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I recall having read that the Home Office has a uniquely corrupting effect on its ministers. Also, it's not like the border was a gentle stroll through pleasant parkland prior to 2010. In fact, it was pretty much the same.

In general, it's not really practical to vilify individuals over policies and the actions of the bureaucracy -- that's different from not holding them responsible for things they're responsible for, but it's too easy to forget that Snooper's Charter was voted out of committee 444 to 69 a few days ago. They're all rotten.
The ground footprint for VTOL vehicles using beamed power is a lot smaller. Even a vertical accelerator built up the side of a skyscraper would have a larger footprint and higher costs.
Some context, for those who haven't been following:

- Peter Thiel, Tech Billionaire, Reveals Secret War with Gawker[1]
- Hulk Hogan awarded payout over Gawker sex tapes[2]
- $115M verdict in Hulk Hogan sex-tape lawsuit could wipe out Gawker[3]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11774588

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11315985

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11318100
If your relationship with your users is purely as a parent, knowing better than they what they do, then your analysis is correct.

It is possible that these children might have some useful ideas about how to use their tools, which you did not anticipate.

I would encourage you to use this analysis to decide 'what to put on the basic config knob box', rather than 'what freedoms will I permit my users'.
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chiming in here - i went from making salary ~80k at google in a non tech role, to 106k salary at a start up working remotely. i'd say with all the benefits at google, i probably made more with bonus, stock, and perks, but i'm happier now with what i'm doing - my work is more fulfilling. the investment i made in HR was worth it to me.
> we just want to make sure that the split is truly equitable.

Perceptions dominate all parts of negotiation. If they don't like you, don't trust you, they won't hear you.

How do they value things? Learn their standards.

First: Have a human conversation, consider the world from their point-of-view.

On the subject of negotiating, Stuart Diamond is brilliant > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks_FU9saToM&index=3&list=PLg...
You're confusing first-class and higher-order functions.
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I was thinking precisely this.

"User-friendly" depends entirely on the user in question. I find Gnome 2 to be considerably more "user-friendly" than Gnome 3, because Gnome 3 frustrated my attempts to do what I expected to be able to do.

For that matter, I consider bash (and coreutils and family) considerably more user friendly than Gnome, for a given value of "user" (me).
Y some of them are really cool like VB, Hadoop and Spark
'The media company [...] had assets of $50 to $100 million and liabilities of $100 million to $500 million, filings showed.'

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/10/gawker-media-files-for-ch-11-...
Clearly the article is by some dev shop and anybody who has worked on an app with the scale of Instagram, or even a fraction of Instagram's scale, knows that this entire article is misleading. If you wanted to actually create Instagram, as it is Today, it would be an incredibly large undertaking.
Messed up lawsuit and I actually don't know what to think.

1) Gawker was garbage dwelling story makers. I am glad they aren't going to do stories anymore.

2) Who will it be the next time something happens like this will it be a actual journalist and good content producer that gets sued to death? Scared for journalist????

Also would be nice to see LifeHacker survive this.
> The handlers, they talk like you aren’t listening.

Experienced this at US border a few months ago. Officers repeatedly referred to my wife and another man's wife (both Chinese) as "bitches". After flying 12 hours from Hong Kong and not wanting to be put back on a plane, the best you can do is shut up and play their games until they let you through.

I was also told by the officer that I was stupid for having shown my visa and "nobody does that" (I'm a Canadian who works in the US, I was under the impression I had to show it each time I re-entered... still confused about what he meant).
News flash: Peter Thiel does something productive with a lot of money. (This isn't the first time, but it's still newsworthy when it happens. In no small part, because it doesn't always work.)
A mathematician was walking home from campus one day, and as he walked he was pondering a particularly thorny problem. At one point, he snapped out of his reverie and looked around and realized that he had no idea where he was. He saw a young boy playing with a ball in a yard, and figured maybe the boy could tell him the way home. So he says to the boy, "young man, do you know where Prof. So-and-so lives?"

The boy looked at him and said, "Dad, what's wrong with you?"
Of course Teslas have spill-brakes (brakes that convert kinetic energy into heat and then spill it into the atmosphere). Regenerative braking is great, but safety still requires disc brakes.

And Mr. Musk will sell you red ones for a couple of kilobucks. http://shop.teslamotors.com/products/performance-red-caliper...
Ah, schadenfreude at its finest!
LifeHacker?
“Star had many fewer commands than today’s systems, and it didn’t do it by having fewer functions. It
just had fewer commands.” — Dave Smith¹ at The Final Demonstration of the Xerox ‘Star’ Computer²

Most UX designers are not as good as David Smith; they worship Apple/Jobs' “function follows form” misunderstanding of the Star GUI, and think you need to remove functionality in order to remove complexity.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Canfield_Smith

² video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OwG_rQ_Hqw text: http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...
here's a summary:

Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy Friday and the company will be put up for auction after a judge ruled that a $140 million jury judgment against it in a costly legal battle with former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan would stand.

The sale auction will begin with an opening bid of $100 million from the digital media company and publisher Ziff Davis LLC, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The sale was triggered after the judge overseeing the invasion-of-privacy case brought by Hulk Hogan—whose real name is Terry Bollea—declined to issue a stay pending Gawker’s appeal.

Proceeds from a sale will go into a fund to finance further litigation costs and cover whatever damages may ultimately be leveled following the appeals process, which could take years to resolve.

Two weeks ago, it emerged that Silicon Valley billionaire and investor Peter Thiel has been financing Mr. Bollea’s legal fight and other such battles involving people who Mr. Thiel feels have been targeted unfairly by the media company.
Sorry, but this is just victim blaming.

Innocent people should not have to avoid being truthful or complete in their answers just to avoid arousing "suspicion". Innocent people should not have to know ahead-of-time that giving honest and complete answers to an official will lead to this kind of treatment. This kind of treatment should not be acceptable under any circumstances for people who are actually innocent and/or have not done anything that would cause suspicion in a reasonable person. Giving complete answers is not reasonable grounds for suspicion.

What you're saying may be good advice in practical terms, but implying it's a sensible default is basically surrendering to an insane, broken system.
It was a long time coming.
... or you are Rich Hickey :)
Please... Betteridge's Law... please be true...
Precisely: just setup the server and off you go, you don't have to federate, although as you say that would be missing part of the fun ;)

The Vector app on Android (using GCM) has pretty good perf battery consumption-wise. Unsure how it compares with other apps but we haven't had any particular complaints about it.
As a fan of privacy rights, this pleases me.

Also, sites like Gawker benefit from encouraging the most base aspects of our culture. Seeing one head of the hydra getting chopped off isn't really progress, but it is satisfying.
Gossip rags come and go. As long as there are celebrities there will be celebrity tabloids.

Privately funding a lawsuit for someone else so you can settle a grudge is ethically dubious, at best.

The American system of allowing juries instead of judges to set reward amounts only ultimately benefits overpaid lawyers, and society as a whole is worse off from the damages of frivolous lawsuits.

That's all I think there really is to say about that...
Gawker Files for Bankruptcy After Losing Hulk Hogan Privacy Case
One of the downsides of posting so much information about ourselves online is that it can be used against us and there isn't really any way to stop it.

This is why I don't post very much on my FB account and use it mostly just to get updates from friends/family.
Person doing QA ( The client himself can even do it ) + small test suite for critical operations.

IMHO MVP means a product that users can use, but not full-blown scalable platform.
I remember when I came to the US 3 years ago.

I had a return ticket.
I had sufficient funds to pay for a hotel, food, travel around the city.
I had medical insurance.
I was self employed.

The problem I had? When I told the border patrol inspector who was asking me questions, that my stay was 3 months vacation. His reaction was like... NO WAY, THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN.

This was in New Jersey. I was brought to the back, answered all the questions. They took my phone and went through it. When the other border guard came back, he said there were "inconsistencies" with my story. I just said "Oh ok" and held firm.

He called the contact I had even him and I think what helped, was the woman who answered. Bitched at him for 5 minutes straight, she was at the airport. I was staying with her until I got a hotel and she was demanding to know "as a tax payer". Why I was there, when I was visiting her and I was a tourist.

They let me through.

After the 3 months, I returned back to the UK for 2 weeks. I then went back to the US. This time, I had learnt my lesson and went via New York. The border patrol officer this time didn't even look at me. I presume he saw my previous flight information and that AGAIN, I was staying for 3 months.

He stamped my passport and "off you go".

I've travelled all over the world. Wherever I go and for whatever duration. I am a tourist. End of story.
No. Permitted paid engagements are:

"An expert may give lectures in their subject area, if they have been invited by a UK Higher Education Institution; or a UK based research or arts organisation provided this does not amount to filling a teaching position for the host organisation."

"A professional artist, entertainer, musician or sports person may carry out an activity directly relating to their profession, if they have been invited by a creative (arts or entertainment) or sports organisation, agent or broadcaster based in the UK."

She doesn't qualify for either. The former because she wasn't invited by any UK institution, nor a Higher Education, Research, or Arts organisation. The latter because she is not a professional artist or entertainer, nor invited by arts or entertainment organisation, agent, or broadcaster based in the UK.

I have to say, the rules are fairly straightforward. I followed the application process online as if I was her, and it's really quite obvious that she'd need to apply for a visa. It tells you to check the list of what you're allowed to be paid for, and what I quoted above is what it says.

Her blog post can be summed up as:

1. Was refused entry to UK because I didn't have the right docs. Will make damn sure I have the right documentation next time!

2. Go back. Oh shoot, I didn't have the right docs this time either.

3. British border control doesn't treat you too nicely when you show up again without the proper visa. Poor me.

4. Well then, I'm never going back. huff
Brave New World wasn't supposed to be a product pitch
I feel like Lifehacker might have been somewhat unique in say 2006 but that whole "productivity" space has become somewhat saturated.
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The elephant in the room is Bluetooth - Bluetooth 5.0 spec is coming out this week, I think. And there are the codecs like AptX, etc.

I'm shocked at how good the sound quality is on my Sennheiser Momentum 2.0 Bluetooth headphones. If anyone had told me that I could get that kind of dynamic range and nuance in the audio over Bluetooth, I wouldn't have believed him. And that's with Bluetooth 4.x.
The big difficulty these days is mobile. When I'm traveling, I can download a simple HTML page pretty quickly, but every request is a crapshoot. If I need more than a few small requests to use your site, I'm likely not getting it depending on where I am.
In your context, you forgot the step before those:

- Gawker outs Pether Thiel
Purveyors of news take note. Provide news. Don't engage in useless insight into peoples' personal peccadilloes which have little if any bearing on people at large. Don't be lured by the clickbait revenue model or trade in inconsequential lurid tales and try to pedal it as hard news.
Gawker may have been terrible, but we should all be a bit concerned at the precedent this sets.

It's sort of like defending the free speech of terrible groups like the KKK. We do it because we treasure free speech, not because we support the KKK.

I generally have positive feelings about Thiel, but his actions here make me very uneasy. I worry that the aristocracy will now use this method to try and close down unfavorable media outlets. I believe this will have a chilling effect on the media in the US.
Damn, you hit the nail on the head! It's like after a divorce looking for someone exactly like your ex-wife down to the very minute detail.
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Also would be nice to see LifeHacker survive this.

Hopefully the market niche of LifeHacker will be polyfilled quickly. Also hopefully, the market niche of most of the rest of Gawker won't.
> I think I have a better solution. How about keeping HTML/JS and lose the bidirectional protocols used to track you.

Is it that common for trackers to have Websocket/WebRTC as a requirement? Pretty much any trackers I see in the wild is using regular Ajax calls. And if you're a tracking service, it's not exactly hard to fallback to Ajax if Websockets aren't available...

EDIT: My mistake, I misread the first mention of HTTP as HTML.
I was gonna say lifehacker isn't the same anymore for me. But I guess they do have all that content from so long ago others may not have experienced... And the latest stuff isn't so bad. There was a time I just stopped visiting because it was product placement and almost zero new information week after week.
Life hack: Don't read LifeHacker.
Are you suggesting the Hogan suit was groundless?
Does this mean the only sensible bid is between $0 to -$450M?
Partially joking, I think the US Press gains further distance from Tabloid muck-racking. I'm not a trained Journalist or identify as one (different type of writing). But, in my mind, there's a "newsworthiness" level of integrity that is a pre-requisite for breaking open something that was otherwise private or hidden. This was not one of those instances IMO.
This is so true.
I don't think I'm missing the forest for the trees, I'm just complaining about preferences presented as absolutes.

It's absolutely true that "more knobs" is often evidence of laziness, or bad design, or sloppy thinking. Many (most?) programs should have fewer knobs than they do, and should elevate a few of their knobs while burying the rest. Knobs are distracting and confusing even for power users, and there's a lot to be said for putting 90% of the content behind a big red button reading "ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT WHAT YOU WANT".

I primarily objected to two things here:

One is the failure to differentiate general-use software from poweruser software; Photoshop and its ilk are hard to use, but their feature-rich approach is what makes them employment-worthy skills. Glibly applying usage statistics to Photo Viewer and Photoshop equally feels like a category error to me.

The other is bad statistics. "many features are used by <2% of users", well great. But that isn't grounds for hiding/removing them unless it's the same set of users! Most of the data gathered in this article overlooks questions like "will you break 2% of workflows, or 90%?" and "among rarely-used features, how many are one-time preference settings?"

I don't mean to imply that most software is good, we all know better than that. Fewer knobs should be a goal, when all too often more knobs is a goal. But that doesn't mean I'm especially impressed with this treatment of it.
When has accuracy ever been required in the pursuit of money?
Now that we're telling stories:

I was flying home from England to Sweden and going through the inspection before departure. The guy checking me could tell that I was upset about it all, having to remove my belt and maybe even my shoes. When we were done, he had the greatest line: "Thank you for your cooperation, from Mr. Obama."
I want an app that aggregates commercial loan data from across the industry, which is un-standardized, and creates a deep learning platform with a public api that can tell a customer what his individual risk is for both sides of the party in regards to underwriting, processing, and securitization. Based on real time market data and regional inputs. Also taking into account who I've done business with before and relationships.

How much would that MVP cost me?

(hint: $15 million)
Definitely have to agree with you. I do believe it possible to have a functional capitalist society, however it will always devolve into something like the present day as groups natural accumulate large amounts of capital and use it to tip the scales in their favor, continuing the trend and making it so damn hard to account for market externalities or ensure the working class has bargaining power. This also is separate from what I believe to be one of capitalisms greatest ills: worker alienation and the capitalist class expropriating what the employees produce. It creates a huge conflict in society. Collective work requires collective expropriation, otherwise people will feel cheated.

The point about organizing from the bottom up is spot on. I believe many of socialism failings were because of attempts to organize top down and not allowing people to manage themselves. This is why I'm particular to anarchism, as the focus is on creating freely associated communities that come together so power comes from the bottom up and there are no concrete hierarchies. Many also have abandoned the idea of some great revolution to topple the system and instead opt for building structures like co-ops, mutual banks, neighborhood assemblies, community gardens, and charities in hope of building a new society in the shell of the current one.
At this point, I'm just going to enjoy it for what it is. Good prevailing over evil.

Enjoy the wins when they're around. You can never predict the future too well anyway.
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If they had just reported on Hogan's affair without actually releasing the video, would they still have gotten sued?
I also consider HTTP a bidirectional protocol used to track you.
Does the auction include debt obligations?
I've seen and ported such programs. I no longer remember what the problems were, but I think some of them had to do with array initializers - C++11 seems to have become stricter wrt implicit casts of values used to initialize arrays (meaning that more casts need to become implicit.)

Perhaps it's a compiler issue, not a language issue; my only point is that the issue exists (and I'm not saying it was that terrible - I recommend everyone to upgrade to C++11 - just that code will not compile unchanged.)

Sister comments say that they have old C++ code that compiles just fine. Of course such code exists, I'm just saying that not all code is like that; I bet you can get there with Rust or some other reasonably stable new language if you program conservatively enough. Also a big question is what platform your code runs on; if you've targeted gcc since forever and you don't use -Werror, then your code and your Makefiles will be very stable relatively to having to port to VS - even if you're not really targeting standard C++ but the dialect GNU C++. Different C++ compilers, build environments and platform libraries are very different, and it seems a safe bet that newer languages will do a better job of minimizing differences between implementations (or keeping their number small.)

Porting C++ code compiling fine under g++ to clang, for instance, is a metric ton of work (and this one I gladly wasn't involved in but I've seen others do it; again, if your C++ code ports just fine, more power to you.) And g++ and clang are much closer to each other than the average pair of C++ compilers.
I agree, but feel the root cause is actually easy access to credit. Credit has been driving the economy for the last few decades. If we didn't have easy access to credit that may have forced wages to stay tied to productivity increases.

Oh and the decline of unions meant that workers lost their ability to successfully lobby their government, business meanwhile increased their lobby efforts.

So, I see the root causes as a rigged game against workers. (Rigged as the odds slightly against our favour, so we get just enough wins and benefits as to not realize that we are loosing overall).
Well the hope is that the courts wouldn't rule against an actual journalist for doing his/her job in a lawsuit. I get the "slippery slope" argument but posting a video of Hulk Hogan having sex (taken and posted without his consent) doesn't really qualify as journalism in any way and they really deserved to lose.
Thin skinned billionaires...
what precedent?

that if you say something, you stand by the consequences, financial and all?

that people take responsibility for what they say is not a new development.

new journals are free to start up and take the place of gawker. nothing here stops them from doing so.
Cant read because of paywall, but I have been following along with this "dramady." I wonder what form of invasive media will fill the void in Gawkers wake. If anyone thinks this is the end of Gawkers distasteful form of journalism they are very wrong.

Gawker worked. It was nasty, but it worked. Companies will form and fill the gap; but they'll be more resilient because they'll remember how Gawker fell.
But the point is that types don't belong that the OS level. You can have your type composition in user space, at the language level -- what's the problem with that? Haskell and OCaml run on Unix just fine.

It would be a mistake to bake types into the OS -- whatever that even means -- because nobody has found the perfect type system. For every type system, there are some things that don't fit in the model. (This reminds me of some theorems in the foundations of mathematics...)

There are even libraries to shell scripts in Haskell and OCaml. If there were some inherent advantage to doing so, they could easily replace shell scripts. But I predict they will not.
It wasn't, but the damage amount is excessive.
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Also missing from the timeline:

- Gawker publishes a person's sex tape without their consent.
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