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Creators have a right to determine what their product sells for. If you don't like the price then you have a right not to purchase it. However, I suspect you only care about yourself - as long as you can copy/download for $free.
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They filed for chapter 11, which is a reorg. I believe they intend a comeback.
I absolutely agree with the article stating that vast amounts of students borrowed on the "premise ... that virtually every degree — regardless of the school or the major — could more than pay for itself because college graduates would command premium incomes". That's driven home in the previous paragraph: "The treatment led him to study Chinese medicine after graduation and become a licensed acupuncturist himself in 2004. He had already racked up $45,000 in college debt; acupuncture school required more."

When I went to college (2001-2005) the thought process was "borrow as much as you can, you'll get a good job straight out of college and no one can repo your college degree". I had the head of the financial aid department tell me that borrowing the max every year was fine and dandy and I should keep doing it because my degree wasn't like a car that could be repossessed. So I graduated $38K in debt and spent maybe half of that on actual school with the rest going towards stupid shit that 20 year olds spend too much money on.
Where did I call someone a name? I characterized the argument as "cryptofascist". And I still maintain that it is, in the technical sense.

If it wasn't "crypto" I would have tried to be more palatable than saying "fascist", but I thought it worthwhile to reference the general pattern.

Apparently this is a really offensive word to some people, but I didn't think HN had banned swearing?
But not, if you write in a language that is not English but a native language to the country you are living in, like German, French, Spanish, Portugeese, Italy, Polish, …

Maybe with the exception of Spanish (Middle and South America) and French (Africa) you have a rather small audiance but still the same living costs like in the US.

If you audience is not the general public but a specialied audience like Technology, like Astrophysics, like historic cars, then you don't have the audience like an article about Lady Gaga or some general politics.
Everything in theory could be compromised, that's the story of computer security but that doesn't mean we should ignore any threats. That's like saying I might as well use dictionary words for all my passwords because they are easy to remember and there's no such thing as a secure system. The point is that the Neo900's baseband sandbox will provide significant protection that no other device can offer. _If_ a government agency decides they want to try to break the sandbox of a device owned by only 400 people, maybe they'll find a vulnerability that they can exploit, but it may take them many man hours to do so and even then there's no guarantee that they will find anything.

Accessing the base station controller (or any other part of the cellular infrastructure for that matter) lawfully or unlawfully, is indeed possible but that does very little to help an adversary take over your device. What it does help them to do is to read your communications. If you are paranoid about that, you can use your own encryption. If you are paranoid about your location being tracked then just turn off the modem or don't use a mobile phone. The difference between the Neo900 and everything else is that when turn off the modem, you know it actually is off.
If we define the metrics by which we judge quality, then possibly yes, possibly no.
Ever driven behind a 2-tact otto bike?! Now that's a smell.
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Thank you.

Everyone in this thread should be reading this link. Yes, it is a one-sided summary by the agency whose job is to pass TPP. But it is also among the very small amount of up-to-date information we have about the deal. (We all know about the leaks from 2011 and 2013. Those aren't news right now.)

This is at least closer to a primary source than the New York Times' glossed-over description of it.
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If there is a rogue actor on the internet, even at a large scale, the rest of the Internet blackholes their traffic, and treats them as a failure point. Various routing tables are updated across the internet to not consider them a viable destination or source, and traffic normalizes without them connected.

It isn't the action of one central authority, more a natural response to failure by separate parts of the internet.Its akin to shoppers and suppliers refusing to go to a particular store anymore. No one shuts the store down, but it no longer has products or customers.
As a journalist, I agree with your sentiment :). I try to push my colleagues to adopt a more Unix-like mindset: use tools that are best at the one/few things they do...and stop thinking that technology can solve problems that you know to be intractably difficult. I'm not talking about recognizing the traveling salesman problem, I mean, if it seems complicated to keep your network of confidants both easily accessible and safe and hidden from outsiders...what is it about a piece of technology that makes you think it can all be wrapped up in a general-purpose user-friendly app?

But to be fair, that's a difficult question for many engineers and developers to grasp as well...
So, that will never happen. The quality of writing coming out of wherever is not going to be the same as that of a native English speaker. I've seen many documentation projects outsourced to non-english speaking countries and the quality is consistently awful. The product that comes out of there is worse than nothing because its completely incomprehensible. My last quarter was entirely devoted to rewriting examples of such documentation.
The hotels are definitely not free. It's there to cater to the wealthy while the rest toil away in the heat.

The Saudis destroyed many sites associated with the early history of Islam to make those expansions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_early_Islamic_h...).

It's rather unfortunate that Mecca is in Saudi Arabia as it gives them free reign to preach their Salafi/Wahabi ideologies and no one else.

I come from a Shia family and many of my relatives who have gone to pilgrimage and complained of abuse by the religious police there for being in a different sect.
Perhaps parent was taking issue with "few actual responsibilities", which our current government treats as an opinion.
> something like 90% of buy flows are abandoned at the credit card entry page

I'm interested in this statistic, do you have a source?

Are you saying that 90% of all buy flows are abandoned at the payment stage while x% are abandoned at another stage and <10% are completed or are you saying that 90% of all abandoned buy flows were terminated at this stage? In case of the latter it seems like knowing what percent of all buy flows become abandoned would be relevant to your point.

Also, was this data collected from one vendor/industry or from multiple sources? I'm also curious if the study examined cases where the "pay now" screen already had the customer's payment information (e.g. for a pre-existing customer).
It still astonishes me how so many so called "tech savvy" users think they can do the technological equivalent of defending themselves from the military with a store-bought handgun.
Right. There are certainly definitions we could come up with that would be internally consistent but then they would also apply to someone we didn't want to apply the label to.
"they were hard on the heretics instead" - I can't recall any significant harm done to heretics in Poland, quite contrary: it was considered safe haven for the heretics from neighbor countries.
It has developed into a meme/style of speech. It's not purely a functional thing.
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Which candidate(s) have an actual realistic plan that will make college education affordable and reduce the burden of existing student debt, as opposed to "Affordable education for all!" as a hollow platform piece?
Y'know, that's also the case in the print edition.
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You've posted many comments to HN that have been uncivil, unsubstantive, or both. Please stop doing that.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Interesting tidbit, you'll probably lose the ability to use Android Pay. A lot of people are having problems due to the enhanced security model. On XDA, in the Nexus 5 General section, a thread was deleted that even had an Android engineer posting unofficially that the enhanced checks are at the behest of the card companies. The new system actually stores an encrypted version of all of your card details, and among other things they check are for root, custom builds, etc.
They are! http://clojure.org/transients
> FLIF is based on MANIAC compression. MANIAC (Meta-Adaptive Near-zero Integer Arithmetic Coding) is an algorithm for entropy coding developed by Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille. It is a variant of CABAC (context-adaptive binary arithmetic coding), where instead of using a multi-dimensional array of quantized local image information, the contexts are nodes of decision trees which are dynamically learned at encode time. This means a much more image-specific context model can be used, resulting in better compression.
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lol - so which features are you going to exclude? Is your weekend-twitter-app going to support a feed, favoriting / reteweeting only to your followers / dming only between followers / ability to block / filter / rate-limit users who tweet-spam / mobile app / push notifications / e-mails to new users who sign-up / and various other necessary features an app usually has before it even launches a MVP?
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Whoa. Where did Sarah ever ask you to support her political agenda and opinions?
That's not due to poor maintenance in a lot of cases these days.

Google 'Rolling coal'.
Things I dream of: Something like a HyperCard interface so non-coders can create apps (and of course like HyperCard there should be a language like HyperTalk under the surface that users can use):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperCard

http://hypercard.org

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-t...
I'm not too familiar with how geopolitics/warfare rules work, but will this constitute a war-crime and/or crime against humanity?
"Another change to the Android permission system is that every app automatically gets access to the Internet now, and users have no way of turning this off."

google still does not get the fact that some apps do not need, and should not be able to transmit or receive data from the network. We still need root and install AFWall+ to secure our phones.
Google should really just take over the software side of the Android phones. The current model is a failure.

This could provide us with:

No more (at least non-google) bloatware

No more needless recreated basic features (AT&T messaging, navigation, Samsung Messaging, etc.)

Can actually update the OS for security problems
In the pre-internet world, the hardest thing for terrorist groups was to propagandize to their local supporters, for fundraising, etc. They used to have to have elaborate networks for distributing audio tapes, video tapes, etc.

These days, with the internet, it's not only easy/affordable to reach the local constituents, but also to reach foreign audiences.

ISIS is the first modern terrorist group, in this sense. Much of its propaganda is designed specifically to intimidate westerners watching from home.

Modern terrorism capitalizes on the free PR that the recipient group provides. Mainstream TV networks have giving ISIS tens of millions of dollars worth of free publicity.

Terrorist groups are "big tent" groups, much like western political parties. Donors may think they are donating for food and infrastructure, but some of that money may go to fund bombings, etc.

The goal of war is to break the will of the enemy. Terrorism is a useful tactic, which is why it is used by the West via drone strikes and fear campaigns.

If you have a small budget, terrorism is a far cheaper way to attempt to break the will of the enemy than conventional warfare, and its successes and failures play out over a longer period of time.

The US, while it doesn't have a small budget, has very little tolerance for aspects of war that appear to the public as messy or gruesome, which is why we choose drone strikes and other low-budget ways to attempt to break the will of our enemies.

Terrorism is not guerrilla warfare, as the article claims, but propaganda warfare. The symbolic strike is everything. The more fear created by strikes, the more effective they are.
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Anywhere on the internet where you can post an image today, you can already choose an animated GIF.

If the site doesn't want animations, it will only show the first frame. For example, try uploading an animated GIF to Facebook.
I don't think anyone is disputing that the government should provide for the common defense; saying it is "one of the few responsibilities of the federal government" implies a certain conservative view and the unstated assumption that the huge security apparatus created to fight terrorism is an effective way of providing for the common defense is also a matter of opinion.
In my experience at startups, especially as they get past 100 employees or so, if you see the CEO around the office a lot, something is probably wrong. The CEOs where I've worked have usually been off talking to investors, potential partners, large customers, etc. Sure, they show up for all-hands meetings, and they're in the office for a couple weeks at a time sometimes, but at least half their job is externally-facing, explaining the company to the world.
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It is quite depressing. I remember conversations at school in the early 90's where other students would flat out refuse to accept e.g. CIA involvement in operations that former CIA directors had publicly accepted responsibility for, because there was this perception from certain circles that the US just couldn't possibly be behaving that way.

And that has persisted. What is not denied becomes implicitly accepted under the doctrine that if it's done, it must mean it's necessary, or what they should be doing.

What is new with Snowden is that a portion of people who previously refused to entertain this possibility have finally accepted it. And are now "shocked" despite having been told for a very long time.

I think a lot of people just don't get how deep the denial has run.
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Right, I'm referring to the first page/section.
> If you're going to write on the web to make money, make it something worthwhile to a million people. Not three or four thousand. If you are just passionate about something feel free to spend all your time writing about it, that is its own reward and any remuneration is just bonus.

Wouldn't that just create more content that appeals to the least common denominator? Why would you want to focus the efforts of a professional writer toward creating that?
It's not in any way reasonable to assume that someone is badly behaved without any specific evidence. To lump someone into a stereotypical grouping because you just assume they live up to that stereotype is the sign of a rather weak or insecure personality!
Making a Twitter minus the scaling and network effects is like playing basketball minus dribbling or shooting.
"The problem is not that we don’t know how to write correct software. The problem is that correct software is too expensive."

That's something I've been saying for a while. It's all about the economics of the situation, rather than the impossibility if it.

Naturally, there are also improvements here and there that decrease bugs without increasing efforts, and those are worth looking for.
If you want the Democratic Party to run progressive candidates who will do more than give lip service to student loan debt, people need to 1. Vote in primaries and 2. Vote for Democrats (esp left leaning ones) in primaries and general elections. That's the only way the party will move closer to the left.

I'm excluding Republicans since their base believes that government intervention to alleviate student loan debt will be the equivalent of Judas kissing Jesus and Road to Serfdom and all that shit.

And it goes without saying the quixotic brand of Silicon Valley libertarianism is not fertile ground for this sort of thinking.
I get the same in Chrome 45.0.2454.101 m on Win7 32-bit.

(I'm also running Ghostery but I disabled it - not that it found anything to block in the first place - and reloaded and got the same message.)
Looking at my content subscriptions, about 40% of the content is created by people who seem to be earning some type of income by that content. If eventually we found ourselves at a web-bankruptcy where everyone suddenly realized that there is not going to be any economic model that works - well, most of content would still keep getting produced, and for the rest there would be alternatives made by people who don't make it their business. I mean, that alternative content is already being made, it's just not viewed as much because it's crowded out by the overwhelming amount of other content.

The quantity of available good content created every day in many areas from internet posts to music far outweighs anyone's ability to consume them. We're throwing away 99% or more of it anyways, so if changing economics would make half of the content producers stop producing content, it's not a big deal for the total market. The song from a local artist with 5000 listens is as good as the hit with 5000000 listens, and it's not going to get there only because all the attention is already busy; if the producers of that hit wouldn't distribute because of economic reasons... well, the other song would suddenly get the same listeners, that's it.

A decrease in available content is a bad thing, but just a bit bad - if a reasonable model works out, it would be great, but if not, then "no ads, no payment, less content - if you want, then make it, you might get some donations, but it's not a business" will be a natural outcome that's actually not that bad for most people. Well, except the current crop of web-content-manufacturing companies - but the whole cause of this debacle is that people don't value them nearly as much as they would like to be valued.
My bad, I thought the service allowed anonymous reviews!
I actually think the original URL is worth pointing to, because it gives the social context of the app. In the gist here, there is no link back to the VICE story that preceded it [1]...so we're left with an autopsy of a crappy app...but, IMO, it's more interesting how and why such a crappy app was allowed to go into production, and for whom.

In this case, the technical details are less interesting than the overview: that an app designed to protect reporters' sources is inexplicably talking to Google Analytics and Twitter. The lack of transparency had been noted by VICE in its earlier story.

Not attacking the gist...just wanting to point out that the VICE article is not merely blogspam.

[1] http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-new-secure-app-for-jou...
Same here. People are missing the point.
I may not fully agree with each and every point, but I always appreciate the research and meticulousness gwern brings to the table.
That way I also press Shift, Fn and the Windows key, while holing my hand in a very unergonomic position.
If you're capable of rewriting essential subscription web-based services from scratch instead of paying a few bucks a month for them, you're basically do have a part-time job at night, except that your few-$-per-month savings aren't paying you anything close to what you're worth. Rather than spending your time doing this, you should be doing some programming that actually pays you a good wage.
I don't see a way out of this without regulation...

Windfall profit taxes. Anyone who posts a profit over 20% forfeits all of their profits.

Charge what ever you want. Profit however you wish (monopoly, insider trading, war profiteering, patronage, dumb luck). Government (the people) won't bat an eye.

But if you hit the jack pot, you'll wish you hadn't.

The only value held more dearly than the cult of Freedom Markets [tm] is notion of fair play. Ridiculous profits offends everyone (not already bought off). As populism goes, windfall profit taxes should be an easy sell.
Everybody talks about the OS, buy nearly everyone forgets about the base band, the hidden OS on every phone that you have almost no control over.

Whilst the media is worrying about Apple iCloud and phone encryption, GCHQ are quietly delving into your base band and enjoying the smoke and mirrors.

To use analogy, we are worrying about the government looking under our clothes, whilst in fact they are peeling back or skin and skulls and peering into our humanity.
That video has been shown many so times and debunked equally many times. If you know how it looks like, it's obvious from the video that the car does not have the system installed, you should be able to see a small plastic box-like shape embedded in the grill which is one of the sensors, they blend in but if you know what to look for you do see them easily.

Whether installed or not, testing a safety-net feature like this qualifies for darwin awards.
emacs user! another to be expunged.

all hail <esc> as caps lock!

for on that day,
all shall be in normal mode,
on the day of text
one will `export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim`

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Don't pretend that bad things aren't bad because worse things exist.

Edit: Downvoters, if you've got a different interpretation, I'd like to hear it. By pretending not to know what chris_wot means by "sexually exploitative advertising", kaffeemitsahne is clearly implying that it's not real because no one is literally being forced to have sex for money or survival.
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I thought the entire purpose of SpaceX was him wanting to take a vacation.
Well, two things -- a big factory shuttering in someone's home district tends to lead to discontent and possibly being voted out of office, even if something better may be around the corner, and existing relationships tend to be pretty influential to people's thinking (not just in terms of outright cronyism, which is alleged often enough, but also in terms of whose arguments you find persuasive)
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Sexist, homophobic, etc. speech or behavior is less and less tolerated in most serious office environments, not least because it opens up a company to harassment lawsuits. That being the case, I wonder what all the very big serious companies that sponsor the Linux Foundation think about the level of harassment that is apparently tolerated in the communities they sponsor.
The wording in the "Ask Marilyn" column appears to have been:

'Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?'

Given "the host, who knows what's behind the doors", I think the original phrasing was less ambiguous than many rephrasings I encounter. It certainly could have been still clearer.

Also, her answer - which was presumably read by those writing in to asset her answer was wrong - plainly states that the host always picks a losing door.
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