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The internet doesn't belong to vendors. The internet doesn't belong to governments.

The internet belongs to the user, right?

The thing is, this is literally false. The infrastructure of the internet is paid for by governments and vendors. A user wouldn't be called a user if it belonged to them...

The internet is a great decentralization when compared to traditional media like television, but it's not nearly as big a difference as people make it seem. With how most people use it it's not far from just having more channels on your existing cable box.
No one seems to agree on whether iMessage is either hackable or whether Apple can hand over unencrypted chat content when compelled by law enforcement. Which side is right? Are the claims theoretical or have they been tried out in practice? You don’t hear of cases of people’s private iMessage chats being revealed or used in a court case by way of Apple providing them.
This is loosely related but if I were you I would want to know about it. Casey Muratori is doing a series on game development in C. I find it educational and entertaining.

https://handmadehero.org/
Find the Thing You're Passionate About, Then Do It on Nights and Weekends
Yeah I see what you mean, plus consciousness is more of a buzzword now and too arbitrary.

I found that talking about it along the lines or neural networking seems to be more accurate
This is actually why I'm posting this, both Nim and Rust are higher on my languages-to-try list. Free time is sadly not unlimited and I'd like other people's opinions as well :)
$ youtube-dl 'http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33919429'
I used ES5/6 because those are (I hope) in the eyes of the HN community clear improvements over ES3. I personally wouldn't use ES5/6 nowadays, and instead use TypeScript or PureScript. Both of which are IMO even bigger improvements. Backwards compatibility does not matter in this comparison, what matters is the relative ordering: Backbone.View < React, ES3 < ES5 < ES6, and IMO: ESx < TypeScript/PureScript.
It depends the project you work on. Typical scrum project is one that contains lots of smaller tasks - the standup is an opportunity for quick interactions, ad-hoc replanning (like don't do Y this morning, I'm not done with X. Should do Z today, not sure where to start, anyone can give me a hand ? Anybody remember what M is ?)

Of course, you can and should do that anytime you are in need, but the standup meeting is a small time allocated where you have the attention of to the whole team.

It can be done in an email - but generally people are not as succinct or too succinct and dialog does not really happen. If dialog does happen in your team, and you spend less time writing email than joining the meeting then why would you not do it via email ?
Postmark added a pretty powerful editor
http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/125849089273/special-delive...
Android app launched. More people should probably launch with Android first, seemed like iOS was flatlining.
Alright guys for any one who made comments about the landing pages I have removed them for demo purposes so you can now see more of the app with out having to be logged in or sign up. You just need to be logged in if you want to post,like,etc. I hope this enhances the demo experiences!
> Rust is probably still man-hours.

It's nowhere near the amount of time put into various C++ compilers, but

1. We use LLVM, so all that time is working for us as well.
2. Mozilla has been paying at least 4 people for at least a
few years to write Rust full-time, I would bet we're coming
up on a person-decade of time for Rust. The project has existed
for eight years in total, though four of that was just as a side
project.
unfortunately, SSDs are going to be more expensive for the foreseeable future, and part of that is because the material costs are much higher.

We need to make sure that everyone understands why, and part of that is because we're using lots of silicon crystals, which have the same lattice structure as diamonds, which are going to be more expensive than aluminum platters.

If you take it to the limit, an SSD won't be cheaper than hard drives even as processing costs go down, because they use so much silicon.

You say the silicon costs are insignificant, but it will be a limit as prices go down.

The diamond analogy works appropriately, and it's unhelpful and inappropriate to claim material costs are insignificant.

And people are always going to end up using as much space as given, so that's another mistake you're making. They will find ways, especially given high-res smartphones everywhere with cameras.
Well sure, pretty much by definition. Car thieves who can't handle technology will eventually have to stop stealing cars. There are only so many late 90s Honda Accords out there to be stolen, after all, and they aren't making any more.

But I really doubt that all the thieves out there will learn fancy technology so they can steal newer cars. A few will, but most will find other things to steal.

Right now, popular new cars are stolen in amounts of hundreds per year in the US. Older cars (like the Honda Accord) are stolen by the tens of thousands. That's not because older cars are more valuable, it's just because it's a lot easier.
Ask HN: Why such a negative perception of Affiliate Links?
I run a blog that (I hope) brings value to its readers. I do run some google ads which I know some people block.

Obviously, the blog takes some of my time and costs to run. I'd guess in the big picture, no one that gets value from my blog blames me for trying to monetize.

At times, I do link to products. I cannot think of a less obtrusive and more seamless method to monetize than to affiliatize those links. It isn't an intrusive ad. It costs my users absolutely nothing.

But I still occasionally get emails (and just have a general perception) that the world HATES affiliatization.

Pinterest tried it awhile back - and just read the comments of this article. Users hated the idea. Why?

http://marketingland.com/pinterest-skimlinks-might-try-ads-copyright-issues-not-significant-6213
This, I think, is what people so often miss when they are talking about agile.

It's not a magic set of hard-and-fast rules that should be applied to every situation regardless of how they fit. If you feel you can do without some parts of the canonical process, then drop them. If you feel you'd benefit from some different approaches, you can add them.

Standups are no different, and if your team doesn't need them, or has an alternative that works better for you, then go for it!
How would you read them if they were coming from a Russian news source?
Why would they? The context is different.
They did cover ingestion, but what about the fumes released while cooking that are apparently capable of killing birds?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10050903

Also: Is there any way to identify where the funding came for this study - or studies in general?
I just like the way it works, it doesn't have to be Slack specifically.
Right, the money quote in the article is:

> The research team first took its findings to the manufacturer of the affected chip in February 2012 and then to Volkswagen in May 2013. The car-maker filed a lawsuit to block the publication of the paper - arguing that its vehicles would be placed at risk of theft - and was awarded an injunction in the U.K.'s High Court.

But then they don't detail the legal situation that led to the two years of litigation and the eventual release, so I don't know who to be mad at..
#MusicTech E-book: Music Discovery, Machine Learning, Analytics and Data Science
Networks and software, not Uber, are changing the existing employment structure
Don't buy a high end car that has a high theft rate. Research theft rates like you would reliability and resale. Buy a plain vanilla mid-level toyota, honda or the like. Insure your car.
I don't code much in Go but the thing that bothers me the most is the way variable types come after the variables names. What is surprising is nobody talk seems to be bothered by this at all....
I think that's true. When I had a local team we stood, and the meetings seemed shorter. With global or national teams, that's a bit harder.

I have found for phone/web "standup" meetings, that the person running the show needs to set the pace and keep it moving along. Nice and short, keeps the team informed and gets help were its needed.

On the other hand, I've had leads who just let people ramble non stop, and doing that for weeks was just wasteful and demoralizing.
Twitter ripped off Meerkat. That's all I will ever see to this story. I don't care how succesfully they may be or become.

Disclaimer: I don't work for Meerkat. It's just the way it is. Twitter deserves every bad bit of luck they are getting lately.
Yes, if they were in a similar position. You have to admit, Kaspersky lab has been making a lot of powerful enemies this last decade or so. With cyber-security as big of a deal as it is now, it's obvious that smear campaigns would be on the table of options. (That said, how would I know, they could have done this. But I'll argue the paranoia is strongly warranted.)
You're telling me you don't have a 1+ feet of clearance above your garage door?
This is partly a side effect of the, at this point, long-running trend of employers not training people on anything, let alone proper management.

I've had some awful managers in my career. One was formerly an elementary school teacher. She, very predictably, treated everyone like they were in elementary school, going so far as to give people gold stars for things. When called out on it, she confessed she really had no idea how to manage adults.

I've only had two excellent managers in my career, people who had studied management, were also technical, and cared about being effective at their jobs so the people they managed could be effective as well. These folks had formal training, undertaken of their own initiative, and it absolutely showed in all facets of what they did. Top notch folks!

I suspect this lack of training is an American phenomenon, but have no data to back up the claim.
Spidermonkey has a GC which manages DOM objects, so yeah, that claim would appear false.
That's great and all, but what about the other one million+ documents he absconded with not related to the phone metadata record collection?

At what point does he cease being a whistle blower?
I wish I had more ideas for applications using techniques like this, otherwise I would probably spend much more time researching natural language processing.

Instead, I did a simple project on searching using language processing and just read Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing [1], which is not too difficult, and Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition [2], which is a pretty heavy read but a great reference. I was able to find a used copy of the second book for $0.30.

I also put a bit of study into articulatory phonetics and speech recognition as part of a graduate study-abroad, which is an interesting field on its own, but I always wanted to come back to computational linguistics.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Statistical-Natural-Langua...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Speech-Language-Processing-Introductio...
You only need a tiny bit of asm to have an operating system in Rust. No C required.
Does Music Help You Become More Productive?
+1 you should start taking email sign-ups. Would be nice to get notified when it expands to this market.
Title is inaccurate - the important part at the end was cut off: "- Ex-employees"

Accusation is presented as fact.

This would be a better title:
"Russian antivirus firm faked malware to harm rivals - say ex-employees"
It really is completely different. It's like looking at an Etch-A-Sketch, which in the end, is not much different than looking at paper with ink or graphite particles in it.

E-Readers are one of those technologies that I'm completely unconflicted and wholly supportive of. E-books should be priced better though, to account for the inability to lend them out to people.
Very well written - great job!
Blind belief in credentials is just as wrong in nutrition science as it is in tech. Check out this amazing paper re-inventing calculus: http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/2/152.abstract

The author has a doctorate from NYU and the article was published in a peer reviewed journal.

That's just a funny example, but there are tons of poorly researched peer reviewed papers which makes it exceedingly difficult for me to accept credentialis as being a useful signal. I find it's much better to have ideas stand on their own merit, rather than on the shoulders of those who are espousing them.
Can we agree to only fight the tickets that we don't deserve?
I wouldn't say that Snowden was intending to provide technical (or specifically cryptographic) advice in this Q&A. I would compare it to a power user giving feedback to the engineers working on improving their software.

What he brings to the table in discussions like this is basically having worked with people on surveillance projects. He knows how they operate and where they'd look for attack vectors. I think that's valuable when you have to think about designing any system with any kind of security requirements.

He literally stated himself that what he says shouldn't be accepted as gospel, and in a later question about MITM specifically confirmed that it's not his area of expertise. I don't think there's any risk of people suddenly jumping on the DNSSEC bandwagon just because of his lukewarm support.
Marshall london phone
Hacking cars, open platforms and security, you couldn't miss summer buzz
There was a talk about the paper of breaking Megamos crypto in 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_8eYSJlWic
I, for one, would, yes.
Always question sources... Don't just question those you don't agree with or the top dog. Question your supporters, their motives, question the under dog too, the under dog is the most likely to take advantage of sympathies.
I'm glad the ESA is getting its day in the sun (pun intended).

To steal from Joe Biden: 'this is a big fucking deal'. Why? Because, first, we've never gotten this amount of detail from a comet before, and second, because it's different.

Being different is good. To a large extent ESA's Galileo is a ripoff/copy of the USA's GPS. But not this. It's not a Mars lander or a flyby of the outer planets, both of which NASA has already done. It's something else. It's new scientific research, which will lead to new discoveries and new theories.
Not sure about these guys, but I gave a similar talk at Airbnb last year if you're interested.

http://youtu.be/TIYqN7j1mys
Or just go here and run it in your browser: https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/
And who pays the government to run it's operations? Same for the vendors. Who pays them? I as a consumer keeps them running.
You don't need to go through all of that, as long as you have an activated copy of Win7 you can pop in a Windows 10 DVD or USB flash drive and run the upgrade.
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> Or, a QR code (or bar code) could be sent to the phone which pops up on the screen. This is held up to the PC's web cam which scans it.

The opposite of this (bar code on computer is scanned by the phone) is roughly the user experience of SQRL.
New Cornell paper suggests Bitcoin mining pools will shrink
Project Oberon Emulator in JavaScript and Java
"... armour the requests themselves to make sure that they don't become the new vector, they don't become manipulated."

I interpreted this to mean encrypting each DNS packet.

Maybe I misread the statement?

DNSSEC of course does not protect the contents of the packet.

Instead, DNSSEC more or less is just another CA system (or an adjunct to the existing one), running over UDP.
As noted in the conversation about the Jeep hacking thread,
This is an example of "better" security by not making the security system reprogammable (its read only). But it does incur this huge cost when you find a problem with it.

I'm sure the time to fix is also made more problematic by the need to fab new chips.
I'm not that much against it, but I can see the issue. We can't know if you're just endorsing a product to get the affiliate money, or because you really like it.

Also, Amazon affiliate links are unusual in that they send you a cut of all purchases a visitor makes in the next 24 hours. That just feels odd.
The part that excites me the most is the potential for reducing car ownership. The utlization rate for both cars and parking spaces is extremely low (something like 5% for cars and 15% for parking spaces), so it's not hard to imagine hundreds of billions of dollars in savings.

As for low wages for the drivers, I think that won't be a problem that disappears on its own, but I'm strongly against solving social problems by trying to keep wages up artificially.
Yeah, I just had corrective eye surgery and the Kindle is just as easy on my eyes as a book. Easier, even because I can enlarge the text when my eyes get tired.
> i would argue we should be taxing consumption more

Consumption tax disproportionately affects the poorest citizens. It is a non-workable solution.

Consumption is what drives the economy, disincentives to consumption would hurt the economy as a whole (causing the wealthy to lose money via investments).

Further, a citizen has no hope to pay off the debt that it owes the government for the things i listed previously. There is no tax rate at which you would effectively pay back the government for its investments in society.
The yearly budget of the US Department of Transportation alone, is 77 billion - that's just to keep federal roads drivable.

If you think theres some tax level at which you have paid for the initial investment and upkeep of the federal highway system, by all means share it here, i would love to know what number you think is 'fair' since its 'your money' even though they aren't 'your roads'

You have an extremely entitled view of what "fair" is.
Yeah, but do you want to have 10 people go through their 5 minute thing every day? Its basically a whole hour that could have been better used.

Every company is different, but in my opinion that's just a meeting rather than the canonical standup. I wouldn't expect a 10-person standup to take more than 15 minutes.
I stopped buying technical books approximately 15 years ago. Nowadays I much prefer (online) tutorials along with the (online) reference manual with user comments. In fact, you could quite easily crowd author and publish these things. We could use better software for that, though, because Wikipedia's mediawiki is only so so for that purpose. Furthermore, most reference manuals and tutorial collections do not sufficiently solicit user commenting and other user participation. Books printed on paper do not allow for user involvement at all. Even for novels, I would prefer to read them with user involvement in one way or another. I cannot imagine one type of book that would not benefit from user interaction.
on the basis of a badly sourced article that offers no evidence, other than some rumors spread by anonymous ex employees? This is a company that has uncovered serious misbehaviour by government sponsored malware writers. Glad you don't run my security.
Non issue to me. Typical media and security professionals hyperbole.

I have car insurance for my Porsche. According to the list it's vulnerable.

Chance of getting stolen? Quite small. If it does insurance pays in my case the full value not the depreciated value (age of car as only one reason). Not something I am worrying about.

How many cars are actually stolen as a result of this flaw?

Just another example of the security industrial complex fanning the flames...
Think about it from the prosecution's perspective. He revealed one program that was legal at the time but later ruled illegal, dozens of programs that are entirely legal, and thousands of documents that describe ongoing work on specific targets that were also perfectly legal and incredibly sensitive. What he did was equivalent to the SPE hack, where the attackers dumped emails without regard to whether what they contained was illegal in any way but were certainly harmful to SPE.
Here are a few:

- Visual Studio.
- Faster than OS X on same exact hardware.
- Less bugs than any Linux desktop.
- Not tied into one brand of overpriced hardware.
- Runs the majority of popular web browsers.
- More extendable GUI than OS X.
- Better window management than OS X.
- Better keyboard acceleration than OS X.
- More high-quality dev tools that are free than OS X such as Paint.NET.
The internet != the infrastructure of the internet. The internet is not its wires, it's the content and the people who are part of a large global community that comprises it. Vendors and governments use the internet, but they don't and shouldn't own it.

> ...it's not nearly as big a difference as people make it seem. With how most people use it it's not far from just having more channels on your existing cable box.

You can't write emails on your TV, or do banking, or...well this is just a silly sentiment.
"Agile" means Scrum at my workplace. I wish it meant Agile still.
Benchmark is rubbish. The Nim version is using a standard nim 'table' for the bracket_map, which is a hash table. The C++ version is using std::map which is a red-black tree.

A quick once-over with gprof shows the C++ interpreter running bench.b shows it is spending 30% of its time allocating rb-tree nodes and another 30% searching it.

Swapping it out for a unordered_map (a hash table) actually makes it slower, but ~40% of the runtime is then sunk in to inserting in to the hash table. Probably allocating

I couldn't be bothered to drill in any further.
More worrisome is what CAN be done. If they don't abuse it, someone else will eventually. Probably in a less obvious way, to hurt specific users only.
I agree that it smells a bit, but take a quick look at the author, Joseph Menn. He's been floating around tech reporting for a while and seems to have some netsec chops. This isn't an article coming out of the State Department or some anonymous blog; there's a name behind it of someone who'd have their reputation to lose if it turned out to be a bunch of false allegations. (Not that that's never happened before...)
Nesting is the only reason I wish to use any of these preprocessors to be honest. I don't understand how people write plain css when things like less/sass exist. Writing and maintaining css selectors is a nightmare, but it's so simple and intuitive to just nest things inside parents.
That Thatcham rating might not be as good as you think; we used to have massive problems with Thatcham certified motorbike chains and locks, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VC3hFr8p2ck

Pro-Tip: If you're chaining your bike up, make sure the chain can't touch the floor.
is this the return of smarterchild?
Thank you for the extremely detailed feedback, much appreciated. I'll admit that I haven't really thought about the 'enterprise' portion of the offering, instead featuring on the small time developer. This is a great breakdown of what might happen in an enterprise developer's head, I'll need to mull this over as well.
Never mind. It was just the Droid Serif fallback font. I feel rather silly.
Oh, then there is a pretty open market on preconfigured "thief tools".
Ask HN: Who made @newsyc20?
I'm really liking https://twitter.com/newsyc20:

Tweeting Hacker News stories as soon as
they reach 20 points. There's also
@newsyc50, @newsyc100, @newsyc150, @newsyc300

Does anyone know who made these? I haven't been able to find out with some light searching.

Is the code open source? I'd like a version that tweets new submissions with more than one point.

It has some really nice touches like finding the twitter handle in the profile of the submitter and including that in the tweet.
Excellent point.

Also when problems are raised; you will get tons of responses to email; taking the time of many people.

As opposed to being assigned one expert to help, taking the time of only one additional person (ideally).