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So far Telegram has done everything right. They have awesome native apps on all the platforms, no stupid web-wrappers that are slow and buggy. I haven't had a single bug, it's always been extremely fast and reliable. This is what makes a truly great user experience.
Your related example is not an example of A and not A!
Hi guys! I need a little help from you! Do you think "platform hell" games has audience on mobile? (ex: Kaizo Mario, I Wanna Be The Guy).

I created a prototype to validate this idea, just 3 levels, would you like to test it and give me feedback? (only available for android for now =/)

Here is the download page:
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/44ae8090d77346d785f79f1adb6c...

You can join as a tester and receive updates here:
https://rink.hockeyapp.net/recruit/9993e469daba41209760e6602...

I've also created a promotional video for the prototype (I hope don't be charged by the use of music "Dream On" LOL):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVwW-GwarPk

Thank you all! =)
Low frequancy PWM is annoying, it's not just you:

http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb/showthread.php?104151-Ir...
> The robot does this by cleverly exploiting a flaw in the telemarketer playbook: staying on the line if the person is agreeable. So the system leans on “yeah,” “sure,” “okay” and “yes.”

While this might be a clever single experiment, this is a really bad idea to run a bot like this running on your phone line. Oral contracts over the phone exist so you should avoid any kind of agreement when a telemarketer calls you. (IANAL, I'm not a lawyer, etc...)
Cue the reference to the "time vs money for happiness" thread that was on HN a while ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10860517
This is not true at all. The German Government is asking Facebook to delete comments which could be categorized as hate speech ("Volksverhetzung" in German). These comments are not "negative of her policies", they are calling on people to kill, gas or otherwise attack refugees, politicans or journalists. They are simply asking Facebook to comply with German law.

Some comments comparable to those in question are curated at a tumblr blog (https://perlen-aus-freital.tumblr.com/). Those comments are anything but a political statement against Merkel's policies. They are born out of pure hatred.
Won't pass code review till you can use dependency injection to pass a + operator mock for testing.
$100? Oof. It used to be that you could get $20 Nokias like that.
At the end of the day we look at it from the perspective of how we've come to be the startup that does things a little differently. Our headquarters is in a town of 5000 people in PA, we refuse to track our users even if it were more profitable, and we like our long quirky name. And, when you do use DuckDuckGo in a sentence people notice and it sticks with them because it is different.

We've grown 100% year over year, but at the end of the day our main focus is building a great product people love, that truly puts privacy first. Threads like this mean we're doing it right - we just want people to love being part of the flock!
So, instead of ignoring the annoying spoofed/hidden caller, I now have to answer (to try and figure out who is calling me), waste time, try calling back to see if they'll remove me from list, and if not submit forms to FCC in the hopes the FCC can/will do anything?

I'm pretty close to the point where I just leave the ringer on my phone off permanently. If somebody calls and I want to speak to them, I'll eventually call back. This sucks because I do speak to my parents on the phone, so we end up playing a lot of phone-tag trying to reach each other.
Well what I liked about Mobiledoc-kit[1] is that their demo was essentially an explanation of their document model. You changed things on the left, then saw the document model mutate in real time, and finally saw the rendered output.

Also, the very first thing in their documentation is an explanation of how to write a 'card' for embedded input, which is what is used to embed images in the demo.

It was an ah-ha! moment for me because most editor documentation begins by telling you how they parse ranges, and showing you how you can use regex to back-check to document and change it to your own elements, etc. That's just too deep into the internals for me to get an idea of what's going on.

[1]: https://github.com/bustlelabs/mobiledoc-kit
Do you mean liberalism? Libertarianism and Conservatism aren't that far apart to begin with.
She is asking them to remove racist comments that call for violence.
Engineers Should Focus on What Matters
I prefer ROFL colors.
I see the strobing of LEDs if the lights are moving across my field of vision. I find it a pretty distracting as well.
I was under the impression Bill Gates does not speak for MS anymore. He doesn't work there and it would be horribly unprofessional to make promises on behalf of the current CEO.
DMT is much different than LSD. I have never heard anyone talk about machine elves and LSD.

DMT is a legitimate mystery of science and is not a drug in the traditional sense.
I hate to continue your tangent but I do feel something that is relevant to the OP article are new vehicles that have blinking break lights.

Most people don't notice these new break lights (I think its on Chevy cars) but when the driver breaks there is a very fast and subtle blinking of the red tail lights (opposed to just the red tail lights being on for older cars).

I only noticed this blinking while under... but now I see it often but my wife does not. ie its similar to the pong bar "C" letter in the article.
not true. simply removing 'thought criminals' from disseminating their views.
I thought elves were limited to the DMT experience. At least I hoped that was the case.

I found this interesting at the end of the article, regarding the Control Interrupt model:

This inhibitory control mechanism occurs a discrete number of times per second. Therefore “control interruption” caused by psychedelics, in this model, is conceived as a periodical failure of inhibitory control that allows aspects of one’s experience to be sustained for longer than usual. The frequency of control interruption is specific to the psychedelic used. As the article conjures, salvia and nitrous oxide produce control interruption at a frequency of 8-11 and 12-15 Hz, respectively. On the other hand, DMT disrupts control at a much higher frequency (24-30+ Hz). This control interrupt creates “a standing hallucinogenic interference pattern in the consciousness of the subject”.

It's interesting that different substances might have measurably different effects on perception. Would be nice to see a bit more scientific study into this, maybe seeing if there is a link to fMRI data at all.
Honestly can't believe this coexists with Demilich, Ride for Revenge, and Convulse.
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One could easily mirror the title as: "German citizens to use Trojan spyware to monitor governments".
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> Sadly

Why "sadly"? It is great that we can drive them out of the market just by not paying them, without laws, politics and any kind of coercion.
That's right, but most people don't set out to write libraries from day one. They write an application, then extract useful functionality into a library and release that.

The users of the released library inherit whatever dependencies that weren't easily removeable.
Fascinating map!

I just got done reading "1177 B.C. The Year Civilization Collapsed" by Eric Cline. Fascinating look at civilization in ancient times. While I'd heard of many of the empires/kingdoms mentioned, it was always hard to think of them as "real" before I read this book. The book explores how the different cultures of the times interacted, and how their downfall may have been brought about because of their inter-reliance.

On amazon, not an affiliate link:
http://amzn.com/0691168385
Mossberg: Eero Makes Wi-Fi Simpler and Stronger
Show HN is for stuff you make yourself. This was made by Mackenzie Child: https://mackenziechild.me
This does not concern mere anti-immigrant posts but those that are blatantly against long-existing German laws, such as calls for violence, incitement of the masses, trivialization the actions of the Nazi regime and so on. Those have been against Facebook's own community guidelines before but enforcement has been spotty.
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This talk was related to generation and surprises https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10000412
>We might as well blame them for the weather.

Oh we have, remember how Bush caused Katrina?

(for broad definitions of we)
This is an excellent write-up and a great use-case for what S3+Lambda can do. As AWS offerings go, I believe Lambda has a tremendous upside and will be growing significantly over the next few years.

I've been throwing a lot of my own personal resources into building some things on top of both S3 and lambda and have found a few tools that help with it quite a bit. For one - the lambduh project from Russ Matney has been a great resource for abstracting out some of the more common s3->lambda workflow: https://github.com/lambduh/lambduh. On a different note is T.J. Holowaychuk's Apex project: https://medium.com/@tjholowaychuk/introducing-apex-800824ffa...
We encourage you to try it again for sure! We've even added a feedback button on the SERP. Despite our small size we move pretty aggressively on improving the search. In fact in the past year we've added hundreds of new Instant Answer sources and thousands of new !Bangs. So give us a test drive, set us as default for a week, let us know what is working for you and what isn't. I think one of the best parts about us, is that you can reach us. You can be engaged in this process and give feedback that helps build the search engine you want to see.
When a state defines 'hate speech' laws they're really defining 'thought criminal' laws.

Merkle and co. are trying to manipulate public opinion through the destruction of contrarian thought from the public realm.
I'm a non-native speaker Jay, don't imply insinuations, because I'm usually not so subtle with my language. That was just a bad joke.

Believe me, I do think your work is phenomenal. Period. I'm sorry I've never been to one of your talks. If you'll ever do one in Berlin in the future I won't certainly miss it. :)

That said, I understand your point but I don't really agree. You're saying Apple is doing all this while basically lying for what? Sheer publicity? Do they really think that this kind of unusual marketing would be good for them?

It's the implications (legal, not technical ones) that are at stake here. Three hours of Apple engineers' time spent working for the government, by the way, would already account as an unreasonable burden, in my book. Especially after they already complied with the FBI requests just to find out they messed up the iCloud password...

Is iOS much more secure that any other mobile platform? Isn't Apple saying just that? And don't you believe it's true? Apparently yes, you do!
They do are working towards what you advocate for here (making the users' data completely unaccessible to them). Just look at the evolution of security from iOS 7 to iOS 9. We're still not there, yet. Maybe that's what's brewing for iOS 10, who knows...

By the way, since we're here and you're clearly the best person to ask... I'm curious about how Apple stores and keeps their private signing key for iOS secure. How do they do that? Has anybody ever tried to steal that?
That's something nobody's talking about, but I'm really curious about the physical implications of keeping something like that safe.
I'm quite happy to waste the time of the guys who I have received calls from recently. They are total assholes and have been harassing people for years if my research into their phone number and company name is anything to go by.

The actual (Indian, but the company is based in London) callers have been known to call and hang up repeatedly, insult or threaten the person being called when they demand to be taken off their contacts list ot demand to know where they got their information from in the first place etc.
I think people care about it as much as probably something like bitcoins. The chance of it directly influencing their lives is small.
Open for new contracts
For dram reads, to my knowledge you can't read only 64kb anyway. You get much larger pages from dram.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about
Agree, thought that was a very odd statement too, and not sure what to make of it.
Subgraph OS: Adversary resistant computing platform
The competing positions in most arguments, especially political arguments, are not of the form 'A or Not A.' Including your own example.
> I doubt they have any professional Linux programmers working for them. Working for the State also means earning only a fraction of what you can earn in the free market.

Fortunately for them there is enough of commercial companies already that sell high-quality spyware to any government that able to pay for it.
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"Terrorism is an invention through which any two armed people can take over an entire industry, namely television, with the eager cooperation of its owners."

-Marshall McLuhan
If you think about it historically, calculator would be a more accurate translation - it was something that computed or calculated numbers for you. In German, calculator and computer are also both Rechner.
I don't think that Android uses those anywhere, so I would assume that most Android kernels are compiled without support for user namespaces. (The 1-2 year old Cyanogenmod kernel for Nexus 4 I had randomly lying around on this PC certainly doesn't have it enabled.)
> But you need to understand that telegram rolled not only their own crypto, but their own DB, PHP compiler and so on. Everything is written in C++

All of these sound like once-off items, and don't support/explain why it would cost $1M+ a month
You should talk back for some time. Robot responds only when you pause, it tries to detect the right moment to say something.
That sounds like the definition of doublethink in Orwell's 1984.
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Thanks a lot for your sharing this, great thoughts
We're Not as Open-Minded as We Think We Are
considered how Germans are obsessed with privacy and state surveillance (see for example cash usage vs electronic payments), let's see a country going nut in 3
2
1
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Justice Department Seeks to Force Apple to Extract Data from ~12 Other iPhones
How Parents and Teachers Can Nurture the 'Quiet Power' of Introverts
I've had some success explaining, mainly through pair programming, code reviews and an educational use of the console, the basics of FP-ish constructs such as map, fold, filter, pattern matching, control of side-effects, etc.

It's amazing what you can do if, instead of assuming an arrogant attitude, you take your time to teach other programmers and review their code to explain how to avoid pitfalls, and accept that some people will remain unconvinced about some aspects of FP that you cannot adequately justify (a good reason to seek a better understanding of those justifications!). And it has the added benefit that this situation will never reach your manager, so he/she doesn't have to get involved :)
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The Smartest Book About Our Digital Age Was Published in 1929
No they are not (as outlined aboved). Death threats are not part of any public discourse nor political statements. People are able to oppose the government's policies without being silenced.

On a related note, the hate speech laws have not been introduced by the Merkel government.
It's developed by the Federal Criminal Police Office [0] (german BKA) They also bought another program from FinFisher as a backup that needs to be altered to fit the regulations and stuff.
[0] only in German sorry:
http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzpolitik/bundestrojaner-in...
I'm using Prosody 0.10 with MAM and carbons with Gajim on Linux and Conversations on Android. Working fine.
Nowhere in the article does it say what the actual rate of rising is. That seems like important information to omit. Anybody know what it is?
The L1 cache could use a different line size than everything else. If only part of it is valid, trigger an abort slightly later in the pipeline.

But if the limit is in how far you can transfer data, rather than in multiplexing, you won't be able to add any more bytes even if you stay at 512 lines.
I was excited when I first heard about git add iteractive mode but I find the interface to be quite unintuitive and idiosyncratic. I just stick to using "git add -p" to stage hunks selectively in a much more straightforward manner.

Having said that, I stage all my commits on command line, and generally go to a GUI rarely for certain visualization tasks.
Laws are not the only rules, they just have the strongest punishments if broken. Their are social mores and folkways which have weaker punishments if broken; punishments which are dealt out by many other members of society other than the legal system.

To put it another way, being extreme mean, rude, and condescending to and wasting the time of telemarketers isn't illegal either. Yet some are trying to say doing such is wrong, to which I say that the telemarketers have already committed a greater wrong of the same nature.
But it wouldn't be just the US. It would be any other country, and not just the country's citizens.

"Why should there be a virtual space where people can hide from US/China/Russia/Saudi Arabia/etc."
> So no, Apple should absolutely not destroy the security of hundreds of millions of individuals

Wait, how did you get to that point?
This is already posted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11155948
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11043960
Where it really shines is when you want to combine routing with state management layer, e.g. Redux. This way route information can be fully consumed by your data layer.
I don't believe they're turned on in Android kernels.
It doesn't even implement IIntegerOperation!
This is because, as the source of light is moving across your field of vision, it is exciting different areas of your retina. With a stationary light source, persistence of vision (POV) would make the light source appear continuous, uninterrupted, because the rods/cones do not have time to clear the signal. You can perceive the LED being switched on and off as POV does not come into play.
Why not extend an existing language? Python's meta programming capabilities are excellent. Keep the syntax the same, but introduce new features as you see fit. Wouldn't that work?
Whenever I read "crimes against the state" I get scared about the intentions of those in a position to determine what falls into this category
Mixing reality and absolute statements seems like a recipe for falsehood.

Probabilities work much better. "I'm 50% certain of A and 50% of not-A", which means complete ignorance. A "80% A" means you have an opinion, but you acknowledge a 20% possiblity of being wrong. If anybody claims "100% sure of something", it is an obvious sign of idiocy.
Hate speech laws and thought crimes are on a totally different level. In Germany you are completely free to use the most blatant hate speech as much as you like as long as you don't do so in public.

Those laws are also not created by "Merkel and co." but decades old and introduced by the allies after the second world-war.
Talk to them. Ask them for their point of view. Listen carefully to what they say, and try to put yourselves in their position.

Only then should you hate them, if you really choose to. Not before.
Interesting video of the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XpGUYbehSk

EDIT: Well, I thought it was interesting anyway... my ability to perceive flicker deteriorated markedly after the age of 30 but this way I can at least see how the camera sees it! (I will be keeping an eye out for this phenomenon now but I doubt I could spot it any more unless right out of the corner of my eye.)
well, political parties have platforms describing their beliefs and goals as a party. I know if I'm a member of political party it is because I agree with a large number of those beliefs and goals. So I naively assume that other people who are members of political parties must also agree with those beliefs.

So it seems to me that not equating political party with belief would be a very strange thing - why do you think people are in political parties?
Yes that would be possible.

It's weird to me that the phone will accept updates while locked...
This satire is more sad than funny, because it's true. A manager's job isn't to understand good code, it's to understand business and to know how to effectively get rid of road-blocks for programmers on the team. But how can they make decisions about how to make progress easier/smoother for every programmer, if they don't understand programming?

It's kind of like when my kids are arguing without being able to solve it on their own, and I hear it from my office, and have to go over there to potentially solve the problem for them. What if they're arguing over a dispute over Pokeyman cards? I don't know anything about Pokeyman, and I can't learn well enough to give helpful advice or make firm rules on the spot.

It seems like the best solution in both cases is to trust the person who's most "senior", either the senior developer or the oldest kid or whoever, to make a judgment call to know what to do here. Probably the other programmer should be brought up to speed on how that code works so when they encounter it next time, it's not confusing.

Is that always practical or even possible? Probably not in a large corporate setting. But in smaller companies, I'm confident it probably always is. Of course, so long as the code isn't intentionally clever. As long as it's at least trying to be clear what it does, that should be good enough. But intentionally clever code should almost always be rewritten, because it's usually so clever that even the author can't understand what it does in 6 months' time.
The government is not capable of hacking the phone themselves.
And funny that so many people enjoy TSO, but turn up their noses at Savatage and related power metal bands. I took my wife to see TSO twice - and the first time was their performance of Beethoven's Last Night, not their typical Christmas stuff - and she enjoyed it both times. But if I put on Poets and Madmen or Wake of Magellan, she yells at me to turn off that noise.
I believe that people who know more fear more. And those who don't know simply aren't able to identify the threat well enough to take action. For now, the threat is relatively abstract (some dark agency somewhere maybe has access to some amount of computery things and might stalk me or whatever). And by the time the threat evolves into men with guns in their living room, it won't be associated with the current info wars. Assuming, of course, that true history remains accessible...
A hipstery part of me wants to register one for the lulz and not renew it. The key point here that the domain will not be renewed because it's another bill i'm hit with each year.

I wish there was some way to get a free domain from Google without resorting to things like Freenom, or other unreliable services.
Those companies also lack professional programmers. Actually, such companies sell for extremely expensive software programmed by students or consultants. The CCC disassembled the trojan and found out that they've used simple string manipulations to split Win32-APIs. For example OpenFile was split into "Open" and "File" etc.