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The iOS app (last I used it, 1-2 months ago) was trash as well. Constant issues with buffering, no offline, crashing all the time. I use Mixcloud exclusively now and while it doesn't have offline either it works 1000x better and has more of what I really want.
Or that someone else involved with TrueCrypt feared he would.
Are you I? :)
> I've heard, in the same day, "Rust has the worst error messages" and "Rust has the best error messages".

Which probably means there's a steep learning curve to them, but they are really useful and informative after that initial learning period is over. If so, tread carefully lest you ruin the latter by catering to much to the former problem.
The _representation of sex on film_ was different in the 50s and the 90s. The act of sex was largely identical.
Correct. Spotify has an optimistic scheduler that sometimes swings under 2hours for point to point ingestions.
Google Play is fast too.

I'd love to find out more about user adoption of all this players in about 6 months.
As you correctly point out the next big technical challenge is having a unified delivery system (without any additional cuts, so no aggregators pls).
Huh, I have Frontier fios, near Redmond, and it's been up and down for the last day or so.
That isn't a NASA policy, that is the law about works by government employees.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_status_of_work_by_th...

This is actually reflected in the copyright agreements at every major journal. See, for instance, Form B at the ACS journals.

http://pubs.acs.org/page/copyright/journals/index.html

The difference is in whom the employer is. If you are employed by a university doing work on a government grant, you are not a federal employee, so the work is copyrighted.
No, there is not much cross-pollination between science agencies and the military agencies. When I was in astronomy one of the professors in my department was on the committee to figure out what to do with the old telescopes that the NRO donated to NASA. From what he said, no one in the astronomy community had any idea that these telescopes existed and they learned about them from the New York Times, just like everybody else.

It has turned out to have put the astronomy community in a bit of an awkward position. Although the telescopes are free, they still need to be outfitted with appropriate instruments, and, of course, launched into space. Each of those projects costs roughly as much as the telescope itself, so the donation really only covers ~1/3 of the total cost of putting a working telescope in space. Unfortunately, the community just doesn't have the budget to do that. Furthermore, the telescopes aren't really ideal for astronomy since they were designed to look down rather than up. (That is, they are designed to focus on relatively nearby objects rather than on objects "at infinity.") But politically we can't turn the telescopes down, since that projects a bad image to Congress. Beggars can't be choosers, after all, so we have to look grateful while we try to scrape together the funds to get something useful out of them.
Any additional technical requirements lead to more work (or less quality), and progressive enhancement is obviously a technical requirement. I think this is obvious if you think of even the most basic web interaction: form submission.

With progressive enhancement, you have to have one form submission that doesn't use AJAX, which means it POSTs to the server and the server accepts the POST and replies with a fully-formed HTML document. Then, because you want to delight your users with animations and a responsive low-latency feel, you have an AJAX version of the form, which posts to the server and receives a JSON response for client-side template rendering. You can share some code between these two, but because rendering the whole page requires completely different data from rendering just the component you are updating, there is a bunch of conditional code.

You essentially have to build two models of your application, one on the server side which knows the state of your application (is this modal open, is this widget showing, have they collapsed this widget) and one on the client side that separately maintains all the same state and has transitions between them that will result in identical html. It has to be this way, otherwise your UI is not going to be responsive, animated and delightful for users, and you're going to lose in the marketplace. Since you have two models of the state of your app, now you have to make sure they are always in sync. All the testing and bugs and complexity maintaining that dual state could instead be spent on building the next great feature for your users.

Now obviously, this is sensitive to context. If you work for a giant enterprise and have more programmers than you know what to do with and clear product requirements set by the market, you can spend the time to build a product that addresses 99% of the users, even if going from 80% to 99% takes 80% more work. But if you are a startup, and you are either racing with competitors to build out the functionality demanded by users, or still exploring the functionality that will see successful adoption of your product, you'd be crazy to slow yourself down to get every user running NoScript, IE10, or whatever other old browsers. You just need to get your product working for some subset of passionate users, then you can spend more engineering resources on supporting users with older devices once you've proven out the market. Otherwise you may not be around to do so.
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That's yet another source of nil, but it can be fixed with modules like strict.lua, or simply

setmetatable(_G or _ENV, {__index = error})
-- `error` for the example, you can write a function that prints a better error message.
Yeah, I made an analogy 3 years ago when the Weev case came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6435092 contrasting a publicly accessible web server with a librarian at a public library.

Your "forget to lock up your business overnight" scenario isn't a useful analogy since entering that business would be at least trespass and possibly breaking and entering (no physical breaking needs to occur), so anything after that obviously is a result of exceeding access.

Riffing off of my older analogy, if I entered a library and asked the librarian "Can you please print flyer.pdf?" and the librarian did so, is that "obviously not fair game"?

To be clear, I'm considering only the act of printing rather than the contents of the flyer; it could be a single pixel or the word "LOVE". I suspect that this is ultimately some sort of mischief since it's unlikely he had any plans to travel to each location to pick up the output, but I'm having a hard time seeing how this is hacking.
He had a heart condition which was likely to kill him soon. He was healthy enough at the time, but there was a good chance he'd die from it while in space.
Thanks for the perspective, you made some good points.
I was surprised to see there was a move towards forfeiture reform and then it swings back to business as usual. Even more surprised that, "it's not talked about much outside of the media."

Perhaps it's just one of those things we think will 'never effect' us and if it does there is not much you can do if you end up in a forfeiture situation.
That's an obvious error. The scale in the figure is kilo-daltons (for proteins). Bp scale is used in figure 1C (RNA). Perhaps they copy pasted that image when fabric... I mean polishing the images.
6 weeks? 10 days in my case
> Even if you constrain the type to be something you know is a class, it won't work. [1]

Oh yes, I'm not saying it's possible to do this in Java, AFAIK you're right that it's not, I'm saying I'm not sure it's because of type erasure, at least type erasure on its own.
> Look at his frikken tree of knowledge model

I know you're venting but you're a little off topic and hard to follow. It sounds like you have a bone to pick with this author. This sub-thread began with "warmfuzzykitten" lamenting the HN comments and now you're discussing other work by the author.

Venting is totally fine and useful. There are some other techniques for releasing frustration that are more effective. Meditation, for example, can teach you to cast aside thoughts on which you do not wish to dwell. The book Mindfulness in Plain English is a good introduction. I'm not telling you what to do, because it would be a waste of my energy. You'll make up your own mind regardless. I'm just sharing a strategy that's worked for me, alongside other things. That's what people do. We share stories, whether about good times or bad.
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Apple Music was in 6 countries for the first month, then rolled out to 31. And it's still not targeting some major asian market.

I agree with you PR has a long way to go on on the Soundcloud side. At least a rollout list could have been included
I'm not the author, but I'm friends with the guy who made this. I don't think the github repo is public yet, but he said he's planning on making it public soon after a bit of cleanup. And yes, this is real hardware that works. Reece has been working on this for a long time, and I'm glad to see it on HN!
This main byproduct of PoW generation is heat. PoW ASIC can be used as heating elements, which would result in extreme decentralization.
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Finally a nice, open-source answer to Barracuda:

http://barracudaserver.com/

Or closer to one, anyway. Support for RTOS's like QNX and INTEGRITY puts it ahead in a big way. Someone might port this to GenodeOS, MINIX 3, or something similar. Nonetheless, it's a start that might save someone some money. If it's well-done internally, it might also be easy to port to other languages or secure CPU's in development. That rids us of need for garbage collection or JIT.
What is up with HN and promoting barely parody pieces?
Fucking hell Welles, just tell us that was the sled's name!
You don't come off as rude at all. Sorry if my comment comes off as entitled. I only feel slightly entitled haha.

You certainly are correct on how tough the competition is here. I'm in a bit of a pickle where I've been getting by on small projects for clients, but have yet to find an opportunity to work at a larger company with other developers I can teach and learn from as well, which I believe will help me launch a solid career as a developer. I'm looking forward to one day having the privilege of receiving recruiter spam everyday. :p
I haven't downvoted you, but there's always someone bitching about long-form journalism. It's a non-fiction STORY. Stories aren't technical documents or status reports - they set up atmosphere, build a character, and engage the reader.

Notice also that the title of the linked article is not "Paul LeRoux made Truecrypt" - it's not centered around that. It simply has that info in it, and as such is an interest to HN.
These are all good points. It should also be pointed out that the Fed is now paying interest on excess reserves, and has been since 2008. This is basically free money to banks who retain extra reserves on their balance sheets. This was put in place to incentivize excess reserves to hopefully counteract the losses on mortgage backed securities until the housing market and wage inflation could catch up with all the money that was printed with mortgages and derivative securities between 2001 and 2007. Unfortunately everyone was caught somewhat unaware, because while it seemed like inflation was low, it actually was too high. At lot of it went into the oil markets as well. What the Fed is doing now is simulating low inflation by having a sort of reverse black hole of interest on excess reserves. They are going to track that up as they raise interest rates and that will give them a new tool to control the money supply. Lower that rate, and the banks will have to invest it elsewhere, stimulating investment. All of this is only necessary because Congress won't increase government spending, which has been the traditional way we've gotten out of these things.. We needed more like a 10T stimulus to really fix stuff..
Tweet at it and it'll give you the "entry" for your tweet!

There is a word filter, so it will (hopefully) avoid the fate of Tay.
> I can’t say how I’d figured out the connection between his anonymous email and the person I’d emailed previously. I can’t say what service we used to communicate, nor where Lulu lives, nor what he does.

Curious, then, that the author chooses to gender them. If the author used 'they' or rewrote sentences to be gender-neutral, it'd be one less bit of entropy.
Do US companies need to be HIPAA compliant if working exclusively with international companies ("covered entities" if they were located in the US)?
RPG is "Repulsive Programming Garbage". It is the worst production programming language ever conceived. It was designed in the 60's based on the IBM 402 tabulator paradigm, to bridge programmers from plugboard wiring, to the 360 stored-program mode. It has long outlived its usefulness. Yet it lives on, entrenched in legions of schlubs who, like Bre'r Rabbit, have never known anything else.
I suspected the all-government-employees thing but wasn't aware of the journal copyright aspect. Thanks for clarifying with sources!
Agreed, that's an interesting take. Do you know if medical professionals differentiate chronic depression from acute depression? Is "clinical" depression related to one or both of those?
I feel like we're more immunized against religious flavors of crazy. Like, Cruz is probably further from mentally balanced than Trump even, but if he became president he probably wouldn't cause the same level of trouble.

Trump's ideas are "new" in that he does say them first. They appeal to many because we all know the old ideas aren't great, from painful experience. Trump's brand of crazy hasn't hurt us in a long time so we don't see it.

As an example: Bush senior said he didn't even think atheists could be considered citizens. But there's 0% chance that he'd try to enact that, or that it'd pass. Trump's ideas have the veneer of "business decisions" and seem more likely to get enacted.
Fair point.

But try to juggle context, tutorial scientific background, factual overview, news, human interest, and inspiration, and you'll be amazed how fast your allotted 3,000 words gets used up.
There's a nice intro/tutorial here:

https://www.git-tower.com/learn/bourbon-neat-bitters/getting...
So you can unteach your developers to think... for what purpose?
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> Perhaps that's still to come in part 2

This article is actually part 3, the first two detail his arms dealing a little bit, but like someone else mentioned, he's a very well-known arms dealer with direct links to several murders.

Part 1: https://mastermind.atavist.com/an-arrogant-way-of-killing
I disagree. I think government authority is the sole foundation upon which all lobbying is built.

If the government has no authority over something, there is no value in lobbying the government for help with that something.

Example: The government has subsidizes and regulates farming. Therefore there is a powerful incentive for agricultural interests to buy special treatment. Add ethanol considerations, and you have oil interests at work too.
How so? It's an interesting story, for sure, highly interesting, but how does this affect the crypto scene? (Honest question! I am not exactly an expert in cryptography or the sociotope around it.)
Payments-wise, yes. Patreon does remove the middleman of your publisher, though, in terms of how your audience connects with you.
Honestly I don't see Bandcamp as really doing more than filling a niche for artists who refuse to be on Spotify and/or don't know how to get into the 'major' digital outlets like Spotify, iTunes, Google, etc. It's a different ecosystem with all the same 'quality' issues as SoundCloud but not the same social interaction type stuff. I'm not trying to knock it, but I don't see it as a major player outside of a really indie circle (re: critics, obsessives) and not quite the casual listener(s).
It's compatible with many Java libraries and IDEs etc. It isn't compatible with Java apps because the UI framework has to be different on a phone. Porting Java apps thereby requires changing only a minority of things rather than everything.

It's like asking why you can write C programs on Windows even though it doesn't provide an X server.
The way I've heard it put is that opiates are an extremely effective treatment for anxiety and depression, with the common and serious side effect of ruining your life. But I hear they're working on eliminating the side effects:

http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/12/20/ly-2456302-for-depre...
Around here, all women are on the pill. You only get errors when they don't take it correctly, and there's the morning after pill for that. My personal experience with IUTs is that they work really well with no issues.

As for condoms, if you really must use them, simply pay extra for quality and there won't be any issues with how it feels. Most people negative experience with condoms are with those they give for free at schools and you might just as well use a thick rubber balloon at that point...
I didn't vote, but my guess would be that this is a me-too comment, which the community discourages. If you wish to echo a parent comment, it's expected that you add a significant contribution.
That's just a question of clearance. I have seen many double stacked rail cars in the US. The bottom car looks like a tub which lowers the stack.

ed: "Introduced in North America in 1984, double stack has become increasingly common there, being used for nearly 70% of United States intermodal shipments." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-stack_rail_transport
Hey that's a great idea mathaattack! You are right that an investment is just the very beginning of the investor-entrepreneur relationship. Thank you very much for the inspiration.
I can only offer my point of view as a complete rust novice. Lifetimes are the most intriguing and new aspect of programming in rust - this unfortunately means that when people first start with the language and they run into non-obvious errors, they will need a little handholding.

Google/stackoverflow of course help, but, as an expert, I think you may be a bit biased by your own experience as to how helpful the compiler errors actually are.
Obviously, you would have to avoid the "Company Store" problem.

I think it could be a terrible PR move. If you effectively pay your employees less and justify by giving them discounts. A program that begins with good intentions could end badly. Especially if the program is conceived in an era of high profits. In low profits, management makes different decisions. Also, you often get new management.
I'll always see that phenomena as a societal failure. It seems that overall, the country prefers to be divided with everyone not helping the government, not pay taxes (because for some reason, "government is the problem and can't get things done" (C) Reaganomics libertarians), and not even throwing money at scientific research.

It seems that wherever you look, things revolves around the accounting of money, but not around the thing that money can do, like run society and build things.

It's weird because now companies like Tesla and SpaceX are seen as disruptive, but the only thing they do differently is just avoiding business as usual and expanding markets. Ideally, capitalism should be dedicated to creating new markets all the time, but for some reason it stopped. Just like Neil Degrasse Tyson talked about NASA, it seems that without public agencies like NASA, nothing gets done.
> unless they're somehow transmitting energy to a different location.

Computers do this in the form of sound, fans, magnetic fields and network connections.

Of course, that's a very small amount of energy.
It's mostly an estimated guess. It seems your real example is more accurate. How long ago was this?

I was recently working for a start-up in Toronto as well. They told me they could no longer afford me after billing them only ~$10,000 CAD for two months of work building the only product they were ever going to have. It worked out to close to $20-$25 CAD an hour as well.
The author's assumption is that artificial (non-sexual) reproduction will eventually be SUPERIOR -- safer, cheaper, faster, more predictable, less painful, etc. -- because unlike sexual reproduction, it benefits from exponential advances in technology.

The author therefore predicts that more and more people, and women in particular, will prefer it in the future.
Wouldn't that be refreshing!

enter office politics
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Interesting stuff! I've bookmarked the long list of sci-fi novels.
Eh, without knowing the quality of the titles that have been removed, it's impossible to say if this is good, bad, or neutral, nor is it possible to make any conclusions regarding the cause.

For all I know, they've just been culling the truly massive collection of low-budget garbage that's infected the service since its inception.
The P/390 is very nifty (and there were Microchannel versions as well as PCI), as is the earlier XT/370 & AT/370 (ISA-bus implemented in re-microcoded mc68000s).

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC-based_IBM-compatible_mainfr...

These days there's always the Hercules emulator to get your IBM fix.

http://www.hercules-390.eu/

Me? I'm looking for a Micro A, the desktop version of the Burroughs B5000 mainframe.
Yeah people who rely on rote memorization tend not to be too keen on unit tests.

Thankfully the Old Ways are dying, but there are still pretty huge pockets of holdouts. Sometimes it can be hard to tell from the interview process where your prospective employer is at on the continuum.

Both [of the last two, big enterprise] places asked me about testing, and I wrongly assumed that meant they knew and cared. At the former they neither knew nor cared (in fact their dependency graph was so very broken that I couldn't write tests even though I wanted to, and I wasn't going to be able to unwind 250k lines of Big Ball of Mud in the time I had. Hated it). At the latter they care a bit, but are only beginning to understand what kind of trouble they've gotten themselves into.
Is this true across all economic levels or is this an average so it could be the rich and upper-middle class saving more.
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Any idea when this will ship with NGINX Plus?
People enjoy entertainment. Satire is entertaining.
> You're asking how hoarding cash instead of paying higher wages causes wage deflation?

No, I'm asking how deflation in general causes wage deflation. Your post was in answer to deflation caused by hiding/destroying cash.

> Wage deflation relative to CPI. Wages remain stagnant or increase less than prices.

So it's not related to the increase of value in the currency caused by hiding away 1 billion under a mattress. You used the same term but for different context/meaning. The weird thing is how you phrased it as if it was a causal relationship.

> Deflation was a primary cause of the Great Depression. Deflation is very bad.

There's many factors for the US Great Depression (such as previous inflation). There's also the relative speed at which those things occur. Both can be destabilizing in high enough magnitude. But deflation is the natural result of a growing economy and better efficiency. If it was bad, civilisations would have self-destructed every time they came up with a better way to do things. Imagine a new technique that would reduce food prices by 50%. Would this be a good, or a bad thing?

> inflation doesn't eat the value of stuff. If you own a home or stocks then inflation causes their value to increase proportionally.

Sure, I never said to the contrary. What's your point? People should stop saving money and buy everything around them instead? There's a huge cost to that, especially in real estate.
That's also true for most major breakthroughs like this one.