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No, the policy is that they will use the best search, and take the money from whomever that is.
But without a block reward there would be no incentive to verify and secure the transactions of these Sidecoins, right?

The system that you're describing related to a block reward being in some "different currency having a floating exchange rate" is so foreign to me that I can't even begin to ask any questions!
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That's 236ml of caffeine for 8oz of coffee and 232ml of caffeine for espresso. That's less caffeine in espresso than coffee by volume.
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The government has no problem with civil forfeiture -- seizing (with no refund) $10K from an individual on mere suspicion. Why should bank managers and shareholders be immune from this?
>A quick look at this analogy exposes its central flaw. Bad driving is objectively identifiable: if you drive over the speed limit, change lanes without looking or run a red light, you are breaking the
law and can fairly be labeled a poor driver. But bad voting is harder to pinpoint—much harder. Partisans on either side can claim with equal justification that it's crazy to vote for candidate X rather than candidate Y. You can argue with your friend's decision to support a candidate based on his environmental record when, in your view, his terrible stance on corporate taxes disqualifies. him from office. So it seems that voting mistakes are truly in the eye of the beholder.

What if it is a test about knowledge ? Economists, politicians, even physicist don't agree with each others, but they are knowledgeable about their fields. They know what are the existing theories, and they know what can be considered a fact.

The problem with this is it create an oligarchy (which may not be a bad thing), and it place the power of deciding who acceed to the oligarchy to its members.

It can be good. The actual best system of government (IMO) is a tyrany/oligarchy where people in power work for the greater good, but it is difficult to achieve and unstable (what if the successor don't have great intention ?)

The other way is to have a direct democracy, but many people in the population don't have time to think about new laws, and to gain knowledge on specifics subjects, so they delegate to representatives.

If the check and balances work in this new indirect democratic system, and the majority of people are educated enough to choose their representative wisely, we have a working system.

We shouldn't put tests to access to voting, we should make sure most voters would be able to pass them, by having a good educating system.
For people in the U.S./Canada looking for a provider who gives a shit and who live in an area with decent Sprint coverage, check out Ting. I've been using them for about 2 years now and they've been rock solid (I am in no way affiliated with them, I'm just that happy with them).

The closest reasonable thing to sending photocopies of your middle finger in their (Verizon/AT&T) "business reply" spam postal mailings is giving someone else who kicks ass your business (don't do the photocopy thing, the people who have to open and transcribe those things don't like Verizon/AT&T either).
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Your [1] sounds odd to me, I haven't heard of this "more likely than not" type of standard in civil fines.

I also find statements like the following in papers that touch on the matter: "Unlike Common Law, Continental European Civil Law does not generally
distinguish between standards of
proof for civil and criminal matters. (15)" (http://www.coll.mpg.de/pdf_dat/2013_12online.pdf)

Anyone in the know care to comment?
Plus it doesn't forbid people to make a donation to support the software they like right ? That's what I do, knowing FFx isn't making any money from me, and knowing that I'm using years and years of development is a good enough reason for me.
used skyscanner quite a bit in europe however it has good prices on flights globally.
If dismantling the organization isn't an option, and punishing individuals isn't an option due to corporate liability limitations, where does that leave us?
Email verification probably reduces conversions which is lost money. Why refuse to take someone's money just because they don't know their own email address?
Would this be the end user doing that? Although you can't raw out of an iPhone it's not one-size-fits-all, I'd say it's the opposite as they have tuned the processing for that exact sensor/lens combination after testing.

To be clear, I would LOVE to get raw out of an iOS device camera. It would make motion analysis much more precise. With iOS 8 you have kinda/sorta control over the exposure time, but it could be more precise.
Actually, the best thing to do is to make this very, very, very painful for Amazon.

First, it needs to become very obvious that Amazon goofed in not verifying that the kindle owner owns the email address.

Second, the person with access to the account needs to rack up so many charges that they max out the credit card.

By making "not verifying email addresses" an expensive product mistake, this problem can be solved quite quickly.
My understanding is that the program running in the cgroup is disabling the OOM killer and doing it itself, so only whatever is inside of the cgroup is frozen (Presumably not systemd). Most programs have no need to disable the OOM killer anyway so it's unlikely they'd run into this problem anyway (They'd just get killed off instead of hanging things).
> The reason why I call these programs "good" is that they all but eliminate overage charges from a consumer's bill. With limited data, you often get charged excessive amounts if you go over your cap (disproportionately large amounts at times).

That's a bad solution, because it solves the wrong problem. The real problem is overage charges.

Of all the other companies who provide me with metered service, not a single one uses the same pricing structure where I purchase an initial quota for one price, and then have to pay out the nose if I go over it. Everyone else just charges a flat unit price. It's a flat $x/gal for water, $x/kW/h for electricity, $x/m^3 for gas, $x/min for land line phone service, $x/min for Azure compute time, etc. etc.

That style of pricing is good. It's a straightforward, easy-to-understand "pay for what you use" model. Cell phone style pricing is worse because it's unpredictable and consumer-hostile because it makes you feel punished for using more of their service. Unlimited cell phone pricing is worse yet. It's supremely consumer-hostile because it forces light users to subsidize folks who watch Netflix while riding the city bus. As a light user (and informed consumer) I find that offer to be downright insulting; I hate it just as much as I'd hate if the gas station wanted to charge me the same flat monthly fee for me to buy gas for my economy car that I only use on weekend as they charge my neighbor to top off his Escalade that he uses for a 45-minute commute.
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You can have SQL already, use ddp methods to query a database on the backend. It's not reactive, but it enables you to use SQL.
> every time we talked old school someone would bring up paper tape and punched cards which totally predate me. I wonder where those people are now!

I once met this university professor - he is the husband of a friend of my mother's, they had trouble with their computer, I fixed it, and while we sat there, we talked, and he told me that he had in the 1980s a colleague down the hall who carried data around on paper tape.

During my training, I knew this guy who still had a stack of punched cards sitting on his desk he used to take notes.

Sigh Some part of me is really glad I can now carry gigabytes of data on a flash drive smaller than my finger, but another part of me wants to have been there.
"There is nothing wrong with saying "I'm sorry, if I did this for you I would be fired.""

Actually if you want to keep your job, everything is wrong with saying that. I worked at a Verizon Wireless call center for 3 years and there was no way that a statement like that would go ever well with any manager doing a call review.

"Conversely, there is everything wrong with saying "No, I'm sorry sir, but I can't change that for you" when you know he can, he just won't. (in general; not referring to this case"

Saying this is how you keep your job. There are call quotas that must be met. Calls are timed. Everything is monitored. Saying you can't change something for somebody does not mean that it isn't at all possible. It means, "I can't change this for you or else I would be in trouble with my managers." There is no point in wasting time explaining why something can't be changed when it's company policy it can't be changed.

Above all else, these reps are just the messengers. For many of those that I worked with, their stances came from a place of "would I rather get fired or feed my three children?"
Astroturfed comments and accounts created to upvote your story are two of our least favorite things on HN.

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As a former Sprint customer, I'll disagree about that particular carrier. Sprint has offered "unlimited" data for a long time, but after they finally got the iPhone a few years ago, they saw a surge in data usage and started implementing undisclosed and seemingly random soft caps on all their unlimited data customers, all while claiming they offered "truly unlimited data" that wasn't throttled. They have only very recently admitted[1] to throttling some of their customers, but it's actually been going on for a long time according to customer complaints in their support site.

As for T-Mobile, it's my understanding that they changed their policy to include the possibility of throttling and initially didn't disclose it until it was leaked[2].

Of course, neither of these situations are as customer-hostile as AT&T has been, so maybe the FTC won't go after them. But I wouldn't be surprised if Sprint and T-Mobile make changes to their policies if AT&T loses.

[1] http://bgr.com/2014/05/08/sprint-throttling-unlimited-data-d...

[2]http://bgr.com/2014/08/13/t-mobile-unlimited-data-throttling...
There's also the issue of quality; most free streaming sites have much more heavily compressed video than a good torrent. And you don't have to deal with ads on a torrent.
I don't follow the last part about insurmountable incompatibilities or conflicts between physical theories. The universe does not - at least as far as we can tell - blue screen and present us a speed of light exceeded, unexpected singularity or unsupported particle interaction error. The laws of nature seem to work in a flawless and consistent manner.

Maybe we are just to dumb to discover a theory or set of theories that describe nature in its entirety in a consistent manner using the language of mathematics. Maybe we are not to dumb, maybe such an theory does not exist because for some deep reasons there ere just no mathematical expressions describing (some parts of) nature. Maybe we can only get away with using some really huge lookup tables to describe nature. Maybe even lookup tables are not up to the task.

But what seems absolutely impossible to me is that we have different correct theories, i.e. they describe nature flawlessly where they apply, but they nonetheless lead to inconsistencies or contradictions.
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How do you pass levels on this game? Just keep wobbling?
Startpage shows text ads (similar to how Google Search ads used to be long ago). And it claims not to record the IP address [1].

[1]: https://startpage.com/eng/protect-privacy.html
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Banks are complicated shell structures for sure, just look into BIS, a 'central bank' for central banks. However the federal chair is appointed by the white house.
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"Death of the weakest" leads to a better understanding of evolution. However, fitness (or its antipode, weakness) is usually measured with average reproductive rate. Averages can be misleading.

Better yet, think of evolution as the loss of strategies that go extinct. Strategies with a low risk of extinction are favored. Importantly, strategies with a high average reproductive rate can sometimes be very risky. Therefore, sometimes the "fittest" strategies are evolutionarily unfavorable, and consequently the "weakest" strategies survive.

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There is a world of difference between being ignorant of your own ignorance and just making shit up when confronted with your ignorance.
'would' is ambiguous because the author is describing something in the past. For example, you would write 'would' regardless of whether the original question was "Ma'am, do you think Clinton's appearance yesterday on America's Got Talent will damage his legacy?" or if the question had actually been "Miss, do you think Clinton accepting his recent invitation to appear on AGT would damage his legacy?" But either way, the question is false...
>There is nothing wrong with saying "I'm sorry, if I did this for you I would be fired."

There is no external cost to you, but the customer service representative saying this may bear a personal cost for making this statement. Most customer calls are recorded for quality control. Believe it or not, these types of calls are actually listened to for both quality control and CSR script updates.

In general, a CSR will be unlikely to state that and really mean it unless they are willing to run the risk of being corrected or reprimanded by superiors.
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These are all great but not realistic given the current competition and the academic mindset I have seen here. Many of my fellow graduate students consider robotics to be the future of how science will be done as most, if not all, of the work done in the lab can be done by robots. We need cheap and open-source liquid handling robots with a well documented platform. The labs of the future will not require man labor except but to think and that means scientists will be ask to publish a standardized protocol file with any plugins they used and all other labs will have to do is run that file and provide the materials. That will make replication incredibly easy and cheap.
There is nothing wrong with saying "I'm sorry, if I did this for you I would be fired."

Those employees are employed under At Will Termination. Their calls are often recorded for "Quality Assurance Purposes". I don't know that they wouldn't be fired after stating exactly that. They very probably won't have any recourse if they are fired. That's a pretty powerful incentive right there and I don't know that I'd blame them for toeing the company line and getting defensive.

It's easy to armchair quarterback when you don't have to work there.
Yet there is something "undefined" about the phenomenon we're seeing. In the context of the quote, what is undefined is whether the the quantum phenomena is a wave or a particle. I found a name for the concept I was describing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics
This looks technically strong but I'm interested in what the other use cases would be - why would you want this?
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>"The practice of checking the validity of email addresses seems to be lost on many (most?) businesses."

Yes, including some that should really know better.

I see this issue with more than one major bank.

>"Whenever I could find the relevant information, I contacted the various people that send me the original email to correct the information."

That's brave. I've had nothing but grief with this - some combination of "Who are you?", "Leave me alone." and "You stole my email address!" in every case.

Contacting the sender isn't much better.

In the case of medical / financial information it seems to me there should be an easy way to report this to some sort of regulatory authority.
It would be exact if we used a logarithm based number system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logarithmic_number_system

This kind of system is beautiful, but there is no easy way to add and subtract.
For the last batch they arrived around 11 pm PST.
Amazing :D Great work, and hats off to the meteor team! I just finished a hackathon this weekend with a meteor app, and absolutely loved the framework.
Not official but here is the a change log: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/fb7466078ec5da90321bdc...

It's a bit light on details. I wouldn't say Meteor is 1.0 yet, but preparing for it. Also Worldwide Meteor day is Nov 6th, I anticipate a more formal announcement then.
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Wonder when the IE standard support documents listing all the "deviations" from HTML5 will happen.
I suspect there are something else in energy drinks that could have dramatic effects on one's brain.

I usually drink one or two cups of coffee per day. I could drink more. After 7~8 cups of espresso, my hands start uncontrollably shaking, and I feel a little agitated. Those are all the symptoms I feel. Energy drinks is a completely different story. After two cans, I would have a big headache. I experimented a few times [call me crazy :)]. Every time, the headache came. So it was not a fluke, and most probably it was not caused by other factors.
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Apart from a $10 settlement check, what's likely to happen to grandfathered unlimited / unthrottled plans?
The other huge accomplishment of HTML5 is completely standardizing many fundamental parts of the web that previously were a mess of browser incompatibilities. 6 years ago, if you wanted to parse HTML, you might reach for BeautifulSoup, or libxml, or Hpricot, or Nokogiri...and they would all be subtly different in the parse tree they produced. And they couldn't do any better, because if you viewed the page in IE, or Firefox, or Chrome, or Safari, you might get a different parse tree.

Now, IE9+, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari are all basically guaranteed to look at the same page in the same way, and the "toolsmith" parsers like Gumbo or html5lib are all rapidly converging on the standard. So it's finally possible to see a page the way a browser sees it.
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That would pretty much cover the rest of the population, as far as getting people to wear a smart watch.
The heart attack detector seems great, but I wonder about the cancer detector. It may lead to a high number of false positives resulting in unnecessary exposures to CT scans, which because it uses radiation can actually lead to cancer, and unnecessary medical procedures and expenses, and unnecessary anxiety. If they get the false positives down it would be very beneficial of course.
>There is no simple solution,

How do you know, perhaps jail time for executives would work. The problem is there is no simple implementation and to expect a corrupt government to police a corrupt bank is laughable, these people are often colleagues, co-workers, even friends who take turns writing laws and giving each other pay checks.
good call on that! did that get added within the last major version or two?
Congratulations, and great pun for the title. :)
Charming - it's been a while since I've touched a torrent, let alone a private one, things have obviously changed. Last time it was around, the equivalent of an API key was stored within the torrent file, allowing anyone in possession of the file 'access' to the website. By access, I mean access to RSS feeds and the like, allowing someone to effectively utilise the account with HTTP(S) calls.

Edit: Still appears to be the case. Get the users unique code (call it what you will) from the .torrent, and understand the RSS URL structure for said website, and you've got yourself download links for all the torrents by using someone else's account.
AT&T can't be the only operator guilty of such throttling. A previous article was published about Verizon also considering implementing throttling data consumption.
>Yes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war.

Absolutely. Imagine if Air Force 1 were even prevented from taking off from a foreign country to return to the US or similar, and the host country demanded to search it for X person or object. There would be massive diplomatic implications.
In my usage over the last few years, I've come to rely on StartPage for good search results (since it's a proxy for Google). While DDG has improved over time, it still is nowhere close enough to be a Google replacement for me. I end up doing searches on DDG only to repeat the same on startpage.com to get better results. DDG still does not have time based search (where you can search for results in the past day, week, month, etc.), which is a huge disadvantage for me.

I do use both StartPage and DDG, although it's more like a 80%-19% split between these two. The remaining 1% is still on Google to get things like news, and Self-Destructing Cookies [1] helps keep things clean on that front.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...
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Who knows. Perhaps a Verilog implementation on an FPGA? Discrete gates and GPIOs galore?

Sarcasm and FTDI chips aside, I'm hoping the point was clear. Guess it wasn't.

Using USB as the physical transport from dongle to CPU just introduces more black boxes in a system where everyone was bragging about no black boxes. But since we're past the age of parallel ports and discrete GPIOs on these machines, there doesn't seem to be an easy answer.
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This is really awesome, I just checked out the new website and docs. Everything is so much more clear, I love the new docs. Stuff is laid out really well, people new to Meteor are gonna really like this.
The term "WHATWG" seems to be conspicuously absent from this article. I wonder where they factor into this announcement.
Part of you comment is good, but you may be missing a key effect: in the short term (and possibly the medium term), the marginal cost of data transmission is much less than its average cost. When the marginal cost is more than the average cost (as it is for gas, because of low-hanging fruit effects), then the simple Econ 101 solution is that the unit price will be the marginal price, and the supplier and buyer will split the surplus. However, when the marginal cost is lower there are all sorts of weird game theoretic and normative considerations that enter. It can be a Pareto and Utilitarian optimum for different users to be charged different marginal rates.
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The open source platform in question is Meteor.
latest versions of IE are pretty good regarding standards.
Awesome! Really excited for this.
>> But what seems absolutely impossible to me is that we have different correct theories, i.e. they describe nature flawlessly where they apply, but they nonetheless lead to inconsistencies or contradictions.

But isn't that exactly where we are with quantum mechanics and relativity? Everyone thinks that if we were smarter or given more time, a unified theory will emerge that looks like one or the other at the appropriate scale. What if that never happens? I think the author is asking "What if that's not even possible?". It seems possible to him because there is no known reason for the mathematics to fit the world in the first place.
How does one start a project like this and get paid? What are the revenue sources for the team? It's a great product, and the fact that it's open source is amazing.
I would hope they investigate whether the ingestion of "disease-detecting nanoparticles" increases one's risk of cancer.