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Quite tangential, but I wonder—what’s the general attitude these days towards [websites having installed] AddThis?

I recall it has somewhat sketchy privacy record (made the news this year with canvas fingerprinting). This website uses AddThis so I thought I’d ask.
I think when you hire someone who is a manager, you have to do this kind backchannel reference makes sense, otherwise you get someone who is not experienced at all in managing people but pretends to have done it already.
This is a great way to help increase the risk you get cancer, since it's cumulative, not per-instance.
So, they'd like me to download a 31MB app with "Precise location", "Read contact data", "Modify or delete USB storage", and "Full network access" (among others!) so I can order tacos? I'll pass, thanks.
http://fit.google.com/ is giving me a 502 error right now...
Yes. Yes it does, as desktop and laptop computers will also have a future.
So anecdotal and probably niche but since you asked: I don't go to Taco Bell frequently, but every now and then I have a craving. I don't know their menu well enough to just swing by and order. I use the website to check out that their deals are, and what's the crazy special of the season (e.g, that taco with a Doritos shell, or the burrito wrapped in a quesadilla).

A more mainstream use someone else mentioned: nutrition information.
Well, in 2011 it was sold, the founder left, and a new board of directors was installed, so that doesn't really work either.
And judging from the reviews on Play Store its not a very accurate pedometer either.

It seems more like a clone of Moves.
A proxy could make the secure connection to the server and then feed the client an insecure one.

If the client has visited the server previously and obtained an HSTS header, it'll refuse to connect to make an insecure connection.
Publicity. How often do you otherwise hear about Taco Bell on HN? I expect the website will return in a few days/weeks.
Taco Bell had a website?
Also people on computers.
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> I think if you're truly (1) confident about your knowledge or mastery of a particular topic and (2) actually are knowledgeable, you don't have trouble admitting things you don't know.

I don't think that's true in practice. For proof, just watch any academic debate, ever.
Cool, but It doesn't really matter what W3C says. In the end it is all about what the Oligarchy of popular browser implementers decide to implement.
You raise an interesting question. I would love to be able to refuse delivery of postal spam (as you can in the Netherlands, where almost everyone has a sticker on their mail box saying whether or not they accept unsolicited commercial communications addressed to a generic 'resident', and commercial communications addressed to them personally).

It turns out that you do have a right to prevent delivery of junk mail, thanks to a 1970 court case called Rowan c. Post Office Department (http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=3558098989148411...). In fact, you can download a form 1500 from the US postal service toput this into effect....but you have to do it for each sender of mail, and the form requires you to affirm that you find the amterial 'erotically arousing or sexually provocative,' even though the holding in Rowan is not limited to such cases. Right now the Postal Service redirects consumers to the FTC for help with getting off mailing lists - presumably because a) it does not want the additional hassle and expense of presorting and not delivering junk mail and b) because the Postal Service is famously under financial pressure and the delivery of bulk mail provides a huge chunk of its revenue - bulk mail makes up roughly half of all mail delivered and about 1/3 of USPS revenues (as of 2011 - http://stateimpact.npr.org/new-hampshire/2011/09/27/how-junk...).

I can think of a strategy for forcing the USPS to let consumers opt out of receiving junk mail, but it would involve some expensive and protracted litigation and would likely drive the price of first-class mail up to $1 if implemented, so it would generate a great deal of political opposition. I have not done in-depth research on the legality of the USPS dumping this problem into the lap of the FTC, so my impression that the USPS could be compelled not to deliver junk mail in the first place may be incorrect.
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Seems like a straightforward optimization problem. Only alert someone if the expected probability of disease is high enough to be worth the risks of radiation and unnecessary procedures.
Thanks for the mention of the Gumbo parser. I didn't know about that project.

From what I found, it seems like this is the most mature NodeJS module for using Gumbo:

https://github.com/karlwestin/node-gumbo-parser
Yes! It's down-right embarrassing in business communications. My signature says "Please excuse any spelling errors or strange words. This was typed on an iPhone which is a terrible text entry device."

I never had to worry about this when I had a Blackberry with a physical keyboard. In fact, to this day I have never understood why Blackberry didn't create a campaign of really funny TV ads with people sending hilarious or out-of-place text messages because of the issues with screen based typing. The ad would end with some kind of a catch phrase pointing out that this won't happen to your on a Blackberry.

Ditto for other smart phones. The easiest way to compete with the iPhone is to offer what I will call a "true business smart phone" with an fold-out keyboard for accurate text entry. You could drive that point with ads until everyone is blue in the face. Typing on a touch screen is a horrible experience.
I had the unlimited plan for several years and was shocked and outraged to find that they were throttling after I reached a certain limit.

So I switched to Sprint's unlimited plan and now I can rest at ease that I have a consistent experience. My bandwidth is now throttled 100% of the time by the crappiness of their network.
Congrats to the team! This is a very serious engineering achievement. I'd imagine it wasn't nearly as easy as they made it look.
This to me just implies that we are assuming things about the universe that aren't true. Like perhaps the "fact" that it is all continuous?

The tools of continuous physics/math are so ingrained into the culture at this point that people seem to have forgotten the distinction between the map and the territory.
First thing I noticed...
As someone who has tried to use such apps to actually count calories, unless you've got a barcode, finding the right thing, especially for fast food, is a massive PITA, and they're not always up-to-date. Websites are way faster and more reliable.
The importance of JavaScript as a Platform is not abt billions of browsers running JS, but abt how each one of them is also a JS IDE. If we could click the fork button, and start editing, testing and deploying right away, all within the browser, we'd probably get programmers to contribute to open source web apps in a way never seen before.

A sea change in how web software gets built and consumed, in the same way Britannica yielded (had to) to Wikipedia.
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they seemed to have removed their tweets as well: https://twitter.com/tacobell

i remember seeing them tweet at customers about their experiences so it's a bold move - i'd be willing to bet it's temporary to promote this app.
My thoughts exactly. Solving tag soup would be the most important thing in my opinion.
I certainly appreciate the convenience of having one (service) provider. Not very important to me (I'm aware of the trade-offs involved) -- but that doesn't mean I'm blind to how most people feel. Funny that the only thing that's not (AFAIK) part of Mozilla yet, is cloud storage. With more Firefox apps, it's not inconceivable that there'll be a viable docs-alternative -- and as for phone os, there is of course Firefox OS...
Just jacking up caffeine intake isn't the way to go. Add in 200mg of L-Tyrosine for every 100mg of caffeine. Look into compounds in the 'racetam' family which have proven to be effective at improving attention and memory. Be sure to take some choline (Alpha GCP seems good) along with any racetam, especially if you get headaches from the racetams, they can cause your brain to eat up choline. Nootropics is an interesting field, and if you're willing to turn yourself into a lab rat (you are anyway, so I guess its just a choice to be conscious of it), there are certainly better ways to improve functioning. Also, 5 Hour Energy drinks seem to be pretty good. A little bit of caffeine and a big dose of B vitamins.
> Why are consumers okay with paying a metered fee for electricity, water, and gasoline?

I don't think they are; certainly in my country people hate metered water. And people love fixed-rate mortgages even when they'd pay less on floating. If people had the option of unmetered electricity or gasoline, I think they'd take it.
> Eric Schmidt is a nice person like us, and jail isn't really for nice people like us.

Well, in theory, your sarcasm is correct: this is a ridiculous statement. In practice our jail system is fucked as is evidenced by the rate at which going to jail turns you into more of a criminal, and so yes, jail is not for "nice people like us". Of course, it's also "not for not nice people not like us", and Martha Stewart didn't seem to be turned into more of a criminal, so at his level of wealth maybe he would go a jail "for nice people like us."

Annnd maybe I'm also totally wrong on this too; call me on it how you see fit.
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Recipes and menus change faster than calorie counting apps can keep up. Additionally most of these apps are not comprehensive. I do use Calorie King and others apps as well, but they are not a substitute for direct data from the company.
In most common, trivial real life situations, you have an advantage if you keep spewing forth nonsense and adjust for mistakes as you go along and keep pushing forward semi-blindly - compared to being forever hesitant in search for perfect truth.

The "confident idiot" basically applies a Monte Carlo search over the range of possibilities, and may eventually fall onto a good-enough solution.

I suspect that's the explanation for the D-K effect. If that's the case, then the "idiot" actually uses a pretty sophisticated overall strategy that works well in a fluid world (so not so much an idiot actually).
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Final standards document

http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/REC-html5-20141028/
Redis is not volatile when on-disk persistence is turned on. It's non-volatile and non-atomic.
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I'm sure no one wants to hear this, but folks, this is what good capitalism looks like.

While it's true that it's possible to run a company without being horrible, it's almost certainly far better for short-term profits to do so.

> Halliburton, Sodexo and Blackwater

Guess what the executives running these companies have in common with the ones running AT&T?

Downvote away. AT&T is behaving rationally.
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While this appears good, this is nothing more then a show. AT&T will end up paying virtually nothing[1]. If you get angry when companies like Microsoft can go and seize domains, property and anything else in civil matters - this lovely agency has helped pave most of the way for them. The bulk of their cases come with Ex Parte Temporary Restraining Order's and Asset Freezes[1].

What will likely be the most egregious offender with the highest amount of "consumer damage" (AT&T) they don't even use the word "scam" or "fraud" in the complaint or press release. AT&T has already won. I doubt anyone there is losing any sleep over this.

[1] - http://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/cases-proceedings
>Consumers like fixed bill per month.

[CITATION NEEDED.]

It depends. I have no particular problem paying for electricity, oil, water, and Amazon S3 based on usage and it does provide me with the appropriate incentives to conserve. Obviously I'd have no problem paying a fixed rate for these services if doing so cost me less than I pay today but I have no particular preference for a fixed charge provided that my usage is relatively predictable and transparent.

I doubt that I'm atypical. As someone who tends to turn the lights off when I leave a room and keeps the thermostat relatively low in the winter, I don't have any particular desire to subsidize someone who leaves all their lights blazing and cranks the heat up to 75 degrees.

I find it somewhat interesting that people seem to be more accepting of usage-based pricing in some scenarios than others. I expect part of it is what we're used to--pricey per-minute domestic long distance phone pricing seemed quite normal until relatively recently. But I expect things like degree of predictability and control-ability factor in as well.
Original title was something like: US ISPs are failing to provide broadband speeds during peak hours.

If I could make it longer, I might have said "Due to neglect of relatively cheap interconnects, US ISPs are and were measured to be providing sub-broadband connections to many portions of the Internet".

The title "ISP Interconnection and its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance" just says that there was a study and says nothing about its results, but it's the results that are interesting. It was kind of a surprise to see the title changed out from underneath me. I did not know HN titles were edited in that way.
I've never found this article persuasive, that one should expect math to not be effective in such disparate areas. The question is, could it have been any other way, and what would such a world look like? While its conceivable that math wouldn't be so effective, such a world would necessarily have different laws that apply at different scales that are irreducible to more fundamental laws. The laws of the universe would necessarily be huge, perhaps uncountable. Considering the extreme end of this spectrum, such a universe would be random; that is, each particle and each subset of particles would have their own individual laws governing their interactions. Order of any kind would not exist.

Taking the other extreme, where there are a small set of laws that apply to the fundamental units of the physical world, there is order to the universe and everything is comprehensible with a finite amount of information. In this world mathematics is necessarily effective at all scales.

It seems pretty obvious that we exist in a universe with order on most scales, and so the effectiveness of mathematics is expected.
It could be a regional thing, or it's possible that I am unusual myself, but I've never thought twice about metered electricity, but that's largely because I've never been hit with anything I consider unfair like I have with both mobile phones and home Internet.
Maybe they mean for end users? Most people aren't going to care if developers have an easier job with browser compatibility.
jesushub is taken: http://jesushub.org/

btw, you're making the analogy as if "Zen" were a religion – it is not
My guess is after 11pm EST.
Try using: https://fit.google.com/
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> The time it's bad is when nobody knows and just goes along with the blowhard.

If I had a penny for every time I've seen that, I'd have a pretty big pile of coins.
Just thought I'd take a look at the app on Google Play. At the time of writing this post, the Android version appears to needs access to:

- Contacts/Calendar

- Location

- Phone

- Photos/Media/Files

- Wi-Fi Connection Information

- Device ID & Call Information
I had already regretted upgrading to Yosemite (this thing is ugly), but this is the last drop: I'm going back to Mavericks.
Why do Apple, Google and major IT companies seem so much interested by our health suddenly ?
What are they planning to do with the data ? Just selling it ? (life insurance companies ?)
Google Health was discontinued early last year.
Well in this instance the master did not have on-disk persistence turned on because of latency issues but the slaves did have it turned on. What would you call that kind of setup? Volatile or not?
I don't often eat at Taco Bell, but when I do, I'm just driving by and have no other choices.

Seriously, what's with wanting to app-ify everything? I can't remember the last time I visited the websites of any of the fast food joints, much less used them for ordering or install their app on my phone.

The only websites I have used are from pizza joints because it actually is easier to order a pizza online than calling someone on the phone.

Do people really use these apps?

As a publicity stunt it could be brilliant.
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Caffeine withdrawal is not what causes the headaches from coffee cessation. It's something else (so far as I know unknown) in coffee that causes that.
It is meant to aggregate data from other fitness apps. They just need to integrate with Google Fit
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They don't do this on unlimited, as far as I can tell. However, if you're not on an "unlimited high-speed" plan, they will throttle to almost unusable speeds.

It might be that you don't use as much data as you think. I use my phone for data stuff all day long, but don't stream music or video, and it's the rare month I go over a gigabyte. Apparently perusing stock prices and weather reports doesn't use all that much. However, on a recent motorcycle trip in Canada it hit some limit and got throttled. Non-https would work if I was really patient. Apple Maps worked okay, if slowly. Google Maps: don't even bother.

EDIT: I got it wrong. I got throttled because a 3rd-party contractor dug up Frontier's FioS lines, so I used my phone as the house hotspot on a 5Gb plan. Then we tried to watch something on the Apple TV. In HD. Oopsie. Upgraded to unlimited high-speed data after that. The Canada thing was T-Mo's "unlimited data in select countries". Problem there is that high-speed is quite tiny (200Mb?), then it's throttled. They'll sell you an international roaming pass for a reasonable price, though.
They want to be gatekeepers for services every single person needs their entire lives.
Hopefully by that point the block size will be bigger. If the block size is bigger, than the problem is just "include every transaction". But yes, the bitcoin rewards will continue halving until sometime in 2110-2140, where they hit zero. At some point, transaction fees will be more important than the block reward. Therefore, to be efficient miners would need to solve the knapsack problem if they wanted to create a maximum value block. However, we are lucky here, the knapsack problems is one of the few NP-complete problems that isn't a total mess to deal with, and can be solved in O(nW) time, where W is the greatest common divisor for the weights and n is the length of the input.
This is applicable only to a limited subset of a handful of fields. There's more kinds of research than -omics and organic synthesis/combichem.
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A thoughtful counterpoint to Wigner's enthusiasm for Platonistic math is Derek Abbott's "The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics" from IEEE Proceedings vol. 101, no. 10, 2013 http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6...

The crux of Abbott's argument is based on Richard Hamming's 1980 critique of Wigner. It is centered on four propositions, quoting Abbott:

"1) we see what we look for;
2) we select the kind of mathematics we
look for;
3) science in fact answers comparatively few problems; and
4) the evolution of man provided the model."

The first three are fairly straightforward and largely indisputable. The fourth point is kinda iffy and inexact.

Abbott adds fifth and sixth:

"5) Physical Models as a Compression of Nature (as opposed to exact representations)
6) Darwinian Struggle for the
Survival of Ideas"

(parenthesis mine)

The sixth sounds mystical, but Abbott is really talking about how the 'fittest ideas survive' and rise to the top, eventually leading to a world where the mass of mathematical ideas is comprised largely of those that were accurate in describing natural phenomena, as opposed to those that failed at this. This reminds me of Brian Greene's tweet today: "How often have you noticed a coincidence that didn't happen?"
Oh, I so much I could upvote multiple times. Brilliant.
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E-Plus resellers are now offering a thing where you can buy 5GB for €15/month, but then buy another 5GB for €3 when you reach the cap. Repeat as needed. Not a bad deal for heavy users.
There's a much deeper thing going on here than Flappy Bird. The rhythm of it is more multi-dimensional. Flappy Bird works really in one dimension. This works more in two dimensions. Also there's a Tetris-like quality to it where the difficulty increases as you get higher up the page. It's also superior to Flappy Bird because there is more decision-making: do I wait for the wobble to make another cycle to make the turn, or do I rush and thrust now in the direction I'm going. Decision-making is what all good games are about, and this has better decision opportunities than Flappy Bird by a mile.
> While it's true that it's possible to run a company without being horrible, it's almost certainly far better for short-term profits to do so.

Only when you're in a monopoly or an oligopoly or similar. And this is a market failure in a capitalist economy. In this case, it's enforced by regulation, which is the opposite of what a capitalist economy is supposed to have.
Tech companies these days have such massive cash hoards and low costs of borrowing: It's inevitable that any market with potential (or less cynically, any big problem that has the potential to do a lot of good) would be attractive.

Healthcare in particular is a Big Problem that can be attacked from many, many angles, and technology has a role to play in all of them (perhaps more than most other fields, since healthcare is notoriously slow to adopt technology/change[1]).

[1] To be fair, this is in part due to a culture of conservatism which has served the field well in general.
What did you think was a mistake about the mobile shared plan? I just switched to that for my single device and I was enjoying the money saved. Am I missing a "gotcha"?
> This is anecdotal, but as far as I have seen in the Marine Corps, there is a bit of knowledge that is passed down that confidence makes you right

Real life situations are usually a bit squishy. They're often not set in stone, like pure logic is. If that's the case, being confident actually creates your own reality, by molding the existing one into a different shape.

So yes, in real life confidence works pretty well.
>I feel like I'd rank them almost up there with Halliburton, Sodexo and Blackwater.

i.e. the typical left-wing "bogey man" companies. I'm surprised you didn't throw in News Corp as well.

I think Blackwater saved more lives than they lost, and if they were that bad why did the State Department keep re-employing them? You should read Erik Prince's biography. It might change your perspective.