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In my experience, people/companies will pay and in fact, want to, once they rely on a service enough.

People generally get that payment gives them some semblance of rights (whereas consuming for free does not).

If you're running a free service - make payment an option. It really does benefit some class of users.
Doesn't have to be Tor, any VPN should do.
What you linked says "On the other hand, kin selection is accepted as an explanation of altruistic behavior.[11]"

So, an extended family with a few homosexual kin might have greater reproductive success with their offspring having more caretakers.
I'm dying to know if they actually got the excavation done before the spring planting.
It's always interesting to me when people build on top of a service that is free with no guarantee of it existing in the future. 4 years ago I wrote a tiny bit of code to play (it was so simple it can barely be called that) with a framework I came across. It simply took a zip code, looked it up in a sqlite DB and then spit back city/state. If you already had a backend you were better off just taking the sqlite DB and adding it or it's data to your own code (It's all on github but I won't link because it's not something I'd ever want to showcase). I threw up a website to play with it and without any effort on my part people started using it. I assume they found it through my github but I can't be sure.

I've received more emails over the years about requesting features (JSONP/CORS) and asking questions about it than any other piece of work I've open sourced. The code is literally 50 lines of custom code and could probably be less than 20 if I was writing it today, hell it could be less than 50 lines total (no framework needed) yet it is the most starred/most used thing I've written and made publically available... It gets about 4 million hits a month and I'm sure it being used in production environments in some places which blows my mind but I don't care enough to add logging to check where. It's on a shared host that I've had since I got started and since I have a number of my own tiny sites and sites I've hosted for friends/family It's costs is pretty much $0, the only cost is renewing the domain name and at this point $10/yr is worth not dealing with pissed off people (even if it was free and had no guarantee of service).
I couldn't get into it, but I have trouble with really anything set before the 20th century. The accents and the wigs and everything, I just hate it and find it boring.
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That's amazingly useful. I'd never seen that before. It says that support other than with 'content' is experimental. Where else does it work? Does anyone have any other useful / novel use cases they could share?
Internet Explorer had a similar hole in its respect for users' privacy for years: the index.dat file. No matter whether you used InPrivate or cleared your web history, the browser--for years and across several versions--stored all your URLs and search queries for faster autocomplete.
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Sensorly and CellMapper are also useful (and CellMapper makes an effort to pinpoint towers).

Of course, since they use crowdsourced data, they depend on people actually running their respective apps, so the lack of indicated coverage doesn't necessarily mean there's no coverage at a given location.
It's hardly unethical if his original intention was as he stated: to run a free API as a proof of concept.

It would only have been unethical if his intention was to sucker people into relying on it then switching to a pay-only system via extortion.
I believe it's called (job) security by obscurity.

UNIX didn't need to be full of obscure commands that are impossible to guess. The fact that it is locks out outsiders, but doesn't necessarily improve efficiency.

It's perfectly possible to make dev systems that are useful but not too complicated for beginners. Hypercard and VBA are just two examples.

But the language syntax is a small part of that. Ease of availability, and direct applicability - being able to see a clear personal benefit to writing code - are at least as important.

VBA isn't an outstandingly fine language, but a lot of people got a lot done with it - because it's obvious how you can save time with it, and that provides a motivation to use it.

The point of Haskell is more obscure.

> You make it easier by expanding them

I think it depends on the language and the target audience. You make it easier for developers by expanding them. But there are forces in CS that benefit from obscurity and Yet Another Framework - not least academic CS, and the GitHub scramble for self-promotion.

CS pretends to be mathematical, but languages and development systems are cultural and social phenomena, designed as much to promote or deny certain kinds of relationships with other devs and with technology as to get useful shit done quickly and easily.
The process of canning was developed to preserve food almost indefinitely. Its a sterilized air tight container. The term is non-perishable food for a reason. When the process is followed correctly, there shouldn't be a biological process that can take place to cause spoiling.
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Oh, man. At 16-17, I used to do that installing HVAC systems. At 21-22, I worked in a factory to support a family. Then I spent the next 3.5 years selling cars. Finally said, "Fuck this", and decided to start programming as work instead of just play.

Even the worst days of the last 9 years have never been as hard as the best days before it.
Do you think they would pay? I have a feeling the cheque would bounce.
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My cynical elevator pitch is, we're internet construction workers on a good day and Internet janitors on a bad one. That said, I chose this life at 17 and haven't looked back. I'd be miserable as a lawyer or some other professional. Programmers are treated like professionals, but we get a lot more leeway when it comes to how we live our lives.

I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm happy, but working at a startup is hard and that can sometimes be depressing.
I actually wouldn't be surprised that a similar scenario occurred during development. There are stupid decisions made constantly. Even the place I work, our Chief Security Officer in charge of security asked me to remove all authentication from all printers with email function so that it won't affect user's workflow... on top of that, I'm told to allow users to type in the "From" field as well.

I'm about to scan my butt to the CEO and type in the CSO's email address in the From field just to prove my point....
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Compaq managed it with their "Portable".
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Doesn't Arc run on top of Racket... so that Hacker News itself could count as such a project?
Note that NixOS do not use containers. Instead it checksums every "package" so that only the dependencies that match exactly gets used at run time. Thus you may have multiple copies of a single lib version, depending on the compile flags used.

I think what gets quite few riled up over systemd, besides the continued shoggoth-like scope creep, is the flip flopping on how things are handled.

For example, if you run mount -a, mount will present an error pr failed mount, but will continue trying to mount the rest of the entries in fstab. Systemd on the other hand will fail the whole mount unit on just a single such error, and this in turn will fail the mount because various other units depends on the mount unit completing.

This has bitten admins of remote systems that has gotten "upgraded" to systemd as part of a update of stable distro releases. All because they had a straggling entry in fstab that may have been sitting there quietly for a decade.

Then you have them overriding a kernel default on mount namespacing, because the containers people want it that way, while others have come to rely on the kernel default being, well, default.

I don't think they have yet to "solve" handing NFS mounts, instead giving the world their own take on ctrl-alt-del, while disabling the sysrq sequences.

Or how systemd would (will?) blank out a environment variable via systemd-pam when su -l was used, resulting in people getting their personal settings getting mauled by root. Apparently su is "broken", according to Poettering.

And now Poettering goes ahead and closes this report with what amounts to yet another "wontfix".

Theodore Ts'o seemed to hit the nail on the head nearly 2 years ago[1].

[1] https://plus.google.com/+TheodoreTso/posts/4W6rrMMvhWU
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I feel like with a headline such as this, there should be a picture at the top of what a lion might see when it looks at a zebra.
Algorithmic trading systems have already gone haywire, repeatedly in fact. All major stock markets "circuit breaker" systems in place to halt trading in the event of extreme volatility for specifically this reason.

The sort of long range damaging activities you mention are unlikely though, as algorithmic trading systems in general take their long term cues from humans.
Exceeeeept, Edge doesn't restore those sessions or evidently do anything with this data, suggesting a regression on how the tab history is handled.

I mean, good story. 6 years ago it might have even been realistic for ms. These days, the middle level product manager who did that would rapidly find themselves on a high speed track to a new employer.

The Edge team isn't a bunch of faceless goons. Heck, a lot of them are really active in the browser development community and you can see they're trying really hard.

As much fun as it is to carry on the Slashdot tradition and make fun of every bug at MS as indicative of a toxic and stupid culture, maybe that's not entirely appropriate anymore.

I mean, it's not like Firefox and chrome haven't had bugs in this vein before. Hell, neither can fully protect repeatedly visited private urls on Android either.
Yes. This gave me chills. It still does.
Make sure you have a copy. Share it with your peers. Decentralise so there is no "their" but "our".
I was talking about the battery of smartphones. In general smartphones are good at receiving data, but not so good at sending it because their batteries are very limited.
This explanation made me giggle and cry a little. It also made me think of the quote from Scott Hanselman, "We're not nearly as organized as we'd need to be to be as evil as you might think we are."

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx

Microsoft is thought of as this hugely evil company, but I don't know, maybe they are just as disorganized as every other company I've worked with and the product owner doesn't understand their customers all the time. The key is some comapanies I've worked for pivot fast and fix things they see as a mistake. Others try to bury and hide it.

Are they going to kill my pappy this time? I don't think so, but we'll see.
Any time I catch myself complaining about my career I do my best to jolt myself out of it. That's not to say I have nothing to complain about or that aspects of my career and my job can't be improved, but my god, is there really any other profession in the world that is as lucrative, open, and challenging as programming? There are no bullshit certifications to go through, the best tools and resources are free and open, and the more technology advances the more important it becomes. In no other field can someone start a company with basically zero capital and have a realistic shot at becoming profitable. I am absolutely addicted to programming and the only real downside is that there aren't enough hours in the day to do it.
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Their coverage maps offer a good indication as to what to expect in a general area, but they lack the precision necessary to perform due diligence before making a switch.

I work in Manhattan, where I've twice had the misfortune of occupying a cubicle in the exact center of a building. Both T-Mobile and AT&T report full coverage for the entire area, but the many micro dead spots in homes and offices can be a real problem. T-Mobile in particular licenses spectrum that can't penetrate walls as well as some other parts of the spectrum.

I'm sure there's a startup for providing user sourced coverage data at a very granular level, though it would be difficult to deal with the constant changes the carriers are making to their networks.
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There is still something to be learned from startups. I worked enterprise for most of my career and it was always the same story. Ambitious projects, large teams, lots of red tape + politics, inferior technologies; and by and large 'UX' that was largely an afterthought.

I'm still incredibly thankful for the experience, but the lesson was not in actually learning how to do things right. Instead it instilled in me a deep yearning and desire to overcome organizational dysfunction, mediocrity and to overcome technical ineptitude.

Startups is a different animal. You ship things fast, and for the most part, you work with teams that care deeply about all aspects of the product, working with the best tools for the job. Sure, theres cargo cult tendencies - the beginning of this paragraph is evidence. The downside of many startups is that you move so fast that many times you never get to perfect anything, and the constant pivoting in unsuccessful startups tend to wear you down over time.

All in all, I learned much more about shipping code, adapting to the unknown and building products from startups than I did in enterprise.
Yes it does! And, IMO, it's dangerous ! Note that the script are hosted on GH that belongs to....... Google !
I have also seen him brush away the difference between su and su -l, claiming that su was fundamentally broken and that we should instead ssh into localhost.
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I suppose that's true. But, remember, a lot of old console games used passcodes instead of saved states. So for some of this, it might actually work!
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Sorry, I forgot about ACPI :)

Now that you posted this, I think I recall one friend telling me that hibernation killed his laptop. But this was over 10 years ago and I only know about one such incident.

OTOH, what UEFI gave us is basically a portable and convenient API to brick any machine from any OS.
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>Hobbyist electronics people are strange.

Popular moralism in a nutshell. "I can steal from big companies because they're evil! But if someone even samples one of my songs I'm lawyering up!"

There's something almost psychopathic about how people just rationalize amorality because the entity they're attacking from is "big" or "different" Or "the other." I guess the mp3 wars are over with Google Music, Spotify, Apple Music, etc but for a long time it was creepy to hear these justifications from otherwise normal adults. It made you think, "What if they see me and my interests as 'the other'? What would they do without a conscience to stop them?"
Hopefully the compilation time will be drastically reduced in C++17 with the addition of modules to the language. Obviously, this won't be of much help if you work with an old codebase or old libraries.
> I hope I am wrong and I can make this career work for me, but I am already looking at applying to medical school in a year if can't find a challenging and decently rewarding job in bioinfo. Sucks, because I had originally intended on being a doctor when I was in undergrad but went in another direction because I wasn't 100% sure about it at the time. Unfortunately, I am 100% sure I do not enjoy being a desk jockey.

Do it. I'm a programmer in my first year of med school. Love every single day. Beats sitting in a chair from 9-5 pounding in to a computer. FWIW I still do a ton of programming on my own.

Also, the field needs more doctor-programmers. You'll find boundless areas to apply your CS skills. Plus, if you don't try, I think you'll always wonder: what if?
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This should be done on the server side, not on the client side.

The link still doesn't work, btw.
What's making this look more "enterprise" than any other CSS framework? Agreed that it looks nice, but I don't see how it's geared toward enterprise products.
>I can't believe how stupid Microsoft is. This is never a bug. You can't be that amateurish.

Apple had a similar bug in Safari.

>Safari's Private Browsing Mode Saves URLs In an Easily Accessible File

http://lifehacker.com/safaris-private-browsing-mode-saves-ur...

Google had a similar bug on Chrome in Android

>Chrome for Android’s incognito mode saves some of the sites you visit

http://news.softpedia.com/news/incognito-mode-in-chrome-for-...

I find it curious that a huge deal is made out of Microsoft's missteps with over-the-top comments being modded up and same with the articles, but similar or worse things by, say Google or Apple are simply papered over and buried.

It's Slashdot all over again.
What? Have you ever participated in a criticism of capitalism before? Capitalists are by definition people who own and profit from private property (which includes things like small businesses, large businesses, land that is rented out, etc, and does not include things such as your personal home, your car, your laptop). All the people you listed are likely not capitalists in any sense, other than your simplistic analysis that anybody who lives in a capitalist society is a capitalist.

Those people that you all mentioned are the working class. They are the people who are obligated to trade their time in labor for wages which are used (usually 100%) to pay for their own needs such as food, housing, and savings for retirement, which will also be spend of food and housing, just later in life.
Then let the distro handle it. If your users are bricking machines, mount efivars read-only. (This is trivially done even when systemd is hard coded to mount it read/write).
Since the food was stored in glass, it wouldn't have issues with toxicity either.
> "It's very https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/"*

This isn't Reddit. HN guidelines don't say "it's OK to be a jerk as long as you highly doubt someone". If you think I'm making stuff up about my son (who I'm very excited about because I'm a parent and that's how it works) to score internet points, the proper thing to do on HN is hold your tongue and not bother commenting, or use your downvotes once you've earned that right.