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I'm confused. This was on the front page a moment ago. Now it is not.

This article was

119 points @ 3 hours

Current front page contains (sampled):

38 points @ 2 hours

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59 points @ 3 hours

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110 points @ 6 hours

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Or am I just not seeing it?
Icy pools are oases for unique glacier ecosystems
NSFW? It simply NS
Startup company (led by 'Survivor' runner-up Tim Lenahan) targets new industry
A plane (with BRS parachute) falls at 10-20mph, according to BRS's website. Typically a small plane will weigh about 2000-3000lb.

A car in the city will be going at about 30mph, and will weigh about 4000lb.

There are news stories here regularly of cars driving into storefronts. Generally when I hear a story about a Cirrus activating their parachute, it lands on empty space and doesn't do any damage.
BeOS doesn't run on my hardware, I'm pretty sure, even though it was ported to x86 eventually.
> I can't find a hire date for Poettering, but it's possible what you are thinking of is PulseAudio which was started in 2004, and was also controversial in the beginning (there's a trend here with Poettering...)

People complain about Poettering because he's Poettering and about his projects because they are his projects. It's very rare that I see anyone providing any valid criticism, that is not some Red Hat conspiracy bullshit, the Unix philosophy "This is the way it's always been and that's by definition perfect" argument or the portability (read: I don't want obscure-OS-that-nobody-cares-about-or-invests-any-resources-in left behind so please don't take advantage of innovation in the kernel) argument.

What should be controversial is how incredibly shitty and unfairly Poettering is treated by the community.
[I'm a founder.] It was on our site [1] until yesterday -- apparently it is now hidden behind an email collection mechanism. Here's the hotlink[2].

[1] http://reactorcore.com/student-outcomes
[2] http://reactorcore.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/StandardSt...
If I were representing a big, well known company with lots of money to give out in settlements, I'd be much more likely not to say anything than to bother lying.
A 17th Century Spreadsheet of Deaths in London (2014)
Gigster (YC S15) is hiring a PM to help us multiply human leverage
Please mark the post NSFW
It's "empowering" in that sense for anyone to get more money. It's "empowering women" to give them opportunities, including economic opportunities, which they don't already have or to which there are barriers.

What I'm saying is that chickens are not "empowering women" in societies where it is and always has been acceptable, status quo, and already conventional for women to raise chickens; a "woman's animal," small and "close to home," for domestic purposes. They already have that opportunity!

Empowering would be raising goats and challenging the notion of a "woman's animal." Or maybe, you know, getting some education and having a life beyond subsistence farming.
"Aren't going to hire somebody for a leadership position because they met them networking" -- Agreed with sibling posts; relationship-building is extremely important for anyone who wants to be in a leadership role. People will trust you and listen to your ideas when they know you, after all.
Awesome - looks like a really easy and quick way to get started. I'll be trying this out this weekend. And good job on the video - you got right to the point :)
> 2-3 minutes of silence with a stationary camera showing a motionless programmer at their computer, frowning slightly. Eventually they break the silence by swearing.

Then you see them slowly click. Press backspace once. press the 3 key. Click again, and their eyes widen as then they exclaim "Finally!"
I would quit a job like that, unless there were seriously profound reasons for such a grotesque invasion.

1. There are proper ways to restrict activity without resorting to eavesdropping.

2. If they don't trust you enough to be responsible and use good judgement, you're probably stuck in a dead-end situation anyway.

3. In the more rare scenarios, where you might be operating live-saving or life-threatening equipment, or handling the salaries of many people, and dealing with monentary quantities in the many millions of dollars, guess what? You probably shouldn't be using an ordinary computer, with a web browser connected to the internet to perform those sorts of tasks, within the same operating system environment as ordinary web surfing to begin with.
This is a great post and more of these are surely needed. I think the reason we don't see many graduates speaking out is because they feel it might "de-value" their degree which I totally understand.

However the lack of transparency with bootcamps is frightening. Especially regarding how much they charge. I'm not saying all of them are bad. In fact I think it is refreshing to that so many bootcamps popped up since now you have a lot of options. However there doesn't seem to be a lot of price warring yet which I find kind of odd.
Run this and you will be profiled by the NSA as a hapless geek HN reader.
If I were in charge of a publicly traded company I most definitely wouldn't want a scandal like that lurking beneath the surface. It would absolutely leak.
I thought about it, yes, but as SexyCyborg mentions somewhere else, there are a lot of unrealistic expectations to what can be done in China for little money. I saw this all too often also and the people trying to get into this consulting business always end up burnt and living very unhappy lives caught between their angry client and a factory, who thinks they delivered already and then some. You usually get what you pay for and that applies to China too.

I wouldn't mind participating in a forum though.
Monica is the associate you messed up the pitch with because she was alarmingly cute.
What finally made me drop them was when they posted a cartoon of a dude with his pants around his ankles using a fleshlight (or similar) to their front page. IT pros might (legitimately) be reading Engadget at work, and they basically put a giant cartoon porn picture on their front page. The article itself was about the author's personal experience trying a few modern masturbation devices. Seemed inappropriate for the market they're in. Left permanently.
Perhaps I'm mistaken but it seems pretty clear that ontouchstart is implicitly referring to long distance charges which for an international call are I assume still expensive for a 5 hour call.

Although perhaps you can correct me on the cost assumption since it has been years since I made any such call via any other means than VOIP.
This definition of selfishness (which I agree is the most consistent) was strongly associated with Ayn Rand's [1]. Having grown up in Europe, reading her works was quite a shock.

The only thing I'd add is that in my experience "short-sighted self-interested decisions" are made by people who do not understand externalities, and/or who favour a locally optimal but globally sub-optimal scenario (defectors in the Prisonner's Dilemma). "Socialist" policies like a congestion charge or pollution regulation are thus consistent with individual rights and an individualist philosophy.

[1] see: http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/selfishness.html for quotes from her various books.
Based on the original article on Daily Kanban, it sounds like it's not warranty work. The NDA appears to be attached to a discount on out-of-warranty work.
After the 7th or the 8th query, Google's captcha kicked in, asking me to prove my humanity before continuing.
>They see a gap in the law and try to take it from "the big guys", who have it anyway.

There's a difference between suing Google or MS for patent violations, and suing some small business that's just selling an app on Google Play store. These patent trolls are frequently going after small companies because they know they're more likely to settle. That's sociopathic, it's not like Robin Hood.
When Wolfenstein 3D (or was it Doom?) came out, I spent a month writing a socket library for DECnet, so we could play the game in network mode at a defence lab in which I was working. We had some great times, as in 1992 (1993?) it was uncommon to have a high speed connection between that many computers. Never did get around to releasing that winsock driver (no sourceforge then), which is a pity, as it may well have predated DEC's own socket implementation.

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edit: winsock -> socket, as it was actually written for DOS, before winsock.

Futher edit: Thinking about it, the game might have been Doom and the year 1993, as I don't think Wolfenstein 3D had a multiplayer mode
That really depends on the fuel cell doesn't it?
Why Digital Publishers Use Content Delivery Networks
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. I'll make sure and keep getting to the point.

I invested in a Blue Snowball mic, and I'm making more videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FjlV1PeK2w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62WIaU_eVGE

I'll be making more to cover all aspects of the API: 8 or 9 3-min videos. I think that's all it will take for anyone to become proficient with Flask-Ask and the Alexa Skills Kit. They're easy.

If you try it out this weekend, the Ask constructor has changed from the one in the video

Ask(app)

to

Ask(app, "/")

Also, you don't need to add /_ask to the end of the ngrok URL anymore.

Thank you for your interest!
You can do it with httpuv, but it might a bit clunky. I think better websockets support, and better async generally, is on the roadmap for the next year.
>Not everything but there is OpenZFS, similiar for DTrace, e.g. DNS is unbound that is included, same for OpenSSL and stuff like that.

Eeh ?

OpenZFS is not a BSD upstream project in any way shape or form, heck it did not even originate in the BSD's, it came from Solaris, same with DTrace.

Also AFAIK only FreeBSD of the BSD's support ZFS and DTrace ?

OpenSSL, same here, how is this a BSD upstream project in any shape or form ?

>The *BSDs also share code between them

Very little from what I can tell, unless you count projects which did not originate from one of the BSD's. Anything you can point me to ?

>but it's so simple that it comes down to deactivating something in rc.conf and activating something else.

Based upon your distro choice, this isn't harder in Linux either, nothing you need to venture over to FreeBSD for.

>Killing background processes after leaving the session by default...

Well there is quite a difference here as systemd as a project compared to FreeBSD does not ship binaries, they ship a tarball which is then configured, compiled and deployed by a distro, which in turn decides what options to use as default for their userbase.

Whatever default systemd chooses, it will be right for some and wrong for others, but each distro will most likely choose the option best suited for their userbase (or face complaints).

>there needs to be good reasoning and benefit in changing something.

But who decides what is 'good reasoning' ? That's just a nonsense statement, with practically any change, some people will think it's good reasoning, and some will think it's bad reasoning.

>You're not an sysadmin or are you?

Nope, I'm a developer.
They did kinda sorta almost delete everything. (ok, less realistic than a fencepost error or something. Just sayin')
The word "nerd" is so overused that a supermodel who likes Dickens considers herself a nerd.

It's really not the word it used to be.
I think that was their fatal mistake. The peer-to-peer networking model has made the game feel lifeless and that none of your actions have a persistent effect.

Really wish David B had focused on making a fun solo version of the old game; or a decent online one, not this ... muddle.
I went to a bootcamp in 2014. I think it was detrimental. I came out of it depressed and wholly unequipped for the roles their marketing suggested I'd be ready for.

I don't recommend them.
So a number of high-profile, veteran, respected, typically anti-authoritarian members of the hacking community - including multiple Tor project members - have spoken out against Applebaum in the past week. That it's all being orchestrated by some three-letter agency is theoretically possible, sure, but I think that's extremely unlikely. Applying some Occam I just end up with a tragic case of an abusive asshole.

(I don't personally know Appelbaum, nor his accusers, although I've spoken to several of them and seen them at conferences throughout the years. I thought Appelbaum was great at promoting Tor. I also remember my second conversation with him, at 26C3 in 2009: he bragged about how he'd stayed at a squat during his visit in Stockholm the month before and fucked some anarchist girl. Which, at the time, I thought was a bit odd bringing up in casual conversation with someone he didn't know.)
I doubt that 80% of the doctorates in biology could do that.

I dropped out of academia, but I effectively did that myself, by starting a nonprofit research organization and acquiring the resources to conduct science from almost zero.
Shameless plug.

Can't speak too much for it just yet (working through sponsorships, etc), but some friends and I are setting up a 160p LAN in Chicago later this year. It's particularly neat since we're not the only ones to have similar goals. LANs are coming back ;).

We also do ~monthly LANs out in Wauconda (Chicago suburbs) area if anybody's interested.

Here's just some preliminary stuff we've been working on. The switch we have is the same as LHC's: http://imgur.com/a/BICDK
Indeed. The way everyone was ready to assume the worst interpretation of his words in the evivarfs fiasco[1][2] was telling.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10999335

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11152880
FWIW, I've seen that sort of language about "goodwill repairs" for instances where a company agrees to fix things that are out of warranty - a friend signed something similar to that to get a replacement frame on a Ducati ST4 which was ~3 years out of warranty. They covered the cost of a new frame and several thousand dollars worth of labour to install, but asked for an NDA (rumours from the time suggest they didn't enforce the NDA requirement, and fixed people's bikes anyway if they refused to sign).
Hopefully QNX can make it out alive.
Sure it does; there's no pricing (and therefore market) power if the mechanism, however novel and eligible for protection, has alternatives with equal utility.
This reminds me of something I read on HN a while back and forgot to bookmark. (Naturally I've been unable to find it since.)

I think the article was written by a company who made a static code analysis tool. They described how there wasn't a large difference in quality between FOSS and proprietary code, except for one detail: FOSS code used "else" statements much less.

Anyone have any idea what I'm thinking of or if I'm even remembering it correctly?
Stories that get flagged by users will drop in their rankings; this story was probably flagged by users.
> And libertarianism itself doesn't say anything about making money... there are plenty of "hippie libertarians" who don't give a shit about making money.

And yet... there aren't a lot of women or minorities in the libertarian movement, and despite your 'hippie' comment, most of the voices are from people with well-paying jobs.

Libertarianism doesn't mention money per se, but the effect of it is that people who already have money and network effects don't have to share their bounty.

Hell, I remember arguing with one libertarian who was crystal clear on property rights, and that property could never be taken away if you didn't sell it yourself; the government had no right to take land (yadda yadda, Zero Aggression Principle) and any land transfers after that are moot because it would have been taken by force.

Okay, says I, then give your property back to the Native American tribe it was taken from. The rhetoric then changed to 'oh, I could only give it to a person who could show that they owned the exact plot of land that I had'. What, the specific plot of land that is only described by the entity that violently took it? That communal ownership that was tribal lands meant that somehow you could claim individual ownership over it anyway?

This is what libertarianism means to me, and to a lot of what you deride as 'statists'. It's a lot of superficially nice-sounding rhetoric, which boils down to "I get to keep all my stuff, and don't have to share. So what if my bounty is built on the backs of others, my stuff is my stuff".
Honestly I feel like the golden age of bootcamps is coming to an end. A lot of schools jumped into the market and it just seems like quality is dropping.

Having worked at a bootcamp as an instructor and having hired multiple bootcamp grads I've noticed that typically you'll have 2 or 3 really great students and then 20 who got little value from the program. Bootcamps work wonders for that small percentage of students though. A lot of people who had some pretty shitty career paths ended up going from $12.00/hr to $100,00/yr within a few years of the program.

That's life changing; sadly it's the exception, not the rule.
I agree. "Sad" is the wrong adjective.

I've seen similar stories take place when I was in grad school.

In one instance, a professor wanted to fail a student (in his qualifying exam) b/c he didn't seem to take one of his courses seriously (and showed limited knowledge of this subject area).

The prof was willing to let the student re-take the qualifying exam, but he wanted to prevent what he perceived as a student "skating through" the program.

I think that's what happened to Heisenberg here. The only reason it's remotely interesting is b/c Heisenberg is a legend and so we all feel like he deserved to be forgiven for his distaste for experimental work.
That's awesome.

What's your approach to internet connectivity and wifi? How much power are you budgeting for?
Returning-in-kind is actively discouraged on HN.
No, it sounds like a means to suppress reporting to Federal regulators to avoid a recall order.
Yes you are trying to time the market but interest rates cannot go any lower, literally.

In hindsight, it will have looked obvious.
RIMjobs for everyone!
A goodwill repair means one done outside the normal warranty period. So, no, they don't have to.
That makes perfect sense. You're going to be best able to judge the quality of the dogfood you're making if you are in fact a dog.
I use minihack on iOS, it works quite well for reading and posting. UX is a little under designed, but it does its job
The Construct: A Cloud-Based Robot Simulator
I'm not talking about mere drudgery. Look, I've got a decent amount of work experience. I know the 40-hour grind. I know how to navigate tricky relationships with colleagues. I know how to deal with and succeed in average-case corporate politics. None of that is what I'm talking about.

I'm talking about abject treatment. Being demeaned, discriminated against, yelled at, spoken to in exceedingly unprofessional ways and having no recourse to defend yourself, and being 'punished' for things that the executives may dislike, but for which it is literally illegal to punish employees (like violations of the NLRA).

That's the big stuff. Smaller stuff would be the ubiquity of unhealthy working conditions, bait-and-switch jobs that require incomprehensibly higher quality work experience than what they plan to give out, severe politics, and overwork (which, seriously, I don't know where you are finding these magical 150k jobs for 40 hrs a week. The experience of literally every single software professional I know is completely at odds with that, and my own experience is as well).

That you glibly throw in things like "but remote I'd imagine you could easily find something for 80k at 40hrs a week or less" is frustrating. For example, in my current rural living situation, I do not even have access to stable high-speed internet. I use 4G tethering through my phone just to browse the internet most of the time, and even that is slow and spotty. There is no way I could work remotely here, and even at that $80k would not be enough for basic cost of living plus support for the on-going family obligations (and would be a drastic pay cut for me anyway). To boot, there really isn't a large supply of remote jobs. I frequently check for them at Stack Overflow Careers, We Work Remotely, and other sites, and there's just nothing. Like most other sources, I have to filter our tons and tons of irrelevant web framework jobs, and for what's left, nothing is remote. Even finding jobs that offer adequate (or any) relocation assistance is incredibly hard. Basically, if you don't already live in a glamorous urban area, you get shit on. That's not just some angsty comment. That's just simply what has happened when I search for a job.

Many of the things you say sound reasonable on a surface layer, but there isn't the substance behind them. The reality of the situation is just not within the bubble you've been able to experience. That's not your fault -- indeed it is near impossible to adequately get someone to understand my situation. Many of my friends are used to spending tons on eating out at expensive urban restaurants, buying expensive subscription services for fashion and entertainment, living with ubiquitous public transit and easily available access to high-speed internet, etc. They can't understand life in poor America when you flip all those things and live hundreds of miles from any region which could even remotely offer a relevant or minimally-well-paying job to support your immediate needs.
True, but there's something to be said for companies that execute well. Providing a smoother service or more intuitive/sleeker product can be the distinguishing factor that makes a company stand out, and you want cycles of that mixed in with cycles of innovation.

Not that I'm making an argument that Uber itself executes particularly well. I have no idea about that.
Single data point here, but I'be heard of BMW doing work or even taking back cars under NDA.
haha wow, I remember reading this several years ago. I really need to learn how to play that game...any reccomendations for how to learn?
It's a shame we can't just temporarily erase all the geopolitical boundaries, let everyone stuck in a "climate death zone" pick up and move to the nearest hospitable region (with public-works-sponsored rebuilding at the destination), and then put the countries back on the map as simple Voronoi polygons delineating the places each group of people ended up—basically the way most US states were created, but on a larger scale and for environmental rather than political/religious reasons.

(Hell, if we had done that a long time ago, maybe humanity as a whole could have abandoned the hotter parts of the middle-east and the colder parts of Canada+Russia, and nobody would be fighting over those today, any more than people fight over Antarctica.)
I don't think you can generalize at all. Your comment is essentially self stereotyping. I'm good at math so I must be asian. Oops, that doesn't work for me.

Blackberry was a great company once, with wonderfully generous founders that donated tens of millions of dollars to fundamental physics research. No longer.

Now the Blackberry PRIV is PRIV until they say it's UNPRIV. That sounds like false advertising to me. I feel downright sorry for their customers in repressive countries.

There have been quite a few stories lately about their sales doing terribly. I wouldn't be surprised if this leak was some kind of purposeful act of desperation to drive sales by ingratiating themselves with their government and corporate accounts that see this as a feature. For shame.
Sadly if you're not experienced enough to know when it's okay to break the rule, you probably don't know whether or not you're experienced enough to break the rule.

That experience comes from breaking the rule and living through the outcome.
> And other similar and very recent account of the US gov harassing Tor developers:

> https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/fbi-harassment.html

It could be noted that the core Tor developer (@isislovecruft) who wrote that post has also spoken out against Appelbaum.
Do you guys have API?