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> ...if the Chinese start making better products...

China is ahead in biotech, IoT, AR, and a bunch of other areas, and have grown the only serious IaaS competitor to Amazon. The future is here already, much the rest of the world (particularly in the US) has its head in the sand, wheeling out the tired old trope about China being a nation of copycats. If that were ever true, it isn't true anymore.
Is the point of 2FA to show you have possession of another device, or access to another device? While I'm in the same boat and appreciate seeing the code above the fold, for really secure things I'd prefer the Deutsche Bank example.
I came here to say something similar. Yes, you can be angry, but sometimes it's better (as an economy and as a country) to just let it go.

The selfish thinking that people shouldn't get anything for "free" (ie, shifting education burden from taxes to the student) and everyone should be accountable for every dollar is how we got here.

If I just finished paying off my student loans, and debt forgiveness happened, I would be annoyed and a bit jealous. But also happy that those who had their debt forgiven now have more money to do stuff and contribute to the economy. I would truly be happy for them. Why wouldn't I?

(Note: I don't believe debt forgiveness will ever happen)
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This one wins, but its address reminded me of this one:

https://thebestmotherfuckingwebsite.co/

which also has valid points to make.
This is a great list of all the things you shouldn't do. It's all ego and no substance.
Aka criticism sandwich aka shit sandwich.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Shit%20Sandwi...
> I prefer to see what command is being executed before I press enter

On a similar note, I always get nervous when using "rm -rf", since the path is written in big-endian order, so an accidental nudge halfway through typing can cause something like

rm -rf ~/Pictures/Scans/NeedConverting/*

To become

rm -rf ~
We want to play nice with existing tools. For example we're spending a lot of time improving our JIRA integration https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/project_services/jira.html

Most of our new users use only part of GitLab's functionality and we want to support that use case with extensive integrations and APIs.
Also, now the daring fireball one is down to the second page, so the dupe flag seems possibly to have unilaterally made it so there are no reviews on the front.
Yes, a lot of people use it for this reason. It's really weird. I use the hell out of these things and never had the home button do anything but its job.
I absolutely think that data hosted in Moscow is a worse privacy concern, yes - because while I don't doubt the governments of both countries are spying on that data, I trust the US government far more than I trust the Russian government.

A useful series of tweets by @SwiftOnSecurity about why storing data in the US isn't a bad idea:

https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/77549120598337126...
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Besides non-direct harm like Quicken's "let's do the 2008 mortgage thing again" ad from last year's Super Bowl, a television ad can cause direct physical harm through flashing light (epilepsy) or excessive volume.
> If the President was still in office and didn't object when you tried to invoke the advance-written pardon, it wouldn't seem as though anyone else would really have a place to interfere.

If the President is still in office, as head of the executive branch he can prevent prosecution even if there is no pardon, and, anyway, he could just issue a new and properly retrospective pardon. A pardon that's only good if the President that issued it is still in office and still agrees with it is exactly the same as no pardon at all.

The pardon power is only meaningful because it is binding on the federal government, and not just as long as the current President is in power, but forever (or, at least, until the Constitution is amended to change its status.)

AFAICT, the general consensus among those who study Constitutional law is that prospective pardons (those for crimes not yet committed when the pardon is issued) are nullities; for there to be a crime for a pardon or reprieve to apply to, it must have been committed (even if it has not been discovered) when the pardon is issued.

But because no prospective pardons have been issued and then their effect challenged in court, this has never been litigated, and there is no case law on the subject. (But if prospective pardons were possible, given the established breadth of the pardon power in other aspects, it would mean that the President could essentially prevent the US government from ever adopting -- or, rather, ever enforcing -- certain criminal laws that do not yet exist, simply by issuing prospective pardons for any offenses resulting from particular classes of conduct that he doesn't want to ever be criminalized.)
If the US wants, it can a) start growing it's own tech people instead of being constrained by a lack of them, b) make immigration easier for tech people in the meantime, and c) stop focusing on bringing manufacturing back and focus instead on moving people's skills up the value chain so that they can innovate as opposed to stamping and assembling the innovations of others.

Also, not sure that putting two cameras on a phone and removing the headphone jack is exactly innovation. Those seem more like features. The Internet and mobile devices are real innovation imo.
I was already aware of these tweets, but that doesn’t mean he wrote it all himself, just that he is involved in it. The fact is, the blog post has a byline and the byline does not mention Elon Musk or any individual person's name.
Just another day out in iBank-land. Keep quiet, and you might still get a bonus this year.
Can you provide some examples of product-market mismatch outside US - for types of things cities akin to Silicon Valley come up with?
Do we still trust that these types of rules are being followed (particularly in the context of mass surveillance)? If I recall correctly, the public has been told on many occasions that the NSA/FBI/local police were not doing something only to be told years later that this was not the case.

Laws such as this just highlight how asinine gun policy can be. Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn't really benefit gun owners (Completing a 4473 would be a lot easier if they could verify that you are already a responsible gun owner) or make policing gun laws any safer (straw purchases would be easier to track if the records were digitized).
Or an S meter - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_meter
It isn't a problem, it is the effect of the rest of the world's economy growing up. We are getting smaller and that is a good thing globally. Instead more Americans need to be focusing outward.
As you indicated we hope that GitLab CI covers all use cases but we're always interested in learning things we can improve.
Good idea. However, I'll need to really exercise the gray cells to put together the list so it might take me a couple of days. Once done, I'll post it here.
Who sets those limits and how are they enforced over time? What if colleges find other ways to charge you money (accomodation, usage fees for equipment etc).
he is an active snitch...almost surely a paid informant who supplements his street-hustle money with a little side job telling his cop buddies whats really happening on the streets.
He made an entire blog post 110% or more on side about the courage to remove the headphone socket, and how it would make the world a markedly better place and cure world hunger. Of course it's hardly the first time he's had a ridiculously pro-Apple position.

Came up on HN the day of the event I think.
No offense intended America politicians get away with naughty shit that would get you 5 years in jail in the UK.
political.

Let alone the whole machine system which is well with living memory and handing out ambassadorships to mates instead of professional diplomats doesn't look good.
Another way to phrase it is that the default is to save someone's life.
If you fully load the per-capita US healthcare costs to that 31% and make it a closer comparison based on services received, I would guess the US percentage will go much higher than the Danish tax burden.
Thanks.

Yeah ok but you could say the same thing about google and they're doing well. You have yandex mail, web analytics, ads etc. How is that different from what google is going? In fact, I would say that yandex is trying to google's roadmap on how to conquer the world and see if they can pull it off in russia with the advantage that they currently have there.
Ugh, and it seems to be attempting to use Flash for its supercookie capabilities, too.
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Thanks for the information! I too thought the article would be able innovation and markets.

America definitely does not need more H1B workers.
It really requires a rethinking of the need for college, how college should work, and how it should be paid for.

Most undergraduates have no real need to obtain a gold-plated degree. Undergraduate education in nearly all fields is well-understood and can be delivered adequately at low cost. This is why foreign countries that aren't wealthy still produce excellent undergrads. Only in the US do we believe you really can't get educated unless you went to an expensive and/or elite school.
now it's split between Russia (for russian audience) and Netherland and Finland (for others). Also this https://sputniknews.com/world/20151024/1029057531/finland-he... may be interesting for you.
And will the forgiveness be tax free or will the IRS come after students for income taxes?
The fundamental difference is that a hypothesis is not (or should not be, different argument) accepted as fact by the scientific establishment before it is tested and shown true or false with empirical evidence.

As such it doesn't matter where it comes from so long as it is tested before acceptance. Which is why I struggle to understand the bootstrapping problem that the other poster talks about.

--edit-- To put it as simply as I can muster - why does the origin of the idea to test matter, when it is the testing that's the important part?
Ireland Doesn’t Want Apple’s Back Taxes, but the Irish Aren’t So Sure
Let's talk Oracle vs Postgres rather than USA vs Russia
>service dependency

A CA is just some bytes, not a service. And it has been established that there's a backup login path: use (a copy of) the CA outside of the automated certificate signing service to manually sign the needed certificates.

They'd be screwed if they lost the CA's private key, but it is much easer to keep some data around than to keep a service functioning properly.
Apple’s new Bluetooth security hole
I actually use Google Contributor for this. On many sites that I visit all I get is a simple thank you message instead of an ad. The creator still gets paid and I don't have to see as many ads.
Great to see a hiring startup Lever lead by example and take the diversity of their own hiring so seriously. Love this candid format!
They're not transcribing it, so much as selecting the keys one would need to press in order to type the text. That is, the correct key lights up, and they move the cursor and mentally "click" to select it. This serves two purposes:

- WPM is a difficult metric to "game", since if they make a mistake they have to select the backspace key, and then select the correct key again.

- It's a proof of concept demonstration that a human (e.g. in the BrainGate[1] clinical trial) could use this prosthetic system to communicate in text. When a human were driving the system, the keys wouldn't light up; they'd just type freely.

[1] http://www.braingate.org/
I wish it were true, but in practice it turns out quite the opposite. With enough surveillance you can turn anybody into a criminal. I'm reminded of a quote that's also mentioned in this[0] article:

> Alan Dershowitz discusses his time litigating cases in the old Soviet Union. He was always taken by the fact that they could prosecute anybody they wanted because some of the statutes were so vague. Dershowitz points out that this was a technique developed by Beria, the infamous sidekick of Stalin, who said, “Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime.”

With vague laws and arbitrary enforcement it's very easy to produce a society that lives in fear.

[0] "The Criminalization of Almost Everything" http://www.cato.org/policy-report/januaryfebruary-2010/crimi...
Your post proved my point...If you cited the ADL, I would maybe think there was some truth to it...but citing the hillary campaign, which needed an entire blog post to paint this far fetched picture, clearly the author is off on their witch hunt, and not actually reporting on anything of true concern.

Real hate speech and real inciting of violence is obvious to the naked eye. It doesn't need a house of cards built under it to come into focus.

Edit: Just to be clear, the original article says nothing about Israel helping censor hate speech, just speech that incites violence. There is nothing slippery or subjective about "calling on the public to stab Israeli's and Jews in the streets"
Agreed. At the same time, those cultures were objectively 'worse'.

They were xenophobic. They were sexist. They were racist. They were superstitious.

Disruption happens at the level of nations. The USA has reinvented itself many times before, and will do so again. So far, in the competition between the USA and China, China has moved much more towards a capitalistic, free society than the USA has moved towards totalitarianism.

I'm not stating it is a guarantee. But it is a risk worth taking. And I suspect you agree. And by all means, let's not only end up as an interesting archaelogical dig.
As the article mentioned, these field contact cards have been around for a long time. A few were even filed on me in my youth ;-). The problem is when it was a simple card system there was an inherent time limit on the usefulness of the info. The police officer had to recall filling out a card that might tie someone to a crime. And I doubt that cards were kept in perpetuity since the value of the info (for criminal investigations) fell rather quickly over months or a year. In a major case, such as a murder, investigators might do a blind search of all the cards filed in some area around the time of the murder to find leads, suspects or potential witnesses so the card system was a valuable tool for legitimate police action. Now that everything is computerized there is no longer any time limit on the data and the potential for abuse is now becoming clear. So the time limit on the collected data that was implicit has to be made explicit as a matter of policy instead of tacitly due the limits of the system for the collection and use of the info. The real problem is that explicitly drawing that line is forcing us to clearly define the nature of government and what "freedom" actually means.
> Well, to be honest, they can do with their trademark as they wish.

They can't do "as they wish". Trademark protection has specific limits, including nominative use ("our product does everything Docker does and more!", "made to work with Docker") and trademarks are specific to a type of product (no conflict between the docker software and a company that makes docks for your phone also called docker, for example).

It seems unlikely that it's legitimate for them to say any repo with "docker" in it is an infringing use, but I think it's often a useful strategy for companies to adopt a broad rule and count on the fact that almost no one will be willing to fight back on this sort of thing because it's much more costly to go to court rather than change the name of your project.
For starters it's not very crowded on usernames, so I got to use my 'namelastname' as username, also I don't think I've seen any ads so far. Another aspect of the service I really like, is that it has less magic than Gmail. I always get email labeled wrong in Gmail. At first I tried to label them properly and expected Google to get them right over time, now I don't bother. I would definitely pay for this service if this was an option. To be fair Russia along with the US, France & Japan is one of my favorite countries, so I might be very biased.
Thanks.

And as your last example illustrates, downward ranges are automatically invoked:

$ echo {10..1}
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

As are negative endpoints (shown below with some automatic number formatting, which is turned on when either the first or the second endpoint is padded):

$ echo {2..-002}
0002 0001 0000 -001 -002

I just noticed that all this is documented behavior -- another illustration of how rococo this shell has become.
The question is will there be enough people subscribing to keep these content providers alive by subscription only?

I'm a huge fan of The Atlantic's work. I don't remember reading a single article of theirs that I wasn't blown away by the quality and interest of. But I hesitate to subscribe because there's such a glut of free content out there, growing larger every day as the barriers to creating that content lower, and I'm not sure how many hours I could devote to reading The Atlantic's articles, compared to all the rest of the free content consumption I do.

A lot of people perform a similar economic calculation and decide it's just not worth it for them to subscribe, so all that's left for them is the ethical question -- whether to effectively donate on the honor system (or at least not use ad-blockers, if they're aware of them and know how to use them), and it's pretty obvious that any ethical qualms some people may have about consuming free content don't amount to much income for the content producers or content distributors.
If it is a means-tested program, say a more expansive version of IBR where you have to pay an income-adjusted amount for a certain number of years to have the loan forgiven, I would be okay with that. If it were a straight up give away to everyone with loans regardless of whether they could afford to pay for it, I would be angry.
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Not only that, but "tradespeople" start earning right after high school. That four-five year head start is more meaningful than people realize. You could be making a down payment on owning your residence while your friends are still undergrads. Nothing wins in investing like being early.
There's a really good short documentary about the current tracing process:

https://vimeo.com/180763356

TL;DR - if a gun shop goes out of business and has and sends the ATF an excel spreadsheet or MySQL database with names and serial numbers, the ATF has to change the data so it's not unsearchable by name (often converting it to PDFs). It's asinine.
What phone were you using 10 years ago (2006), and how does it compare to phones today?

Bill Gates says that people overestimate what will happen in two years, and underestimate what will happen in ten years. It's easier to see that looking back.
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The problem with that is sometimes you are arguing about a solution to a problem and eventually some solution must be chosen.
Business school professors even at Michigan make 200-600k. I know one of them.
> university is a place where people should go to learn about things that interest them and inspire them in the company of other like-minded people whilst simultaneously growing as an individual

As long as we continue to believe this, nothing will change.

Universities indoctrinate, lets not be naive. Most schools have little interest in widening the perspectives of students. They are on a mission to unify perspectives. Indeed I would say that universities are more responsible for our Idiocracy than television - graduates really believe they have become enlightened when in fact they have been programmed.
It seems that markets such as India and China[1] are more comfortable with apps packed with numerous features (i.e. WeChat or LINE), whereas US apps seem to usually be more focused on minimalism [2]. Snapchat is a notable US counter-example.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/technology/china-mobile-te...

[2] https://blog.benroux.me/your-app-has-one-feature/
> OK, so the "limited" set of information is already 5 pieces of information...

Ehh...it'll probably be the useragent string and the result of geocoding the client IP address. This is fairly narrow (especially for obscure and/or out-of-date browsers), but I think calling it "unique" might be a stretch. I guess it would be highly dependent on the population of your city or town and on the popularity of the site itself. I might be one of just a handful of people who reads HN while laying in my bed at night on an iPhone 6S, but I'd expect quite a few people in a major metro area are hitting big media sites from Chrome on Windows.

EDIT: trivial wording tweak
> "yeah, but what about game of thrones and silicon valley"

But these are subscription-driven? The Americans would be a better example. I get shows like that on iTunes, because if a show is good enough to watch, it's too good to watch with commercial breaks.
I sort of agree and see that trend but on the other hand some projects are flourishing on Apache.

My biggest gripe with the Apache community sphere is it is pain to contribute (I mentioned it here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11121563) and there is often interesting politics that develop on the mailinglist between developers. It seems when you start talking but "organizational" + "community" things some interesting behaviors happen (like who is the head honcho and who should we kick out).

On the other hand Apache does offer some continuity (in the event something happens to a lead developer) I suppose.
This is awesome! Our whole stack runs on Kubernetes, so this kind of integration is very welcome!
> Allowing a paper trail but not allowing digital records doesn't really benefit gun owners

I'd say anything making the job of the police a little more tedious is worth bonus points. There is so much asymmetry of power against citizens that such measures restore a little bit of balance. You can't have both Freedom and a super effective police force on the other hand. It's always a trade-off.
Even in a perfectly free market, there would not be "perfect competition" for every product. This page lists the many reasons https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
Phabricator has many great features and we try to learn from it to improve GitLab.

Your quote touches on two things we recently improved:

1. In GitLab 8.11 https://about.gitlab.com/2016/08/22/gitlab-8-11-released/ we added the ability to resolve comments, solving "whether/how your comments were addressed"

2. In the upcoming GitLab 8.12 we've added the ability to show merge request version https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/6127, solving "what changed since the last round of review"

Please let us know if there are any other specific things we can solve.
Its not spinning down; rather switching off and putting on a shelf for a year or two.
Havn't been through all the videos yet! But this looks really promising - great format! Only problem I guess is I feel I have to really watch it - instead of just listening on a podcast while commuting :-)
The Bar Has Been Raised for SaaS Startups, and Only the Clever Can Compete
You trust the us gov? The same that has denied manning his/her rights, driven her to suicide and now hunger strike? The same that got sweden prosecutors to re-instate assange's rape accusations after they had been independently dismissed by the initial prosecutor, so they can extradite him to the us? Ok buddy, keep trusting the us gov.

I think you've been so thoroughly brain-washed by russian-hating american media that you can't even think straight any more. I realise that this isn't really an argument, but I already presented my argument (that with the usa gov you have facts, whereas the russian gov you have suspicions) and it didn't seem to make a difference, so i don't really care to continue this conversation.