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While I kind of agree with you, I don't think it is fair to automatically assume that just because an automatic computer system is doing the same thing that a human could do, it can't fundamentally change what that thing means. Things change when something can be done automatically and at great scale.

Take, for instance, license plate scanning. Of course, anyone can see your license plate when you are driving around town, it is public information.

So clearly it is fine if machines scan license plates and keep records of every license plate that crosses a bridge. A team of people could sit on the bridge and do the same thing, so no big deal.

So clearly it is fine if we install the license plate scanners on every street corner in the city, and scan every plate they see.

And it should be totally fine to put that data on a publicly searchable real-time database, so that I can input any license plate number and see immediately where that car is.

These different scenarios might seem like merely matters of degree on the same bit of info, but what it means for us changes immensely as it becomes easier and faster to do it.
Equaly the aspect of a competent programmer being curtailed to optimize the code to the level they are happy with.

A business wants software that works, if they can chuck some hardware at a problem and add more processing power then they tend to do that more often than optimize the process.

This and legacy build up upon many a program/system will end up with people who do not know all the parts and with that tread too carefully at times and lots of redundant, duplication and bloat inducing additions ensue.
I've tested it on Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari, Safari Mobile and Chrome Mobile (latest versions) but I suspect it works on older versions as well.
The work itself has to be worth it, or it's not worth it. External motivation has a low multiplier.
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I would argue that date was in 1917, when President Wildon founded the Committee on Public Information to sell WWI to Americans. The committee then hired Edward Bernays, who was struck by the ability for war to motivate people, and used his uncle Sigmund Freud's theories on psychoanalysis to contrive ways to get people to do or buy things they normally wouldn't.

The stunning success of psychologically tuned propaganda taught generations of political masterminds how to not only rile up the public to make big changes, but to structure society as a disconnected atomized collection of individuals too caught up with their own lives and consumerism to seriously challenge the powers that be. From then on, it becomes easier and easier to circumvent the constitution and even basic ethics because people are less likely to care for longer than a news cycle.
Arguably, yes, since in bittorrent downloading content is directly tied to distribution of content.

By torrenting a work you own in a different format, you are (potentially) also distributing that work to someone who doesn't already own a copy.
You don't really mention this in the pricing section but I assume for the paid plan, it gives you the option to hide the /_src feature based on something (IP, etc.)?
There is more information on what Facebook is doing on the research site.

https://research.facebook.com/blog/how-blind-people-interact...

Including a link to the publication that was written on the technology here.

https://research.facebook.com/publications/how-blind-people-...

I think its exciting and an honest attempt to make peoples lives better.
Compared to other providers, there's absolutely no setup involved. No Procfiles, ports, containers, dynos, processes, instances… Just type `now` where you have a `package.json`.
From my shallow perusal, this seems like it is strongly connected with reactive style programming? Is this a library to enable that style of programming, or is there something different here?
I agree on your point, but at the same time, teaching deprecated methods is just silly. You can teach Modern OpenGL also if you just think about how you approach it. Start with simple things and go from there.

Also with Modern OpenGL you actually have to understand more about the whole process, with old OpenGL it's possible just ignore lightning, matrixes almost completely and not really understand them.

But yeah, I kinda agree on that point also.
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If, during the entire history of the USA, some FBI agents had never been proven to be corrupt, if judges had never been proven to be corrupt, if evidence had never been proved to be planted by authorities, then maybe, just maybe this would be justified.

In the real world, however, this is very, very scary and I consider myself lucky I am not subject to this travesty.

Since there does not appear to be any proof that he downloaded the images, or was involved in any way, other than pictures being found on various hard drives, it is quite plausible to me that the FBI/NSA/CIA planted evidence in order to blackmail him.
You should definitely report that driver. While most of the experiences I've had a really good; there are some bad actors in the system and reporting them helps identify who they are.
Shame; it was fun while it lasted. Still, hardly surprising behaviour from Nintendo.
Yes - very much so!
He visited YC last week and told the story.
If a candidate of the x tendency gets more than half the first choice votes cast, I think it's pretty-much game over for the anti-x tendency whatever the voting system, or does the math disagree with me?
> I believe you have the right of opportunity, but not of outcome.

I may be assuming too much, but in most don't really believe this.

For example, I'd wager you firmly believe you have the right to a safe and secure society such that you are relatively confident you will no be randomly murdered in your sleep with no consequences for the murderer.

This is exactly a right to the outcome of a minimum level of security in your person and property.

If you do hold this belief then you believe in right of outcome in society. Though you may not agree with others what outcomes we should be guaranteed.
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256 actually, but I have no idea where that 96 comes from, it was probably the alcohol typing (or I was already thinking 4096 and I wrote part of that instead of the correct number)
> The case that ultimately appears before the court, of course, needs to be transparent. And the evidence collected by the prosecution must be made available to the defendant. But this isn't that.

This is that. The defense is being told that there was probable cause to issue a search warrant, but they are not being told what the cause was and are not allowed to see the warrant.

They have to take the government's word that the defendant's rights aren't being violated. Not how our court system is supposed to work!
> but it is possible it was not his fault that the illegal videos were on his computers.

So? His home may have been searched for other reasons to discover this. Just like anyone else found with these materials on his computer, he'll have to get arrested and go to court over them.
> But from what I've seen in a few places, a lot of people jump to cluster solutions without either a real need or enough people to support it.

Totally.
I've taken both Lyft and Uber 100's of times over the last few years (mostly in San Francisco but in other cities too). Both are great services that are light years better than taxis.

I like that Lyft gives the option to tip. When drivers go above and beyond what is required or are especially friendly, then it's nice to have the ability to tip.
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Quite sure.
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What?

What makes you think that one of the candidates will get 50% of the vote? And what makes you think that allocating the other voters differently will change that?
How about not going down the Yoo tube either.
So, do they sue wikipedia next now?
I am boggled.
I mean, the binary choice clusterfuck that is modern politics is certainly the fault of the founders, and is certainly partially responsible for the current problems. And because of the reverence of the founders and the constitution as it exists, the self destruction and rebirth is looking likelier then meaningfully repairing the system.
Step 3: Profit?

(Seriously, it is easier said than done. Do you know how many small businesses failed?)
All `/_src` links will link to a secure portion of the site with login + 2FA. Security is top of our mind.
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yeah this is referenced all over the place (Derek Sivers, Jeft Atwood, Kevin Kelly) but always just this one paragraph and comes from this book http://kk.org/cooltools/art-fear/
don't see any references there either.
But what are the social norms around Lyft tipping?

Whenever I ride with Lyft, I feel obligated to tip since I assume that drivers keep a lower cut of the ride revenue.

Is this actually the case?
Just to chip in as another very happy user of Keyboard Maestro here - I have been using it for text expansion as well as more general macros and it has made switching to a Mac full time a pleasure. Combined with Alfred it takes 'power user' to another level.

I use it for as much friviolous stuff as serious things (http://i.imgur.com/YgE82eP.png) - having never used TextExpander, I've not had any problems with the text replacements. It's possible to open dialogs and very quickly make UIs too for more involved stuff.
Fossil leaves me with no reason to use it. What it can do, Git and Mercurial can do better. Saying that no software fits the use case for everyone, everywhere is completely irrelevant. Other software not fitting into every mold completely, while fossil doesn't really bring anything to the table to cover what other solutions don't, doesn't really justify its existence as a solution in any way.
Isn't Iceland going through a national financial crisis and also just booted their president for lying to them? That doesn't sound much better.
Okay yeah I was wording it wrong. I see it's not using immediate mode later on in the tutorial.

I just took a look at the engine, and there's lots of fixed pipeline calls and immediate mode stuff there still.

See: https://github.com/AlwaysGeeky/Vox/blob/master/source/Render...

Technically yes, immediate mode and fixed pipeline are a different thing. But modern OpenGL implementations upwards from 3.x (3.3 I think) don't anymore support the fixed pipeline of rendering, which means that you have to implement your own matrix setting, no default shaders and so on.

Which is a kinda of a hassle and a steep learning curve, yeah, but once you get it, so much more flexible and better way to do things.

Anyway, good tutorial on explaining the basic stuff, but wouldn't recommend learning any of this fixed pipeline stuff anymore.
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you don't need any of this stuff, there are providers out there that will give you all of this for a cost less than amazon's.

the problem is nobody wants to do it because it's not sexy, or name brand / won't-get-fired-for-hiring-IBM.
Ask HN: Is anonymity relevant anymore?
I am a script kiddo with almost zero knowledge of programming (I can read and understand, and sometimes modify code, but never been able to write any). After being hacked, I became a security and privacy enthusiast and advocate. Recently, I have devised a list of all the ways that a phone or tablet or PC can be identified, here is the list, with randomized priority:

01) Device ID, IMSI, Device serial number, ...
02) Physical addresses, WiFi, Bluetooth, NFC, ...
03) IP address
04) Logged in accounts
05) Apps installed
06) Browser version, Languages and keyboards in use, Time zone and add-ons installed
07) Tapping pattern*
08) Face detection and recognition
09) Voice detection and recognition
10) Location detection and pattern of movement (GPS, Cell tower and Internet)
11) Accelerometer data and movement patterns
12) Fingerprint
13) Battery consumption pattern
14) Lighting condition pattern (data accumulated by the light sensor with color detection might be able to draw a pattern of daylight, indoor-light and no light conditions which is pretty unique for every person)*
15) Writing style (I guess I may add typing style, for years we have been typing in Google search with search suggestion on, and uploading the time between each stroke)+ personal dictionary.
16) Drivers and devices installed

Though this is not an exhaustive list (and the points with asterisks are my own guesswork with no references), having in mind that every device has at least some of these means to identify a person uniquely, does anonymization even exist? Is it worth going trough all the FOSS fuss?
Eww what a horrible idea, I hope it dies quickly. It will bring in bundling (more eww) and the idea that you need to keep paying $10/month for "$600 a month of value" when all you really need is one or two little utility apps that should have cost a one-time payment of five bucks. From the greedy business side, this sounds like a great deal, but for users, it's a really bad deal, and their choice is diminished to the extent that any software gets swept into this kind of system.

Part of the problem is software developers (I'm one) who feel entitled (I don't) to a lifetime of full income for one project. TextExpander seems a textbook case of what should be a light utility becoming a hungry beast of a business that needs constant feeding, at the cost of its users.
Which he did, but then his defense was hampered by the secrecy around how the evidence was obtained. At least the article makes it sound like this.
I think we are mostly on the same page.

My point is that the title should not frame the expectations at all, because so many people plaster "Software Engineer" or "Software Architect" on their resumes that the terms have become mostly meaningless (assuming that they ever had any real meaning in the first place), and in many cases are an indication that the person thinks more highly of themselves than they should.

I also think that describing the term "programmer" as a "commodity title" gives it an unnecessarily negative connotation. Despite what marketing people think, it is a perfectly valid description of what many of us do, and does not at all necessitate thinking of a person's skills as "run-of-the-mill".
> I just have to say this: So typically american.

This remark would be considered highly offensive and racist if it were uttered about most nationalities.

Would you say that to appraise the sentiments of, for example, a Jew? Of course not. Everyone would rightly condemn you for it.
what do you consume then?
Thanks for the detailed answer. The only technical understanding of a CDN I have is from CoralCDN (http://www.coralcdn.org/), a p2p CDN operated by researchers on PlanetLab (with servers all around the world) that was especially created to mitigate flash crowds scenario, and their very documentation on this experiment (http://www.coralcdn.org/pubs/, particularly http://www.coralcdn.org/docs/coral-nsdi04.pdf). I was impressed by how the nodes automagically coordinate themselves so that as few as possible will query upstream, and then content will be slowly propagated to other nodes that were requesting for this exact content in a form of multicast tree, all with 0 administration and thanks to a smart DHT and a smart DNS implementation. Really cool stuff. I was under the impression that any commercial CDN was doing at least the same.
i don't think you understand. you're the fanboy i'm talking about.
Various personalised stats show. Each dot around the circle is a day of the month with the current day highlighted. In the centre it will show things like number of minutes, sms sent/received, photos taken, tracks played, miles walked etc. The balloons around the edge are larger on days when you do more. So you get a personal visual representation of how you use your phone.

Disclaimer (because it seems to upset people here), I work for Canonical ;)
> being branded as 'upper class' is pejorative

That's also fascinating, because in the US, wanting to be rich is seen as a very positive thing. Everyone is supposed to be living the American Dream and improving their lives, but reaching the end goal is a bad state? Hilarious.

And where I'm from, wanting to be rich is seen as an ugly thing, the only socially acceptable ways to be rich is to win the lottery or be a sports champion. Then it's perfectly fine, but should you actually earn your money then that's automatically suspect and you're labelled a Bad Person.

I have friends who are in the IT industry, making good money, and who are genuinely ashamed of how much money they make.
Ah, okay. I'm about an hour south of Ottawa, actually. Not quite as bad as up in Edmonton, I'm sure, but I can relate to the winter darkness. Between November and March I'm lucky if I get a cold 15 minutes of sunshine on my drive in to work in the morning.
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The manufacturing costs are too high, and the support infrastructure is still too expensive. Manufacturers are going to go out of business with warehouses full of unsold inventory. This is a classic commodity bubble.
Just to reiterate, this violates the assumptions under which you get your p-values.

I want an A/B testing tool that won't let you see results until it's done.
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Here’s what people who actually work on this team have to say about working here:

"smart, action-oriented people; everyone always willing to jump in to help; flat team culture"

"working from home is obviously great"

"I feel like our priorities stay pretty solid once they’re defined and on the roadmap; I’ve definitely worked places where they shift so much nobody ever knows what’s going on - definitely a bad thing about other places"

"diverse team is really cool too - everyone comes from a very interesting background"

"coming into this team I was used to using what was easy. seems like the whole team here jumps on board with what makes the most and best sense."

"we’ve also hired people who have a “bias for action.” Like get your hands dirty from day 1 and shine."

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You end up with the same crap many other big cities ended up with. Not paying for improvements when needed results in big expenses when you are offered no choice later on. Atlanta had to spend billions and raises rates a lot because the system started to fail, other cities are finally facing the truth about their lead issues.
What's the difference with dokku?
Cool. But what about persistence / choice of database and how can I scale up / down?
Then keep looking? The market favors the developer right now.
Yeah this. You don't want to launder in a high regulatory, high crime, high profile, etc business. You want something like a car wash or laundromat on a small scale. Or, better yet, construction, which is notorious for its lax accounting.

Clubs bring in a lot of scrutiny. The 70s mafia movies made them look for but serious criminals have so many other options that dealing with them nowadays seems stupid. Do you really want a drunk or a whore or a gangbanger to bring police into your laundering operation regularly?
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Lyft gives drivers a larger portion of the ride's cost (80% instead of 70% IIRC). I never feel obligated to tip, but tip if the service was great.
It's really great, and I've found a wonderful job here with the best coworkers I've ever had. Also get to experiment with cool technologies quite often.
I'd like to team with you to make something viable! What are the fields of interest you are searching to put your valuable time into?
I've heard about heel vs midfoot vs toe striking and have been making a conscious effort to midfoot strike when I jog or toe strike if I take large steps. I don't understand how shifting weight off the heel is better on the knee, but I'll try anything -- personal anecdote or not. Thanks for the suggestion!
I can't help but think of Sisyphus, or how a drop of water makes a mark on a stone. Yes, he could. But it sounds like a 100 times more work.
Not maybe.

In my case, definitely.

Thanks for the clarification.
> The court also found that “there is no indication of any false statements having been included in the FISA materials.

Yes but how do we know that when it's kept a secret? We keep things like this from being a secret so that this very question can be determined.

"Trust us. It's legit."
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Heh, I figured this would come up, but I think where we disagree is in degree, rather than action.

In your above scenario, I'd start calling for the metaphorical heads of politicians somewhere between "installing scanners on every corner" and "public searchable real time database".

The example we're speaking of here, Facebook has collected the information that the GP poster exists and looks like this. Already publicly and digitally accessible information. Nobody's privacy has been violated by saying that person X exists and looks like Y, nor could that information be used against them. I certainly hope you understand that a live database of car positions is fundamentally different...

On top of that, the genie was unbottled ages ago. You may be able to make some kind of privacy argument re: the plate scanners now, but as the tech advances more and becomes cheaper and it becomes trivial for anyone to do the same thing (I recall an article about someone who set up a scanner in his front yard with some open source toolkits and relatively cheap gear), the arguments that "anyone can do it, except these people, because reasons" start sounding more and more arbitrary and out of touch.
Weird how a library that had its last commits over 4 years ago suddenly rises to the front page...
Daily Mail is like The Onion, except they expect you to believe the shit they write is true. And not funny. So not really like The Onion.
I notice that the pictures in your first link contradict each other. The world view shows Sweden as ok, the sidebar European map says that it's not.
If the US is a police state then there is no country that isn't, but at least you get a lot of up votes.
We have been very happy with sources - it doesn't cover EVERY service we use (yet) but taking even just one or two out of in-house ETL is a huge benefit.
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> Having sexual feelings for children is a medical disorder and people who have it are generally urged to get medical help. So I'm afraid that, yes, there is indeed something wrong with being sexually attracted to prepubescent children.

Obviously. We should chemically castrate them. Like Alan Turing. Being attracted to anything but adults of the opposite sex is wrong and sick.

/s
FYI: You can copy/paste the title into Google to get past the paywall. There's a also a bookmark script someone on HN made to do this automatically on-click but I don't use it personally.
Root cause of this is not communication, it is cognitive dissonance theory and the power of authority.

To see an example of what I mean, watch the trailer for the "Stanford prison experiment" on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3XN2X72jrFk

And read about it here:

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

As for "getting along" - it's more about selection bias than anything else; which in some, if not many, cases takes the form of racism.

It's an important topic to me, and I'd be the first to say I still don't completely understand it, or more importantly, how to fix the issue.