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Two ama's:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ypjd5/hi_reddit_iama_...

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1ztruj/iama_uberx_driv...
If security is important, you lose something in terms of getting shit done. It's up to you or your organization what the tradeoff is. Fun fact: At one company I worked at, it was a matter of security policy that every machine in the company run the Bit9 binary whitelisting software. Every. Single. One. Including all the dev machines. In addition, it was decided that valuable corporate assets such as source control be airgapped from the outside network, making it difficult to run a dev machine that could access both the repo and the Web where all your documentation is. But Security was determined to be Priority One at that company, so productivity had to take the hit. If you develop the tech ten times slower and with ten times greater annoyance to your engineers, that was a worthy price to pay for not having it stolen by scary foreign spear phishers.
They should mitigate the attack with a better action plan. DDOS are not new threats and the CIO is accountable. More annoying for paying customers like me. If my cable TV goes out, I would ask the cable company for some measure of compensation. If you're in the restaurant and order a steak, and the steak never arrives, would you still pay for it? Sure, the restaurant may have just been robbed, but I still want a refund.
it’s no surprise that hypertension, diabetes, cancer, obesity and cardiovascular disease are on the rise.

Did Brazilian diets change recently to include a bunch of meat? If not then "on the rise" should be surprising. If there was no change in diet and no change in diet related disease levels then it would be unsurprising. But changes in diet related diseases without a change in diet should be somewhat surprising or at least hint that some other factor has changed.
Right, but the large one weren't sold, IIRC. Xerox sold the smaller ones, not the Dorado. That was also why some users upgraded to the Lisp Machines from LMI, Symbolics and TI: they had larger address spaces and could run larger software.
No, the article makes it sound like Spain knew before even 1600, but used these maps as a political maneuver.

> Spanish authorities and local residents were well aware where the actual northern terminus of the Gulf of California lay, but by extending the coastline north past Cape Mendocino and eventually even into Puget Sound, Sir Francis Drake's claim of Nova Albion for England (1579) could be invalidated by the priority of Cortes' claim (1533)
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In capitalism, those that don't "win" the competition go bankrupt and die.

I can easily see scenarios [say inner city LA county] where the only options are "bad schools" and siphoning funds away from them while leaving the poorest that are stuck in Compton or the like, isn't going to work.

It has to provide for the poorest to get an education as good as those in richer areas.
So the words for a calculator (small electronic device used to do mathematics, usually arithmetic) and the word for computer (like a general purpose desktop computer, the thing that runs and OS like Apple OS X or Microsoft Windows 8) are the same? I'm assuming that you do have a different word for think though as you didn't mention that.

What about arvioida? Would that be used for compute?

This might be an instances where the Sapir Whorf hypothesis (linguistic relativity, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapir_Whorf) comes in to play. The idea would be that you don't consider computing and calculating to differ from thought because the [primary] language you use [or grew up using] doesn't make that differentiation.
There's a catch, of course -- always a catch: a truly nonvolatile memristor violates the Second Law of Thermodynamics. But see:

http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n4/abs/ncomms2784.ht... (open access)

The physics is (unsurprisingly) rather involved and I don't have time to decipher it, but, yeah, here's the guts.
I can definitively say, as someone who spends a lot of time doing email marketing... tracking opens and CTR's for gmail users absolutely still works.
> We humans are already destroying our forests as it is.

Not for wood. Forests for wood are actually larger than in the past. When forests are cleared it's for farmland, so this won't make any difference.
I tried web.archive.org/save/http://<url>, but I got 'Access Forbidden for URI http://lispm.de/symbolics-lisp-machine-ergonomics'. The site itself loads fine in both firefox and chromium, but doesn't work with wget/curl. Probably some protection against robots / automated downloaders.
Why not try it out on one city before spending a billion on the whole country? Too many large scale leaders insist on the grand "I'm sure it will work" idea before bothering to try it out on the small scale first.
Ask HN: Who are the most tech-savvy investors?
Always useful to know the investors with whom you can have a technical discussion without the whole encounter ending up weird and inevitably full of BS...

Mostly interested by SV but anywhere else is still very interesting.
My first full stack project – a recommendation engine for web tools
Hm, how would this memristor stuff connect to the system? Will it look like a memory controller or more like PCI-e flash?
The site is a little thin on details and internals. I would be very interested to learn more about how they handle failovers whilst still guaranteeing "strong consistency".
Also important to know is what is the average income of those surveyed. If those surveyed were 50%+ in developing countries, but 90%+ of purchasers are in the US, then there's obviously funky data there.
Bamboo has some uses, but it doesn't replace even a fraction of what wood is used for.
The credit card number can be read from the demo video
Bullshit. It's perfectly possible to get warrants to track down the bad guys in a case like this. No surveillance state needed.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ziobrando/status/2896350607585075...
Hackers blackmailing Feedly for money
Are there any compelling reasons to not avoid latex packaging and installing by using an online tool like sharelatex.com or writelatex.com ? They always seem up to date on latex packages and have a wide variety. I'm admittedly a latex-noob so I've only used it to create a few slides with beamer.
Skip the queue by clicking on the character, Fred, on the homepage :)
The Color Purple
>If it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and you can't tell the difference between it and a duck, it's a duck. //

Just because you can't tell that something is false, or perhaps just can't elucidate the reason, doesn't make it true.
Un-metered data in Germany as well. Only the speed gets throttled when I reached my quota. This is not much of a problem with so many open wifi access points around these days.
Current hardware wouldn't contemplate supporting only a single, oddball (even then) language.

(Although the C spec is carefully written to allow C-on-Lisp - e.g. by making it illegal to compare pointers not pointing to the same array, allowing a C-"object"-per-Lisp-object implementation - real C code tends to make assumptions.)
Hm, good point about the refund. But I don't think it's reasonable to expect every company to prepare for massive DDoS attacks. The amount spent on mitigation should be proportional to expected loss.
In places like Brazil and Italy it is normal and expected in the US it is not.
Want to pose the question:

Is it a bad thing to have your open and clicks "tracked" by an email marketer?

Yes and No.

It depends who the marketer is. If it's a spammer, then the answer is no, it's not good.

However, if it's a company you signed up for their email list, then you want tracking. You want them to send you advert's that you are actually interested in. You want them to not waste you time (and inbox space) with advert's that you will never be interested in. You also want them to send you engaging, funny, provocative emails that don't annoy you.

These things can only happen if the marketer knows what people are clicking on and what type of content is the most engaging.
The tone is excellent. Anyone unable to read for that reason, is among the least able to implement the ideas. (More likely to sabotage these ideas.)
How does it compare? Well, the major events were:

- Ben rudely rejected a commit

- Ben rudely reverted a commit and rudely chided Isaac

- Joyent rudely chided Ben

- Ben explained that there had been a misunderstanding and expressed that his feelings were hurt

Although Joyent's post rubbed me the wrong way, I have trouble seeing why you'd hate them forever for being rude to a contributor when you won't hate Ben forever for being rude and flippant toward multiple contributors. I don't think defining Ben by this incident the way Bryan did is reasonable, but I don't think defining Joyent by this incident is any more reasonable. It's one incident in the past, not a trend in either of their cases. People are imperfect.
I just moved to California, I definitely feel like I'm on an island.
This presentation has an absurd amount of spin.

It extensively discusses OpenSolaris, without raising the most important issue there: taking an unwanted and unloved project and making it open will not suddenly turn it into a good project everyone wants to use. Sun seemed to think that people would flock to Solaris, without realizing the exceptionally high bar for any non-Linux POSIX OS to take any mindshare from Linux; OpenSolaris didn't even manage to match the success of BSD, let alone Linux.

The anti-copyleft discussion comes out of the same bitterness. Sun intentionally made OpenSolaris non-GPL-compatible, almost certainly because they didn't want Linux to adopt code from it; who would want to run OpenSolaris if all the interesting bits of it run on Linux instead? Copyleft is not obsolete; it'd be fair to say that some substantial communities exist around non-copyleft software (for instance, Android, or Ruby modules), but that's not the same thing. In any case, the lesson is "don't use a license incompatible with the GPL".

Counting lines of code under various licenses is not a particularly useful metric, unless you take usage and mindshare into account. And counting code under GPL-compatible licenses will still show that the vast majority of FOSS code retains compatibility with the GPL. (Apart from an island of Apache code, compatible with GPLv3 but not GPLv2.)

MPL is not a particularly good recommendation: it's GPLv3 compatible, but not GPLv2 compatible. If you want a weaker copyleft than the GPL, use the LGPL.

Advocating a contributor agreement is a bad idea. Anything more heavyweight than "Signed-off-by", especially something requiring a signed contract, adds a significant barrier to contribution. At least this presentation doesn't recommend copyright assignemnt, though.

Dual-licensing is a completely reasonable business model, and it doesn't require spreading FUD. The dual-licensing model just boils down to "free for FOSS software, pay us for proprietary software"; simple as that, unless you consider copyleft itself a problem as this presentation seems to.

The bits about competitive paranoia and about forking/control do make sense, and provide useful advice that more projects need to follow.
From the description it sounds as if this provides synchronous replication. How does this work in a WAN environment?
At least Apple didn't divest from ARM after the closure of Newton.
Symbolics sold ISO Pascal, C, Ada, Prolog and Fortran compilers for it.

I've used TeX and the original MIT X11 server on a Lisp Machine.
Ah, I was interrupted as I read the article and that info was a couple paragraphs later.

That is awesome! Hopefully it also nudges Google to audit their properties for similar leakages to plug....and everyone else for that matter.
We don't know that they drive 70 hours per week. That was made up by the author. The author is fixated on the 10 mph in Manhattan when we know that Uber drivers have more flexibility on time and geography (they do drive outside of Manhattan, of course).

The car still provides for 100% of the owners personal driving needs so completely inappropriate to allocate all costs to "business".
I agree with this comment.

Very often founders underestimate how much hard work, resources, and calendar time are required to make their company successful. They also overestimate the absolute value of the return. Typically, building a revenue stream is a slow organic process that takes quite a while until it can support one, not to mention several, co-founders.

If you have a cash buffer, go ahead and quit your job. But even then, don't do it without a plan of how much time (or how much of that buffer) you're ready to spend on your startup. Be specific.

Unless you can already smell money, accept that you will make 0 for months to years. And then you'll be making chump change for more months to years. Can you afford this?
One more data point, this one from Santa Catarina, where my gf lives with her single mom, they're definitely not upper class but eat meat about twice a day.
I tried MapsWithMe, but those are only maps, no navigation.

If you use Android, check out OsmAnd. It uses the same OSM maps, has navigation (with voice pack too) and it's free for up to 8 countries IIRC. I have been using it for about three months and it works pretty good.

The only problem I found is that city names for some countries are in local language, so if you go to Greece for example, you would have to type in the names in Greek letters. It they fixed this, it would be perfect.
"With all due respect" sigh

I might have gone overboard with "thousands of _awesome_ packages", but the CTAN I'm looking at lists 4706 packages from around 2000 authors. I'm not sure how you determined that most of these are redundant and/or obsolete. At least MacTex seems to ship with quite a lot of them (2.3G with 600M optionals).

> I would be willing to bet that the overwhelming majority of users can get by with less than 50 packages.

When did I claim that this is not the case? Less then 50 packages yes, but not the same packages for all users.. Many packages for many different use-cases.

> Statements like this are terrible for latex adoption

Yeah sure, because the people here at HN will think "Oh no if there are thousands of packages I will need to learn _all of them_ before writing my first document.

I'd say that what's terrible for LaTeX adoption is that it's terrible annoying to write...
Your insurance carrier can likely deny claims (of all sorts) if they find out you were doing livery with a personal vehicle. They all likely ask, directly, do you use your vehicle for work? There will also be a related or subsequent question about the number of miles driven. Are you going to say 40k and it's all "personal"?

If you get a liability claim from an Uber user to your adjuster... they should be able to deny your claim.

A lie on your insurance application is an easy denial path for the carrier. Oh, and they'll accept your premium during that time. It's playing with fire.
Likely my basic understanding of memristors they require a certain ramp time. So I don't think it'll replace cache.
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But owner has use of car for 100% of personal needs. Only incremental devaluation/expenses should be included, imo (if we're trying to be fair and reasonable, or course).
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Last time I asked a driver if Uber was better than X: he told me that 20 to 30% of people calling for a ride with the regular system don't show up.
"Once most insurance companies catch on to the fact that people are paying for regular insurance and then operating essentially a taxi service, they'll add clauses to their contracts specifically forbidding it..."

My car insurance policy has prohibited using the car for commercial purposes for as long as I can remember. There are also probably state laws requiring commercial drivers to carry commercial insurance, just as it requires them to have a different class of drivers license.
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Did you consider religious schools? Catholic schools are ubiquitous and tend to dramatically pull down the average.

According to stats collected at http://www.edreform.com/2012/04/k-12-facts/ :

AVERAGE DISTRICT PUBLIC SCHOOL PER PUPIL EXPENDITURE: $13,041

AVERAGE PRIVATE SCHOOL TUITION: $8,549

AVERAGE CATHOLIC SCHOOL TUITION: $6,018
There is nothing wrong, except I feel I shouldn't have to remember to make sure I do a \<space> after commands instead of just a space. Why should I have to remember where to put <space> and where to put \<space>, that's what computers are for!
I've been lyfting full time for 4 months now, I estimate my annualized income at around 45k, not 90k. It's still better than being a postdoc. (less hours, more gross pay)

Incidentally, at 4 months, I've already put on 30k miles, although ~25% of that is personal and of the remainder, 50% are profitable, 50% are not.

I drive a honda insight (35 mpg while lyfting) and including maintenance, I estimate operational costs to be around $0.30/mi, my average income floats between $1 and $1.5/mi. I also get a $0.55/mi federal tax income deduction, which means that about a third to a quarter of my income will not be taxable... I consider that to be a reward for having the foresight to purchase a hybrid years ago.
Knowing nothing at all about investing, this looks pretty awesome. I wish they could provide a global service, being outside of the US.

What are the limitations of using a platform like this to buy shares and what would the limitations be on their side to be US only?
That's assuming you already have a file and know how big it should be. Or does it take the whole space for one file, and every program on the computer shares the space?
Do you believe a perfect simulation of a human mind would result in something with an identical behavior to that of the person whose mind we're simulating? yes or no.

If yes, do you disagree that both are conscious? If you do, then you're contradicting the assumption in the question (that identical behavior implies identical properties). If no, then, again, you're contradicting the assumption in the question. You think consciousness is not determined by behavior. Ok, then what determines whether or not something is conscious?
I'm not sure if ride-sharing (in the actual, non-bullshit notion of the word) would count as raising prices though.

It would increase per-driver revenue, certainly, but probably decrease Uber revenue fairly significantly. Taxi services, whether in the old fashioned way our the glitzed-up smartphone way, are pretty commodity.

The success of budget competitors like Lyft and Sidecar is testament to this. The perpetual expansion of UberX too. It seems most people are more concerned about getting from A to B cheaply than any kind of premium lap-of-luxury service.

A ride-splitting service would be pretty great for consumers and maybe for drivers, but from Uber's side it would be a pretty substantial price cut.
>a typical navigation device will store all the maps for all of Europe

Yeah but it won't also have several GB of games, audio, apps and photos on it as well. People would cry bloody murder if they found out google was using 7 GB of space to cache the world map by default.

If you are a person who needs a world map at their fingertips there are apps for that but the average person just needs google maps to figure out what turn the should take occasionally.
I don't know what OP meant, but I've found booktabs to be essential for making attractive tables. The package manual is pretty informative: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/booktab...
I really appreciated this story. It's so hard to make people care about "small" data leaks when they have no idea what many "small" data leaks can lead to. The bug the journalists discovered that revealed Skype's contact list is the perfect example -- the programmer just did something completely "reasonable" (grabbing avatars) that ended up leaking a vital set of information. Imagine if surveillance was your full time job and you did more than just grab the low hanging fruit.

I was also quite surprised by Google's HTTP Maps flaw in HTTPS search. I'd have previously imagined this would be a standard security pentest that Google products would need to go through. Given how pervasive and important Google is to the digital ecosystem, even small flaws can have a profound impact.

I'll again state that this is why I feel so strongly that Google Analytics should be updated to be HTTPS by default[1]. If you hit a non-HTTP site, you're leaking all the information you would send to Google Analytics to anyone that's listening -- it goes across the wire unencrypted. Considering Google Analytics is on 60+% of the top 100,000 domains, this is a lot of information leakage. Referrers, time on page, browser details, operating system details, everything that Google shows a webmaster in Google Analytics also ends up in the hands of the passive observer.

[1]: http://smerity.com/articles/2013/google_analytics_and_nsa.ht...
It's amusing to see how much skepticism Uber seems to generate. Apparently it's super-hard to understand how a tech company could possibly do something better than the decades old taxi industry, and that the resulting business could have major network effects.
Will it be able to drive itself? Or think?
The footnotes seem to be missing.
> What we are looking for is a relative measure of the complexity between each genome. The upper bound will not necessarily give us this relative measure because it may not be able to compress the genetic code of organisms by the same factor. The compressibility of a particular genome, by a specific algorithm will be dependent on the method of encoding of information used by the organism. For instance the organism may repeat codes for redundancy, but it may permute the letters of the copy in a predictable way, for it's own reasons. The compression algorithm used will not pick up on this.

It may or may not. But an upper bound is still an upper bound, and turns out to be usable for many purposes.
You can buy a replica of the original first edition Encyclopedia Brittanica, and it's full of interesting tidbits like how California is a "land in the West Indies. It is unknown whether it be an island or a peninsula."

It's also a great example of either optimism or poor planning at the start of a major project: the three volumes are N-Z, C-M, A-B. The first volume does however have very in depth sections on accounting and anatomy (not as different as you'd expect). They did lose steam by the end, all they have to say about women is "the female of man".

http://store.britannica.com/products/052700000
I got a 4. Pretty terrible result for somebody as young as I am, but I suppose myopia and the the spectral aberration caused by eyeglasses makes it harder to distinguish colors.

http://i.imgur.com/uLRW0YI.png
What's with the scare quotes in the headline?
Sorry but this article and "movement" are a bunch of bullshit. People have always been in control of when they look at their computers or phones. If all your apps are notifying you too much, fix it in the settings, or uninstall them. Is this really a real problem people have in their lives?

If so just put away the phone and put some of that extra money towards making others lives better; there are lots of people that need it, that don't have the income or influence to solve those problems on their own. Have some perspective in how you spend your money!