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I think my comment was perfectly on topic in response to the parent comment. I wasn't aware that only superficial views of subjects are allowed to be expressed on HN, or that subthreads can't discuss underlying philosophical debates.

Taking two quotes out of context and presenting that as the reason for marking the comment off-topic is a bit bizarre. Are you saying that any comment that appeals to broader philosophical arguments is necessarily off-topic?
I hope you complain to Apple for using as a name and symbol the fruit that figured so prominently in the temptation and fall of Man.
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I actually wrote a 10 page article on this for an internal audience. If people are interested I could clean it up and post it somewhere. Otherwise, the knowledge is scattered over blogs, ad exchanger, etc.
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sweet! thank you I have been looking for a nice simple terminal note taker. I think this is the one for me
And to many it's fine if it is. The GPL wasn't created to benefit the software industry, it was a reaction to it. That's also part of the reason that some commercial interests (most famously Apple) have been moving in the direction of MIT/BSD-style licenses. It's OK to align your efforts with licenses that match your requirements. The GPL is most aligned with the interests of users, not commercial developers. MIT/BSD is the reverse.
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Just to be clear, let's set up some terms:

1. Government server - whatever the gov sets up

2. Private server - a service like hotmail or gmail

3. Personal server - something on a box you hire someone to set up for you

We agree that the violation is setting up a non #1 type server, but you are saying it matters if it was #2 or #3?

If that is what you are saying, please elaborate on why you think so. (I don't see that it matters much, but am curious about your argument).
After the last missed warrant canary update, some internal decision was probably made to scrap the warrant canary altogether. Big mistake.
Ok, I'll take your word about sincerity.

You post a huge number of comments complaining about HN, accusing and insinuating, and posing questions that come across as cross-examinationey if not trollish. Such meta-litigation reminds me of the addiction some people have to filing frivolous lawsuits. There's no discussing any of it; each reply just leads to reams more. By doing this, you make HN a worse and more tedious place.

It's time this stopped, so please stop. If you can't or won't, we're going to ban you.
Because a lot of the value is not just from the page (and note that taking a page plus pictures plus site, NLP on that, etc is not an easy thing to do) but also from your navigation around the internet and previous google searches. Putting that all together is hard and requires approaching Google scale.
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Isn't that what Blue Apron is for? https://www.blueapron.com/

Still kind of pricey at $10/meal.
The unemployment rate for under 25 in places like Spain and Greece is 50%. Why aren't we seeing more suicide there?

I think there's something specific about suicide in the East that we just don't have in the West for whatever reason. There's a sort of social acceptance of it, but here, there's no tolerance of it. Maybe there's more resources for depressed people in the West as mental illness is beginning to shed its stigma since the start of things like psychoanalysis and the mainstreaming of therapy and anti-depressants. These things may not have properly made it to Asia. Not to mention, societies based on Confucianism put so much emphasis on shame that a reasonable way out of it is to just kill yourself. The idea of treating mental illness and challenging suicide acceptance may be culturally repellant and tough to challenge. Japan also suffers from this and is famous for its suicide forests and very high suicide rate.
Interestingly enough, it applies less to cars than it does to everything.

Even the cheapest cars sold in the last decade are remarkably durable and reliable.
>customers don't really want innovation

>Android consumers want an iPhone or iPad that runs Android

>And what about the Android malware toxic hellste

After these kinds of statements how can anyone take this article seriously
It's a standard technique of sociopaths in management roles. See "Implement an 'It could be worse' Program" in the relevant classic (and hilarious) textbook: http://www.demotivation.com/excerpts/7-2.html
How would you remote control it without going through someone else's server?

I understand that an HN reader could set up DynDNS, a DHCP reservation, and port forwarding (so you could connect directly to your home from the internet), but that would not seem to make for a viable consumer product.
> 2. Getting a hit product isn't easy. Mostly it seems to be luck.

One weekend I had a surge traffic to my website. Then the orders started coming in. Finally I emailed one of the new subscribers to my email list to ask why scores of people had suddenly started searching for that term. She said a radio show host had told his listeners to go to google and search for that term.

Agree with your points about working locally. Arizona Archery's main business is injection molding; they take care of most of the my machining. Maybe I'll come see you some time.
I wonder what command and control systems that ship with Russian and Chinese military equipment use.
Sad to see people holding so strongly to a faith not their own (christianity). I wonder how the same people would operate without it

Edit: is most of HN christian? I'm surprised to be downvoted about this
I've been fairly successful at it. Most companies are willing to put up with some negotiation. I've gotten a lawyer to go over the options agreements on more than one occasion, usually money well spent if you don't understand all of the contract intricacies. I think how much people are willing to put up with is directly proportional to how valuable you would be to the company, your skill set, experience etc. If you are easily fungible or at least the perception is that you are than your ability to negotiate some of the finer points will suffer.

I think most early stage employees, especially ones who are ultimately going to be injecting the IP of the company on which it's future value will be based should be very aggressive about options and salary packages. Having seen both the bad and the good, I definitely gravitate towards being cautious when getting startup offers. I also think we need to educate people more about this. I recently asked a potential employer about the strike price, and he said I was the first person to ask that question. I think that says a lot about how weak the understanding of early employees is.
There are companies that already let people go before their 1 year cliff (or do other types of restructuring that results in the vesting period to reset).

However, I think it would be appropriate to give fewer options as a consequence of this change, since the options would be a more realistic part of the compensation package when you have a longer-period of time to determine if you want to exercise them.

I could definitely see the 1 year cliff going away too, else you'd have people collecting 25% of their options at various places and moving on to other companies each year. Eventually one of those companies will do well and your "work" investment will pay off. You can do shotgun investing with your employee options.

But a lot of this misses the point that your company's growth is entirely reliant on a productive employee base. If you back load vesting or start firing people right before their cliff, or do any other practices such as this, why would anyone choose to work for you?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12034979 and marked it off-topic.
I have, several times, and I generally treat them as pretty much lottery tickets. That is: I expect at least market rate, often above in order to compensate for risk, and the options are an extra bonus if you're lucky. This is achievable. It's mostly younger people that "buy" the story of how you're going to get rich off the options so you should accept a lower salary. I did that too, a couple of times, before I "accidentally" learned that this is not an issue. Either you're important enough that they'll stretch, or you're in a junior enough position that the options allocation will be tiny anyway, in which case you're better off in a more stable company.

But the options I've made the most money on was ironically from the only post-IPO company I've worked for (and where I joined years after the IPO), rather than the startups where I've had shares that have at some point or other had a paper-value magnitudes higher.

And the reason I did well there was that they clearly didn't value their options very highly - they threw a large options allocation after me to get me to accept a lower salary than I asked for for the first 6 months for political reasons (it would have put my salary above the salary of one of the higher ranked people who had to sign off on the hire, and they clearly didn't think that'd go down very well... so instead HR quietly promised me a "review" after 6 months and bumped up then).
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There is a downside to RSUs. Say you work for a private company with a high valuation, e.g. AirBnB at $25B, and you are granted 0.01% equity over 4 years. That means you are vesting $2.5m of RSUs over 4 years, and these RSUs are taxable at that amount. Typically for folks earning over $150k/year in base salary, particularly if married, even half as much will put you into AMT territory, and you will end up paying a significant chunk of cash each year in taxes (even if RSUs are withheld for taxes, because the withholding cannot account for things like AMT).

Options with extremely long exercise windows helps obviate this tax burden and allows the employee to decide when/if to improve their tax position by exercising ahead of a liquidity event.
Is there any evidence that this works in the sense of foiling sophisticated attacks?
You can't conduct religious flamewars here.

Also, 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.
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> How does a computer know it is working properly?

That is the crux of the issue. Any command that potential malware may give, may also be given legitimately. How one tell those two apart is context. And context is a hard subject even for humans.

Even biology can't get it straight. After all, some of our most resilient diseases exploit the normal signals of cells for their own purposes.
Google has excellent support for adsense if you're a large account. At least in my experience at a former employer.
Nice, very excited to hear!

Honestly the wisdom I have has just been playing around with benchmark.js on V8 and noticing the Chrome team doesn't do as they claim (although latest Chrome Canary we saw major improvements), while FireFox is a different beast. You've probably done about just as much of this as me.

What we found was that every function call in javascript significantly decreased performance (even if it did nothing) at a quazi logarithmic rate. So on a theoretical level if you're able to reuse function results that are deterministic you can save a ton of overhead. However IDK how micro-optimizing you want to get as it can sacrifice code legibility.

Would love to chat more if you have time, I'll see if I can find your email and send you a message. Mine is (no spaces): a q u i v a @ google's email provider.
They ARE being hacked from time to time :) But they also know that and they run bug-bounty programs.
There are actually two slightly different ideas that are called UBI.

The libertarian variant is a relatively small guaranteed income (usually roughly the current minimum wage), is usually paid for with a VAT or sales tax, and replaces most or all of the current welfare programs. The main objectives are to provide a safety net for the poorest citizens in a fairer and less bureaucratic manner and to somewhat equalize the bargaining power between low-wage workers and their employers, usually as an alternative to unionization.

The socialist variant is significantly larger (living wage), is usually paid for with graduated income or capital gains taxes, and supplements rather than replaces the existing welfare programs. Its main goals are to provide a direct mechanism for income redistribution and to facilitate non-profitable professions (artist, full-time volunteer, professional student, stay at home caretaker, etc.) for those that want or need them.

There's obviously a lot of overlap between the two, and most proponents support both sets of objectives to some degree. That said, most of the contentious arguments seem to derive from critics either not understanding the difference between the two proposals or strawmanning their interlocutors into one extreme or the other.
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I think that's great, but everything is based on hacks using checkboxes.
Cool thing about the Kiribati language, the 'ti' makes an 's' sound. So if someone is named "Sam", in Kiribati you would spell his name "Tiam."
"Stop liking things that I don't like"
Dunno. But i could have sworn i had read about a libre GPU design out there.
Ah, but here is an important distinction too.

The State Department can't pass laws for which you can be jailed. It can only pass internal rules which it can use to fire you etc. It also cannot produce interpretations or clarifications of laws since only judges do that.

Only congress can pass laws, and so illegal is a strong term reserved for violations of those laws.

There is a case for violating those laws, of course, which is whatever the relevant statutes are for handling secret information under which spies etc are prosecuted.

So while these are internal rules she may have violated, they are not the same as laws, and those laws apply equally to her predecessors, and therefore I feel justified in continuing to make the argument.
Old, outdated, expensive hardware with low specs? Nope. I have a lot of respect for what they do but it's not the solution we need.
It isn't, because in other languages with linear/affine types it isn't called as such. Nor is C++s unique_ptr. Or Cyclone, which has region types.

Rust isn't exactly revolutionary in its core memory management ideas, these have been around for a while and have been inside other languages. Cyclone, for example, is basically Rust (memory management wise) but as a safe dialect of C and a different stance on mutation and other things. It is not considered a GCd language. Rust just puts all these ideas together nicely.

The compiler doesn't actually keep track of a reference count, btw. Refcounting and linear types/ownership/borrowing lead to very different programming styles. In Rust's model you actually have to think about ownership and design your program with this in mind that as much as possible you want to use single ownership.

Given that they have very different impacts on programming style, they are pretty different practically speaking. On the other hand in swift you deal with memory management much like in Java, though with a few more choices you can make. Go might be a more apt comparison as far as memory management, though swift is more fine grained than Go as well.
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The fact is it can't just be SF's problem, because SF is a magnet for homeless people from all over CA and the US. That makes it a US problem, and yes, it is a disgrace.
Oddly enough, I just finished the last episode of this series 10 minutes before seeing this link posted (and your comment).

It is uniformly excellent, and well worth the time commitment required to listen to the whole thing.

I've also enjoyed watching several episodes of "The Great War" on youtube, which seems to be of a similar quality. ( https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar )
extremely few people I've met who went to such high schools came out of them with levels in science/math that could be reasonably qualified as decent

Hi, nice to know you. Montessori-educated until University here. Even in high school, it's all about the learning material: as long as the teachers were skilled enough to make me interested in the subject, there was hardly any limit to what I could take in. I left school with high marks across the board, with five languages and all STEM subjects except biology (because I hated the learning material with a passion).

That said, my parents encouraged the same at home so it's not just my school: I wrote my first BASIC program with my father when I was nine, and there was a surplus of construction toys (Lego, Mecano, electric science kits) at home as well.

(edit: I'm not familiar with official "Montessori" policy on high schools, but I want to add that our school roster was partly free: we had a number of mandatory class hours for each subject, but were expected to spend more time in school than just our roster: all teachers had "open hours", which you could use to get additional mentoring from the teacher, peers or sometimes senior year students)
While there is a bit of truth to that bitcoin will inevitably need to interact with the real world, so it needs to be convertible into other currencies. This will in the end require interaction with regulated institutions. If this were to be implemented at the bank level it would become difficult (not impossible) to get around. The way the US went after poker sites will probably be the model. While it was not impossible for US citizens to play online poker there were enough barriers that most opted not to.
well, look at "Leave" campaign: racist party [1] spreads false information about almost every aspect - "let's fund NHS instead" was false and Farage almost instantly rejected that it was a proper promise; said that UK lost their borders, which is false - UK is not a member of Shengen zone;

there were constant phrases from "Leave" party that relationship with EU is abusive, UK is like slave.. it doesn't look for me like intelectual debate with polite arguments.

[1] http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/nigel-farage-claims-...
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I'm not so much worried about criminality apart from tax evasion - I pay 50-70% taxes including payroll and VAT but I don't mind doing so, because I trust everyone else does too.

The moment I suspect there is a group of people that get paid and purchase goods outside the tax system I have lost that trust. Full transparency in my opinion is the lesser evil. Completely anonymous currency and transactions solves a problem but creates a bigger one.
>Is there anything more stupid that they do than pool merchandise?

Speaking as a third party merchant, they do a lot of stupid. Just go on any forum for Amazon sellers and read the stories people post, here's an example - http://www.orensmoneysaver.com/2016/03/amazon-and-mysterious...

>I sent in 14. 14 were received, 1 was lost and 1 was found. How many should have? 14. How many does Amazon say I should have? 11. How many units do I actually have? 9

> Now, to Amazon's credit, the first screenshot was taken a couple of days ago. The newest reconciliation correctly shows that I have 9 units but once again does not accurately reflect how they got to 9 when I sent in 14. Of course, I have no reimbursement for these units because they aren't lost according to the system.

Commingling items is actually optional for sellers. I commingle some select items in my inventory. Commingled inventory allows Amazon to ship faster (ship from the closest warehouse) so they benefit from it in a way but its pretty bad that there's no accountability when inventory is commingled, that doesn't seem to bother Amazon. I wonder how many people who get a counterfeit recognize it as such and complain? I would probably assume many people would just think it's just a crappy product.

They also don't offer the option to intercept returns before placing them back in your inventory. Intercepting returns is important to make sure the item is still in sellable condition. They will in theory tell you if an item isn't sellable but that often doesn't work out from what I heard, Amazon will put returned items that have been used back in your inventory as new and then dock you when you sell the item again (and it is inevitably returned again).
(I'm not sure why I can reply now but not earlier. Anyway...)

"It seems it would be just as tyrannical to apply the law as it is written and not as it is intended."

I don't know if there is a difference here. The laws and regulations surrounding the handling, storage and transmission of classified information essentially boil down to: "Protect classified material from disclosure to unauthorized individuals, follow established procedures, and in the event you wish to stray from those keep in mind you're likely not authorized to make that final decision so consult with your security officer and ensure your bases are covered."

Let's assume that I, as a soldier or contractor, started using my private email server for work purposes that on occasion involved classified material. Maybe I didn't know what exactly was classified (or how high), but that doing so was definitely something I was advised against doing during my in-briefing and my annual security refresher training. Perhaps even explicitly told that such a thing was not authorized.

I am, at this point, negligent in my duty to protect said material and I have violated an agreement I have signed with the United States government. If one or more unauthorized parties (whether contractors I hired to set up the server or somebody else) accessed my server and saw that material, I have broken the law even if I didn't pull a Manning or Snowden or intentionally give material to a foreign intelligence service.

You can bet that my career would be in jeopardy and I would be put behind bars and subjected to "years of trouble". Hell, I would likely be held in custody during the investigation over concern of being a flight risk.

There's a reason why people who have had clearances are generally up in arms about this: mishandling and negligence is something they are repeatedly warned about and fearful of. To see the same rules and regulations that governed our activity (and in some cases really made our jobs difficult) so casually ignored and allowed to go without so much as a wrist-slap is infuriating.

It's not about a witch hunt. It's not a political thing. It's about seeing other people being treated differently in the eyes of the law. It's far from being the first time in America, but it's as disgusting and discouraging as any bit of fraud one hears about in the worst third-world countries, and for it to be given a free pass at such a high level (and be dismissed by so many for political reasons) I think indicates the poor state of health our democracy is in.
Current warrant canaries are useless, it's a one time fuse. We need new, better, recurring (i.e. monthly) warrant canaries of different types (common canaries, individual canaries for each user). I want something like this everywhere:

Jan 2016 - we haven't received any NSL

Feb 2016 - we haven't received any NSL concerning your account

Mar 2016 - we haven't received any NSL

Apr 2016 -

Jun 2016 - we haven't received any NSL