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Okay, clearly I made an unpopular comment. But I'll keep playing devil's advocate here. Yes, automatically updating software has long caused computers to become nonfunctional on occasion. This is not a first time, and in fact I haven't seen anyone complain about Windows 10 making their computer nonfunctional I've just seen complaints about it making it different. I'm sure someone has had problems with the Windows 10 update and that you can find an example. But I can also find examples of people with Service Pack updates (or even smaller ones) causing problems, for example.

If you were really only interested in the cloud software case (which I assume you singled out because you new the general case to obviously go against your argument), then yes, I still claim this happens in a very important sense. When gmail updated its interface, my mom stopped receiving some emails. Of course, they were hidden in different categories and she really was receiving them, but if she silently misses important emails... in what sense is the computer not nonfunctional? That's like 50% of what she does with it. Or in a more general sense, my parents' previous computer was slowly bogged down by a million iTunes updates that made it more and more of a system hog that made most of the rest of the computer unbearably slow.

My argument is that this is a matter of degree. Degree is significant, but people are acting as if this forced update is in a class of its own instead of being just the latest in a long (and growing) line of automatic updates that the consumer has less and less control over. Fight back against it if you wish, but don't pretend most software these days isn't doing (or wishing it could be doing) approximately this already.

None of this excuses the fact that they make it appear opt-out in manners that trick the consumer in to "opting in". That's just plain deception.
uBlock Origin + EFF Privacy Badger is a really powerful combo and works fine
The piece of the story I would really like to know more about is the details behind why they chose to leave NK.
I disagree. In the long run most of our problems won't be caused by genes, but rather by intelligent entities trying to achieve their goals. Intelligent entities are faster than genes and can edit genes.
not this time - this is an open access preprint server like arXiv for physics and math
You could use any kind of hardware token like RSA, Fortinet or many other manufactors. The usually offer a software version four your desktop as well. But usually you'll hate this additional piece of crap in your pocket. The combination of something in your mind (password) and something in your hand (smartphone) is the optimal setup. If you have a password or fingerprint to unlock your phone and the token generator app for 2FA it should be enough security.
link is down, but I am wondering how can this story become a #1 top story on this site?
I agree with his objection to the first. It's easy to see the logo with the logotext and read it as "URL" instead of "curl."

The logo for the accepted version is the best of the 3, in my opinion. However, when looking at it combined with the logotext it looks kind of odd in that the slashes are leaning away from the word curl so prominently. (#2 doesn't have this problem). No matter, though, it is a big improvement.
The same way the rest of us self-diagnose? WebMD at 2 A.M
but this is _exactly_ what game theory is about, the parent probably hinted at a failed unterstanding of the theory as shown by your comment ;)

what i mean is, people may think they understand the concept of game theory but are often unable to link that to its practical consequences, as in this case.
How is that even in the same league? Google can disclose, what you send to their servers. Microsoft can disclose, what you keep on your own machine.
Shitty meme for a shitty forced upgrade, very fitting. Where do you want to go today? Eh never mind, we get to decide that.

No, that's explicitly not how MS updates worked: up to now, they were updates to existing OS, not automatic reinstall.

If I don't want it, I don't get asked if I want it: 19:00 there was a working Win7 box, 07:00 next day, there was a broken steaming pile of something, apparently Windows 10. No prompts, full auto.

Program files: deleted. Users folder: moved into some other location (both). I don't give a flying fork if that was intentional, it should not have happened, full stop.

In other words, FU, astroturfer. Take your piece of crap and shove it. (Yes, your wonderful Windows Nein has given us about a man-year of unplanned maintenance so far, so you see how happy I'm about it)
Do you mean the one with the :// which precedes the "curl"? If so, I agree. The first version was too complex and inconsistent, but the third version played it too safe. I also agree with another poster who said that the accepted logo has more in common with PCBs than URLs.
That and - assuming new crawlers will even bother to respect robots.txt - this may screw up the archive.org's work even more.
I'm not sure how your manager felt saying sorry was enough given that him leaving a meeting early had a direct negative impact on your salary and bonus.
Urr because everyone on this site uses curl every day at every available opportunity?
Yeah until the users ISP drops them because of the kaiten sending outgoing DDoS.
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This interactive visualiser works alongside the code it's executing: http://www.bluffton.edu/~nesterd/java/SortingDemo.html

Heres a similar one that was posted to HN recently: http://jasonpark.me/AlgorithmVisualizer/
Where the f did you store all of that?!
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Agreed. As a freelancer that works with Gigster I don't see this as a major source of revenue in my future (most likely a way to generate good PR as another poster mentioned). If they ever use this as leverage to pay less per project then I'm sure a lot of the best developers on the platform will move elsewhere.
> I think it's been a little bit inactive of late, due to poor takeup

I just checked out the website, and found it interesting. And then I found it only has a Firefox extension, but not a Chrome extension. Given that the Chrome's market share is several times that of Firefox globally, maybe that is the reason of the poor takeup?
An Steve Jobs was an idiot in this regard. iPod sales went no where until iTunes as released on Windows.
One of the biggest Bitcoin startups just took 'Bitcoin' out of its bio
Now it will most definitely be considered uncool - since with tools like this one, every man and their dog will be able to get one.
The US has actually several emergency networks, a cellphone even without a valid sim card can still be used to dial 911 this is part of every cellular standard.
But in more common cases when you are outside of the coverage of your carrier and with roaming disabled/no roaming partners you will still see Emergency/SOS displayed on your phone.

http://s9.postimg.org/umb1a3tjz/s5570.jpg

Besides 911 there are probably a few other emergency numbers in the US which are open on all cellphones, as well as the emergency broadcast system which will display push notifications on every modern cellphone in such cases as natural disasters.
I think curl is one of those little things that don't get much attention, but are invaluable for much of our serious work. And just announcing a logo for it makes some of us recognize it and remember to appreciate the efforts of the project.
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I think we are, maybe in a different way than mvdwood is suggesting. The way I see it is that, the same way one doesn't become asperger or autist, you don't become narcissist, your brain is wired that way, early on during its development, so it's in your DNA and what affects it.

Medical research on narcissism is still very young, but so far we have indication for genetic inheritance and therefore potential genetic markers have been found, we observed defining prefrontal cortex signatures, and reproducible and predictable phenotypes (e.g. atypical responses to an environmental stimulus). Similar trends are also observed in altruism, which is seen as the opposite narcissism.
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I don't buy this premise. You get paid to work because your work creates value for someone. Whether you have fun doing the work is quite irrelevant.

You could argue people would be willing to work for less if it was fun and you would have a point. But the idea that the other party is paying you to work because it is unfun is bonkers.
What a sad and click bait-y article.

So, there's not a million other examples of apps that also don't follow the iOS style?

This article was written just to beat the Android vs iOS war drums.
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> Why would developers be interested?

For exactly the reasons you mentioned.

Now what would business folks be interested? That's another question.
They could have shared exposure to an awful lot of things.

Short of some indication that they were turning on the jammer all the time in the workshop I would sort of think chemical exposure would be a more likely explanation.
The problem is not so much one of competition. The problem is where that competition is directed.

Einstein, Salk, Tesla, Marconi, etc.

These people were't competing with other humans. They were competing with and seeking some dominance over NATURE.

Competing with other humans is a very tribalistic primitive behavior. Like gangs of chimps in a forest.

We need some outer force to compete against instead of turning on each other.
It's pretty obvious now that every time a unfavorable news hits HN frontpage, all of the sudden the news drops rapidly despite having most votes and engagement and another favorable news suddenly appears on the HN frontpage despite being 6 hours old and the other one being just 4 hours old.

I don't care who is behind that, but be assure it's pretty obvious.

@dang: Anyway, it seems the HN algorithms is gamed, and measures should be taken.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11784337
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How onerous ? I would like the CA I work for to be included in the trusted list.
Bear in mind that Symantec also owns Thawte.
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Nope. You're arguing nonsense here.
Citation: law/med school admissions in US.

So active discrimination against an equally qualified white candidate is ok?
You are either completely oblivious to computer assisted/generated proofs or you have a niche definition of mathematics for yourself.

Also they are not saying "all these cases where it holds true," they are saying "in all the cases, it holds true," which is the definition for validity.
One very large component of user happiness is the intuitiveness and familiarity of the user interface, and following user interface guidelines of the host operating system (i.e. the patterns and conventions that the user has already been trained on) will help tremendously with that.

That doesn't mean that you should never stray from those guidelines in a pursuit of a better UI, but all other things being equal, diversions from the standards should have to justify themselves. Things like using an Android-standard icon where there's an equivalent in IOS don't come anywhere close to that bar, in my opinion.
The core problem of utopias is that they take one dimension of human character and push it to its extreme. We are both competitive and cooperative beside many other things. On top of that, the same person can become/look as if more competitive or more cooperative in different groups. That is, even in a group of heavily cooperative people the one with more competitive tendencies will be described as competitive. This may even results this guy being expelled from the group.

Many novels and movies use this to build their story. In a "bad" world a guy saves everybody or in a "good" world things go wrong because one of them starts doing "bad" things.

The modern approaches we take give more emphasis to the differences of people in both work environment and society.
I just realized after all these years, I think I've been saying the name wrong.

In my head, I say "curl" as in curly hair. It's really "see-url"!? I think it's too late for my brain to correct that.
I'm wondering how well deep learning would work for compressing video. For example, the face of an actor, when it has been exposed from different angles in the first 5 minutes of the movie, need not be fully coded for the remainder of the movie. At least, that is what intuition says.
Competition is what drove architecture forward (people with resources wanted bigger houses, palaces, cathedrals, skyscrapers). Ditto for exploration and navigation - more trade routes and colonies. The space race was actually a race. The expansion of communication networks are profitable as well. I'm glad we have things like the LHC and the ISS which are good examples of moving forward cooperatively, but they're more the exception than the rule.

Can't really reproduce history, though. We've yet to see the extent what humanity can do if they work as one, but most practical and theoretical fields are advanced by competition more than cooperation. Mathematics is a global competition between universities, chemistry is a race to make industry more efficient and profitable, biology requires patents and being first to market to be viable. Physics actually seems cooperative to me, but I'm sure the more practical sub-fields: electronics, structures, energy etc are all driven by competition.
Reading the headline, I was half expecting the article to say that Google's just-announced Instant Apps initiative is the resurrection of ActiveX in IE, a comparison I'm just waiting for some journalist to make. (To this point, I've mostly read nothing but praise for the idea (instant apps). I see instant apps as another sad retreat from the promise of the open web.)
> Seems like you may need a bit of healthy competition to make the breakthrough, but afterwards cooperation is crucial otherwise the gains of the breakthrough are never realized.

I think it's just a product of the societies we've had. In all those cases it was the cooperative aspect that made the breakthrough. The competition was only needed to allocate the resources for it, though, given the nature of our society.
Not as undergraduates at Harvard. Or children under 5 in the US. Or residents of London, England.
No one really speaks Nynorsk (or Bokmål for that matter), they write Nynorsk and speak dialects. Though it's true that if you come across a dialect that you don't understand at all, it's likely that they write Nynorsk as well.

Trøndelag used to be a Nynorsk core area, by the way. Around 1940, half the population there used Nynorsk.
I was surprised that there are no curls on the curl logo.
Usually, any issue is less one-dimensional than the headline suggests. Here's some background: http://chemjobber.blogspot.com/2016/04/nucleotides-are-not-p...
I've never heard a software developer complain about the software problems they face.

The quality of the code, yes, the idiocy of management, the bureaucracy of the corporate environment...but all of those are or stem from people problems, not innate to the actual process of generating code that does something. I doubt that anyone has ever left a job because the software problems they were solving were too hard.

I'm not saying your base point, that the reality of work is that some of it is unpleasant, is wrong; I largely agree with that (as even if you manage to build a product by yourself that is commercially successful, you start having to deal with users, meaning back to people problems). I -am- disagreeing with your example (because defining the source of the problems is necessary to improving your workplace, or finding a better one)
You can do it with google apps too, but it's a little more difficult. Login into an account and setup an alias.

There is a limit to the number of aliases, but you can just create more accounts with aliases that forward to your email.
Go to "speech, inking & typing" settings. The dialog literally says they will collect your typing history.

The traffic is encrypted, and no one has been able to MITM it yet, as far as I know. But Microsoft has confirmed in the press that yes, they do this.
In a round-about-way you are hinting at the 'science is a religion' mentality. If something can't be explained by current scientific knowledge then, the people who think that way, must have the idea shot down and disregarded. It's a binary thought pattern that would probably be less common if history (and philosophy) had a greater value in society.
Of course this is mathematics. Obviously, it would be nicer to have a real understanding of what's going on, but now that people know what to prove, such a proof might come along soon.
>But I think a lot of people/companies use this as an excuse to just not even try, and that doesn't make sense.

Doesn't it? I doubt that hiring people of different ethnic backgrounds from the same country makes any difference in the performance of a team, so exerting extra effort to do so is likely a net loss for the company.
"Gigster said they want our happiness"

No offense, but I don't think you are not really doing a favor to Gigster with these posts, they seems to be written by someone under a heavy dose of kool-aid.

If you want to help them I suggest you stick to the facts :)
I can't help but see the 'l' floating up higher than the rest of the letters (it isn't). Even so, it's a lot better than the original.
For something that claims to "grok" URLs, using "://" as part of the logo seems to be misunderstanding how URLs (are supposed to) work.

According to RFC3986, URIs (the proper name; URLs are a kind of URI) are correctly of the form:

<scheme>:<scheme-specific-part>

For some schemes, the <scheme-specific-part> may contain a <hierarchical-part>, the format for which is:

//<authority>[/<path>] | <path>

So it's only hierarchical URIs with a defined authority that have the (admittedly iconic) "://" in them.

I know most people identity URIs as having that sequence in them, but these are all valid URIs:

mailto:bob@example.com
sip:bob@example.com
tel:+18005550123
file:/path/to/file

I'm not saying I expect everyone to understand these subtleties, but people who claim to grok URLs ought to.
No. Microwave get hot spots because their antennas produce an uneven distribution of emery. This is further exacerbated by reflections in the microwave box, creating zones of high energy and low energy.
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I am always reading commit messages to find out why such -and-such a thing changed. I agree that making frequent commits is really great but I always want to see every commit have a meaningful message, either at the time it is made or in cleanup before pushing to the remote branch.
Unless I've been smoking something the comment I replied to originally said "main server."
"they have been accompanied by very prominent written warnings that you must complete the full prescribed course"

I'm ashamed to admit that the big part of my adult life I didn't know the reason behind that, and always assumed that to be of a kind "you must eat your whole meal" constantly told by grandma. I'm sure I'm not the only one..
what does "lose control" mean in this particular context?
A common accusation against Esperanto is that a lot of the complexity it takes away from grammar, it sneaks back in the form of idioms - but that's nothing to Basic English.
The extreme modularization is a huge, huge issue. There is a slight settling: the recommendation for state management shifting almost exclusively to Redux is IMO a very good thing, if only for the fact of how brutally simple it is, with almost zero chance there will be any API changes. Packages such as react-router, with constant API changes, are a nightmare though. Standardisation this year would be good: state management (Redux), a router (a settled react-router), immutability (Immutable), a method of dealing with asynchrony/promises that's well documented and easy for people to just pick up and use, a drop in test framework (personal bugbear is setting up the multifarious bits of test/coverage/complexity tools - Ava + NYC + Plato seems a very good build so far for this, but it's very young). But it's the configuration of build tools which is the killer

React itself is very simple, but then so is jQuery, and having to pick apart the twenty or thirty jQuery plugins + associated spaghetti the last dev dropped into a project is even less fun than the current situation, it just took a lot less of a deep understanding of JS; one of the issues I'm starting to get a lot more of is devs dropping in prebuilt components, which is just jQuery all over again, but in extremis.
Something being hard doesn't mean it is unpleasant. And the "pride in doing a job well" will not only be beneficial but also rewarding, which can increase happiness and lead to novelty.

As an example, you may hold grudge about a coding problem, but when you beat it and find the solution, you are instantly satisfied, gain self-gratification, if the problem was important to others you also gain gratification from your peers, and in the process you learn a new way to solve a problem
This rhetoric in this context is implying that you may be skeptical that black people are as valuable and capable at computer science/information technology as the majority white population. Please reconsider.
Well I mean the site the was fundamentally unusable. It's not surprising that advertising his role (whether related to the myriad problems it had or not) didn't help his career much.
"You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
―Morpheus, to Neo

Couldn't resist...
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Unfortunately often it's not as simple as that, you have to offset many difference things: ergonomics, aesthetics, intuitiveness, efficiency, information density etc etc. If you drew "using time as an absolute measure" you'd make an interface that was immensely fast but very difficult to learn
http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/48735/how-do-you-...
Hooray for proof search techniques. How much data would the Godel-numbering process generate, though? I'm assuming such a search would use this, unless I'm mistaken about my mathematical logic.
This won't work really the towers have to be fixed making a call while moving shifts the phase of your signal and for a good while this was a big problem for early phones (calls out cut out while driving or in a train because of the speed not the "reception").

Movement is not the only thing that can cause a Doppler shift, echos, and multi-path propagation are also a pain to deal with but for the movement part phones pretty damn early started having accelerometers (way before they were used for cool stuff) in them as well as much better Doppler estimation processing at both the towers and in your phone.

At 150knots (relative speed, this will depend on the altitude and heading of the aircraft in relation to the cellphone) a 1.9ghz signal will have a Doppler shift of about 500hz which is more than enough to induce blocking of pretty much any cell network.
Radiophones that allow air to ground communication to exist but they are designed for this purpose and implement quite aggressive Doppler correction which is also usually only possible when they have the flight data and they know more or less the altitude, heading, and speed of the aircraft based on the flight plan and real time flight data and can adjust the Doppler correction in real time, as without it it won't work.

P.S.
Blimps would probably work.