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Yes agreed, someone has to pay at the end of day. The original model we have for what we currently call "benefits" are workers associations pooling resources to hedge against catastrophic worst cases. And to be fair no one wants to pay any more taxes than strictly needed, not just businesses.

One big problem I see with this is that of corporate personhood. If you cut corporate taxes and raise taxes on dividends and capital gains, you are basically promoting investors to not leave their money inside the corporation. Once this happen, you have to ask the question of what corporations are for? If they do not provide benefits for their employees, and not provide dividends for their legitimate owners, and yet not provide tax revenue for the government (and indirectly, to overall society) under which they operate, then exactly why do they do what they do?
Its part of the system, but its not mass anymore but another form of energy. Mass is lost, energy is conserved.
The mind boggles that Harper is trying to push this through in the wake of the NSA scandal.
A clear demonstration of why http://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html we need free tools for working on our free software. Proprietary services by their nature exclude competition; Bull Codes is running a http://kallithea-scm.org/ Kallithea instance and anyone else can compete with them.

Basing the service on entirely free software ends its use for locking users in, and the services must compete on how much value they bring to customers who can always take their project elsewhere. Goodbye GitHub, hello Kallithea — and long live Bull Codes!
Downvoted for a legitimate question on why this is a good thing... Awesome unbiased community we have here. Seems to me it would of been more helpful to upvote and state why this is a good thing rather than try to brush any common objections under the rug.
You're fine with the legal system enforcing the contract? Or the legal and technical systems enforcing the contract?

If it's only legal, I'd argue that's a slippery slope towards a legal system of convenience and loss of absolute respect for the rule of law. In other words "Yes, this action is illegal, but everyone does it anyway by necessity."

If it's both, then the technical methods for doing so become frightening pretty fast.
It would be nice if you let people know before they signed up for an account what cities you are in...
what are the benefits of using this benchmark over using ab?
I'll say it. I do not think that people should be arrested for possession of drugs, and I think that anything which makes it harder to arrest for possession of drugs is a good thing.
I don't care for the tone of this article, but there are a lot of valid points here.

The natted networking is problemmatic, the file system is slow (particularly with many image layers), and to get good performance, you have to give up all of the isolation abilities.

To get good network performance, you have to use net=host; to get good disk performance, you have to mount and write to host volumes. To increase visibility, you have to use host pids.

I have a lot of hope that Docker will get more performance to go with the awesome isolation. It's a useful tool in the proper circumstances, but it requires a lot of forethought and information to use well.
via Twitter for a challenge.gov challenge. We ended up winning and turning the software into a company and got a government contract.
I think the general concept is good, very good. This could be a huge factor in solving the problem of bullying. But I fear that this is also a program that goes to the extreme to 'fix boys'. For instance: notice that one of the arguments is about solving sexual health problems for women, while we started with solving sexual health problems for guys. It also appears the boys have a more 'positive' perception of sexual health, masculinity and homosexuality? Tell me who is anybody to judge what a positive perception of masculinity is? And if we're going that far: why is femininity not on that list as well? What, boys can't have perceptions of femininity while girls are free to define what parts of masculinity are toxic, even? Finally, that last paragraph is a bit cringe-worthy. They've successfully managed to make that boy believe that the end of his relationship is all his fault instead of, you know, teaching him 'relationships' just don't last when you're that young, regardless of how you behave.
Fellow near-native here, long gone though: We weren't the Silicon Valley of anything, because "Silicon Valley of" wasn't a meme yet. We were the Motor City, man. Silicon Valley is just the Motor City of computers.

Now it's another frozen cog in the Rust Belt. The Bay would do well to remember that: prosperity, and property values, do not always increase.
The objection here seems to be over animal testing. So it's a question of whether one prefers to feel good about themselves and leave human victims due to lack of testing, or whether one allows for animal victims.
College. We did a finance case competition and we won, so we thought it'd be a good idea to work together. We wrote/edited a book "Words of the Music Masters" (failed), then we coached a few seminars for college students/recent graduates (failed!) and finally some consulting (sucked). That was 6 years ago. We both took jobs, now we're back.
It's really interesting, we've failed miserably together and starved, we're kinda bulletproof now. Besides, being hungry but not alone made us closer, we're like brothers now. seriously.
I think you made a valid point, but it is not an argument against doing things another way.
> But if the argument "this is bad for business" doesn't fly when someone wants to pollute

I think you'll find that it does, actually. As a country highly dependant on extracting primary resources, Canada's quite used to making tradeoffs between protecting the environment and making money.
Businesses desire predictably in the future for things out of their control (eg tax rates won't have huge random swings, laws won't randomly hugely change, competitors won't suddenly be favoured by legislators, employees cost a predictable amount). It is also to everyone's benefit that things are equal and fair (eg their competitors have to play by the same rules). Virtually everywhere employers pay additional taxes on their employees to provide government controlled benefits - eg in the US your employer also pays social security, medicare, unemployment insurance and similar taxes as you do, and often a similar amount. Paying them is just the cost of paying an employee, and their competitors have the same rules.

Social safety nets were funded and provided by churches and similar organisations for quite a while. The problem with using unions, guilds and professional organisations is that different professions pay different amounts. For example fast food workers, teachers and developers are in very different brackets hence can pay different amounts into the system. Why should a fast food worker get less maternity leave than a developer? I have no problem with disparate groups providing services, but do strongly believe that a fair and just society requires centralisation of the funding.
Gentrification will solve the crime problem eventually. But the bigger problem is schooling.

I'd recommend the city going the school voucher route.
Many valuable things don't wind up in an archive until after they'd have already been lost; a modern example of "what if she'd used Flickr?" would be: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Maier

Physical archives do require maintenance, but unlike servers, they don't convert electricity to heat at a prodigious pace, have a much simpler set of failure modes and environmental constraints, and generally remain readable even if you forget about them
It is ridiculous, especially considering how well SPD officers are being paid... http://www.seattle.gov/policejobs/benefits-and-salary/salary
What are you basing all of this off of? Are you an attorney? Or just articles you've read?

Cases absolutely do get thrown out all the time because of searches which occur subsequent to a detention without probable cause. I just saw it happen last week.
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I think the argument is that users are more likely to be happy with software updating itself if the updates are un-noticeably tiny.
I know it would ruin the joke, but there should be some notice to turn up your volume. My speakers were muted, so I didn't realize I was missing anything until I saw the HN comments.

Definitely made me chuckle once I got the full experience.
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The way I see it, life is a race, and humans won when we woke up, gained perspective, and realized/discovered the nature of that race.

Everything else currently living? They're racing their hearts out, but they do not understand the nature of the race, where they came from, where they might be going, where they are located, where their home came from, etc. They don't even seem to wonder about these things, let alone have methods for finding the answers.

So now that we've won the race, do we loop back and try to chat with the creatures that haven't made it yet? Cheer on the remaining contestants? Or do we find a new race to participate in? Why not create a new race?

We are a tiny portion of the universe that is capable of introspection. Literally parts of the universe that are capable of examining the rest of the universe. We could sit around and wait for other parts of the universe to gain this ability as well, or we could throw everything we have at building a greater ability to introspect on the universe, using whatever tools we have at our disposal to do so. If that means 'cannibalizing' other potentially introspective parts of the universe to further ourselves, so be it. If experimenting on lesser lifeforms allows us to make humanity more robust, then I think that is what we should do.
Isn't that like arguing that we shouldn't have markets at all? The primary function of a market is price discovery. If we could all agree on the value of things, today and in the future, things would be a lot simpler.
I didn't make it clear in my original comment (but see the other one in this thread) that I'm making a normative rather than a positive argument.

I think the basis of consent ought to involve limitations of scope, such that discovery of a minor crime during the fruitless investigation of a major one should be treated differently. We want people to be cooperative with the police so as to minimize the incidence of violent crimes like the one the state troopers originally arrived to investigate. It's understandable that a neighbor got worried and called 911 (although we'll never know if the neighbor was genuinely worried or just irritated by the sexy sex noise). It's absolutely understandable that police would want to verify that no violence was going on after receiving such a report, even with the reasonable alternative explanation of sexual activity.

It's much harder to argue that McGacken's 10 year prison sentence has made society any better off. The cost of trying and imprisoning him may well exceed the social cost of his production (and presumable sale) of marijuana, but they have definitely reduced the incentive of people to cooperate with police investigating other crimes. To me this is a prime example of how 'the life of the law has not been logic, [but] experience' - the law has been consistently applied, but the result seems extremely unfair and may even have had negative economic utility.
Just to add an addendum to this, the decade the Conservative party has been in power has transformed the economic landscape in Canada- it is now wholly dependent on the strength of the oil industry. The Albertan tar-sands is an especially expensive form of oil extraction- break-even prices around the $70-$80 mark. With the loss of the Keystone XL and continued pressure on the Northern Gateway pipelines; Canada has a lot of over-priced oil and limited means of shipping it.

The problem with a oil dependent economy is that it's at odds with the "classic" Canadian economy- manufacturing/production and trades that directly benefit from low Canadian dollar. If oil does well, it raises the dollar and stresses one side of the economy; if oil does poorly manufacturing is strengthened but the overall health of economy falters.

It's a very precarious position that the Canadian government has put itself in and could result in some very long-term (on order of decades) problems to fully develop.
Does anyone here have experience using easter eggs as a social traffic-driving tool?

We have a client with a great product (well respected in their field) and one of our developers spent a weekend voluntarily building a very cool easter egg for their site. I think posting the easter egg somewhere relevant to their user base (like a topical subreddit) might be an interesting "campaign" to drive new users to the site.

Has anyone done this before?
Somehow, I imagine any AI powerful enough to argue its own case would have even more of a comparative advantage in just generating wealth. It would hire a lawyer!
I get and agree with your first paragraph, but can't make sense of your second.
I think about this a lot. How would you deal with peer review in all this? We don't want a system where academic papers haven't been peer reviewed, do we?
How would that even be possible when constructing an AGI? Sure, we could instill them with a set of ethical guidelines that would require subservience, but, like human ethical guidelines, they could be broken or changed based on the situation.
It's going to be hard to find a CPC rate in the pennies as well as get good conversion rates. However, one thing you could do is target a smaller market.

For instance if you are selling a product marketed to auto body shops; start with say Dallas vs. the entire US.
A joined up public database to track connections between company names and founders might be useful, but it certainly wouldn't stop corrupt organisations from marketing themselves as to ordinary people offering legitimate solutions. An organization with a reputation for being as laughably easy to buy off as the BBB isn't the answer either.

I actually assumed the article would be about the Southwestern company, an organization whose reputation for exploiting its self-employed staff is known on the other side of the Atlantic, but still recruits from the university campuses that haven't banned it. But they've been enlisting college-age kids to sell books on doorsteps under exactly the same name since just after the Civil War and they pay their BBB dues...

Some of these companies are dirtier, but the problem with "self-employed" remote salespeople whose lives are controlled by the company is deeper than knowing who the entities are, since neither the crews nor the people that actually persuaded to buy the merchandise are likely to do the research. That's the part where more protection is needed

And I say this as someone that did a self-employed remote door-to-door job in consecutive summers with the same company back at university whilst having other options.
If something is granted the right to argue its own case, does that automatically also grant it the right to request a state-provided defense attorney?
Author here: this is a project inspired by Twine[0] and bl.ocks.org[1].

Note: the first game made with this tool is an AdventureJam[2] entry[3], you can play with it at http://j.mp/play-routine

It's also a great way to start collaborating on a JavaScript open source project, see https://github.com/potomak/gist-txt/labels/help%20wanted.

[0] http://twinery.org/

[1] http://bl.ocks.org/

[2] http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam

[3] http://jams.gamejolt.io/adventurejam/games/routine/59416
How does bond energy represent mass but kinetic energy does not represent mass? I realize Q is a different symbol in the formula, but that's just notation. The bond energies are implicit in the formula, but that doesn't mean they aren't there.
Now they will simply add an extra officer. As long as he conducts the search while the other officer does traffic related things, I don't see how this would prevent a dog sniff search.
Thanks for posting. The article "Executable Pseudo-Code" is a great example for the incredible expressiveness given by Lisp Macros. The author implemented Brandes' code for betweenness centrality in such a manner, that it nearly 100% resembles the pseudo code AND performs, in terms of speed, at the same level as the C++ boost implementation.

It is great to see such development and it will hopefully bring back Lisp a bit more into the (academic) community.
Yep. Expect two officers from now on, one to have the dog sniff while the other deals with the traffic citation.
Good point, definitely something we overlooked. Next build will include that, as well as the ability to request locations from anywhere.
If the agency is doing something illegal, the obvious solution is to change the law so it's no longer illegal. Progress!
Not on huge scale, but I've done something like that a few times for various projects. I had some built in to radio station websites I did many jobs ago and once mentioned on air we saw a bump in people typing random stuff. We talked about making it in to a contest, but never got past the discussion phase.
If it's a first great, note it in Wikipedia/Legal_personality. Doesn't seem far fetched since corporations already are and generally behave more differently than individuals, human or chimp.
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They are doing it to protect the millions that they've invested into the autonomous driving software.

Imagine this scenario, deep inside of a random 3rd-party firmware was an obscure piece of code that allowed complete remote control of the tractor. Several remote killdozers is what you would then have to deal with. With access to the ECU(s) the hackers could even disable John Deere and the farmers control of the tractor.

Even a small bug would result in huge damage or loss-of-life.

Google and Tesla will for sure not allow access to their proprietary firmware / system code.

Just think about installing a custom Android ROM on a device with a very small community and then imagine that on a car or a tractor.

Stick with stock John Deere firmware and purchase from a competitor if you don't agree with their policies.

I remember this story from a couple of years ago. I was impressed that farmers are some of the first people to use autonomous vehicles and drones to manage and watch crops. Amazing times we live in.
Phrased this way makes sense. The parent comment sounded more like "drugs should be legal" than it did about individual rights.

And maybe they should be legal, I'm not sure what would help society more so I don't particularly have a stance either way.

Unfortunately those who think they should be downvoted this question. I guess they'd rather not argue their opinion and just hide any comment that questions their opinion.
> presuming interest rates do not remain zero or negative forever

Slightly off topic but I don't believe US interest rates can go up without creating a massive issue for the US economy. From the link below: "a 5% increase in interest payments for the federal government would cause the level of federal debt to rise to $85 trillion over the next 20 year". So should the Fed reserve return interest rates to a historically normal level before the government significantly reduces debt (which seems unlikely) they would likely crash the US economy.

http://danielamerman.com/va/Conflict.html
Would be better with "Girl From Ipanema"
It is an interesting premise. For years people have been trying to figure out a way to safely (and reliably) do a cloud system that would provide an added layer that could bring an end to the local ram/processor/gpu arms race.

That said, this:

"Finally, an attacker who compromises the blind hash service gains access to a database too large to exfiltrate"

is the type of notion you never want to bet on under any circumstance.
Devil's advocate here, but it is for a 90 day "probationary" period

> initially, at least, on a three-month trial basis to work on redaction and disclosure of data.
Not as long as google has autoplay on YouTube. They shouldn't be the only ones to get that privilege.
As far as cryptographical soundness, additional rounds of hashing don't require SaaS integration, nor do salt and peppering, and just add points of failure.

And if it's simply the delay of a remote API call that is the actual benefit, rather than a perceived remote computation delay: why not just add sleep(0.5) ;)

Lastly, if your site is at "web scale" to the point where you need to consider a dedicated hashing server... then maybe a SaaS isn't going to be price efficient anyways at that point.
I just subscriber to the audio portion of the MLB.tv but it is a great service.
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But serving me mobile content is now giving me a worse experience.

I get a site that's less relevant, and I have to fight against an unintuitive UI and disabled zoom amd fixed banners and all the other weird stupid things people do to mobile sites.
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>>a dog sniff, unlike the routine measures just mentioned, is not an ordinary incident of a traffic stop

Alito's dissent states that a preliminary dog sniff will become an ordinary incident as a result of this ruling. It will be the new standard procedure for K-9 officers who initiate traffic stops. A future Officer Struble will simply get the dog out first for everyone he stops, post Rodriguez and a bit of officer training.

Officers that don't have a dog in the back will still have to establish reasonable suspicion to call in a K-9 sniff, just as they did before the ruling. So I can't see this ruling having an impact for longer than it takes to re-train officers.
A simple analogy would be combustion in a car engine. The fuel doesn't disappear through heat. You get a number of byproducts (mainly CO2 and water) coming out of the exhaust car.
Works great until the remove server goes down and no-one can log in anymore.
And you're an attorney?
I think, in a lot of mental-impairment cases, it's not so much that the person (being? body?) still has any capacity that philosophically would grant them rights, but that they have friends and family willing to fight anyone who tries to take those rights away, and that this sets a precedent for society-in-general. Same with babies: there's nothing there except the parents' stringent insistence that there is, in fact, something there.

Or, to put it another way: if humanity consisted purely of sociopaths and there was no such thing as a maternal instinct, babies would not have rights; every human being would likely have a childhood consisting of learning to defend themselves in order to escape captivity/slavery at the hands of their parents.
Sure, here you go.

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/25/young-adult-rea...

http://www.publishingtechnology.com/research/
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The spinning @ sign never really went away. At least not in spirit.
Interestingly, I've travelled around San Francisco with a friend with a seeing eye dog. Taxis would stop, look at us, and drive off. One yelled "no pets" at her as she tried to get in, and took his foot off the brake so the car rolled.

At least with Uber you can go after the drivers and file complaints.