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My product was not a competitive threat. It operated within their ecosystem and was only used to help people give them money faster. A lot of people were pretty confused when they decided to shut it down.

The project's operation depended on accessing factual information published on the F100's web site (things like event times, maintenance status, etc). Since this is data that originates with the F100, there is no reasonable alternative source. Someone else in the community started abusing this data in a way that led to bad press and the F100 unleashed their $1k/hr law firm on everyone they could find that was reading data off their site.

We were sent a cease and desist alleging infringement of the CFAA and copyright/trademark infringement for accessing their web site in a manner disallowed by their Terms of Use (which state the site cannot be accessed by any spider, crawler, bot, or any other automated or manual method). We were able to pay for a few hours with a lawyer who had experience in the CFAA and he tried to get them to agree to a licensing deal, but they refused to do so. Since I could afford to buy 4 hours of his time, the EFF (of which I have been a supporting member off and on for the last 10+ years) decided I didn't need their charity and lost interest since I had shown "ability" to pay for my own attorney.

Barring the materialization of $1 mil+ that I can send to my lawyer, this is where the matter lies.

To be frankly honest, I can understand how, from the perspective of the F100, it's easier if my side project simply doesn't exist. The problem is that their company shouldn't have the right to decide that. We aren't supposed to allow companies to decide who gets to exist.

For example, car companies can't say "Oh, you know, I really don't like 7-Eleven putting gas in our cars, I'm going to send them a C&D telling them to stop." If 7-Eleven is capable of providing a functional gas pump, it is the consumer's choice whether or not they wish to input gas there or at a competitor, and the big car companies have no say in the matter. The same should be true in the digital world, but it's not.
Thanks, but I didn't mind. Seemed like a valid question.
But they are wrong. The GP is not interested on those.

Yes, the "blatantly sexist" bias may have happened due to unbiased empiricism. But the ads as still wrong. Id the GP was an exception, that would be an worthless anecdote, but anecdotes of ads being correct are hard to find.
Increase in the availability of internet on the go and also of storage size also helped things.
Making 'mailto' a bad choice, but iOS does allow you to register URL protocol handlers (better choice: 'x-fooapp:'). I believe it's undefined which app is chosen in the case of conflicts.
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The fact that video objects can be started programmatically is the problem. There should be no API for a page to start a video; it should be only possible for a video to start via a UI action.

It's not just a problem with ads, but with videos in general. If I land in a video-hosting site, I don't want the video to start.
That's cool. Yeah, that possibly makes most sense.

As a general case tho, I think while trying to automate the process of selecting the most useful language is good design, sites should ultimately allow for visitors to choose their language.

If one trusts user's abilities to actually navigate one's site and use it, one should also give them the benefit of doubt that maybe they can figure out how to select a language as well.
> the HAM portion

Just a quick note that "ham" is not an acronym and so isn't written in all-caps.
Probably.

Most ads-supported games have only ads of ad-supported games. That would be sane if it was a fast growing market with reasonable barriers to entry, but "free" games are not.
I don't have any issues with GMO labeling, so long as said labels describe the modification(s) that have been made. This is a lot more useful in helping a consumer make an informed decision
We're not talking about my lack off attention. I've already mostly stopped asking on SO a while and when I do I only do after I have either found the answer or exhausted all other relevant options that I know off (and prepared mentally to be told that it is not relevant because of what I think is <technicality>[0] or not a good question because it is primarily opinion based etc.

IMO we are talking about every newbie that find SO every day and those who don't like dealing with them.

[0]: ok, that last one was on networking stackexchange or something.
263,428 plays over 53,632 songs = 5 plays of each song on average. (updated after comment below)

I haven't "scrobbled" in many years, but checked now that I in 2007 (when I was 16) had 12,377 plays with only 153 unique songs. An average of playing each song 78 times. However, most of the songs I only listened to a few times, so there is basically just ~20+ songs I listened to 250-500 times each that year.

So I guess I was a typical teenager that got obsessed with some songs/artists and listened to them non stop, heh.
Out of curiosity I google searched ergonomic keyboards, found Wikipedia page, saw it stated they may reduce risks of injury but that there is no clear evidence of benefit.

My own reality is I used a "ergonomic" labeled keyboard that I felt caused me more discomfort.

Of course there are convenience trade offs somewhere and laptops to me fall under convenience.
> If Russia or China decides to target our carriers, the response will have nuclear components.

So if a nuclear superpower effortlessly takes out a US carrier using a few Kalibr missiles, we will nuke them and be utterly destroyed, thereby proving the carrier was not vulnerable? By that definition ("I'll nuke you if you touch it") a block of cheddar cheese is invulnerable.
The closest Apple ever got to making a standard was 1394, but even then, other companies were behind it (and thus the famous story about Jobs wanting to charge for 1394 until he found out Apple would be paying a fortune to other companies).

EFI was made by Intel and UEFI was basically EFI 2.0.

Thunderbolt was made by intel (lightning was a cheaper spec from AMD that didn't require expensive active cables). USB-mini breaks and displayport mini is big. What we got instead was USB-C which unifies both of them. Thunderbolt used displayport mini, but the latest 3.0 spec uses USB-C. The fact that all three technologies are starting to unify on the same connector is very beneficial and none of this is dislike for Apple.

Likewise, AMD made the mantle APIs for lower-level work and then turned them over to Kronos where they became the basis of Vulcan. Apple's metal API and doubling down by leaving the Vulcan work group is either "not invented here" or vendor lock-in.
Whatever the solution, it will always be a game of cat and mouse.
> Are you suggesting that the US will initiate nuclear war?

'The United States has refused to adopt a no-first-use policy, saying that it "reserves the right to use" nuclear weapons first in the case of conflict.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use#United_States
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That's exactly how I rationalised it. I use it damn near every day and it's one of the first things I open when I start up my computer at home or at work.
From your second link: "True, if you consider vote buying a type of electoral fraud, the scheme is not fraud-proof."

And of course, "vote buying" can be substituted by "coerced voting". Any system where someone can physically see the voter casting their vote is flawed, regardless of whatever tricks you then use to obscure it once it's in the system.
Too bad we still can't use NTFS flash drives on mac.

Although ExFAT is at least somewhat promising.
Free to play? Free to pay.
Baseline (most robust, up to 10 m range) configuration is 562.5 bps. Tops out at 3 Kbps under ideal conditions (maybe 30 cm range).
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Would be great to see this jump across the Atlantic.
The handling over to callback is exactly what is done by unix signals

Not quite, there are quite a lot of restrictions on what you can do in a signal handler. It ought to be possible to design a callback mechanism without those restrictions. And a signal tells you nothing about its origin or what file descriptor / child process etc. it might relate to.
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The US policy on first-use of nuclear weapons is quite clear. We will use them as an option against another country that is nuclear capable or has weapons of mass destruction (chemical or bio). As a US military war vet do I think we ever would unless faced with overwhelming military odds against us? Nope.

Obama has been doing all within his power (very little due to congress in-fighting) to try and reduce our nuclear stockpile as much as feasible. With 3 seawolf class nuclear missile submarines sneaking around somewhere in the ocean, it is unlikely that anyone no matter how advanced could prevent nuclear retaliation should they pre-empt the US.

That being said, the entire premise of this article is a bit silly, and coming from war is boring, I'm a bit surprised as their stuff is generally spot on. The thing about a full Carrier Strike Group is the blue water ability to project the US air power anywhere in the world. That is what keeps carriers relevant (for now). The new hypersonic glide vehicles might change the game certainly as there isn't really much of any defense against incoming warheads going Mach 10, but those are still a bit out tech-wise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_first_use#United_States
This is the answer. You should never trust any one given voting machine. But it is much, much harder to corrupt large consensus networks, and blockchain based voting lets you maintain pseudonymity and it lets you verify the results with whatever computer you want.

Some neat features you can bake into a blockchain based voting protocol:

* You can have temporary identifiers in the confirmation stage. IE, you cast your vote, you can use other computers for the first couple minutes to verify that vote, but after that your vote is added to blocks as a signature rather than direct identifier tied to the block, meaning once committed neither you nor anyone else has a concrete correlation between you and your vote.

* Alternatively, you can have a dual ledger of voter and vote, where the two are not correlated, but you can identify who has or has not voted but not what they have voted for. This gives you less verification integrity but guarantees anonymity to prevent voter coercion.

* You can have kill switches built in, generated hash keys at vote time that will cancel a vote out unique to the vote, either in the confirmation phase or even when committed (basically the same as adding something to a balance and then removing it again).

* You can use one single protocol implementation for all public record voting, and then have membership restricted groups that define constituencies through sidechains. That way you can leverage an international network of computers to secure all votes you want secured, rather than have easily 51% attacked small chains for each vote or constituency. It would be distinct from trustless models in that you would need some kind of parent organization to arrange membership in voting groups and to establish vote blocks.
Repurposing commercial gear seems within the "spirit" of ham radio to me.
and you have to do that once... big deal.
As I see it, living in the past is the charm of amateur radio. When radio communication was still somewhat exotic, it was new and cool to, if you set everything up just right, be able to communicate over large distances. Now, it's _old_ and cool to be able to do it with those primitive means.
I can see why advertising networks want to use ads which slow down browsers. The only ads I've 'clicked on' lately are those where the site was loading slowly and the bowser registered my click late, on an ad window which changed page layout as it loaded. I think most clickthroughs these days are from the page layout jumping around while rendering and not real. If the page rendered quickly you'd loose all these accidental clicks.
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Bounds checking interfaces in C99

Support:

GCC: Nope, why? Performance concerns

MSVC: Nope, why? Performance concerns

Clang/LLVM: Nope, why? Performance concerns. [1]

[1] LLVM has the op-codes to implement this, but Clang won't emit those op-codes with the c99 switch triggered.
Hmm why's that? I have one
Direct link: https://pibox.com/#/

I thought I tried to try out the web version. I don't have a throw away phone number, so I didn't sign up, so I didn't try it out.

My suggestion for facilitating feedback is to have a tour or a lower friction signup even if that means reduced functionality or simulating parts of the app. I mean, the landing page knew I was coming from Hacker News, so instead of coding up a popup to tell me that [I already knew it], why not dump me into something to play with?

Good luck.
Block all ads, all the time. No exception.

It's not an ad blocker. It's malware protection.
> If I can vote from wherever I like, then someone can stand over my shoulder and watch me vote, then only pay for it if I do as I'm told.

and this scales?
> Back then, you had a bunch of small business ad networks that you could choose from.

There was a lot of consolidation. But they're still around. They're basically that opaque network of algorithmic auctions you mentionned, in fact. If they can't display one of their direct clients' ads, they sell the spot to the highest bidder.
>I like SC4 graphics more too, C:S graphics resemble cities that I never saw in my country, they are too bright, spacious, saturated and "happy" and "calm", it is nothing like São Paulo for example, so C:S to me is too uncanny-valleyish, too "Alien" to me.

I really like the SC4 graphics too, looks much more realistic. Guess it's easier when you just got 4 angles at various zoom levels to handle.
Don't you think much of the problem with CS can be solved with custom content? We got color mods, and there are buildings being created without the cartoonish art direction of the default content.

>Still, sometimes I wonder if I should go ahead and make the SC4 successor I want, I was trying to fix SC4 to make it run properly on new computers and finish some features, but it required stuff that go against the EULA, so I asked EA about it (the asking part took months... very hard to ask EA!), and when they finally replied it was along the lines: "Oh, yes, X, Y, and Z are broken, X is driver's fault, we will work with hardware makers, Y is serious, we will THINK about fixing it." then no mention of Z, or much less "W" that I told them about.
I understand their position, and think the open-sourcing of EASTL in a way was a great step, still I feel very disappointed they miss the mark about such stuff.

Oh man, when was this?

I've longed for an SC4 like game without grids. That'd be sweet.
It's pretty awesome what you can do with that dataset. I made a visualization a few years back for a class that looks at the genres I listened to over time:

http://lab.askmike.org/d3/songstream/
Advertising is a weird business.

There's different types of media: print, television, digital (banner ads). Print is dead (has been the increasingly accurate argument for 10 years now), television is expensive and untrackable, and digital is here to save the ad industry because that's where all your customers are and it's very trackable.

The value to the advertiser is either direct-action ("click here and buuuuuy!") or branding ("we exist, see!") Companies like Verizon, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson, unilever, etc. spend billions on branding.

How does that money get allocated? Well, you've got a brand manager for, say, Acme Inc. Their job is "Get more people to buy" and they split their resources between creative--often working with big agencies (think Madmen, see AdAge)--and media buying. There's often pressure to spend less on creative and more on ad buys. And when ad buys don't perform, they say "We should have spent more on creative".

Media buying is basically buying banner ads (or tv or whatever). They're typically sold at a CPM (Cost Per thousand iMpressions), less often Cost Per Click.

So to answer your question: major brands have billions for branding and it's a bunch of people's jobs to spend that money and convince the people they work for that it's money well spent. And if it's not money well spent, they'll find someone who will tell them it is.
Moving is not a major defense if your easy to find, in modern warfare satellites for example are sitting ducks. As the article points out aircraft carriers are like battleships right before WWII. They have been drastically improved, but are untested vs modern weapons.

So sure, if the enemy can't easily sink all your aircraft carriers then they are a great option. Sadly, I don't think that's anywhere close to proven.
", this is a great purchase."

You cant really say it's a great purchase without mentioning the price, which you didn't. I haven't done any deep analysis but my gut feeling says that 26.2B for stopping Linkedin spam is not worth it.
Do you really think it would be better if anyone could decide about anything, even without having proper knowledge of the issue ?

The idea of "representative" democracy (opposed to "direct") is that you elect someone more or less aligned to your ideas, which has the time and competence to make the best decisions. It's far from a perfect system, but let's not delude ourselves about the alternative.

In practice, every decision has its side effects, and law in most cases is the result of compromise.

I can't think of a worse system where your average Joe can vote about things like taxes, gun control, minimum wage, immigration, national security, not having the slightest idea of how his decisions will affect the whole picture.
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I think competition is good however you've pretty much ripped their design including the icons!

I'm sure the implementation is different but be 'inspired' don't shamelessly clone their design.
I hope (1) FM radio receivers come back, (2) and phones implement a way to grab the waveform and modify it before it hits the speakers.

I can imagine useful public-safety capabilities that could be enabled via data over FM radio.

FM radio is an insanely low-power, low-tech way to do medium-range one-to-many wireless communications.
Are you still displaying text testimonials on your website?
The setup process for our Cocoon home security device (https://cocoon.life) uses an audio transfer from the phone to pass wifi details and a token to bootstrap setup and a trust relationship.

After some time spent tuning and with some forward error correction, the reliability is good and it's not too harsh on the ears. Response from beta testers has been pretty positive.
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isn't that some kind of anti-competition?
- Security update != version update.

- Paid OS != Free OS.

- OS update != software update.
Mine has a PO box. So do others I know. My street address is not listed by the FCC. Not that I'm trying to prevent that. Just wanted to state a few facts.

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey...
Its "Tucano", not "Tacano". It means "Toucan" in Portuguese. :)
I've ran ads before (via Google AdWords), we had a few motivations:

- Name recognition. We don't need people to click, we just need them to associate our brand with their need.

- Sales leads. They have a need, we have a product, it wasn't a massive sales boost in B2B, but it paid for itself.

- Push competitor's ads down. Diminish their brand recognition/leads/etc.

- Advertise on competitor's search results, show us as a legitimate competitor in the consumer's mind.

The ultimate goal is that people in the industry say "we've heard of you." Very targeted adverts are a great way of doing that along with social engineering and attending inter-industry events.

It might sound crazy, but it was better for us overall if people didn't click. We got more value out of passive advertising than active click-throughs.

It is just like waving your hands around and saying "we exist!"
Stability seems like an orthogonal issue to the standard string representation being "quite possibly the least efficient (non-contrived) representation of text data possible". As a production Haskell user, what do you do when you have to load a large amount of text data?
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With a culture as deeply infused with an utter lack of respect for user privacy, reputation or safety, I would expect them to be unethical in essentially all cases, short of, perhaps, a complete management purge.
(OP here) Hey kingosticks, appreciate this and trust me that I'd love to open source this ASAP.

We're just working out our deployment story and making sure that it can scale before we open source. We don't want to force beta users to go through painful upgrades / migrations unless absolutely necessary.
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I, for one, thought SimAnt was one of the most fun games of my childhood. And SimTower... I have a coding interview modeled after it.
Cool, I didn't realize there were actually large scale HAMNETs in the wild. I assumed it was typically a toy thing people would occasionally setup at field days and such.

Are any licensed amateurs (or those interested in getting licensed) in San Francisc interested in trying to set up a mesh? I've got a node running (I think... I haven't checked on it in months...). I've never actually connected to another node...