple laptops are that it's Unix-based, light, and has good battery life. If Windows laptops were comparable and tossing Linux on them was painless, I'd consider it, but I haven't seen a laptop vendor come close.
I don't think he had an ulterior motive. I think he was young and had never had a negative career experience and therefore didn't realize what office politics were about and that, even if the execs seem like nice people, any information you furnish to them stands a nontrivial chance of being used in a horrible way.

In a collegial, sympathetic R&D type environment, people are happy when others improve their work. However, in an office environment, it's not the same thing, because you can hurt peoples' careers without even trying and unintentionally make enemies.
There is some great history here but I wish he were not so dismissive of BART. I complain about it all the time -- yes trains get delayed sometimes -- but in the big scheme of things BART is simply magnificent. There's nothing quite like it in the country -- a high speed inter-city under-water under-ground train system. New York has the LIRR to Long Island and the Acela to DC, but it's got nothing on BART.

Yes, BART "fails" to reach the North and South bay, because those areas withdrew from the project in the early 1960s. But it links the peninsula down to Milbrae, including SFO, and all of the East Bay into San Francisco. Soon Oakland airport via direct rail, too.

And yes, intra-city transit in SF needs fixing. The Muni Metro points the way. But as long as companies like Twitter are being handed tax breaks that's not going to happen. Subways require a lot of capital and maintenance. (You may notice NYC has an income tax.)
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Please excuse the typo.
I don't see it as an enhancement but rather a tradeoff. It's harder to focus on specific ideas when stoned but easier to build relations between ideas, both are equally important. I also find I easily diverge in depth on every concern of the problem at hand, which may or may not be useful depending on the time frame.

Being stoned is a state of mind halfway between dreaming where you subconsciously imagine everything and being awake where you consciously see everything. If you play music you already know this as being in "the zone". Over time you get a feel for this state of mind and can easily get back there without smoking.

I suspect people who feel anxious when high are those trying to control everything as if they were fully awake. The big paradigm shift comes when you learn to give up control of your own thoughts to your subconscious. Just like the musicians who try to control everything about how they play and end up thinking about what others might think instead of imagining the sounds they should be playing in the first place.

Weed can most definitely help with your work by changing your perspective over it and thus exposing new relations between ideas. But in doing so you will also get a new perspective on yourself. This in turn expose the mental barriers currently blocking your creativity and there lies the paradigm shift. Being creative is something we all do from birth but lose as we grow up depending on our life experiences. Being high is a ticket for introspection where you revisit what caused the barriers to exist in the first place, accept it and then move on to be freely creative.

You might also want to check out Effortless Mastery by Kenny Werner. He talks in depth about the psychology of our own mental barriers and how to overcome them.

If you think of weed as a magic thought enhancer, it's not. It's a magic introspection device and the results of that introspection is enhanced creativity.
I don't understand why the browser treats the script injection case differently than the blocking script tag case, insofar as blocking on CSSOM is concerned. Why doesn't the browser download the script right away and then just hold up executing it while the CSSOM finishes? I can't think of why it waits to download it.
I wish all other windows were this easy to resize. I could simply have an array of shortcuts for all the different browser window sizes I might want. It's a much better system, really. Thank you later? I'm thanking you right now! Thank you.
> It still seems that you can't for instance launch an executable that runs cigwin in the background.

[citation needed]

The corporate lawyers that I've talked to at my previous day jobs have told me that this is an obviously legal thing to do.
"I did write a compiler manual in 1958, which by chance was actually used as the textbook for one of my classes in 1959(!)"

How many people in the world could claim something similar?
One challenge here is that some services will mess with uploaded images. For example an image I created at one point for a puzzle got messed up because the image host was smart enough to figure out that multiple pallet entries were mapped to the same color and removed/remapped the redundant entries. This saved a ton of image size with no visual difference. Undecodable junk after the end of an image is also in the "can be safely removed" and so may not survive being transmitted via an image host or even email.
Normally you'll find that the urls are slightly different, but in this case they are exactly the same, which is strange.
Hacker News 2014: where empty, baseless Microsoft marketing regurgitation gets upvotes and actual statistics get downvotes.

Keep making enemies, Microsoft. That'll be a very effective strategy.
Sorry to be dense, but it is not quite clear to me how ownership of the last mile affords such leverage. It would seem that if you need to buy bandwidth for end users, you would be negotiating transit like anyone else - I'm clearly missing something.
Yeah -- "nonlinear" isn't wrong here, but a more precise term would be "superlinear" (or "disproportionate" or "super-proportionate"). IOW, what drives the result is that one worker with N hours does more than m workers each with N/m hours.

If you (bizarrely) had sub-linear ("under-proportionate") returns to hours worked -- like logarithmic or square root function -- then it would make sense to have as many workers as possible and work as little as possible.
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$200,000 seems low for a place like san fran. Unless you want to take on some serious mortgage debt.
Are you able to expand? I tend to agree but dont really know why or what / where the physical limits are. Is it the 4g etc tech that can't perform with real load or WiFi that will fall over? Is a mesh network an answer?
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I have problems using myfreecams.com for live adult video chat because of the high rate of packets being dropped.
I like that he explains it using car analogies.

> Instructions that have completed execution and have not yet been committed are analogous to cars that have gone through our hypothetical repair shop and are waiting for their owners to pick them up. However, all analogies break down, and the world of automobiles does not have a natural counterpart for the notion of speculative execution. That notion corresponds roughly to situations in which people are led to believe that their cars need a new piece of equipment, but they suddenly change their mind once they see the price tag, and they insist on having the equipment removed even after it has been partially or completely installed.
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If you buy a climbing harness because you're going to go mountain climbing and you can't tell a good one from a piece of junk then maybe you shouldn't be climbing on mountains, no matter what the maker of the product claims.

In the end, the responsibility for your life is yours and you can't outsource that. So looking over the product you buy is a minimum requirement for things that your life depends on, just going on claims absent independent verification of those claims is for want of a better word, terribly stupid.

By analogy, if you're say, some technically adept guy that decides to screw over the NSA just using a service because it claims to be secure is probably not a good idea. In cases like that you either do it yourself or you assume that you are taking a risk.

I can't really see Snowden, working for the NSA as a layperson in this context, just as I can't see a mountaineer as a layperson when it comes to evaluating mountaineering gear.

Case in point, I worked on some pretty high structures in the gray past and I've rejected multiple 'definitely good' safety harnesses and clamps simply because they did not pass my personal standard for quality of such important gear. If I had chosen to continue and used them, and something would have happened to me because of the device failing then I would have partly blamed myself.

If crypto is of life saving importance to you then you have to know at least enough to evaluate the service and if you can't do that then either you knowingly take a risk or you should probably not be doing what you plan on doing.

My personal take on anything internet related is that since I can't predict the near future (let alone the far one) I assume that anything stored on my computers will become public one day. I suppose that even the most secure implementation available to us today is only one bug away from being wide open after all. Call me pessimistic.

One last thing about lavabit, I can see at least one very obvious way in which lavabit could have been broken that would not require Levinson's cooperation at all (but would have required a lot more foresight on the part of the NSA). In a way it is reassuring that Levinson was able to do that he did, that lowers my estimate of the NSA being able to record and store at will considerably. After all, if they can't even afford to tap the ingoing and outgoing traffic of a service that offers secure email then either they are not very good in their target selection or their resources are spent on more interesting targets and so 'little fish' like Snowden can get away with their deeds. I'm pretty sure that that hole is now plugged and I would hope that the users of similar services now know that as soon as you hit 'send' your secret is no longer.
I've seen he old one many times, it just doesn't seem like the typing experience would be very good...try typing on a piece of cardboard....for example. A beefier keyboard is really needed for laptop usage, braced in somehow into the tablet. The new video isn't loading for me right now, but I'm in china so....

It's my preference to use a laptop on lap, and I don't have a problem with it using modern ultra books (like an X1).
It has been my experience that, whenever labour laws that are favourable to the employees/designed to protect the employees, someone will protest it because it can be abused by employees. Of course, laws that protect people can be abused; I don't doubt that there are people who are out to game the system for all it's worth. But how come they never consider the flip side of employee protection laws; that the employer has more opportunity to screw the employee over when there are little to no laws protecting the employee. Aren't employers just as corruptible as employees? And they're in a position of power, to boot. An example? One of the replies you got.

I suspect such attitudes are part of the whole mindset; corporations first, then the rest of us mooching, non-job-creators.
One doubt which I have is what if the servers are moved outside the United States to any other country? Would the agents still have rights to get access to it?
> if you had $500 billion to spend and you had to choose between overhauling the nation's education system (which desperately needs it) and providing better Internet access to people, which would you choose?

I don't think that is a hard choice at all. I've see what happens when the government tries to 'overhaul the education system', and it isn't pretty. I'd rather they stay out of that market and leave it to the local governments. Laying fiber on the other hand, that they may be able to accomplish.
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The calculations assume you're buying a house alone. If you have two income providers, the math is slightly more sane.
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Similar: the creation of an image that is it's own histogram.

http://www.ironicsans.com/2007/09/idea_the_histogram_as_the_...
Do these page performance optimizations check out across the modern browsers? Chrome and Firefox tend to implement such things differently. Not sure about Safari, IE11, etc.
totally agree. It might get you a home in the East Bay but no way you could find something in SF proper.