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Make everyone work from chrome books....they will learn how to remote real quick even when they are in the office.
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CamelCamelCamel. Amazon only, though – and who knows if they'll be shut down too under this policy.
Misleading headline this project is nowhere close to project of the week and it's not even trending. Even if it was I wouldn't touch Oracle crapware with a ten foot pole.
>You can set up a side channel between your own devices to sync that history.

Then

1. Some device would need to be logged in and online (not always true)

2. You'd need a way to authenticate the new device, which means not only do you need the other device on, but you need it close when first setting it up, and you'd need to manually transfer keys or something of similar bandwidth

3.Either all history would need to transfer, which is a bandwidth hog if history is large (although if device is close then you could transfer over Wifi direct or bluetooth or something), or that other device would need to kept online whenever I want to query history (currently, Google serves this function)

4. If you lose a device, there's no recovery (this is probably the main reason Google won't do it.)

If you really want it, there are apps that do E2E and support Google Talk. See https://chatsecure.org/
YC partner Aaron Harris had a similar problem with his first startup[1], and is a lesson for all startups:

It's risky to rely on one customer for the majority of your revenue.

90% of PriceZombie's revenue was dependent on affiliate revenue, and thus Amazon. Similarly, virtually all of TutorSpree's revenue was dependent on SEO, and thus on Google, and when Google changed their algorithm, they saw a similar fate.

[1] http://www.aaronkharris.com/when-seo-fails-single-channel-de...
What does the average user do when they forget their passphrase? (Which they will do constantly.)

How do you determine the keys associated with the people you wish to communicate with? (The web of trust and going to key-signing parties are about a thousand miles from 'everything just works'.)
Sanders describes campaign finance reform as a return to democracy as opposed to the oligarchy we currently live in; I'd suspect this is what he's referring to.

"reclaiming power" is essentially a paraphrase of his entire campaign if you take his "millionaires and billionaires" analysis to be accurate.
Feel bad for them really. But this is a classic example of the risk you undertake running a business where you core depends on a third party. It is astonishing that they lost 90% of their business just due to amazon closing their affiliate account.
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You can't tell that sort of stuff to a psychiatrist/psychologist!
agreed. but (at my current job anyway), i'm paid to put a smile on my CTO's face each day, not make a decent product. very, very different goals.
I get the same general feeling, and I try not to be too paranoid about it.

I think it has a lot to do with the instrumentality capitalism wants from its participants -- and we seem to want to use science to make us better cogs rather than better humans. Its a pretty old idea stemming from the industrial revolution -- it just seems that today we're more 'loosely coupled' into the system which gives us just enough of an illusion of freedom. e.g. you can choose a job, but you can't choose not to have a job, you can speak freely, but you'll be monitored etc.

Because of this I have recently had a resurgence of volunteerism and religious soul seeking. I've found it refreshing that these two arenas seek earnestly to humanize through giving.
SlickDeals developed something similar but my understanding is that Amazon "asked" them to kill it or severely cripple it. Amazon's got a big stick and isn't afraid to weild it.l here.
Sanders is literally running on a campaign to reclaim power from the wealthiest to everyone else.
That's why USB Kill programs [1] important.

[1] https://github.com/hephaest0s/usbkill
Honestly I'm (selfishly) kind of glad that they're shutting down, as awful as that is. I browse Reddit a lot and the fact that every single time somebody posted a product, there would always be a PriceZombie bot commenting bugged me to no end.
There is a difference between the value of information and the price of that information.

Using value to determine undercompensation ignores that markets work on price, and often things of low intrinsic value are priced higher than others with high intrinsic value.

An encyclopedia with broad coverage clearly has greater intrinsic value than a Star Wars Blu-ray, yet the market has priced Star Wars Blu-rays as more expensive.
Is the Pardot signup for Beta broken? I've filled in info, but it keeps telling me it'll redirect me to put in more info. I've not received a verification or anything.
Imagine three populations of desert plants. One survives by growing longer roots and storing more water. Another has roots that can extract water from dryer soil. The third is adapted by breathing during the night and losing less water.

It's obvious how a sexual plant that is able to obtain the beneficial mutations from the other two populations would gain a major and immediate advanage.
This is beautiful and clearly very useful. Some thoughts:

* Business-wise, your main risk is that GitHub agrees how useful this is and builds much of the same features. In a sense, GitHub can improve in this manner, by taking the best features of external services and implementing them directly.

* The killer app here would be if you can integrate this into an IDE. In other words, the annotations are great for code-review, but not just code-review. In general they are essentially better comments. Wouldn't it be great if I saw those annotations whilst coding? I understand that it's not as if you personally could create plug-ins for all existing IDEs. But could you have an API to make that possible for third-parties to author said plug-ins?

* Integrated with code-analysis software could make for a very pleasing automated-code-review service. For example, with Python you could annotate the source with the output of pylint. Obviously, I'm not suggesting that this replaces manual code-review, just that it would be a nice addition. I mean you already have the automated annotations highlighting where a line was affected by a pull-request.

* The tour was really nice, but whenever I was asked to "go ahead and click on the annotation" this did not really work, mostly it just advanced the tour. On that note, it would be good if the tour suggested how far was to go.
Move on. In my experience, as a patient, most in the profession are nuts.

During the aughts, I was labeled a "sweaty paranoid kook", in the local press, for daring to explain our loss of privacy.

I get the denial. The truth is scary, uncomfortable. The arcana is difficult to grasp for non-geeks. But it's not for a care provider to nark on their patients.
> Deafness is also an interesting discussion because there are deaf communities now, so a reasonable change in environment is possible.

Not only that, but the "traditional" way of "treating" the Deaf was to force them to learn to vocalise, and to forbid them from learning sign language. The reasoning being that they should integrate with regular society as much as possible, and this was the best way to ensure that. Of course, in reality it is like forcing blind people to communicate exclusively via pictionary. Luckily this has been changing for a while now.
This sucks, but unfortunately is something that is not unlikely to happen when one's whole service is hosted or relies on a third party API for its data. I recall something similar happening with a service that relied on the Google Maps API to draw coordinates or something. And Google pulled API access because the service was too similar to what Google Maps did with trip directions, or something.

Unfortunately this is a reality of basing, or largely basing, a whole service off of a third party.
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What did you expect, going to a psychiatrist? They are drones programmed to tell you something, anything, about what's "wrong with you." Because of course if you're going to a psychiatrist something must be wrong with you.

If she said "nope you're perfectly fine," you would never come back!

Psychiatrists are disturbingly incentivized to overdiagnose.
Can you create this a self hosted application? Then Amazon can't really track this ( i suppose).

They should suddenly start tracking thousands of affliates and you could earn some money from it :) ( i suppose)

Eg. Something like https://sendy.co/ , i believe they earn plenty of money also :p
It depends on whether you want to "disrupt" or to earn a living yourself.
Simple: By hosting email for other people. /s

But yes, sharing training data (or trained networks) between people is the best solution.
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Having left the Army just as the awful ACUs were being phased in, I have to wonder which politicians and/or general officers got their palms greased for that to have become the uniform pattern.
While we're at nicking stuff from Go using generators, our latest effort is adding defer in bluebird :)

https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/issues/1014

Its almost done [1], we just want to also support auto-disposable objects so that you don't even need to clean them up with defer.

[1]: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/commit/f944db753ff2...
I dont get whats going on. I never used batch tho and this command looks nonsensical to me, can someone explain?
Technically they already have proven their value in the Darden foods (Olive Garden, etc.) Presendation where they clean sweept the management in the proxy fight http://www.shareholderforum.com/dri/Library/20140911_Starboa...
If you target IE, sure. But that's hardly a fault with CSS.
>"That's an interesting take on it. "

You say that like it's novel...

It's been the almost universally accepted opinion in philosophy for the last 100 years or more that post-Enlightenment man is Nihilist because he denies his traditional narratives. It's the big story of the 20th century. Everything from Nazism and WW2, to the divorce rate has been blamed on it... Where have you been?
I've found that very helpful. Otherwise, I feel like I'm gambling when I buy something on Amazon. I could be getting the lowest price, or the highest. Amazon's price games are the worst (I know all stores do that to some extent, but Amazon's price swings are much bigger.. +-75% anecdotally)
Active management is an overpriced, tough to beat affair, but if enough people invest passively, active management will regain the upper hand.

Indexers herd, they reduce liquidity, they push up prices of stocks in the index, they increase volatility, initially smaller/less liquid stocks have prices pushed around irrationally, then bigger stocks. It starts to pay to do private equity, buy out cheap stocks, IPO them, get them back into the index universe, and sell them back to the indexers.

Indexing is not a silver bullet, it's one strategy in a Nash-like equilibrium. Too much active investing, passive can match them at a lower cost and win...too much passive investing, mispricing arises and active investors can exploit passive investors.

https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2016/02/02/active-in...
> And voila, we've just implemented a query optimizer. It will fetch all issue owners with a single query. If we add an SQL parser into the mix, it should be possible to rewrite real SQL queries.

Maybe my sarcasm detector is off but is this really being presented as a reasonable solution to the problem discussed in the article?
Shouldn't this service be marketed to credit card companies instead of credit card users? If I get a fraudulent charge on my credit card I can just dispute it and have it removed. What value do I get with privacy.com that I don't already have that is worth the extra fees I have to pay?
The core issue here is that there is no included standard package in Javascript. It happened because Javascript did not have authoritative implementation when it first began. Next ECMA should require to pack some batteries in to avoid this micro-module hell.
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I am a backend engineer with almost 3 years experience. I work in Java. I feel that I am not growing as a developer.
What are things I can do which will level up my skills? I also feel need of brushing up my knowledge about networking, compilers and OS; please share some good resources about them, if you know those.
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For what it's worth, programmers do not have the tools to perfectly handle the complexity of human language. It's a hard problem.
There's another way of reading it, which is that code generation will become sufficiently advanced that a huge number of the high-paying software engineering jobs that exist today become things that people can do with very little training.

It's not so much that you can take informal descriptions and turn them into software, but more that the software can be built by anyone with a few months of training, thus driving down salaries to a point where mere coding is no longer a white collar job.

That doesn't seem impossible, but the reason for its unliklihood is far more subtle.
Can't you just block the bot if it bugged you? There are several bots I block, but that's not one of them.
Awesome! The interface is great, I always found it the best option for looking into ruby source code. Wishing you guys success with your endeavors.
I don't know if is a RES feature or not but you can hover over a name and click "Ignore"
What happens if you lose control of your private key? How do you ensure the recipient keeps up to date with which keys have been revoked? Isn't it a risk that unless you keep changing keys you're at risk of someone getting your private key and having access to every message you've ever received?
Since when does being good at math or programming preclude social skills? That comment in the article gave me a terribly anti-intellectual vibe.

Basically everything will be drag-and-drop interfaces in the future, no mention of who is going to maintain those interfaces or extend them, apparently that will be drag and drop too. I think the rice of fancy visual interfaces have so far made programming more important, and I don't see that trend decreasing in the next generation.
It seems kind of extreme to shut down based on that. Wouldn't the technology be useful for other uses? I'd imagine that some would pay for that kind of historical data.
Keepa (Amazon only).
Conversations.im [1] fulfils the same purpose, has the same features, also is open source, is on F-Droid, and looks better.

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[1] https://conversations.im/
threatofrain is explaining, not defending.
And if you are naming kids and want to save them a lot of bureaucracy in their lives, give them short names.

I think it depends. Sometimes it's helpful to give them names that are just long enough to make their identities unique, so when they apply for police clearances, for example, they are not mistaken for similarly-named people with criminal records, or even nasty reputations.
it sucked anyways they always had high prices
Chrome extension for scraping and affiliate link placement?
There should be an entire college course dedicated to all the various "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Xxxx" lists. I've seen so much horribly bad code that's supposed do handle times, dates, names, addresses, etc. The spec says "Store the user's name in the database" and the programmer simply allocates a string for First Name and a string for Last Name and calls it a day. What's needed is good unit tests and a corpus of test names that exercise as many edge cases as possible.
We're still hard at work, working on getting it in consumers hands shortly.
The law is different for non residents.

So a lawyer which specialized in this is defiantly recomended.
Bots are the worst kind of comments on reddit threads, after the ones posted by people.
Even so, they could provide the option, which probably no more than 1-2% of the users would ever use - those who actually need their privacy to be protected, while the rest probably "won't care".

Leave it up to the users to decide whether they want to use end-to-end encryption despite a potential spam problem. It's also not like people couldn't use multiple email addresses.
The idea now is to standardize features that have already been implemented and well tested. This is one of the reasons why they want to delay adoption of concepts. When it is finally approved, all major compilers will have support.
I submitted this story at the same time as another one, which is more timely and arguably more relevant:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11358724

This story was linked from that one.
To be fair, it's mostly an attempt to classify and not "invent." A large part of this is trying to understand things that genuinely bother people, e.g. visual and auditory hallucinations, anxiety, suicidal thoughts. Why wouldn't you want some naming convention so that clinicians can have a conversation about it? But of course there are abuses as well, like your example of homosexuality, though it don't think that's the same as something like schizophrenia, which is a horrible experience regardless of what society calls it.
The other big difference is prepaid vs credit, which while nuanced, unlocks a ton of other functionality on any payments product.
I pay for Google Drive where my Google Photos are stored. They probably still mine my data, I'm sure.
That's... quite literally what they do. So. At least if you're crazy you have friends there. :)
He wrote a lot, but it's very clear what his principles in this case are. To be constructive, other experts should either point to the principles with which they disagree or if they do agree point to the errors in his use of them.
This is a good point. In particular what happens if you fork a repository, do you lose the meta-data? What happens if you have a fork for coordination of a sub-team, are the pull-request annotations created on that fork also available with the main repository once it is merged in?
This is what happens when you rely totally on third party and then when you grow you ,company will be closed either by a buyout or legal termination.
If your stuck just to different things. Learn a new language or start project out of your scope. There is always something new to learn in IT, but it really comes down to your interests.
Both the statements in quotes are true.
Unfortunately loadable modules in nginx still suck. Instead of having an ABI like apache does, nginx relies on signature checking for each module. This means that your modules still need to be built at the same time you build your nginx binary. If you decide later on you want to add a new module, you still need to rebuild nginx.

Its so frustrating because it really introduces a lot of operational costs to an otherwise excellent piece of software. It was the most surprising thing about nginx since Apache has had loadable modules for a long time.

There was some discussion about this when 1.9.11 was released that suggested that loadable modules wouldn't even be all that beneficial to package mantainers[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067664
I think once you realize the vast majority of authorities preach contribution and submission while merely taking for themselves -- you begin to see everyone around you who submits to them as a bit insane. This becomes really hard to rectify until you can figure out an equilibrium of physical submission to a unjust authority without psychological submission.
The NASA book actually just went on sale (pre-order) to be shipped May 3: https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...
The thing is there are other websites giving that historical data away for free. Their affiliate accounts haven't been shut down (yet?).

So PriceZombie just can't compete. Makes me kind of wonder if they were just the "top" website doing this, and so they suffered from too much success.
I think you overestimate how many of us agree with you.
I'm not sure I understand the question. Are you suggesting that someone might use this tech to bypass adblockers by integrating ads into a CSS property? Or is it something else?
Then they should work on something better - the same way they worked on this new STS standard.

I think Adam Langley has already started such a project, but it's only been a "spare-time" project:

https://github.com/agl/pond
Because the only possible way for a creator of information to survive off said creation is to use extremely invasive state institutions to compel the population into giving them a perpetual monopoly on distribution of said information.

There are plenty of ways to seek compensation for the creation of information, with only a minute subset of them requiring copyright monopoly to function.
If you're interested in this type of stuff, they are about to do another print run of these in early May.
https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...
What about the inevitable repairs on a used car? I find that I spend another 1000/yr on things that break in my car because it is off-warranty. Also, gas prices are more like 2.80 to 3.50 here in Seattle, historically.
Looks like the book is now on pre-order at:

https://standardsmanual.com/products/nasa-graphics-standards...

Shipping May 3, 2016.
Why not the Cayman Islands? I was involved years ago in a 'distributed company' (US, Colombia, Brazil) that was offering a service to the Portuguese-speaking world (Brazil, Portugal) and we were registered in the Caymans.

Things worked out pretty well and the only trouble I had relative to the administration was that my name was on some paperwork that went to vendors and I'd sometimes get calls from vendors who would ask "Is this some kind of scam?" and then I would rattle off a list of well-known names that have important subsidiaries in the Caymans.

Luxembourg seems to be the flag of convenience for the EU, just as Delaware is here in the US, although Delaware puts you smack dab in the middle of FATCA land.
Author here. I created this because the filebased cache backend that ships with Django is really broken for caches with more than 1,000 keys. The design of DiskCache is based on SQLite and the filesystem which is a pretty solid combination. Frequent cache reads are stored in shared memory-mapped files while remaining thread and process safe. That makes lookups faster than networked options like memcached and redis.
Could you please elaborate why you think it's important to be registered in the U
S to market to US companies?

What are the types of markets/customers sensitive to the place of incorporation of their software/SaaS vendor?

I will not try to save money at the expense of the business, but I don't want to spend without understanding why it's necessary.
No, it would be a private good that was subsidized.

Something is a public good if it's not possible (or extremely difficult) to exclude non-payers from receiving it (as well as being rivalrous). The subway just doesn't qualify - turnstiles exist.

Public goods aren't just the absence of things. Basic research, public art, and similar things would be public goods. Or going back to my previous example, roads in a country where gas/odometer taxes are impossible to collect would be a public good.

Why do people have such a strong desire to attach the word "public good" to things which are rivalrous and excludible?