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So sorry but let me be frank, I am not American citizen, but as far as I can see you guys so isolated in your news media propaganda, you don't see what is going on around you.

The guy (I want to say wiki leaks foundation, but we are know talking about Assange) yesterday released one of the most damaging and wrecking e-mail records in whole history.
(As far as I did see in primaries, whole Clinton defense against Sanders was being equally liberal and having more experience, and those emails proved Clinton as always is liar and she is not liberal at all, specially in economical and foreign relations related issues which makes her campaign total fraud from and outsider perspective)

But American politics so bizarre and so ridiculous and people are so brainwashed, can't see the that huge leaks.
Instead trying to make fun of someone who isn't been 48h since he published one of the best resource about knowing truth about your liar candidate.

Let be honest, if 10% of that leaks was in Sweden election, I am 100% sure the candidate would dropped out already.
Let alone Trump calling some women "grabbing by p*".

Your whole country is fucking disaster. I think military industrial complex have eaten your country. No kidding, I cannot absorb how you guys give fcukig right to yourselves to talk about democracy in other countries.
I don't see it as a sin, or anything. It just kind of never occurred to me to do it. I mean, I've never made a side project worth anything, but if I did, I wouldn't have sold it. Not because of principles, just because I didn't think of doing it.
Seems useless and pointlessly breathless to me to even talk about something being "unhackable". What's important is hackable by who, and in what way.

If you turn off Android's setting to only allow app installs from the play store, then install a sketchy third-party store and download a flashlight app with a huge permission list that scrapes your email address book and sends it off to Russia, is that really a hack? It's pretty tough to prevent that without locking the phone down even harder than the iPhone. Doesn't seem worth worrying much about to me.

Android seems to be pretty safe against more dangerous stuff like visiting a website or displaying a web ad installs an app, bypassing user approval. Or worse, doing something with root permissions. At least I haven't heard of anything like that. If it's out there, presumably whoever has found such exploits keeps them under wraps for high-value targets.

The Stagefright one sounded pretty dangerous, but I haven't heard of any large-scale attacks with it in the wild. Presumably carrier-level general protections against mass MMSing and specifically against payloads for that bug were effective.

Given the difficulties the Android rooting community seems to be having, it's hard to believe that a drive-by exploit could gain persistent root.
"It's propaganda behind a proxy."

The Democrats don't even need a 'Troll army'. They own all of the mass media and feed them the information that we see in many articles. The last batch of Wikileaks showed us this to be a fact. Even Obama is in on the Propaganda (no proxy needed) and used a fake name when emailing Hillary.

So, the only real way to defend against it is to create a grass-roots effort (IE: troll army). The only real way to stop it is to have less biased media.

Trump was the direct result of political correctness, biased media, and liberal policies run amok. I don't even think he will be a good leader, but it's a big fuck you to the current administration. It's a non-violent protest vote.

They aren't even trying to hide it anymore. Every mass-media outlet has trolled the world with articles about terrible Trump for the past week. Some going as far as calling him a 'rapist'.

When we have Wikileaks about the DNC, CNN and other news outlets ignore the real information leaked and only focus on Russian hackers. When the Washington post obtains illegal and private tax records or a private conversation illegally recorded, they immediately focus on the content, and brush aside the illegal activity involved in getting it (I seriously doubt there will be any investigation).

..and the involvement with Russia? It all comes down to a Russian VPN. Anyone in the tech industry knows that this doesn't mean the person resides in Russia. Yet I still see people on HN spreading this misinformation.

This is the definition of propaganda.

I actually hope Hillary wins at this point, so I can blame everyone I know that voted for her and when her evil and shitty behavior is aimed at the American people? Well, they get what they deserve.
hunting for another copy...

Found an intact copy: ftp://ftp.sra.co.jp/pub/lang/postscript/pdb2.1-demo.tar.gz which someone recompressed from compress to gzip at some point. The original compress archive seems to be lost except in truncated form :(
An incompetent doctor with a script pad is dangerous. Just like an incompetent police officer with a firearm. They should be held to a high level of accountability and I'm not willing to easily dismiss such action as human fallibility as he easily could have deferred his diagnosis to the specialist who was in the same building. It was months before I ended up seeing the specialist who corrected the prescription because I wrongly trusted the original doctors judgement. He made no indication he was just making a guess at what was wrong with me and that I should speak to a specialist as soon as possible.

If they aren't competent enough for their high-stakes job they should be doing something else where their fallibility isn't harming peoples lives. And the inaccurate over-prescribing and was only part of my negative experience with the physician in question.
Are you of the opinion that p2p piracy has somehow gone away?

It hasn't, but it's far diminished than what it used to be.

I do have to question the notion that free entertainment is what empowers people, but I suppose it isn't the stupidest attempt at justifying piracy I've ever read.

Not only entertainment, but information in general. Various books and journals, some of which you probably wouldn't even be able to buy a physical copy of, obscure software, etc. "Knowledge is power." Piracy isn't just movies and music...
Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro.

It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo.

To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Amazon.tld so that they can make a seamless purchase without switching regions. This also allows for my affiliate codes to stay intact, and for me to collect worldwide Amazon affiliate revenue.

I also had to learn the ins and outs of Amazon Associates policies, which are incredibly finicky (no Amazon links in emails, no showing product pricing on your homepage, etc.) and frequently results in unannounced account closure that requires you to pester their support team to get things back online.
I was exactly just thinking about this. If phone is offline we need CDN's. But then again phone's have to watch out for their precious battery life.

With decentralized, you also have a huge issue of protocol. Facebook can upgrade millions of people instantly to new version. Decentralized could be a major pain.
Reducing the price of solar for future installations.

Yes, the overall cost of energy would be less with an all-fossil system, but that's no longer acceptable.
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Mods to break between versions, which is annoying.

However, the sites are usually MCForum or Curse, neither of which are especially shady, and I've never seen a mod packaged as an exe by its creator. You're probably looking at the cites that host a collection of mods from other sources, which are about as shady as their software equivalents: sites like cnet, etc.
A closed group of friends?

That’s completely different from the experience I had with them.
It's hard to verify whether templates work without javascript or not, demo pages are unusable without it.
Did you read Blindsight by Peter Watts? It has, among other things, a 100-item scientific bibliography in the end.
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I wonder if this software could reproduce my voice or the voices of dead actors so we can continue to use their likeness posthumously.
The real solution off course is to rid your country of the embarrisment of Erdogan. Vote. If thats still legal coming next election.
Not following you here.
Okay, good. I'm just nervous, especially since they've been doing this stuff for the MCPE codebase, and Java MC has been mainline since forever. Seeing as I'm a Linux user, I'd rather JMC didn't fall by the wayside.
Yes I was referring to the DAO disaster. Here are some interesting discussions about it https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4p0gq3/why_turingcompl...
You see that computer in front of you with its internet connection?

All the things you don't think about, and most of the ones you do, work together the way they do because of the IETF.

You see those other things that don't work together? Those are the ones the IETF didn't do.
> For people to switch to something else they need to find out about it first, and to find out about it somebody has to promote it to them

The perceived higher value itself is the incentive that will make people tell other people about it. People like to share things they really like or dislike. It gives them something to talk about ;-)
sales might pick back up if u wrote the 2nd part to the article
What's PH and DN?
And if/when you reach this decentralized utopia, it will all be undermined by the browsers & clients that have evolved into spyware collecting every action you take.
> I've found that America makes a lot more sense when you think of it as a country run by rich people, with a whole lot of workers. For the rich, this place is amazing.

That's an excellent insight, and it agrees with my experience. When I lived there I was earning minimum wage, as were all my (local) friends and I was not impressed. Friends who needed surgery could not afford it, could not afford car insurance, etc. etc.

A few years later I met an Aussie working in a very high paying Engineering job and he loved the country because when you have money, you can own and do anything you want. You are a god.

>We don't have a cultural respect for human life here. We have business.

It blows my mind that masses have not voted to do something about this to better their lot.
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I see it as a proof that president in US does not matter regarding domestic policies.
Care to provide any details on how this was already solved? I'd love to know and I'm sure the many people here who write tools for developers would also be interested.
We shall see...

I personally don't think that Mojang would do that unless forced to, especially given what would happen to the community. Most likely established modders would continue to use JMC as their base, pushing new modders towards doing so, and thus it would continue to overshadow other versions, as the mods really do make the game.
It's a massive country with extreme diversity. There's lots of people who see what is going on like you do, and lots who don't.

Point being, just know that many, many people on the inside aren't "brainwashed" like it may appear. Politics or foreign policy is a poor representation of the country as a whole, in my opinion, simply due to the vastly differing views held by the populace. Whatever party or candidate or policy "wins" in the end definitely doesn't represent the entirety of the country, or even the technical majority on occasion.

"Democracy" is an interesting beast.
Encryption is not a panacea. It's not a magic button that makes everything it touches "Secure!".
Dude, it's literally one of the most popular games on earth.
After watching documentaries about America's crumbling infrastructure I've been paranoid about tap water. My thinking is that the less piping that the water travels through, the less risk of contamination. I've assumed that bottled water gets bottled right by the its source, minimizing the risk.
There's irccloud for that, or if you want to host yourself shout-IRC is really good.
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Forget flying cars. I'd love to live in a future where we can say, "Remember when cancer was a thing people had to worry about?"

And the anti-vaxxers would be stupidly blessed to not know what it was like.
same for voice would be nice. webrtc seems to fail as skype replacement (so far, in our network)
Facebook and goog is build by armies of full time folks with average salaries of 150k. Competing with volunteers doesn't get you far.

Even the rise of git was because of github. A for profit centralized company.

May be the best case is to have open, decentralized protocols, with for profit companies providing hosting and simple signup.

ICQ or XMPP, never quite took off like slack. Is it because of the interface?
You might be surprised. I put together a tool to help my kids design an art project one weekend 4 years ago, and google indexed it, traffic came, I added Amazon links, and it has brought in just under 100 a month for a few years now. Nothing major, but sometimes the little things add up.
That's a very different kind of "fault" to the one the OP mentioned.
I am very glad this is happening. IRC was one of the first applications I started using on the internet. These days it nearly disappeared because of closed silos like Facebook, Twitter and Slack. This effort could help bring back a decentralized service that is not under the control of any single company.
Holt addresses this, the advertising vs. subscriptions rates dynamic and how that affects circulation, the first fully free advertising circulars, and the 30x growth of publishing 1850 - 1905. That's 3000% growth, mind, not 30%.
I love Egan and have read most of his stuff. Two of my favorites are Diaspora and Permutation City.
A story on the bullet point about low pay.

One of the mottos painted on the company wall was "We don't want people here just for the money." The CEO put it up because they couldn't pay a competitive rate. The hiring manager insisted they paid well. A bunch of devs left claiming they were paid near the lower end. For example, one dev received only a $1k pay increase when she was promoted from SDE1 to SDE2.

How can perception be so different between CEO, managers, and developers?
Is this including the Joel Test? While that makes more sense for the land of native applications over the web, working with a company that is 0/12 is a vastly more terrible experience than 12/12. Granted a number score doesn't matter much when certain answers have more weight and you could argue someone would've come up with it eventually. When I first heard about it though, I immediately started working on getting better answers for the company I work for and continually do so. I can't speak to what you're talking about as I somehow glossed over that but maybe that's its own problem. It's easy to fanboy when something great comes along without understanding the years of opinion that went into it.
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That's not at all what Dan Luu is talking about - not at all sure where you got that. He repeatably mentions personal recommendations.
Saying they don't have a choice is sorta disingenuous. Almost everyone was born with the required organs. Most of the tech has free alternatives and instruction exists in numerous freely accessible and easily digestible blog posts and YouTube videos. Saying the users have no choice in this matter is like saying a lot of users can't choose to vote because they're not registered and they don't know where the polls are.
Can you expand on this or point me towards a longer explanation? I've been curious for a long time now on how this issue could be solved.
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A must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjlF_iSo1Og

William Shatner presents a light-hearted look at how the "Star Trek" TV series have influenced and inspired today's technologies, including: cell phones, medical imaging, computers and software, SETI, MP3 players and iPods, virtual reality, and spaceship propulsion.
Catering, for restaurants, also. And Mother's Day.

For many venues, events: golf and bowling tournaments. I don't think that works for pest control though....
Joel wrote during the 1990s and early 2000s of his experience at Microsoft. There wasn't a lot of competition then.

Also, Joel was a product manager, not a developer or an engineering manager.
I didn't have a detailed marketing plan. An early channel was this article I wrote for tutplus:

http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-build-a-...

I wrote it before starting the book (to test the waters) and had a link to sign-up to the mailing list. I used mailchimp for email collection.

I have ~50 articles related to gamedev on the same domain, so these get organic SEO and backlinks:

http://howtomakeanrpg.com/a/

I quite enjoy writing them. The ones with a more technical bent get a lot more traffic than the others. 50% of my traffic is organic SEO. I haven't tried ads yet, but it's on my list.

More recently I commissioned some new art that I give away as a mailing list sign-up incentive. This hasn't worked very well so far :) I have to work on the messaging.

Tracking time spent is something I want to do but don't - each article at the very least takes a couple of hours. So there's 100+ hours, done in a very incremental way.
It sounds like you want the venture capitalist/investor to go to the female founders. This isn't how it works.

VC have so many people pitching ideas and companies to them every day. they don't need to go looking for more.

It's extremely competitive for everyone and I think what they are saying is that they don't have many female founders coming to them and pitching.

This actually makes sense because the number of Female founders is much lower than male founders and only a small percentage of each will take the time and effort to pitch their idea to the VC.

You may think you were being funny with your eye-rolling pictures randomly selected from TV/movies, but it does nothing to actually help your cause and your
I completely agree with your comment but not with your last line.

This is not democracy at all, not even remotely , this is complete, perfect example of oligarchy. People live in media isolation, power and money is restricted to only establishment. There is no way for an outsider (I, as Iranian, I literally love Jill Stein) to participate equally in election process without being ignored by mass media. At the other hand ordinary people live in so much pressure they don't tend to educate themselves (AFAIK, and from what I heard from my close friends who are student in USA).

I have bad news, this is same exact system Islamic Republic uses in Iran. We have media. So many. But all of them are fucking crap and trying best to ignore outsiders. There is political debate, but just like USA , it is between two same player every time.

Sometimes I think the designers of Islamic republic looked at united States and design a perfect Islamic model of that system.
I bet whole source code of that engine can be found in Basic Usage section of https://github.com/jsvine/markovify
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I always took Joel's writing with a large pinch of (kosher) salt. He's a great writer in that he knows how to flatter his audience (us). But two things always niggled me: firstly that I didn't know a single person who actually used his products and secondly that it simply wasn't plausible that the top talent in the industry would be jumping through hoops for a chance to work on software for project managers.
I'm from Poland where I don't know anyone who drinks water from the tap, purely because of widespread belief that tap water is bad(which comes all the way back from communist times, when you couldn't trust what the government said).
My mum drinks water from the tap if nothing else is available, but only after boiling it first.
I stopped reading when they used a comically bad simile:

> Think of the brain’s sensitive periods as blown glass: The molten glass is very malleable, but you have a relatively brief time before it cools and becomes crystalline. Put it back into the furnace, and it can once again change shape.

(the definition of a glass is that it is noncrystalline).
No, not really. To tell each other they first need to find out about it too and not just find out, but also try to use it. You can benefit from this, of course, but it cannot be a force moving product until it reaches some critical mass.
> What about email?

That's a really good idea! Email is an good existing source of messaging and "identity." People can choose to participate in the "network" either using one of the big hosted providers, a privacy-oriented email host, and eventually over time, using self-hosted email.

Project idea: what if all the social shit could be sent over email? You'd need to setup your email client to hide emails that represent the "data packets" for the social communications so they don't pollute your INBOX. A completely separate personal browsing interface (client side .js) would be used to browse the social stream you receive at your email address.

It's already happening a bit like that with the "Social" tab in gmail, but instead of containing links to walled garden URLs, the proposed new "social email" packets will contain the full content and won't require access to any external servers. Perhaps we wouldn't even need a "central" browsing interface, since each social item can come with its own .js to render a simple UI adapted for the social item (e.g. message, photos, album, event, links).

To make the picture more concrete, let's analyze the Event data type. Alice wants to host a party, so she invites Bob, Betty, and Boris, by sending each of them a paragraph of invitation text, some images(<1MB), two RSVP links I'm going || Not going, and a [FWD] button. When Bob clicks "I'm going" Alice is notified by email. When Bob clicks [FWD] and sends to Charlie, and Charlie clicks "I'm going" Alice will be notified again. Social functionality. No central servers.
A library which uses the same (built-in) underlying IO mechanisms as the (built-in) filesystem.
It's definitely those, and likely also a matter of national security:
3. The CIA doesn't get to know about the private lives of every state and military official and their families.
How is it dumping? Dumping means artificially reducing the price, i.e. running at a loss.

Aside, this destroys free speech.
What is a "customer success manager" in the
first place?

The difference is "customer support" sucks because they're judged by number of tickets closed, response times and escalation rates, incentivising them to give quick, wrong answers driving away customers.

Whereas "customer success" sucks because they're judged by customer retention and revenue increases, and they're largely powerless to increase customer retention (which depends on product features and competitors' offerings, neither of which they have any leverage over), incentivising them to focus on getting the customer to spend more.
It looks like you didn't finish that last sentence.
Glad to hear it's working out! If you ever blog about the experience, let me know.
For the most part EC2 instances should be single-purpose. Use tiny instances that do one job. Your IAM role describes the permissions that should be granted to that one job. It's absolutely true that you cannot isolate permissions at the process level, but by using single-job-type instances, you can easily isolate permissions on a per-job (in this model, per-instance) basis.