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I like your reasoning. I'm not ready to come over to the other side yet, but I agree with most of what you said. My opposition to vegetarianism mostly comes from some unusual experiences, but as far as eating "factory farmed" meat I think I probably just continue with that because of the social conditioning you mention.

Consider this:

1) I'm raising my own chickens right now. My wife coaxed a wild hen to start laying her clutch of eggs in a safe place that I defended from mongoose (an invasive species here), and we build a fenced area to protect them once hatched. Had we not done this, they almost certainly would have all been killed by mongoose. Some obviously do survive (there are wild chickens walking around), but the mortality rate is extremely high. I'm now in the process of butchering 6/7 of the roosters now that they are mature. In my opinion these roosters actually got the better end of the bargain. They had a good life outside, were fed well, and even got a chance to mate thanks to the huge amount of effort I put into keeping them safe and housing them. Even if I wanted to, I could not keep these 7 roosters as just pets as they would kill each other. What do you think of the morality of that?

2) I go out freediving and hunt and spear fish for food. It's very hard to learn, and involves empathizing and understanding the personality of each different species I target. I do remove invasive species from the reef when I get a chance, but it's not a mutualistic relationship like with the chickens. Still, it feels more "right" than eating meat out of a package because I'm experiencing a whole different aspect of life by joining part of the food chain. I have to look my prey in the eye, learn their habits and even take risks dealing with larger and stronger animals (sharks) that could eat me. The ethical relationship with those individual prey is maybe not positive, but I have a much better relationship with the environment around me that simply going out and observing via snorkeling doesn't seem to provide.

I guess the point I'm making is that as I get closer to a natural relationship to animals as food, and away from packaged bodies in a supermarket, the less unethical it appears to me personally.
That's a blanket statement with no supporting argument? How about toasters? How about kitchen knives? Knives actually were controlled devices in many nations.

In America, there's this confounding problem of that Amendment. To change anything, that's got to change too.
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Stingrays operate at the gsm layer, not the IP layer. Evidently their MITM is pretty easy to observe.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Stingray
When it comes to volatility, bitcoin is at one end of the spectrum and every other currency at the other.
Did you go into the CNC gigs with some experience, or were you brand new to it?
DRM should not be confused with cryptography.

DRM uses cryptographic methods, but I've never heard of a use case where a user chose a DRM product rather than a more straight forward cryptographic product to protect themselves.

Full disk encryption is a better tool for protecting yourself than SecuROM. In fact using SecuROM may well leave you more vulnerable to attack due to it's hacky obfuscation methods.
More ARM1 processor reverse engineering: the priority encoder
I love Matthias' channel. I don't actively do any woodworking (though I did begin my college career as an industrial designer so I have a modicum of experience) but it's still really enjoyable to watch him make thing and the very clever solutions he often comes up with. I discovered it a few months ago and always come back when he posts a new video.
> For some time, Google has been convinced that the semiautonomous systems that others champion (which include various features like collision prevention, self-parking, and lane control on highways) are actually more dangerous than the so-called Level Four degree of control, where the car needs no human intervention. The company is convinced that with cars that almost but don’t drive themselves, humans will be lulled into devoting attention elsewhere and unable to take quick control in an emergency.

I think this is a really good perspective. Considering how often drivers are already doing things like using smartphones behind the wheel of non-self-driving cars, I think that sort of activity is only magnified by partial autonomy - which is very dangerous! Humans get distracted or bored easily, especially when completing routine tasks. I'm glad that Google is choosing to build a car that never needs human intervention rather than rushing to market with a partial solution.

Here's a video where you can see what distracted teen drivers look like. Terrifying. http://youtu.be/SDWmwxQ_NnY
I think f-word sensitivity may be a generational or regional thing. People outside of tech think its horrendous.
The leader is not producing consensus. The leader is choosing the best of all suggested solutions--including the leader's own solution--without regard to the popularity of any given solution.

Presumably, if the leader is an expert in the field, that person should be able to recognize a good idea, even when it comes from somewhere else.
When native CSS variables become possible in a future planned release, do you intend to do anything similar to see how far non-javascript web apps / games can go?
It would make things a bit clearer to mention somewhere near the start of that essay that the country is Tunisia.
You said it well my friend. Dear Github had substance and this feels shallow for its timing and content.
Evaluate the letter based on its content, not the authors.
C++ on GPUs done right? – Peter Steinbach – Meeting C++ 2015
It's not just the fees, but the payment processors. You need a contract with them and you need to integrate with their systems at high cost. This is something you normally solve with yet another middleman, like a bank or Stripe.

In contrast, Bitcoin is permissionless. Just install the software and receive payments just like anyone else. That's what something born in the Internet age looks like.
Exactly this. Humans have complex social structures. Notice, too, how the sorts of animals humans domesticate are animals with a strong social hierarchy. This is key: to control the lot, you must subjugate the leader. Famously, Zebras were never domesticated because they lack this hierarchy.
This would be a fine argument if everything else in Denmark cost the same as it does in the US.

(Also, is tax included in the $15 figure?)
Look at Active Directory Rights Management Services, prime example.
The actual essay is well-worth a read: http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
A lot of Tumblr users are artists, students, and teenagers. You may think 24" screens are the norm but a lot of these people are on crummy laptops or phones.

To use a Tumblr-relevant phrase with tongue only slightly in cheek: check your privilege :)
King size beds always have split boxspring.
This is a toxic work environment. Harassment happens so frequently that it has become the norm.

Wait a few months and write an anonymous review on glassdoor or publish something somewhere. Things don't get better until we name names.
IMO, the "Dear Github" open letter is a constructive way to call attention to the perceived problems

I agree entirety. The responses are fanboy trash in a "using my serious voice" wrapper.

I don't use github enough to share the gripes in "Dear GitHub." They seemed kinda minor and I understand why they wouldn't be in the product. But in light of the poor communication from GitHub explained in the letter, it seemed like a perfectly reasonable and polite step to try and open a channel of communication.
> Full disclaimer, I'm biased, as I opened an issue attempting to address some potential editorial/tone issues

Is this your issue? https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github/issues/47

If so, the way you've written your issue is almost incomprehensible and your point is seriously irrelevant to the requests made by the project creators.
Alan Kay intended the emphasis in Smalltalk to be on the messaging, i.e. communication between objects, rather than the objects themselves: "The key in making great and growable systems is much more to design how its modules communicate rather than what their internal properties and behaviors should be."

From http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging
OMG yes, that article is from before we actually launched. We've made, let's see, 1789 user-visible improvements since then -- http://beeminder.com/meta/uvi

It's still confusing and nerd-centric and we're working on making it more intelligible to newbees. Would especially love to hear your thoughts, having looked it years ago and now coming back to it.

As for beeminding things like time spent on your phone, you'd be surprised what's possible if you're willing to nerd out a bit. For iPhone I think Apple makes this impossible but on Android you can connect RescueTime and Tasker to Beeminder to automatically measure and report time spent. Or you could just have Tasker count the number of times you turn on your phone's display and beemind that. I'd love the excuse to better document such things so email me, dreeves@beeminder.com, if that sounds intriguing.

Akrasia and childhood: I don't know of research other than the Stanford Marshmallow experiment which I used to cite as supportive of Beeminder's philosophy (kids who employed tricks to distract themselves from the temptation did better) but later research makes it much less clear what's really going on there (maybe kids from unstable homes just don't trust the researcher to keep their promise which makes it rational, in expectation, to grab the marshmallow while the grabbing's good).

I do, personally, view the holy grail of Beeminder to be a nannybot that tells you minute by minute what the optimal thing for you to be doing is. Actually we just made a Beeminder Slack bot -- http://slackminder.com -- that may point us in that direction, though still very primitive now.
This spec (W3C EME[1]) has been introduced and heavily lobbied by Google and Netflix.

Regardless of what W3C decides, Chrome won't drop Netflix support, and Netflix for now seems to be hell-bent on having total legal control over which devices are allowed to play their content.

[1] https://w3c.github.io/encrypted-media/
> Also, how do laws treat waves in public (radio, light) - do they get the same "privacy" treatment as people (that is, no expectation of if in public)?

I believe this area is legally fuzzy but courts have determined that police cannot drive around with say, a thermal imager and observe en-mass people in their homes. One could argue that it's just thermal radiation you are viewing from public space.
Not an experimenter here, but I can't imagine using Mechanical Turk will provide any useful data whatsoever. The only thing MT does is train people to click its buttons as fast as possible to move on to the next task. If someone has figured out the captcha, there might not even be a human making inputs.
There's an ethical argument that, using our brains to (cynically) raise meat animals, we've poisoned our motive morally. Never mind how 'naturally'; never mind how much better the lives of the animals. The knowledge that its all really for tasty sandwiches compromises the moral aspect.

Supermarket packaging certainly helps to make it seem clinical and a little ghastly; but avoiding that doesn't change the morals at all.

Disclaimer: I eat meat daily, with gusto.
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Content industries can and have changed their minds on DRM when consumers force them to.

However, it's also worth noting that the music industry is the only major content industry where this has been achieved.

If anything, things are going the other way with video content. There have been stories this week about Netflix cracking down on those who are circumventing region locking using VPNs. It seems big name shows are increasingly being offered via proprietary pay-per-view systems run by their production organisations, and centralised libraries like Netflix are either not carrying the material or dropping content they used to offer. We still have different release dates for movies in theatres in different countries, and for films and TV shows on DVD/Blu-ray. A recent trend seems to be for US TV shows not to release new seasons on Blu-ray at all here in the UK, so you can buy the lower quality version on DVD or you have to sign up for yet another online service to watch in HD, assuming you even have access to such a service from where you live. All of these measures are overtly consumer-hostile, but there is little the consumer who enjoys TV and movies can do if the entire industry moves that way (short of resorting to illegal channels and risking the consequences, which obviously is what a lot of people do in practice).

The software industry is similarly screwed up. We've gone from buying a copy of something and being able to use it, to buying a copy but needing remote activation, to buying a copy but needing varying degrees of ongoing online access to continue using it, to not even being able to buy a copy and merely renting. Personally I draw the line before I get that far, and refuse to pay for any important software unless I can reasonably expect it to continue working indefinitely. Even then, my businesses have been screwed repeatedly by varying degrees of ongoing online access or cutting off support, and slightly surprisingly, the most expensive professional software is by far the worst for this and for fixing the mess is something goes wrong.

I really hope that before too long the law starts to reflect the real relationships with modern technologies, where the original vendor who would traditionally be the main second party in a purchase contract is effectively just providing an introduction to the real other party, which is the organisation that makes the software/service and is (or isn't) going to provide ongoing support and/or retain ongoing control over it. I also hope that smaller, disruptive software businesses who are starting to take on industry heavyweights can demonstrate that money talks and enough customers are willing to vote with their wallets for less one-sided arrangements. But for now, the possibility that industry heavyweights like Microsoft, Adobe and Autodesk are going to give up their vice-like grips built on DRM and related technologies seems more remote than ever, and all of them are pushing hard in the opposite direction.
Companies who lose 3% of their revenue to visa may dispute that, as well as companies with lots of charge backs like porn, or politically controversial organizations like wikileaks, or 'morally dubious' companies that are either gouged or not welcomed into the network like dispensaries or porn, or anyone who has had paypal freeze their account for no reason...

Russian carders who make their living off of selling credit card numbers probably agree with you that the system is great.
Another option is AddressSanitizer. Available in GCC and Clang. Compile with -fsanitize=address.

http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AddressSanitizer.html
The site appears to be down, so my comment is without having read the actual article.

As someone who is involved in the hiring process pretty regularly, I would say about 10% of the resumes we receive come with cover letters, but only a small fraction of those letters make it obvious that they've been tailored to our company. Maybe 3 out of 10 will do this. Giving people the benefit of the doubt, half the cover letters we do receive are not unique to us.

Honestly it's probably better not to send a cover letter than it is to send one you've copied and pasted from the internet or that you're sending in identical copies to 50 employers. We don't count not sending a cover letter against anyone, but a bad one can hurt your chances of a phone call.

In my experience though, a good, unique cover letter will all but guarantee you an in-person interview. We'll do an initial phone screen that is mostly for baseline technical competence (talk about projects, etc, we're not going over algorithms or anything here), then a single panel interview that we try to keep under 1 hour and are successful with the majority of the time.
mattresses are too much hassle to return. Sellers know that.
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Mtgox faked price too, remember those 1k+ days? because Gox was considered a leader other exchanges corellated their prices.
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I can't speak to what their actual audience is, but I've always imagined it as the average middle-aged middle-American. Which makes me think of Marie from Breaking Bad - her whole house is varying shades of that purple.

What demographic are the people you've talked to in?
Look up Iron-Clad C++
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No, there are still newer projects that refuse to use github because it's a closed source system (e.g openstack).
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The US never really had commodity money. The Bretton Woods system had a merely theoretical commodity status. Nobody in the 1960's believed for a moment that the convertibility to gold was a real thing unless unwinding the entire monetary system was on the table.
I just want to point out accepting pull requests for signatures is a bad idea -- someone is going to lose the race and rebase over and over if unlucky, assuming many people are going to sign this. :-)
It's one month, so 30 days.
Yes, I couldn't agree more.

Generational passing-down of wealth (largely a result of rents that can extracted from resources kept within one's family) is completely elided in the article.
How large are you? My regular bed fits 2 adults and 2 kids and a cat
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I agree - there's nothing wrong with the original Dear Github letter - github is a big company with lots of inertia, being called out on failing to support the growth of their OSS community isn't going to hurt their feelings but it may spur some change.

This letter just feels sycophantic and obsequious to me. And sucking up to billion-dollar companies doesn't feel like its in the hacker spirit, if you'll allow me to posit that such a thing still exists.
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> That would likely block 95% or more of the VPN/proxies out there.

And that's probably good enough. I imagine (but have zero proof) that they need to be seen to be taking reasonable efforts to stop out-of-region people from accessing their services, rather than having some system that absolutely blocks 100% of out-of-region accesses.
What makes weev or anyone else think the uber-powerful want to quash Bitcoin? If they did, step one would be to stop investing hundreds of millions of dollars in it through top VC funds led by Bilderberg fellows. I mean that would be a start. Then they could stop... you know... having top banks like JP Morgan release press releases hyping block chain technology. That'll show 'em.

If anything Bitcoin looks like it has the blessing of some fraction of the global super-rich.

Then he goes into Rothschild banking... (rolls eyes)

Does he realize all that stuff is recycled John Birch Society propaganda, and that the JBS were hard right wing fascists? It's hilarious how in the age of copypasta leftists and anarchy/libertarian types have been recycling JBS propaganda for 25+ years without having any idea where these tropes came from. On Facebook I sometimes see articles from sites like Natural News that recycle old right-wing JBS anti-communist propaganda verbatim. It's hilarious.
How is that a different problem than people editing code in a repo that's out of date?
I believe the drug you reference is discussed as a previous case in which people were injured during clinical trials. The current casualties are part of a test of a different investigational cannabinoid pain-killer.
I mean, it does slightly increase your rate of spam. I have a private email that I only give out to RL people that has never received a spam message.
The Americans paying $8 / mo signed up before the price increase. An American signing up today has to pay $10 / mo.

That does not of course undermine your basic point.
For sure, I already try by avoiding Javascript for simple interaction and UI behaviour in my work. I hope that CSS variables will be fun to play with.
Ask HN: Cofounder?
How long did you go back and forth with a cofounder before you said screw it, and went on your idea by yourself?
Watermarking images with a name and url is a common practice to help mitigate that problem.
"Dr. Memory currently targets 32-bit applications only."

:(
If everybody signs at the bottom, the bulk of the PRs will have merge conflicts. So this could be quite painful, I think.
To give one practically useful example, the same kinds of technology that could potentially restrict access to content on your own devices could also restrict the use of information in the workplace, preventing the leakage of sensitive personal data due to inside jobs. This is a legitimate and very practical concern for organisations operating in fields like healthcare, finance and defence.
> they've managed to work their way into almost being beyond reproach

Yep. It's annoying as hell when I tell someone I use Bitbucket and they try to get me to change to Github. And I'm not talking about for FOSS repos, they want me to convert my free Bitbucket repos to paid Github repos, because Github.

> A (by all indications), very profitable product that wants to make money off you. That is its goal and purpose in life, and OSS furthers it.

I'd go a little further than that. Their strategy, while good for some FOSS projects, is a common marketing tool. I can use Wunderlist, Evernote, and Dropbox for free in a limited capacity as well. The thing about those strategies is that they last as long as it's in the interest of the company to provide them.
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That doesn't help us choose what to do. A collection of people is important, and another collection of people is important, and one of these collections of people is going to die and we have to choose which one. Platitudes about the domain of ethics don't help us to choose.
By this definition I would argue that most SF start-ups are more similar to cults than CFAR is -- though as I said in my comment above, I do agree that CFAR hasn't conclusively proved yet that this is more than just a sort of Space Camp for bored rich people of a particular variety.