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> Everything is political, because everything affects people.

You might be unaware of the fact that you are standing on the shoulders of giants. This believe of you is reproducing a Montesquieuian perspective on civil society instead of for example a Tocquevilleian where there is a public/private distinction. The latter (the one you'd probably consider "extremely naive") is also the base of basically all contemporary liberal democracies.

> [...] you seem to be addressing the factions themselves as a topic [...]

Sure. Without the political codes, this whole subject is rather a non-topic.

People in industrialized countries developed a high sensitivity regarding restrictions on internet access. This value set conflicts with many infrastructural ambitions of public and private actors as in this case Facebooks "Free Basics" project. That's it.

All those dystopian outlooks, the alleged evil intentions on both sides etc. are only means to enforce the own opinions over the other sides.

Ok, so Facebooks wants to bring Facebook (and some fig leafes as Wikipedia) for free to rural India. Net neutrality people want Facebook to not do that. What else? We can make a list; I bet it's rather unspectacular.

> Quite a few people are claiming otherwise.

Right.. https://i.imgur.com/0vFh092.png

> [...] your suggestions that the market would sort this out.

You might want to recheck who you think came up with a market argument, because I think you are mistaking our debate with another.

> > size-based exceptionalism
> WTF are you talking about?

If you could elaborate on what you weren't able to grasp I'd have the opportunity to explain it further. :)
Sure, but aren't there more effective ways of getting vitamin C? A lime is like half a dollar. I don't want to spend my life eating a suboptimal vitamin C source!
"If"

And if they are not?
Look, talking about "a lot of overplayed drama" thus introducing your opinion that "a lot of overplayed drama" had taken place is surely NOT the right way to avoid starting another debate - but I'm inclined to believe you already know that...
Huh, while interesting and well written and all the other happy happy/joy joy stuff everyone else posted...I can't help but wonder about folks who start out in life as founders/CEOs/top 'o the food chain...how do (can) they relate to folks who spend years working for others? This made me realize that many folks might in fact be so isolated/insulated from the folks that work for them that they are quite literally "out of touch" with the reality that vast majority experiences... interesting read.
Individual investors, trading through brokers like Charles Schwab, E-Trade and TD Ameritrade, suffer first as the brokers profit by hundreds of millions of dollars from selling their retail orders to high-frequency traders and again as those traders take advantage of the orders they bought.

What's the argument here? Retail order flow is sold to HFT shops because it's assumed all around that retail flow is uninformed. HFT shops are incentivized to compete for those orders, because no matter who gets them, they're assumed to be lucrative to trade against. Things wouldn't be any better for retail investors if their orders made it all the way to "the exchange".
Ask HN: How to go about creating this script
I need a script that would go on multiple websites and buy their merchandise before it hits the main store or at the second it does.
>>> "without having been attributed to Snowden"

1) Non-attribution does not mean a different source per se. Some documents can be verified without any discussion of their source. (ie the NSA acknowledges their authenticity by demanding their takedown as "classified"). Powers are building cases against Snowden. Those releasing documents don't want to help that process.

2) Attribution to Snowden does is no guarantee that he is the source. Snowden is not the author, just the delivery means. And he doesn't know personally exactly which documents he handed over. There were just too many for that to be true. So to protect another source they may falsely attribute something to Snowden, with or without his permission. Not good journalism, but very possible.

There are so many documents in these agencies that leaks are inevitable. With tens of thousands, perhaps a hundred thousand people in positions to read them, documents have appeared constantly. Snowden was simply a massive uptick in an ongoing stream, not the first and no doubt not the last.

My disappointment is that with all of these leaks I have to give up the childhood hope that aliens have visited us. Such secrets could never be kept by these agencies.
Nothing in the league of biggest life lesson, but somethings which I am happy about (or trying work-in-progress):

-- Cut down all sugar. I started to take my tea/coffee without sugar. And no sweets. Try to take a fruit when have the urge. Which resulted in a drop of 2.5 kgs of weight (better BMI)

-- Realizing that yelling at family members (e.g. kids) make you unhappy later on for a long time, with guilt/etc. Better at it, but its obviously a perennial work-in-progress

-- Off Facebook, for some months. Always had the power to quit and had quit intermittently couple times before. But the last stretch I was fooling myself that I need to be on it, to share interesting stuff with some friends I like. (Now when I really have an urge to share, just bcc select friends in email. But this mode and thought process may change again.)
Whhhhatttt?

Man I became a coder at 14 years old (10 years ago) when there was no where near the online resources there are now. I come from a low-income family I didnt take courses and I couldn't tbh, not because of prices but because there were none available anyway.

Get a book, join a community. =). Just start practicing. Do stuff for free, find charities that need some web dev and build a portfolio whilst doing good things for people.

Also, you can do the udacity courses ALL FOR FREE. The only difference is you don't get a certificate. And a certificate isn't exactly needed..
> and it never was important until he got excited about WebOjects at Apple.

Not sure exactly what you mean by that since WebObjects was created at NeXT way before Steve was back at Apple. In fact before the acquisition Steve was the main WebObjects promoter so way before being back at Apple.
True at Apple, Steve did continue to promote WebObjects internally for a couple years but afterwards he moved on.
And one more comparative benchmark featuring Brotli: https://github.com/mavam/compbench
While I agree it's a great read and CEOs would be well served to understand what he's saying...I don't think that takes any more guts to write than a schmoe who posts something derogatory about their company..esp since 10% of the us population lives paycheck to paycheck (yes, look it up...10% of the population has ZERO savings [not even retirement money] and spend EVERY penny EVERY month)...and 25% have zero savings i.e. they may have a surplus, but nowhere NEAR a year's savings...
If this can be made practical at any scale, I think the most exciting applications will be in long-range space drives. Although it sounds as though immense amounts of energy are needed, not needing to take along matter to eject in order to move is a game changer for space exploration.
There are systems in at least the UK that will queue for you on a callcenter. You call them first, they queue for you and when the call picks up you get the call joined by them calling back to you. Never used it though.
British guy funnier than “Miranda Sings”?
> asap is not after 20 minutes of waiting time (whether on the phone, or off the phone).

Sure, but if the prevailing queue conditions mean I'm forced to wait 20 minutes regardless, I'd much rather do that without a phone to my ear. I'd even prefer a 40 minute virtual queue to a 20 minute physical queue, so it seems appropriate for there to be some discounting of virtual queue times when compared to physical ones.
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Good read but it also seems like a humblebrag.
I think you can use photon engines in the first place.
Well, I have only read one of them, which is You're Never Weird on The Internet (Almost) by Felicia Day, but I highly recommend it. It's pretty light to read and loads of fun. You can probably read it in a day or two. There is one chapter (second to last IIRC) about the Gamergate controversy that, although I liked it, felt really out of the place with the rest of the book, but I guess it had to be said. The rest of the book was fantastic.

I'm currently reading the second book mentioned in this list (Pwning Tomorrow) and I have to say that I don't like it so far. I've only read the first couple of stories so far, but they weren't anything special. I hope the book will improve later on.
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Any recommendation of books/courses that may be helpful to me?
I don't have 8GB of ram ;)

And this is why I mentioned ram in first place... The 6.2 Xcode already needs 6GB to run, this already killed one disk drive (because it is constantly swapping when I am using Xcode... the drive could not handle the strain of writing constantly all the time and broke down), I am using now a already damaged drive (someone gave me a drive with theirs that on Windows don't work anymore due to excessive amount of "bad blocks", the drive still work with *nixes for some reason, so I am using it, since I can't afford a new drive anyway).
Study Theology, Even If You Don't Believe in God (2013)
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Dear Mark Zuckerberg here is a question to your Free Basics Project(Alias Internet.org).
Q). Do you allow Indian users to use your direct competitor Twitter
under Free Basics Internet plan?
< ------ >
Personal Prediction: Even if you allow, 5-years down the lone, if you notice Indian users are spending more time on Twitter rather than Facebook, you will have the option to disable Twitter from Free Basics plan, right?
Ha ha, how smart it is!. Gatekeeping is not such a good thing even though it seems Free.
"Happy Christmas!"
I suspect the author's motivation was to just make other scientists aware that this is even possible. By saying that you can make crappy pipettes, it's really saying that you can make much less sophisticated stuff really well.

My lab's 3D printer is constantly cranking out something to help with experiments. Any single thing seems kinda trivial - a jig that makes it so some tube doesn't have to wrap around another piece of equipment in some awkward way, a holder to keep a heater a few millimeters closer to a reaction, a grip to hold up a piece of cardboard - but in aggregate these things are making our experiments more reliable and easier to perform.

We also prototype things that will ultimately be made in the machine shop. It takes about a month to get any feedback due to their backlog, so being able to print the design in plastic and just make sure it fits and is practical to use can save months.
Yep, you'd be significantly better off just shining the laser behind you.
> And assuming it would fear anything is not anthropomorphizing at all? :)

It's anthropomorphic language, yes, which is clumsy of me, especially given the context. What I meant is it would identify a category of risks, and then take action to mitigate those risks.

> My point was that calling a superintelligence what by description is pretty dumb automation is a bit ridiculous.

I will assume by "dumb" you mean "simple" or else that statement is somewhat tautological. There is nothing that says intelligence has to be complicated. Our brains, the neocortex in particular (which is responsible for most of human "intelligence" that separates us from other mammals) operates by rather simplistic principles. I don't want to bikeshed a definition of intelligence, but common phrasings thrown around are along the lines of "ability to achieve arbitrary goals in complex environments" or "efficiency at problem solving." These are not things that by their nature mandate a complicated solution. It is entirely possible that we could crate a superintelligence that runs a very simple algorithm.
The wikipedia article is about incoming call queueing which I find good even from end-user (caller) perspective.

What I found more interesting is that at least some telemarketing call centers actually use outgoing call queues. The reason for this is:

1) They anticipate some percentage of unreachable numbers;
2) To maximize efficiency- operators don't spend time waiting on somebody picking up the phone, they are only engaged when there is someone on the line.
Probably because somebody would just come through and revert it 5 minutes later anyway.
A lot depends on the language, for the most part if it is statically type or not.

In Java, for instance, an IDE can do useful things easily because of static typing. It knows what type is expected in what situation, so it can do a good job of autocomplete, automated refactoring, etc.

Now there has been a lot of work on brilliant compilers for dynamically typed languages that can infer types and produce very fast output code, and in theory some of that could be applied to IDEs, but it has not really happened yet.

Often an "IDE" for a dynamic language turns out to be syntax highlighting, a visual debugger that works sometimes, and a button to press to restart your web server. If that is what you run into, particularly on Linux where any distro is going to put some deliberate errors in the GUI such as making the scrollbars weird, you are going to think an IDE a big waste of time. For instance, Eclipse almost works for Java (use IntelliJ!), but all of the Eclipse plugins for other languages are awful.

The exception that proves the rule is LISP, for which all kinds of smart editors have existed for a long time -- however I did a raft of work lately with Clojure and Light Table and I was unimpressed. I thought about trying emacs, but I switched from emacs to vi long ago and don't really want to go back.
> It's not really "no harm done" - the opportunity cost of wasting time that could be spent on other activities is a deterrent, for me at least.

But this is really true for any activity. You don't know you'll like it until you try it. If you tried it and didn't like you wasted your time.

The only problem I see is if you continue to do meditation even if you don't enjoy it because you believe in benefits. But like with working out, I doubt that really happens. If people can't find enjoyment in it, they drop it sooner or later.
>Its exchange competitors, which include the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and BATS, cater to the interests of high-frequency traders, which typically provide more than 50 percent of all trading volume.

This is true for IEX -- the top volume participants there are all HFT firms.

Also, I don't see how IEX's claim of improving price discovery meshes with their 350us delay. Are they not locking the NBBO on basically every single price flip because they are delaying updating their quotes? In what world is this more fair?

>An example is the New York Stock Exchange Day Intermarket Sweep Add Liquidity Only Order.

This isn't even a thing -- what would an ALO ISO even mean?

>High-frequency traders pay to locate their computer servers inside of exchanges’ order execution centers, where they get early access to trade information that they use to jump in front of — front run — other clients.

Okay now he's just either misinformed or lying. Who wrote this article?
I'm not really a fan of the website design since it mimics GitHub so much that it took me like 30 seconds to figure out that this is a third party product. I have installed the extension and it seems pretty useful, but I just wish that the design is a bit more different so others won't feel as confused as I did when I first opened it.
Facebook needs to stop a homegrown Facebook alternative arising in India.

They need to stop it now, by smothering it in the crib, redirecting its potential future users into a Facebook-curated walled-garden.

Growth is required for Facebook, and India is a clear growth area, China having been largely ruled off-limits by the Chinese government.

A toehold in one of the most populous countries on the planet. Has to have the Facebook board salivating.
This was definitely the case at the last place I worked. Most of the "upper management" (with some key exceptions) had literally never once had a job, and it really showed in a number of ways. Frankly I think Fishkin made the right decision, because if he ever steps into another CEO role (which I think is likely) he will be much better at it due to his experiences around this.

I also really want to say how much I appreciate the fact that he wrote this. One of the bigger problems with C-Level people is that they try to act infallible. This seriously hurts there ability to grow. Being able to have conversations like this is beneficial to everyone involved, but it takes a certain amount of bravery to start that conversation.
Yeah, silly astronauts and their moon landing. Puh!

/s
Anyone doing this in the UK?

Feels like Royal Mail would save a ton if it could make its sorting and distribution operation digital and just reprint for the last mile.
Multiple submissions are explicitly allowed by the rules, you don't need a special invitation to submit something again.

Quote:

Are reposts ok?

If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok.
There's extremely bad blood between the Hillary and Sanders campaigns, and the Sanders guys think the DNC fabricated a scandal by immediately going public, and possibly set them up.

https://www.yahoo.com/politics/the-sanders-campaign-is-takin...

There's a big difference between Obama and Hillary, where he's pretty saturnine about attacks on him even when they get pretty crazy, and she takes things more personally and circles the wagons and counterattacks.
For practice. Understanding what LLVM is and how it works. Gaining more mastery over the language you are currently using. Understanding parsing and the inner workings of programming languages better.
Australia to claim success on climate target, with help of accounting rules
I'm really curious about

> I do know people who managed to find an outside investor who helped them buy their stock options

Is this a common thing?
I so wish you weren't getting down voted.
Emacs TRAMP is excellent for editing files over SSH. Even if you have to have a separate terminal for doing things like restarting services, doing the editing locally and updating via TRAMP is a big win.
Thanks for the feedback, I should add a note about that. I made it designed exactly like GitHub because I want visitors to see how it actually works on GitHub.
Perhaps this isn't what you mean, but "isn't there more than enough choice already" always comes across to me as "isn't there at least one language with zero flaws for your use case?" I think the answer to that question is definitely "no"- this is why people write DSLs for niche use cases, but it also applies to general purpose languages. If we had just stopped where we were and were content with existing languages we'd be missing out on a lot of useful features today.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10792355
To anybody interested in everyday lives of people in ancient Rome, I can recommend this three-part documentary by professor Beard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_the_Romans_with_Mary_Bear...
He does work in corp sec trying to stop spearphishers who target food processors. I think the point is to educate other IT staff while trying convince MS to provide more security controls for OLE.
Glad to see doc on the ShowOLEPackageObj reg key which I was unaware. EMET also helpful.
Few weeks, once you understand vim. it's fun. (plugins,themes, vimrc etc..).
> It’s never been about being the first to do something. It’s about making it accessible to the masses.

Oh, boy.

Putting things in and out of context according to the story that needs to be spun has a bright future as a literary genre.
Unless I'm misremembering, Apollo 11 landed on the moon.

Let's repeat that so there is no misunderstanding. APOLLO 11 LANDED ON THE MOON.

Remember all those folks dismissing what Blue Origin did because what SpaceX did was so much harder? Well, what NASA did a half century ago was orders of magnitude harder.
> You don't know you'll like it until you try it.

Article isn't about whether you enjoy it or not; article is about whether it has benefits or not.

In that specific context "I think it brings me benefits" is not good enough even though "I enjoy it" is.
An unexpectedly profitable and enjoyable read. And I learned how to fold my arms the wrong way.
I've been a long time skeptic of SpaceX's goal, and I have to admit that I'm reconsidering my assessment with that successful landing. Frankly I'm amazed they eventually managed to do that.

But let's not get too carried away, ok? Because with sentences like:

> Mars, asteroids, the Oort cloud and beyond, all with technology and physics we thoroughly know today.

and:

> The SpaceX future is completely open, currently only limited by the amount of atoms in the universe.

it really seems like this is way too optimistic. I mean it's not like SpaceX has cracked interstellar travel or anything. Mentioning the Oort cloud for instance is quite weird : we barely can send un-manned spacecrafts there. And even if we could, it's such a big place that bodies there are separated by astronomical units of emptiness. What exactly would men do there?

Also, even if we can bring the cost of space-flight to something comparable to the cost of an intercontinental airplane trip, I would remain skeptical about mars colonization. The fact remains that mars is a gigantic barren waste land, with a tenuous, oxygen-less atmosphere, barely any water, frigid temperatures and continuous radiations from the sky.

Imagine the worst place on Earth where to spend your holidays. If a travel agency tells me that prices for a plane ticket to this place have dropped by 99%, I'd still would not want to go there. I wouldn't even go for free.
I'm interested if Steve Jobs said that because he wanted to get Dropbox on the cheap, or because he really believed it.

Perhaps both: the only way to know would be to compare Dropbox's valuation at the time with the offer present; if said offer was ever extended.
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If you like and want to pursue programming you need a plan. Your plan should be first achieve competency and then demonstrate it to potential employers.

To achieve competency take some classes--free online, community college, whatever--the basic programming classes are all the same. If you have a solid grasp on fundamentals (loops, functions, arrays), in other words if you can look at a program and trace what it's doing, then you can add value in a company (trust me I've worked with people that somehow don't know how to read code).

Actually getting hired requires demonstrating your competency. This can be frustrating without professional experience, but if you are competent you just need to stick with it and you will eventually get your foot in the door. This might require answering some algorithm questions, like sorting. Awareness of SDLC. A portfolio of some sample project. There is a high a demand for anyone that can code. Your first company can suck (mine did) and pay you below market, but professional experience with be incredibly useful for your skills and for your hireability,

It's not easy, but if you enjoy it I think you can do it.