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If that's so then why has there not been aa "Large Terror Attack" in the US since 9/11? Pulling off another such successful attack has been a stated major goal of Al Queda and not ISIS. Clearly something is preventing it and making it more difficult then doing it in Europe, which have suffered several attacks, with what happened in Paris being the most severe.

Nobody needs 70 mb/s for basic internet access. I think the cheap lower/end is 20-30 /month. I pay $30/month for 50 mb/s and it works just fine for HD streaming videos.

I would love higher BW but while I could afford it I already have my own cable modem and to upgrade would need to get special equipment from my ISP, which I would have to lease and deal with the inconvenience of giving back at one of their far away locations. It's been annoying the past so decided to pass.

But for anyone who is price sensitive doubling/tripling their internet bill is a non-starter.

I'm sure Saddam kill thousands of Bassel Khartabil like figures during his time in power. By this logic you should have supported that war as well. I'm not quite sure what you mean by Afghanistan? I'm pretty sure we invaded because of 9/11. If we went to war solely because of things like this we would be fighting a lot more of them.

I think you are too emotionally close to the issue because of the specific subject matter this activist fought for. No, I would not condone a war just for stuff like this, I don't want American's to die anymore then I want Bassel Khartabil to die.

I know they use Scala:

https://skillsmatter.com/skillscasts/5424-netflix-scala http://hanselminutes.com/394/demystifying-scala-with-netflix... https://github.com/Netflix/atlas

I believe the earth view is suppose to be the what was the old satellite view, just now by default having 3D rendering. Some people like it, some people don't If you're annoyed by the 3D rendering you can turn it off. Go to the same menu after selecting the Earth view and you should now see a '3D on' label. Click it and the 3D stuff will turn off and you'll get normal looking satellite images again.

Twitter is still a "startup"?

> Counterintuitively, justice may be better served by abolishing life imprisonment and mandating the death penalty for cases where periods of imprisonment would exceed 20 years or so.

I've seen several people already share this sentiment and it really confuses me. Because

1) It's made by people who have never, and come from a background where they most likely never would, have to seriously make such a choice. (If I'm wrong let me know).

2) I would venture if you really were faced with such a choice it would not be the automatic "kill me if I get more then 20 years" one that you flippantly imply you would make. I have a feeling when faced with the actual prospects of death vs imprisonment of 20 years or more, rather then on some hypothetical situation in an internet forum, you might decide differently.

3) Even if it was the case you were to decide death over long term imprisonment, what would give you, or the justice system, the right to decide that for anyone else facing that situation? I have a feeling most people would still choose life, even if faced with perpetual imprisonment, over death.

And finally lets just assume Richard Glossip was unjustly found guilty of this crime, I know nothing about this case so lets just assume. The problem isn't specifically with the sentence but the fact that he is in fact not guilty, but was deemed guilty by his peers. By killing him you eliminate any possibility of recourse, he already paid the ultimate price. At least with life imprisonment there is still a chance for having some just conclusion, even if it's late and inadequate to the penalty he suffered.

And where exactly are you getting the idea from that it was 'satire'? Everything I've seen Heinlein ever say about the novel straightly points to it not being satire; he was completely serious his thoughts on philosophy, morality, government, society, etc. It may be hard to believe, but I think he meant what he wrote.

Then I guess I, and Heinlein, read it pretty shallowly, since he's has been quoted as saying his novel glorifies the military. I still really enjoyed the book, but I don't know how you could possibly read it as not a pro military sort of novel. Obviously the point isn't to glorify violence for violence's sake, he attempts to morally justify the use of force in the same as has been customary for generations.

We've been looking at a few other players to do exactly this, i.e. TwoTaps (https://twotap.com/) and Cosmic Cart (https://cosmiccart.com/). The big problem we've seen is:

1) Having pricing and inventory data keep up to date.

2) Reliability and speed, TwoTaps has robots that fill in an order on retailers sites and checkout is slow as a result. Aside from the ugliness of it, I'm sure a lot of retailers don't like this process or necessarily are approving it.

3) Lack of wide number of retailers. Cosmic Cart does direct integration but the the numbers of partners they have right now is severely limited, Target being the big one.

Getting these direct partnerships integrations is hard, but to make this really compelling you really want a wide range of retailers. It will be interesting to see if Stripe, with the relationships it already has, will be able to do a better job of this and getting retailers to buy into losing the control of the full shopping experience.

I always check kindle prices, and if they are close to physical price of the book I will more often then not simply not buy. Overall I still prefer to buy hardcover versions of books I really really want, but if I'm on the fence and see a kindle book that has at least a decent markdown I will more easily make that purchase then give away precious bookshelf space to a book I'm not sure is a must have. I've forgone quite a few purchases I would have been likely to make for that very reason.

I've also been reading The Battle Cry of Freedom and it's been amazing. The analysis and insights the author can pack into every single page is just incredible. And all those political, social, and historical insights have just as much applicability today. It really has been essential reading for understanding the major fault lines that have defined American life, and continue to do so in major ways.

This is awesome, it's exactly what we have been looking for. Our business analytics team is very comfortable with SQL and it's been a pain finding any analytics platform that offers that sort of access to the data. And on top of that they are super expensive, so we've gone the hosting our own solution with Redshift route. But our tech team is small and maintaining an analytics platform has been a distraction so we really want to find a third party hosted solution that works. Definitely going to check you guys out!

Edit: Also just saw you guys just recently raised a round, congrats!

> What about all those wives and kids that would have been endangered if the flaw had continued to go unfixed and exploited in a more malicious manner?

Because, he said anything like that right? What a gratuitous use of a strawman.

It's not appealing to emotions, it's pretty rational to think this experiment could have easily caused an accident and hurt people. We all rationally know that driving is one of the most dangerous forms of travel. Seriously, a car is a dangerous, fast, multi-ton piece of metal, it's not a toy to experiment on when other people's safety is at stake. Respect the vehicle and the damage it could cause.

The exploits can and will be published and reported on quite easily without these reckless theatrics.

> Calling the police on security researchers...I honestly cannot believe this is considered acceptable behavior. A much less aggressive (and thoughtful) move would be to contact the researchers directly. Wow.

So, you don't care about the fact that this experiment on public roads could have killed people? Just because it's for security research it's ok to recklessly endanger lives? What Wow's me is your cavalier attitude, I'm glad he informed the police and I hope they face repercussions. What they did needlessly endangered people's lives and public safety to add a sensational bit to a story, I find that way more "aggressive" than informing the proper authorities of those actions.

It's no small understatement to say that I, and countless others, would not be where we are today without Josh, his mentorship, and his kind spirit. The world is a little darker today without him, but his influence will make it shine brighter still. Thanks for everything you taught us Josh, I hope you've found peace.

And yet he has never received the sort of backlash or vitriol that Pao has. I've always been up and down about how much gender and sexism has played a part in all this, outside that it a "small" minority of Reddit is influenced by it. But the idea that while not always popular but Alexis always seems to get a pass from the Reddit community (at least compared to how Pao was treated) is really telling.

The Board is the CEO's boss, and he is the leader of the board, I think it's pretty straight forward. I guess I'm not sure of what you mean by he is also 'below' her on the org chart? Regardless of whatever responsibilities he held at Reddit that might be below the CEO that never changes the fact that he is Executive Chairman of the Board, which should completely clear up any ambiguity of authority.

EDIT: Thanks for clearing up this those comment links. But, my original sentiment still stands in terms of the power dynamic being clear. Just because in some capacities he is under her doesn't diminish his ability to influence her firing/hiring. If anything being in that position could prompt him to take action as a board member because he didn't like decisions she made in his role working under her. And I think Alexis mentioning that is him trying to divert attention away from the real power he actually has.

Pretty bad timing, markets are already rattled because of China:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-07-08/u-s-index-...

Regardless of the technical cause have a feeling this will make things worse and people more nervous.

Wow, your project and this hackathon looks super cool, wish I had known about it earlier to attend. Will definitely follow the Meetup for future events, thanks for sharing!

I don't understand why this is getting downvoted. The 'loan' the US made was extremely high risk and taxpayers got a terrible ROI for the amount given and the risk taken:

http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2013/05/tesl...

Edit: I am a big fan of Tesla, SpaceX, and the feats Elon Musk has accomplished, but I don't think that means one can't be critical of him, his companies, or the way taxpayer money might have been spent to prop them up. It's undeniable that if the US govt had received some equity stake taxpayers could have more equally shared in Tesla's success, and I don't think there would have been anything unreasonable about that.

My problem with that statement is that it describes every single job you could possibly have, even the very well paying ones. You are always trading your labor to somebody with money, whether it's an Uber driver or the CEO of a major corporation. It's not the "Uber model", it's the money represents an agreed upon denomination to trade goods and services with model.

> I hope they make it through this.

Unless I'm misinterpreting something in the article or your comment, I thought it was pretty clear that they didn't and are shutting down for good?

https://medium.com/circa/farewell-to-circa-news-7d002150f74b

You don't have to something super bad to be labelled a felon. Simple drug possession, not selling but being caught with certain drugs or a certain amount, will result in felony charges. In fact, a majority of felons in Federal prisons are drug related, though that percentage is much lower in State prisons, where there are more violent offenders.

http://felonvoting.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=0...

> Given the context (national/international security) is that really surprising? People who have their necks on the line aren't jumping out of the woodwork to comment? C'mon, think.

No, you really need to do a bit more thinking. A journalist shouldn't just publish what an anonymous source says without corroborating their story with other evidence. You can keep your source anonymous, but they need to provide some physical evidence or you need to confirm it some other way.

Exhibit A, how Greenwald handled Snowden. Every story he had was based off documents provided that could be examined and published as evidence. Everything was based on physical evidence collected by Snowden, not just some stories he told. If a journalist just took anonymous sources stories at face value w/o evidence anyone associated with an intelligence agency could feed in false information whenever they... oh wait, could that be happening here??

And Greenwald himself goes into a lot more detail about it here, just got on the frontpage on HN:

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/14/sunday-times-r...

I had way more trouble with Consul then I ever had with etcd. Actually, I've had almost no trouble with etcd whatsoever, it was way more resilient and tolerant to dying machines then Consul was, which would repeatedly get into inconsistent states and attempt to connect to nodes that were no longer there. I've been running CoreOS on production with dozens of AWS instances over the past year and I really don't have many complaints. Most issues I've come across actually have a lot more to do with docker then the stuff CoreOS has built.

But I also handle upgrading releases differently, that's not something I trusted from the beginning and it's easy enough to disable their update system and stand up new instances with upgraded CoreOS images.

Also, looking at your quote I would consider it very out of context, the previous sentence right before that:

"If there were any changes to these etcd machines, AWS would reboot them to apply the changes, potentially all at the same time."

So they had Cloudformation potentially rebooting all there machines at the same time, I think any cluster is going to have an issue when that happens and really has nothing to do with CoreOS's update system.

So are you against or defending the defamation lawsuit? Because nothing you said really had anything to do with that.

> Uber and AirBNB have scared the heck out of huge incumbent industries and cities/governments and had scraps to be sure. But they don't have the consistent missteps as Zenefits.

I feel like AirBnB, and even more so Uber, have had plenty of very public missteps. Both Uber's CEO and execs have come under fire for some dumb things they've said:

http://pando.com/2014/02/27/we-call-that-boob-er-the-four-mo...

http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/uber-executive-suggests-dig...

That clearly doesn't mean you can't be successful, but I wouldn't say Zenefits has done or said anything worse than these other companies have.

> Hell, you have Steam Machines planned with only Intel HD graphics and also called "Steam Machines" just like the Alienware Alpha and the Syber ones, while power-wise they fall in totally different categories. That's the best way to kill your brand, at least 3DO never did that kind of mistake.

Replace "Steam Machines" with "Andriod" and you could make the exact same arguments. And the thing is people have, and they have been to an extent completely correct. But, I don't think you would say Android hasn't been a very successful bet for Google, despite the fragmentation and huge range of quality for different mobile devices, and the problems with branding they have. What I'm seeing is Valve trying to make the exact same play in the console world, where Microsoft and Sony have it locked down very much the same way Apple did (or was on the way to doing) with the smartphones. They want to break people out of those walled gardens and bring them into their ecosystem, and they're going to provide an open platform for any hardware maker to do it, just like Android did.

Of course mobile phones and consoles are two different industries, it might play out in a similar way or it might play out completely differently. But I think it's a bit premature to write it off as ridiculous or even a bad idea from the start when there is precedent for this sort of strategy working in other industries. It certainly has a chance of playing out well for Valve, branding and fragmentation be damned, as long as it opens up a much larger audience to Steam.

For all those confused about this, this is a mild victory. Certainly better than the Patriot Act, but not as strong a piece of legislation as it could have been. EFF writes their opinion of it here:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/05/usa-freedom-act-passes...

"Technology users everywhere should celebrate, knowing that the NSA will be a little more hampered in its surveillance overreach, and both the NSA and the FISA court will be more transparent and accountable than it was before the USA Freedom Act.

It’s no secret that we wanted more.

...

Even so, we’re celebrating. We’re celebrating because, however small, this bill marks a day that some said could never happen—a day when the NSA saw its surveillance power reduced by Congress. And we’re hoping that this could be a turning point in the fight to rein in the NSA."