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As someone who has (often) thought about heading down this road - would you mind sharing why you closed? Was it a purely financial decision or just too much effort? Feel free to ignore if too personal, obviously.

edit: spelling
From DanBC above: At will, secret, testing is banned. Parents can get court orders if they want a paternity test.

The "labs lobbying" comment was kind of tongue-in-cheek: making fun of the "crazies" being paranoid about "crazy feminists"...

The real reason's probably more about bioethics: no dna profiling of people who don't consent without a court order (and children being too young to consent, you need a court order for a paternity test).
Heinlein had a similar idea, which he described in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

http://www.quora.com/How-feasible-would-the-catapults-from-t...
I often see this on HN: ideas are nothing; execution is everything.

I don't think a model is necessary for a patent application, but some check on bullshit is necessary. If you are granted the patent, and following the instructions in it does not yield a working device--or if the instructions cannot be followed, because they require an impossibility or something that does not yet exist--that should be grounds for immediate disqualification.

There has to be some way to encourage "this is how you do it" over "so I have this really cool idea that I think is worth lots of money".
No, it's not just you. If I get a survey like this I purposefully screw with it because I can't stand this crap. This kind of garbage needs to burn.
JGC tweeted me about how 'Oh, we get so much benefit from LuaJIT being FOSS"

And we do. We paid Mike Pall to work on open source LuaJIT, we've contributed to NGINX, hired people to exclusively work on open source projects. Here's the harsh economic reality: it is simply better business for us to spend a relatively small amount of money on open source support to get what we need from fantastic projects like LuaJIT than to try to develop this stuff ourselves.

My worst fear is CF taking this project into the shadows, developing it closed-source (which they absolutely have a right to do) and not sharing their insights with the community.

How do we "have the right to do" that? Whatever makes you think us trying to closed source this would have any benefit to us? How is the Github account (of which Mike Pall is an owner) us walling it off?

More than that, I don't think there has been enough narrative between Mike and the 'new LuaJIT crew' (CF) to determine how the project should be structured.

I predict that if I hadn't sent an email to the list soliciting ideas and input and had announced a new structure you would have complained that everything had been done in the shadows.
I don't see how defunding the IRS does anything but promote a Greece style economy which will rapidly spiral out of control.
If automation is providing all your needs, you won't need a job.

[Edit] Spotted this after reading the article:

"Technology has created more jobs than it has destroyed, says 140 years of data"

(http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/aug/17/technology-c...
No, not for it having significant economic and social implications, that's more a corollary of employment rate decreasing -- I'll change that sentence. The argument for the Luddite fallacy not being a fallacy was that humans have so far been able to compete with technology, but that we're fast losing that edge and when that happens things really are different this time. Does that make sense?
It's about giving the user the option. If you use target blank it's impossible to stay in the same tab. Which can be a hassle on mobile or it could get blocked as an ad as well. How hard is CTRL + click or MMB?
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Saying that you "don't understand" allegations of sexism at Amazon, as a white man, is going to be tough for folks to accept. You've likely never experienced the sexism. As a fellow white man, I've never really dealt with racism directed at me in general society. Does that mean I should assume it doesn't exist outside my personal experience?
I wonder why your comment is being downvoted. This is very true
Even when it is as simply as technology putting someone out of work it is a joke to then tell them, "It is ok, you and your fellow workers may be out of work but ultimately the unemployment level won't rise, so chill out."

This is especially condescending before the creation of unemployment insurance and the welfare state. You can't feed your family with without your job.

Those ease the pain, ultimately a democratic economy is needed so technology cuts the amount of work we all have to do.
...and noone ever has to worry about carrier grade NAT or heaven forbid, being in a managed office and unable to easily alter the firewall for their LAN or deal with inept IT departments... \s
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This kind of crap needs to stop happening. I'm there to read your site not fill in your marketing garbage. When I exit and something like this pops up I either ignore it or, if I'm feeling goofy, I'll start filling it out and tell you complete garbage information. Also, if there's a textbox, I'll usually tell you how stupid your methods are and how obnoxious you're being.
Doesn't Ubiquiti use openwrt as their base?
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A humorous and well written article, but I kind of wish she'd gone into a little more detail about the work-life balance issues rather than just shoehorning it in at the end. Still, it's interesting that the dog policy might have been instated as a way of throwing employees a bone.
Seems a little uptight - who hasn't enjoyed a bit of toilet typing now and then?
This tool is similar to the excellent awsenv https://github.com/michaelcontento/awsenv, but different in that it can be used for multiple applications. It is also different in that it is primarily written in a fully-featured programming language rather than Bash.
It's going to be interesting to see who suddenly gets voted out, as soon as these are replaced.
I'm a photographer and freelance software developer, I know all about not doing work for free and what that does to our industries.

This isn't doing work for free, this is a hobby. The time spent by this person was not requested by Pocket and they shouldn't be maligned just because they're not paying him.

Also, "sold the exploits with no remorse" really makes you sound like a troll. So I'm feeding.
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Perhaps misread as "indeterminate" ?
Wanted to share my thoughts, and hear your thoughts on this "vertical x culture" discussion.
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I think you're mistaking humility and open-mindedness for incompetence.

Exactly.
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That's not the way I remember it.
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Again - if you'd made these points, I probably wouldn't have commented. You didn't; you flat out suggested exercising in London was a Bad Idea.

I think you'll find that the benefits outweigh the negatives[1]

Also, how does one commute to work in central London without exposure to air pollution? I'm curious what your alternative suggestion is.

[1] https://intranet2.bham.ac.uk/collaboration/cycling/documents...
I believe vyatta is their base.
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I wish you could experience how much this reassurance meant for me. Living an isolated hacker life can lead to harmful presumptions such as me thinking that I had to give up my dream of continuing to work with computers 'cause I couldn't study it at a Uni. Now I realize how unreasonable and childish that was. Nevertheless, this very idea caused a depressive episode for more than a year.
I am leaving this comment here because I know that there are other hackers out there struggling with the same problem as me. The solution to it can be as brief as the few sentences in your comment.
I am sure that I will bring additional colour, learning and stories to the hacker community. Thank you again.
If you read my comment history, you'll find I'm pretty knowledgeable about software in general and FOSS in particular. I only lightly use Office applications, and I had no idea OpenOffice was dead until I saw this thing called LibreOffice in my distro a few years back and was like "WTF happened to my OpenOffice?" and started Googling.

So it's not just a problem for non-technical users -- keeping track of when software you don't use on a daily basis becomes obsolete is a problem faced by everyone.
Uh sorry, not sure why I deleted that. (Guess I felt this might turn into a warzone and decided to avoid feeding it.)
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A friend of mine likes to point out that while Trump has a lot of polls with him as their top pick (among the Republican field, I presume), there are far fewer with him as their second or even third pick. As other candidates start to drop out, those that remain will start to gain the "second" and "third" pick supporters while Trump will remain with relatively the same amount of supporters. I think in the end, it will be hard for Trump to keep up the support he has in crowded field against a more narrow field with saner candidates.
It's not clear why the author thinks it's not a fallacy.

What bothers me about this sort of discussion, though, is the assumption that we need to work. I want technology to do my job for me, so I can focus on fun stuff. But for that to work, we should change our economic system so we don't need to work, or at least not as much.

What technology has really done, is not so much take away people's jobs, but make capital investment an increasingly large part of productivity, leading all the profits of this increased productivity to end up with the small elite that controls the capital. Look at how much wealth inequality has grown over the past 100 years, particularly in the US.

Keynes predicted in the 1930s that due to increased productivity, we'd all have to work a lot less than we're currently doing. He's wrong because the benefits of our increased productivity are not distributed equally.

In short: we need a basic income. Or something else to ensure that everybody benefits from this.
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In the modern world the cost benefit is more complex than it was 50 years ago. Men have huge costs for unwanted children -- not as high as women but still very high. And men have far less control than women upon whether it happens.

> No, I have to label abusers as cheats, who played the game and when it starts to cost them, try to evade the consequences.

What do you even mean by this sentence?
The danger is that some will spill and lie there on the floor for months, filling the room with mercury vapor.
"How would adhering to this work against a specific gender? How could being an attentive, respective leader, who is vocally self-critical and candid be a bad thing?? Even if this could logically happen based on gender, of all things (and I can't for the life of me rationalize how) HR is in the room for promotion and review discussions to ensure that what Jodi and David refer to doesn't happen."

Clearly you have no empathy for gender issues. Discrimination is usually NOT logical, and as a man working in a leadership role, being a bit more humble about other gender's experiences and feelings would make you more credible. At all credible.
You should get your eyes looked at. Most people have trouble going back to 1080p after using a Retina. The difference is incredible.
Trick is that it was not a war on browsers, it was a war on servers. In particular, intraservers.

Netscape, as best i can tell, pretty much seeded the idea of using web tech on the office network.

And this was a direct threat to the market share of MS on that network.

Thus MS rolled out IIS and IE, with the latter working closely with the former (as was the case between Netscape Navigator and Enterprise server).

So in the end the "browser war" was a proxy war for the office network.
And its pretty much the same thing now.

Try WebGL on any Mac (Safari is the worst performer of them all btw). You will see a bit of lag, frame drops, CPUs at 100%, a lot heat and your battery will die in two hours max.

Open the same site on a Chrome/Windows machine (with comparable specs of course) and you don't see any of that trouble.

Why? Because Apple wants everything done "The Apple Way®©™" and other people just don't care so they just create a substandard implementation and call it a day. And it's only going to get worse now that they want to push Metal everywhere.
Also worth noting: don't just regex-check the URL with (localhost|127.*) or something similar. Any hostname could point to 127.0.0.1.

iptables with --uid-owner denying traffic to local/private IP space (plus infrastructure-specific stuff like EC2's instance metadata service) would probably be the best option.
I think JoeAltm meant OP was smart to give up an idea he probably wouldn't have been able to follow through on at, the time he did. Or at least that's how I read it.
Great point. Also, possibly all reserved IPv4 spaces (see the Apache proxy mentioned in the article), not just 127/localhost (and don't forget 169.254/16 as the article points out). It's hard to do this right, since there might be use cases where local networks should be allowed, but better to err on the side of caution.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserved_IP_addresses
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It's probably a good idea to point out that this party had a robust Amiga demo competition this year as well. Remarkable.
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Glad this letter was linked here. Despite being technical I had no idea that OpenOffice was in death throws. I'll switch to LibreOffice immediately on my MBP.

I think part of the reason I'm out of date on office suites is that I don't use them often. At work, I'm mandated to use MS Office. When I have a choice I switch between Google Docs and iCloud's office suite. Still, it's helpful to have an office suite on my laptop when I can't access a WiFi connection.

The author's point about letting OpenOffice be an important part of history is a salient one. After MS won the "Wordperfect v. Word" and "Lotus 1-2-3 v. Excel" wars, we didn't have a choice other than purchasing MS Office for a long time. For light users like me, it's not worth it to purchase an office suite I use once every few weeks. OpenOffice and their ilk has been important for people like me.
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Had they followed the Lydia.com approach more closely, they could've competed and done quite well.

If I want to learn how to program, there are a TONS and I mean TONS of free resources everywhere on the internet - very similar to all of the game faqs people keep referencing. And yet, Lydia still makes a ton of money because their service is sold as a subscription based service which is much better than other resources on the internet.

If you do a good job of marketing this and sell it as a premium service, I'm sure they would've done just fine. Also, if they do make a dent in Google's service, you can bet their ass, they'd be calling about acquiring them in short order, which would have made a nice payday for them

Instead, they bailed at the first opportunity. To me, it doesn't sound like their hearts were really in it.
> Our hearts sunk. They were pretty much already working on what we had been planning – and they are going to give it away for free.

Selling below cost price is considered anti-competitive, and is illegal in many countries.
>you can easily disable it just as you can easily disable many other things that Firefox includes by-default

>it would be nice if Firefox actually packaged Pocket as a real extension that could be removed from the Extensions menu

These two statements you made seem to corroborate his characterization of it being "opt-out" (meaning on by default, but capable of being disabled) and "non-removable" (baked into firefox as opposed to an extension). Not sure what you find wrong with his characterization.
The reddit link is to a men's movement forum, so expect conspiracy theory and misinformation to be rife - it goes with the territory ... And feminism suffers from the same problem. Any prejudiced movement will suffer from victim mentality and reality distortion.
That's not saying that sexism doesn't exist - but "taking a gender preference" leads to bias in one's views and ultimately creates more prejudice from those who believe in a gender superiority.
The best solution is to think of everyone as people. Only accept a gender difference if it's essential. For example, avoid giving jobs based on gender as many companies do today ... Unless there is an absolute need, doing so is sexist (and quotas/targets to reach 50% are almost always sexist).
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Nah, it means 'nothing'. :-( But I am looking to learn React + Flux. I am a frontend noob, mostly because the spider web of JS and CSS code (plus the tens of JS frameworks to choose from) ultimately drives me nuts. But, React and Flux seem to be less spider-web-y and appeal to a backend developer like me.
For the security researchers out there, mainframes are really under-researched. There just aren't many people that have the expertise in the platform required for security research. And most of the people who do have expertise in the platform are often oblivious to technologies outside of the mainframe. (If you've ever dealt with mainframe people, you might know what I am talking about.) It's unfortunate, but too often true. Our best mainframe guy is brilliant. I've never met anyone more technically skilled in his platform. But ask him a basic Windows or a Linux question? Forget it.

With today's complex stack of multiple platforms in most enterprises, a good security researcher, IMHO, should be fluent with both worlds. Mainframes are where some of our most critical data is stored. When you pull up your account balance through your bank's website, there's a good chance that value was read off a mainframe.

Mainframers are old-school. They don't believe in public disclosure or open security models or public audits. If you go through the DEFCON and BlackHat archives, there's not much mainframe research out there. There's just a small community of mainframers on the Internet, but it's a significant part of the world's infrastructure. The mainframe world is a crazy alternate reality. (I know, because it's my day job.)

Phillip Young, the guy who owns this Tumblr project, has made some waves in this community. His talks are a great place to start. Here's a few resources to get you started:

[0]: http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/

[1]: http://bigendiansmalls.tumblr.com/

[2]: https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Young-Mainframes-The-...

[3]: http://www.slideshare.net/bigendiansmalls/security-necromanc...

[4]: https://defcon.org/images/defcon-22/dc-22-presentations/Youn...

[5]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfl4spvM5DI

[6]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ra4Ehmifh4

Also, IBM.com has a wealth of documentation. (They have terrible SEO though.) Checkout the z/OS RedBooks and manauls there.
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Thanks a lot! I'll watch it after work and get back with impressions :).
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Absolutely this.

Federal and State governments should stop using contractors all together for software projects. Instead, hire a very large shared bank of highly-qualified engineers and pay competitive salaries. Even if those engineers sit around doing nothing most of the time (unlikely), they would still be extraordinarily cost-effective compared to pissing away hundreds of millions on projects that should only cost a few million.

IMO it's impossible to take deficit hawks seriously if they don't back a blanket policy of starving out leeching contractors.
Not always.
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Social environment: I like to imagine that we get feeble when old, because it means grandparents tend to stay by the fire and teach the young.
For those who don't know about uid-owner. Here's how you would block any process running as the "mike" user from accessing anything on localhost:

iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner mike -d 127.0.0.0/8 -j REJECT

ip6tables -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner mike -d ::1 -j REJECT
My advice here would be to get creative. There are so many ways of making sensations more intense that it's very easy to offset any loss incurred by a condom. And that's even before mentioning ways of making each other feel good other than a simple penetration. And before going to a sex shop for a couple of toys.
> Fighting games

Those are competitive, which i addressed in my post. Note that the original article specifically mentions the Elder Scrolls series as an example.

> GameFAQs has had a forum for ages

In forums you go in and ask your question. Again, it functions like a reference work.

> You're being facetious.

That is a highly uncalled for accusation, and i am serious. (Though it may not have been entirely clear that i was excluding the two categories mentioned in the paragraph before that question.)

> https://www.youtube.com/user/OneHiveRaids

Again, that is about a competitive game.
Taking the market cap of three hugely successful companies and dividing it across all the moderately successful and failed businesses doesn't mean everyone in that set is a success. It just means you're abusing statistics to pretend they're saying something they aren't.

To draw an analogy, averaging the value of those companies between all the companies started is like saying "Onion2k and Usain Bolt ran 100m, and on average Onion2k ran it in 15s!" That doesn't mean I did, and it wouldn't mean I qualify for the World Athletics Championship.
But for the product discussed here it is. (They actually hired some of the Vyatta devs to work on it, since the upstream project seems to be left to die at Brocade)
I read the OP as thinking since Google would give away a good-enough service, it would be very hard to find that niche.
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Not really. It's mostly a reflection of the impracticality of hosting a service on a personal internet connection these days.