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I'm not interested in a gun debate (besides, gun regulation works fairly well almost everywhere in the world, but drug regulation doesn't). This topic, however, is about encryption.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11259392
There have been development studios not owned by major publishers with a couple hundred people (not many left today), these were never called 'indies', at most 'independent studios'. The term 'indie' was always only used for very small teams or single developers.
I would only wish. Search is hopelessly broken in the App Store.
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So Obama is pro civil liberties, but hey, you want to compromise now, because as soon as a(nother) big thing happens (9/11), Congress will come in and do whatever it pleases to do an end around any privacy concerns. The scary thing is that privacy is not one of the 'inalienable' rights in the Constitution, and it needs to be built up in the Bill of Rights via interpretation of the various amendments, the ninth being the general blanket one here. I don't get it; this is the work-issued phone they are fighting over. It's been said before. The terrorists destroyed their personal phones, not their work phones. If this isn't a power play by the government and law enforcement, in light of that fact, then how do you rationalize this President Obama?
>> Your calculator does have a representation of arithmetic too. It's those bits is
moves around in registers, which are very much isomorphic to the relevant
arithmetic.

Hm. Strictly speaking I believe my pocket calculator has an FPGA, a
general-purpose architecture that in my calculator happens to be programmed for
arithmetic, specifically. So I think it's accurate for me to say that, although
the calculator has a program and that program certainly is a representation of
arithmetic, I have to provide the interpretation of the program and reify the
representation as arithmetic.

In other words, the program is a representation of arithmetic to me, not to the calculator. The calculator might as well be programmed to randomly beep, and it wouldn't have any way to know the difference.

(But that'd be a cruel thing to do to the poor calculator).
Native german speaker here, thinking the other way around: if it is one thing, why would you want to use more than one word to name it?
No, in an ideal world companies would stop making cheap, untested consumer shit that degrades after a few weeks uptime (looking at you, TP-Link). Luckily products unlike these exist, but not many might know about them, so this is a completely unnecessary product (hilariously overpriced as well) profitting from the ignorance of end users...
trained to a particular voice ~= trained to a user's preferences!
> thinkpad has removed BIOS whitelist.

Wait, what. Link please?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270529

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11270745
Different problem.

To summarize: many consumer level routers tend to lock up due to firmware bugs, hardware defects, or overheating. Because they're closed devices, the solution is usually power off/power on & let the restart clear up any issues and restore proper wifi functionality. This device ingeniously automates that step.
Absolutist view on Obama cannot prevail.
Absolutist view on WWII cannot prevail.
Absolutist view on current world order cannot prevail.

Continue?

Though absolutist view on our privacy, digital included, MUST prevail.
This is really nice with a very good much to common JS patterns. Among other things it types the usage of string literals making possible to typecheck and refactor code that contains if (foo === 'bar').
> Consider that, as it is now, encrypted data on the Internet traverses numerous untrusted devices

And those untrusted devices leak considerable amounts of that data! You know that it doesn't matter how good the encryption is if one of the computers in the chain is full of malware.

I genuinely don't understand the point you're making, especially in reference to this parent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271745

For your OTP example: I know what the cipher text is. I slurped that. I don't know what the key is, or the plain text is, until you decrypt it, at which point I know both because I have access to your memory because your computer is compromised.
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>> what is your gauge for superhuman if not some type of competition?

To be honest- I don't have one. My intuition is that we can't have a good definition of "superhuman intelligence" because having one would require us to demonstrate superhuman intelligence ourselves. Which is obviously a contradiction.
There was a brief period - after the App Store opened, but before people had really figured out how to write good apps - where an indie dev could just put up a new app and expect sales on novelty alone.

Those days are OVER.

It's fairly appropriate that App Store apps are sold through iTunes - because the issue facing indie developers is exactly the same as the one facing indie musicians. If you don't have a massive promotional budget to drive traffic to your new thing, you'll need to get better at online promotion & connecting with your customers.

It's still an improvement over the indie software ecosystem of twenty years ago, where either you were big enough to get shelf space for a boxed product (good luck!) or you were hoping enough people would get tired of the nag screen and pay the shareware fee...
"Im Sitzen Pinkelnder" would definitely be less catchy.
While the wiki article still reads as _The filesystem disk format is no longer unstable_ https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page, Linus changed that to _is not suitable for any uses other than benchmarking and review. The Btrfs disk format is not yet finalized_ https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
And get paid millions.
I think the same. I don't understand the react hype. Yes, it is easy to learn but it doesn't even have basic features such as routing.
Maybe I am more a framework guy but I think on such a basic level of software development a framework does better than a fragmented ecosystem.
Not according to the jargon file

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html#id3141241
Yahoo has still some good assets. But they are killing them left and right. If Yahoo wants to survive as company, not just as Alibaba stock asset, they need a CEO who understands the entertainment, portal, advertisement and search business - after all that's Yahoo. The dumbest decision was to kill their search engine in 2009. It had the second largest market share back then. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Search ) At least the open sourced Hadoop and Traffic server survived.
There is an asymmetry. And they take historical legacy seriously.

If you spend trillions of dollars and erode fundamental freedoms to protect people in the aftermath of 9/11, the worst kind of objective case is you were maybe a bit misguided but your heart was in the right place and terrorism like 9/11 was unprecedented... Maybe it will cost too much, but nobody cares about the costs any more.

If you dismantle the security apparatus and there is any notable terrorism, you are history's goat. Plus don't forget how many people are paid through that system.

Plus, I find it difficult to really know where the public opinion is on this kind of stuff. The "no compromise" abortion position is becoming a bit more fringe and as such, politicians will say stuff to pander to the fringe but they typically don't act on it. Encryption and mass surveillance might be a big deal to "fringes"
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Honest question: I am a bit concerned about 1080p resolution on a 13" screen. Isn't too small to read ? Or do most people just increase the rendering quality (à la retina) ?
Actually, anybody does not know what is it ;) but many paople think that webassembly will kill JS.
"I have kids to feed" was used to justify many atrocities throughout history.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11268273
D-Link routers are the worst for this. About every 2 weeks it would require a set. I found ASUS to be way more reliable.
1. The majority of the time, encryption is used for legal, positive reasons, like protecting your bank info or medical info. Guns, on the other hand, there's no argument for: just look at the data from the UK. Even the police are better off without guns.

2. This might be true for guns, but who cares?

3. In the age of tanks, machine guns, and grenades, consumer guns don't enable us to overthrow unjust governments as they did when the bill of rights was written. As such, they no longer play a role in protecting our civil rights. If anything, gun rights are frequently a talking point for Right-wing politicians who happily trample over all of our other civil liberties. As a political force, the pro-gun politics is actively harming our civil liberties.

4. Looking at the data, I don't see how your can argue this. In the US guns are used more in suicide or commission of a crime than in self-defense. In the UK, near-universal bans on guns have lead to a drastic decrease in gun deaths.
>it is much less productive

My annecdotal evidence differs. I miss a lot of university class because I find either the pace or the content lacking, in which case I just read the book and go to exams. It takes me way less time and I usually learn a lot more.
Personally? I'd give her three months to come up with a plan and tell everyone about it.

For some reason I don't run the world.
Need 3 more years to really sink this ship.
'it' being Fintech? Which type of Fintech product do you think does what you state?
This should be a HN feature. Ability to submit TL;DRs to a post in a way similar to commenting. An option to always show the top voted TL;DR, and a link to dive in to other interpretations.

A wiki-style service for TL;DRs could work too.
I have a 14" 1080p screen. I put everything to 125% (like font sizes, etc.) It's okay. My eyes are very good at short distances so I don't mind things being small. But yes, Windows 7 does not have enough scaling options to make higher resolutions on smaller screens work. With Windows 10 it is no problem though. With Ubuntu it also shouldn't be a problem. Yes, you do increase rendering quality, but not by much. You can still see individual pixels. But any higher pixel density probably wouldn't be useful, considering the small visual benefits and the higher CPU and GPU and thus battery demands.
I don't think it's the fact that it's buttonless that make my new non-button pad non-crap, I think it's the fact that they aimed for the quality (and part cost) of the MBP trackpad that makes it also achieve that kind of quality feel.
Is she willing to take $1 pay and get rest of her compensation in stock options that expire 5 years from now?

How much is she willing to invest in Yahoo stock or stock futures by herself?

If I were in the Yahoo board, those would be my first questions. Best way to test her commitment and trust for her own strategy is to see how much she is willing to bet her own money on it.
Why is HN obsessed with Yahoo ? See for example :

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11013507

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121796
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That text snippet has been there since 2009 when the file was added to the kernel tree, unchanged, so I don't get what your point is? Nothing has been "switched" or changed, it rather looks like a case of "forgot to change the file to match current policy".
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-st...
"Just three more years and it will all be OK!"

This sounds familiar.
Is she selling Yahoo in pounds?

Milligrams?
Decriminalization of consumption seems to be the worst of all worlds for countries that are struggling with violence associated with the drug trade. Decriminalization generally removes (limited) controls on market demand, while continuing to criminalize the distribution. If you're going to decriminalize the consumption, there needs to be some mechanism of legal distribution.
Not following. How do "web technologies" not suffer from similar issues to what the author describes?
“Student” comes from Latin “studens”, which grammatically is exactly the same as “studierend” (Partizip I in German / Present Active Participle in Latin). The difference in meaning is random.
It would be nice if AlphaGo emitted the estimated probability of it winning every time a move is made. I wonder what this curve looks like. I would imagine mistakes by the human opponent would give nice little jumps in the curve. If the commentary is correct, we would expect very high probability 40-60 minutes into the game. Perhaps something crushing, like 99,9%
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Anyone else feel like a rebranding of the company should be considered?
> But, no one has a right to a living.

On the contrary, I think that should be a basic human right.
But hey. Communism.

In this context though, the devs should change their strategy.
A neat idea but why not take that $60 and buy a router that didn't require resetting. They do exist. My Asus router just never needs reset. I have it on an ups unit and the only time it is reset is to do firmware upgrades.
I have read the book this article is referring to. Contrary to the raving reviews on Amazon, I wasn't that impressed by it. I imagine that it is a great book for those coming from dynamically typed languages, but if you already know C, for example, the book is probably way too verbose for you.
Haha damn you swedish autocorrect. I noticed and edited while you commented and now your remark just looks silly :)

Here is a new word to compensate: Smörgåstårta
Nothing to do with yahoo. Mayer failing makes hn happy.

Wonder why?
> Do people actually read docs any longer?
No. People only read headlines that WebAssembly is replacement for JS ;)
all the auto-complete stuff in atom.
Her answers were very trump like "some things have gone well, some things haven't gone well, some things have grown faster than expected, some have gone slower"
"Have we made big bets? Yes we've made some big bets"

No real insight into changes that are coming up, just really empty answers.
The management, the talent may have infinite problems and might have contributed to Yahoo's demise but I don't think solving any of them would give it a magical upswing. There is no way it can get turnaround without nailing down a product that everyone wants. Frankly, I don't see that happening in near future, considering that all the previous efforts including acquisition of Tumblr haven't really contributed much.
Here in Ukraine, we have the same problem. If you publicly don't agree with the government's policy of tightening the nuts, you may face a prison term under any fabricated accusations, including "work for russian spies". Because "extremism" word isn't fashionable here since 2013-2014, all true Ukrainian patriots now get called "kremlin agents" by our corrupt government.
Direct link to the books website: http://www.gopl.io/
Watching this felt like watching a funeral where the commentary was the eulogy.
Exactly, because obviously 3d printed objects are not, in fact, physical objects that require physical ammunition and that can be treated like any other physical object, right? Right?!
Yahoo has already transitioned into being a niche advertising and media company. That's not necessarily a problem, but Yahoo still fancies itself as big tech player and that hasn't been the case for over a decade. It may make sense for Yahoo to try and become a better media and advertising company, but Marissa Mayer is surely not the best choice of CEO for that kind of company. I'm not even saying she's a bad CEO, just that she is not an appropriate choice for the kind of company that Yahoo has become. I don't see how 3 more years with her at the helm can result anything other than an extension of Yahoo's long skid into mediocrity.
I second both the observation about TP-Link and the existence of products that have no market in an ideal world. And TP-link really cannot have excuse as OpenWRT on their hardware is more stable, so by producing custom software they wasting money.
less battery life? i don't have an x1, but a x240 and doing the same things i get twice the battery of the last mbp i used when new.

edit: but i used a different os, which could explain that too.
Thanks a lot for the link!
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>If you're selling into an enterprise, then sales cycles are always long.

The point OP is trying to make is that in financials even selling to consumers has a really long sales cycle, since people are understandably leery about just handing over their finances to a random startup that didn't even exist a couple of years ago.
This idea really seem to touch a nerve: https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comments/4a149n/mymmo_a...
In case of TP-Link routers in crowded WiFi space that would be 15 mintes.
Your grip becomes much weaker.
> What is our purpose if computers can do everything better than us?

Use the computers to engineer ourselves to "superhuman" capabilities.
At least in the case of AlphaGo it was pretty clear that it was dominating the board early on.
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Viewing such images risks increasing the production of more of them. Even if that risk is small or unproven the majority doesn't want to gamble.
Yahoo is one of the oldest Internet companies. It's the first portal / search engine that some of us used on a regular basis. So it has a place in our hearts.

It also pre-dates the era of gender hysteria and other assorted identity politics brought to tech by social justice warriors.

Happier times.
The comments identifying the parts that Cluetrain got "wrong" and the ones stating it "failed" prove only one thing to me...

TCM didn't fail, we did. All of the Cluetrain Manifesto could have been "right," and might have "succeeded" if we hadn't let the centralized and antiquated powers that be have their way.

TCM wasn't meant to be a solution, it was meant to point out (very early on) something we all know...

When a truly groundbreaking idea like the Internet comes along, there will always be power structures and people who want to turn it into a tool to further centralize and increase their power.

So, we failed. The book did its job, or we wouldn't be discussing how "wrong" it is today.
For half the price you could buy a Raspberry Pi that just runs a simple watchdog program doing the internet connectivity check. Upon a problem, it could connect to your modem's web admin page and launch a restart from there.
Actually, I'd like to know why.
I don't. A re-branding would feel empty and solve no underlying problems. Their brand also has significant value, despite their struggles.

What they need is a new product.
No one has a right to make other people pretend their app is worth paying for. Just take your dole and keep the line moving, comrade.
> Of course, a cat is not conscious.

Why do you believe this? I don't like cats, but I wouldn't argue that they're not conscious.

Instead of debating the suitcase word "conscious", let me ask:
1) Do you believe that toddlers are conscious?
2) Is there a more precise way to state your belief that doesn't use the word "conscious"?
Because the Messiah complex is finally dying?
Needs a middleware abstraction layer.
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I was rooting for her. So much so I bought gobs of Yahoo stock when Marissa got the job. The stock didn't do too bad but when it was apparent she wasn't able to save the company I sold it for a profit. Still hoping she can turn Yahoo around. It's a really iconic company.
ahh.. my mistake. it has not happened for all laptops. the /r/thinkpad threads on t450s coming without bios whitelists were what i was banking on.
Why? And I wonder if a sizeable (say, more than 10%) of the posters are actually happy about this.
I've never had a problem with TP-Link over about the last ten years and 3 modem/routers. I have heard lots of other people complaining about them though.
Thank you for a balanced view. R studio is a great piece of software, and the command line also deserves respect.
If theirs is a drive-by misrepresentation, yours is a sycophancy and an adulation.

The argument from bad people is a false one, largely because bad people are people and hence do everything that people in general do. As a result, it can be applied to anything. If it's a universally valid point for the prohibition of anything, then it is cognitively meaningless.

Nor is it all absurd to believe that a ruler is ambivalent over their subjects. Why would such a thing be absurd? The state and political power are not instrumentalist concepts. We must apply behavioral symmetry to all power elites.

(It's also amusing to see "incomplete information" brought up again. That's the same pseudohistory used to justify Iraq in retrospect.)
Unwieldy is in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

As a native speaker, I definitely prefer "Parkraumbewirtschaftungszone" over "Zone bewirtschafteten Parkraumes", "Zone, in welcher Raum zum Parken bewirtschaftet wird".

The example may show that once you start chopping up a long word, you tend to end up with a pile of messy inflections and possessive pronouns.

In English, you might say something like "paid parking area", but I'd argue that would carry less meaning.
High frequency trading would be one for me.
How are you supposed to find out which ones don't?
> I believe a key to home automation is the automation part. If I have to control it manually, it's by definition not automated.

Yup, this.

I built an automated heating system. It does all the right things at the right times. I never touch it; it has some graphs if I want to see what it's doing.

The shoddy consumer systems all have manual control and an app, because you just spent all that money, you want the warm fuzzy feeling of having an app to fiddle with.

Marketing is why everything has to be networked.
Thanks. Will need to learn what auto-tweeting is.
> I don't agree with that, but it's not an unreasonable view to hold.

Given that Obama chose not to conduct an independent investigation into 9/11 or prosecute the folks involved, it's actually a pretty unreasonable opinion to hold.
I wrote a review of this book at InfoQ earlier this year:

http://www.infoq.com/articles/the-go-programming-language-bo...

There's a free chapter available from the book's website http://gopl.io which should give you an idea of what the rest of the book is like. The intro goes into a little bit too much detail but if you gloss over that the remaining chapters are pretty else detailed. There are some nuggets distributed through the book but you could easily gloss over them if you were skim reading it, such as learning that exported identifiers begin with an upper case letter and those that are private are lower case.
I haven't looked into it, but is there data if the Steam curator feature actually has a noticeable impact? Do people who didn't follow reviewers before on other media now suddenly do via Steam? Are they now more influenced by their favorite reviewers than before?
I had a lot of faith in Mayer's turn around. Do I think she needs more time? Yes. Do I think she can do it in more time? I'm skeptical now. Will the board, that she created, try to keep her accountable like you're saying? I hope so.

I'm skeptical. It seems AOL/Armstrong really wanted to merge to become a new Yahoo. I'm curious on how Yahoo will pivot, with the time. FB, SnapChat, Instagram, Twitter, and Google are fighting for mobile ad revenue. It's my understanding that's how Yahoo is trying to reinvent itself. Might be too little, too late.