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If their boxes were true money printing machines, it's confusing to me why they'd bother selling them at all.
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So is the author saying that if spanking were effective, then it would be acceptable?

There are tons of parenting practices that are as harmful or more harmful than spanking that no one cares about, so this whole controversy strikes me as somewhat disingenuous.
One of the little things here is the use of SPDY. I'm not sure how feel about this change. On one hand it will save a great deal of resources, but it will make the protocol more unapproachable. Is this a change that the web needs to make?
> Also, what the hell is a moral right anyway?

In the context at issue (copyright law): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights
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This site should not be on the first page of HN.

A lot of people didn't understand exactly what is this product, including myself.
This really resonated with me:

There is no achievable perfect balance point of schedule. Many things that appear to be "balanced" are actually in constant motion in order to maintain the illusion of balance.

I've found this becomes even more true as you have a family. There are so many unplanned events with kids; they key, it seems, is to be flexible.
I'm tired of over-generalizations about "spanking."

Bruising, switches, rods, and welts are not "spanking." Whipping is not the same as spanking.

Spanking as properly executed does not leave marks and is much more a psychological than physical punishment.

That is not to say that it's good. Routine and frequent spanking is most certainly evidence of bad parenting.

All that said, the reason that parents are free to spank kids whether or not it's the ideal form of punishment is pretty obvious: parents need to have latitude in the punishments they can use to set limits with their kids.

Spanking won't work for every child, and probably won't be used more than 5-odd times in the course of childhood, but sometimes there aren't better alternatives. At the very least the effects, however deleterious, of a handful of spankings over the course of a childhood are not sufficiently serious to warrant state intervention.

But it is most certainly NOT the same thing as whipping, which is what the author of this piece refers to.

(I'm not intending to advocate for spanking, I'm just getting annoyed with how what it entails seems to be getting categorically expanded.)
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You might think that, having never been a customer of BFL, but I can tell you I bought BFL hardware on pre-order at a point when they were telling their customers they would never be a mining company, but only a hardware company, and they were not ever going to mine bitcoins with customer equipment.

It's not a service to the customer. The most valuable time spent mining with new mining hardware is the first week to two weeks. The next two weeks are going to be at an average of 10-20% reduced efficiency as the difficulty increases every two weeks or less. The next two weeks after that will have reduced efficiency by a similar amount again, until you reach the "break-even point" where each watt-hour of electricity you buy and pump through the mining equipment is going to yield an amount of bitcoins equivalent in value to the energy you put in. And then, you hope, the price of the coins increases or at least remains stable, and the difficulty levels off.

(Protip[0]: it doesn't seem to be leveling off yet, and my first-gen ASIC hardware is already well underwater.)

[0] https://bitcoinwisdom.com/bitcoin/difficulty
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> "So this means: it has a divisor not in the initial primes (actually, I think it must have two). But why should it be prime?"

Ok, this is the heart of the issue. If the new number is a prime, all is well and good, but if the number isn't prime, why should it's divisors be?

The simple answer is: they don't have to be. If you have divisors that aren't prime, then keep dividing till you hit some that are. The definition of a prime number is one that can only be divided by itself, so for any non-prime number, you must be able to keep finding factors until they're all prime!

Let's take an example. Our list of primes is {5,7} which are nice small numbers to use. By following the rule of "multiply and add 1" we get:

5 * 7 + 1 = 36.

Ok, so let's break 36 down. We get:

36 = 2 * 18

Right, well, 2 isn't on our list, but let's face it: 2 isn't a real prime. None of the other primes like it. It's even. Nor is 18 on our list, but that's not prime (and that was your objection before), so let's break 18 down.

36 = 2 * 2 * 9

Well, that's a bit better. We have another unpopular 2, but we also got a 9, and even though 9 isn't prime, it's probably primier than 2 is. Continue on:

36 = 2 * 2 * 3 * 3

There we go. Now we actually have a proper prime number, "3", that we can add to our list.

And you see (I hope) that none of these numbers could possibly be on our original list, because all the numbers already on that list give a remainder of "1" when we divide "36". Yet we must, inevitably, hit a prime number because we just keep dividing till we do!
MySQL sort-merge joins, it's right in that documentation, but it calls everything out as optimizations on nested-loop.

http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2013/10/01/mysql-isnt-limited-to-n...

It doesn't do hash joins which is the biggest limitation but
MySQL is pretty good a joins and certainly was never bad enough to warrant it's reputation. It's toolbox is smaller than other RDBMS products but it's not empty.
> If you've given up control of the DNS on your domain to a third party, they can do whatever they want with that domain

Unless you're using DNSSEC..!
"Queries that require multi-column indices will also be extremely inefficient of course, because they will require scans."

If a query uses just the columns that are in a multi-column index, and doesn't sort in any order other than the index order, then the query may be much more efficient than a with a single-column index - since all the data may be retrieved from the index, rather than seeking to the row.

I think you left something out.
Being a #2 employee isn't exactly a founder, now is it?

Good luck in this field, it's competitive :)
Or, to quote Rich Hickey; "I can't read German; that doesn't make it unreadable."

NB: I know a little German, and almost no Haskell.
Did they promise that you would always be able to drive 100mph? Does any product marketer promise or infer that you will be able use 100% of the capabilities all the time and forever, even those outside it's control like congestion and other environmental factors (e.g. lack of gas or proper maintenance)? That kind of naive thinking is why we have endless fine-print and thousands of greedy class action attorneys.

Look, I hate huge corporations that don't have to compete because of government protections, but calling a non-expansion of bandwidth to a third-party "blocking" is abusing the term. The goal should be to break up these monopolies while respecting property rights. That is critical for would-be ISPs and other innovation.
7/10 businesses fail in a few years. Google's record is pretty good. Especially for paid products
Re; MyFitnessPal, I've not experienced that but I've only logged 3 days worth of data so far since I connected it to HealthKit. It does seem to be an inconsistent issue for people as well, which makes it harder to determine which part is at fault. I think it's probably HealthKit as MFP reads data in (steps etc) fine.
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Additionally the FTC argues there is a specific network for testing that does not incentivise prolonged "burn-in".
If I were selling computers/computer technology then I would want to sell them to millions of children over and over endlessly and make billions of $$. With each new gadget, I'd want to sell all over again. Schools and the current malfunctioning education systems are an infinitely deep money pit for computer vendors/technologists to dip into: parents will toss $$ into the pit so that their children can "keep up with the Joneses'". The only worse set of predators on society are politicians and childrens' cancer research institutes (and, in the latter case, your child will die anyway).

Schools obviously can't keep up with the changes: they've dropped cursive writing so that your child can play tic-tac-toe on a computer. Your son or daughter likely signs his/her name with block letters. If so, your child is, IMO, illiterate and here is your child in 15 years:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

(this used to be funny but under the current political administration it has become a clear probability).

Current technology will be defunct in 5-10 years. Children are taught skills that will be as useful as navigating the Commodore 64 operating system. Instead they should learn current technology outside the classroom.

My pet peeve: cursive writing, tied to higher-level cognitive functioning in the brain, is no longer taught:

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2013/04/30/should-schoo...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/03/science/whats-lost-as-hand...

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/memory-medic/201303/why-...

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First off, let me say that I want someone to please counter my argument. I have been unable to see a valid counterargument so far.

I've thought about this quite a bit, anytime I see someone use the phrase 'disrupt an established company,' I assume they're talking about barely skirting the law through the use of hazy, gray areas. And an app.

The only 'innovation' in (most of) these companies is the same 'innovation' that this site screams about when it's on the part of patent trolls; I will do X, but now I will do X with a smart phone or computer. That's not innovative, it's lazy.

It would be super easy for giant companies to meet the same prices if they were able to ignore laws. That's not competition, it's cheating.
I tried the leave it and come back and it didn't work for me, only a full power-off cycle. It does seem to be slightly different quirks across different user devices.
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The U.S. outlaws some speech as well, though it makes a different set of choices, and generally bans less of it. Some categories of speech typically banned in the U.S. include: "obscenity", "fighting words", "incitement to unlawful action", "defamation", any false statement in some contexts, intrusion on privacy in some contexts (two branches of this are disclosure of personal secrets, and disclosure of trade secrets), etc. Though some of these categories have narrowed over the years, e.g. obscenity used to be extremely broad (including even James Joyce novels), but is now less so.

International publication often ends up arbitraging these differences. For example a good deal of American communist literature was published in Europe to escape American censorship, and vice-versa for European neo-Nazi material, which was published in the U.S. to escape European censorship.
Thanks cblock811

I've considered including Facebook too (just using twitter right now for ease on my part haha).

Definitely agree re the Opinions section!

Thanks again for the feedback
Send a resume to Google.

That's life in business.
I respectfully disagree that an understanding of AI would be required to enjoy this. People enjoy lots of sports without understanding the full rule set, for example. They may "enjoy" the sport at a different level than what the more knowledgeable spectators are enjoying it, but I wouldn't say one is better than the other, or one person's enjoyment is any less valid.

And if you start giving each car spiffy names, maybe attach some "personalities" to each car, and I'd bet you'd be very successful indeed.
"...only in encrypted iTunes backups...", I think certain encrypted data is also stored in iCloud backups as you're required to authenticate the restore before it continues. An iCloud restore recently brought back all my email password settings etc, but an iTunes non-encrypted restore lost them.
RMS is not about OpenSource, he is about FreeSoftware, as in Software that respects its users freedom. Its an ethical mindset for programmers, not a method of distribution. You could easily program and distribute binary blobs for money as FreeSoftware, but only you would know it then. The problem is trust. Can you be trusted to respect your users freedom? That is the point where OpenSource might help to build trust, but it is not mandatory.
I wonder what "initially with a streaming version of Photoshop" actually means. In a roundabout way, this is Photoshop on Linux, which is interesting.
> The idea that a DBMS would support so many advanced features and do nested loop joins is laughably ridiculous.

Correct. MySQL is laughably ridiculous.
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When I read the title, I though that the law was a parody, and somehow got into effect...

Now that I've read it, I know that my first interpretation was correct.
My understanding is that Adobe's previous cloud offerings download the programs to your machine, where they execute locally, saving files to the cloud. Is this how Photoshop works here? Or are they doing VNC/remote desktop style access?

I really hope it's the former - having virtual machines / LXC instances synchronized down to the Chromebook would solve those last few use-cases. (For me, my IDE is the only thing missing from a Chromebook and stopping me using it as my primary machine).
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This is a web application version of Photoshop. Nothing more (and it should run on any OS with a modern browser).
I meant as a self-contained type. PostgreSQL doesn't support nested tables.

The "associative" in associative array implies association is a property of the data structure, not the way you happen to be using it.
These are shocking and worrisome allegations, but I do want to hear Uber's response. Perhaps they asked certain well-known users if they wanted their locations to be revealed and there was a miscommunication? It seems unlikely, I admit, but there tend to be two sides to every story.

If the allegations are true and there was no miscommunication, Uber violated its privacy policy and should be held accountable. Note I'm not calling for FTC action, but (again, if this is true) Uber's management owes me and other users an explanation, an apology, and a plan for privacy controls to ensure this doesn't happen again. Firing the person responsible would not be inappropriate. You can read the privacy policy yourself here:
https://www.uber.com/legal/usa/privacy#3

It's also a little depressing. I've taken pains to try to get privacy "right" when working on http://recent.io/, including being extremely sensitive about location privacy, and examples like this (again, if true) will make folks less likely to trust apps in general. It's a shame because phone owners will assume that if you can't trust the billion-dollar lawyered-up companies to get privacy right, you surely can't trust the smaller ones. So it becomes safer not to install the apps in the first place. :(
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> It is that haskell has way too many operators.

Haskell doesn't really have that many operators built-in (that is, in the standard Prelude). Haskell is completely open to user-defined operators (whose names can either be alphanumeric or symbolic), which, combined with the fact that symbolic operators often are attempt to approximate symbols from the application domain in ASCII while avoiding duplication of symbols used in the prelude even if those in the application domain are the same as those used in the prelude often results in less-than-intuitive choices.

Whether this is more or less readable than alternatives, though, is pretty subjective -- operators are generally used to reduce visual complexity in a way which is (given the constraints discussed above) as familiar as practical given the notation used in the domain, so even with the problems introduced by those constraints I think it often results in code that is at least as readable, and often more, than the cumbersome structures that are the alternative in languages that don't support user-defined operators.
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Thanks. I actually found a place on AirBnB and it is in Sunnyvale. So I guess that should be good. Thx for the advice.
What about the fact that because of the internet we can have things like easily accessible reviews?

Other users rate the drivers, so you can be more sure of their safety than a completely anonymous and unknown driver.
A 2 day burn-in is appropriate, mining for the company instead of the customer or on the test-net most certainly is not.
> The kicker with one-tailed tests is that they only measure ­– to continue with the example above – whether the new drug is better than the old one. They don’t measure whether the new drug is the same as the old drug, or if the old drug is actually better than the new one. They only look for indications that the new drug is better...

I don't understand this paragraph. They only look for indications that the drug is better... than what?
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We keep a spreadsheet of acceptance tests for each app we make. Like this:

http://imgur.com/EDqTnrw

It's Google docs, so lots of us can work through the tests at the same time.

We also have shared spreadsheets for project story estimating, cashflow forecasts and profit and loss forecasts.
It wasn't their money. Customers pre-ordered the machines months in advance.
Title is misleading. The title on HK ("NSA concerned to lose US phone system traffic controller"), the story doesn't refer to the NSA at all (it literally doesn't contain the term "NSA" and refers to the "National Security Agency" just once in reference to Snowden's former employer).

Instead it refers to a paid for report by the competition and the FBI (and unnamed "other" law enforcement) who cite broad "foreigners bad, Americans good" concerns and other vague threats (something something disruption).

The article reads like a Neustar Press Release. I am well aware that the author is well regarded, but still, very Neustar friendly article...
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They built the boxes using their customers' money.
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It could be either, or both. Regardless, it's dirty and makes me feel that they'd probably treat their customers with the same disdain.
Quickest means to high starting capital. They had to get as many machines as possible up and running before everyone else did, so they used customers' money like an investment.
Has apple released a shellshock bash fix yet? A little googling doesn't show one, just a bunch of hand waving saying most users aren't affected.
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Looks like it's time for Wired's annual announcement that "the web is broken".
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This is a wonderful article, but the blog spam URL should be changed to the original:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/do_the_math...

"Impact Lab" has scraped the entire 5-month old article from it's original publication, and republished it verbatim with their own ads on it. While they link to original at the bottom of the full article (no mention on the teaser page), this is egregious copyright infringement. This appears to be their entire business model: http://www.impactlab.net/impact-lab-advertising-rate-sheet/

HN should ban them. Slate (and the other infringed parties) should sue them out of existence. It should be an open-and-shut case.
Are you sure? It sure sounds like this is a version of Photoshop, running in a managed VM in the cloud by Adobe.
Well, I can't even take it seriously, because I fully suspect that 3 to 5 years down the road Google loses interest in the product and decides to drop it. Then all the investment the schools and teachers have made is lost.

If Google didn't have a habit of killing their own products I'd maybe take the time to actually think about their products.
> Right, well, 2 isn't on our list, but let's face it: 2 isn't a real prime.

I can't tell whether you're taking this position or ridiculing it, but if 2 isn't accepted as a prime number, this would falsify the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic for all even numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmet...

Quote: "In number theory, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, also called the unique factorization theorem or the unique-prime-factorization theorem, states that every integer greater than 1[3] either is prime itself or is the product of prime numbers ..."

If your purpose was satire, then perhaps this post will inform other readers who may not detect your satirical intent.
I believe the GP meant Chrome to Phone which was one of Google's first examples of using push messaging. It's still around and usable. [1]

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
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I work at a medium US university and I can say that the thick java stacks and waterfall is a huge part of the sources of headaches in my job.

I've got my team quite agile for a Uni development team but we still face lots and lots of problems with FERPA(US student privacy rules), and trying to work with much less agile internal teams. Most of the rest of the local developers are 40-60 and very resistant to any kind of change. (seriously using .net instead of java was hugely controversial)
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