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So could this evolve into a better owncloud server? I don't think AGPL is a problem for the majority of owncloud usecases. It looks it's based on Python & Postgres - maybe it has better performance than owncloud?
"Windows Platform Bloat Table" seems like a more appropriate name, IMHO.
The biggest error I see in the entire line of argument is that it assumes the author's experience to be generalizable. They might as well have said, "The system worked well for me. I didn't need any of these changes that are happening, so we should stop them. They're weakening our children because reasons." I can't take any of this seriously without any data to show there is a problem and not just complaints that amount to "I don't like how PC students are today."

>As if the very act of registering for a class is traumatic event for which the student needs counselling.

Clearly the author didn't go to a high-demand program at an impacted state school. "If you don't register for 12 units, your financial aid package will be revoked and you'll have to reapply for admission next term." Field Sciences, here I come! (True story.)
It seems you've only read the title of this post.

Too bad. It's an interesting talk on the architecture of an ambitious compiler redesign. The title is a simplification for the sake of being a keynote.
You are right, some of his points are over-corrections to the less harmful things. He doesn't recognize that most of the polices are not in place to just fix the smaller stuff. I don't think we should coddle our students either but there are definitely a lot of shitty behavior on campus.

For example, look at these black face parties.

http://www.thegloss.com/2014/10/17/culture/dear-white-people...

As for "where were you born", that's a long discussion. But I do want to say as an Asian American, I'm okay with it sometimes and sometimes not. Some people are curious, while others genuinely think I must be a foreigner. Maybe I'm being overly sensitive but it's hard not to be when I live in a country when co workers randomly ask me questions about chopsticks and internment camps.
OK, so the equivalent would be this:

I buy magazines from the wholesaler. I rip out all the adverts. I then sell them to the public.

I'm acting as a lovely "ad-blocker" for magazines.
Is what I'm doing legal or ethical?

Another argument would be is it ethical to block people who have adblock installed. In such an arms race, who will win?
YouTube should suggest some of his other talks too. There's more oracle stuff in the illumous day and Surge talks, and he also has very humorous segments in the Surge 2013 and 2014 Lighting talks.
> To some extent we're paying for our imported manufactured goods from China by exporting house ownership and rent payments.

Warren Buffet warned us of this years ago (trade deficit causing real estate transfer between nations):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-vMxKvYfVs
The prof might be groping around a real core issue, but he really picked some unfortunately example. I'm just going to pile on his exam time example really hard.

Ok, you tell a bunch of young adults that what they do over the next 2-4 weeks is super important. They will put effort into something, and the end result is a number, and the higher the number, the better chances they have at getting what they want in life (later). And no one will ever give a shit about what happens over those next few weeks except the number. Well, then you'd actually be a total dummy not to ruthlessly optimize for that number. Dress like shit? Why not. Take adderall? Why not. Sleep whenever you get a chance? Why not.

Maybe university students are a bit too sensitive about things (I actually agree with that statement). But many (most?) university courses are designed such that a student can typically get what they need (a big number at the end of it) by applying the bare minimal amount of effort outside of certain crunch times, and then dropping all other aspects of life during crunch times. If I can get good marks by sacrificing ~4 weeks of my life (and frankly looking like complete shit) per term, while letting me still go out and hang out and have fun and get drunk and laid and high for the rest of the term - hell, why not. It's not like your missing out - everyone else makes the same calculations. You're not going to be able to hang out with your friends during exams anyways.
Yes, but people want to have internet and cable and often the difference between having a good wireline connection and not having it is 500 feet.

If you bought the 46th house in a subdivision with 45 U-Verse ports, for instance, you are SOL.

The difference is not "fiber vs cable" but "DSL vs everything else". However if you are going to build new infrastructure today, fiber is the only thing that makes sense in terms of cost v. capability.
So here's a question (and a personal manifesto)

Would things be better if they were worse?

That is, what if we gave a little bit less of a shit about optimizations and preferred simple over fast?

We live in a world of magical black boxes that even experts in the field have trouble manipulating. We need to protect and promote the Freedom to Tinker and that means carefully considering when optimizations are really critical hindrances.
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Because there is no such a thing like “English, the lingua franca”; changing the name do not change the content.

We should stop self-deluding ourselves in believing that English exits in a geopolitical void. English is the language of the anglosphere, and speaking English is a huge favor to those economies, and that comes with a sense of cultural inferiority as well, in many peoples.
Why is this becoming an issue now? I've been blocking adverts on-and-off for 10 years or so. Back then it was manually editing a HOSTS file - is it just in the news now because it's becoming slightly easier on iPhone?
Actually, an excellent FOSS alternative is Syncthing. https://github.com/syncthing
I think this is a good observation. I would much, much prefer students to be radical than simply to bargain with the powers that be. Universities are transforming at breathtaking speed in how they are organized and commodified. Professors are losing not only their authority, but their leadership as educators. I would not mind the end of authority, but universities being led by profit and administration is bad, too. The only reasonable course is for students and professors to radicalize and support each other, and for the role of professors to be based on natural leadership, not on power established through hierarchy (the enforcement of which always reduces to implied violence).

But I think that's out of scope.
So, I mean, er, thanks for open sourcing a dead project. But still under an AGPLv3 license.... meh.

A project gets released as free software, and not only do you make a sarcastic thanks, but you moan about how it's using a license that ensures you pass on the same freedom to other users. Talk about entitlement.
The university itself is a massive infantilization, evolved primarily to financially exploit young adults.

Does anybody really think that smart young adults could not maximize their potential out in the real world earning actual money, learning on the go.

The university rips young people out of reality for four more years to pamper them like babies and deprive them of reality in the name of "education"; as if listening to lectures from middle aged adults has some sort of magical revelatory power that living life does not.
I'm expecting a significant rise in the number of homes for sale when interest rates spike. Many multi-property landlords are relying on "hard money loans" or "bridge loans" to finance their properties. The nature of these loans is that they put the asset itself (i.e. the house) up as collateral, but also allow the landlord to leverage the loan into another one. So a landlord can put just a little bit of money down on a house, and then leverage it into a chain of multiple houses.

When interest rates spike, landlords lose leverage ability and may even have to refinance their loans. Spiking interest rates will lead to an influx of homes into the market as landlords who did not plan well enough for the spike are caught underwater in the same way as residential homeowners were in 2008.

Private equity firms are backing the loans, so maybe they'll just take the houses when interest rates spike, and rent them to tenants themselves. In the future, we'll all be renting from the Blackstone group!

Disclaimer: I am very uninformed on this subject and do not know what I'm talking about. :)
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Yes, having sex with someone while she/he is sleeping is rape and yes, as far as statute of limitations, it should be treated like murder. The only reason to not make the punishment the same is that it would entice rapists to kill their victims. I think if you ask someone who has been raped how they'd compare that to murder, it'll be pretty damn close.

Even ten years is ridiculous for such a crime in a society that condemns this. What you're saying is that our societies don't really condemn this crime and it's not a big deal to ruin someone else's life by forcibly having sex with them. That's horrific, IMO, but seems to be the majority opinion.
This:

> It hurts the domestic home buyer, though, who has to compete with inflated all-cash offers from these foreign investors.

is much more hurtful then the benefits provided by foreign buyers paying taxes. If you don't believe me, look at London. Actual workers are pushed out by money launderers (yes, that is what they are).
An active FOSS alternative to this is Syncthing. https://github.com/syncthing
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It's a platform thing. XML was pushed by SOAP and Java frameworks, while S-expressions were only used by simple software that solved small problems.
It seems like the opportunity here for Firefox OS and Android in the future is to have an API layer that's even simpler and allow for apps that are lighter weight. As I read the article I thought, hey wouldn't it be nice if my apartment building let me reserve the tennis court or report issues with an app? But then I thought...it would take them 3 months to put together something that just barely works and then another 9 months to make something that works well and it'll probably still have a shitty user interface.
I believe we are going to be at an impasse here, but the quote you extracted illustrates the point I made, that Standard Oil acted as a competitive firm. We expect to see profit driven to zero in a competitive market, and that is what we saw in Standard Oil's pricing.

In cases where there was little competition, that clearly indicates an area where the costs of the trade were such that the market price would be higher.

The former is strictly competitive and the latter is strictly not anti-competitive.
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That might be reasonable, unmalicious behavior if you have a history with someone and can infer things about their state of mind. It's utterly reckless as to someone you just met.
Not sure how ethics play into this. If your service is of such low quality that nobody is willing to pay for it, and you resort to ads to support your business.. well, tough. Make something that sells, or try a different way of making a living.

People are blocking ads because nobody likes a firehose of garbage pointed right at their face.

To crank that tired old record, "this sector is ripe for disruption" aka somebody go already make an ad network stand-in where the user can pay the equivalent of per-impression cost and visit any participating site ad-free.
In fairness....in some statically typed languages like Go, working with JSON isn't a ton of fun either, if you need things like optional fields.
We were aware. We actually didn't build the app though, this app was built by a third-party using our API :)
Maxing all axes and not getting The Big Lebowski? Oh, but it seems to be missing from the database entirely. I don't know which is the bigger problem.
Only if said Citizens are keeping their government in check.
If you're gonna be so delicate about it, at least get it right.

I think there are a bunch of different ways of pluralizing English nouns. Oxen and geese think so too...
I think reversing for fun is great! But it's pretty unlikely that Oracle customers are doing it for this reason. Instead, I suspect their reversing is borne of desperation.
It's not the same at all. This stuff has always been around but the difference is it used to only apply to a small subset. If you want to go pre law or med yeah get ready for hell. If you want to work at a newspaper or in marketing it was a much easier time. Nowadays unless you're in tech good luck finding a job remotely related to your major if you don't have a resume packed full of extracurriculars and experience.

There is also way more competition. The college population is triple the size it was in the 80's. Meanwhile the job market continues to shrink in many ways. Maybe kids should be getting different degrees but at 17 it's not surprising they don't know journalism isn't a great degree to have.
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The new encryption policies of Apple and Google have made it harder to protect people from crime.

So does the 4th Amendment. And the 2nd Amendment.

Nobody ever said that Freedom is Free. In fact, wasn't that one of the DoD's recruiting slogans or something? "Freedom isn't Free". "The Liberty Tree must be watered with the blood of free men".

This op-ed clearly comes down on the side of a police state. That's a bad outcome for all concerned. Police states always have a bloody end, but they have a bloody middle as well.
I suppose such a large number of people here would be absolutely dependant on OpenSSH so any kind change or update is news to them. As well the 7.0 version number makes for a lovely even number and catching headline.
I keep hearing about the Fed raising interest rates, or not raising interest rates, but I'm unclear what the pros vs. cons are for the Fed to raise them at a given time. Would someone mind explaining that?

Why does China devaluing the Yen have any impact on US raising interest rates or not?
Course, you shouldn't poll and if those mechanisms aren't coordinated, then you you will suffer. But that's why Android provides the AlarmManager API and I would expect other mobile platforms to provide something similar.
That is not at all a good characterization of what was going on. Do you remember what it was like before XML and Java? Could we have built anything on the scale of the web with CORBA?

(XMPP would've used JSON had it existed in 1998, fwiw.)
They're trying to make sure their kids don't look up to a truck racing, comedy rock/metal vocalist for life lessons.
So you're defending their practice of using ill-informed opinions made by people who don't understand the facts? I'm sorry, but that is not too much to ask of a publication. I'm not talking about getting an expert, simply someone that understands the basics of encryption. Vance doesn't even understand the basic principles. It's like me writing an article about giving birth. I don't understand it because I'm not a woman. He doesn't understand encryption because he refuses to, didn't try, or is too stupid. Let's not pretend that stupidity rules the world when malice is a much more likely explanation.
I don't think that analogy holds up, since the viewer of a web page is not reselling the content (which would be the unethical part). It would be more accurate to ask whether removing the ad pages in magazines you keep for your own use was ethical. The obvious answer would be: of course.
Note that it's from March 11, 2014. It's relevant background for the recent post though.
>>I am not dissing bug bounties, just noting that on a strictly economic basis, why would I throw a lot of money at 3% of the problem
>Uh ... You don't think that percentage will increase if you offer bounties?

And if it doesn't, well, they don't pay out much. It's not like bug bounties consist of just throwing money at random people and hoping they find vulns; you pay for results. That's sort of the point.
To add to this, i've quoted a detailed definition.

"the term "tranny" is used as a dehumanizing slur to describe transgender individuals and is oftentimes the last word someone hears before they are brutally attacked. Similar to the anti-gay F-word, the term "tranny" is commonly used to humiliate and degrade transgender individuals."

Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/lance-bass/why-we-shouldnt-use...
Ask HN: Is it ok to outsource your resume to an HR professional?
Started updating my resume and just thought that there might be staff that I just don't know that cant make my resume 10x more solid.
How come everyone is using the closed-source, ad-network friendly Ghostery instead of the open-source https://disconnect.me/ ?
Even if the need for limiting a service is true, why auctioned? Just give them for free in a lottery, and tie them to the recipient so they can't be sold or exchanged. If the recipient doesn't want it anymore the medallion reverts to the Authority and a new lottery is called to re-assign it. This is done for example with public housing in a lot of places.
The wording in the article also makes it sound like the existence of a faster algorithm for edit distance would imply P=NP ("Most if not nearly all computer scientists believe the P equal to NP problem is false", although later a variant of the problem is mentioned), but that's not the conclusion of the theorem.

A more accurate wording would be that the existence of a fast algorithm for edit distance implies that P is "close" to NP, because there would exist a sub-exponential algorithm for SAT (but not necessarily a polynomial algorithm).
I see ad revenue as someone who has an audience opening up access to that audience for a third party in exchange for a fee. It is entirely up to the third party to figure out how to get a return on that investment.

Neither the content creator nor the audience bears any responsibility to the third party to ensure that the opened channel is used effectively.

If shit comes through the channel, I'm going to route it right into the sewer. If gold comes through, I'll route it into my pocket. Either way, I still care more about my relationship with the content creators than about their sponsored side-channels.

The ads do not pay for the content. The content creators pay for their own content. Then they hold their nose and make a deal with shady web-advertisers to capitalize a bit more on what they have already done. Those advertisers aren't buying content. They are buying access to the audience.
Swiss Watch Exports up 5,1% in June 2015. I guess that is also because of the apple watch then :)

Source: http://www.fhs.ch/scripts/getstat.php?file=comm_150606_a.pdf
Well. It's kind of happening already. Some "tangible" product manufacturers create products that fail at a specific time in the future, usually after the warranty is void: great examples may be seen in the automotive industry, for example (won't get in to details -- don't want to sound like a conspiracist). We'll never know, of course, if that is intentional, but it is happening quite widely.
Do you really believe that the only reason "it's my car and I can run over whoever I like" is ethically wrong is because there's a law that says you can't run over people?
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There "where were you born" question strikes me as the kind of thing that's at a minimum pretty tasteless just by the nature of the question.

If someone asks where you're from, they're probably curious about your background. If somebody asks where you were born, either they're implying you're not really a proper resident of where you prefer to live (whether that's a racial thing or a "somebody who moves to New York can't be a real New Yorker thing"), or they're being creepy by asking the kinds of things that get used as bank security questions.
>If these costs are being borne evenly, then it's complete societal waste. We could pay X for the content, and not incur the overhead. If these costs are not borne evenly, and some people are paying for the consumption of more disciplined people, it's probably contributing to terrible cycles of poverty (ie: some kid spending money on fancy new shoes he doesn't need and can't afford is paying for a well-paid tech-users YouTube habits, because it preys on their lack of education). Either way it's terrible.

Advertising isn't a complete societal waste. If I find a way to compete with an established business by offering the same product at a lower cost, or a better product at the same cost, or a new product that is worth the money but no one had thought of before, my only hope to connect people to that product (not to mention make myself money) is through advertising. Word of mouth and objective reporting in news outlets will also do the information spreading work, but advertising does a considerable amount. In other words, it's competition increasing.

I think economists have done studies on markets with and without advertising and have found results indicating it does bring down costs in those markets by increasing competition [1]. In economic terms that would be a gain since without advertising we would consume an inefficiently low amount of said product. Note that even if there is a gain to efficiency because of lower prices, it may be completely offset by the cost of advertising itself (costs being the cost of consumers having to be irked by looking at them and the effort that went into crafting the advertisements).

[1] Could I be remembering this paper? http://www.jstor.org/stable/724797?seq=1#page_scan_tab_conte...
Hi, Mozilla developer here, speaking for only myself. I'm not sure why we don't make this clearer on the wiki page, but I think the reason there's no override is that any malware installation routine would simply activate it and continue on its merry way. (Disclaimer: I didn't work on this feature and am going by recollection and my own logic.)

We see many copies of Firefox infested with rogue add-ons the user didn't ask for or isn't even aware of. Sometimes these add-ons even ship with big-name software, with no opt out or with the opt out squirreled away in some dark corner. Typically, they do one or more of the following: (1) spy on the user, (2) add affiliate codes for money, (3) cause performance problems and crashes.

The network is a pretty hostile place these days. It's no longer 14-year-olds playing around for fun; there are moneyed interests in the game. And the sorts of people who don't frequent HN are pretty much helpless and clueless in the perpetual tug of war between various companies and mafias. As a "user agent", we have the opportunity defend users who lack the sophistication to root around and remove invasive software they didn't ask for.

Of course, if you're reading this, you're in a different category. You have a better idea which software to trust, and you know how to scour your machine if something gets past you. That's why nightlies and the Developer Edition let you do whatever you want: you aren't the ones who need hard-coded protections to shield you from pref-twiddling installers.

I hope that provides some needed context. Safe surfing, all!
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Oh Chipzilla, unleash the NUC!

I bought the i3 version which has almost all of the Virtualization extensions and that thing is great for a home lab. I can easily run 6-8 small vms no problem.

It's a fine line with these products, because the memory can really add to the price tag, but its more favorable than cluster of Raspberry Pis to me.