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The UN example is especially apt. Are you sure you are not arguing my point?

Also, this is getting very tiresome. Representatives have enough time to familiarize themselves with the draft and decide what to vote. This whole "the secret cabal is making treaties without you" is nothing more than sensationalist FUD. Only the negotiations are in secret. As they should be.
> I think his fears have come true to some extent in iOS, but knowing what we know now about government surveillance of everybody, it may no longer seem like too great a price to pay.

We're already paying that price, essentially. An iPhone won't run arbitrary code, a replacement OS, or accept code from arbitrary sources. It's already an exclusively vendor-curated platform. If you're already going to buy into that model, I don't see the point in not going for the greatest amount of protection that you can get. (OK, yes, a dev can compile their own code and push it to their own device. I'm actually not sure why I don't hear about this happening more often as a way to run "unacceptable" programs on iOS devices).
>They sure took their sweet time, either way.

Did they? Do we need to know every company's opinion on every controversial issue related to their business immediately?
I think that was more for the CEO transition stage than a permanent thing but I could be wrong.
> if someone has a bunch of endorsements for a particular skill I suspect they actually don't know much about it.

I disagree with your reasoning here. While I agree endorsements are useless, I also believe that makes them more or less meaningless. I don't think jumping to conclusions based on endorsements, weather positive or negative, is a good idea.
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Hah, I can't escape Synergy. Which is ok, I use it 24/7 because it's an amazing, peerless piece of software.

But yeah, modern synergy crashes pretty often. There was a lag in development a few years back when it looked like synergy was dead, but the most recent version at the time was sooo stable. Now synergy has more features but tends to crap out or start dropping your clipboard every few hours or days.

If you're connecting multiple Linux machines (I suppose it would work for Mac too) then you can hack in this fix that I came up with:

Have a once-a-minute cronjob on the server tail the synergy log. Grep the tail for "server dead" messages and restart the server. Grep the tail for "client dead" messages and ssh into the client and restart synergy.

You have to use commandline synergy for this to work of course, but you probably want that anyway - otherwise you have to log in to each machine with a physical mouse and keyboard and manually start synergy at each boot. synergyc and synergys are your friends.
Please forgive me for playing devil's advocate, but I can't resist the urge to jump in here -- why should they provide you with a free (!) consumer security solution? It sounds like they were trying to give you a hint by telling you that they're a reverse proxy, but I'll put it very clearly: they are a reverse proxy for paying customers, not a consumer security solution for the general public.

They offer a domain name management service, not a DNS security service. Complaining to CloudFlare that they're not offering you a free security service would be like complaining to OpenDNS that they're not offering a domain name management service.

You wouldn't repeatedly harass Dun & Bradstreet and complain that they don't provide you with a free (!!!) consumer credit report, why do you feel so entitled to do the same to CloudFlare? Unless you've entered a consumer security contract with CloudFlare that I'm unaware of (which is totally possible), I'm afraid that you might just be feeling entitled.
Nice visualization.

Something caught my eye looking at it "Signpost reveals that the Wikimedia Foundation initially requested $6 million from the Knight Foundation". That's pretty common actually when dealing with private foundations. They don't have the budget for a big request this funding period, but are interested so they drop a smaller amount of funding. This might lead to a bigger funding event or the interest of other foundations (a good thing). This seems like it was characterized as bad, but it actually is normal and often very good. I remember a couple projects that got a regional grant to give seed money which developed into a very large grant from a national foundation. The angel investing pattern is not limited to startups.

Looking at what happened and given the demonizing of the Knight Foundation, I would imagine no private foundation will do a follow-up or even be inclined to give money for other projects.
> You are essentially claiming that a person's rights aren't violated because they still have a choice between expressing a concept in code

> or losing their livelihood.

I write code for a living(1). I'm pretty sure that if I walked in to work tomorrow and told my boss I wasn't going to write any more code then he would tell me pretty soon thereafter that was fine but he was going to stop paying me to come to work every day.

That's not coercion. That's what a job is.

It's interesting, by the way, that you bring up the 5th amendment. You have it exactly backwards. The government has wide latitude to compel testimony at a trial. If you witness a crime, for example, you aren't allowed to refuse to testify about what you saw because of your first amendment rights. The 5th amendment outlines one of the very few exceptions to the government's ability to compel speech in the context of criminal investigations.

1. Strictly speaking I'm more of a manager these days. But, for the purposes of clarity, let's pretend I'm talking about the "me" from 5 years ago.
Thanks for caring, we'll have a look at this.
It's still not in Mountain View.
The computer industry really needs to figure out and standardize on a good GPU font render soon. It's really limiting the utilization of the system resources.
That's a good point. As a longtime Mandrill customer who sends 750,000 + emails per month through their system, I have no problem with their decision to implement a new strategy.

What disappoints me is the way they've chosen to go about this -- specifically the fact that they've left us 3 weeks before these changes take effect.

That shows a lack of respect for their customers -- not just the "bad" ones and those looking for a free service, but all of us.

In making a change of this magnitude, they needed to allow more time between announcement and implementation and they needed to be much more clear up front about what the updated pricing structure will be (which they still have not done for high volumes).
This sucks for us long-term users of Just Landed. I want to congratulate John for making something people _clearly_ wanted. Apparently sometimes that's not enough...

This jumped out at me:

"...Just Landed has outlived several of the services that it originally depended on, and each time a service provider has disappeared..."

This statement refers to the less than 4 years old app, which speaks volumes about value proposition of for-subscription-cloud-based APIs. Just Landed is a relatively simple, focused app built by a small team, yet in this short time it has suffered several (!) hits from disrupted availability of the API providers.

How can one expect to build a big business based on considerably more complex software using such APIs?

Compare that to the pains Microsoft has historically gone through to keep ABI compatibility with decade-old systems. I even have doubts about long-term availability of half of AWS services.

Kudos to John for running Just Landed for so long.
Apple's Motion to Vacate (Brief and Supporting Declarations)
Notice how the headline makes sure to specify "over terrorist's phone" and not "over user privacy" or "against federal conscription by the FBI."

Take a second and re-read the headline. What does it say? To me, it spells out Microsoft joins Apple to back terrorist's privacy against the FBI.

The government couldn't have chosen a better case to publicize in search of a precedent in their favor. And the media isn't helping.

Edit: In case it wasn't clear, I think it's actually disingenuous to mention the word "terrorist" in the headline at all. Nothing about why Apple is resisting (which is the crux of this news cycle) has to do with the fact that they are, bizarrely, fighting for this (dead) user (who is undeniably a madman murderer and potentially a terrorist)'s right to privacy.

Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and everyone here in the comments isn't defending this person's right to privacy. It's 100% about the principle and the precedent and it's a million times about the future users and nothing to do with this horrible person. For that reason, it's unfair (in fact, you could call it purposeful misrepresentation) to say that they are against the FBI unlocking "terrorist's phone" or defending the "terrorist's privacy" in any way. What they are doing, if one excludes self-interest, is protecting the principle for everyone else out there.
Combustion engines are so fundamental, they go far beyond fossil fuels. They are one of the best ways of converting chemical energy to work. Fossil fuels just happen to be very high in chemical energy. You can burn hydrogen, ethanol, bio-diesel, paraffin, methanol....

IMO the better combustion engines become, the more options for fuel we have. For example, ethanol compares poorly to gasoline in power & consumption, but with continued engine development, ethanol will be able to develop as much power & economy as gasoline does today.
"People on the more successful teams in Woolley’s experiment scored above average on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes test."

I wonder if giving this test during interviews would help in building better teams.
I'm no videophile, but Netflix et al. are absolutely horrendous compared to any legitimate DVD or Blu-ray release.

You can even do an A/B test, they'd without a doubt prefer the Blu-ray version in case of HD.
This is great! I moved my team's repos to GitLab last year and I love it. Pricing is better, there's more granularity in assigning team member roles, and the mobile app is good too.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11175829
Hmm, I tend to think of KeePass as a manager for passwords for accounts, services, etc. I hadn't considered storing archive passwords in it, or are you only using it to generate them? It seems like pwgen would do that fairly well...
For the inevitable movie version, I'd like to see Idris Elba or Jake Gyllenhaal cast as the foot.
How are XtreemFS and Quobyte different than GlusterFS?
(3) vs 3 is a both really. In say smalltalk you can call 3 and it would return 3 because semantically it's an object where as in lisp it's not callable (even if in CL it may be represented as a CLOS object I don't know)

syntactical ( ) isn't actually a procedure call we can see this in (define (id x y) (..)) or (let ((x 3)) ...) in the theoretically pure Lisp semantically it's just a leaf in the tree but as part of an if-block in a real language it gets treated as procedure call even if it makes no sense.
Bottom of the class: America’s airlines are introducing a class below economy
I find myself using the "verbatim" search option all the time, which is hidden one menu-layer deep in the "search tools" drop-down, behind the "All Results" button.
It helps but I've noticed this trend of google search working against the user too.
Yeah, no I get it :)

Thanks for the feedback.
and the user base would become fragmented.

Is that a problem for anyone other than the app developer? It doesn't seem to be any loss to either the end user or to Apple for them to keep running Fart Simulator 2014 forever. If the app developers actually need all their users on the latest version, then they're incentivized not to charge for updates (or to do so in a reasonable fashion).
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Also that this is an order under the All Writs Act and not a search warrant. If I had a nickel for every time this is described in the press as Apple resisting a "warrant" or a "subpoena" I'd be able to make a seven figure donation to the EFF!
Gates disputed those reports, but he never states he doesn't support the FBI in this case.

I think the key take away from that video is:

> Gates: With the right safe guards in place there are cases where the government, on our behalf [...]

He also dodges the direct question about his position entirely.

He's not trying to make his position very clear, but he is certainly angling to support the FBI's position. Lots of references to terrorism in that interview.

Edit: from a PR perspective, this does make a lot of sense for MS: use a board member/someone closely associated with them to probe the public's position, then give the public some assurance to ensure they don't all leave for Apple, while at the same time allowing the state to see that MS's support of Apple in this case isn't concrete.
If you're thinking of doing this, have a look at https://github.com/sufleR/sql_query
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I'm assuming the purpose of developing a more efficient engine is to reduce emissions and thus "saving the planet"? That may seem commendable, but from what I have read it is actually a wasted effort, unless you can make it 99%+ more efficient (which you cannot). So, even if this engine is all that it claims (which most other comments here seems to question), it still uses oil and therefore is part of the problem and not the solution. (Wrote abit about this a while back with more references: http://torkeldanielsson.se/reducing-emissions-is-not-enough)

Edited comment: Man, I don't get hacker news... Why do you downvote this? I thought I was adding a valid and important point - that an increase in efficiency is fighting the wrong battle. I even added references via link. I would be super happy if I could be informed of what in this post is offending or off topic!
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> There are other ways to hack the Amazon publishing system, like Tim Ferris did when he sent free copies of his book out to people so that they would leave reviews when it went on sale.

That's not a hack, that's a value-add.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/vine/help
AFAIK there's nothing stopping you using Kotlin on iOS with RoboVM since it is a JVM language - https://robovm.com.
Noooooo! I love Just Landed and my family and I all use it :(
The #1 reason why this app failed is because people like me, and especially my mother, who would have been a power user...did not know it existed until this Medium post. Your problem has less to do with the app itself and more to do with how it was promoted and marketed.
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Would "Terrorist User's" have been better?
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It is untrue.

As I have consistently said, that may be the case.

But the fact is that I don't know that for sure, and unless you're both one of a very select group and violating an explicit confidentiality agreement by posting here, neither do you.
I think it is an issue of convenience. Anecdotal evidence, I have never had trouble doing either of those for 8 hours straight (and more).

Voice will need some serious software support if it is going to take off. There is zero chance that users will learn those mnemonics, just as now almost nobody knows how to touch type. The usage will be more in the form of general commands, than specifying every action like we do it now with the keyboard+mouse.
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Cool article with a very clickbaity title. 'tis a shame.
Thanks for taking a look at our frontend speed. I've created a few issues so we can take a look at this.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/13820
I really hope that extensible languages are the future. It is unfortunate that a majority of their users had no clue on how to properly extend the languages. It's about a time to fixe it.

> resulting code was so hard to read,

DSL code is the easiest to read and maintain. No "general purpose" language would ever match this.

> with program-specific syntax for each program.

As if it's something bad.

> Don't go back there.

You failed to understand the entire concept.
Great to see such a great tool for deployments. Will you be adding support for managing multiple containers in a single deployment and scaling deployments up/down?
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Is it actually still possible to buy the alleged book? I couldn't find it with a cursory search of Amazon.com.
I understand why you might want to do that, but why are your reasons for doing it?
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Yes, the remaining part is a hurdle, but hopefully not a very big one. The interface will always be slower, but hopefully you won't have to interact with it much (you almost never do with scipy). We have a cunning plan on how to make the numpy interface faster though, stay tuned [To recap: generic-cpython-extension-border-crossing will always be slower, btu maybe we can do hacks for numpy]
Why is Canonical bothering with the distribution of a binary ZFS module when building it via DKMS at install-time is already very simple (although, admittedly, time-consuming)? Their minimum system requirements, which gives the live environment plenty of resources to support compiling a kernel module, already weed out systems incapable of running ZFS. I just don't understand why Canonical's willing to take the risk of a successful copyright infringement suit involving the next Ubuntu release.
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Turing Robotics  Sets Up Shop in Finland Amid Global Security Concerns
All true, but irrelevant. No-one is putting their life on the line for "shareholder value". Your cow-orker isn't going to take a bullet for you either. And whiteboarding a red-black tree is nothing like waterboarding in SERE...
This is a really interesting hypothesis.
You could this for your own libraries, but I would strongly recommend against doing this for a public lib if you want traction (e.g. if you are making a bunch of SDKs for your APIs) - in this case you should publish your lib in the most popular language(s) for the platform(s) you are targeting.
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He addressed that. Discovery is broken on most app stores
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Years ago I was like Richard Stallman is totally crazy!, saying stuff like don't post my pictures on Facebook and such. Today his fear is really really justifiable...
The case is very much a about a phone. The case has implications for other phones, but the most direct point is about hacking one specific terrorist's phone.
Early Nest investor Rob Coneybeer: VR and robotics are next big opportunities
'Redspread' is a very interesting name, is there a story behind it?
To me it would make sense to go airline by airline (or datasource by datasource as long as they're tied to something users will understand), do the full integration, then advertise which airlines you support. Then you could guarantee a good experience for every officially supported airline. Additionally, as you do this you're building tech that is super valuable (sounds like only 2 other people have done it?).

Real estate data is similarly messy and though we have a small engineering team (3 full-time programmers), we decided to roll our own data integrations with each of the MLS systems we connect to. For us, it came down to the fact that we could provide a better user experience this way (faster, more complete listing data) and that it fits with our approach to product development. Rather than using a data middleman to turn on 50% listing coverage across the entire US, we pick a city or region and piece together all of the listing sources so that when we go live in that region we have extremely high coverage. We then only advertise to users in those areas.
The larger statement is that civilian teams are focusing on optimistic futures to create value and military teams are focusing on horrible realities to mitigate loss. The team configurations for those two things I think should be radically different.

We become dystopian when we apply the ultimately violent tactics of the military to the creation based goals of civilians.
Reading the article, its clear that won't ever happen. The data sources are expensive.
I'd be very surprised if running the database to store that information is the major cost for running the service, and at any rate I'd say your pricing should be a good match for the value you provide to customers, not your costs for providing that value.

I've been considering using your service for a while and it would be useful for us, but I couldn't justify paying what it'd cost us to use it.
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As someone that just published a book through that process, they don't actually care about the content or what it is that your book is about. They're just reviewing it to make sure that there aren't any glaring formatting errors that will cause it to print poorly or make their final product look bad.

They check the DPIs of images, margins, and technical things like that. Absolutely no regard is given for content, and this, IMHO, is exactly how it should be. Self-publishing empowers authors. Sometimes we get junk like 50 Shades of Grey and other times we get gems like The Martian.
Hey thank you! So right now Spread supports deploying multiple containers in a single deployment. We want to let Kubernetes be Kubernetes as much as possible, so scaling deployments up/down (I assume autoscaling is what you meant!) is actually coming out in 1.2 - with a release date of March 7!
He's a member of their board of directors and for a time was even the head of it. The board has more control than even the CEO so it's safe to say Gates is speaking for the company.
I agree that the lack of a clear "no pages matched your query" is large part of the problem. And as your phrasing indicates, it's also worth distinguishing between "not in their index" and "doesn't exist on the web". Google has a very large corpus, but doesn't include everything.

But the odd part here (and in line with original post) is that there are pages in Google's index that include both terms: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7169461?start=0&tstart=.... It's just that they don't start until 40 or so results in.

Searching in Verbatim mode without other modifiers seems to create the response that the original post wants:
https://www.google.com/search?q=deluge.app+retina&tbs=li:1