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Genuine question - when would you need to know the int size? When do you think knowing how negative numbers are represented in binary would help a web developer? Seriously curious.

Edit: sure it's good to know, but that's another question.
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tangentially related:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001250201

http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001388321

go to the actual product pages and read the full reviews, the excerpts on the above pages are weak sauce.
Right. I don't read $1 worth of Wired per week. That page I just read was worth maybe $0.001 (and that's being generous). Generally, I'd be happy to match forgone ad income. I wonder how many page views it takes for Wired to earn $1.

Edit: Make that $0.01 for the page.
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I'd love to see a widespread adoption of micro payment schemes. It looks like BT could make that quite easy to do. I don't know the technical aspects of what a system like that would entail, but it could unlock gated articles, serve as a voluntary tip jar, or even a system where a preset amount of tokens/coins get distributed evenly across the participating sites a user visits.
Both https://amazon.com and https://amazon.de work for me.
For me, the ability to get from zero to a business-worthy MVP in a matter of hours if you know what you're doing.
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I had some raw whale meat in Norway, and it was really delicious. A lot like beef tartare. Not gamey at all, as the article implied.

(They have quotas on the number of whales that can be killed, and this meat was legally harvested, or at least that's what I was informed. I had no way of checking myself.)
21.co is targeting micropayments [1] (and many other things) in a novel way.

You will have a low powered bitcoin mining chip built into your device. This chip basically turns electricity into very small amounts of bitcoin (you'll be able to specify to do this only when your device is plugged into the wall, so as to not drain the battery). The chip's mining efficiency is less than state of the art bitcoin mining farms, but for the small amounts you are mining that really doesn't matter. The benefit is having (a small amount of) money put onto your device without you having to make any effort at all and replenished over time. There will also be the ability to specify a threshold below which money can be transferred from your device to a website without your authorisation. So you might specify 1 cent a webpage (for a collection of high quality sites) that you're happy to pay without constantly having to press an “ok” button.

This will then deliver a very low effort system for micro-paying websites requiring very little need for attention and management from the user, effectively automatically paying websites with device-generated digital currency rather than with attention/exposure to ads.

[1] https://21.co/learn/21-micropayments/#how-21-micropayments-w...
Making "Move fast and break things" be an axiom of your development process is not a prerequisite for having fun at the office.
>None of those redesigns have made it to business accounts yet.

We get sort of half old, half new, depending on where you click. Neither interfaces are any good though.
Just switched to uBlock because of this article, thanks.
This may be a stupid question, but given the apparent interest and knowledge of concrete in the comments here, it seems like an appropriate time and place to ask:

Why can't they make coloured concrete?

Painting it doesn't seem to last/work. It is grey, always grey. Is there no way to apply colour to the mixture and retain its strength?
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Is this a thing now, linking to search results for a term? I saw this with image results for exploding hoverboards. I don't like it.
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Exactly this. It reads nice and everything, but it misses the whole target audience at this part.
Same here, ublock (origin) made my laptop [1] great again and my heart rate lower. It's impressive how all bit in your computer can impact the overall performance. And by that it's mostly avoiding doing crappy non-necessary stuff.

[1] of course I mean browsing. It's a c2d based laptop. I don't have to micromanage tabs when reaching 30. Everything is responsive.
Also try clicking a mailto link. I'm sure that about once a day I see the dialog asking me to add an account into the default mail app.

Basic integrations between MS Office apps also seem to be missing, I'll be damned if I can find the menu to send a copy of the document I'm working on in Word to a contact in outlook.
You don't support people not giving their work away for free? I could understand the privacy argument but "some people can't afford that businesses product so fuck that business" seems ridiculous.
An issue might be that many never used pre-Mac OS X software stack.

I loved the fact that they used Pascal as system programming language, but the mixture of Pascal, followed by C and eventually C++ with Powerplant wasn't that nice if I recall correctly from Mac programming manuals.

Also the fact that up NeXT's acquisition Apple's engineering failed to deliver a new OS.
This sentence "Investors are desperate for a return anywhere."

and this sentence "The world economy is being held back by declining returns on investment in science and technology."

are not the same that "The primary cause of the slowdown is that there's just not much more to _do_."

There is a big different between "there are not easy profits in perspective" and "there is nothing more to do".

There are a lot of things to do. A lot of people is living in need and wherever you look you can see possible improvements in education, infrastructure, investigation, etc.

The fact that those things don't have a return of 15% shouldn't be a justification for, we, as a society, not doing them.
These words by Paul, writing to the Corinthians circa 55 AD, are prescient:

"For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. We are fools for Christ's sake [...] when reviled, we bless; when persecuted, we endure; when slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things."
I had whale in Ishinomaki a couple years ago -- I didn't actually know it was a whale restaurant when I went in (everything was in Japanese, no one spoke English other than via a barely-working google translate on android), and while there was a picture of a whale somewhere, I just think of that as a "sea" thing, not food.

Once I was in, I didn't want to be rude and leave, and was curious. It was basically beef or very fatty tuna taste; not worth the drama. Not bad, but I don't think it's worth the international condemnation to continue eating it.

(JPY 3000 or so all-in; Japan outside the big cities is actually cheap.)
I don't agree with your assessment. Although they encourage people not to use the term "Intellectual Property", I think that's from the perspective that ideas are not property. This is not at odds with (my understanding of) the legal definition of IP (the name notwithstanding). The property in IP, is the monopoly it affords, not the idea. You can't own an idea (i.e. it is not legal to do so). You can own the government granted monopoly for implementing that idea.

The FSF is pro-copyright and pro-trademark. You can literally own software. In fact, one of the things the GPL makes very clear is that once you have given/sold someone the software, you can't suddenly revoke their rights to use it in any way they see fit. In fact the FSF is very outspoken about the dangers of using services which remove that right (for example ebooks where the seller can suddenly revoke your right to read the book).

When you receive software under the GPL, you own that copy. It is literally yours. You can modify it. You can study it. You can give it or sell it (for any amount of money) to someone else. Not only that, but you do not own the copyrights. The copyrights are owned by someone else and are not transferred with the software. So this means that you can not change the license, even with a derived work.

They like it that way. They do not want to change the ability to own software or own copyrights. The GPL does not subvert the notion of software as property -- it enforces the normal rights you would have if it were physical property.
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The reason blocking is so easy and works so well is because everyone got lazy.

Publishers want ads but don't want to actually do the job of selling them; ads used to be free money, and this is coming to an end.

Ads from their own domain would be a little harder to block, especially because blocking would have to be done on a page-by-page basis (or at least, website-by-website).
The meaning of "personal info" sure has been diluted, this is zoominfo level data (in fact, based on a quick look it could very well be scraped from there).
Ask HN: Help with Amazon seller account?
I sell things on amazon infrequently, and apparently some $0.12 fee was added to my account after my last sale, more than a year ago. I was never notified of the fee until Amazon suspended my account. I paid it and appealed the suspension right away. The Notifications page reports

"Our Seller Performance team will review your appeal, and you should expect a reply by Jan 7, 2016 1:08:09 PM PST"

That was over a month ago, and despite sending amazon several additional messages, I still have heard nothing back.

The kicker is that I trusted Amazon based on my past experience and went ahead and sent in a $1000+ CPU for a "Fulfillment by Amazon" sale. Now they're sitting on it (and charging me more fees.)

Is there anyone here who works at Amazon, or can maybe get me in contact with a human there to help get this straightened out?
I like that reviewers are required to put this on Amazon now, it lets me know which products not to buy.
And what makes a client an exclusive property of one vendor or another? Or reason to take out revenge on arbitrary fresh-out-of-school recruits?

This practice needs to die. Immediately.
They could come up with a better payment option. They could accept micropayments of some sort. Even an anonymous deposit-based system. Then they could quote me an ad-auction based price, and give me the option of entering an account number and password.
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but no SSL... :(

Anyway I love sublime, and really hope the API keeps growing! It's also nice to see Will Bond becoming "official" :) congratulations!
After neither GMaps nor CityMapper having transit for Melbourne I just gave up and stood at the stop. :(
> After tricking a department representative into giving him a token code to access the portal, the hacker claimed he used the compromised credentials to log into the portal, where he gained access to an online virtual machine. From here, the cybercriminal was presented with three different computers to access, he said, one of which belonged to the person behind the compromised email account. The databases of DHS and FBI details were on the DOJ intranet, the hacker said.

With public facing sites like Amazon -- who have necessarily engineered and refined security solutions to manage a wide surface area of attack from its customer base -- getting successfully social engineered on occasion, I shudder to think what the situation is at a large, multidecade bureaucracy where internal-only legacy technology stacks and access control procedures have probably resulted in a mindset of "oh just put that on a sticky note" workarounds just to get work done.
But you understand that Postgres also went a long way and is Open Source?
Could someone enlighten me why a lot of sites don't only pull in google analytics, but also a handful of other analytics sites like scorecaredresearch or chartbeat?
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> The fact that those things don't have a return of 15% shouldn't be a justification for, we, as a society, not doing them.

Isn't it, though? Doesn't ROI define what it means for something to be "worth doing"? If you think we should be doing X and X is not currently profitable, what's effective isn't expressing disappointment that X isn't being done. What's effective is changing the incentive structure so that X is profitable.

By the way, it's not a 15% return that's necessary. Right now, the current reserve on US federal bonds is 2.56% over 30 years. Investors are buying these things like crazy. It's really fucking sad that our society is so hard-pressed for things to do that 2.56% over 30 years looks like a great opportunity.
I think, like most situations, that the public has very little information and context. For all you know, the situation is exceedingly complex for the board and Parker.

Sacks is smart. Parker is too and he wouldn't take it lying down but clearly wants to do the right thing: preserve the integrity of the company and its employees over himself. You can see that in his actions as he resigned from the board and is being really quiet -- that's tough as a founder.

I wouldn't overly judge the memo. The audience isn't you or me, it's the employees of Zenefits. It's their message to interpret and internalize. And they already know who their founder is and what he contributed to Zenefits.
Are you saying that people on disability get a housing allowance in addition to the $908 a month and food stamps? That's news to me.
There's literally no sign of a hack here (I mean, besides the statement that they're investigating), this is OSINT stuff.

Trust me, you could hack any recruiting company and they'd be sitting on much more data than this.
Soon we will need to pay for every site we visit.
That's aweful.
I mean I have nothing against ads, when they are like the Google Ads, and I have nothing against not running a adblocker, when your site doesn't do 100-200 requests for a simple site with text.
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Little Snitch doesn't just show you traffic, but also allows to block requests per domain per application.
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> who's to say what's going to be loaded after the site gets hacked

when a site gets hacked, you get malicious content regardless you block ads or not.
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Here are some rkt files if you are interested.

Key files are vr.rkt and remote.rkt

What is needed is the netHMD apk but I've not been able to find it.

https://github.com/jb55/vrscript-samples
> naive disregard for the complexity of actions and their consequences that makes 'script kiddies' so harmful.

If I worked at FBI I'd be angry and motivated. The retaliation won't come in the form of a zip file, either. It completely boggles the mind that someone thought that this was a smart step toward their own goals.

"Let's shut down Mastercard!" I guarantee that someone somewhere in the world was attempting to pay for an urgent medical bill during that time-period. What did the hack actually change? Nothing. It merely proved the hack was possible.

You don't just hack someone and automatically change the world for the better, for the worse most likely.
24 hours and mens necessity to get some sleep. And it's time for a new truly disruptive technology past micro optimisations.
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For a data point of one: I refused the popup and never switched and things work the same as ever for me. The only annoying thing is that you get that dialog every single time you visit the website. The app is virtually the same as it's been for years, for better or worse.
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Amazon announces Lumberyard, a free, cross-platform, 3D game engine
Important consideration here may be that zenefits employees would possibly be liable. Does anybody know if they were made aware of the issues before Nov 2015?
Seems it's possible - http://www.concretenetwork.com/concrete-color/charts.html - presumably it's either expensive or difficult to work with so it's not used often.
I don't see hosting myself as an advantage. In the end, all you do all day is to maintain all the tools and apps that you host yourself.
What is this meant to show? I just get a Google homepage.

EDIT: From a desktop browser it's a search results page for the given query.
Let me take another view on this. Adblocking is on the rise according to, basically, everywhere. I've installed it recently in my family computers since it'll protect them from many nasty stuff besides the ads. However, they are surely not able to add any site to the whitelist (they just know they don't get advertising).

Furthermore, with population aging, I think that for the next 10-30 this will make the adoption even stronger. So let's say that it keeps going on until most of the people use some adblock. What is the situation then? Let's explore one option:

No one sees advertising/tracking on the web. Newspapers, magazines and others have either adapted or died. So, for Wire's example, allowing for an ad-sponsored site makes no sense since most of the people use adblocking so there's not much public left. Now I don't know anything about paid online magazine, but I've read that their numbers are not so great.

So who's left?

- Websites that do it for free to scratch an itch such as codinghorror and Joel on Software.

- Corporate blogs that act like news press to improve the brand. This could include Tesla's blog, SpaceX's news, etc.

- Blogs that make it a content strategy so you buy their product such as GrooveHQ.

- Personal or professional review sites with referral links.

This is arguably a stronger change than when printed papers went online or when they went mobile, since their business model remained unchanged. It's a change of business model, so they will have to adapt somehow.
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PhD'04 here (from Charniak's NLP research group), and likewise.

Which research group are you in? Is the NLP work tied to your research, or is this entirely a side thing?
That's a very sad news for me. I am long time GT audience, and still stop by there website for video reviews(no other videos).

Also I've always found Brandon Jones's voice very soothing. I hope he continues to do game reviews.
I hear your point, but I feel like the comparison is not fair to Ubuntu. Like I said, Apple develops their own software for their own hardware. They control the whole thing. One can HOPE that everything will work out of the box. Ubuntu on the other hand has a MUCH harder task at hand depending on the computer and it's a known fact that common hardware has better support (Intel chipsets in general for example). The libre community is also spreading itself thinner by having to support every other architectures and hardware under the sun with little funding.

So my point was that given the extremely favorable conditions Apple is benefiting from (their own hardware, extremely forgiving users, bajillions of cash, advertising), they're not delivering the goods anymore.
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To be clear, Y itself doesn't have to be recursive either. You can express it as an ordinary lambda, and write a recursive program without any named values or functions.
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The thread changed from wants to needs about four replies ago.
Interesting execution of data
I heavily distrust the open signal data. I don'tknow how they get it but i assume the data is very small and/or biased. Does anyone know where it comes from?
A bit odd to see them all labeled "runs out of Europe". I understand why they do this, but it's not like European hosting is a bullet proof solution for invasive snooping or data requisition.
iPhone ecosystem needs XDA community. And I say this with full responsibility. Cydia is great, but instead of a store only, the fine hw should be brainstormed by a bunch of lunetics and hackers. So we could see what is the hw capable of.
I agree with the sentiment, but probably a more accurate and slightly less bold claim is that the old guy getting a chance to speak means the change was amicable.
Well, Apple software does kind of suck in some areas (tragically broken package manager is one area!!), but it is not too unstable. I have got here a 2 year old MacBook Pro.

The uptime on this thing is usually around 60 days, at least. I have at all times around 40 tabs open in Chrome and do heavy Java development in IntelliJ IDEA.

I don't think this laptop has ever crashed in these 2 years. Just never happened. I reboot once in a while when something like audio goes crazy or just in case after running out of memory with IntelliJ and a handful of other JVMs a few times in a row.

I have no illusions on usability of Apple software. I think they are teeming with idiots (iTunes, already mentioned package management, photo import app, text editor), but the OS is kind of rock solid. Why wouldn't be, it's a POSIX OS and consequently is relatively simple and logical, at least from API standpoint.

There are two things that drastically help with stability:

1. My account does not have admin privileges and I never give admin password to any prompts, unless I know for certain why.

2. I never install any software as administrator. If something does not want to install into ~/Applications (you know, drag and drop), I take it apart and "convince" to install.

3. I guess there's #3, no updates. Only clean OS installs once in a few years. It's a little scarier than the same tactic on Linux, where I am sure that this is not a real problem, but in most cases it's not an issue on Mac OS X either.
Ask HN: Can I vendor a GNU GPL package into a MIT project?
I'm helping maintain a moderately popular open-source project, and we have a pull request which requires that we vendor a single file which is licensed GNU GPL.

No modifications will be performed to the GPL file itself, but it will be dynamically required every-time our open-source package is loaded. We don't distribute any binaries, only source code.

I have no idea how GPL copyleft works.

Will including a single GPL file in the MIT project cause the entire project to be GPL?
Yea, I've worked for a few gov't agencies over the years, and most of them have had basically the same info on a public facing "who's who" webpage. The identities and job titles of public employees is public information.

Internal email addresses and phone numbers might be a little more problematic, since they could be spam targets. But it'd be a pretty brave/dumb spammer or prank caller who targets the FBI.
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They're different questions to some extent.

In the statistical literature on causality, the counterfactual definition is almost universally accepted: if you do X then Y happens, but if you wouldn't have done X, Y wouldn't have happened. So the main challenge that statisticians are tackling is not the ontological question of whether causality can really be said to exist in the world, but rather the practical question of how to make measurements performed at different times, in different places, on different people, using different machinery, as comparable as possible.
I will keep the booklet next to the blog post I write, if people are interested I will keep expanding it.

Thanks for your feedback thought :)
Right, but I think it's still important to note because the user experience has gotten worse even if it is still the best.
Yeah, regarding amazon: http://imgur.com/a/yaI4B

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