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How does this go along with ISPs being classified as common carriers? Are they actually allowed to modify the data they are carrying?
The power of the Sun is definitely something to be respected... and since it's basically free, makes you wonder how much more of it could be harnessed to do other useful things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_furnace
The best way to complain about a bad title on HN is to suggest a better one, so we can fix it for everybody. It isn't always obvious what a better title would be, and we can't read all the articles—often we can't read any of the articles.
How to use Node.js and Twilio to provide business value
Alcoholism drug brings dormant HIV virus out of hiding
> A Back Door to Encryption Won't Stop Terrorists

It' not like terrorists use Twitter
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Not actually. It merely requires a cop.

And the state has been known to kidnap your children if you try to dispute the issue.
I've been enjoying sw:rebels; it's targeted at young people, but still fun. One thing that's a bit odd is that it's basically a show about a terrorist cell. They kind of tone it down by making it ambiguous when people get killed.

But it's still basically terrorism, and it's a show by Americans. For some reason there doesn't seem to be any sort moral conflict around that, presumably because they're the 'good' guys. This kind of happened with Deep Space Nine as well -- Hollywood will make shows involving terrorists, but there's little moral dilemma when it's the good guys doing it. In Real Life all terrorism is considered evil, even if it's people 'defending their home'.
> It would follow that if you are going to respect Jessica's choice to not talk about gender discrimination in her talk, you would have to also respect the choice of PG [...]

Not really. Women may avoid talking about this stuff because it makes them targets, and they may not need more trouble. Guys can and should talk about this; it's our chance to use our gender privilege to reduce the problem.

My experience is that for any given feminist statement I get 90-100% less crap than women do. I hear some squeaks from the antifeminists, but very little from the active misogynists and other abusive shitheels. If you're right and PG is unwilling to take even mild heat when he could easily do so, I don't feel obliged to respect that. Especially after his big talk about him getting all the credit because he's more comfortable in the spotlight.

If PG really didn't want to talk about gender discrimination because Jessica, he could have just said so. Or he could have not mentioned her feelings at all and said, "gender discrimination could be a factor but I want to focus on X for now." Refusing to acknowledge it at all weakens the piece. And expecting people to pick up subtle radiations from obscure YouTube talks also doesn't strike me as a very good essay-writing strategy.
Lots of people don't even realize they have an ISP provided address, or they don't bother with it.
Always using VPN has really made using Internet a lot nicer place, I can use any Wifi without any fears, don't have to care about ISPs doing funny things with my traffic, and if I get country blocked content I can just quickly route my traffic to another exit node.

Of course then the VPN provider is the single point of failure, but if it's trustworthy enough only folks with proper court orders should have access to my traffic. And it's an extra ten bucks per month or so.
Always using VPN has really made using Internet a lot nicer place, I can use any Wifi without any fears, don't have to care about ISPs doing funny things with my traffic, and if I get country blocked content I can just quickly route my traffic from another exit node.

Of course then the VPN provider is the single point of failure, but if it's trustworthy enough only folks with proper court orders should have access to my traffic. And it's an extra ten bucks per month or so.
> > JavaFX and Dart, both languages

> I don't get what you are speaking about JavaFX

From context you know I meant JavaFX Script, discontinued by Oracle in 2010.
Don't forget the Etsy clone, Square Market.
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Well that's one way to tell the government that they can make 6 million dollars by confiscating your illegal gold stash.
other way around - NBCU is owned by comcast.
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ESL. His post was an hour before the reader5000 uml post.
isn't comcast owned by NBC?

Vice-versa.
You think our occupation would prevent those things? I supported the Iraq invasion initially, and had some hope for the surge, but these wars are literally controlled by the news media, because every time a bomb goes off in the wrong place or a soldier shoots a kid for whatever reason, we get more tentative, and our troops lose support for their mission, then a new president comes a long to capitalize. I was wrong. 9/11 jaded and naive about that part of the world. Just cut our losses. Our government has bigger, more understandable, fish to fry.
There may be a better term to use. Kleptocracy.

It's also somewhat wrong for this purpose, but it's less wrog. Traditionally the word has been associated with banana republics and politically unstable nations whose heads of state and ruling elite sell off national assets, rob their citizens and otherwise stripmine their entire countries, before fleeing.

In this case you have police turning into criminal gangs, protected by the justice system. And with civil forfeiture they are literally engaging in legalised highway robbery.
A cheaper and faster way would be to buy a small cloud server install openvpn on it. Then get a nice router and configure it to send all your trafic throgh the vpn.
It will need to monitor and induce at most 20-50ms bufferbloat when uploading, regardless of whether the traffic is high or low priority.

Try this demo for yourself:

1. Run "ping google.com" from another computer on your LAN.

2. Upload a 10-20MB file via Gmail or Dropbox from your computer.

3. Watch the ping times on the other computer skyrocket from around 100ms to upwards of 5-10 seconds.

4. Try a Google search from any other computer on your LAN while this is happening.

As an example, Apple's software update actually uses a variant of LEDBAT (the delay sensitive congestion avoidance algorithm from BitTorrent's protocol) when downloading software updates to avoid inducing bufferbloat in the downlink.
The Atacama desert: a rare springtime bloom of flowers after El Niño rains
In a similar situation here, 4 adults in a household currently on DSL (Approx 10mbps down / 0.6mbps up, best available speeds on DSL here).

Between two TVs using Netflix (usually no more than one at a time, but frequently) and me playing online games the connection becomes about useless.

Ping times shoot up past 1000ms making online gaming impossible, downloads are obviously slow (and interfere with Netflix streaming), and there's frequent connection bugs (stalls for 2-5s seemingly randomly).

Only other "Real" choice is Comcast, but I'm very reluctant due to their behavior and potential of implementing low caps. (Not currently in WA state)

4G isn't an option because data caps, sat (Which I used previously where I lived before) has extremely high latency and low caps (Obviously no multiplayer gaming there either), and of course nobody wants to deal with dialup in 2015.
I think you're putting way too much faith in "free will".

The idea isn't that obesity is 100% caused by bacteria, or genes, or unicorns. Of course it's a function of your eating choices - you can choose not to eat and you won't die a fat man. The problem is that people arguing obesity is "just a choice" and overweight people are "just lazy" are missing the point that some "choices" aren't practical. If obesity was "just a choice", we wouldn't have this problem after decades of massive shaming of overweight people and massive push for fitness and everything-fit. Instead, the more we shame people for being obese, the more population stays obese. Interesting, isn't it?

Anyway, Yvain discusses this and related topics better than I ever could:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/2as/diseased_thinking_dissolving_que...

Also:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/10/society-is-fixed-biolog...
You could do that under XP, but needed a separate user account for administrator. It was also more of a hassle, as you always had to enter the password when starting a program as Administrator. I ran with such a setup on my desktop, and remember that to install programs I usually logged out and logged in as Administrator again.

Vista introduced a model that was almost as good, but made it more user-friendly and the default.
Gold stashes are no longer illegal
Obama's drone war a 'recruitment tool' for Isis, say US air force whistleblowers
The reasoning about investors is circular. In order to be nearby investors, these startups need lots of money, which means they need investors, so that they can be nearby them. These investors then end up owning most of the shares in these startups. That is good, because these startups are nearby anyway.
I was just at a coffeeshop today in SF that had a chip reader and it seemed to be plugged into a Square register.
Wow, wonder what cops think about this page and if ever tried to shut it down.

Someone is doing extensive work organizing all this on a daily basis. Too bad we don't know how many were bad guys and how many innocent, but that would be hard to followup and monitor.
I'm sure my ISP does but I've literally never checked it
Call centers for a while were teaching agents to talk with a southern accent as it was believed to be more welcoming.
They could and they did. They have recruited quite a few people with more than just basic IT knowledge.
That seems to have been Apple's MO for some years now. I think the Palm/HP people working on the Pre lamented that whenever they found a part they wanted to use, Apple had already placed an order for the years production capacity.
I was hit with this a couple of months ago. A one-line Chrome extension handled it fairly well...

> document.getElementById('comcast_content').remove();
I suspect it's not quite that simple. Square has a lot of small-to-medium businesses, who's risk profile is higher; which has to have a increased risk on Square, no?
I think this is actually illegal. If you own the copyright for your content and they inject into it, they are creating a derived work without your permission.
To me, a drawl sounds like home and kindness.
In San Francisco you need $4,225 for a 1br

http://blog.sfgate.com/ontheblock/2015/06/02/san-franciscos-...
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10590512 and marked it off-topic.

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If you poke around HN search you'll find cases where we banned people for abusing the site this way, but the overwhelming majority of accusations are just users slinging dirt at users who happen to disagree with them, and we're adamant about that not becoming more of a thing here.
> my standpoint is that startups should not shy away from hiring employees who are in H-1B status simply because they are startups.

This does solve the hiring manager's problem, but will raise red flags with the outsourced employee's personal risk profile.

There is another rush for a lawyer if the startup you were hired into gets restructured (acquired/merged).

Honestly TripleByte can offer a small "outplacement" insurance package to the employee being hired (as a revenue stream) - which works out nearly the same as having a "talent agent" retainer in the business, except one who knows how to navigate the legal wrangles when you need a new gig.
Shameful.
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Cost-sensitive customers will make their own...
The Khan part is a joke but the rest is serious. Nearly all mutations are unique and deleterious. So if you average them all out, you'll end up with an organism that is significantly more fit than average.
My 4.3, 4.4 and 5.0 devices from Samsung and Asus (operator free) are yet to receive the said updates.
Does Square compensates employees in stock options or RSUs? If options, aren't the employees you joined post Series D completely screwed?
Marcy Wheeler has some background on this -- https://www.emptywheel.net/2015/11/18/brennan-was-probably-t...
If they want to spend money on their first born, there are far better, more rational ways to do it. $199 in a 529 plan turns into $2k by college time. $199 in used clothes or legos will go a lot further at that age.
Chipmachine: A demoscene/retro jukebox/Spotify-like music player
I think he was complaining about ZDNet's choice of article title; the OP here just duplicated it.
Original of the open letter to US Government: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2515596-final-drone-...
I took calculus junior year of high school and was top student.

Took standard 5 hour/5 hour Freshman calculus in UNiversity. I took elementary ordinary diff equations. I got an A in nonlinear control systems.
> I'm happy we have some fellow Willing to equivocate and defend senseless murder, torture, and theft, good job dude.

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts that do this, so please (re-)read the guidelines and don't do this.

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

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Out of curiosity, I wanted to know what the maximum z-index is. The CSS 2.1 spec doesn't present this information, but it turns out to be 2147483647 (the maximum value for a 32-bit integer).

Now what does that z-index say about the JavaScript developer who chose it? "Fuck it, 999999 is enough." Man, what a tool.
The Sixth Extinction
In general I think no visa is compatible with startups. Even a relative simple H1B transfer takes months. All work visas are linked to an employer, and this is at odds with the fluid nature of startups
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10588469 and marked it off-topic.
So, they believe there is a 1:20 chance that 'the end of the world as we know it' will take place, that having gold will somehow magically insulate them from such an event because they can ride out 3 months to pay their employees a wage? That's prepping. Makes you wonder if they also have a vault with weapons and ammo, generators and a bunker underneath their offices (hm, that might be a good spot for an attempted burglary, if anywhere that would be where the gold is).

In other news, Jonathan Johnson taken hostage by criminals that would like to know where he stores his sugar.

I really hope they have thought about the implications of putting this sort of knowledge out there for the world to see.
asveikau only counted the sct.go file, which is a pretty straight port from ted's sct.c. They counted neither the daemon (75 LOC) nor the vendored geolocation package (58 LOC).

Their count is actually "underselling" the "improvement" as the go port moves command-line handling (half a dozen LOC) from sct to the daemon.
I don't even have this option. It's comcast or DSL provided by AT&T only. Many apartment complexes have agreements with specific major ISPs.
That may well be the case but advertising you have one is supremely stupid.
> What? Stop lying

This kind of thing is not allowed in HN comments. Please post civilly and substantively or not at all.

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Shouldn't the mill be able to precisely drill very small holes for you? Perhaps you could you use the pick and place machine to put small pins in the holes which would be soldered in place on both sides. You could conceivably use one 2-layer board and two 1-layer boards, each with alignment holes drilled in them, pins inserted and solder paste applied to make a 4-layer board. There would be a thin gap between the boards, but since everything is soldered together, would it matter?
I just started using Kubernetes last week, and I have to say, it's pretty freaking awesome.

I've been running our infrastructure on CoreOS for almost 2 years now. I started implementing it when CoreOS was very young, so I had to deal with a lot of early adopter pains. It took me a long time to learn what Docker was, how it fit together, and how to get everything working with CoreOS's fleet and etcd. Eventually, I had a working cluster setup that would run our services in Docker containers spread across many machines. Some in the cloud, some on bare metal/VMware. It was a great learning experience.

However, I was never really happy with the setup. Despite it being a cluster, I still had to think about the individual nodes. Moreover, my integration with etcd was always a pain in terms of service discovery.

Last week, I decided to clean things up and move to Kubernetes. After watching some videos about how pods, replication controllers, services, and DNS lookups worked, I was convinced that it would greatly simplify our setup.

And it did. I could easily define our services in pods, and expose their ports via services. Then each service could discover one another via DNS lookups. Furthermore, I no longer had to worry about whether my containers were up; as long as the service is running, it "loadbalances" to the underlying pods & containers for me, automatically.

I was able to rip out my etcd integrations, and do away with my fleet unit files. I was even able to vastly simplify my Docker containers to remove some scripts like confd to deal with service hookups and watching etcd keys. And with volume mounting built-in, I'm going to be able to get rid of my overpriced-for-what-I-need PostgreSQL RDS and Redis ElastiCache instances.

And now being able to deploy rolling updates extremely simply means that I no longer have to think about how to push updates to our code. My next todo item is to set up a webhook to roll out new images across the cluster once they've been built on Quay.io and tested via some CI.

I really should blog about all of this, but suffice it to say, I'm extremely impressed with Kubernetes. I'm really glad I took the time this week to dive in.
Yes, but the government doesn't need to prove that you've done anything illegal to confiscate your money as "possible proceeds of crime".
Developing a Tabs component in Angular 2
To "see" Universe as it is we have to remove an observer - a mind which creates appearances and conditions itself with them.

It is a hack, so to speak.)
Not a JS developer at all, what does a zIndex of 99999 do?
Is USD still the unit of account for your salary, or does their employment contract state, "$X or X oz. gold at company's discretion."?

I think the idea here is that if the banking system has collapsed, employees might eagerly accept gold in place of cheques, no matter what their contract says.
Wish you could download an audio; Midi doesn't "just play" in my very mainstream browser on a very mainstream OS :(

When making hobby games (http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/ is in just 3 weeks everybody!) I have always had the vision that the procedural music and the procedural animations should be in sync, e.g. that the puffs of smoke from a steam train should sync with the sound of the chuffs, or the puffs of smoke from a factory chimney should puff in frequency to the music which should have its tempo set by the state of the economy in the city-building game etc.

A nice client-side javascript library to make playable audio live would be excellent.
I'm not saying militant Islamism doesn't exist, but rather that the attacks have several underlying motivations, and that radicalization is more likely when there is a preexisting conflict.

Even the threats and attacks against cartoonists, as mentioned by another commenter, go beyond the simplistic "kill all infidels just because they exist".
"Did you oppose that bill at the time, on the grounds that it would lead to such ridiculous arguments? If you had, you would have been the only one."

I was not the only one. [0][1] The AFL-CIO, the NRA, the ACLU, and Americans that care about the First Amendment were just the beginning. Right inside the Senate, current majority leader McConnell was warning the world about exactly what was wrong with the bill. McCain insisted on keeping all the worst and most totalitarian provisions; they were his favorites.

"Most First-Amendment nose-thumbers loved that bill. I suspect their hearts were in the right place, just as I suspect McCain's was"

That's the same kind of contempt for patriotic Americans McCain always exhibits. His heart is not in the right place.

"The fact that you didn't lead off with a reference to the Keating Five"

I could have worn my fingers down on that smartphone with the crimes of McCain before I got to his relatively tiny involvement in the Lincoln S&L bit. I think he was on the list mostly because they needed a Republican to round it out.

[0] https://www.aclu.org/letter/letter-senate-opposition-mccain-...

[1] https://www.nraila.org/articles/20010711/campaign-finance-re...
Do you know what second normal form is? Do you know what the three basic functions that form all mu-recursive functions are? Can you write an A* search from memory? Do you know what is stored during a context switch? Are you worth your salt as a programmer?

Tech is booming. I know someone who went to a bootcamp for a few months and is working as a programmer right now. A college diploma doesn't matter now. It matters in years like 2000-2002 after your company goes bust and you're looking for work, or if your division does massive layoffs in 2008 and you're looking for work.

If you're going to go to school and take it seriously, the earlier you do it, the more it pays off. The easier it is to do as well - you don't want to be married at 37 with two kids and decide that you really need more than a high school diploma. Then you're juggling a full-time job, college and a family.

If you want to be worth your salt as a programmer you're going to have to sit down and study databases, operating systems, calculus, theory of computation, computer graphics, algorithms, data structures and so forth any how, so why not do it while studying CS at school?

When kids ask me, I tell them if you can go, go, if you're going to take it seriously. If they have financial issues or whatever I tell them to not take a full course load. One night class a week at the local public college is affordable (with Pell grants, loans etc.) and doable by most people.
Yeah, but the rest are predominantly either a) disease we're trying to control, or b) tradeoffs we make ourselves (e.g. car accidents because we individually accept the risk of driving). Governments are there to protect citizens -- the burden of proof is on them as to whether the use of force is necessary, and ours in the US doesn't default to protecting citizens at all.
How do you use it? What's the advantage of having it?