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C:\program files(x86)\

is where 32 bit programs go on Windows. Just like fstab goes in \etc on Linux. Generally, putting program files elsewhere winds up being a user managed pain in the ass at best and breaking dependencies at worst...by which I mean that eventually a user winds up with some program that won't run from K:\my programs\, if you don't believe me, well here's an example.
If its shown to be ineffective what is the point exactly?
> Anyway, they can't do that, since the ACA has mandated that insurers spend at least 80 or 85% of premiums on health care costs since 2012.

That part of the law is particularly terrible. It directly incentivizes keeping costs high as the profit of the insurer is a fixed (says max but that means exactly 15%) percentage of the gross. It's in their interests to have the price of everything go up!
Order to compel Apple to assist FBI has been stayed
Believe or not, a lot of programs today still do that.
Ask HN: What's the best platform for E-Commerce?
I'm a MEAN stack developer and also knows Wordpress. What's the most cost effective way to start selling things online? Should I just buy a domain and install Wordpress/WooCommerce or is it worth building it in-house and do my payment integration? Anything else?

Given that I want to have control over UI/UX.
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No they won't, if you write something that is of interest as the sites rules ask you. This touches on the more fundamental problem is that a tiny snippet from an old article is likely not of great intellectual interest as the comments in this thread show.
Format oracles against compressed protocols are actually already a thing, so, yes, this attack is a pretty useful outline of attacks against other protocols.

The underlying problem here is unauthenticated encryption (or, MAC-then-encrypt constructions, which, when it comes to adaptive chosen ciphertext attacks, are often morally the same thing). Unauthenticated encryption is a game-over flaw, probably no matter what the rest of the protocol does.
To me, closely following the standards for Windows means less code and in particular less code that introduces edge cases for the sake of edge cases.
While I'd like to keep games on an SSD and get those fast load times, you can only fit so many 40GB installs on a 128GB drive. Especially if you use the computer for anything else.

Frequently played or smallish games I keep installed on the boot drive, but plenty of them get bumped to the data drive. It's either that or uninstalling them.
Peter Theil regularly uses lack of aerospace innovation as a yardstick for slowing progress in Technology all the time[0].

He'd pretty much have to at least take the meeting.

[0] One example is the end of the future oped he wrote. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/278758/end-future-pete...
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The effect of Grove's talent was only made obvious when he retired and the company started to drift seriously sideways with their forays into VLIW and stupidly deep instruction pipelines. His ability to steer a company through what was perpetual chaos against relentless competitors is almost unparalleled.

They didn't have it easy like Microsoft did where they were virtually the only game in town. They almost lost their position to AMD on more than one occasion, and were under constant pressure from Motorola, IBM, Sun, MIPS, DEC, and others all intent on capturing a dominant position in the highly lucrative desktop and server markets.

Where hard drive makers would have a few years of glory before burning out or getting folded into another company, and where few CPU manufacturers had the talent to survive more than a decade, Intel not only popularized the CPU, but kept a near strangle-hold on the market for over two decades. They're still number one by a number of key metrics even with the increasing pressure from ARM.

Few companies from the Intel era in the 1970s have survived intact. The only one I can think of is Seagate out of hundreds from that era.

I doubt few will ever measure up to Grove in terms of impact.
To how many products does this article apply? Only super huge platform products, like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Dropbox and Uber, right? Perhaps 2 or 3 high-business services. Google services have super limited APIs, Airbnb has none, WhatsApp has none. All other APIs are unmonetizable.
What, your inalienable right to be provided with a platform by a private company is being infringed?
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> it was "Put one foot in front of the other and make progress against the goal now." kind of focus.

i am finding in my own startup that this is the only way progress is made. you just keep going, if at all possible.
I think there used to be some gangly red steel sculpture down by the lake that you could spot. I haven't sailed past there in years, though.
One of the reasons I left Intel for Sun was that Intel had just realized that "lots of people" making x86 chips was a bad thing for their control of the market. There were no less than 6 suppliers of 8086 chips. But with the 80286 and the 80386 it became clear that "owning the processor" so that they could claim a big chunk of the profit on every PC sold was very very important to the company. That strategy, while unpopular with the technical community, worked out very well for Intel.

Andy was a driving force behind that shift, his view that "only the paranoid survive" was that you had to believe everyone was out to get you in order to avoid surprises from your "friends." And as much as I hate to admit it, he was correct in that view.
I can confirm this is true, because YC staff members have explained to me that they bring in a small group of investors to mentor -- and because founders have confirmed it.

This is something I talked about on This Week in Startups, and frankly I think it has something to do with my "ban."
The X-Y Problem
Short answer:

You are misreading history by a mile.

My Grandfather actually was one of the first people to participate in one of these full section deals in the late 40s and early 50s in Dorchester and Southie in Boston on behalf of the family company and family trust. he also was one of the first of his family to go to college - for accounting, courtesy of the GI bill, post ww2.

2 things pushed these deals together

1) almost all the buyers were becoming/were middle class blacks/on their way, courtesy of the GI bill/backwages of ww2 and Korea. Southie wasn't redlined, and they went through friends of friends to buy in order to become landlords, not to live there.
2)As part of housing shortage/great society issues, section 8 was introduced, and a number of buildings involved were going to be zoned/legally obliged to take and early version of section 8.

Group 1 didn't run the numbers very closely, my grandfather did. The buildings would have become effectively slumlord properties. My grandfather wanted no part of that. He also assumed the following:

Surrounding 1-2 family house prices would start to drop as the rumor mill started to fly.

Which would buy him time to move.

That prediction proved to pretty much be true with the passing of multiple laws in the 60s surrounding housing and the creation of HUD/expansion of the FHA.

As a result, my father actually spent the first 2 years of his life in Southie/Dorchester before his family moved to Milton.

The primary buyers my grandfather sold to did not hold onto the property for very long, for obvious reasons. People like Anna, especially if they were first wave buyers, did not feel like they were dispossessing anyone since at the time it wasn't clear if these sorts of housing acts were going to pass/what was going to happen involving integration (which was happening roughly towards the end of the 60s). At best, from what I can tell it was about starting to join and integrate into the country, not dispossession.
Randall Munroe, XKCD Creator, Goes Back to High School
I'm not making any argument why drug use should be illegal. I'm making an argument for why the public should be entitled to decide whether drug use is legal or illegal. I also think, given your examples, the public should also be entitled to decide whether alcohol should be illegal.
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I think your last sentence covers all the other points.
Wow.same, I worked in building 5 in 1997 - I recall "going pee next to Andy many times" - other than this interaction with him I didn't really talk to him much.

I recall asking the question then "why can't we stack cores on top of each other" and being told by very senior engineers how stupid that idea was...

Working at Intel was actually the golden age of my gaming experience; I worked in the game development lab and played video games to test SIMD extensions 18 hours a day.

I recall going out to a balcony in SC5 and having a cigarette, there was some person from finance there, and after chatting with him for a bit I asked why he was working so late; he was trying to figure out how to recode the finance system to add additional spaces to the finance DB to allow for the many billions they had in the bank. Apparently the fields were initially set too short to handle the numbers as large as they were dealing with...

Andy was an incredible person.
Mozilla laying off part of Connected Devices team after death of Firefox phones
"Maybe it was just a different time."

Ellison's 200 million dollar house set on 23 acres, suggests that selective memory might be playing a role.
Yea, I know the history. The point being that Intel buying say Compaq would obviously allow them to claim Compaq's profits instead, and maybe eventually driving all other PC makers out of business (by the low margins) instead of making the same undifferentiable "beige boxes".
It was a software thing. Here's the story of how it came to be:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Boot_Beep.txt
thanks Sonny! It's been a pleasure working with you as well... So nice to see so many founders give details of what it's like in the launchincubator.co
What is the alternative available to Apple, or any other technology company, when given a valid warrant for someone's data that isn't blatantly ignoring the law? I'm honestly not sure what you are suggesting.

Apple has already given them Farook's iCloud backups, just not recent ones since they don't exist. If Alice was murdered, and Bob was circumstantially implicated, but had an iPhone that had some kind of data recorded that placed him at the time and location of the murder, what law exists for Apple to protect Bob's data if that data was uploaded to Apple for backup purposes?
I've certainly seen great slabs of code that have clearly been copied from somewhere, perhaps not Stackoverflow.

Unless there is some type of reference, you have no idea of what is going on or why...
It sucks that we live in a world where people decide whether to translate a game into a language, making it accessible for a country, based on how many people from that country will steal it.
The only required fields are job title and base pay. Round your pay and fudge the title a bit. Only add the other info that won't ID you, slightly changing details as you go (round numbers, nearest metro area, etc)
I'm curious what HN thinks about the author's point that drug-distribution is state-controlled. I agree---capitalism only works in arenas where the actors act (decently) rationally, and would-be markets where a significant portion of consumption is by addicts doesn't meet that test.

I'm also curious if anyone thinks such a end-game is politically possible in the US. Or is the profit motive + mistrust of government the only coalition capable of out-hustling our puritan tendencies politically?
How Sophisticated Test Scams from China Are Making Their Way into the U.S
iPhone SE first look: 2012 meets 2016
> My parents did it and they never made half that. Put my brother and I through college with no financial aid. In-state, but still....

I don't necessarily disagree but what time frame are we talking about? Because even 10 years ago state was massively cheaper than private, particularly the upper private schools.

If your parents made 70k and put you two through state, I'd assume they either saved an incredible amount or were paying somewhere around 10k/year. Perhaps I'm wrong, just guessing.

But I think you can do the math on 10k expense on 70k income versus 50k expense versus 150k income (as incomes haven't improved in a very long time).
I think empathy is a major factor in making life intrinsically valuable.

It's like saying companies shouldn't worry about the bottom line. If you don't worry about the bottom lime, everyone at work would be a lot more relaxed, there will be less layoffs, longer lunch times, more perks, salary etc, making working life more pleasant.

But the point of having a company is to have a bottom line.
That should have been a good hint to not use Godaddy
It helps that soylent itself was invented by a trendy, hipster, software engineer.
Yeah but you are getting 50:1 difference in energy density between hydrocarbon fuel and battery. Also, vertical takeoff is extremely inefficient because a wing can generate a lot of lift compared to drag. this in addition to the fact that a vertical lift system is only used during take off and landing while being dead weight the rest of the trip.

even elon can't override physics
I just want to point out that lots of HN recently has been saying "Apple would NEVER deal with the FBI, there's too much risk of a leak!".. and yet, with the example of what happened to Manning, Snowden (ETC) -- would you, with a 6 figure salary, want to tell the world of misdeeds when you could toil away comfortably?

"So obvious no one will ever notice"

Apple removed their warrant canary about a year ago timed with press releases about "revamping their privacy policy for better security and user happiness" and a bunch of marketing bullshit. What I saw was the guarantees that they had done everything they could to protect your data was gone, replaced by "we'll follow the law" AKA they will screw you over willingly if they need to.

---

Also, the FBI is NOT dumb. "Poor legal council" was mentioned in this thread. With their budget, why would you not assume they have Grade AAA legal council?

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11332377
Could somebody explain this?

"No guarantee of storage. DalmatinerDB offers a 'best effort' on storing the metrics"

https://github.com/dalmatinerdb/dalmatinerdb#no-guarantee-of...
I hear the next big trade is shorting student debt. Maybe they should go for that.
It's nice, but it could've been done in software. In fact I've used that on my iPhones since probably 2013/2014.
If we ban drugs, I think it should also apply to jackasse or daredevils. People (including children) should not climb tall trees or scale the Brooklyn Bridge with no reason. Why should anyone get subsidized medical care (and it is subsidized even if they pay for it) for falling off a tree that they had no business climbing? In the same train of thought, maybe we ought to close down all amusement parks and only allow people to drive to work or to go buy groceries. People driving or riding the bus puts them at risk of accidents and society suffers from these accidents.
As long as facing right direction. Its just one example and actually quite good - I would keep initially the ticket inside of the case, so it would come close to magnet anyways.
For a dose of reality, I recommend browsing r/piracy. The mental gymnastics people go through to justify their actions is mind boggling.
Sorry but this is just not true. Steam, Origin, UPlay, and just about every other gaming marketplace allows you to install the gaming library anywhere you went. Heck steam allows you to straight up and move the steam folder anywhere, delete everything but the games and the steam.exe and it will repair itself.
Andy Grove dies at 79
> The purpose of research universities is to engage in scientific research, not to educate people.

Shouldn't Yale be kicking everyone's butt here, then? Yale engineering ranks a paltry number 38, with quite a few publics far ahead of it.
The whole "but criminals use it" is a complete straw man. Yet you can see most people fall for it, over and over again.

If we had a totally cashless society, you would see a level of white collar financial and banking crime that would make 2008 seem like a picnic.

Anyone who is not convinced that the banking elite are the top criminals needs to watch this very recent documentary:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHgbRYgpGGs
A very powerful book that changed my opinion.
Same thing with Chrome on a Mac. Firefox on a Mac worked.

Which is weird, Chrome is far more mainstream than Firefox these days.
it means the transport is UDP and there's no ack on write
Seems irrelevant, it's some district in China and ruins the warranty. Doesn't seem like a good solution at all.
I guess I don't understand why Twitter is considered in decline. More simply put, what exactly were people expecting from Twitter that it hasn't achieved?

They have:

- 100+ Million daily active users

- 1.3 Billion registered users

- Growing revenue: 710M Q4 2015 (+230M YTD)

- //EDIT:$11B Market Cap (-3B/21% since IPO)

- Active and engaged community

What am I missing here?

[1]http://expandedramblings.com/index.php/march-2013-by-the-num...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/10/twitters-user-growth-goes-n...

[3] https://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:TWTR

//EDIT: I read the graph incorrectly from their IPO document. In that case it makes more sense that people would be worried
On the House side (and I imagine it's relatively the same with the Senate), the Clerk administers the system and the Ethics committee acts (or at least, talks about) on complaints and violations:

https://fd.house.gov/FAQ.aspx

> Q. Can I still file on paper or is it mandatory to file the FD and PTR forms electronically?

> The electronic filing system is voluntary, but strongly recommended by the Committee on Ethics. You are still required to file, you just have the option of choosing to file on paper or via the online reporting application. The paper forms can be found here: Disclosure Forms.

Given that just enforcing the deadline is hard enough, I imagine the Clerk is just happy when things get turned in, regardless of the format (and let's face it, it's not hard to imagine Congressmembers complaining about having technical problems with the web form):

http://www.rollcall.com/218/financial-disclosure-deadline-co...

If the process of filing seems annoying to you...you probably don't want to know how good they are at filing accurate reports :)

http://fortune.com/2015/12/14/senator-corker-financial-discl...
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Now's a good time to announce the end of the black bar.
Anything that is not a war on a state or group of people reduces to a war on physics and/or math.
really interesting article!
Oh god. They basically just took Go and added unnecessary parenthesis. This is the worst way to make Go LISP-like.
Well here's the rub, I work as a teacher, which is one of the most highly unionised workforces. I feel deeply sorry when I hear about the awful state of employment (in the US in particular). At will employment, 'unlimited' PTO, healthcare tied to employment etc. It's just so dehumanising and hostile. Doubly baffling is the average Joe's seeming distaste for unions.

Here's a sample of the conditions I can enjoy as a teacher here in Australia

$100k salary with guaranteed yearly increases that outpace inflation (this year was a 2.5% increase while inflation is at around 1.6%)

Guilt free, no questions asked sick leave.

Work-life balance. It was trivial for me to apply for part-time work. I now only work Mon-Thu.

Union-led, rolling negotiations for improved pay, working conditions, reductions to work hours etc.

It's the closest thing to a worker's paradise I can think of short of a post work, robot singularity.

Obviously not every profession is subsidized by the government like teaching and therefore can't, by extension, remain competitive while also being so worker friendly.

Even if you're not lucky enough to have such amazing conditions let's all at least call a spade a spade. Things like unlimited PTO are just ways to screw the little guy.
Is the "Bring to you by RedBeardLab" intentional or something?
Benchling (YC S12) is building a hub for life science research
It's a beautiful phone. The iPhone 5 case is IMHO some of Apple's finest design work. The thing I didn't like about it was its glossy chamfered edges. They were very easily scratched, attracted fingerprints, etc. Those awful edges were done away with. This is truly a remarkable phone.
Intel was my first job out of college not all that long ago. I met Andy very briefly at an event through the company and was incredibly impressed (and intimidated obviously). My experience of Intel had its ups and downs but I always had the utmost respect for those who came before me and laid tracks for an industry and company that changed the world. The loss of Andy, while inevitable, is profoundly sad.
The Amazing Career of a Pioneer Capitalist
To start, perhaps a positive earnings per share?

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/twtr/revenue-eps
How is Python running on the web?
They have more single letter domains available then they list on that page. I thought about buying b.school, so clicked on it and came to a page that also listed b.rock and a few others.

I would've made the purchase and squatted on it, but it's 559 renewal a year which I can't handle.

Edit: mods should change the title of this submission to match the page.
Yes, I worked at a company that developed that for SanDisk. It was pretty nice but requires that extension you mention. I was hoping SanDisk would develop a cover that included the extension and an SD card slot after the project ended.
Startup Culture illustrated
Why does this have to be a scam?

Financing a public wifi hotspot by running advertisement is common thru-out the world.

Hong Kong has some of the cheapest and fastest internet/mobile network on the planet. Using the same business model with mobile data is a logical evolution.
I think it's acceptable data loss because "It Probably Works" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSlPU5Nrvds
Aarrggh. Will this never end? Hopefully the recent backing off by the FBI will quell the problem for a while.
z0a: Maybe specify that salary/comp should be in USD? Right now most of them are, but it's a little unclear which currency the non-US companies are in.

(Alternatively currency could be specified, but... probably more work)
Hah yeah my buddy David who built his yachts said to me that Ellison decided that his $220mm yacht wasn't big enough, so he wanted to sell it for a $400mm yacht...

Now he has a 600mm fucking island of the STATE of Hawaii!!
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A long time ago, I read Ender's Game, and a key point of that fictional story is that empathy is not about showing compassion, just a common byproduct. Empathy is about understanding, and in the context of software development, we need it all the time.

Imagine coming into a new codebase, and seeing what you believe are hacks and idiosyncracies everywhere. With empathy, you can get into the mindset of the original coder and begin to see why X is done in a certain way, or even be able to guess how they imagined you'd be using their framework without any documentation to lead you along.

It's extremely useful to understand someone, their situation, and their reasoning without them at hand to explain it for you. It's empathy... but without the obvious compassionate outlet of excusing what they've done.
Just because we have not found an airtight reason to draw a line at a particular spot, does not mean that there should be no line.
Jonathan Blow on Software Quality
Variable mp3's, smaller and higher quality.
How could MIT sustainably afford to make tuition free? Genuine question. That's a pretty bold assertion.