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Google was hacked by the NSA years ago according to the Snowden leaks:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24751821
Are there actually any open gsm capable chips? I'd expect there to be other transmitted codes for certain functionality which isn't as readily documented but still abuseable.
Be serious.

Neither Uber nor Google have ANY experience making cars. They aren't the simplest products to sell. Complex regulations that varies city by city, state by state, country by country. And even then the minute you become successful the existing car manufacturers will simply jump into the market and swallow you whole.

Uber drivers have absolutely nothing to worry about.
Adds are served from a separate IP in part to keep websites honest. As long as this happens browsers can fairly easily tell what's an add. IMO, a more risky option is for add networks to start hosting webpages and I can easily see Google taking this approach.
2G is going away here in Australia. I wonder whether there's a 3G target in the far future.
If you're looking for secure backup solutions, you should also consider SpiderOak and CypherTite.
Interesting. Although going over an abstract representation harms the performance in a RTS game. I finally chose Nau's HTN planner to plan entire villages in a few milliseconds. The core in JavaScript fits on one screen page:

https://github.com/agentx-cgn/Hannibal/blob/master/source/si...
Is there something like this for people who aren't students but are still in that age group(18-24)?
Goober?
>correlated with poor/untrustworthy content and someone trying to make money
>I'm of course not talking about web applications here (like GMail or Google Docs)

Why would you even disclaim that, if the implication wasn't justified, that Google services weren't trustworthy but trying to make money?
Uber is already pretty much limited to major metropolitan areas, so maybe Uber would really only need map data in these consolidated areas. At least to start.
How to use iBeacon proximity technology to automatically open a door
I just didn't find any small mouse fitting my description...
I researched quite a few logitech and microsoft ones...
Implementing 3G is more complicated than 2G by an order of magnitude (and OsmocommBB is still far from having their 2G support complete). Plus Calypso is one of the only baseband processors out there that accepts unsigned firmware (which is exactly why it's OsmocomBB's target) and 3G on Calypso is not possible.
IMO CA employee defamation law should really be changed: http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/2igkke/reddit_ceo_ca...
How does Go solve "the IO problem"? (Probably what I want to ask is: which IO problem does Go solve? It can't be the one about purity and side-effects, and if it doesn't solve that...)
brd makes a good point, but...

If UPS and FedEx are the 2 biggest courier-service companies in the US (with at least 80+% combined market-share), they have no incentive to decrease costs except as a planned duopoly to show they are "competing".

Cost drop should be minimal, as they will swallow the the value as "profit".

##I don't know if the duopoly scenario is true or not, but that is my opinion if they exist as such.
Venkatesh Rao has an interesting take on this published in Forbes:

Forbes: Entrepreneurs Are The New Labor: Part I http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...

Forbes: Entrepreneurs Are The New Labor: Part II http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/03/entrepre...

Forbes: Entrepreneurs Are The New Labor: Part III http://www.forbes.com/sites/venkateshrao/2012/09/04/entrepre...
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Our dev team has typically worked from home, but we do prefer that developers can regularly come to our offices on regular basis as needed.
Thanks for sharing. I never knew you were so involved back then or that people were being treated that way
It's just a different era. If you have 3 days, you buy that stuff online. If you're mid project and need something "today" Radioshack is often the best or only bet. It's like they have to have a huge inventory for the 10 people that care though.

Worse, they haven't found that niche to pay the bills.
I'm not sure what user-provided data would even be beneficial? Stuff that's likely already collected encompasses where the user is picked up, dropped off, route taken, time of departure and arrival .etc
I'm not sure that I want to ride in a car built by a company with a killer instinct. ;)
The orders of magnitude more nodes and inputs mean that there are orders of magnitude more opportunities for mistakes to be made in the models. It also increases the likelihood of failing to find a confounding variable. The upper bound on system complexity is factorial. I shouldn't need to explain how big that is when you start talking about many orders of magnitude.
Of course competition would be the best solution but in case you didn't know, infrastructure is massively expensive and that greatly limits the ability for a new comer to enter the market even on a regional level.

It is in every ISPs best interest to be the sole provider of service in an area because they will have a better adoption rate and thus remake their investment quicker. This is the whole basis behind Comcast's argument in favor of the Time Warner take over, they aren't reducing competition because they each have their own areas where they operate so they so don't compete in the first place.

Think about that for a minute, the CEO of the biggest ISP in America admitted that they do not compete with the second biggest ISP.

There is a finite amount of competition the infrastructure market can handle due to high costs of entry and diminishing returns on that high cost as more players enter the market in an area. There is a finite amount of customers an ISP can have in any given area, it may make sense to build out to a market if you are going to be the only provider but if you are going to be the second or third provider your customer base is going to be smaller and as you start cutting up the available customer base there is likely not enough there to spend the upfront costs of building the infrastructure if you aren't going to get the amount of customers you need to support it.

The ISPs are already monopolies regardless of net neutrality rules, net neutrality will just require a certain level of fairness in how they treat the traffic of the content that passes through them. I would support requiring ISPS to open their wires for lease by competitors but net neutrality seems like a great second option if that is politically unfeasible.
Frederick Pohl did this in "Man Plus", IIRC.

Even without deliberate intervention, humans in space and on other worlds will evolve quite rapidly if interplanetary intercourse--as it were--ever breaks down.
TI Calypso, with OsmocomBB[1]. Haven't you seen the link you're commenting under? :P

[1] of course all feature and legal restrictions apply, so don't get too excited about "yay free baseband finally!". It's a amazing research project nevertheless, which together with OpenBSC already gave us incredible insights on GSM security. All hail Harald Welte! \o/
Breaking Madden 2015
I really don't understand this point of the article: I hated the fact that in Java any call might block. To me, this isn't some better abstraction, this is like a language being impure by default: any function can make changes to global state. So actually I preferred seeing the color of the functions - it made the program much more understandable and "safer".
Actual Uber announcement: http://blog.uber.com/carnegie-mellon

I'm not sure a "partnership" qualifies as "cleaning out".
Relevant: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/11/19
The White House put its 2016 budget data on GitHub
Yes, when I saw "rebels" and "plans" I immediately thought of Star Wars.

But, unlike in cinema, there are many real lives at stake.
Iceland to build first temple to Norse gods since Viking age
same here, except they're generally busy. on a per sq ft basis, they might even be more profitable than RS.
You went to all that trouble to block an ad? It must have been one hell of a distraction.
Thanks, I see the article has been updated (it stated ARM11 this morning), but too late to edit my comment.
He was outranked by the first two, you can't list a VP before the President.
For the US, the current TIGER data is pretty reasonable. They could get away with using that (especially as a starting point), or OpenStreeetMap.

Waze demonstrated how well a crowd sourcing effort can work.

It's also apparently possible for a small team to start doing sign recognition:

http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2015/01/27/traffic-signs.ht...
In a far-seeing, long term analysis, I don't think we should limit "colonies" to discrete heavenly bodies. Long term, we should consider the complex of Venus, Mercury, and Venus-crossing asteroids as a local resource pool.

The notion that a single planet has to be largely self-sufficient as an independent unit is a bit of prejudice that comes from our upbringing on Earth. On Earth, in terrestrial economic terms, it's generally relatively expensive to get things off the planet and back onto its surface in one piece. For this reason, we think of planet Earth as a practical (if not absolute) boundary for economic transactions and resources. In the larger context of a solar system spanning society, it's costly in absolute terms by current-day Earth standards, but in the larger context, it's also relatively cheap to ship things down into the Venusian atmosphere from Mercury, Venus-crossing asteroids, and even Mars. In fact, one can make it materially inexpensive by applying lots of energy, which shouldn't be nearly as expensive by that point.

It's probably true that Earth's gravity well will limit trade of material goods between itself and the rest of the solar system. But there's no reason that a solar system spanning culture couldn't exist as a largely separate entity. I suspect people will live out there just for the idea of it, and that nation-states will help in the endeavor just to propagate their own cultures.
If you enjoy coding and are willing to spend hours at a time upgrading and maintaining your own blogging platform go for it. If you want to just post content then go with a blogging platform, but before you settle on one try a few of them out!
"Our AI is nowhere near capable enough to create more AI."

Are you sure? Lots of machine-learning/optimization processes already work much like evolution.

How many people thought an email worm could bring down thousands of machines around the world in 1988?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

If one (or several) of the robots depicted in the below video wants someone dead, the "stair step" defense is not going to be enough:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdQM47Av20
Technology makes bra only unhooks for true love
And you have to get enough of those self driving cars for it to be effective. If uber is buying the cars then they cease to be a driver/car to passenger matching service and become a full on cab company, complete with the liability and maintenance costs that go with owning cars.
That guy just links to the MS blog as his source. The Windows IoT page mentions that they intend to support the Universal App model, but for now it's just C++/Arduino. There's also no UI. http://ms-iot.github.io/content/WelcomeAndFAQ.htm
I'm not arguing for less competition, far from it. If anything, the lack of competition is probably the main cause of the current situation.

However, net neutrality is the bare minimum. We should also advocate for more competition, just not at the expense of neutrality. Imagine we would let a grocery store lax the quality control on their products. They could sell more for cheaper, but the number of people who would get sick (or die) would increase. In a similar way, allowing ISPs to fiddle with throttling would have far negative effects for everybody. (it's not a direct analogy so please don't try to break it, that's not the point).

The $15 price range you mention is very doable, with much faster speeds than we currently have AND without having to compromise on neutrality. Our worldwide ranking is pretty depressing -- compared to what we could/should have. All these foreign ISPs are able to offer cheaper and faster connections without messing with neutrality. If ISPs must segment their offerings in any way then let them do it by speed (which they already do) or by how much data you can download/upload per month, but not by compromising net neutrality.
I was puzzled by this too, and surprised at how simple it was. Remember during the 90's we had ISO7816 cards that were a lot more difficult to attack (for instance, payphone cards permuted a challenge from the phone with a shared secret and a secret algorithm, and additionally had some good anti-reading protection, and an irreversible counter)

As far as I know all the technology able to fit in a 7816 card has been put into contactless cards too.

I think that carmakers are lazy, they go to a vendor who designs a system with off the shelf parts and implements it poorly, and we end up with our $30,000 car secured by a PCF7930 or something weaker and if it has security features they are not fully utilized.

I think they also have to design these things within the constraints of being able to service them in the field and not upsetting the customer. Vendor doesn't want to be responsible for a bunch of cars not working if reliability is low, and carmakers wouldn't want the bad press. On the other hand, when criminal activity is involved, it's real easy to blame the criminal.
I still stand by what I say that "first impressions are important". Perhaps they are less emphasized in public software, however, they still count for quite a lot (as is seen by reading the comments). Technically, your first impression was of the idea that it was trying to convey rather than the application itself that was linked to. To others, it was the application and not the idea.

I guess when I did say "it doesn't work" that was a bit judgemental, sorry. I meant that it was incomplete, or at least unintuitive and/or cluttered to use. In the version that was given to everybody to try out, that is.

First impressions may be unreliable, but it's how the world works, most of the time, and unfortunately changing human nature is quite difficult (although I haven't really tried :P).
Sell your poop for $13,000 per year
Alternatively you can go the Neo900 route, where the baseband processor is in fact a separate USB module which can be separately turned off - just placed on the same PCB.

http://neo900.org/

More about feasibility of a "OSS phone with no backdoors" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPFCFooBv0&list=PL-s0IumBit...
Uber can simply license their maps from various third parties the same way every car company does today for their GPS.

Google has added some decent additions to Google Maps but really 95% of what they had they purchased. For example Whereis/Yellow Pages data here in Australia.
Planetary ownership rights? Is that even a thing?
So basically, Yishan left, he was the big proponent of it, and the rest of you are too chicken-shit or simply not knowledgeable enough about cryptocurrencies to deal with corporate risk concerns over it. Got it.
IoT Is Cool, but What Is It?
GPGPU Used to Predict Who Is at Risk from Sudden Cardiac Death
down through reentry into an atmosphere in a deep gravity well

The good news there is that space elevator climbing efficiencies could be gained without having to worry about flying some kind of aircraft.
So it's better to be a bored wannabe like Walter Mitty than a Formula One driver, an olympic skiier, a general dedending your homeland in war, or James Bond?

Better you than me, I say.
You know, I don't know if even kernel developers need to write in C/C++. Sure, those are the languages in which most kernels seem to be written, but couldn't kernels be written in, say, Lisp or Forth and have almost as much performance and at least slightly more security?
And shells are indeed REPLs (in the sense that they run a loop in which they read, evaluate, and print things).

Though to be fair, REPLs for languages like MATLAB or Julia are likely far more useful from a scientific standpoint than a typical shell (which is more useful for system administration).
Autonomous cars are here:

https://www.media.volvocars.com/global/en-gb/media/pressrele...

And you can find examples from almost every car company. They all have projects going back decades looking at autonomous technologies. Some you see today e.g. parallel park assist, crash avoidance, lane/stop sign detection etc.
> 1g at 1 atmosphere has disadvantages. Namely: to get off the planet, you will need a fully fuelled multistage rocket with an almost identical profile to rockets you'd launch from ground level on Earth.

Condense Carbon Monoxide and Sulphuric Acid from Venus's atmosphere for use as fuel and oxidizer in a hypersonic rocketplane that tops out at about Mach 11. Have the rocketplane rendezvous with the end of a rotating tether.

http://www.tethers.com/papers/HASTOLAIAAPaper.pdf

No multi-stage rocket. No expendable launch vehicles. That's probably not the actual solution, but it shows that you don't have to have a Falcon 9 equivalent.

> Then you have to fly it out through a hot corrosive acid atmosphere which I don't imagine would be very friendly to machined aluminum.

It should be possible to condense HF out of the Venusian atmosphere, so we should be able to manufacture PTFE locally with input from non-Earth resources. (Mining chondrites from Mercury and Venus-crossing asteroids.)
I think they really did not count on tools like NFS to find their way into the de facto 'public domain.' However when CAS was designed, they knew (or should have known) that somehow all the manufacturing-side tools were getting out. Also some of the regional technical people who support the dealers carry them around on their laptops. A couple of beers can earn you a lot of secrets sometimes.
What doesn't get brought up enough in these discussions is the degree to which the advances in AI and resource distribution bring down costs and increase the accessibility of having your needs met.

For example, as Uber has advanced to UberX and now UberPool, the possibility of being car-free is much more feasible and potentially cheaper than ownership. So the labor hours required to own a car are cut out as a need for those workers. Similarly, craigslist, AirBNB etc. are impacting the renting vs. buying scenario and reducing costs in those areas.

Will this increase in accessibility happen at the same rate of labor loss? Probably not and there will be some turbulence, but I think the net result will be a realization of excess in western culture and an adjustment to more reasonable standards of living.

Sure, there will be 'above the api' haves, but there is reason to believe the accessibility of meeting basic needs will scale up as a long term net result after short/mid term turbulence.
This is a good point -- I was thinking of our process to secure independent directors.
Court tosses warrant where FBI cut Internet, posed as hotel repairmen
The TIGER data is a starting point. But it's outdated the day it is complete, and rapidly diverges. For many purposes that's perfectly fine, but as stated above, you need someone driving the street. Even something as major as postcodes changes multiple times in between TIGER updates, and tons of streets are changed or added or removed.

The TIGER dataset is fantastic, and certainly helps levelling the playing field by giving people somewhere to start from, but it's the cheap 80%, except in this case the last 20% doesn't take the other 80% of the time, but more like 800%.
Whats the secret code?
It's a buzzword, it gets thrown around a lot in spiritual circles. It's also an important part of Buddhism that sometimes gets confused as the only part.

The Theravadan tradition of Vipassana is sometimes called "mindfulness meditation" (it's also called "insight meditation") so there's a good chance when you hear the word it traces back to them.

If somebody's giving a teaching it has a fairly specific meaning but when people just toss it around they're essentially saying they're making an effort to pay attention to whatever's in front of them, or whatever their mind is doing, or just whatever's happening at that moment. You kind of have to pick up from context exactly what it means to the person using it.
Or view source (of css file).
> I personally think it extends way beyond medicine. When the president tells us we're invading Iraq because it has "weapons of mass destruction," and that turns out to be almost entirely hot air, should people be considered stupid for suddenly trusting Alex Jones more than they trust the POTUS?

The scientists were actually pretty clear about that particular bit of data.

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/03/18_blix.shtm...

I think the politicians squarely deserve the blame for that one.
What you need is discipline.
There is no such thing as a troll, they are fictional creatures. I'm talking about humans.

>Add in someone else who hates all change, and you have an unresolvable contradiction.

No, you have a meta-problem. One that can be solved by a suitable virtual reality pretty handily.
Reasons for why drivers always take route X between streets A and B, for example (e.g. street C has been changed to one way only so route Y isn't actually legal/possible).
Can I ask if this taxation note is based on http://i.imgur.com/NWQ7zTM.jpg ?

I honestly don't know about Greece, but I can tell you that graph is very wrong in so many levels. For example, Sweden is at 44.5%, but they count all money paid as taxes (according to a Deloitte report I was given when I had a job offer there, I can try to dig it up if needed) including what will go to social security/retirement/etc. In Portugal, you pay income tax (let's say around 20% give or take), but then, you as an employee pay 11.5% to social security and your employer pays 22.5%. So roughly, 34.5% to social security alone, but this doesn't go to the 'tax revenue' bracket. So, if we take in account corporation tax at 23% (lower in 2015), VAT at 23% for most stuff (including electricity!!), and income tax (variable between 14 and almost 50%), + social security, that 33.1% is way off. In 2012, a person in Portugal would have to work until August to have his 'taxes paid'. This means, more than 60% of his work output is taxes one way or the other.
>1. They barely advertised it.

...does anyone remember the IBM OS/2 Fiesta Bowl?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Fiesta_Bowl
You didn't get the system include files without having the compiler so, yes, gcc wasn't a full solution. Also missing without paying extra was troff so I had to use groff just to be able to format man pages (they mostly came preformatted).