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Call me biased, but pretty much every on-line community I've seen in the past 15 years had no desire to limit disagreements. All they wanted is to get rid of assholes.

It's the same on HN and on your Facebook feed, as it was on the old topical boards and mailing lists. You can argue for any controversial position you like as long as you do this in a civil and substantial way. What ends up happening is people getting split into two camps - those who can discuss things in a detached way and learn from them, and assholes who just want to call people names. Or, in terms of pg's hierarchy of disagreement[0], groups tend to split somewhere around DH3-DH4 level.

Which is totally fine, IMO. Unfortunately most Internet denizens seem to be in the "DH3 and below" group. What we need to figure out is how to make them abandon their ways and join the civilized world.

[0] - http://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Ironically, they're probably flagging because they can't downvote stories.

In some sense, yes. That is what flagging is for.
Honestly, neither. Make a web application that interests you no matter how small, or large. You'll learn more there than either a cert. or CS degree can give you.
> it's not the job of SSL to ensure a domain name is not owned by someone it shouldn't be.

That's correct. CAs checked identity back in the 90s, but stopped and moved to domain validation for most certificates. The article mentions explicitly: the certificates aren't fake, they're just DV, and that's what DV is. Obviously most consumers have no idea about that, and have been conditioned to trust any kind of SSL.

The main issue asides from most consumers having no idea what DV is, is that Section 4.2 of the baseline requirements - which applies to all CAs - asks CAs to check for 'high risk' domains. That's clearly broken here.

Certificate transparency records for the domains in question:

https://crt.sh/?q=google.com.%25
I recently struggled with an application that requires an environment variable to be set for it to work correctly. That's all. There are no choices where you might want different behavior. The application is either broken (produces corrupt output) when the environment variable is not set (obviously the default state), or working correctly when it is set. I guess that variable (PRINTF_EXPONENT_DIGITS) is used by some library that itself is broken without it.
The article suggests the phone will also be waterproof. It may be that any kind of jack connector would compromise the waterproofing.
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I think the hundreds of millions of people buying slimmer iPhones probably wanted them.
When phones first started playing MP3s the manufacturers were very reluctant to put a 3.5mm jack in them (I'm not quite sure why...). I had phones which required custom adapters, either for proprietary ports or for 2.5mm jacks. They were a complete pain to use, really easy to forget at home, and as a result I never really listened to music using my phone.

Just think of how many times this will really annoy an iPhone user. In an older car? Aux cable doesn't fit. Lost your headphones? 90% of the replacements won't work (I'm sure eventually headphone manufacturers will catch up, but it'll take a while). At a party? Can't play music.

In my experience, trying to get Bluetooth or other wireless streaming systems working at a party when 10 different people want to play music is a nightmare. The aux cable is a solid reliable backup.
+1 for the mom test.
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Dont download the last one. Listen to Ziggy.
You misread what was said I think. It's about a facebook like, not about facebook itself.
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This feels a little like link bait. You don't realize till the end that it's a pitch.
Samsung Galaxy S5 is rated IP67, yet there's a jack connector (unprotected, at least not apparently). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Code
Really? Interesting, because I get spammed pretty constantly that my friends "liked" Barkbox or whatever stupid MLM pyramid scheme is the current fad in my newsfeed pretty constantly. In fact, the Barkbox one shows up almost every few days. Is that just because Barkbox is advertising on facebook? I always thought if I liked anything it would reciprocatively show up in their newsfeeds.
George is also fairly "antique" as far as macroeconomists go. It's not too much of an exaggeration that anything from before the ~1950's is consider little more than curiosities that illustrate progress of economics thought.

For the most comprehensive book on the subject, see http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Macroeconomics-Origins-Developm...
It's charitable to assume, like other commenters did, that your comment was totally fine, but I have to ask - what was the tone of it? And how did it happen that people actually unfriended you on Facebook?

The other potential reason is that you posted it to the wrong community. There are, unfortunately, groups of people who get the more angry the more you try to back up your point with science. Best to avoid those. They can be convinced, but it requires a lot of work and careful dancing around their egos.

> The African hunting topic ended with someone threatening my little sister.

What the hell. Who are these people? :o. I'm sorry this happened to you and I totally support staying away from such groups.
I can't think off the top of my head where it's been abused. I do know that one question that often arises is "should I end with an ! if my method logs?" I've had this conversation on IRC with the author. The consensus was to only apply such a name when a global was involved.

The trick is trying to telegraph to the consumer that your function logs. They need to know because it brings with it dependencies both by way of code and runtime requirements. Logging may fail for a variety of reasons. These would throw any consumer off. They have to plan for it.
If I'm connecting to my bank or preferred e-commerce store, then yes. If I'm connecting to Joe's wordpress blog or some random wiki then I barely care if the site is even under TLS to begin with, let alone whether the site had passed a human authorisation process prior to receiving their certificate.

And frankly, the vast majority of internet go-ers are non-technical and wouldn't even notice the different between DV and EV certificates (let alone care), so I question just how well EV even solves the problem you're claiming to address.

It's also generally good etiquette to disclose when you're the author and employee of the company in question (a company that specifically sells EV certificates) when replying on HN; since that highlights biases regarding your arguments
It gets all the praise but the use of Haskell is still very low. For me the package system drove me into the Arms of Racket and Clojure.
I get that Chrome like rendering in every browser on my tablet (1) and with Opera and the stock browser on the phone. I reinstalled Firefox on the browser and it looks like your one. I understand that it makes difficult to follow threads but at least we can see deeply nested comments: they don't collapse to a single column of letters.

(1) Lines are not terminated at the screen boundary on the tablet if I zoom in. They keep going off screen to the right. Same on the stock browser on the phone and with Opera if I turn off text reflow.
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> HN on Android looks exactly the same in FF, Chrome and the stock browser.

I just checked too and Firefox looks different in the comments and it has been broken since the beginning of the mobile changes.

The comments on FF for Android do not have any additional indentation to suggest they are children. On firefox every comment takes the entire width of the screen, even if it's a heavily nested reply. On chrome comments have additional space on the left side indicating if they are children and who they are replying to.

The frontpage looks fine on Firefox. The comments do not look fine. When you view a stories comments on Firefox for android it's impossible to tell what comments are children.
First of all (repeating myself again): there is a lot of documentation out there (already mentioned multiple times in this thread) how you can build debs quickly. Also, Debian tutorials are Debian tutorials and they should serve Debian primarily and not some third-party, but still you have all documentation on Debian wiki (and also manpages of specific packages) - you just need to do a bit of search.

Second: saying that Debian's tutorials are less useful because they have specific goal of high quality - makes me really sad. Debian is community and not corporation, so to see that community has higher standard then any corporation should be praised. Also Debian's packaging evolved over 20+ years by thousands of hackers (experts in their field) all over world in their unique collaboration. I am sure this should be taken as a pride that you can go on net an read such tutorials.

And really, if someone thinks he is technical but can't read few pages of not so demanding tutorial, then problem is in them because in software world you evolve every day and need to read and code a lot to keep a pace. Only problem that you could say is that maybe isn't that fun to read (because Debian wikis are old school so the sentences stretch through entire screen while today's web is focused on centering all which makes it a bit easy to read and so on).
Your comparison between this kind of behaviour to social media seems fairly insightful. Is this a realisation you came up with just now, previously, or picked up somewhere?
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It depends on number of friends and your general feed load. What I've noticed is that articles you've liked tend to show more often on others' feeds than fanpages you liked. Also, the latter used to be a smaller notification. I think recently it's more visible because they started to show summaries of selected posts under the fanpage name.
No it looks completely different in Firefox for mobile. There is no way on FF to distinguish which comments are children.
Interesting.

So Wiki says a fully-loaded B-52 can carry 35 tons of bombs.

Everybody knows 1) re-entry after achieving orbital speeds is non-trivial, and 2) doing a stationary drop from orbital heights is possible. There is even some talk of "skydiving from orbit"

So you take a B-52 out over the ocean. At 50,000 MSL, you extend two rocket pods, point the nose straight up, and take yourself out of the atmosphere post-haste. Somewhere around 200-400,000 MSL, you roll over into a standard orbit configuration.

Burn about half your fuel. Once you get to where you want to go, burn the other half, reach a dead stop, then parachute into the lower atmosphere, do an engine re-start, and be on your way.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be a helluva ride, but I'm failing to see the part where we couldn't have done this 20 or 30 years ago. Perhaps the problem was that folks tried to imagine some sort of new propulsion system -- and the numbers just don't work out. Instead of solving SCRAMJET, maybe that money would have been better spent on truly reusable rockets and high-performance, plane-rated parachutes?

ADD: This comment was meant to address the problem of sub-orbital flight from point A to point B, not getting completely to orbit. Both SSTO and suborbital flight were mentioned in the article. My point was that suborbital flight doesn't have as many problems as we might think it does.
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While making it to the next day may be binary, the odds of 0 coming up for the average healthy person is not 50%. Otherwise only 2% of children would live more than one week after being born.
I don't have Chrome on the phone but I have answered here about FF https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880486
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I have no idea how much time this would take in the real world. Pulling a number totally out of my ass, let's say five years. You may not use subcontractors to develop the software.
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It just might mean that they saw through your "It's not me, it's someone else" charade.
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what browser are you using? well aware of the mess that is browser detection. the function i am using is horrible voodoo cargo-culted magic: https://github.com/akjetma/akjetma.github.io/blob/master/src...
Something similar can be done with USB.

If you look at the USB type C connector specification, you'll notice that it already defines one alternate mode in its single appendix: a headphone alternate mode. That is, with the correct hardware in the phone, and a passive USB-C to 3.5mm jack adapter (also described in that appendix), new phones from other manufacturers which use the type C connector would be able to follow Apple's lead and drop the headphone jack. (And in case you were wondering, that alternate mode can charge at 500mA and connect to the headphone jack at the same time in a single USB-C connection.)
India has a long ways to go before it catches up to China. Have you ever been? The differences in development are pretty stark.... even more so when you compare secondary cities. It's really night and day... not at all even comparable. Many Indian cities still lack decent plumbing. Westerners seem to equate India with China, some even seem to think that India is more developed on account of the english language skills and the growth of their services based economy. Couldn't be further from the truth.

Indians I know that have been to both are always surprised by how developed China is.

Westerners should travel more. It'll really open your eyes...
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Even after he made it in the UK Bowie still couldn't crack the States. His US Ziggy tour was a mostly unsuccessful attempt to have him fake it until he made it. He had to nearly go disco to become a commercial success in the US. Bowie seems to have been the beneficiary of a degree of early patience from record labels that was fairly extraordinary even at the time.
Value for the user. One Facebook "like" has various estimations of a price and some of them were quite hight (even going to thousands of dollars). A quickly found link from 2013 resumes some estimates: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-is-a-facebook-like-actua...
"Currently, a plan is in the works that could turn Hans Island into a shared territory that would be jointly managed by the Canadian and Danish municipalities bordering it."

Let's get a public hearing on how we should jointly manage it. And get a board of directors, paying them each no less than 150k/year to negotiate. And...
From someone who has absolutely no idea how the markets work and what are the 'mechanics' behind the stock markets, economy etc: what is the good/productive way to learn about such things? The linked article provides some explanation, but I still don't feel that I 'feel'/truly understand the topic. I'd recommend books/videos/articles recommendations.
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I think Bowie was the antithesis of this.

If you'll forgive the hyperbole, he is the archetypal outsider, the patron saint of the dispossessed. So for all those who don't feel that they belong, Bowie's activities provided a message - 'It's OK to be an outsider', and, curiously, through that message provided a sense of belonging - I'm going to get all metaphysical and say that that is alchemical / transformative in a very profound way for many people.
Makes total sense. Once you've figured out how coding works, you can do any stack, any framework, any language.

It bothers me how job ads tend to focus on various buzzwords. I'm quite sure you're better off hiring someone with good fundamentals who can learn your stack, rather than someone who is a novice but has some experience in the stack.

I started off doing financial trading code in c++ / c#. It wasn't a huge leap doing Android and iOS. Principles are the same:

- Some kind of OO. They are all pretty similar for most purposes. C++ is maybe a bit more intricate. Similarly, some kind of functional/lambda.

- Some way to access a database. Plenty of ORMs or ways to do SQL if you need that.

- Some GUI organisational principles. WinForms, WPF, Qt, Android, iOS, whatever. They tend to have things like "only draw on the main thread" and a pile of APIs for organising the screens, buttons, and so forth. But if you've done one, you're not going to need a course to do another.

- StackOverflow will tell you everything that's pure translation. Things like {} dicts for python.

- Get a brief tutorial for each new language/framework. They're all over the web, and the main point it just to highlight the features.
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http://investopedia.com is a great way to dive in and learn some vocabulary. They also have some nice videos.
Here in Southeast Asia it's Maroon 5 and Katy Perry everywhere you go.
>Compare a US problem that caused global recession

Its an extreme oversimplification to say that 2008 was a US problem. It was a problem of international finance, the bulk of which (maybe unwisely) is done via US financial institutions and with US financial products. That a problem with international finance was linked to recessions globally is not surprising.

Similarly, if some systematic problem in international manufacturing appeared, the bulk of which (perhaps unwisely) is done in China, we would expect it to also have global ramifications.

It turns out that a financial problem in China is currently contained because it is not a major player in international finance (yet).
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To quote myself from earlier...

The IE6 era (2001 to 2005 or 2006) was a period of great creativity, and it was when a lot of dominant web properties became established. Examples include Wikipedia, LinkedIn, Second Life, The Pirate Bay, MySpace, Orkut, Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, OpenStreetMap, YouTube, MegaUpload, Pandora and Twitter.

Web 2.0 became popular during that era (2004 onwards).

That "stagnation" compares rather well with much of the flashy, transient rubbish being launched nowadays.

Also, when it came out, IE6 was the most standards-compliant browser and generally performed better than its main rivals.
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Moore's law is about transistor count/size/density, which ssds benefit from as well.
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> Once you get to where you want to go, burn the other half, reach a dead stop, then parachute into the lower atmosphere, do an engine re-start, and be on your way.

I think that would require a shit ton of fuel. If you want to actually achieve orbit, that's at least 7.8 km/s of Δv to do it, and that much again to reach "dead stop". Your B-52 would have to be carried on a booster rocket, as opposed to carrying one.

A suborbital trajectory would make more sense, but that's generally what the US has ICBMs for.
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So, you're saying that Google doesn't test stuff they push on production?
A blog post I keep around because I was tired of writing the same things on HFT threads:

http://kc.my-junk.info/hft-books/

Of particular note if you are interested in the mechanics of exchanges is "Trading And Exchanges" By Harris. It is a little old at this point (and thus doesn't deal with RegNMS which is of particular importance to HFT) but a very good book on the basics.
Then what is a religion for you? Is it simply fervor in believing something?
> That is totally by design and again, very much a feature.

No, it wasnt like that when most of the Pages acquired the bulk of their followers, they could reach all their audience freely. It was a shitty idea solely to make money, it didn't "add value" to users. There were other, more meaningful ways to implement this, e.g. show Page posts on a separate tab, have limits of posts/day etc. Paying for views is a bad strategy to improve quality; imagine if HN worked like that.
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1. If people can implement their own GC, then they can make it fit exactly their specific use-case. For example, a GC for Haskell might be totally different from a GC for JS.

2. If web-assembly incorporates a GC, then it will become needlessly complicated.

3. Unnecessary complication in web-assembly means also unnecessary room for security flaws.

(4. What good is a web assembly if you can't implement an efficient garbage collector in it?)
Actually, there are a lot more differences than democracy
Still down? Been getting 502 since last week. *sadface
Is communist Russia objectively worse than the crusades or the Catholic inquisition or ISIS? Let's just be honest here and say that human being are capable of pretty cruel things, regardless of being spurned by religion or not.

And why is atheism a religion. Isn't its definition a lack of religion?
Haha, its actually also part the reason why i don't link it here right now, before i released the new site. Next to having a different account where i sometimes post it.

And yeah it are indeed a lot of views, i am still surprised myself everytime i look into Google Anyalytics. Also the feeling when i noticed that i reached 96'000 on the Alexa international rating. Not bad.
>It cuts developing time drastically using code generation and scaffolding features

This is true for CakePHP 1 And 2 but not for the latest (3). The scaffolding features has been removed.
"and rating agencies do it better than anyone else."
Could you hint us to any evidence for your claim?
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Facebook annoys me so much, I've stopped using it. It really is like an addiction. We've outsourced our feelings of belonging to Facebook. We want to be careful with that.
There's no reference though. It's just:

> creating the first App Store which was originally demonstrated to Steve Jobs in 1993

without any footnotes. Would have loved to actually read something on the topic.
You can run it as part of AoS, as System 3 Kernel module is remapped to Active Oberon Kernel module.

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/wiki/Documentation/Front

But Active Oberon fails to run on modern hardware, the best you can do is a VM, and even then builds tend to be scarce.

http://www.ocp.inf.ethz.ch/forum/index.php/topic,692.0.html
Since most of the headers on this github are TBD, what is Rultor?
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I work in Heddon Street, London... This is where the famous album cover was taken.

There are so many news crews outside... Pretty crazy.

http://i.imgur.com/70Owout.jpg
Forecasts? Why you are talking about forecasts?
I was just thinking of the Bowie vinyl that I had and remembered what the experience of buying it was like. Having 'cool' albums was a thing, it said something about you. Now that I have teenagers myself I don't see that with them. Music is not something they own, it's free (if you don't mind the ads) and anyone can have anything they like. No effort is required and maybe because of that They don't seem to appreciate it the same way.

I wouldn't claim that any idea I had was original but for sure I see a similarity between the way people seem to curate their social media profile so that they appear in a certain light to others to the way my peers and I used to curate our record collections to portray something about ourselves as kids
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