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Ah, this sort of thing is as old as the moon.

We run an eCommerce platform, have a variety of clients using it, they have a number of customers. At least once a week we get an accusation either from a client or an end-user of some outlandish nefarious behaviour, usually due to some complete lack of understanding of the nature of technology.

Way back when, we responded, tried to help, tried to explain, but it tends to be the case that if someone has made their mind up, they've made their mind up, and anything you say can and will be used against you - confirmation bias is a harsh mistress.

The best response is usually no response, I'm afraid to say. It's a drain on your time, they won't be any the wiser unless you're prepared to sink serious time into educating a stranger, and more often than not responding results in escalation, and people doing stupid things like involving lawyers and law enforcement.

Case in point: About six years ago, we had an older guy phone us up frothing about how we'd hacked his wife's computer and she'd accidentally bought something from one of our clients. We explained that it would be hard to accidentally enter your address and credit card details, and that if they didn't want the order they should contact the merchant, not the web developer (they clicked our "ecommerce by" link in the footer of the client site - we don't do that any more!). We thought that was that. A week later we got a stern phone call from an ombudsman who wanted to know why we were ignoring the distance selling rules and taking advantage of old people... and they didn't understand that we weren't a merchant, didn't place an order on their behalf, either - so months of time were wasted, and we narrowly avoided ending up in court over a non-issue.

Anyway. When you have a conversation with an idiot, nobody watching can tell which one of you is the idiot.
I agree it is a big achievement. I just wouldn't call it a successful landing. If the moon landing had involved immediate tipover and explosion with a leg that didn't deploy, I think a subsequent landing would have been considered the real first successful landing.
> We aren't fitness maximizers ourselves, but we are just adaptation executors of genetic code that has necessarily been shaped by such goals

I think this is very well put, bravo.
I use weak passwords on sites where I think no password should have been necessary. Like when I need to sign up to post on a board but will never be entering any personal or financial information. I have to wonder if these stats are skewed by the same kind of thing.
I don't buy your claims. US made plans to make / support "the rebellion" and also the "sectarian aspect" since at least 2006, all acceptable as long as Assad is subverted, as documented by the Wikileak of the US ambassador brief:

https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06DAMASCUS5399_a.html

(It's not an accident that Assange is where he is for so long.)

Looking at the map from my other post here, it's also obvious why.

Your sources?
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You realise this is the man that created CURL, right? If anyone is allowed to call himself a hacker, it's Daniel.
I wish they would just host the video on YouTube so it would stream quickly. I'm getting pause after pause here.
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What if someone is listening to your traffic and injects a script which sends generated passwords to a server?
http only is a bad idea in this case.
There isn't a complex consumer good that does not have at least one part of it that somehow was produced in circumstances that are abhorrent. This is something that is a societal - and even a global - issue, not one limited to specific brands, though there are brands that are more directly involved in these horrors.
> making any kind of sexual proposition or advance in the office on someone you are not in a relationship with is sexual harassment.

Apparently around 20% of marriages begin with this kind of sexual harassment.
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Chocolate covered cicadas, cicada pizza, fried cicadas. The mind reels at the thought, but they're generally not bad at all.

When the last giant bloom came to the southern Ohio area (~2000 or so), there were people using snow shovels to the clear the sidewalks of the carcasses. There was one particular neighborhood where the sound was so deafening, you couldn't hear the person next to you, even if they were shouting.
Fortunately/unfortunately this works iff you have an Apple Music subscription.
Are you really unable to tell when someone is uncomfortably laughing (her words) at some silly remark because everybody around is laughing too versus actually enjoying the joke? Are you really unable to tell when someone doesn't like your company?
You missed forgottenpass's more nuanced point.

"Not wanting to be sexually harassed would make someone unhappy and miserable in a workplace" was not the assertion. The assertion was "going to such extremes as to guarantee that no claims of sexual harassment could at any time be made against you would make you unhappy and miserable in a workplace".
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and they'll mail you every month with lower and lower offers. I think the most recent one I got was $14 for 6 months?
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If you replaced "blockchain" with "encryption" this article would make sense. Ironically, the UK government is very disinterested -- antagonistic, really -- to using encryption to protect private data.
But those laws weren't enacted until those child laborers helped push society to a level where it could afford those laws. That's the annoying part of the problem and a very tough one to get around without vast sums of money moving from first world to third world countries specifically to address this issue. Which is politically not exactly a hot topic.
Ahh there we go. Still an interesting choice of university though, I would imagine some of the more high-profile schools would've been higher up on their list. Who knows what goes into those decisions though.
Hi, Joe!

> increasing loudness.

Intriguingly, it hasn't been a continuous upgrade, like computers, etc. There was at least one major stratum in this evolution when patronage for music shifted from the church to the court. With larger audiences required to financially support the music, instruments went through a major shift of amplification to use more metal parts, etc.

I also like your idea of continuing to optimize the designs. Some people are also trying different materials like carbon fiber! One issue with the simulations is that people don't comprehend the structure of wood perfectly. It's only recently that researchers have realized the importance to the sound of the wood being a non-continuous material and actually comprised of long, irregularly-shaped grains. Most of the papers I've seen are analyzing instruments and trying to figure out what the salient features are of the design.

One more caveat is that it still has to be easily buildable. The current design is excruciatingly difficult and slow.

So one thing this illuminates for me is how much instrument design is like biology :)
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> I read these tales of woe and wonder why people today lack the intestinal fortitude to stand up for themselves, rather than resigning themselves to the status of "victim".

Interestingly enough, the author of the article never calls herself a victim or uses the word at all. Sure she was scared, and yeah we don't know what she said to her manager. But she's talking about her feelings about being sexually harassed in a very public forum, subject to all that comes with presenting your viewpoint on the internet. She's encouraging others to speak out about it, presumably to find the "intestinal fortitude to stand up for themselves" that you find so lacking in people today.

She's also gone on to co-found a company. That doesn't sound like a victim to me, or a tale of woe.

I don't think sharing your feelings about being sexually harassed means you're acting like a victim. Quite the opposite. You're pointing out that this happens, and that if it happened to you then you're not alone, and it's not ok. There's strength in empathy.

Your mom sounded pretty tough and she undoubtedly dealt with a lot of BS, but I'm certain she would have appreciated someone telling her that that BS was not ok. That's not being a victim or being weak, that's just being human.
well I can't disappoint the fans!

oh please, she's fine. she used it as an excuse to shamelessly plug her company, if anything it served as jet-fuel for her. I stand by my point - the company did not directly harass her but a member of the company did. If she was as hurt as she claimed to be she wouldn't ever reference google as a place where she used to work. And none of you have offered any replies of any substance, merely snide, malicious comments in an attempt to lower me to your level.
> As for the idea of turning static content sites into client-side JS-rendered apps, that gets a strong disapproval from me. Why? It's needless complexity (instead of generating the HTML once and storing it on the server, every single visitor has to regenerate it on their machine), bad for accessibility, and very much against the principle of the Web that information should be easily linkable and retrievable.

Yep, and the worse offender seems to be Quora that seems to have its main page receive all its data from java script (which as a side effect makes scrolling annoyingly slow). But it's probably on purpose since they are preventing copy/pasting so it's impossible to quote text from their website without linking to them in some way.
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Poison, looks like.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/07/130729-rats-...
"sexy corpse guys grunting"

Hmmm ...
What is the fix here that does not involve intermediate servers? The xmpp client conversations asks you to opt out the app from aggressive battery optimization in Android Lollipop. I tried saying no and killing the app. Messages took over two minutes to arrive while I was using the device (not the app). I don't think there is an easy fix. This is why Google Cloud Messaging makes sense but the problem is that now Android is coupled with Google services. :(
Don't stop there:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/p...
It is sad situation but it is true for all races and nationalities. Low skilled work will be valued less and less. A structure of extended family is important which modern society has forgotten.
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I studied cello performance at my university and delved into the world of instrument design when searching for my current cello with its low-five-digit price tag. It is a pretty cool blend of art and science.

Folks on HN might like to check out the work of Joseph Curtin, a MacArthur grant recipient from my hometown. He publishes acoustic research and makes world-class instruments (i.e. mid-to-high five-digit prices). http://josephcurtinstudios.com/
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>On the other hand, in Omaha, Nebraska, I found some comparable apartments at $500/mo.

This is true for Wisconsin also. I think OP is hitting the right point that many states easily allow you to live comfortably at around 30k p.a. (after taxes). It depends a lot on whether you have a family or not, party a lot or not, materialistic in general or not.

>cheap housing in the U.S. implies almost no public transport options

I am not a citizen but this isn't true for Milwaukee where I have been living for almost 2 years now. I have not needed a car because bus service is awesome and Uber (or Lyft) help me out other times. It also helps if bike tracks are good in your city, so that's another factor to lookout for.
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Oh, I have to promote my friend Noah's human powered electronic instrument, the "Electric Eel". It's no so easy to have sufficient loudness with even with electronics:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8MUgwiZULw

It uses re-purposed printer carriage with stepper motor to generate electricity. With very low latency, the pulse of power boots a synthesizer and powers the audio amp.
That didn't used to be a problem. You could earn a living, support a family, retire, get a broken bone set, etc.
You have stopped trying to be productive and are just being argumentative now. Your third and fourth paragraphs are in particularly poor taste.

I don't understand what is so difficult here. Her manager harassed her and the fear and embarrassment that she felt were real. If the genders were reversed, the result would have been the same. That is because in a civilized society, if you act in a way that makes someone uncomfortable, there needs to be accountability.
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Well hopefuly you bill enough that you need to create an EIRL or EURL, auto-entrepreneur status is not good for a successful consulting activity, unless it's a side gig.
What's wrong with using whatever words you want on your personal site to describe yourself and the work you do?

Who cares that some ignoramus directs her anger at him? Do you also think "hackers" or software devs shouldn't have long hair or listen to rock music?
mr macron is clearly not representative, he is an outsider and that's why he's so popular. As for going to CES, it is is one thing, but it's clearly not going to change anything.

Much more symptomatic was the scandal about the minister of work not knowing the conditions for a short term work contract when asked on TV, just two days after the reform of the work laws have been announced publicaly to be in the work.
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Most of the problems with inequality come down to envy but because people are taught to be ashamed of envy, they work hard to both overintellectualize the emotions and cast things as a moral issue in a massive societal campaign of self-deception.

It's a real shame, because it is literally impossible to solve a problem you deliberately misunderstand. That's humans for you though.
It doesn't sound like he was -- he apologized, and they moved her to a different group
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Same on my case, if the account is essentially useless I do exactly this. I put the same username and password with a dedicated email for this kind of things.
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About nine years ago now, I worked for a small security startup that managed to make its way up to PCI certification for scanning websites before keeling over dead. It died the "just one more feature before we can release" death, so you've never heard of it. You've probably never even heard of the company that bought it/put it out of its misery. I'm pretty sure the customer base never exceeded the low single digits. Its most impressive moment was when it made the local TV for just... being a startup, basically. (I'm in the Midwest. Startups aren't and weren't that rare, but few of them even tried to get on local TV. At least at the time it wasn't hard to get into the human interest slot, presumably because it was a nice change of pace for the TV station.)

Yet the founders had a collection of letters from people, actual hand-written letters, asking for help with their hacked computers, asking how to hack, at least one probably-paranoid-schizophrenic one about... errr... hacking and the government and chips in brains and all that sort of thing and whether or not this company could help protect them against the hacker aliens (I don't recall the exact details but this is not an exaggeration of the flavor, alas).

There's an amazing amount of this sort of thing going on. At scale the only thing you can really do is ignore them; engagement doesn't go well for anybody, even the sender just ends up more frustrated and angry than when they started if you try so it's not even good for them. On an isolated basis you might get lucky, but don't count on it.

Edit: Kinda commenting on the thread above anchored on madaxe_again's comment, let me emphasize that I'm not saying ignore it because you can't be arsed, or because replying is beneath you, or because elitism... I'm saying that ignoring it works out best even for the sender, which is why you should do it. That it happens to be the easiest course of action for you as well is just one of those rare times when the easy action also happens to be right.
Weirdly, I'm not as interested in the AI aspect or the mobile code aspect[1]. I'm much more interested in a organization and modularization of system sense. I think it has an obvious code parallelism and a communication aspect for business users.

1) well, in the traditional Telescript sense. I am a bit interested for load balancing and redundancy.
Make sure your config has your Github username and repo name. Looks like it's blank according to the console.
Did the implementation depend on one or more intermediate servers always being online? If so, it isn't revolutionary.

All our email clients do is send it to our email servers. Try sending email out of your own machine. I doubt 10% would reach the destination inbox. The general assumption today is you don't run your own mail server. :(
Evaluated it, and ultimately rejected it for a couple of reasons:

- You must pick up Clojure to understand and configure Riemann (we're not a Clojure shop, so this is a non-trivial requirement)

- Config file isn't a config file, it's an executed bit of Clojure code

- Riemann is not a replacement for an alerting mechanism, it's another signal for alerting mechanisms (though since it's Clojure and the configuration file is a Clojure script, you can absolutely hack it into becoming an alerting system)

- Riemann is not a replacement for a trend graphing mechanism.

- There are other solutions which can be piped together to get the 80% of the functionality we wanted from Riemann (Graphite + Skyline) in much less invested time

Skyline link: https://github.com/etsy/skyline
I like this answer, because it starts proposing a solution (and executing on it). Though I'm not entirely clear what the Fairphone solution is, as the blog post & video seem to be at the fact finding stage. I assume it was through deploying extra on-site inspectors, setting up a union & paying more for the cobalt?

The other issue is that Fairphone has produced 60,000 phones, but Apple has made 700 Million. Can the Fairphone solution scale 10,000x? How does the co-ordination of inspections & unions change if you increase it by 10,000?
I'm sure people could make a case for about a 1000 different people, but I can't see a top ten without John Carmack. They even managed to fit John Legere in there, come on...
So it's not the act that's harassment, it's the relative level of attractiveness of the person committing the act. Interesting.
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Rats are crazy awesome. They're not mice or hamsters or gerbils. They are so much more intelligent and can have a personality. And I'm convinced that hamster personality is a scale of how likely it is to bite you

That being said, wild rats are very destructive because of their hardiness and intelligence. Raccoons may be the top animal for intelligence in urban environments, but they can't match rats for their destructive potential.
> Is your attitude that it's acceptable for these people, who do not push the problem onto someone else, to be sexually assaulted?

In a normally common-sense forum here, I'm kind of amazed by the number of comments here that go straight to the nuclear extension of the other's point. Can we assume that we're all against sexual assault here and have a bit more charitable discourse?
Very cool. Thanks for sharing! I never saw this. Definitely going to check it out.
According to that liberal bastion, the Wall Street Journal, in it's most favorable light, median worker compensation has only gone up about 40% since 1979 [1]. On the other hand CEO compensation over that period has gone up about 1000%. [2] We can quibble about sources if you like, but according to this [3] it's taken about 50 years to double income.

If you take a long look at that same graph [3], productivity has climbed, dramatically. Perhaps the depression of wages was caused by almost doubling the workforce, adding women.

Eh, it's probably not that big of a deal. that wsj article pointed out it's really just young men without much education that are taking the hit. I really doubt having millions of young, broke, easily persuaded males will cause much of a problem. Historically, that's always worked out just fine

Less snarkily, economists from Greenspan to Krugman have said this is something that needs to be looked at. It's an indicator of something being not right. It's clear you have an economic model in mind. It's the job of the market to push that pay edge as hard as possible, get as much productivity for as little pay as possible. Have you considered that the market might push so hard that your economic model doesn't apply?

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/07/06/just-how-stagnant-...

[2] http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-pay-continues-to-rise/

[3] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Producti...
You seem like a bad person.
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This reminds me of the case when some state or local agency got the default CentOS / Apache page and they contacted them as if they were hackers.

EDIT (thanks mariuolo): http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/
As I understand you, she would have to "opt out" of his advances or otherwise she is implicitly saying "yes", is that how you think?

As I see it, she should not have to "set boundaries" nor should she even have to deal with such advances in any way. It's a working environment and not a dating club! What he did (ask her to sit on his lap) has no place in a professional setting.
This kind of mindset is the entire reason I wrote "The Sad State of Web Development"

Needless over engineering for displaying text on a page.
Lest Stenberg get tangled up too much in the email-sender's unfortunately troubles, he should likely refer the emailer to Instagram and Spotify's customer support.

As an aside, hopefully someone can recommend to the emailer as well to use a different service to host high-quality versions of her photography so that potential clients can evaluate critical clarity in her technique. I'm not sure I'd want to rely on Instagram as the sole example of my work, but, maybe she's targeting a different clientele that I'm imagining.

As an aside (#2), who hacks Spotify accounts?
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I wonder where they got the commonly used word lists.
citation for your exploits claim ? you've worded it in an awkward manner that makes it sound like a red herring

specifically, are there javascript-only (or js+css+html only) exploits in recent chrome or firefox ?
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