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> To be honest, the one I perceive (as a straight, white, middle-class, educated male) larger is the misandristic one. As a person who strives to be good and helpful to every human being equally, regardless of race, gender, orientation or whatever, I get everyday on the Internet and I get flooded by articles and comments saying that everything I do or think is misogynistic, wrong and overprivileged.

This is just another not-all-men complaint. Certainly if you are a man who doesn't do the things someone is complaining about, then you have nothing to worry about. Unless, of course, the things you are doing on the internet are wrong and misogynistic, in which case people are sending you articles and comments for a reason.
I use Lastpass. I just logged in online and can see all my passwords so it doesn't seem terribly secure. I there was key-logging malware on my machine it could have got my master password and hence all my passwords off Lastpass. It seems handy for all the crap passwords but I would not want to rely on it for anything that lets people nick money. Unless I'm missing something...
I didn't provide the link...Try reading usernames
The main goal would eventually be to require by law that all communications become privy to the government agencies, and outlawing any non-identifiable communications.

This way they'll be able to maintain some argument of 'democracy', while being able to identify any threats to their usurpation by democratic means.
"as soon as you enable any interesting advanced features the performance will drop"

This is highly insightful for OPs original question:

"Is it possible to just scale up the hardware"

In 1999 I was doing NAT and simple stateful firewall and some stereotypical appliance functions (DHCP, DNS, NTP) on a 25 MHz 486 desktop repurposed into my firewall and when maxing out the 1 meg dsl line I was running around 20% CPU, so I estimated the hardware wouldn't be limiting until 5 megs or so. I've upgraded a couple times since then.

Then again if you enable enough logging and packet inspection you can probably kill a brand new top of the line server on a 56K SLIP connection with one user.

There are certain pitfalls... at a glance comparing my 486 first firewall to a modern rasp pi, the pi should win, but the pi connects ethernet over its usb with pretty icky limits and latency. So my old 25 MHz 486 would probably crush a rasp pi acting in that role despite the orders of magnitude disparity in CPU speed.

In summary based on lots of experience, the variation in what you're trying to do, influences the "power" required, by several orders of magnitude more than the speed of the connection or number of users.

There is an interesting analogy in supercomputing that no matter how big the machine its not much of a challenge to submit an algo that scales poorly such that a modest appearing increase can crush it, see traveling salesman problem etc. In a similar way you could probably run a firewall on an embedded 486 appliance, although it would be trivial to configure a fw to absolutely crush a top of the line modern server no matter how much money was spent on it.
> While there are certainly plenty of examples of abuse of knowledge, I tend to think of most "tracking" not as "stalking" but as "relationship building."

Not to accuse you of anything, but I would imagine that this is what most stalkers think, as well.
Their FAQ says it's available in Finland
Keep in mind that for the dealers, this is a life or death existential fight. If Tesla wins, the other car manufacturers aren't far behind.

For Tesla, it's not significantly more important to their success than overcoming general disinterest in electric cars, figuring out how to manufacture batteries for less money, or any of its other business challenges.
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Entertainment is a necessity. It has always been this way. From the Colosseum of Rome to Shakespearean theatres to television.
People need it to relieve stress.

A little money is still money.
That's hilarious! As soon as I saw that diagram, I knew how to read it. I write recipes I copy off the internet onto paper in a similar format. List of ingredients, along with a word or two about what to do with them, draw a line next to the whole grouping and an arrow into the next step where that result is used.
You think that's a lot of taxes? You haven't been to Uruguay, we have more than 200% taxes.

Example:

Citroen DS4 in Denmark, 274.000 kr (U$ 39.000)

Citroen DS4 in Uruguay, U$ 49.000

Supposedly Malasya is the 2nd most expensive country to buy cars in the world, and the Citroen DS4 is priced at RM 149,888 - U$ 47.000 (still less than in Uruguay)

and in Norway, the most expensive in Europe, it costs kr 283,900 (U$ 45900).

I think the only place more expensive than Uruguay is Singapore.

Sources:

http://autobuzz.my/2014/06/citroen-ds4-1-6-turbo-a-dashing-f...

http://www.citroen.no/Resources/Content/NO/PRISLISTER/Prisli...
Why is this posted to HackerNews? This isn't innovative.
"Unix and C are the ultimate computer viruses."[1]

[1] http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs240/readings/worse-is-better...
Not to mention this is exactly the sort of "pixel perfect" design that we should be discouraging, not encouraging. It doesn't seem like this technique translates well to a flexible design philosophy by letting the browser choose the best way to reflow text around elements (based on the amount of available screen real estate).
The original purpose of these laws was to prevent a manufacturer from selling direct in a market that a dealer had developed. The dealership model allowed manufactures to expand much faster and with less risk than if they had sold direct everywhere. Once the dealers developed the market, there would have been a large incentive for the manufacturers to simply open up a local direct outlet and keep all the dealer commissions themselves.

Tesla has never had a dealership network, so I don't see why this should apply to them. But that is why these laws came to exist.
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You've just typed all that after I called you on ad hominem. Sneaky.
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What does "Docker-ready" mean?
Let's say you create an application which allows unemployed find jobs easier - you go to your local council, say that by deploying this app in all local job centres they can reduce unemployment by 50%. By doing so, they increase their own popularity with people, and every politician likes that.

Obviously this is just a made up example, but I am saying that there is money to be made on helping poor people,it's just not their money, because they don't have any :P
There are a lot of paid options...like Rational Asset Manager, Oracle eAM etc. The only OSS option that I have seen so far is http://www.fedora-commons.org/.
The Boston Beer Company (maker of Samuel Adams) is still technically a craft/micro brewery, since they produce (intentionally) less than 6 million barrels annually. The entire craft brew industry produces less than 8% of all domestic beer.

Calling Sam Adams a "major brand" is a bit of a stretch.
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Lets be fair, none of these things are solved with an app. An app, however, could facilitate better solutions.
Isn't it rather antisocial not to sell for public building? I don't understand why everybody sides with the holdouts.

Also I feel sorry for everybody who lives next to a highway.
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I find this hard to believe, if this were so - every time I leave my phone on my desk and go to lunch across town I'd get a new card.

More likely is that a batch of details went missing from the issuer itself or a store that the owner had shopped at legitimately any time in the past reported a loss of data, and the timing was completely coincidental.
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Would that lady qualify as a 99%er? After all she owned a house and was offered a lot of money for it.
Tesla might get away with it now, but in the long run many people aren't going to buy a car without test driving it or at least getting inside and feeling around. Some buyers will purchase purely on looks and nothing else, but others want to buy the way the car feels, how much storage is inside, or how it drives.

Then again, it might depend on the return policy. My wife buys tons of clothes online and returns all the stuff she doesn't like due to the retailer's free return policy.
Sadly it doesn't have any hinting info [1], and thus looks quite bad on systems without font blurring. :(

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Font_hinting
I also think it has happened already: I want to search for questions about the big bang, I'm typing lazily, expecting the system to auto complete my intent; but when I am at "big b", the suggestions are: "big brother", "big breasts", and "big booty".
Do you mean building a 5 meter wide oblong mirror instead of a 5 meter wide circle? That might be easier but wold be a far inferior telescope. The amount of light collected goes as the area of the mirror. If you're suggesting keeping the same area but being more oblong, then I don't see any advantages.
>What happened to free market economy?

New players like a free market economy. Existing players like laws that preserve the status quo.
Demarchy, with short terms of office.
Interesting. What is the path for redemption?
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There is vast opportunity to improve portion sizing.

It won't fix everything, but people that don't realize their fast food soda has 500 excess calories in it will benefit from pretty much any reduction in soda intake. Those calories probably aren't even contributing much towards satiety.

(I'm not claiming every fast food customer is consuming 500 excess calories of soda with each meal, though I'm sure some of them are. The point is that there are very straightforward opportunities that don't involve major lifestyle changes or added expenses.)
what about testing this theory?
>what most of the world recognizes as beer

All over the world you can find people drinking similar lagers. Bubbly, mild flavor, easy to drink. They have mainstream appeal. Quilmes, Singha, Asahi, King Fisher, Labatt, Skol, Tsingtao, etc. There are too many to name. You can find at least one in every country I've been to. I would say Budweiser is one of the better examples of this style.
Looks like this thread is gathering the list of good Time Travel stories. So here's one I like: "Dinosaur Beach" by Keith Laumer. A delightfully twisty and multi-layered novella.

Read: http://www.baenebooks.com/10.1125/baen/0743435273/0743435273...

Reviews: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/584217.Dinosaur_Beach
1) As I've already said, High Charts isn't that much better than the free alternatives.

2) If you're bootstrapping, every penny counts.

3) It's not $590, it's $1500 (or more).

4) Not many people pay for libraries or frameworks anymore, when open source alternatives are either better or just good enough.
It seems like Tesla should still be able to give test drives and have a showroom without actually selling the car on-site.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8128075
just as easily they could compare the pace/rhythm at which you usually hammer you pin in or something alike
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I studied TP many years ago, and have fond memories of it. I looked into using Free Pascal for a system level project involving networking, threading, and concurrency (here I mean things like synchronized collections). In particular the threading and concurrency libraries seemed to be limited, and not as 'nice' as alternatives in other languages (boost, or java concurrent utils). Also the language is sufficiently complex that I decided I may as well use c or c++.
I don't agree with enforcing these laws on Tesla. Tesla has never had a dealer network which might need or want protection from a manufacturer undercutting them in a market they worked hard to develop (this is why these laws exist).

Yet at the moment I don't think this really hurts them. If anything its giving them a ton of free advertising and building consumer goodwill. Tesla is a high-line brand. A status symbol. They are not impulse purchases in the way that mainline Fords, Chevys, Toyotas are (i.e. people buying because they need a car, any car, and they liked the color, etc). If you want a Tesla, you know that going in. You aren't going to buy a Leaf or a Volt instead because you think it looks pretty. You don't really even need to see one in a dealer showroom, and for what they cost, traveling a few hours to buy one is not a huge hurdle. Where I live, if I want to buy a new Porsche, a Ferrari, a Maserati, etc. I would have to travel several hours to the nearest city with a dealer.
> How many of you would be willing to travel four hours each way just to look at one car?

When Tesla faces a ban in a state, they convert their stores to showrooms so people would still be able to see the cars.
They still seem pretty close to the line there. I wonder if they were planning to stop sales at 150.
> Where I live, many landlords prefer tenants who are on welfare. The state pays their rent, so it's practically guaranteed. So I think single mothers might be a lucrative market.

Doesn't this have a side effect of locking those single mothers into poverty? A place to stay offers stabilization, but that alone doesn't help if trying to find a job means losing benefits and not being able to afford a cheap flat, because suddenly landlords don't like you anymore.
I'm sure it was at least thoroughly considered in advance. I'm sure Miles Sabin's announcement of interest in forking [1] on the 25th did not escape Typesafe's notice. I'm sure Odersky's got to be a little bit anxious about a fork, but I'd bet he's pretty relieved to hear that they want to keep it significantly interoperable, and maybe even a little bit excited to gain a sandbox for faster innovation than Typesafe can achieve.

[1] https://twitter.com/milessabin/status/503929023635161088
> Highcharts is extremely inexpensive compared to the other costs that go into a commercial product

Yes but Highcharts is extremely expensive compared to other alternatives which are free. Unless you're in the .NET world, no one really pays for libraries and frameworks anymore since the open source alternative is either better or just good enough.
Beyond P=NP: this actually gives you a constant-time solution for any problem where it's possible to enumerate candidate solutions, regardless of how long it takes to do so. So, we'd have ANYTHING=O(1).
We're not seeing the drawback; we're seeing the benefits. The system is designed to corrupt itself in little pieces, with citizens being free to share information and compare notes about how all the little pieces work. That's a beautiful system that, as far as I know, no other country has tried.

So Georgia screwed the pooch on this. A newspaper in CA writes an article, and folks from the other 49 states get angry. Some folks may move out of Georgia. The lawmakers there -- no matter which party they are -- get embarrassed. They don't do that again. They probably retract whatever they did.

Compare that to a winner-takes-all system, where one party is in control. You have one adjustment, sometimes only made after years of fighting with the minority party. It doesn't work, or it's crooked, or whatnot. There are no comparisons. There are no other places to go if you don't like it. There is no pushback from all the political parties to make this go away. Instead it's just circle-the-wagons time.

This, and a few other stories in technology like it, are powerful examples of how a loosely federated and decentralized system can easily outperform every centralized system of governance there is. Cool stuff.
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Define "sensitive site". Any email provider, if it's your main email account would qualify as very sensitive. However, people also have myriad junk accounts. As soon as you start to enforce this sort of thing you limit who's going to sign up.

I've got accounts with two brokers. One has good tools which I can use with simulated ledgers but won't manage SIPPs. It has a crap password which I can remember and bang in whenever I want to check performance. The other's password is in KeePass and requires a small but significant effort to access. You could argue that the former doesn't want my "business" but if they started handling SIPPs or if I start doing some speculation I'd convert instantly. Is my low level leeching worth an instant convert?
I work at a bank and I can tell you that they will often allow one or two instances of actual fraudulent card use before issuing a new card. It is actually very expensive for them to issue a new card and very inconvenient for the client so most won't do it willy-nilly.

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the completely clickbait headline of the article that in no way reflects the actual content of the article. A more accurate headline might be, "Weird Coincidence Elicits Paranoia About My Bank".
Hi Justin,

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I don't think that's what's going on.

I think it's more likely a standard multi-factor risk threshold that's been triggered. A vendor you've never used (or haven't used recently), a vendor category (auto parts) which you rarely purchase within, a higher risk payment processing method (perhaps they put through a CNP (cardholder not present) transaction) in a location (geo or vendor) where use of stolen cards is above average.

However, that said, many mobile banking applications require coarse (mobile network) and fine (GPS) location permissions (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.grppl.andr... and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barclays.b... for example). I highly suspect that this data, along with other information gathered from your device such as IMEI, is used to assess login risk. If you look at the markup on a lot of internet banking login pages you'll often find Javascript and 1px images loaded from unusual subdomains at the bank (sometimes with "risk" or "security" in the name). A couple of the banks I use also embed hidden Flash objects, only on the login page, which I suspect are used for the same purpose.

My understanding is that they pull together data from a number of sources/signals to calculate a login risk score, in the same way virtually every bank calculates a transaction risk score when you use your card.

I doubt that this information is tied with physical card transactions, however.

Edit: I'll add that I'm the most surveillance/tracking conscious person I know (most just don't care) but this is a little paranoid even for me.
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This is a heck of a leap of faith and a very clickbaity headline.
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I don't think the EMV PED (PIN entry device) standard supports such a thing. You could certainly verify that by looking up the EMV standards.
I used to be a real estate agent. As I recall, pretty much every home shopper was looking for something underpriced. You'll face a lot of competition on that route.
Because homophobia and the changing of common definition of any random word are the same, right?
Sounds like you had a duff charger circuit.

However, yes, a LiIon battery is not meant to be left continuously on charge. A lead-acid battery (typically used in UPSes) is meant to be left continuously on charge.
I refer to an Apple patent for kinetic charging:

http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

Another possibility would be solar charging similar to:
http://www.seiko-cleanenergy.com/watches/solar/
I'm starting to adopt the idea of Scott Aaronson that since we have a lot of evidence suggesting that P != NP, we should treat physic ideas as less probable of being true if they make P=NP as a side effect.
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Some rental car companies do this already. I'd imagine Tesla has even more incentive to do this.
GM, Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, Nissan, et. al. have already accepted an up-front fee in exchange for franchise agreements; so the franchise laws in that case protect the initial investment of a franchisee.

There actually was some debate over selectively cancelling franchise contracts during the GM and Chrysler bankruptcies.
Very interesting article and analysis, although it would be nice if it explained what exactly a "Green Thread" is. From the article, I am guessing that a "Green Thread" is related to the lightweight low-level concurrency mechanism that he is referring to as the alternative to normal threads, but it is not exactly clear what that really means.
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Absolut interested in it yes
Exactly, which is why I never understood why people demonize these car dealerships, yes they are an unnecessary middle man, yes they are annoying to deal with but they are only doing what is logical.
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I tried the K750 and found the keys spaced out wider than I was used to. Did you get used to it?
Always nice to see some new programming font options! One thing that stood out to me is the space between a lowercase a and the text that follows. The gap feels a little awkward to me.

I really like the numerals, and the options for different asterisk vertical positions and zero characters. Consecutive underscores are also nicely spaced.

One odd thing, if you visit the preview interface — http://input.fontbureau.com/preview/ — and swap out the letter forms, it seems that some characters are different widths. For example, changing the 'a' letter form to the alternate makes lines with a's in them smaller. This could very well just be a browser thing, trying to auto-kern monospaced letters for some reason, although it's doing it in both Chrome and Firefox.

Edit: oh, then I read some more. That's a feature. Huh. The future is weird.
I was just thinking this; banks take their time to issue a new card.

What're the odds that a new card was ready to go and posted (and that Royal Mail delivered it next day?) due to one questionable use?
The last sentence is interesting to me - I wonder if there are many sys/devops types who are morning people? I'm a developer and function much better at 5am than 11pm, but it'd be an interesting correlation if server-peeps were almost exclusively nightowls.
The argument seems to be that the actor model implementations on the JVM aren't all that fast and the language can't stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.

That's not really the issue as far as I'm concerned. Message-passing concurrency actually allows people be productive writing concurrent code that has a hope of working -- that is the main advantage. Occasionally things go wrong. Occasionally you need more performance and have to drop down to a lower level. But I can easily write a web service running on the JVM that gets 1000 requests/s per CPU with a bit of message passing concurrency. That's the point.

Heck, I don't even like the actor model -- I much prefer CSP -- but I'd attack it for other reasons (like lack of type safety).
this makes perfect sense after reading some molecular biology lately: bacteria are constantly trying to attach and detach from our skin, and that, apparently, involves a constant struggle between electrostatics and biological structures...

... my issue is whether or not that ought to be called "calculation" or "computation." sure it's an /interpretation/ of the natural process, but not necessarily equivalent. I realize that's not what this article is saying, but i wonder if we're getting too bogged down in algorithms with some of these things.