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It's not quite a Canary, but the privacy policy has the line, "it's theoretically possible for Q Branch to read the decrypted note text or view image data, we don't have a mechanism in place to do that."

Presumably, that line will disappear if they create such a mechanism.

I'm super, super excited about the Vesper update, and can't wait for the OS X app to role out. I use vesper as my sole note taking app on my iPhone - it really is elegant, easy to use, and requires very little cognitive overhead to hop into.

On my Laptop, it's all evernote, but, as much as I use it (2-3 hours a day, all meetings) - I've never really loved it. It's got a lot of crud, and upselling stuff that overwhelms me when I'm trying to just enter a new set of meeting notes.

Love the way the Vesper team does stuff slowly, deliberately, and beautifully. If only all software was crafted with that much deliberation. Artisanal Software.
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Surgery without surgery? Whats that? The second option I believe is standard LASIK. Since I do sports, I'd be at risk of having a flap dislodged, so I have to do PRK, where they remove the cornea by brush and the cells regenerate on their own.
I would happily buy a DRM free copy of his books directly, but I can't.
This is a ridiculous statement. Only around 15% of the country is uninsured and only a small percentage of that number would be "dying" at any given time. Most people in that number are young and relatively healthy. There aren't huge masses of people dying in the streets from treatable diseases and if that's what you believe, you ought to go outside more often.

Regardless, as I've repeatedly said, I'm not arguing for the status quo. The status quo is bad. We do not have a free market currently. If we decoupled health insurance from employers, provided subsidies to the poor, elderly, and our veterans, and removed ridiculous restrictions that prohibit purchase of insurance across state lines we would be well along the way to having a system with universal coverage without the drawbacks of central planning.

This isn't "ignorant Fox News bullshit". Central planning has been repeatedly tried and proven to be less successful than the market mechanism we trust with every other sector of our economy. We simply can't anticipate supply and demand as efficiently as humans as the market (as a force of interacting people) can. I'm not trying to spew some reactionary propaganda - for Christ's sake, I'm advocating the government give people subsidies to help them get insurance in this proposed truly free market. Free market doesn't mean no government or even no government regulation.

The claim that I'm brainwashed carries significantly less weight when you've ignored my comments up and down this thread.
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Trivializing someone's experiences by dismissing them as crying might not be the way to go. It doesn't seem like you're arguing against anything at all. Comments like the one you responded to are some of the most important, because (a) they're from direct experience, (b) people rarely talk about the topic, (c) they're thorough and substantive and present their opinion well.

The last thing the world needs is to mock people for speaking up.
>And what would be the advantage of the seats facing a different way?

In a four seater, two seats forward and two seats back, for conversations. With only two seats, there is little benefit except for a head on collision.
Wow, I use Google like, a lot.
You "invent" when you extend the interpretation of "geometric transformation by scaling" to "geometric transformation in general." You're saying "believe me it works" when you do that. It's just as arbitrary, but you just don't see it that way because somehow geometry on a line and geometry in the plane are more difficult to distinguish than square roots of positive and negative numbers.

Why can't people relate to the question of negative square roots? Students ask this question all the time, along with why we can't divide by zero and what happens when you do 0^0. Rather than address their questions, you're telling then, "Now you have to think about multiplication as a geometric scaling (why? just do it, it's 'natural'), and now we get to add rotations because... it's interesting, believe me!" There is more hocus pocus in that than you're willing to admit.

The problem here is: can we have square roots of negative numbers, and the natural definition arising from an attempt to answer it in the positive is i. It's way more obvious to just declare something to be the square root of a negative number than to try to rack your brain for clever geometric transformations. We do this in mathematics all the time: if we don't know what the roots of a polynomial are, we just denote them by a letter and see what we can deduce about them. If you don't know whether something exists, you suppose it does and either arrive at a contradiction or don't.

Plenty of math is invented without motivation. I see it happen all the time. In fact, people will often give a problem or definition motivation after the fact to try to sell it better! I also see this happen regularly, and it all starts with "let's invent." Your gripe seems to be that you do always want the teacher to have the answer, and that every interesting pattern must follow from a non-arbitrary motivation. This is just not how mathematics works.
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Sorry, not a shill. Just expressing an opinion. (Sadly I can't prove it as it is probably what a shill would say)
In NYC, at least, taxis and for-hire vehicles are exempt from car seat laws: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/faq/faq_pass.shtml#9
I didn't realize Amazon.com's valuation was $143 billion. I thought the 10 billion figure was relevant since they included it...
I live in a mega city where taxis are cheap so I take the daily and avoid owning my own car. The big deal will be in cities like mine where parking is rare and expensive if found at all, while roads are extremely congested. Self driving cars solve the parking problem (which admittedly, taxis do today) + can use road bandwidth much more efficiently (which taxis cannot). In the end, I see all of these factors destroying personal car ownership in big cities. Now:

Cleanliness: this is an issue in taxis already. Sometimes I get into a taxi without window handles, but that is the government's doing.

Style: expressing yourself through your car sounds like a very American thing. Much of the world is not America, to say the least.

Status: this is the biggie where I live: those with money have to show off their Audi TT's and BMWs. Perhaps they will still own their cars, just like they do today (whereas many people just rely on taxis).

Practicality: my city already does not allow outsiders to enter within the 5th ring road during working hours (7AM to 7PM), while their is a lottery for "owning" a car with 20-1 odds per cycle. I can imagine that there will just be different vehicles for the country-side vs. the cities: the latter will be automated while the former won't be. You can own your country-side car if you want, but you can't drive it inside the 5th ring road given traffic unless it has a self-driving mode (to optimize traffic).
The day publishers like Hachette start selling their publications directly and unencumbered by DRM is the day Amazon will slowly start losing their leverage. (And get me as a customer.)

Sure, it will take a while, but that's only because these publishers have spent the last two decades sitting on their asses counting their money whilst Amazon ate their lunch.

I don't subscribe to the doctrine "disruption = good", but publishers are part of the fat and lazy copyright exploitation industry that truly deserved to be disrupted.

If Amazon tried to stop Hachette from competing that would be a different matter. But they are handing Amazon this leverage simply because they still can't be arsed to innovate themselves.
Because sometimes "We offered x and they refused" looks like a he-said-she-said scenario. Amazon are demonstrating that the offer is still on the table, and the ball is entirely in Hachette's court.
Title is "No, this Aussie startup did not just sell for US $73 billion"
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I moved from YVR to SFO a couple years ago. Buying a house in either city is expensive. However, my rent doubled when I moved. If I had chosen to live in San Francisco itself my rent would have been even higher. Parts of Vancouver are more expensive than parts of San Francisco but if you compare similar neighborhoods Vancouver will almost always end up cheaper.

Transportation costs in the Bay Area are also much higher than the GVRD. Parking in San Francisco costs a fortune and public transit is a mess. You can get a three zone bus pass in Vancouver for far less than I spent each month on BART and the Caltrain. Because there's only one transit company that bus pass is good everywhere. In SFO you need passes for each service. BART doesn't do monthly passes and if you need to go to Oakland bring cash. Your clipper card isn't good there.

If I was looking at equal compensation there is no way I'd choose to live in SFO.
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Right, the point would be to not require a bunch of scripts to tie into an online service to generate a font. Instead you just do it all locally at build time.
I know a lot of folks who get car sick sitting backwards in busses.
Amazon's revenue is only 7% books, or about $5B. Then again, Hachette is just a part of a conglomerate and is not itself a $10B company and may be way smaller than that. Regardless of the nitpicking of who is the bigger fish, both companies are well-equipped with clever people, bankrolls, and influence to fight this one out.
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I thought the self-sustaining bit (which is a terrible description) referred to the increase in space junk over time, compared to the period over which they were saying it was in decline (prior to people getting interested in blowing stuff up in space).
Cheers for this! Would have saved me so much grief before. Now going around and installing it on the servers I manage (fortunately nothing mission critical, but many remote).
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I am assembling a team of sharp individuals to design and develop an application that can be used to render PDFs in a browser with zero loss of fidelity (this is important as many of my use cases deal with TeX) and functions to annotate and markup the document. Markup could be collaborative.<p>The tools available in the marketplace are subpar at best - let's raise the bar and give people tools they're actually excited to use :-)<p>Some potential components: https://github.com/coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid https://github.com/openannotation/annotator https://github.com/hyperstudio/Annotation-Studio https://developers.google.com/drive/realtime/overview http://quilljs.com/<p>Find me on Skype at tom.p.griffin or you may email me at innovation@ieee.org. Looking forward to speaking with you and seeing how you can help :) :) :)
One question I'm curious about is whether or not we will shift to having seats in a different configuration such as having people sit facing each other. Furthermore I'm curious what factors will contribute to one configuration over another.

factors that may matter:
(1) safety

(2) situational interaction (meeting, road trip with family)

(3) social norms (what are we used to. e.g. the french sit next to each other in cafes, but americans sit across from each other)

(4) motion sickness

(5) ???
pip install waitress

Is a good choice when you need a little more oomph but not nginx.
I don't need to be told that proper handling of Unicode is important. I know it's important.

I also don't need to be told that defaults are important. I know they're important.

But it is still a minor improvement under the scope of a ~6 year migration that has been absolute hell to everyone involved. Under any other circumstance, I'd be right there with you saying It's A Really Good Thing, but if we have to pay this high of a cost for it, then the improvement here looks pretty meh to me.

If you want to insist on evaluating this on some absolute scale irrespective of its cost, then I don't want anything to do with that.

Finally, one might argue that whether this is actually minor or not is irrelevant. What's relevant is that a boatload of people perceive the delta between Python 2 and Python 3 to be incredibly small, and yet, the amount of work to migrate is dauntingly large. There's a discrepancy there regardless of whether you disagree with others' valuations of the improvements in Python 3.
Looks like it has no trunk, which is a huge use case for self-driving cars. How many trips do you make just to move things around? How much of what you own would you rather rent if you could have it delivered within 15 minutes? Then there's the economics of prepared meal delivery... I'll be surprised if passengerless cars don't outnumber passenger cars in 20 years.

As for moving people, a significant part of city bus fares goes to driver salaries. And other vehicles tend to avoid buses / don't rely on making eye contact with bus drivers. And buses follow predefined routes. So it's surprising to me that Google is going for private cars instead of city buses as a first market.
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Well, by that logic the record studios were proxies for musicians. Sorry, not buying that argument.

If I were Stross I'd certainly be peeved at the loss of access to customers and, by extension, income. Especially if I were obligated by contract to stay with a publisher on the outs with Amazon. But arguing that Amazon's endgame is to put him out of business seems a stretch. We're still in the early stages of the ebook publishing disruption and I suspect that as with music, direct commercial channels between producers and consumers is the future.
It will be good if we can see these cars tested on the streets here in India. India is an amazing test bed for this kind of an application. Narrow roads, haphazard traffic, undisciplined crowd and driver behavior, kids playing on the roads, obstructions, potholes, animals on the roads etc etc.

This will make an amazing place to test this set up.

Plus India is an amazing business opportunity, given the overall scale of the economy here.
Just wait 'til someone finds a zero day for Otis equipment that lets you turn an elevator into a remote control assassination tool. Facial recognition is good enough that if you had the right systems in play you could automate the whole kill chain from identification to placement to action.

And here's the thing; it's a tool that's most effective against the midlist, the strivers, the up and coming execs and entrepreneurs who can't afford a real security detail yet. If you start hearing a lot of stories about promising young execs dying by weird household and office mishaps that could involve automated machinery ( like burned to death by scalding water from a dishwasher, electrocutions, garage doors closing at inopportune moments or such.)... you might be seeing traces of an organized campaign.

Just something to think about next time you step into a hotel elevator...
I was one of the lucky people to participate in Patient Zero, their first run through of this concept. It was thrilling.
Not every single search engine will be able to scale a JS virtual machine for all the pages they need to index. There are also social network bots that you might like supporting such as Facebook and Twitter which will not be able to crawl javascript either.

At any case, if you want to have a solution to this SEO problem now, I created SnapSearch (https://snapsearch.io)
I own several Kindles. I load my own content onto them, including ebooks I make myself. Owning a Kindle simply does not lock you into buying books from Amazon.
I just use it to proxy my static resources.
Looks like there is a bag compartment for had luggage where the dashboard normally is. The size of the thing does not suggest it's built for heavy lifting, I'm sure there will be models for that too.. maybe even the same with the passenger seats ripped out. When the car self-drives, you don't need the driver anymore to get stuff around. This really opens possibilities.

The first prototype might not be the be-all-end-all thing, but it makes me confident that they don't try to design that on the first go.
Note, if your crypto.pbkdf2() is using SHA1 underneath, then 1,000 interations of SHA1 is very little computation for a GPU, which can do billions of SHA1 per second.

Also, asking for 32 bytes from PBKDF2-HMAC-SHA1 has some bad side-effects, particularly if you are splitting up the result. (1Password got bitten by this, and wrote up the issue here: http://blog.agilebits.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/playing...)
duckduckgo is mainly a meta search engine (relies on search API of Yahoo that relies itself on Bing, Yandex, etc.). Plus it shows some related snippets from Wikipedia and other data-sources.

Several well known web search engines are now defunct or switched to meta-search business (like Yahoo with Bing data).

There are only a few international/world-wide search engines with a crawler:

Google, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, Gigablast, (Archive.org/Wayback Machine)
I use PayPal every day nearly. I like Stripe, Square not so much. I don't know, the people that seem to complain about PayPal are people who take donations but aren't registered non-profits and even if PayPal was evil, I doubt any of these boycotts have made a difference.

Stripe exists because they have a really awesome API and they make refunds super easy without penalties.

Square exists because Jack Dorsey is able to drum up a lot of VC money and engineering talent from followers of his personality cult. Not a lot of profitable business though, apparently.
Nginx 1.7.1 adds syslog support
Here's also the error_log: http://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#error_log

And the changelog: http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES
Thanks - I had no idea that I could purchase books from Amazon.com that did not have DRM. This even more strengthens the responsibility for DRM to be on the publishers hands - simply by eliminating the DRM from their books, I could purchase their books from any publisher, and read them on any device - which would eliminate my need to go to Amazon for a new book.

I wonder how much discussion has gone on with the publishers about eliminating DRM on their content. The music publishers certainly went that way...
Unfortunately the only way to get type errors statically right now is to run `hh_client` at the command line (see http://docs.hhvm.com/manual/en/install.hack.bootstrapping.ph...) -- this is what vim-hack will do for you. HHVM will only report type errors that it can see at runtime, which won't catch the edge cases or error cases you didn't think to test, which kind of defeats the purpose of having the static type system. For a really simple integration, you can do `watch hh_client` in a second window, which will run the checker every 3 seconds, configurable, see `man watch`.

This separation is different than many other languages, and lots of folks have found it confusing. It largely exists for technical reasons, and we should be able to have a better UX for end users; this is something I've been thinking a lot about and want to try to improve in the language going forward. (I work full-time on the Hack team.) Please do give it a shot and let us know how it goes!
Well he didn't say it would make a difference, he just said he isn't dealing with Amazon.
Gnumeric isn't bad, I've been using that. It supposedly has 100% coverage of Excel functions.

But sure, it's a GTK app and so it looks more like Office 2003 than Office 2010.
I'm not mocking the person and I appreciate his post, I am simply fed up with having to keep track of all the things I am supposed to be boycotting right now though. I do apologize if what I said came across as mocking. I'm just saying boycotting does nothing. Voting with your purse is about as effective at getting what you want as voting at the polls.
Why not go the whole hog and just shuttle people to whichever house has an open bed for the night? With some smart scheduling software, you could ensure that families get shuttled to the same location.
HHVM enforces the checks purely dynamically as it actually executes code. There's a totally separate tool that does the full static type analysis. See my sibling comment for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7808586
Thanks, I'll place Blindsight by Peter Watts in my queue.
What a stunningly off-topic, irrelevant comment.
The problem will not solve itself if it's ignored. All the current calculations of future positions of course include the effects of the changes of the orbits.
> If they manage to force publishers out of the picture, they will force writers to reduce their income as far as they can push it. Which in a world without publishers is very, very far.

This seems an odd statement to me. It implies that publishers pay authors well only because publishers are inherently nice guys. Isn't it more likely that publishers pay authors well because authors deliver the goods, and would not otherwise?

If Amazon was the publisher, why wouldn't Amazon also pay a bestselling author well in order to entice that author to produce more/better books, which Amazon can make more money off of?
> We’ve tried to make it as easy and simple as possible to use. Here’s how it works. First, you create a Vesper Sync account using an email address and a password. Then, your Vesper data — the text of your notes, your image attachments, your tags, everything — syncs to our cloud service. Sign in using the same account on another device, and your Vesper data will appear on that device.

> That’s it.

I don't get why it's mentioned as something special - isn't it how it usually works? Dropbox, OneNote, OneDrive, Google Drive, anything? You create account, sign in, bam you have your data synced.
Thank you for doing the right thing and having the courage to own up to your mistake.
Can you elaborate on these incompatibilities, particularly generators? I work on the project and the only generator incompatibility I know of is that what PHP5 calls "Generator" we call "Continuation", but only since we haven't gotten around to renaming ours yet :) I'm also pretty sure HHVM supports 5.6 variadic functions in PHP code, or will very soon; the Hack typechecker currently does not, but that is strictly a missing feature, and something we do want to support.
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Total Google searches: 63500

I wish there is good api to scrape search hist for analysis..
Yeah but what's left for you?write a web app for firefox os maybe.

Apple created Ios,Google Android.While Android is more open(you dont have to sell your app through Play),both vendors own their respective plateform,even Microsoft wants to adopt that model.Things will not get more open in the future,definetly less and less open.It always works like that.
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You know what I would love to see as a solution to dealing with this threat:

A clearinghouse where everyone could register to receive every report from every company collecting information on you, then a regulation that requires all companies collecting and brokering information about you have a legal obligation to send you all the information they have on you and keep you updated of changes, and a report profiling the customers that bought that info on you.

I doubt this market it going away, so the least we could do if require this industry to keep us informed of the information on us and how it's used.
For a man struggling years with Matlab/Octave and Scilab, I decided one year ago that Python3 is better. And never looked back even if packages had a delay in catching up. Julia is good. I will re-evaluate in 1-2 years.