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But that's financial* income. I interpreted the parent as implying that the reason taxes are so low is because of oil, which is not necessarily true, and at least harder to prove than you would think.

*The fund is composed of 60% global shares, 35% bonds and 5% real estate.

Live(!) valuation here: http://www.nbim.no/en/
And yet, when I want to go from SFO to Cupertino, it absolutely refuses to offer taking 380 to 280, even when it is 10 to 15 minutes faster according to Google itself.

Apparently they still haven't fixed the whole "we have to go directly away from the destination for a little while" problem.
I'm surprised that malloc doesn't round the 24 byte object up to 32 bytes (no matter what sizeof(std::basic_string) says..).
Maybe when your service is up and running you can do a "show HN" post and one of your competitors can hijack that thread just like this.

Classy.
Please cite sources. While we're trading unsubstantiated opinions; I disagree. I moved to a country everyone said had a crap economy and it has offered far more opportunity.

Of course, you're probably right. The real lesson here is to including supporting evidence and not just your feelings.
It will be the same as it is now. The restaurant will find ways to get you to leave if you only spend $10 and stay another 2 hours. The amount you stay is directly proportional to how much you spend. If you stay 5 hours but you bought a $10,000 bottle of Screaming Eagle then don't expect to hear a peep from the restaurant.

I've long felt that if you're not on time for your reservation then you get sidelined and accommodated when it is convenient for the restaurant. I understand things happen but unless you call in advance and explain that you're going to be late then you're really just not respecting the restaurant's time and they should not have any obligation to you.
What do you think of the EU? Is it a reasonable level of state control? Would you expand it's reach?

US States are European Countries. The demographics are similar. State/Municipal governments are far more integrated than state/Federal, much like the EU/Country divide.
As a top technology company, Uber should have had some basic measures to ensure safety of their rides. In this specific case, the driver turned off the GPS, and took a detour. At the very least, these incidents should have triggered alerts on their internal monitoring systems. And, assuming they had an agreement with cellular service providers for public safety, they could have tracked of the location of the female rider through her cellphone, and dispatched cops to that location.

Precisely for the reasons you mentioned in your blog post about how things can be gamed in India through bribes, Uber should have been careful about expanding in India. Asking the drivers to provide a conduct certificate in a corrupt country like India is a "cover your ass" move to precisely brandish this certificate and say - "Hey, see, we did our homework. It is not our fault" in situations like this.

This was an opportunity for them to raise the bar. This is a leadership failure. They were too eager to just expand overseas. They could have used technology to mitigate such risks in the "rape capital" of India (world?). Some things I think they can do as a technology company in India

- Install custom GPS trackers which cannot be turned off manually on the cars.

- Install a special audio/video cam in the car, and automatic audio/video feed analysis for distress screams, struggle.

- Automatic algorithmic tracking of the car route/de-tours

Like I said, they had a golden opportunity to showcase how technology could be used to mitigate the risk of such incidents in Delhi, and used it in their marketing. They could have raised the bar. They could have shown how it is done. They could have made the world safer and better. This is what separates the great from the good. Larry Page calls them Moonshots. Uber had the resources to do it. They played the "CYA" game. They should take responsibility. They could have taken something and made it 10X better. That's what great companies do.
Do you mean to reply to me? I made a commeny about innovation in the stdlib would be good. and I'm quite happy with io.js supporting npm.
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Whelp, if that's not a succint answer I dunno what is. I ended up asking the search engine what you thought on the topic [0], and I think it was informative. At least, it made me feel a bit less bad about my stance. (Confirmation bias / appeal to authority ahoy.)

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tptacek+antivirus#!/comment/foreve...
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Call me when I can develop android apps from within an android device.
big take away: if you're using dependencies that talk across the internet, make sure they're ALSO using HTTPS
As the digital media world continues towards free (journalism first, and more recently musicians releasing their music for free) we need a new way to reward or compensate creators.

My startup, Huzza - http://huzza.io - is doing just that. It's an app that lets you tip any song or artist in the world from your phone. We like to call it pay-as-you-love, and we think it's the future of music.
Remember that std::string can be on the stack or a member of a larger structure.

These comparisons seem to all be against versions of std::string that keep size/capacity inside the std::string, not ones (like the default GCC one) that keep those members adjacent to the character data itself
But how many of those restaurants are there really?
I'm in the field myself (see profile) and although the website looks nice I don't see how it's different than any of the existing services.

Here are my $0.02:

1. PRICE - The prices are way too high. Especially given that all established print services offer huge discounts these days. Even our Printy.pics iOS app offers lower prices + 40% discount.

2. Registration - I would prefer to register when I need to (before payment) and not when I'm asked to. The common practice for most web print apps is to allow product creation and require registration (if at all) on checkout. I guess you should do some A/B testing to see which approach maximizes LTV.

3. Why .io?

On a general note, it is very hard to compare print products. There can be huge quality differences and for someone who isn't an expert in the domain it would be hard to tell if the price is worth it.
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What does that have to do with current US defense spending?

Or was it just some kind of one-upmanship?
I read the parent's post not as reasoning or arguing for a specific policy, but simply observing one of the flaws of capitalism.

Capitalism is doing much better than the other existing systems at solving the massive coordination problems of a large modern society. However, we can also tell that it is imperfect and involves some clear examples of wasted effort. Noticing this waste is valuable, even if no one has a good solution at the moment to improve on the existing system.

What's the alternative? Should we just assume that our current economic system has an optimal set of incentives that we could not improve upon?
I love this blog. Such a perfect example of someone sharing his knowledge freely like in the "good old days of the internet".
Depends on whether Apple's approval process is bad enough for you to tar the entire company with that brush. For a lot, it isn't.
Analyze AWS costs,resources,scan open ports/run security audits. Open source
Download a generative art framework and get familiar with how it works.

Try

processing: https://processing.org/

Or

nodebox: https://www.nodebox.net/

for example.
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Went through this last week with dnsimple =)

The one problem I encountered with cloudflare is that they don't allow you specify none cloudflare NS.

This presents a problem if you want to have redundant, cross provider DNS.

In our case, we could still specify a cross-provider mix of NS records at our registrar, but it seems like it doesn't take affect until the TTL on the cached NS records expires. So - this left us with a failover, but not really a graceful one.
I'd like to click one button, and for you to still have the option to be a masochist.
I don't. If you do and you feel there's a reason to make an intro, send it to mike@bettir.com. Thanks!
this began as a chat between me and solomon, and I then invited everyone at dockercon who was implementing network/extension related stuff. this all happened over a few hours... so wasn't possible to invite folks to hop on a plane from SFO at that point.
That's not actually true. If everyone spends at once, the economy can overheat, creating bubbles and uncontrolled inflation. If everyone saves, the economy can contract and we fall into a depression. The federal reserve uses interest rates and other tricks to try to find the (moving) sweet spot where the economy grows without a significant risk of a recession. The performance of the fed and economic policies are debatable, but the principle is sound.
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This. Like most folks here, I like learning new things. I learned Ant a long time ago, and then Maven (to GP's point, learning Maven was NOT trivial). When I started through the Gradle docs and realized that it's a DSL written in Groovy, I had to open a new tab in my browser and start learning Groovy. Now I'm thinking to myself: "Great. In order to really grok Android Studio, I need to learn Gradle. To grok Gradle, I need to learn Groovy." As I mentioned in a previous comment, with all there is in this life to learn, I just can't bring myself to learn Gradle when I already know 2 other Java build tools :)
Posting this from a throwaway account.

What are the consequences of not filing if you don't owe anything? It seems likely the IRS could eventually force backfiling, but have they issued any fines?
Would love to get feedback from anyone in Portland!
If you enjoyed that you really need to give A la recherche de temps perdu a go. Another challenge.

I wasn't a massive fan of either in terms of readability though - would much prefer to read Moby Dick, Don Quioxte or a good translation of the Odyssey. All felt more rewarding but more readable to me.
Unfortunately the documentation isn't 100% worked out yet. They published a bunch today, but the post explaining that is buried in release notes for an RC build:

http://tools.android.com/recent/androidstudio1rc3_releasecan...
Seconded. 9front is _way_ ahead of vanilla Plan9, although that's a relative statement in such a tradition-bound community.
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You also get an awesome army that kicks asses around the world, isn't that cool? ;)
The whole point of creating a property right in the fruits of R&D is enabling the market to compensate people for producing R&D. Markets don't work if people can use what you produce without having to pay for it.
> Europe will come to understand that philosophy as it merges to become the EU

I'm not sure that is very likely. France for example is 65 million people, so around 1/5th of the US. That is not a very large difference, and that's twice the size of the largest US state.

With anywhere between 1 and 11 million inhabitants, French régions are actually close to US states, yet since 1789, there have been little will to delegate more power to the régions (or the smaller départements).

Some people like having a central government that ensures equality between all parts of the territory. On the other hand we might have more little overseas régions that might have a hard time fending for themselves if the central state didn't allocate more money to them without asking the other régions' opinion.
Mike, one of the founders of Bettir here.

While we do track and chart blood pressure data, Bettir is a service that offers daily feedback from experts and doctors on your blood pressure.

Recording your blood pressure is an important part of managing high blood pressure and other blood pressure conditions, but it's only a piece of the puzzle. If you use Bettir, you'll input your blood pressure and other related metrics into our app, and we'll connect you with our in-house specialists who will offer you feedback and suggestions on how to manage your blood pressure.
with a seventy five thousand page tax code do we think they could?

Taxes should be a one page affair, yet as always politicians are adept at dividing us, boxing us, and generally punishing us when we don't do as we are told. The IRS is a political weapon more often than not.

As a typical corporate drone with a house how complex should my taxes be? I do the correct deductions throughout the year yet I never have a near zero difference.
>You also leave off debt service, which is approaching the military budget in size.

There's a lot of FUD and wrong opinions approaching the national debt, and people don't think about it correctly.

Very briefly, I'll make one point to bring some of this to light: 40% of the national debt is owned by the government.

* 16% by social security (so this portion isn't debt service, it's SS funding)
* 13% by other government entities (likewise funding these agencies)
* 12% by the Federal Reserve (whose profits are remitted to the Treasury, this money is free)

Another 25% of the debt is owned by Americans in some form or another.

For comparison, the two largest foreign debt holders are China and Japan each with about 7%.
that's maybe where the "experienced" part comes into his description. Would you rather have a ten years of Java guy or a three years of Java, 5 years or Python, and three years of JavaScript. (Ok all of those are imperative, but Python and JavaScript also have a functional element to them).
That's assuming the attacker would be a fellow student connecting to the wifi network, and not the school, who has full control of the the network beyond the access point.

I'm long out of undergrad so I've never used this app, but I've read that YikYak is at least somewhat known for controversial content regarding schools, school employees/faculty, and fellow students.

Seems like there would've been just as much, if not more, incentive for a university administrator to want to get people's post histories in order to divine who posted a particular piece of content.
I agree, one of the most important factors in buying customized products is getting a feeling of what you're getting. This way the user is more likely to make the purchase and even more likely to be satisfied with the product once it's delivered.
Patronage is an interesting and potentially great model (ref: the "1000 true fans" approach), but it's kind of a half-step in the right direction. It is part of a fuller panoply, but not complete in and of itself. A step further would be segmentation (and subsequent addressing) of one's audience—be they patrons, regular customers, or casual viewers/listeners/readers. Create flexible, multiple ways for people to get to, consume, and pay for your content. Experiment with different channels, different messaging, different price points, and different versions of your content for those channels. Essentially, what you're doing is allowing consumers to segment themselves, by opting into the types of content (and according price points) that best fit their needs.

This is different from a classic up-sell strategy. Up-selling is offering everyone the same baseline, then either encouraging or goading people into paying for "value-adds." Instead, consider that your audience is heterogeneous in terms of what it wants, what it likes about you, which aspects of your content (or you) it values most, and what it considers those aspects to be worth. One size does not fit all. So sell more than one size.

[Note that this is not an inducement to cheat people. Don't try to pawn off the exact same content at different price points on different channels. If you're going to segment-and-address, you need to customize for each segment. Kickstarter campaign structures, for example, offer a decent framework by which to do this.]
Depending on how adventurous you are, you could look at "The World Passport." You can get a passport that has been accepted at 160 nations, supposedly, although based on my research a few years ago it's pretty hit-or-miss. Some great gems on their website like:

>Does this mean I don't have to pay my national tax?

>No, you must pay that proportion of your national tax officially allocated to peaceful pursuits.

I wouldn't dare travel without another passport as a backup, but I would love to live in a world where I could. And as an American, cutting out the 40% or whatever of my taxes that goes to MiniPax would make me ecstatic.

http://www.worldservice.org/docpass.html

Edit: Here's the list of countries that have accepted it. Part of me wonders if a substantial number of these are legitimate, or if they're just from very tired border agents.

http://www.worldservice.org/visas.html
To me, the most telling part of the whole writeup is in the postscript:

"It’s hard to describe the legitimate emotional toll we feel when we’re angry or frustrated with a company we love so deeply. But then we realize it’s never Apple we’re frustrated with. It’s always the App Store"

This almost sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me. The whole completely controlled apple ecosystem is baffling to begin with. Add to that the capricious and high-handed way Apple treats app developers and it's incredible that developers like Panic not only keep developing for Apple platforms, they only develop for this platform. That pain felt when the hammer falls is the natural reaction when you realize that the emotional connection you've built with this company is mostly (or entirely) one-sided.
It was personal and its presence at the start of your comment was obviously abrasive. For our purposes that counts as a personal attack. It wasn't egregious, but (a) this kind of subtle nastiness toxifies the environment here, and (b) it marred your otherwise fine comment.

"It was a statement of fact", if true, is beside the point. Facts are often used as ammunition for gratuitous jabs. Indeed, they make the best such ammunition, because then one can say "I'm just stating facts." But it's the gratuitous jab that's the problem.
I also wanted to say HPMoR :) if you want to start, I'd suggest listening to the excellent podcast: http://www.hpmorpodcast.com - the first 10 episodes are slightly amateurish, but after that it's really, really well done.

I would say HPMoR is like Gödel Escher Bach, but slightly simpler and more approachable, and looks at stuff from a different angle. And Eliezer is an excellent writer, just like D. Hofstadter -- and his style is even more fun!

If you're on HN, then you'll enjoy this book immensely.
It seems a strange specification to have - why that in particular? Are you thinking "democratising development"?

You can use MIT's AppInventor via the website, so presumably you could use an Android based web browser if you really wanted to. Seems like it would be pretty painful trying to do that from a small screen device however.
The parent and great-grandparent haven't proposed seizing private property, they're just noticing and drawing attention to waste. The observation is that if we could align incentives such that Bing, Google, OSM, Apple, etc were all investing aggressively into the same map data then everyone would be better off.

Maybe we can't! Capitalism is pretty damn good at some problems, optimal even. But it's not flawless, and it is worth noticing and thinking about places where gains appear to be possible.
Question for brongondwana: was there a discussion about how much to reveal about Fastmail's inner workings? That is, when do articles moves from discussing best practices (and already open source code) and into revealing trade secrets of running a top-quality email service?
I think you might be surprised by the type and value of information posted to these services.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/16/-sp-revealed-wh...
Thanks for making this! I had to pull myself away after 10min of reading this because it's quite addicting. One thing though: the style makes it really hard for me to read the text, I ended up just changing the text color for myself in Chrome. Still, bookmarked and will return :)
That's a feature not a bug. Gradle has phenomenally good documentation. I wish Google kept that level of documentation up for their plugin, or for any part of Android in general. Large swaths of the Gradle user guide are not applicable to the Android plugin because they are for other language specific plugins. The core of the user guide is only a few chapters long and well worth reading.

The Android specific ones are here:

* http://developer.android.com/tools/building/configuring-grad...

* http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/new-build-system/user-gui...
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There's a suggestion that Apple is now using current OSM data (the latest Apple Maps copyright notice has ©2014, which it didn't before) but, that said, I've not seen any indication of it here in the UK.
The quadratic growth dynamic for individuals looks dangerous to me. Change the x to x^2 in the exponential growth equation and you get a singularity.
On the third board (the first one with a slider), setting the bias to 100%, segregation stays under 10% (I've run it for a bit and the max was 8%). Obviously we need to tell everyone be act like "I'll move if less than 100% of my neighbours are like me"! ;)
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The way I think about it ('this' being like any other object), closures are just supplied a default 'this' object (window, in the case of web), and instead of providing a this argument via the argument list, you can choose it with the apply/call/bind functions.
Unfortunately it is not good.

The current NDK integration is a dead end, we don't recommend using it, as we are working on a new version that use the native support in Gradle.

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=73417
In effect they hit the budget, as they only "invest" in US government securities. Now that SOcial Security doesn't have a surplus, it is drawing off of debt service payments paid by the treasury.
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A misdemeanor conviction could make it difficult for him to visit the US in the future, so in that sense it may be a mire severe than the headline of 10 day sin jail. On the other hand DOSsers are assholes (imagine that you had business you urgently needed to transact and were unable to do so) and unusually for computer crimes this sentence seems pretty proportionate.
Is following wealth internationally a particularly new trend? Nearly all of America's population is descended from immigrants who came chasing money and/or standard of living.
As explained in other comments, Federal Govt is basically a giant insurance company with an army.
It can be as simple as freedom to travel without visas (depending on the country of origin).
There are many APIs out there. To name a few: CanvasPop, QuickPrints by Walgreens, Kodak Alaris, Print.io, Pwinty, Printzel and others.
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