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> No one gives away any amount of mouney, let alone billions of them.

Much of modern government is about giving away other people's money.
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Laws stop bad actors all the time. Certainly not all burglaries are stopped, but I imagine there would be more of them if there were no consequences.

We should punish the actual bad behavior, not things that enable bad behavior. Otherwise, we'd outlaw kitchen knives and driving cars because, hey, you never know what someone could use them for.
This is called interactive development; if you liked this, check these out:

* Interactive programming Flappy Bird in ClojureScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZjFVdU8VLI

* Live-editing React app without refresh: https://vimeo.com/100010922

These demos aren't smoke and mirrors, I and many others do interactive development, 8 hours a day, writing regular web apps.
The context is given later in the article - the amount of meetings rose around the time of the FTC investigation into a possible lawsuit against Google. And that lawsuit was eventually dismissed.

Google spends the most on lobbying in Washington these days, more than any other company. It's true that it's hard to draw a direct line between money spent on lobbying and results, or on number of meetings in the white house and results. But it is still worth reporting on.

The amount of money that large corporations spend on politics, and the amount of influence they have, is very large in the US. And Google is now at the forefront there. That's important for the public to know.
You have to assume they at least wouldn't allow the question to be presented in a straw-man manner like that; nobody would agree to being tracked if they didn't see what the point of the tracking was.

The actual positive form of the question, ignoring the politics and just thinking about user intent, would be something like "Do you want this computer to serve a unique fingerprint to websites, allowing companies to both reconstruct your identity between sites on their network, or to persist your identity after you have purged cookies and other session data? Companies tend to use this tracking ability to enhance your advertising experience, to collect statistics on the usage of their sites, and to ensure they don't double-count you. Malicious uses of this data are also possible, though currently rare."

The important bit of the question, when phrased this way, is that it doesn't just ask about a mechanism (the DNT header), but about the user's intent—and because of that, it's activation state could be made to control all sorts of things besides the DNT header. For example, saying "no" to the question should cause the browser to try to add some per-domain jitter to its answers to questions about what links are visited, what fonts are installed, what the User-Agent string is, etc., so that the browser can't be fingerprinted.
Within the bounds of 'book value', yes. The fact that you are convinced there is some necessary relationship (and that I am wrong) is the 'cultural' part of it. You think that somewhere there's a link between those facts, when in fact there is none. None but other people believing the same thing.
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Safety doesn't trump all. But that logic still doesn't hold up. If you care about safety you should want as many eyes on your cars code as possible.

See the following computer bugs that caused safety problems:

* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2014-07-10/honda-reca...

* http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/toyota-pay-12b-hiding-deadly-u...

there are dozens of other stories.

If safety trumps all, we might as well ban people from changing their tires. If you don't use a torque wrench, you might find your wheel coming off on the freeway.
Are the latest updates installed on all involved devices? My immediate guess based on the information you've given is that it's likely a firewall or some other traffic inspection service that is - for unknown reasons - not liking the requests Tinder is making.
Well I'm assuming the guy has thought about that, and his dataset is long enough to be meaningful. He didn't say how much the return varied, which you need for the comparison with the index to make sense.
I think the key issue is whether tinkering with the software is materially different from tinkering with physical parts of the car like (say) installing new brake pads yourself.
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My manufacturer wants to charge me $400/year to keep the built-in map system updated. It was a $3500 add-on when we bought the car originally.

It sure would be nice if I could go in and put Google maps in there.
It's legal to root your iPhone/etc.

However, the manufacturer is in no way obligated to make that easy or even possible.
I am getting periodic drops in FPS, is it rebuilding chunks or what?
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In the short term, they could easily use this to lock people out of being able to perform certain routine maintenance operations on their vehicles, forcing them to go to authorized dealers and paying exorbitant markups.

In the long term, tires, filters, and brake pads could become proprietary in the same way as Keurig's K-Cups are now, though I imagine with more complex DRM.
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I hope we'll soon be able to buy one of these. I'd get one.
The doc's, and more specifically the tutorials, can be a bit stale. If you're referencing the one I think you are (building the number guessing game) it's old. I'm sure it will be updated eventually. [1]

One of the hardest things about learning Rust right now is that because it is not 1.0, lots of the tutorials, sample code and 3rd-party documentation is outdated - or parts of it are.

Learning Rust "the right way" will certainly get easier after 1.0 is finally out and reliable/stable the tutorials, code bases and doc's will follow.

[1] I just checked and it is in fact updated.
"to prevent people from having locksmiths fix or replace their door locks"

In some places (quick check here, California as one example) locksmiths are required to be licensed:

http://www.bsis.ca.gov/forms_pubs/locksmith_fact.shtml

Also noting that there is a physical limitation to the harm that can be done if locksmith tools are sold. Both geographic and how the tool (which in not digital and has friction in distribution) is able to spread.

Someone using locksmith tools will most certainly operate in one area. They can't work from the comfort of their bedroom and in most cases can't cover their tracks as easily as digital crime can be covered (and done from anywhere in the world).
This raises an interesting question - did Google intend to trick not only consumers, but also shareholders? As the article indicates, announcing a product triggers a kneejerk reaction in the market, which might be something Google would want to avoid on such a risky project.
No it still doesn't. Because you have to allocate resources to the positional bet and one side of that bet has virtually limitless risk attached to it and the other has limited upside.
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A fence might also be easy to climb over, but can still clearly indicate where private property begins, and that trespassing there is wrong.
Nice! I spoke to 50-60 middle schoolers last month. We built a Flappy Bird clone based on the Code.org tutorials and a few of them really caught the spark. This is why I recommend JS, CSS, & HTML for entry level programming courses!
"Correct price" is not boolean. Speed and accuracy both have degrees and they trade off. High frequency traders use algorithms which are not as accurate as possible, but are fast. They knowingly use algorithms which have compromised accuracy for speed.

They therefore deserve zero sympathy when their algorithms fuck up. They knew what they were getting into, so they should accept the consequences with grace.
Yeah, you can use any type of delimiter with macros, but I think that's an important feature, especially since macros can expand to declarations. Early versions of Rust required parentheses for all macro invocations, and that looked really ugly for anything that looked like a block. Delimiter interchangeability is a feature from Racket that works really well when it comes to macros and I'd hate to give it up.
I was just thinking that. I don't do much with CSS directly (I know enough to be dangerous) but I kept thinking "Ok, now it will start beating" and then 2-3 more lines of practically gibberish and rinse and repeat until the end when it started beating.

WAY too much CSS to do something like that. I'm not sure what the fix is though? A JS library to generate the CSS animation with a saner syntax (I realise CSS probably needs all of that stuff to be extendable but it's a massive amount of code for something that should be easier to accomplish IMHO).
This is amazing, though I admit I had to click through just to see if it was an April Fools headline leftover.
The fact that I still get snail mail spam catalogs in my mailbox each day, with no mandated option to opt-out, I see no way that marketers will respect DNT. The gov't seems to believe that the economy relies on its ability to market to consumers, even if they don't want to be targeted.
http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/index.html

"Common types of I/O, including files, TCP, UDP, pipes, Unix domain sockets, timers, and process spawning, are defined in the old_io module."

Following the "old_io" link leads me to http://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/old_io/ which says "don't use me"
Yes, they are. React deals with more of the templating side of things (many people use it as the V in MVC, or in some cases as the V & C). But along with React, Facebook also released their Flux architecture which isn't a framework but a new approach to the MV* pattern which many people are using with React. Part of the Flux architecture is a concept called "Dispatcher" which handles the flow of data throughout the app. Facebook did release their code for their implementation of a Dispatcher but not much else. So React + Flux can act as a complete framework, but React alone does not.
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Hi! I've been working start-ups in the bay area for 16 years, and it's just time to go. I don't like how the industry has gone from a bastion of hackers and misfits to frat boys with MBAs, or the fact that 90% of all start-ups here are Advertising based companies.

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As much as san francisco start-up founders bitch and moan abot not being able to hire, I can't believe there's such an anti-telecommute sentiment. Even in the bay area you lower an employee's quality of life by cramming them into the sardine cans of BART, Caltrain, and AC Transit. At the very least, if you're more than 50 people you should have an Emeryville office, at the most you should understand that people are vastly different, and not everybody is capable of being successful when you throw in the stress of commuting (for me it sometimes causes panic attacks) and the INSANE cost of living in San Francisco (I moved to Oakland when my rent went from $2k/month to $4000/month).

So, any advice on how to get out? I'm a fairly senior, and well-paid engineer, my salary in SF is $180k before bonuses and fringe benefits. If I could work from Emeryville I'd take $150k, if I could work from Turkey, I'd take $90k.
That makes it even better.
Odometer mileage is data, not code. If I can fake in a new mileage reading and correctly spoof the checksum (without triggering any anti-tamper safeguards), I've committed fraud with no way to trace it back to me.
The original comment correctly pointed out that you can make fictitious forces vanish by selecting a suitable frame of reference (which will not be a inertial frame of reference), he incorrectly stated that you can do the same with gravitational forces which you can not because they will at best vanish locally.

The response to my fist comment I could not fully understand but the last part of it sounds to me like it implied that a frame of reference only comprises a single point in space which of course is not true.

All in all my objection was the you can not treat gravity like fictitious forces which is an understandable and easy to make mistake if you base your reasoning on the simple elevator gedankenexperiment. I have absolutely no objections to the way the equivalence principle is introduced to people. So I am not really sure what we are arguing about, it seems to me that we - at least mostly - agree on the matter.
Can someone please explain why this is so mind blowing? No one is coding in real-time. It's just printing out the lines of css one character at a time and applying each line after it prints.

And besides, people don't actually program beginning to end like this. It is unrealistic to think people code without trial & error, ESPECIALLY css?
Yes, but not made in one go. It's sad that it's a giant piece of C++ fail, but you can't fault them for ambition.
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You could flash bad firmware that doesn't report mileage correctly, then flash it back before you sell the car.
Chrome/Blink is apparently enabling unprefixed animations in Chrome 43, so that will soon just leave Safari requiring all that -webkit- business.
This was my immediate reaction as well. I'm quite sure that their primary motivation (service fees aside) is avoiding the litigation minefield created by permitting people to hack their cars and potentially make them unsafe.
Indeed. So many times over the last few months things just suddenly broke. I understand and all but it will be nice to see some stability.

I really feel the community, which is already awesome, will start to build new things at a rapid pace.
We have folks on the ground, so yes physically there.
First of all safety does not exist in a vacuum.
And second, software is just a technology. If you have the tools you will be able to hack the device.

What will happen instead is, the car's software will be signed and even if you somehow get the sources, you won't be able to run a different version. Just like in tivo.

Getting back to technology, 20 years ago you were able to hack the car with a wrench. Now it's just plain impossible to know what's going on. Hopefully not for too long.
You know, I'd be okay with that if I no longer had to pay property tax, insurance, maintenance, fuel and other costs on the vehicles I no longer owned and instead that burden fell to the automakers.
For the past year now, whenever I get called up by a start-up funded by ron conway, I send them a link to his tweet supporting torture, and politely decline.

I feel the same way about Kleiner Perkins and his comments about how the rich are downtrodden victims of the 99%.

Start-ups: Choose your investors carefully. This is San Francisco, most of us are bleeding heart liberals, and it's a seller's market, so we can, and do take our own ethical and moral stances when considering positions.
Looks like libstd/lib.rs still points to old_io, which shows up on http://doc.rust-lang.org/1.0.0-beta/std/

Same with libcollections/fmt.rs defining the write! macro as taking an old_io::Writer

There's also a bunch of old_io in http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/concurrency.html
"Safety trumps all" - I really do kinda hate you people.

Anyway, you can already mess with modern cars tire pressure sensors, when driving near them. http://www.winlab.rutgers.edu/~gruteser/papers/xu_tpms10.pdf

Closed source and un-modifiable car firmware is like closed-source crypto and other systems - it's not the best. Because it doesn't really have to be better, so why bother. Open source / custom can be as bad or worse, or it can be much better.

I prefer a world where we have the freedom to have good stuff.
Personally I think a lot of the value in HN is its simplicity. I don't see clickable links to be worth the benefit, especially given the spam it would attract (yes, even with nofollow, spammers will target profile links).
Oh well. We should just have law that states that any device should have its boot keys changeable by its owner. Even if not able to root ios, you will still be able to run your own software on it (and device like iphone will be reversed engineered in days).
Err... it's just a cool little thing somebody made, and it resonates with the audience here.

It's not meant to be an accurate representation of somebody coding live, or as a tutorial to css.
There is a link between those facts. The PE of a stock is a number signifying the rate of return and that rate of return will be compared by the market to other investment vehicles.

Sure, in the short term things can get crazy. Will TESLA achieve wild success and own 50% of the auto market, or will they go out of business when Toyota clones their cars? Reasonable people can disagree on these predictions and hence the stock will be relatively volatile.

But in the long run we will have the answer to this question and the value of Tesla will directly relate to it's ability to generate a return on capital just like it does for every other mature business.
okay, whew! Thanks.
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Ah, thank you! We used to mention it from io's page, and I removed that, but this one slipped. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/24022
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> Can't even think that I have read any stories (so far) about malware having an impact on auto operation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/14/science/14hack.html?_r=1

The study referenced [PDF] http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf

This was a simple search: "malware car software." Pretty sure disabling the brakes or selectively braking individual wheels on demand could have a deadly impact on auto operation.
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Personally I bought an OBDII cable and disabled my passenger seat belt chime. I got so sick of putting heavy objects in the passenger seat where they would be convenient to grab when I got out of the car, and having to strap them in to stop that horrible chime.
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I like it for the show. Presentation is as important as the work behind it -- and the work behind this one is also pretty good. Someone spent hours of her time to do this and it's beautiful.
This already happens with other machines (washing ones). Only the dealers get access to a proprietary DRM software that updates a 4KB firmware. I bet that not for too long.

http://www.scc-service.com
* It doesn't matter if other stores are better, only that they exist and competition is possible.

* Even the Copyright Office has implemented DMCA exceptions for 'jailbreaking' to run legally owned/leased software which may not be available on, or restricted by, the 'official' sources. So even the curators of the DMCA recognize this requirement.

* Many times you cannot even successfully search for an App BY ITS UNIQUE NAME. That's just entirely and incompetently broken. Know who gets search right? Torrent sites and eMule. I can sooner find what I'm looking for there than on either Apple's, Google's, or Microsoft's App stores. And if these channels can do it, so can the majors.

No, it's obvious the majors all consider their App stores 'good enough', and since they can lock users into their services and out of others (both through technical barriers and unenforceable claims), there's no incentive for improvement. In fact, things have and (I suspect) will continue to get WORSE.
This example actually highlights an interesting difference between the two.

I think one of the reasons robots.txt is generally respected is that there's a stick behind that carrot; hypothetically (what with us all using so much cloud these days), a site administrator that noticed a traffic spike commensurate with something ignoring robots.txt can respond by treating the requests as attacker-originated, which most "legitimate" sites would want to avoid.

What's the stick behind the carrot for do not track?
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I interpret Garbage's response as saying that they aren't going to make a profit on the book and that they are asking photographers to give them permission to use their photographs gratis in order to keep the price of the book down. I've seen artists do similar recently. What's moronic about that?
The V8 team's number one priority is Google Chrome. They don't really care much about supporting node, io.js, or any of the other projects that use V8.

As such, APIs break/change often from release to release which makes it hard to keep up. This is made worse by the fact that old versions are completely unsupported.

This isn't really the V8 team's fault - this is just what they are paid to do. And to be fair, V8 is frequently used outside of Chrome because it's the best JS engine around.
But if the paper is not about the code and the code was just supplemental (as the article states), why should the language of the code have any relevance? If the author had declined to submit code, the author's paper might have sailed through just fine.
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I just submitted a fix for the first, the second I'm not as sure about, and I just opened up https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/24023 for the third. It's non-trivial because Duration isn't yet stable, I thought it might be, so I didn't prioritize updating, but it didn't quite make it in. Thank you!
Very cool. Watching programming in real time is a great learning experience. Thanks for this.
That's what worries me: that some exec there will convince them that all prosumer models need whatever bell or whistle $competitor is offering. I consider the fact that certain devices have minimalistic feature sets a pretty strong feature on its own.