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I've been browsing HN since 2009 and there's always been articles like this. Hell, if you read pg's old essays, he often took a strong pro-bootstrapping, anti-funding tone.

The problem with articles like this is they call startups a "cult" on the grounds that one can get a better financial deal elsewhere. What they ignore is that some people might be entirely rational in valuing the chance to build something groundbreaking, over pure financial concerns. The real criticism of startups would be that this is the big swindle -- that despite advertisements to the contrary, VC-funded startups do not offer the chance to build great products. The VC game inherently undermines attempts to build companies which think long-term, act on principle, and which build awesome products. Some companies manage it, but it takes exception leadership, vision and political savvy from the founders.
Yeah I'm all for that labor arrangement but unfortunately it has not been even a remote possibility in my professional career in the US thus far. Maybe that will change in time. I hope so.
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Just checked and that doesn't seem to be it for me.
US State of New York to Ban Encrypted Screenlocked Phones and Devices
https://www.onthewire.io/new-york-wants-to-force-vendors-to-decrypt-users-phones/

"A bill that is making its way through the New York state assembly would require that smartphone manufacturers build mechanisms into the devices that would allow the companies to decrypt or unlock them on demand from law enforcement.

Any smartphone that is manufactured on or after January First, Two Thousand Sixteen, and sold or leased in New York, shall be capable of being decrypted and unlocked by its manufacturer or its operating system provider,” the bill says."
Light-bulb moment: A bright idea to save a beloved technology from the dustbin
Good article + links on how to write a research paper: (Write good papers - Daniel Lemire) http://lemire.me/blog/rules-to-write-a-good-research-paper/
Holy crap, this sub is hilarious!
I assume Netflix would happily stream everything everywhere but the content producers that license the content want strict control over who sees what when. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
And London
If you ever want to buy a house around here, the difference between 100k and up is still significant, regardless of how it relates to the rest of the country.
I am pretty excited about this, I could see this being used with an variant of DLP technology to deliver ultra-high resolution and pixel density only to the area of screen you are looking at.
Agreed. To expound a bit...

There is a perspective/philosophy* in which humans under anarchic/natural-law are born with 100% rights. E.g., if you were washed ashore with a number of ship-wreck-mates on an otherwise uninhabited island, there'd be nothing to stop you from implementing works copyrighted in other lands. Further, there'd be nothing to stop you from violating the terms of any contract or even murdering anyone--you'd have unlimited rights.

But let's say we're wiser than that. When we wash ashore, we all agree that it's in everyone's best interest to avoid killing each-other. Therefore, we each give up a measure of our unlimited rights and grant them to each-other in the form of governmental 'powers'--if someone kills one member of our new tribe, the other members will kill (or otherwise deprive the rights of) the one who initiated the aggression.

In it's ideal form, the government's purpose is to maintain the largest possible sphere of individual rights without allowing individuals to infringe upon the rights of others. It can only exist inasmuch as each individual condones and supports it's actions. To the degree it becomes imbalanced towards one party or another, the aggrieved parties retain the right to withdraw the powers they've delegated--in extreme cases they may fight the other party's government to reclaim their inalienable rights.

With this scenario in mind, imagine that you see me building a sand castle on my side of the beach. You like the design so you copy it on your side of the beach. I'm not flattered by the imitation but you haven't really deprived me of any rights either--I'm still free to do as I wish on my side of the beach. Since I'm not really harmed, I don't have an inalienable right to monopolize the castle's design. In fact, if I storm over to your side of the beach and knock your copy down, I'd be depriving you of the right to make that kind of sand castle should you see fit to do so.

Given such a dispute, the tribe (including yourself) might agree to relinquish the right to manipulate sand in particular ways and create a new governmental power. The creation of this power appeases and incentivizes me to continue voluntarily beautifying the beach with fresh and innovative sculptures and promotes continued peaceful cooperation. This a matter of policy, there are no higher laws or anything set in stone about the validity or duration of my claims, etc.

* I tend to agree with this philosophy but want to take a more objective tack for the sake of the great-grandparent poster.
That's a fantastic point.
ssh SOMEHOST -v 2>&1 1>/dev/null | grep -i roaming

A vulnerable client will show:

debug1: Roaming not allowed by server
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I use many of the features of Anaconda Python IDE. I know that better Python integration is high on the list priorities for VS Code, so I think this may happened.

http://damnwidget.github.io/anaconda/#
I see many examples where they do exactly what I described, checking for "None" as a parameter value. Sure, it's explicitly named as a possible value, but you STILL have to make the check yourself.

http://tutorial.ponylang.org/pattern-matching/match/#matchin...

I see how it can be used in new and different ways, and is definitely safer, but it's not like the idea of "that thing you want isn't here" goes away by introducing a None type.
A modest amount of time spent learning how to use the main features of find, with options like -o, prune, -exec, {}, along with xargs, grep, can repay itself many times over in a short period.

Of course, it presumes the user has the necessary technical bent.
Any recommended reading for doing this sort of thing? This is my goal long term, I just haven't discovered what to do it with yet.
I don't understand why they are trying to block proxies, even using your logic.

If they want to replace monopolies, then they should become they place everyone wants to use. If everyone in Country-X cut the cord and switched to Netflix, then Netflix wins, right? But by limiting content (by blocking proxies), people will have less reason to switch.
If I recall correctly, the major difficulty currently is stable financing. The latest budget did a great deal to assist this according to reports (I have not read the budget myself).

It's really tricky to deal with the finances when capital costs are huge but operating costs are minimal. Once the plant is built, the low marginal cost of production drives prices down to levels that make roi complicated.
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I don't think they have ulterior motive, I just think they go about it (whatever is it they are actually doing) in a completely wrong way.

I think that these "unwanted sexual advances" may come from the fact there is power differential, i.e. hierarchy and bosses. Maybe we could try to eradicate that first, that is, have more cooperatives (democratically owned and run companies)? In tech, these would be pretty easy to set up due to low investment requirements..
I don't see golergka's comment as falling into some sort of SV "VC-istan" delusional thinking. Joining a small, expanding company is an excellent way to build experience and career growth. It's just in SV we call those small businesses "startups" and accord them some sort of inherent moral superiority.
As noted in this thread, I solved my problem, and filed an issue: https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/10421
If there was a way to live here that didn't suck as an investment that would be great. But there isn't. You can rent (costs the same or more than a mortgage, without the tax advantage) and you'll have nothing left to invest. Or you can buy and "invest" all your money in home equity, exposing yourself to ... all the downside.
Very pretty, and surprisingly relaxing, but it could use some more thought:

Spring thunderstorm scene needs cumulonimbus clouds.

Winter needs snow (or change the icon).

The clouds depicted in the summer scene don't (usually) produce rain in real life and when they do, it's nothing like the great fat lumps you have splattering your virtual glass. Summer rain is usually lighter, with smaller droplets than the scene presents.

Droplets are the same size and type across all scenes (though the rain itself does seem to vary in intensity). Rain is not one thing, there's a whole spectrum of falling sky water of infinite variety.
This one is nicely organized:

https://github.com/cubiclesoft/email_sms_mms_gateways/blob/m...
While they're at it, they should also add the following list from the "Static vs dynamic" section of the manual to the web front-page, as a sort of crie de coeur.

If your program compiles, it won't crash.
There will never be an unhandled exception.
There's no such thing as null, so your program will never try to dereference null.
There will never be a data race.
Your program will never deadlock.
Your code will always be capabilities-secure.
All message passing is causal.
> Sadly though, shouting at a vendor doesn't fix your issues within a couple of hours

It does if your support contract is expensive enough.
Looking for a new name for my open source project
Does it affect RHEL 6, using openssh 5.3?
The licensing deals that can be made with local broadcasters. They are making profits, just not from you. Supposedly if you wanted to watch it legally you would pay for whatever service is allowed to legally broadcast the content to you.

For reference I believe this to be stupid, but that's where this fabled profit lies.
Oh my god do I hate those. I was a week or two late on the Star Wars train recently, and had to basically stop visiting Facebook because of all the clickbait headlines that they stuff into newsfeeds.

<vague spoiler warning if anyone hasn't seen it yet>

...

...

"THIS CHARACTER WAS ORIGINALLY MARKED FOR DEATH IN STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS!"

Ok, sure, you didn't give me a name, but going into the movie after reading that made it pretty fucking obvious.
Not 'Not True', if you don't mind my double-negative.

I can have some electricity from renewable sources and some electricity from your selection of thermal (coal, nat gas, nuke). This results into an energy mix, not a binary value of renewable-vs-thermal.

Even if a renewable sources are predictably intermittent, they can still play a positive role in an energy mix setting.

Furthermore, this role can be very valuable from an investment point. For example, one pays for installation of solar arrays and gets some electricity every day until its life cycle expires. It might not reach 100% of one's consumption - but there is some electricity every day. Compare this to constructing a thermal power plant - who knows what its operating costs will be 20 years down the line.
"Meaning even if you put 50% of your income into buying your home, it would take you almost 20yrs to pay for the median home in SF making the median income."
What the heck is going on with that initial scatter plot? The Y-axis is log-base3, which is nonstandard but technically valid. The X-axis? log-base2 times $30k? It doesn't work like that, and it might be misleading to portray SF/California as outliers, especially when different bases are being used for the axes.

Yes, SF real estate is expensive, no one will deny that. But the core argument appears to be "don't buy SF real estate because the economy is on a downturn" which is specific to neither real estate nor SF.
No, they're all making their own. So instead of one saying, "hey, let's use something open", now we have X new proprietary protocols instead of X-1.
According to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10902833 it does not:

> Finally, for these three reasons, passphrase-encrypted SSH keys are
leaked in their encrypted form, but an attacker may attempt to crack the
passphrase offline. On the other hand, SSH keys that are available only
through an authentication agent are never leaked, in any form.
Most SSL certificates use the same validation mechanisms as Let's Encrypt. Let's Encrypt is not less secure than other providers of domain validated (DV) certificates, all they check is that the requester of the certificate has some kind of control over the domain at the time of the request.

You couldn't trust SSL for owner identity before Let's Encrypt either, nothing has changed.

If you want stronger guarantees for the identity of the owner, you'll have to look for Extended Validation (EV) certificates (Browsers generally show the company name next to the lock in the URL bar). (https://www.cloudflare.com/ as an example, HN or https://www.amazon.com as examples of sites that don't use EV)
> ... there are no deadlocks by name (just other problems).

Okay, supposing we have a definition of deadlock that agrees with your usage: sure. But then these "other problems" you mention will have exactly the same practical effect as deadlock, right? A program will hang, sometimes unpredictably, based on more or less random decisions made by some low-level scheduling algorithm.

And in that case, Pony's guarantee of no deadlock is (1) completely correct, and (2) completely meaningless, from the point of view of a programmer whose concern is that his code will behave as required.

Am I wrong? EDIT. Maybe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10903876
'class' wasn't added to make it look like Java. It was added as sugar for a common pattern that everyone was already using. Many languages other than Java have a class keyword.
Facebook builds their own networking hardware (which runs open source software):

https://code.facebook.com/posts/843620439027582/facebook-ope...
At what point would it be cost effective to park a cruise ship close to the shore and rent out the rooms?
> So the takeaway is always send less words as you don't know on what device the recipient will read it.

The real takeaway is to learn to judge the character of the people you meet, and not to waste time with vapid morons who are intimidated by four paragraph messages. How are you going to have any kind of meaningful adult relationship with such a creature? Even assuming that you don't want a relationship, and merely want to navigate her arbitrary tests for long enough to score a quick sexual fling -- what's the point? You jumped through some hoops and scored a pointless hedonistic trophy. Whoop.

This is my problem with advice like yours. You change your behaviour to avoid coming across as "needy" -- but you're still making your primary goal winning the approval of an irrational person. Be more selective, know your own value, understand what kind of person you value -- then just be straightforward and direct when you do meet that kind of person.
Ughhh, that's insane.
> But if you use an agent, the client never loads the private key, so it's safe from memory disclosure vulnerabilities.

This is what I would assume, but has it been confirmed that this vulnerability doesn't affect identities provided by an SSH agent? If any of this "roaming" support was provided by the agent, it could be the case that the leakage can be triggered via SSH agent protocol requests. I doubt this is the case but I don't see anything confirming or denying it.

It would be nice to hear some official word on whether agent-based authentication is vulnerable, because if it isn't, the seriousness to me is greatly reduced, as I never load identities in the client directly.
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2000-2005 is the early "dynamic html" period. Or at least that's what I put on my resume at the time.
Here we go again, concluding we shouldn't buy houses because we won't make money from it.
Flynn effect
It's SJCL, a pretty popular JS crypto library.

https://crypto.stanford.edu/sjcl/
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Never. Only people who have never been on a boat on the pacific coast think this is a good idea.
Fair point. i made my earlier point poorly, as I didn't respond to your post in context (but rather as its own entity).

In the same way that I understand the appeal of, say, scientology (e.g., You are a superior being, and with just a little help, we can make you far more successful, rich in pocket, body, spirit, blah blah), but it still boggles the mind that people fall for it.

I understand the appeal to self-justify taking something from another that you want more. I understand the appeal of copying something you don't own, or can't buy, which doesn't physically "take" anything away from the owner. I understand those things just fine. What I don't understand is how low the lack of respect for your fellow man has to be that they can create something, not give it to you, and that isn't a deterrent from just taking it anyway.

Even if I accept the argument that it doesn't take anything from the owner (which I don't), and that a given copy of data is nothing more than a secret a friend won't tell me, I still respect other people enough that I'm not going to dig through their things until their secrets are mine.
In this exact case, I would pay someone I know in the US and have them open the account for me.
M.2 supports both PCIe and SATA as the protocol. The SSDs in MacBooks used SATA as a protocol until a certain point. Now they use PCIe as a protocol.

But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the physical measures of the slot and the form factor of the card. They always have been proprietary although standards that are just as good existed.
It's hard to believe you have ever used YouTube, Netflix or Google Play TV in a small country. For current TV shows, your options are usually to watch them as they air, or not watch them at all.

This even includes stuff for which Netflix is the original distributor, like House of Cards, because they may have licensed the content exclusively to a broadcast TV station.
So that's why NYC kids are so skinny now.
A lot of that depends on where your house is built. I have a house in an area that can go an entire winter without getting much below 40F. No one builds with "freeze-proof" faucet design, which recesses the valve to the outside water faucets within the wall.

I had two pipes freeze and burst after 3 days of freezing temperatures (first time anyone can remember being more than 24 hours below freezing). One was an outside faucet, properly protected and insulated. The other was frozen inside the slab, near the wall.
The networking hardware that Facebook builds uses ASICs: https://code.facebook.com/posts/717010588413497/introducing-...
If you have clean network path from your terminal to the dev vm, why need for either ProxyCommand or ForwardAgent - just ssh to the vm directly, no?

Of course local, not forwarded ssh-agent on the terminal would be super-handy to avoid typing pass-phrase time and again; but that's different and independent from ForwardAgent.
Simple solution and sounds like it should work with any IMAP provider (provided you tweak the code).

Well done!
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The React core team themselves admit that React Native is not about code-reuse, but instead what they call "learn-once-read-everywhere" To require that all javaScript web frameworks compile down to native app code is ridiculous.
True, but the marginal cost of oil is cheaper still, and when building a new plant it's even easier to have massive cost overruns due to unforeseen complications in building the plant.

As an aside: someone in the oil industry once told me that to a first approximation the marginal cost of a product coming out of a refinery is inversely proportional to the mass in metal of that refinery. The bigger the refinery, the less it costs to produce once it's built.

If this is true, then demonstration-scale plants face an even bigger hurdle, because they're in a sort of valley of death of efficiency, not big enough to be cost competitive down the line, but too big to be a (relatively) low-risk investment.
USB isn't the right choice for a lot of interconnects, or even most interconnects, especially things like HID for mobile devices. One of the big advantages you can have with I2C is that because it's multi-master, both sides of the HID chain can become a lot simpler. The host side doesn't need to send occasional messages asking if the various HID devices have data, and the device side doesn't need the more complicated logic to handle USB HID events. Instead, the HID device can send HID events as they happen, and the host only needs to send the much less common host communications -- for commands like turning on and off lights, etc -- when those happens. This means a bit deeper sleep, and as such, less power consumption.
> Once the Sauds lower production to raise the price of oil back up, frackers will fire right back up. It'll take 12-18 months, but it'll still happen.

Can't the Saudis in that case just boost production again after the frackers have sunk a lot into getting back online but before they have produced enough to make that back?
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It certainly demonstrates demand for the content to be provided via a better business model or at least at a more reasonable cost.

Blu-rays are expensive, less portable, and require specialized hardware.
I said

>I get the benevolent vibes when I see comments like golergka's

I think his comment is benevolent, not delusional.
From the updatedb manpage:

updatedb is usually run daily by cron(8) to update the default database.

Also:

To create a private mlocate database as an user other than root, run

updatedb -l 0 -o db_file -U source_directory

Note that all users that can read db_file can get the complete list of files in the subtree of source_directory.
... and for $40/mo + $5/hour you can watch any movie while traveling with Netflix's special roaming plan!
Yeah because renting makes you rich right?
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I understand they are used as filter, but isn't result just completely random, since the first impressions are unlikely to yield very relevant information. Since you cannot try all the potential partners anyway, why apply such a filter at all? Why not just inspect more thoroughly anybody who randomly falls your way?

It may be just that we want to have a feeling of being in control.
Yes. I addressed that here: "So you're going to see this seesaw effect. Oil shoots up, more oil comes onto the market, oil goes back down, etc."
Which plugin? The only ones I could find required using a keyboard shortcut to format the current line, rather than wrapping as you type. In vim the equivalent would be :set wrap.
What advantage does this have over git blame view?
You can short sell over a term of years, usually at interest rates of ~1% (but varying depending on the company).[1] If you believe that there is even a 20% chance of a company going bankrupt over the course of the next 5 years, placing the bet will only cost you 5%-6% of your potential winfall, so your expected ROI is 15%. Commodity futures can also be purchased a few years out, as can options.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_(finance)#Short_selling_...
Which isn't an entirely unreasonable response to obesity.
I find this article to be self-contradictory. The premise is that you should diversify outside of your geographic economic ecosystem, but the claims continue that the whole economy is connected (i.e. when there is a rush for the exit). Agreed that diversification is good, but two quibbles: please draw some distinction to address this contradiction, and two, there is no mention of the difference between owning a home that you personally gain use of, and buying a property as an investment (i.e. one that provides income).