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What are the police going to do about your being mugged?

I find it interesting that out of three examples, you happened to list one where the police can't possibly intercede without already being there, and your calling only serves to start a pretend hunt for lost property (hint: finding your stolen laptop is not their top priority), but will serve as justification if they want to rough up some local tough later.

Again, what do you think the police are going to do if you've already been mugged? I'm genuinely curious as to why you listed that as a case you should call the police in.
Why would they want to destroy it? It's insanely profitable.
That's true, but only if you describe the human senses as data mining. Deep learning is a form of machine perception, which is a necessary but not sufficient condition of strong AI.
mass hysteria == internet posts about being scared

Oh god the mayhem.
My handy Ebola timeline: http://newslines.org/ebola/
If anyone is interested in this stuff, consider pickingthe book Bad Pharama By Goldacre

http://www.amazon.com/Bad-Pharma-Companies-Mislead-Patients/...

He takes an in depth look at the current problems data with the phar. industry
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Why would a socialized healthcare system have fewer resources?
> The whole point of the updated system is that they don't have your decryption key.

It's a nice thought.[1]

> While Apple does not have the crypto keys that can unlock the data on iOS 8 devices, they do have access to your iCloud backup data. Apple encrypts your iCloud data in storage, but they encrypt it with their own key, not with your passcode key, which means that they are able to decrypt it to comply with government requests.

[1] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/09/22/apple-data/
I find it interesting the note about the Mozilla HDMI stick running FirefoxOS has more upvotes than this.
how is it different (other than using twitter for authentication/communication and upvoting system) than a request forum at https://www.namepros.com/ or http://www.dnforum.com/forums/domains-websites-wanted.16/ ?

I had some domain-related ideas, we should talk
YES! Paul Chiusano wrote in detail about the fundamental broken model of 'secure transaction'
http://pchiusano.blogspot.com/2014/01/an-actually-secure-pay...
No, but GNU and X have. X got virtual desktops in 1989.
More notes from me: http://jonalmeida.com/posts/2014/09/30/htsas-lec03/
> - Wanted to heat up my GPU to warm a brownie

Please elaborate.
The feds took out cigarette smoking system-wide back in 2004-5. They stopped selling them in the commissary and then allowed a year of smoking before possessing them got you in trouble. State prisons I do not know about, except Alaska, and you could not smoke there back in 2002 - the last time I enjoyed their hospitality.
> Companies! Plural!

JPay or JPay? What will the benevolent invisible hand pick. It is anyone's guess really.

> The free market cannot exist

That much I agree with.

> ... when there is One True Company that the government let operate and Oh!

Guess what happens if there there is a second JPay? Yes. It gets gobbled up by the first and becomes The One True Company.

It is as if the invisible hand of the market is really invisible, maybe even a fantasy. And in reality it needs a very visible hand of lobbyists and government. To either exert laws in its favor. Or constant "adjustment" via monopoly laws to prevent showing the obvious failure with the "free market".
Hackathon winners are dominated by polished design and clever presentations. Working code is often an afterthought let alone readable, maintainable, scalable code with proper test coverage.

I highly doubt you'd find Linus Torvalds, DHH, Guido van Rossum or any other highly productive programmers competing in a hackathon. Maybe they have good reasons.

Also this is worth reading:
http://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/why-hackathons-suc...
Stack Overflow isn't much better.

"What should I use to do this?" - That question isn't inline with our format

"How do I do this?" - This question is a duplicate of <question asked 4 years ago with a few similar keywords>

"How do I do this exact thing with this version of this software?" - No response, because no one on SO uses that software with that version, which you would have known if you could have asked the "What should I use" question.

Don't get me wrong, I love stack exchange/overflow, but it can be quite frustrating.
how about answer his question? Who is currently JPay's competitor?

You can't answer the question for a reason bub.
You're notes in Markdown: http://markdownshare.com/view/c97aed92-513d-46f0-b097-0fb12e...
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Yes, but it still makes their jobs a lot more difficult.

I'm of the opinion that this is not a ruse or scheme, and that law enforcement are genuinely dissatisfied with this. Note that law enforcement and the NSA have a tenuous relationship at best.

Even if the NSA still do have privileged access after default mobile encryption is fully rolled out, law enforcement generally will not be able to tap into that except in extreme and rare cases.
You are right that Sketch files (up till version 3.0.4) are actually file packages, but we support packages so it shows up as files online. This is the same as OmniGraffle and Keynote files which are actually folders. We have build our syncing technology to differentiate folders and package files.

Sketch just officially launched 3.1 two days ago which creates files that are actually single files. We can still support version control for these files, but we are working on fixing the preview generation for the new Sketch format.
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I share pg's distaste for the mouthful that is "entrepreneurship" (http://youtu.be/ii1jcLg-eIQ?t=30m35s). How about resurrecting the root, and using "enterprise" instead? Moving a language as big as English is a Brobdingnagian task, but few people are as well-positioned as pg to (re)introduce "enterprise" as a more economical alternative to "entrepreneurship".
PR pieces are usually released on a pre-agreed upon date.

Something probably changed in the meantime.
I don't believe in that claim.
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It's not an unreasonable solution. Back in the days of Word 1.0 (pre-GUI), it was common to have a bitmap font containing the company logo (perhaps in a few variations) in a few sizes for insertion as letterhead by laser printers. The practice persists to this day in large corporations using the most modern GUI word processor; in the standard .dot template file, in the upper right corner, is a single "Z" in a special font that displays as the ZEBRA CORPORATION logo. If you look at the font, you'll find it contains but a handful of glyphs.

I can see your solution having wider applicability.
I really enjoyed this lecture and I found it hard to take down notes. Mainly because there's more experience involved in this lecture, than "note worthy" information.

I'm not saying there's something wrong with Sam's lectures, but there's a stark contrast between the two formats which makes me even more interested in seeing what the other speakers will bring.
This is a reason to donate. These rural areas clearly lack education, knowledge and need help. Just because they are scared/ignorant today doesn't mean they always have to be. For example if radios were distributed to all these communities education programs could start about ways to avoid disease transmission etc. This is going to be a long term strategy and wont happen in a day.
The Wu-Tang Clan is selling its new album inside a $79.99 speaker
"You are" not. Grad student. :-P
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Thanks for the info, just did a small donation. I suspect it's well beyond their ability to control at this point, but even slightly slowing down that exponential curve can be worth a lot.
Does it matter? It is the inmates and their family who get scammed in the end.

Arguing between "oh is it the government, or the market? don't know let's have a long discussion about it". The article clearly shows there isn't much of a separation between. These companies (in this case single company) is heavily lobbying and bribing government officials with kickbacks and such tricks.

I wouldn't be surprised that when some prison official retires she/he gets to work as a "consultant" for JPay.

Hell, these people are infants compared to what is going on in the rest of the industries -- military, healthcare, agrobiz, telecoms.

Repeat after me "the there is no effective difference between the governmental agencies and the large companies and conglomerates". It is the same people just playing musical chairs. FDA chairman worked for Monsanto (as an example). Ex procurement general works for Northrop Grumman and so on.

Objectively, can anyone say that isn't a rational outcome of a the "free market"? I can't. The best and easiest way to turn a profit at that scale is regulatory capture. A few millions in bribes have a chance of getting back billions in profits in the future.
Yeah, destruction is hilarious.
Two stories next to each other on the home page with someone called Ryan Shapiro in them, in both cases he is 37. One where he is an foia activist [1], and this one where he runs a company profiting from prisoner's families. Are they the same people or is this just a strange coincidence?

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8390642
Following instructions on Hacker News about immediately avoiding the issue while a patch was unavailable...

Apple's patch won't work for Yosemite, so I'm stuck there too.
There are people I think should live on Mars, who wouldn't agree.
> "The NFL is the only sports league that televises every one of its games on free, over-the-air television. The FCC's decision will not change that commitment for the foreseeable future."

What a fucking bunch of bullshit. NFL isn't broadcasting anything for free, they're getting tens of billions of dollars from the broadcast companies for licensing their shows.

The broadcast companies also aren't doing this for free, they're getting billions from the ads they shove down our throats. They're also getting the licenses to use the TV frequency, something we gave them to ensure they return whatever they broadcast for "free".
I may be biased by being in a subculture that likes to use obviously-not-real handles on the net (furries) - but seriously, like half my Livejournal circles migrated to G+ when it started because they were sick of where that was going, and then scattered elsewhere when Google said REAL NAMES ONLY.

This was a pretty connected set of early adopters moving at once. Would things have been different if Google had quickly relented and said "okay, sure, if you wanna be Fuzzybutt Wolftaur on G+, go for it"? I dunno. But chasing them away, along with all the other people with scarier reasons to want to avoid using their real name, sure didn't help.
Do people in nations with socialized healthcare go to the doctor as soon as they develop a fever, or do they delay and see if it clears up on its own?

I'm sure it's not the case for everyone, but when most people develop flu-like symptoms, they usually end up quarantining themselves for a few days while it resolves. If they can't do that, social etiquette dictates that they avoid physical contact and close proximity, wash their hands regularly, not share food, etc.
> and is the entity in the position to negotiate the rates.

But Lower rates for whom? Inmates. Why would prison officials care if inmates get lower rates?
When I try to signup and I see that their "2GB RAM" plan @ $19.94 is their "Most Popular"...
I'll be "that guy." My guess: Reddit releases a small fraction of a new crypto currency (likely a simple BitCoin clone) to its users. Reddit recipient interest in the currency then supports a large price for what Reddit retains and Reddit ends up net-profiting from the transaction.
Saw "Connie Yeh, a former Citibank trader, nows runs an entrepreneurship preschool" and couldn't continue.
I live outside of a town with a large tech culture. I often wonder if a large part of success is just being around the right community. So you are getting a lot of feedback and have real connections to gain information from. I wonder what the best way to find/make a community like that in my area would be or if I am just out of luck and should be somewhere that already has a large tech culture. I am in South FL btw.
So far the chances of contracting the disease in a western country was near zero. It's no longer near zero if you define near zero as virtually impossible due to lack of extent cases.

That's why this news is significant.
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Resizable metro app windows might actually see me use them more than the single time I have since installing Windows 8.
There are people still running PS6 because it suits their needs. That can't happen in the cloud. Well, it can, but Adobe is unlikely to enable this to happen.
HN isnt really receptive to any news coming from Microsoft.
I don't completely agree.

I support Gamergate and do not like SJWs or their movement, but Reddit is not run by or even heavily influenced by SJWs for the most part. The ruthless shadowbanning of people discussing Gamergate was mostly due to very poor research and reasoning by the admins, and the misinformed belief that some subreddits were being raided by 4chan.

SJWs are still mostly a fringe group. In fact, reddit actually fired one of its admins a few months ago for going full-SJW and being clearly very biased towards /r/SRS.

Now, some mods in some of the big subreddits lean a little more left or right politically. The userbase in general is not "extreme left" though, much more center left. Search reddit for IA's and thunderf00t's latest videos and you'll see serious support and upvotes in almost all subreddits.

No offense, but this conspiracy theory mongering just makes this whole thing even harder to debate.
I adore that someone like Armin is so delighted to use Rust. From what I've seen of Flask and his other Python libraries, the level of consideration that he devotes to API design is absolutely inspiring.

At such an early stage in the language's history, I'm optimistic that his thoughtfulness in API design will become the baseline for the entire Rust ecosystem. In this vein, I'd also like to credit Chris Morgan's Teepee (http://chrismorgan.info/blog/introducing-teepee.html) and Sven Nilsen's Piston (https://github.com/PistonDevelopers) for devoting a great deal of energy to figuring out how best to structure Rust APIs that play to the strengths of the language. It's a process of discovery for all of us!
So, they called the third Xbox the Xbox One, they called the ninth Windows (or, at least, the version of Windows after Windows 8) Windows 10. Lest you think it's just Microsoft, Nintendo is calling their new 3DS device "New 3DS", and this is after a minor disaster with WiiU where a lot of potential customers thought it was just a new controller for the existing Wii.

Is there some new paradigm in marketing circles where giving a product a confusing name is believed to increase sales?
Ignoring the actual legalities involved, if some three-letter agency went to Apple and said "we want all the data on the Apple devices belonging to to so-and-so," Could Apple theoretically access it, and hand it over?

If not, then I'll concede I was massively too paranoid, which wouldn't be the first time when it comes to Apple (and Google.. definitely and Google cars, and Adobe as soon as they pulled that BS with Creative Cloud) But if so then (even if I was wrong about the U2 thing) I don't believe i'm speculating too wildly.

Apple owns the content to the degree that they can limit your access to it more than you can limit theirs - "ownership" in this case is not so much a legal as a practical matter. You can't really own something you don't control. I'll extend this to any app-based OS as far as it applies.
also the HDMI stick is not from Mozilla but from a company called Matchstick...
I suspect that the amount of IP space the VPS market consumes is only a tiny fraction of the IP space that consumer devices consume nowadays. Although many of us programmers own multiple servers, we are only a tiny minority compared to the smartphone-toting population of the world.

It has, though, become more difficult to get additional IPs than before. Linode used to hand out one additional IP per VPS on demand, but now they require a justification for all additional IPs.
That was quick! Article never explained McCabe's falling out with the Hsieh posse. Curious about that.
Is it really their fault if people jailbreak devices? I tend not to think it is.
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Apple Watch too big for a wrist?
Anyone else notice that the vast majority of Apple Watch promotional pictures do NOT show the watch on a wrist?
I find it interesting how the trend is moving towards charging less per unit resource on the low-end plans; digital ocean gives you more disk per dollar on the small plan, while these people give you dramatically better ram per dollar on the low-end plans.

The interesting part (and why the pricing scheme that I chose moves in the opposite direction, e.g. you get more resources per dollar as you buy more) - is that while the cost of hardware is pretty linear, there is certainly a support and abuse cost associated with every account, so the lower-end accounts cost the provider more per unit ram to provide.
There's nothing more useless than a lock with a voice print.
I really like NetBSD. It has a clean design and it was the first Unix-like OS that I really picked up on, right around the v1.5 - v1.6 releases (2001 to 2002).

I haven't been able to run it much since then due to owning incompatible hardware, but after seeing how well it runs in emulation, I am considering recycling some PC hardware and running it on top of Microsoft's free Hyper-V Server 2012. The only problem is that Hyper-V Server doesn't support wireless networking and where I want to put it isn't anywhere near a router, so I am unsure how to handle networking.
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The point the GP making is that the create the air of legitimacy they will list here.
Ask HN: Tips for independent contractor 2014
Good Evening All,
I'm 29 and I just became an independent contractor for some .NET and NodeJS work. I'm working in the Chicago suburbs and living in the city, commuting about 60 miles total per day. I have set up an S-Corp, but that's about it thus far. I was wondering what suggestions the community has for someone just starting out. Things I am curious about are best accounting practices (Quickbooks, Xero, LessAccounting?), ways to save money (deductions?), recommended sources for obtaining healthcare, negotiation tips (should rate increase after X months?) and any other things that you may have overlooked when you first started.
TL;DR
Things I wish I knew before becoming a contractor.
Thanks All!
Monitoring, VPN, or maybe just a spare box to experiment with.

If you're outside of the United States, VPN on a tiny server is by far the cheapest way to access US-only content.
Again, I think you miss the point of a hackathon. Hackathons are suppose to be for fun. Rarely do you see anything professionally ship from a hackathon, but occasionally a few good ideas actually get started at hackathons.

If you're personally offended by bad code, that's fine, but hackathons are not shops on professional software development practices.
Don't forget Aaron Turon (employed by Mozilla to work on the design of the std library), who, among other things, wrote the "fluent" APIs for process[1] and task[2] spawning, which possibly inspired the redis-rs API Armin describes in this post.

[1]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/io/process/struct.Comma...

[2]: http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/task/struct.TaskBuilder...
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My peers and I recognize that Hackathon code is poor. If we want to continue working on the project afterwards, we take the time to refactor it. We enjoy meeting other people at Hack-a-thons, to learn from and/or mentor them, and testing out an idea.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that the Chinese are only after the "fashion"/styling aspect of iProducts, and most don't like the walled garden - after all, they are living in a country with highly filtered Internet access.

But as the saying goes, "With freedom comes responsibility."
I think a closer analogy would be a Republican telling you that "Republican" is defined as someone who supports small government—and therefore libertarians are Republican (and most Republicans are, in fact, not Republican.)

There's an older version of this debate, regarding whether people who don't know or care about a given religion—but happen to follow all its tenets by coincidence—will get into the "good afterlife" of that religion. There are a lot of Christians who argue that to be "Christian" isn't a matter of faith, but rather a matter of acting the way Jesus would have one act. (And thus, in this model, there are atheist Christians.)
>law enforcement generally will not be able to tap into that except in extreme and rare cases

Like when they pull someone over for having a tail light out? I can't reconcile your statement here with what we already know about parallel construction.