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> I suspect this to be the work of the US government

If true, the backlash could be significant. There's already large portions of the world trying to de-centralize the internet from the US (routing around, etc) after the Snowden leaks and discoveries of egregious abuses of power over the internet by the US government. No single country should have the capability (or right) to knock an entire other country off the internet, North Korea or not...
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Nazi's had very similar logic to yours.
I'm still searching for a society in history that engages in torture against its opponents that doesn't eventually turn to torturing its own citizens. They will, of course, be labeled terrorists when that happens, but that time is coming.

When that story came out of Chicago a few years ago about a two decade history of torturing inmates to get them to confess to crimes, we asked how that could go on for so long. Well, apparently you can torture powerless people of color in Chicago without consequence. They were only torturing "bad" people, weren't they?

I get ill listening to the "arguments" for torture. "Well, it works." I want to drop my head into my hands. The efficiency expert's answer to moral questions. But what about a ticking bomb? Can't Jack Bauer put a bullet in a prisoner's knee to get him to talk? The Israeli's have the process down: They torture supposedly because of a ticking bomb, a time limit, whatever, but then they take a break for the Sabath. Gotta keep those priorities in mind.

If torture "worked", does that mean we have no limits? Just animals ripping the face off our prey?

I'm not very religious. What are Christians thinking when they allow this to happen? Has the iron law of Paul taken over from the Prince of Peace? If there is one piece of evidence that the US is a post-Christian country, this is it.
That was always a big argument when I was in and around a university computer science department: how much time you spend on "general enlightenment" topics like linear algebra and how much to spend on specific, valuable skills, like x86 assembly.
What fascinating times we live in.

My interpretation of the general history of warfare is that countries agree on restraint once some situation has occurred that all sides agree should never happen again. Mustard gas in WWI, nuclear weapons in WWII...

Hopefully this doesn't spiral out of control. It's not clear where the boundaries are that we don't want to cross.
Google is not a car company. They don't want to compete with professional car designers.

What Google wants to do is create a car that is not aggressive in it's design because they want other road users to feel comfortable around a self driving car.

I think they learnt from their mistake with Glass, where it was far too alien/futuristic and hence a lot of people rejected it. Whilst this car isn't futuristic at all but rather cute.
Similarly, if your government exempts income tax on your pension contributions, ~30% right now and "10%" p.a. is probably the best expected return you'll make.

Even better, if your employer matches pension contributions, 100% right now is just about unbeatable.

Of course if you don't believe your pension will be around for you when you retire, perhaps you might disagree.
FYI - here is a video of a Hohmann transfer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNdB3nmAl_0
I disagree. I think we find identity in our car because we a pilot them in a similar way we pilot our bodies. As we get less involved in the control of the vehicle, we will care less about how it looks/feels. Taxi cabs are a good example of this.
don't worry guys, its only a matter of time until Uber adds another service called UberGrandma/pa and starts targeting senior citizens with this car.
(Google Ventures has a stake in Uber)
Interesting choice by linking to a deliberately flawed regression model as an example, which allows the utility of the diagnostics to show.
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I have started investing time in trying to identify local businesses and niche market segments via other methods including advertising. I am also planning on trying to get some tie ups with startups which want prototyping services.
It is too early to comment on how effective it is but I definitely feel that it is a much better approach in the long term.
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Aside from a salesperson, I wonder if Patio11 has considered a dedicated content marketing person to build on that SEO and maintain some level of growth for both businesses? I get it that the goal is to not get buried with work and to achieve some level of passive income, but if you lose the SEO and sales are declining, what are you left with?
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Not post-Christian enough: https://sullydish.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/12-20-14.jpg

The non-religious are the only group of which a majority opposes torture.
The public /22 (1024 IPs) that is used by North Korea is widely known now, so it is bad form to assume the US is behind this attack. Heck, a 14 year old with a few bots could take down their whole country.

This outage won't hurt North Korea. At best it makes for a good head line to see the whole country offline. At worst this means that their elite citizens cannot access social networks or email outside of their country.

I really hope this isn't the doing's of the US government. You'd hope they could do better than this..
You may have missed it, but Patrick talked about it earlier this month.

https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/sales_aut...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773472
Unfortunately this is the case. I hear that Skrill is safe in this regard. I have had bad experiences with Paypal as well. Do you have any recommendations on what is better way to get paid?
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"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" - Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
I didn't know that. Do you have any more info, or a link to some docs that show this?
70%+ of Americans accept "a mortgage" as a fact of life, and don't stress out. Its either pay $600 to some guy to rent a house, or buy a house but pay a $600 mortgage. Overall this is not a terrible strategy, and mortgages are good for a lot of people...

Some high % of Americans think the same thing about a new car every 3-5 years. This is a little more insane as people could build a lot more wealth if they drive a car 10 years, and use the extra money to invest in wealth building.

So in a perverse sort of way, I see where this ad is coming from. My guess is with a house, you have a physical object. You can (usually) unload it and pay the loan back. The car is losing value fast, but you are in a similar boat. I guess student loans are an investment in your brain and not a thing, so people hate them more?
A great post summarizing this point is The Genius and Tragedy of Patrick McKenzie, by Sebastian Marshall (username lionhearted on HN): http://sebastianmarshall.com/the-genius-and-tragedy-of-patri...
I really doubt they would sell this car to public. And having a cute self-driving test vehicle is better for the way people think about it than a dangerously looking sport car with spoilers and basses.
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My initial reaction was dismay that Google seemingly didn't consult any decent auto designers on this. But then I wonder if that's actually fine.

My kids will likely be baffled by the idea that we attached so much of our own identity to our cars. The financial investment in cars to make a statement about ourselves (over and above getting us from A to B) is immensely irrational.

With self driving cars ownership will likely disappear, and be replaced with time sharing. At that point the connection between our view of ourselves, and the car we ride in disappears.

I'm not sure that completely excuses the lack of modern car aesthetic here, but it could go some way to explaining it.
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Same story here.. I actually 'ordered' two (one for my SO), and applied to be in their Beta. I still have an iPhone 4s, so they have about 2 months to ship it before I upgrade to an iPhone 6 and never look back..
I think you don't understand how powerful the US military really is.

We take down governments in our sleep and replace them with our own puppets.
A bit of your meaning is unclear, so I want to add something:

If you are part of the half of Americans who voted for either of the two ruling parties, you voted for torture. The only people who haven't are those who don't vote, or who vote for (certain) third parties.
Of course, NK won't be pissed at all and they're not going to retaliate at all (yeah I know it's probably the goal of this attack).

This might be the first steps of the first cyber world war for all I know.

The only good thing is that only the elite will be affected by the collapse of NK Internet (no porn for a while). The average citizen probably can't even grasp what the net is, and none of her life is linked to it.
He said in that post that his enterprise revenue was "$50K < X < $100K".
If you can - take your tax money elsewhere.
Well, I don't think they'll be selling this thing, especially not directly to consumers. This is a research prototype for using on the real road. They're announcing that they now have a complete car in that it meets whatever criteria the law sets for using a car on the public roads. Some time after that, they'll figure out how to market and monetize the technology. I'd be surprised if Google themselves ever got into the car business.
I suspect that may be deliberate, so that safety worries are minimized. You look at this car and think, I'd probably be the one to survive in a head-to-head collision with my SUV.

The first driverless cars need to appear as least threatening as possible.
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In < 5 years, when someone opens up his or her Uber by Google app, they won't care about what the vehicle looks like on the outside (much like an Uber customer today!). All that matters is that it shows up promptly, and that it takes them to wherever they want to go safely, quickly, and comfortably. The focus will be on the interior - WiFi, power outlets, cup holders, leather seats - so that the passenger can pleasurably remain nose deep in his or her smartwatch / smartphone / tablet. The emotional attachment won't exist - it's just another service on demand. Not until the market becomes stratified will the luxuriousness of the autonomous vehicle come into play.
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My biggest gripe about the concept of Homo Economicus is the huge ideological component that often gets ignored. The article mentions it, but doesn't focus on it.

An ideal HE behaves rationally, yes, but that doesn't tell the whole picture; being rational is about discussing with oneself all the possible behaviours, choosing the one that gives him the outcome closest to his desires. But also, and this is very important, it seems like the only thing an HE cares about is his own benefit, especially his own monetary benefit. So he has friends only because "who you know" is valuable and can help him get more money; he doesn't care about poor people because their misery doesn't affect him; the welfare of society in general is not relevant unless he can benefit from it; etc. Many people, including me, find all this very troubling, since this is the kind of people that makes this world far worse than it could be. And yes, I would say that it's clearly psychopathic behaviour.

Some economists that present, either tacitly or openly, the HE as a positive ideal, try to hop over this troubling issue by using the ill-defined term "utility", saying that an HE is someone who maximizes the perceived utility; and then they proceed to basically define the behaviour of the HE as economically-oriented, making the whole "utility" concept useless.

Contrast with this Marxist slogan: From each according to his ability, to each according to his need. One can be perfectly rational and follow it; it's just about using reason to fulfill a completely different goal. So being rational is about means to attain a goal, while being an HE also includes the goal of hoarding money and not caring about what happens to other people.
Yes, it's almost like they're designed to be a business solution where "cool" doesn't matter. You know, like to get you from the airport to long-term parking. Maybe a solution for an Uber/Lyft to enter smaller markets?
The way Google seems to be approaching self-driving cars is the right one in my opinion. Self-driving cars will be on-demand, booked through something like Uber and will not be owned by the end-user.

I feel that the other car companies working on self-driving car technology for consumers are wasting their time. The main reason I enjoy owning a nice car is that I like driving it. If I wasn't in control of driving my car, what would be the point? Vanity of course has to be considered but in the future, I see self-driving cars which we don't own will the the status quo in cities, and owning a manual operating a car will be either a novelty or something for people outside of major city hubs.
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Visual Website Optimizer just introduced a $9 plan (I work there). I agree with your point in general, but the truth is most SaaS tools make far more profit when serving bigger customers.
Tesla doesn't have any technology to speak of. They sell a sled filled with thousands of flashlight batteries. The only thing Tesla has is their car looks cool.

So Google doesn't have cool, and Tesla doesn't have technology. Could be some synergy maybe.
If this is the work of the U.S., it sets a very bad precedent.
It's a taxi. Google doesn't need the design to appeal to individuals, because they aren't selling it to individuals. Instead, they want it to appeal to the cities that they want to partner with. For that purpose, the design is fine. I'd love to see a fleet of these driving around our streets here.
Having worked on some major financial web sites (globally), including password code, I can say a few things that may be relevant.

The thing is, you never get a sense of how bad legacy code can be at restricting options in reforming sanity until you have worked on such sites.

It took me about 5 months to restore sanity to one codebase with a bunch of problems regarding encryption and passwords. Fortunately security was a priority, and not just security checkboxes in PCI requirements but real security. But it wasn't cheap and it wasn't easy, and we ran into a lot of unpleasant surprises along the way.

Looking at this the chance is that you have tons of legacy code, and these fit together in not very nice ways. People are afraid to change things because of PCI requirements, security scan results, etc. And the cost of fixing things my be very high. In these cases, I can imagine a "don't rock the boat" mentality developing and a large part of security-critical code becoming effectively untouchable.
The US has a lot more capability than that. Wrong or right, the US (and many other countries) could knock North Korea from the map entirely. Lives are much more important than Internet access.
I couldn't agree more. Has an investors returns been 10% or more since 2000? No, 2007, no?

This guy basically got lucky by having spare income to invest at the bottoms of a stock market. Hardly advice I would give anyone now, where investing now is closer to buying at the top of the market at 2007 than at the bottom of 2009.

Better advice, pay off your debt with the highest interest rates first, have an emergency fund, invest any extra income you have.
This is really the primary issue. Universities are building, there have never been as many deans and administrative assistants, and banks are always happy to extend more debt paying more interest than t-notes. And it's all subsidized by the government. Three scams for the price of, well, 3 scams.
This is not "academic writing", it is writing trying to sound academic. At my University you would get higher regard for your version and consequently better marks.

If it is a subject you are interested in, then George Orwell's essay on writing style [1] is worth a read.

[1] https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm
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Agents of the United States government committed these crimes. Other agents of the same manure-free government investigated and published their findings, in graphic detail. Now, we are in the process of getting more agents of the very same un-shit-covered government to act on that report.

I fail to see how ruminant poop would improve the situation. Must be a French thing.
Do people seriously think the USG is behind a ddos when Anonymous has already stated they are going to go after the DRPK?

http://www.inquisitr.com/1691688/anonymous-announces-vengean...
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Sorry my bad, tried all of them stuck with oDesk, at one point in my freelance career, cause they had time tracking quite nicely integrated, then decided that working with clients directly on one hand it's harder to find one outside of the system, while on the other the hourly rate is worth the additional effort. Though I miss badly time tracking capability with screenshots outside of any system where I could share screenshots and work done with my client.
Completely agree with your last point that being in debt keeps you from properly exploiting opportunities. I'm working on paying off my debt as quick as possible too.

btw great job on Clever...very interesting.
I don't think it's a strawman, although I agree that perfect HE don't really exist. It's more like a model, one of the many "spherical cows" in economy (that nevertheless are presented often as undeniable truths). And worse, it's often presented as something positive, something that we should aspire to.
I often wonder how much of it is a human trait. Transportation has many sides, it's a psycho-physiological wonder (push a pedal while sitting, and move faster than running), it's a moving private space, a technical and aesthetic source of pleasure, obviously a social status sign also. Were people as attached to their horses, boats ? was it a rite of passage or just a mundane thing ?
Well, yes, I think it is orders of magnitude less plausible as it is not plausible at all. I am also unaware of any evidence, circumstantial or not, that the US has fabricated the Sony attack. An invented incentive is not motive, which is what I assume you to be referencing as circumstantial evidence.

There has been no talk of military action, nor do I see an upside for the US to undertake any. Basically, your argument is "The US doesn't like NK, so the attack most likely a conspiracy of the US government." Using that line of reasoning I can list off at least twenty other countries who are equally as likely to have pulled off the attack.

Sure, none of us have proof that it was NK, and I have my doubts as well, but expecting the US to hand over all evidence is naive and shows a lack of understanding as to how such evidence may be obtained.

I'd also like to hear your reasoning for the statement:

"The least plausible argument here seems to be the one the US is presenting"

NK is the _least_ plausible explanation? Really? How so? And then:

"and the most plausible is that the US is responsible"

Again, how so? What is the motive hear? You think that the Fed likes the idea of movies being pulled over a vague threat? Honestly, you come off as a complete tin-foil hat wearer and you have yet to provide a compelling argument for such large claims. You obviously don't like the US government, which is fine. They certainly provide enough reason to do so based upon things we _know_ to be true. However, you are making a huge logical leap here and your position is simply intellectually lazy.
Most likely it's some 14 year old with a small bot network. Or they decided to unplug their router for a week or two to have a bit of a Christmas break from the hassle of maintaining it, since it doesn't harm them in any way.
But what if this happens?

http://finance.yahoo.com/echarts?s=%5En225+interactive
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No, but these static images describe it pretty well: http://ccar.colorado.edu/asen5050/projects/projects_2012/tru...
The reality is women won't marry low status men and men don't really want the burden of having to support a wife and child without any income. It's really about money/status, in a status obsessed society.
You're responding to the claim that "classical economics does not actually assert that individual humans behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner" with an argument that it is impossible for individual humans to behave in a purely rational and fully-informed manner.

The only part of your comment that addresses the actual point of disagreement is "(Actually, classical economics does.)"

As an aside, Keen's argument is silly. "Rationality" does not require that one must perform a search through every possible permutation of items. One might as well claim that it's impossible to draw a straight line from A to B because there are infinitely many lines from A to B we must search through to find the one we're looking for.
I take slight issue with talking too cavalierly about ranking programmers [what are we, the HR department at a big company? ;-)], but let's reverse it and say the top 10th percentile of people working in C write very few overflows and pointer bugs (but never zero, since we're all human). Should you therefore mistrust by default the software written by those folks, due to being burned by output from the lower 10th working in the same language? And all this despite the fact that we have some mitigations these days, such as address randomization, fewer pages being executable, privilege separation, safer coding styles and practices being pretty well known in some circles, etc.?

And where would that lower 90th be if it weren't for the fact that these days people are primarily being taught in memory safe languages? A key difference here, and one of the reasons I would resist percentile ranking for this discussion, is simple exposure and practice.
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Because they want to get as much bullshit in front of your eyes as possible during your, very likely, short stay on their page. That leads to unnecessary video clips, flashing flash banners, and as much content as they can cram onto the page.
Willing to bet they have their porn safely saved on their external hard drives. No internet required for that.
ooh thought this would happen. driverdan called it, reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8777811
This is surprising. The Rackspace DNS infrastructure is large and robust. It was believed just the bandwidth to the masters alone should be sufficient for even the largest DDOS. So this is either something different or of a vastly larger scale than has been seen before.

Yeah, no zone transfers, but you can always grab a complete Bind 9 export via the API or just call support and they can fetch it for you.
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