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> The consequences already are catastrophic

How so? BTW please don't highlight normal catastrophic things like droughts or hurricanes as those have obviously always been with us.
Feminist husbands are the best. Just ask Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I could not agree more. I think people are conflating the things one enjoys doing with passion.
If there wasn't, why did everyone, including leading climate scientists and the IPCC, say there was [1]?

A point I do agree on, which was also the point of my comment: a 10 or 15 year period is too short to say anything about climate. A pertinent question is then: what is a long enough period?

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-24173504
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Where I'm from, MCG means something quite different. :)
I think I made my position clear.

If "basic income" requires coercive force, then I'm against it.

If "basic income" does not require coercive force, then go for it.

> The system of "free market capitalism" is certainly coercive in the way it walls resources off and forces people to play into the system of exchanging labor for money so they can survive.

If exchanging labor for goods required for survival meets your definition of coercion, then we do not share the same definition. I submit that you can keep your definition. Instead, simply replace all occurrences of the word "coercion" in my comments as "the initiation of physical force (or threat of) by a specific person or group."

I'm happy to support the eradication of social ills that meet your definition of coercion; but I will not abide my definition of coercion in the process.
Not a bad idea about charging more and then just angel investing. Although then you have to be a competitive angel investor in order to get into the best deals, essentially taking on a new angel investor job in addition to consulting.

Have you successfully got stock as part of your consulting compensation and if so, why do you think you succeeded even though it's a really tough sell?

For the $50k angel investment, I'm guessing that you mean because its preferred stock with no vesting?
Adblock extensions block tracking as well as an extra perk, sometimes by default (ublock origin does). Ultimately their tracking script is a metric they're using to help sell their product/agenda to more users anyway, so its a form of advertising either way, or at the very least in a similar realm.
Apple usually have a discount on their products every Black Friday, I'm not sure this points to anything.

In addition, I wouldn't be surprised if Apple Watch doesn't take off that fast or if it flops. It's the first gen of a new platform, it's the second and third generation that will define the platform IMO for Apple. Let's see what they can do in a few years.
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what do you mean were? I cant watch anything without creating account.
I don't think they're trying to be abusive on purpose. It seems like they're running out of capacity and desire to serve the island.
Yes they do. Check out ##security on Freenode. I also do some security stuff in ##GRC
There's no contradiction. Some of set U ("us") are lucky. "Plenty" members of set U are not lucky. Set U contains everybody.
It doesn't need to be a dinner, but a nice blog post would possibly help. It's not as if this is the first boneheaded response from a YC funded company, and it's YC's name that gets linked to this sub-optimal behaviour.

That "break the rules" post got around. Maybe there needs to be a "but don't be a massive jerk to ex customers" follow up post.
If you're hitting race conditions based on when GC runs, I'm pretty sure you're doing it wrong. Java does deterministic destruction of resource-holding objects via try-with-resources, not GC.
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The housing shortage in SF is a citywide problem that goes far beyond airbnb. Removing airbnb listings would barely make a dent in the extreme housing problem that we have in San Francisco.

The few times I've used airbnb they were always much better than comparatively priced hotels in the area.
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This is missing the point that Gassée raises about software culture. It's not just a question of the software folks figuring out how to build car hardware. It's, can the software folks figure out how to make bug free software?

Most Silicon Valley "cultures" are geared towards constant rapid innovation at the expense of more bugs. Apple for instance tends to favor adding groundbreaking new features as quickly as possible, followed by a big stability-oriented cleanup release once every few years or so (e.g. Snow Leopard, El Capitan). This results in complaints about software quality, but people deal with the bugs since the features are so desirable.

It's a different proposition when bugs = people get hurt.

Not a ton of SV companies have operated in those critical environments and those that do (medical) tend to be really "boring" and enterprise-y. This is going to be AS MUCH OR MORE of a shift as learning how to engineer a different kind of hardware.
I think I saw this. I visited a legit science or business page (don't remember) and a windows said my "Flash player was out of date" and immediately started downloading a Windows ".exe" claiming to be a flash installer. I am on OSX with no Flash installed, so I know it wasn't Adobe's updater.
I think that's the problem with IRC. The idea of decentralized IRC networks means that channels are scattered amongst multiple IRC networks. IRC is already not as usable as Slack, and to have multiple networks decreases usability even further. I love IRC, but I see why Slack is full of win.
Wait what, they're in the UK?

This is clearly data protection stuff. I've taken screen shots and poked the information commissioner.
Huh, I saw this livecoding site advertised here by the founders, seemed like a great idea and I hoped it would kick off. Sad to see the administration is unprofessional. I wonder how people can fail so hard at public relations. If they didn't want to delete her account all it would have taken is a "Sorry, accounts can't be deleted from livecoding.tv". Instead they had to turn this into something that destroys the reputation of their new site.
>I don't understand why Python, JavaScript, Java, Ruby, and so on have not delivered tools that ease the path for those who wish to write applications designed to run code from untrusted sources.

Tcl has a feature for this purpose called "safe interpreters". It is production-quality and works with command-level granularity, the command being the basic building block of the language: http://tcl-lang.org/man/tcl8.6/TclCmd/safe.htm. The security section has some considerations that are relevant if you want to make a "safe" interpreter for any Turing-complete language.
That's rather weak. How do you interop with the DOM? Explicit FFI? Are there plans to make WebAssembly catch up with the last several decades? There's no reason we can't have a proper IL like .Net or even Java at worst.
It's really amazing how poor it is. There really isn't any possible reason that would make it reasonable.
Never asked for stock from clients; very happy with that decision.

I wrote up the reasons for angel stock being better than employee stock on Twitter and, as I am on a phone right now, cannot conveniently paste it. Can someone please link that conversation here?
Thanks, that is super helpful!

I discovered the following for outlook.com:
https://postmaster.live.com/snds/index.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

Are there similar tools for aol.com, yahoo.com and icloud.com? (to basically cover the big 5)
MIT develops device that can see people through a wall using Wi-Fi – Toink Wire
If you want to communicate with a person or organization in ways that don't involve online chat, you have a variety of standard ways for doing so:

- E-mail address

- Phone number

- Mailing address

What is it about chat protocols that has resisted convergence on anything as remotely standard as these other methods? I mean, I could tell somebody that I spray-painted hieroglyphics on my house and that "there are 3 shipping companies in the world that know how to find my house using hieroglyphics so please ship through one of them", yet somehow my "address" has remained the sensible way to handle that problem.

The problem isn't Slack or IRC or any other client, it's that we have any choices at all. At this point we don't need choices for chat protocols any more than we need a choice of ways to put an address on a house. The technical community needs to start loudly criticizing clients that aren't converging on some standard, and standardize more and more behaviors every year until it really doesn't matter what people are using.
If it is they need to pull funding immediately.
They're basically selling a content-obfuscating anti-detection system for webpages as a service. Of course it's going to be abused to push malware. They're just lucky the attacker wasn't more sophisticated this time around.
Reconnecting in slack then shows you the missed messages. What's the common case for making sure participants have access to all past messages in IRC? An external log, which doesn't really solve the netsplit problem, because it necessarily is part of the split?

I would much prefer clear indication that there is a problem communicating with others so I can fall back to an alternative method of communication.
I've became a big fan of OpenSMTPD lately, although for two specific use cases. I manage a number of mail systems, some small and some large, and used Postfix exclusively.

Recently, after discovering and playing with OpenSMTPD, I've started replacing Postfix with OpenSMTPD on null mailers and internal relays. My Postfix configuration is pretty much identical on all of those hosts and I've gotten it pretty polished over the years, but there's something about the simplicity of OpenSMTPD that I really like.

I don't envision moving from Postfix anytime soon on my main mail systems (which serve many, many domains and users). If I had a much simpler mail setup I would definitely consider it, though.
How is this any worse than minified Javascript? Without meaningful names or comments you're not much better off than you would be with WASM+disassembler.
I have a mental image of an angry person mashing

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN,

CTRL+V, RETURN, RETURN, CTRL+V and then accidentally hitting + together with RETURN....
Depends where and for what use, some company in the US got hit in the rear because of that, but if you are working in the defense industry you might get exempted, heck in South Africa there was a scandal this year when they jammed the signal inside the parliament even tho it was illegal.
http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/Politics/Reports-of-a-cell...
There's also the "Smart UI protocol" http://tarruda.github.io/articles/neovim-smart-ui-protocol/
This happened to me too
This is straight up trashy.
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> Because they shackle implementations too much

I disagree on one count, and on the other count I don't understand, so I'm requesting clarification.

First, the current fashion in programming languages is to allow an implementation to do anything (in Python, "import" takes no arguments, neither "require" in node.js)

I think life could, in fact, get easier.

Today applications do not regulate the code they load. It just has to work. Saying that any effort to regulate the source code of loaded extensions amounts to "shackling" is throwing FUD on the whole idea that an application should handle some (not all) of the responsibility for investigating the code it loads and not rely 100% on the underlying implementation.

With respect to your remarks about validation mechanisms, you'll have to explain the claim that this would "increase the implementation's own attack space" because I don't see how that is possible (unless we're talking about two different things: I'm talking about a combination of (A) static verification and (B) static transformations that instrument code with calls to runtime handler for certain sensitive operations (such as accessing a global variable and accessing a member of an object)
Of course there will be more ice, why would more moisture in the air lead to less ice ? I don't think you understand the models you are questioning. Maybe spend more time studying what they actually mean ?

Also, while you're at it, have a look at the "Argument to Moderation" logical fallacy.
Link to study abstract and pdf download: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/87431/
Yes, but that is not yet implemented. I'm really waiting for that, though!
Bandwidth isn't cheap. But they should impose a traffic shaping policy to bring their users' transit levels in line with the fees they pay, rather than poking around into who is doing what on the network.

Disclosure: I built and run a small wireless ISP.
AWS & Ansible..
It's also funny given the cofunders last tweet: https://twitter.com/jcbgreen
Any information about how this was made? It doesn't look like a real hologram. Is it an image that bounce against a glass?
"Faith" has a large definition behind it: http://1828.mshaffer.com/d/search/word,faith

Think of a similar word "faithful". Being faithful means you can be relied upon. When one is described as being faithful, there is normally some form of evidence behind it, whether tangible or not. And thus "faith" is the evidence of things unseen. You therefore can have "faith" in someone that is "faithful" because you know it to be true. You saw it, you felt it, you know it, ect.
"Let them eat newspapers"?

We're not talking about a return to the past; we're talking about a two tier system, where the good information will be served with all the speed and amenities of the web to those who can afford it. Having other means of disseminating the information is irrelevant, because the real money will come from the paywalled sites. It's the JSTOR model, now for all the information.

And what I'm saying is not "let's keep the current model"; all I want is to urge the anti-ad advocates to at least acknowledge the issue -which is real- instead of brushing it off as only affecting Buzzfeed and the likes, and to come up with a better answer than "manufacturers will still publish their product data", as if that covered the important information we're talking about.
This happened to me too!!!!! It took so long, and was so annoying, and i'm still not even sure why they stopped coming.
> My prediction is that Apple will make all the user facing software and buy all the rest.

That would only make sense if there was no further development of high-reliability, real-time functions. But a lot of the opportunity for advancement involves software controlling key driving functions, not just the user interface.

There is no way to get around having to engineer bug-free code in new assisted driving features. Which are about to get a lot more complex than they've ever been before.
I'm not sure you're actually asking me a question. You seem to already know my answer, and indeed, you know precisely the rebuttal you'd like to say to my answer. So, what exactly are you hoping to achieve? I'm no sociological genius; I have no answers or special insights that you probably haven't already read.

The only thing I know for sure is that my ethical self condemns coercion. How this plays out in reality isn't at all clear to me.

> Gangs, mafias, private armies. Coercive forces.

Great, then that is inconsistent with my ethical beliefs.

It may very well be the case that a "free" society can only exist when that society embraces it. Certainly, ripping government out of an existing society doesn't make any sense and I don't see how that could end in a desirable outcome without a lot of pain in the middle---which I cannot advocate. My own personal hope is that it occurs peacefully over the course of slow cultural and societal evolution; probably spanning centuries.

For me personally, I am rather content with saying "I don't know." This does not change my ethics.
So could someone theoretically make flash or silverlight work via this?
I fail to see how obfuscated textual blobs are any better. It's not like I can get any useful information from thousands of lines of gibberish JavaScript. As a sibling pointed out, WA supports textual representation.
I know of many big deal companies in the USA that work with many big deal European companies. I can assure you that this is a real deal. Big companies that have CISOs and care about legal compliance in fact DO care if their proprietary data is stored in the USA, and under what circumstances.

I posit with empirical observation and experience that there is "global or even meaningful resistance to the use of US services providers."
but global warming
So, in the US:

> - Phone number

Originally supplied through a monopoly.

> - Mailing address

Government assigned.

> - E-mail address

Originated on a government funded and used network, but eventually settled on open standard.

Having the ability to impose usage until a critical mass is achieved and being first seem to both be criteria.
I blog for a living at http://getvero.com/resources but here's my besy post on my personal blog: http://www.jimmydaly.com/big-wins/
I wonder what controls they have to prevent someone who gets dinged with bad ratings (as a landlord) from reposting the same exact property. After all it would be trivial to post with an address and unit "1705a" and then if a problem just call it "1705b" with different pictures as if it's a completely new listing (and curious if that much effort is actually needed). Likewise landlords (I am a commercial landlord) often have various entities that they use so it's easy to come up with a new "owner" of the unit. I wonder if Airbnb even cross refs ownership with city records at all.
Faith usually has a reason behind it, as well. It's because you can rely on something, based on your past experience.

Belief, in general, is a psychological attitude towards a claim.
Which is ironic given that the very concept of "cool" originated within various tribes of Western, Central and Eastern Africa.
http://www.jstor.org/stable/3334749?seq=1#page_scan_tab_cont...
Well, considering it was:

- isolated (outside of DOM)
- non standard (not everywhere)
- third party (proprietary)
- alien (uncanny value of different UI style)
- bloated (even compared to the web stack, Spring was an over-engineered badly designed mess of a GUI API)
- insecure (full of exploits to this very day, tons of them closed just last year)

it does sound as a great improvement. Except in case you weren't there and can't remember.
It's been three hours; and their account is still just filled with libel that you put there.

So far everything you and your cofounders have done has made this problem worse and larger.

You are untrustworthy and incompetent.
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> This project was a free time project, simple experimenting for future applications. There is a DSLR camera with wide angle that transmits a signal via HDMI to Blackmagic Intensity pro capture card. Oculus is attached to camera, and it takes tracks all camera movements, while Kinect 2 tracks hand movements. It’s a quite simple setup. The main problem was synchronising a Rift tracking with camera latency. So this part was a little bit of problem, and I implemented something quite similar to Oculus time warp and looking behind time to see where the tracker was when capture image has updated. Latency has to be compensated for by hand for now.. but maybe I will make a little latency checker with arduino and a small led.
> IRC is terrible.

I didn't mention IRC in my comment :)

It's interesting how you compare Slack with a phone company. There are important differences between Slack and a phone company. 1. If you give me your phone number I could be talking with you in a few seconds without me even knowing the name of our phone company. 2. You could decide to change your phone service provider and (in some countries) even keep your number.

How would you do these things with Slack? Slack is great, and I like it, but it could stop being great at some point in the future.

(Yes, I realize that Rocket.Chat user couldn't chat with Zulip user, for example. That's why I'm excited about efforts like https://matrix.org/.)

I agree with you: it's expensive to self-host. [1] But when it is possible to self-host, you could hire a specialized company to host the chat system for you. And - if you are careful - you can later switch your chat-system-hosting provider if you want.

[1]: That's what https://sandstorm.io is trying to fix, by the way.
They don't need to perform an audit to find this issue when it's plastered across the front page of their news aggregator.
Search for recent HN headlines and you'll find the same thing. I guess the idea is to give bots the appearance of representing real users before using them for spamming, fake followers, ... I don't think the linked sites have anything to do with it.
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I thought there was already a "no asshole" rule? But maybe it's one of the rules you're supposed to break.
Everyone ? In the off-change that you are not auto-gasslighting yourself try browsing in incognito mode:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2015/noaa-analysis-journ...

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/global-wa...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2015/06/15/a-pause-in...
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>If the new way forward allows everyone distribute unreadable binary instead of readable, or de-obfuscatable, JavaScript, I think this definitely bad for open source

What "open source"? Open Source is dead in web services, because everybody can just hide the source behind the server. Even with SPAs, you could have 90% of the actual functionality on the server side, behind REST APIs and the like.
I agree with much of what you write, particularly the first three paragraphs. I wanted to make a few comments.

Yes, climate science deals with problems are that more difficult to solve with the "hypothesis->experiment->new hypothesis" approach that works so well for some other fields. People try their best with models and paleo- studies, but it's far, far from ideal. As a result, the IPCC must use other methods to assess consensus.

Many of the fundamental tenets of climate science are reproducible and falsifiable (absorption spectra of the atmosphere with different pollutants; the effect of acidification on marine carbonates; the ways in which glacier ice deforms and flows, as examples). But figuring out how they fit together on the scale of a planet is an enormous challenge.

Ultimately, there's a lot of uncertainty, which some have argued is intrinsic to the problem. What if we can't answer your train of questions in a reasonable amount of time with yes/no? If the answers are variations on "maybe" (they usually are), how should we manage risk? Does ethics come into play?

Finally, there is a pretty rich history of people (scientists included) inadvertently radically-changing their environments because the time scales are too long to grasp.
Ask HN: Why doesn't Google have a social media search option?
Along with images, video etc.
Sounds like livecoding.tv is run by a bunch of jerks.
Good, now with proper XDG base directory specification support. Less clutter in $HOME at last.

I started using nvim primarily for 24 bit color themes support in the terminal. Some mild themes are way easier for the eyes.

Is anyone going to package it for Debian?
I'd guess this sort of thing results from the obsession over growth. They are desperate to make their user aquisition/retention numbers look good so they do scammy things to keep accounts. It's sad to see the aggressive behaviour though.
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"Don't tell me about the shifted mean, because the variance has always been non-zero"? By that logic, you're essentially trying to maximize the chances of not taking action until it's too late; early indicators of a trend are always going to be fuzzier and less certain than later mountains of evidence.
Why isn't there a product as an online storefront for offline businesses?