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I'm curious how people do this at scale. If many administrators/devops build custom nginx for production servers, how isn't that already a security risk for most of them? In such a case, using Gentoo, where everything is fully automated and built from source, ready for deployment on servers, seems like an easier time to have. Or a similar solution for that matter. I've done this in the past with Debian stable plus custom build of a critical network service package, and you're basically playing mini distro builder every month or so. pkgsrc, nix, bsd ports, gentoo all seem like the more natural solution rather than everybody doing the same work of upgrading a build recipe for a newer upstream release and hopefully getting a working package out of it. There's also the problem that you have to tell the package database to treat your custom package differently or name it differently so that you won't get official distro packages installed accidentally.
MindCube: A DIY prototype game. Think, focus and move the Cube!
MindCube is an interactive game with 2 players that move a Cube against each other, using only their minds!Each player wears a headset that captures EEG (ElectroEncephaloGram) waves such as beta, gamma, alpha, theta waves etc. EEG brain signals from each player are analyzed indicating the one with the strongest brain activity. http://mindcubegame.com/
"Angolan’s pirates are learning how to organize online, they’re learning how to cover their tracks, they are learning how to direct people toward information and how to hide and share files. Many of these skills are the same ones that would come in handy for a dissident or a protestor or an activist."

I'm sure breaking and stealing cars is a valuable skill for an activist in the US.
A concrete example of this is if someone stops by your area to ask a "quick question" then culturing an environment where an answer of, "Why don't you bring that up in the global chat so everyone can contribute?", is welcomed rather than brushed off as being unfriendly.
For Hacker News, there's |noprocrast| on my profile page.

But generally, engaging work works better than anything else.
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What's the progress on the End-to-End tool? What's the progress on making Hangouts end-to-end encrypted for that matter?

I feel that these improvements, while useful, are a sideshow to stop privacy enthusiasts from switching to better encrypted services or tools, while Google (and Microsoft, and Yahoo) continues to mine all of your private conversations for advertising purposes.
This has always been a good resource to see who the front runners are: http://www.solvedns.com/dns-comparison/
They were (one of?) the first serious quant fund, started by James Simon who before that was a math professor at Stony Brook. Along with the NSA they are one of the most aggressive non-academic would be employers of top notch math Phds. They also hire Phds in physics and statistics. The big draw isn't so much the salary as the ability to invest in Medallion.

If you take some of the smartest people in the world and have them intensely focus on making money via trading you get Renaissance. Everyone can't do it because there are only so many some of the smartest people in the world intensely interested in making money via trading to go around.
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Tomb Raider Go is a mobile-first title. It's Tomb Raider meets Monument Valley.
This seems like much ado about nothing.

I certainly appreciate the effort is better than nothing, however, how often are those notices served to US/European citizens? It's one thing to stand up to government overreach in foreign countries, but how about the country where you (and a large percentage of your users) reside? They specify attackers, but I'm assuming this notice to the end user does not apply to the US/EU governments requesting your data and them complying?

Another gripe I have is that TLS has probably been broken by the NSA^1. It's better than nothing to alert us about the other party not using it, but really provides limited protection. PGP/GPG is really the only assurance you have and the plugins for different desktop apps are nearly always buggy. I end up just manually encrypting/decrypting with GPG because a buggy encryption integration is not a comforting thought. If they really cared about keeping your privacy safe, they'd have an end-to-end encryption tool/integration.

[1]: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/12/how-does-nsa...
My rule of thumb: anything that sounds too good to be true usually is.
It's almost as if these "just-so" stories don't have any actual predictive power.
It's not about Western mores, it's about people stealing other peoples stuff. I'm sure stealing in Angola is not tolerated, stealing from these "pirates" would make them angry.
This is exactly the thinking of the average Joe who goes to invest on the bourse and gets slaughtered. The github example is especially apt. Go to Vegas. Better odds.
This is not an academic panel, this is hacker news! I think on average the culture here tries to avoid wholly opinion based discussion. You don't need to collect formal evidence to leave your comment, but substantiated claims sure will be more popular than unsubstantiated ones.
This is real easy in Java:

private DayOfWeek getDayOfWeek(int year, int month, int day) {
return LocalDate.of(year, month, day).getDayOfWeek();
}

@Test
public void getDayOfWeekTest() {
assertEquals(DayOfWeek.FRIDAY, getDayOfWeek(2016, 3, 25));
}

It's a built-in function in Java 8. Under the hood, one can see what it's doing is converting the given date to an `EpochDay`, taking the `floorMod` of that by 7, and then returning the index of the DayOfWeek enum. Basically:

public enum DayOfWeek { MONDAY, TUESDAY... }

int dow0 = (int)Math.floorMod(toEpochDay() + 3, 7);
return ENUMS[dayOfWeek - 1];
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Ask HN: Is forming a company in UK a good option for a non-US resident
I'm looking to form a foreign company because where I live (Eastern Europe) it's much more feasible and legal to just do that compared to charging customers online as a domestic entity.

I'm wondering if it's a good idea to register in UK or maybe Estonia for a small business selling a software product licenses and SaaS subscriptions online. No employees or any physical presence in the EU .

I'm mostly choosing between UK and the US. I've read a lot about US LLC formation and it certainly has it's strengths, but I fear US tax and overall legal compliance issues. And the lawyers are super expensive. And travelling there is expensive. I'm also not going to seek outside investment which would otherwise be a major benefit of a US company.

From what I see on the web though it looks much cheaper and easier to form a UK limited company. Except for getting a UK bank account, which I could instead do in Latvia or Estonia. But this would limit online payment processing options although I'm sure there should still be some.

Have someone been in a similar position and went for UK incorporation? What has been your experience? There's really lack of information regarding this topic on the web, compared to US-based incorporation.

particularly interesting is practical experience with things like:

- what UK taxes do you owe as a non-EU resident member of a UK company on salary (besides the obvious 20% of company income)
- can you deduct your salary from company's taxable income?
- are there any legal complications from a small software business perspective or is everything simple and transparent
- downsides; why would one rather choose a US business entity (or some other jurisdiction)
- am I overlooking some important considerations?

I know I should talk to a UK lawyer regarding legal and tax compliance, and I will, but I'd very much appreciate to hear any thoughts from this community first so that I have at least some clue.
I always had my suspicions that this guy didn't have a clue what he was talking about...
Bjarne did hint at the possibly of moving the standardization process from every 3 years to 2 years so I suppose there could be a C++19.
For Academic Purpose, I guess :p
I'ma contractor (long term) and I have other clients, so it's on my own dime, but it is also a tax write-off. I couldn't go back to working from home again. I did that for 7 years and I nearly went bonkers.
I heard it's gonna suck. Ha ha!

Ah well in all seriousness I have a few of their products and they are really good.
Indeed, it's surprising that there is no sign of end-to-end encryption on Hangouts, while the competition (with marketshare) is getting there. iMessage had end-to-end encryption since the beginning. Whatsapp has end-to-end encryption on Android based on TextSecure (though it is still hard to see whether it's active). Telegram has support, though it's not the default.

In the meanwhile, Apple also has encrypted notes, phones that are encrypted by default, etc.

Google seems to focus purely on transport security.
They could just create 'share.wikipedia.org' and make that available so everyone can go there to share/distribute whatever files they want using a secret token they put in their FB group instead of hiding them in Wikipedia articles. No need to clean up articles anymore. With a nice retention policy to automatically expire old content it could actually work :)
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10352704
Nothing but a basic glossary and contact info harvesting form - I kept waiting for the actual technical content.
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That they want to exclude environmental factors does not mean "pick an arbitrary universe".
If this is important to you, and it's a noble goal, I suggest you go to Africa, build a startup and give those Angolans free internet access. Accusing others of not making their business free is not the way to go.
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I work remote most of the time and so do almost all of my colleagues. But I think you've highlighted an important issue here. White-boarding!!!

No communication tool comes close to a human drawing pictures to explain complex concepts - a picture is worth a thousand words.

What I did is invest in a Wacom tablet (I do not work for Wacom) to be able to explain and draw to people I'm on calls with. It takes a bit getting used to but definitely makes my meetings much more productive.

From a technology standpoint I'm surprised there isn't a better integrated experience to mimic the actual whiteboard that can be shared across several people on a conference call with a digital pen.
Everything old is new again. In the 90s it was the fashion to disdain the "worm" logotype and concerted efforts were made to remove it from NASA facilities. In all my time on various NASA facilities I only saw the worm logotype on a few old stickers marking NASA property, some old technical reports, and on some nameplates of facilities. A shame, really, because as this standards manual shows, the logotype and its surrounding typography were very well considered.
1:

> Presumably, you can make this more efficient by pipelining the process, using multiple sets of flash chips, so that a new fresh set can be swapped in within a few seconds, but it still takes a couple minutes for the iPhone to reboot.

2:

> Can an iPhone even reboot 100,000 times? Nobody knows.

The author seems to be well aware of both of those points. Besides they're not saying that it can't work, just that they don't know for certain that it will work.
@alistairSH is right about taking time for chitchat. I think of it as an investment in a relationship, like any other. Be interested in the other people and what they're passionate about in their lives. Share some of yourself as well. Sending an occasional article or image the other person might be specifically interested in takes very little time, but if it's of quality and a great fit for them it's a nice building block.
Isn't absolutely all taxonomies created by just a bunch of people getting together and deciding what should be classified as what?
We have an Electrolux full size battery powered vacuum and not having to deal with the lead is the change which had been most effective in getting us to clean more. It's also great for cleaning the car (especially as our model can be changed from an upright to a cylinder vacuum).
they should just file the DMCA take down requests. instead they say 'we're too nice for that' and complain in a blog post... meh.
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"Disorder"...Dis-order...I think the word used is telling
That's a different problem; it doesn't take year/month/day, but InternalTicks (and, nitpicking, doesn't appear to handle leap seconds, an issue that doesn't exist for functions taking ymd as input)
The development on the end-to-end extension seems to be relatively slow if you look at the commit log.

Does anyone with more inside information know what is going on with it? Does it have dedicated team members or is this just an internal side project for a couple people?
I reserve flags for things which manifestly shouldn't be on HN. If it's something I would simply prefer lower on the page, waiting a while generally suffices.
Also BDSM, polyamory and others.

The former is no longer a mental illness in of itself since it formed the basis of a popular movie. (Said representation was piss poor, but the point stands.)
Even this won't load for me. The browser still says it is waiting on the source webserver.
I'm pretty much the same as you. My main client is in the UK and they are a solutions provider. At the beginning I was due to move away from the area local to the company. I made the suggestion that we try the remote working and if it didn't work for either party, we'd call it a day. That was 2004.

The most important part is trust. People know I'm sitting at my desk working and checking in code, because they can see me/call me on slack or Skype and they can see a steady stream of code check-ins nd build server and JIRA tickets being closed off. Never take the piss, always be completely honest and upfront with your time and be respectful. I can't think of any other advice I can give over that, apart from that you should definitely try to work from a coworking space rather than from home!
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If they had end-to-end encryption, then Google wouldn't be able to read the emails; meaning to gain value, Google would have to charge for the service.
Bitkeeper was first among the DVCS's, but Linus had a hand in its design. McVoy intentionally designed something to fit the (decentralised) Linux development process. The adoption of Bitkeeper for Linux and subsequent discussions gave rise to the cambrian explosion of Arch(/TLA/Bzr), Monotone, Darcs etc in the early 00s.

The famous two weeks time off to write git was many years later, when tridge finally forced his hand to do it. I don't think it's quite right to say git was a vote against anything else (except maybe against C++, which would bring some maintenance problems in the kernel community).
I would be interested in seeing some screenshots and preferably more details. Looks promising, though. Good work!
I don't know, I found "Secretary" to be quite all right. Isn't that the big movie with the lawyer named Grey that everybody was talking about last year? :-)
I use the free edition of Autodesk's SketchBook pro, with a Wacom tablet. This is for teaching, not remote work.
> If this was really true, I can't imagine why anyone with multiple options to work elsewhere would tolerate his BS.

But one of the article's major points is that they left in droves.

(Additional tangential comment: my Nest Cam, my first and last purchase of something they make, totally sucks.)
I suppose it's early days, but I was surprised that what you see in this VR is limited to what your monitor(s) can display. I would expect a VR UI would be its own "monitor" output, similar to how a PDF printer is its own printer. What I mostly saw in the video was two monitors (active areas) in a 360 degree field of essentially nothing.

Not to belittle, it's cool, but it's not enough to make me want it.
Neither mutual funds nor hedge funds as a whole can match a low fee index like Vanguard. Of course there are individual outliers that outperform, but predicting which funds will win in the future is no easier than picking individual securities that will win in the future.

It's becoming pretty clear that Buffett will win his 10-year bet that the Vanguard would beat what Protege Partners thought were the five best hedge funds.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/16/warren-buffett-slips-but-stil...

How many hundreds of millions will those five funds have earned for themselves while not beating the market?
Quite interesting. Do you know why credit card fraud was a bigger issue elsewhere in the world and not in the US?
It's an implied promise when someone announces they are adapting some beloved work that there will be some level of faithfulness to the source material. That is why many people pay to see it, and they have a right to be disappointed when that promise is unfulfilled. No it is not required or even possible for it to be 100% faithful, but it's ridiculous to say an adaptation should not be compared to the original. "Don't act offended by this movie of bacon cooking that is my adaptation of Casablanca. What did you expect it be exactly the same?"
This is exactly how we work at my job currently. We use pull requests and each programmer picks a task and goes on his way. When it's done, it's submitted to the other programmer for review (we have two full time). Most communication happens in chat and pull requests and we rarely have meetings other than the daily scrum-like sync up meeting (which is tolerable). Most tasks are half a day to a day (except larger tasks) so the turnaround is quick in case something was misunderstood. I think this process could easily scale to more developers as long as they are independent and able to work by themselves most of the time, unsupervised. That doesn't mean they have to be senior, only that they are disciplined and won't get stuck on easy problems.
> It's on thing to stand up to government overreach in foreign countries, but how about the country where you (and a large percentage of your users) reside?

I'm not sure I catch your drift. Users in any country may get targeted by governments of any country. You might say that governments should be allow to do whatever they like to their own citizens, but in this day and age, that's hardly an easy distinction to make.
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> Mitochondria are purely a maternal gift. Sperm do not pass them on; only a mother’s egg does.

Some species' sperm do pass mitochondria successfully. Human sperm passes mitochondrial dna, but the egg kills it off.
Nobody (really, a vanishing small percentage of the total number of people who use online services) uses PGP because it's a user interface disaster.
Would anyone else find this tiring though? I feel like I am omitting the use of basic communication skills in favor of something less than ideal.

I guess I am just not a huge fan of remote work in general though, so I have a hard time coming around to the idea that quick questions must go through a chat at all times.
I guess you could be sued as the owner (along the same line as being the owner of a newspaper promoting racial hate)
It'll be interesting to see what the new equilibrium settles out to as more and more people index. It's pretty obvious everyone can't index and as more people do, there are more opportunities for smart money. But what form is that smart money going to mostly take? Large institutional investors -- pension funds, charitable endowments, sovereign wealth funds, etc. -- either investing directly or via outside money managers? Partnership style hedge funds? Family offices for ultra high net worth individuals? Or will the mass market long only mutual fund make a comeback?
from tay.io:

> Tay is targeted at 18 to 24 year old in the US.
Is that approach a common one in better mutation tools? I've never had an opportunity to use one, unfortunately, I've only used ones that worked by modifying source code over and over. It seems much more effective than repeated compilation.
>often accredited to Peter Thiel

Only in Silicon Valley would people give Peter Thiel credit for an concept that's been around for 150 years of investing.

>maybe buying Github stock if it IPO's wouldn't be so bad.

Maybe? That doesn't sound very certain, and demonstrates how difficult it is to pick these things in advance. Do you know, or not?

I mean, it's all well and good to look back at some ideas that were good investments, in hindsight. Do you not think armies of people are trying to find "good" ideas that no one knows about? How many good ideas went nowhere?
I worked as the lighting guy at a large outdoor amphitheater as a teenager in the 90's. We had four fog machines. Take all the problems mentioned in the article, and add wind.

Everything lighting in the show we had preprogrammed before the show season. The only decisions I made during each night's show were when to go to the next look. Except for the fog - I ran the fog machines manualy from faders on my control board. It was one of my favorite parts of the show because required on the spot, improvisational artistry.
Shouldn't minecraft be replaced with 'pixelated' ... its really got nothing to do with minecraft has it?
Wow I didn't know that existed! Thanks
How does privacy.com ensure you have the funds to pay for the transaction? How do they deal with chargebacks and disputes?
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>You are free to support unethical behavior. Don't expect people to like you.

You sound like you've got a real issue with people liking you ,with all the projecting you do. Perhaps it's because you operate on stupid heuristics, like: "enjoys freemium games: is detestable".

You should do something about that. Life would improve, and you wouldn't have to go around technology based message boards, like an 8 year-old, telling people you don't know "no one likes you".
Quick question, what's to stop someone from reimplementing, say "float: right" to also spin up a banner ad? That is, this sounds great in principal but much like Microsoft's Tay taught us, the internet is full of *-holes.
It's amazing that a demo company has even a whiff of a chance of getting away with this.
LMAO what a fucking strawman. At least try to not be disingenuous from the get go
You're right. Governments of any country could target any user. My point was, they make a point of saying "attackers" which is not synonymous with the data they release due to government requests (which is likely a more worrisome concern).

They're alerting you of "attacks" to obtain your data, but not necessarily government requests for your data.
Right, because people are so frequently sent for forced "re-education" when they hold unpopular opinions.
They could mine for keywords on the client. They'd not need to store those against who you are sending the message to. It would be less intrusive than is the case now, but not as secure as then knowing nothing about what you're sending. Where would draft emails be stored in an end to end encrypted system? They'd need to store the information on their servers in a way that they can recover it for subsequent editing.
No, they were forced to implement it, as the copyright holder did not want to discuss with google every time. They wanted the right to shoot first, then ask.
And yet Vegas is massively appealing to the other 99.9% of people.
For most people you're right. But that seems like just the type of challenge a billion dollar company could tackle. :)