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They aren't worried about robots, they're worried about spam. The "we don't think you're human" error message was just to sound cute. Automation is fine; it's likely the poster pushed a spammy link or something that set off their filters.
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Recently I saw a rather normal documentary about a western scientist or adventurer staying with a remote tribe in the developing world - I don't remember much about the actual content of the documentary, but what I do remember is the translations. The translators translated everything and mostly we heard mundane, normal speech. Things like a mother telling someone to eat their food, or girls idly talking about their hair, or how bored they felt last night, or about their lousy husband. I also can't remember the actual content of the conversations!

It really refreshed me listening to it. Hearing normal people speaking brought these people incredibly closer to me. Instead of having this anthropological outsider view of these people, we saw that they were alike, we existed with them, not apart.

These documents have a similar feeling with me - they bring me closer to the people living there.
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The ads are also embedded in the News Feed itself, in the form of "friend X likes Y page" and the like. I'd imagine it would require an ad blocker specifically designed for Facebook to block it. Same goes for the sidebar.

I don't use Facebook enough to care; uBlock Origin suits my needs just fine.
Ouch. Yeah, it's not good when suddenly everything is disappeared from public view.

So, two comments.

First, GitHub, if you believe an account is not associated with a human, put a banner up on all of their pages, one that _everyone_ can see. For the banner visible to everyone, say something like "We [GitHub] think this account's owner is not human. Please have the account owner log in ASAP, or this page will disappear soon!"

Next, don't forget this this is Git. If you don't have 100% trust in GitHub, then just mirror your repo somewhere else. Spend the 20$ a month to get an account at a web host that supports cron jobs, and run a mirror script every five minutes.
No worries. This is triggered by heuristics that make it look like an account is compromised, like creating spam gists. Normal use cases won't trigger it, and if it does, support takes care of you within 15 minutes. That was my experience, at least.
Ask for captcha verification or other form of verification before hiding the account? This is what the author suggests in his last email to Github, and it sounds pretty reasonable.
If we did that then we might actually start resembling a field of engineering. Unfortunately software is much more nebulous than structural, mechanical and other fields of engineering. There are less clear cut right and wrong things to do.

Part of what gives software it's unique advantage in today's world is it's ability to change to meet evolving demands quicker than any other way of formulating solutions.
As such unclear specifications are somewhat of a pillar of software engineering.

However with unclear and perhaps rapidly changing specifications comes a lot of judgement calls on what to build, how to build and what are reasonable shortcuts to take. Software engineers are almost alone in this, most other professions have the "correct" way and all the ways you can do it wrong. In software there is no "correct" way and just many different ways of kinda achieving something "right".
You do need a certain amount of it, yeah.
I didn't know about nativescript before, thanks for bringing it to my attention! That said, it looks like nativescript promotes single code for multiple platform, which means the app won't look awesome in any of them (examples from history: phonegap, java awt). I would be much more comfortable with it if I could just use JS to access native controls and style them using the established (platform specific) methods. I am guessing css will never support each and every widget property... Is this approach possible with nativescript?
It depends what you mean by historic, most of the basements will be areas first developed during the Georgian or Victorian periods. In the City of London and Westminster, which were the major historic centres, you aren't going to find many houses. Roman London was basically within the bounds of The City, and that is now almost entirely office buildings and some apartment blocks. This discovery is from about 1km² in The City, where Bloomberg Europe are building their new headquarters.
Like every "we are doomed" answer there's a core of truth in here: If something is used and/or changed it will probably break down.

Given that and trying to use it as starting point for something more helpful: Sofware is nothing special here. Your things will - depending on their quality - break down with time, especially when you tinker with them and/or use them. You can push this further into the future using maintenance, repairing damaged parts and so on, but at some point you will have repaired so much that you will in essence have a new thing, not the old thing anymore.

The task is to balance your efforts with your use case. An engine which has to work for one formula one race is constructed very different from one which has to work 200 or 300k kilometers. Again, software is nothing special here. If your software has to work for one run "doing it right" may be a luxury. If you need your software for years to come your luxury becomes necessity.
All all the tools mentioned and similar tools are great and it would be a good idea to integrate them in the development process, but I don't think they're that useful to diminish technical debt.

Technical debt to me is uncessary dependencies, anti patterns etc. The only way to prevent this is a good code review were people pay attention to such things. Ideally the code author and the reviewers have the right thinking: after checking for correctness, they ask themselves "is this code modular/reusable/easily testable/easy to debug/..."

Hopefully the testing is already here, but that's in a perfect situation
I find the commentary from (in no particular order): Chamath, Paul Graham, Sacca, Gurley, Chris Dixon, Balalji Srinivasan, Reid Hoffman mostly educational or at least entertaining. A random collection of notes on VC and investing: https://github.com/DeBraid/investing-notes
I expect it is because people who want to provide something like your service-oriented OS will do it as an application layer over existing operating systems.

This also gives them the flexibility to factor the problem into smaller bits. Cap'n Proto is a service-oriented something-or-other, built on capabilities and even typed objects. But it does not give a flying -ck about storage.
There's a little-known way to solve that problem for any paper: post the link to /r/scholar, and you'll get the full pdf within a couple hours.
Trying to prove? I'm trying to get feedback and input on this project. Any feedback is good :)
Reddit has TWO differently shoddy mobile websites: i.reddit.com and the perma Beta m.reddit.com
The problem with those of us who make money in the tech field is that it's often pretty much binary.. all work pretty much all the time (and decent to great money) or no work (living on savings). Add to this employer's resistance to hire if you have you haven't been working lately... :/
Please don't create many obscure throwaway accounts on HN.
This forum is a community. Anonymity is fine, but users should have some consistent identity that other users can relate to. Otherwise we may as well have no usernames and no community at all, and that would be an entirely different forum.
>Sorry, but we have to keep our spam-detecting tactics hush-hush. If I were to share that information and word got out, it would be like releasing access to some of our security protocols into the big, wide world. I hope you understand.

I don't know much about spam-fighting, so I don't know to what extent this "obscurity" strategy is viable there, but this is at best a bad analogy since the consensus seems to be that security protocols that you have to hide are not good security protocols.
Free SSL certificates without installing anything or knowing much? Sure can
They are actually defending against change
> binary thinking is the exact opposite of being a Hacker

Would that were true, but I fear that all those 0s and 1s pattern our brains in even more intensely binary a way.
The whole point of distributed version control is that if Github shuts down (or locks you out), you can still do your work.

Them making your account read-only should not lead to you not being able to do anything.
You mean the company run by a South African?
Sure, but we're talking about the finals here, not a regular season game. Of course a huge number of people want to go. During the regular season I have no problems getting tickets. Demand is huge, so the price goes up.
Is that a flaw in media queries, or we devs writing bad queries?
Wikipedia has a large audience in areas where bandwidth is very much an issue.
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I agree - it's too much effort to be young :(
Even in the UK where you need to pay to watch over the air TV, FM radio is free and has music. Choices are limited, and advertisements are invasive, but it provides a baseline experience.
I've just opened the GitHub repo and I see no trace of TypeScript, no .ts files anywhere
That looks very hard like it's trying to be a Maven project.
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Marc Andreessen explicitly states in this podcast that he's not a value investor. He goes on to explain his actual investment thesis in it as well.
I'm always surprised when other people are surprised that these centrally controlled third parties have the ability to control access to data that you give them.

Why is it so surprising and upsetting that something like this occurred? I've always taken the approach that data shared to these types of services are, fundamentally, out of my ultimate control - is this not a common viewpoint?

By using GitHub, or any other service for that matter, you're literally giving someone else your data to manage and are at their mercy. Yes, you'd hope that that service would continue to operate and provide value to you but you do have to take steps to make sure that you have alternatives in place should the worst happen.

The real core of it is what is it that make events like these so intensely surprising and personal to those who experience it?

Finally, I'd have to say that GitHub did everything correctly here, they responded quickly, rectified the fault and gave a reasonable answer.
> I don't know of a modern chat app that doesn't have [the seen indicator].

I don't use those either. I stick to texting and iMessage.

> The point of using Messenger is that you're not tied to any other portion of Facebook.

You're tied to their ad platform. Whether you view those ads or not are up to you; but you are nonetheless tied to it. They analyze your private conversations with the eventual hope to manipulate you.
Individual player and team stats, probably at a per-game resolution, would be ideal. Relational works great but any format could work. Additionally, a join table of player-team memberships over time (per season?) would be useful for visualizing timelines. Bulk data downloads could also be useful, since the tool I'm envisioning wouldn't depend so much on real-time data as the ability to explore past trends.
In many cases, it's not about putting the fire out when they become large. It's about containment, control and mitigation, which (competent) people are able to do.
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I am attempting to solve a couple of issues with Twitter.

1. Overflowing Timeline
Due to sheer volume of tweets, some are dropped which could be important to you.

2. Alerts for Important Updates
Twitter is realtime and contains breaking information sooner than most other news channels. Again due to the volume of tweets, its hard to know when and what to alert you.

Solution
I’ve made an attempt at solving these with a couple of apps

1. Iπstant
Iπstant lets you create micro groups of five users Twitter users important to you letting you create focused timelines. As the tweet volume is controllable, the tweets are not dropped and you get to see more of whats important to you.

For e.g. you can create a group for your close friends, a particular set of news orgs, reporters or industry leaders you are following, your competitors, users tweeting about an ongoing event, ….

You can enable timed realtime alerts for every tweet received in a group. This lets you control who to receive the alerts from and for how long. The alerts contain the full tweet text, letting you follow along without opening the app or simply from your Apple Watch.

iTunes Link: http://bit.ly/instant-itunes

2. Treπds
While Twitter shows trends, it does not as yet alert you when something important is happening. This app uses a custom algorithm to determine which of the Twitter trends to alert you about. The alert also contains the full text of the most popular tweet letting you get a gist of the trend simply from your lock screen or Apple Watch without opening the app. No Twitter account is required to use the app making it an easy way to onboard non-twitter users.

iTunes Link: http://bit.ly/trends-itunes

I’d love for you to try out these apps and see if you find them useful.

Thanks,
Aashish

twitter.com/aashishpatil

Previous Work
Eπvelope - “Fantastic alternative to Google Inbox” - BGR.com
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Name one mammal besides humans who drink milk as adults?

P.S. I love cheese and will forever eat it but I don't drink milk.
Here's a list of data sources for baseball specifically: https://github.com/baseballhackday/data-and-resources/wiki/R...
Sci-hub doesn't have it?
The longer the string of simulations, assuming they have the concept of time, the more likely one in the chain will end and the entire rest of the chain cease to exist.
To be fair, Cap'n Proto is a sub-project of Sandstorm.io which is basically an operating system and cares deeply about storage. But Cap'n Proto can be used independently...
>said that Jews are devils

Not quite, but you're right; he was far from perfect. He cheated on his wife numerous times as well, and many of his views changed as he grew older.

I think we can look up to what he did right and still acknowledge that he was flawed like the rest of us. I hope no one judges me solely by the things I did when I was in my twenties.
You will be even more sad when you start researching the history of operating systems and systems programming and discover the safety that we already had in the 60's in systems like Burroughs that was destroyed by UNIX's industry adoption.
Many people have commented on the misogyny and racism on tech forums like HN. However, calling it out on HN gets you banned from HN.
Like Pepperjack? :o)
I tested Findface and it was unable to find my Vkontakte account, despite a copious amount of photos on my account there. It did, however, find a huge number of Russians that I would say look exactly like me. Also, strangely, a couple of Vkontakte accounts that had Agent Gibbs as profile pics. It's a pretty cool app!
The issue is that all these bits and pieces are wonderful for developers, and to a lesser extent sysadmins, but not so wonderful for users, who still get to interact with their systems using much the same paradigm as when the first desktop operating systems came out.

The closest I can find would be Sandstorm, which ends up being a frankenstein mashup of Linux and a capability system.
Keeping a capability secret is a perfectly valid approach to providing security. If you publicise a capability then an attacker can work to defeat that capability very easily and directly. By keeping it secret you force the attacker to first find out you have it and unpick that capability in order to defeat it.

Security by obscurity cannot be the only approach to security, but it's certainly a valid tool. Militaries and security services the world over rely on it throughout history for instance.
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He had been treated poorly by whites his entire life. I'm sure you can appreciate how that would affect a person. He was also very young and became more tempered as he grew older.
From the same article, "One of Ali's greatest regrets — and he said as much — is that he never patched things up with Malcolm, that he never told Malcolm how important he was to him."
The vitriol on this thread is surprising and disappointing, but I can reassure you that it's also uninformed: re-posting things that have received little or no discussion, after some decent interval, is a norm on HN and is encouraged.

It would be a bad idea to post this story again in another month, but your last post got no comments at all, so this is presumably totally legit.
Glassdoor data is often not good indicator as you can filter by only recent reports. So some numbers can be older than 5 years.
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Walmart recently (this year) changed their pay structure so that nobody will make less than $11/hour, which is good for jobs that don't even require high school or the ability to speak English, so data from 2011 is outdated.

But being paid $11/hour still means that at the workers with dependent children will still be on Medicai and other public programs.

Very few unskilled jobs pay enough that a single mom is not going to qualify for benefits, so these stats probably reflect more than anything who the company hires or retains. If they hire lots of single moms, they will be lots of employees collecting benefits. If they hire more men, older people or younger people, they will not.
"OS X, though it's always a slightly old version"

Apple ships the last version that had a GPL2 license. That version gets older by a day every day.

On OS X 10.11.2, it seems to be bash 3.2 (http://opensource.apple.com/source/bash/bash-99/, via http://opensource.apple.com/release/os-x-10112/), which is from October 12, 2006 (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2006-10/msg00006...)

I wouldn't call that slightly old.
Yeah, I read the article and a lot of these were on open accounts with no password required. The most charitable read is they're trying security through obscurity.

I wonder if any of them have heard of VNC Roulette.
I would argue that the idea is not quite mainstream yet outside the tech community. The tech community though is very concerned about UBI as we see automation barrelling down the line and making a large percentage of the population unemployable. When that happens many a programmer would like to not be lynched in the streets by Luddite mobs for doing their job.
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what seems to be the main cargo of the plane - illegally trafficked (by the airline itself) caiman skins:

https://operationthonapa.com/an-international-smuggling-ring...

"Pieces of snake/alligator/crocodile skins are scattered all over the mountain. In picking up a plane part for a closer look, often there would be crocodile hide on or near the part. They are in such abundance that we actually became quite sick of them as we combed the field for the black box.

...

While we don’t think this is the sole reason for the bungling of the investigation immediately following the crash (10 months before an expedition was mounted!), these illegal animal skins are part of a larger pattern of smuggling illegal goods on Eastern Airlines commercial flights. Someone in the organization was making money on these sketchy practices. If some of this money found its way to the right pockets, it would been easy to delay the appropriate investigational response until many feet of snow/ice covered the crash site."
It seems unlikely they'd bring the encryption in. I often have several messengers open. My phone, my tablet, my home desktop, my home laptop, my other home laptop, my work desktop, my work laptop. How will encrypting like Whatsapp keep that working? Some how they'll always be tunneling to my phone from all the various machines?

Also, as an alternative, Hangouts stores my chat history in gmail (opt in), so unlike Messenger/Line/Whatsapp I have a history of all my chats on Hangouts which I actually find very useful.

That said, 99% of my friends and family are on FB Messenger
[...] it doesn't account at all for how badly someone wants a ticket [...]

Only given that there a lot less rich than poorer people it seems pretty unlikely that badly wanting a ticket would correlates with being able to spend a lot of money on a ticket. And I would actually suggest that the extend to that people would like to buy anything is mostly independent of their wealth. Why would a poor guy be less interested in owning a private island than a billionaire? There are just a lot more things in front of an island that they have to take care of first.

[...] and to whatever extent it might be gameable, the poor will always be the least well-equipped to game it.

Certainly true but that is not an argument against a lottery because it applies to most if not all systems.

Also, while you can't clone Taylor Swift and put on 10 shows at once, if the full market value for popular tickets went to the people creating that value (instead of resellers), there are actually lots of ways the market could respond to increase supply. Taylor Swift could do more shows per city. Or more shows per day. Or livestream to multiple venues. Or build extensions on the venue. Or build new venues specifically for this kind of thing. The list goes on.

As far as I can tell being on tour is a really tough job. They could maybe have two or three sets of the equipment with separate crews and cut down the time between shows but that will take you only so far. Also being close to the stage is very different from being a hundred meters away or only looking at a screen. There is certainly some room but I don't think it is that much. And in the case of sports events it is certainly even worse, you can't have games every day or so.

Besides that, the argument that a smaller share for resellers and a larger share for the artists could help in the way you mentioned is not limited to any specific distribution strategy and applies as well to a lottery-like scheme.

A giant band can't be duplicated exactly, but they do have lots of competition. They compete with other bands, the movie theater, a quiet night in, the bowling alley, etc. It's entertainment. So if floating ticket prices put the tickets out of reach of most fans, the market will find a way to increase supply.

Sure, you can always do something entirely different, but we are discussing ticket allocation for a specific event. Doing something else if you can't get a ticket is not a solution to the problem.

Otherwise the average fan goes bowling, and long term you lose your core fan base. The supply will increase to meet the demand. Maybe via one of the ideas above, and maybe via something that we can't even think of right now (and which someone will get rich for figuring out).

As said before, I am not convinced that the supply side is elastic enough in this case. Personalized tickets and lottery-like sales are actually things that quite a few bands and events do in order to keep the price under control.
It's somewhat ironic that your comment was also posted twice. :)

FWIW, I don't disapprove of you submitting this twice. I, like most people, did not see the original submission, so why not.
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Certainly, but many companies have centralized around Github to the point that it's integrated into their workflows (e.g. deployment).
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> And both are in a race to become the world’s first Universal Map — that is, the first map used by a majority of the global population

First I've heard someone say that about any Apple product.
Thanks Alan for the Q&A. It was great to see you giving answers and your own thoughts on aching questions we had. Glad to have you as part of HN