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So, basically, you allow network programmer to not understand network
programming, which is considered a major (main?) benefit, but at the expense
of operators needing one more service to maintain?

How many programmers need to write a client and how many users would need to
run an additional service? Redis clearly doesn't pay off here.
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Yay, large attack surface!
Our local auction site here in New Zealand, TradeMe, does that. Any bid in the last 2 minutes resets the clock to 2 minutes. Works pretty well for the seller, as prices tend to jump dramatically in these two minutes.
Then they'll soon get as effective and well developed as typical public services. Thanks, but no - I'd rather pay a little extra to someone who has a real incentive to do a good job than rely on charitable motivations of strangers.
Ask HN: How to merge contact info from many sources?
I'm currently working on a contact management system that aggregates info from several different sources. Needs to support multiple email inboxes and various social media platforms.

What are some best practices for merging?
Surprising or not, they do. I suppose some people may feel as you do, but many do not. Many of our customers look at us as a resource for how best to use the Infrastructure we offer as a Service and share a great deal of detail.
If it were easy to scalp, people would do it themselves, so it is nontrivial.

Scalpers also make it easier to buy the product; without scalping one can not be sure whether one will get the product or not.
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A model against this would be to announce that the first million copies will be at a 50% markup. It would mean that Nintendo (or Apple or whatever consumer-land vendor) can capture the added value, while using moderate production lines, stretching the delivery over time and still get the press releases about "We got our hands over the product, here's what it looks like".
So consider this near-future scenario:

You have a soccer match in which a lot of fans show up with cameras. Either like a Go-Pro or just their phones, or like Google Glasses.

From the many fan cams, you can reconstruct the state of the match. From the FIFA video games, or from image analysis, you have all the player likenesses.

So then someone could "watch" the game from any vantage point, using just the "facts" of the game, without doing an actual re-broadcast of the game.

What then?
Matches my use case completely. I haven't built a rails app but learned ruby with a view of doing that but never did (I believe it's important to know the language before the framework - in hindsight, a good decision with Rails specifically).

I like the standard library and I love the gems that fill the gaps the stdlib shouldn't really fill.

Many devs I know reach for the language they use day to day and their scripts and productivity suffer. Ruby is almost like an openly secret weapon in that sense.
>> Uber, Airbnb, delivery services and the like are nothing more than glorified communication and payment tools.

Let's focus on transportation services. Yes, their technology wasn't that big of a deal. But their largest contribution is building a thriving market. And that market could be used to offer interesting services like real sharing(UberPool).

Can communities build that market on their own ? well there's little effort and in general the results aren't encouraging. Even places who put a serious effort in such services(kutsuplus service in sweden), didn't seem to sucseed , and old services like dial-a-ride didn't seem to do so well with regards to scaling or sustainability.

Of course , it's hard to speak of the sustainability of current ride services(hopefully they wouldbe), but at least they seem take us a bit further.
> Visualization is good, especially for people who don't naturally see things already in their mind's eye.

A tangent. I'm a person whose mind's eye has visualization capabilities rated at "3/10 double buffered with one of the buffers being /dev/null". I have vivid dreams, but when awake, I can at best visualize something for fraction of a second before it disappears into "I feel it's there but I can't see it anymore" domain. Does anyone know of a way (exercises, maybe) to improve the ability to visualize vividly? Is this even possible? So far I've been doing simple exercises of trying to capture a part of the "image flashes" in my mind and focusing on keeping it visualized, but I didn't get anywhere.
Patents are a fairly large investment, plus they're a fixed life-span item. Although I'm largely against patents, fiddling with the fees associated with them won't help solve any problems.

Now when it comes to copyright enforcement, 99.99% of the copyrighted material out there is never formally published. It's source code, it's email, it's creative works produced and shared but never curated or packaged. How can you possibly tax all of that?
I think average neuron count in the cerebral cortex is good if not better. Some really large animals are outliers, but the EQ score is probably misleading in smaller animals.

(Except for birds and fish, but hey...)
Perl's use of this syntax had ancestors in awk, sed, ed, and qed - originally just for string replacements in qed until Ken Thompson wrote a version that did regexps too. It dates back to 1967. https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/qed.html

Deutsch&Lampson's original paper on qed showing s/// used for string substitution prior to it gaining regexps is here:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/04-On...

Incidentally the name 'grep' originated here, 'G/RE/P' was a qed command to do a Global Regular Expression match and Print the matches.
In a Twitter feed by a Dutch reporter[0], one that has spent many years in the Middle East, he recently wrote that in the Middle East there are essentially 2 major sides. One side exists of nationalists, the other side exists of Islamists. Both sides will often identify as Muslims.

But most nationalists hate Clinton for the mess she has made of the Middle-East through her policy of regime change. This policy has destroyed many countries and many lives. The nationalists hope that under Trump the region can recover. Because Trump has stated he does not want to support the so-called rebels that are active in Syria (funded / equipped currently by the USA, Turkey, Saudi-Arabia, etc…).

For the people that can understand Dutch, this whole Twitter feed is put on Storify for convenience: https://storify.com/AbdulwadudLouws/de-winst-van-trump-het-m...

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[0]: https://twitter.com/HaraldDoornbos
There was a scene in Black Mirror 3x01 with exactly that situation.
I should add that some sites (especially ones counting on ad revenue, or that don't want "scalpers") may consider bots hitting them as abusive and will either contact us or just block specific IPs. At that point we know what is going on. Our customer may call us because "it stopped working" when they have been blocked or rate limited. I will point out that many sites that bots hit do not care at all and know it is happening.
Yup, I think you're looking for: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconscionability
Go switch to another search engine then.

If people wanted transparency they'd switch to companies which are transparent.
I try to start similar dual-licensing model for my project. But I don't get this. The link page and "In order to unambiguously own and sell Sidekiq commercial products, I must have the copyright associated with the entire codebase. Any code you create which is merged must be owned by me. That's not me trying to be a jerk, that's just the way it works." - it has no legal value. I think all contributions are also LGPL unless contributor gives a consent to give up the change as commercial or public domain etc. In my opinion if Sidekiq Pro is forked from Sidekiq then Pro code should be released under LGPL or he should share part of $80k/monthly with all contributors. What about previous contributors' rights when the project switched to LGPL or dual? Can somebody explain this scheme?
I appreciate posts like this because it gives insight into popular companies that the public adores but might not be so great for the workers or the economy in the long run. Although like you said it could be over-reaching and making the company look like The Dark Side. Like there are people in it conspiring and thinking of the next way to take advantage of it work-force deliberately.

A company like this was born cause Taxi's sucked in the first place. Taxis were inefficient, cab drivers can have racial prejudices and leave someone in a dangerous area cause they don't like the way they look, No feedback on cab drivers etc. So Uber came into a place that needed re-work and instead of people complaining about Uber's world domination and the cost of it, why won't people work to also change Uber the way it changed the world of Taxis?

I think informational posts like this are great, but the tone of it is off-putting.
Repetition work for some problems but not others, and you need to repeat the correct activity. For example, repeating facts rarely help problem solving, while training at unique problem solving do help to be better at problem solving.

We also need to be careful, as one of the best way to burn people out is to do repeated activity on something they already mastered and feel impowered and hopeless by being forced to repeat them over and over again.
Couldn't this achive the opposite result by pushing people to use other currency for common trading? Anyone whose main insentive to deal with cash is for illegal reasons would surely rather deal with US$ than in expiring notes.
> If you are thinking that you are extremely good developer, then finish your projects, with your team, in fraction of time, comparing to other teams, otherwise you are extremely good programmer, but not an extremely good developer.

Actually, I do! My work code does have more comments and tests (for my hobby projects, I do less of that and instead write other code, getting more done faster).

> There is no obvious bugs in C code.
Indeed you still haven't pointed out a single bug, so you have not yet invalidated my assertion that I can write (mostly) bugless code :)
In Microsoft's world, isn't that done through their Flow API?
I've come to accept the fact that Stallman is just going to be Stallman. Both his virtues and his faults are magnified in person.

His brain seems to be wired up differently: He's frustrating, he's terrible at people skills, and he'd walk 10 miles out his way to avoid bending a minor ethical principle. Even when I disagree with one of his ethical principles, I do admire him for being committed to what he believes. I suspect he could have made a very profitable business off of GCC in the 80s—it was a remarkably good compiler for several chips back in the day—but he preferred to focus on writing more free software.

I've spoken with FSF staff in the past, and their attitude towards Stallman often seems to combine admiration and frustration. They work with him regularly, and most of them are fairly typical free software developers. They generally seem to believe that world has room for somebody like Stallman, who's horrible at PR but who takes principled stands.
like, directly plugged into the hypothalamus?
For example programming is introduced in first grade.

That, I think, is the best part.
And that is a bad thing ?
Uber as an experience is nothing new, IIRC eastern Europe had this model for ages: the company accepts client requests, the company posts request to drivers, fastest driver accepts and gets the requests, after the ride client pays drivers directly (usually cash only), driver pays % to the company. This was first implemented with pagers + mobile phones, than with sms, than with j2me apps, and nowadays with android apps usually. So the taxi company is just a proxy, and there are all kinds of flavor available: illegal taxis, virtual companies, etc.

The only things Uber did: great UX, wide availability in the world (you use the same app everywhere), possibility of deferred payments (aka ride now, pay at some point before next ride) and driver ratings.

As usual with any infrastructural international project: whoever goes first and behaves boldly - will stay for quite some time, see PayPal, Visa, eBay, etc. One can argue that Uber is not perfect ideologically on paper, but any reasoning "why we should make replacement for Uber" are doomed because ROI is simply not there, while struggles to forbid Uber are also doomed - you may block the company, but you cannot forbid better UX, so Uber is already here to stay.

In the end would be better to change discussions from "top 100500 reasons not to do something" to "top 100500 ways to make something better". There are concrete things available how to make Uber better, but instead everyone is just trying to forbid/destroy/etc.
So nowadays VBA is replaced with ES6 and React?
But the weird thing about the brand exposure is that before this sale, there was zero advertising - it was all word-of-mouth, without Reddit I wouldn't have even known this thing existed. Nintendo didn't do any advertising in Australia I saw, nothing on TV, at the shops or on buses like it happened with the regular consoles. I don't get it, and press coverage is still minimal outside of the circles that knew about this thing already (tech press).
> This has real effects that harm other people.

That's why we have courts where you can claim damages.

> None of the big bad movements you mention were genuinely trying to make humans into better thinkers. In fact, they all relied on humans not being such great thinkers.

Oh really? The Soviet man, the Übermensch as understood by the Nazis and all similar Socialist concepts are then completely new to you? Some of these concepts are pretty close to what you described a person should be like.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Soviet_man

So it seems to me that you basically share many of the views of a Hitler or a Stalin on questions like these.
This would be great for intrusion detection if there were some tools that users could use to automatically query the database, and repository maintainers could use to upload hashes.
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Go ahead. Try writing a custom uefi module, I dare you.
Its such a complicated mess it takes a team, and still you end up with blinders on every corner(intel reference code full of bugs etc).
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Unlike other ssh terminals that mostly serve the amateur ssh market?
We could also make even faster progress by experimenting on humans. If China does that, perhaps we should also do it to keep up with them. We could solve the homeless problem at the same time.

I tend to agree that western nations will lag, but I don't think that makes a good argument for doing it.
But... but that's like IRL. There are people out there.
> I'm really weary about this change, it should be tested before anything.

It's "wary" not "weary" [1]. Normally, I'm not a grammar Nazi, but I've been seeing this mistake more and more on HN. The word "weary" means tired, whereas "wary" means cautious or on guard.

By the way, I'm also wary about these changes. I think multidisciplinary classes are great, but that you need a strong base before you can implement 100% cross-/multi-disciplinary classrooms.

1. http://grammarist.com/usage/wary-weary/
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I occasionally use Prompt. It's for when you get a call about something being broken and you're on a train with only a phone, not for scheduled work.
> The same criticism could be leveled at Python with regard to the GIL and JIT (or lack-thereof).

Absolutely. Python lacks many things and what I wrote previously is exactly what I think about Python. There are lots of flaws and the supposed advantages of Python are getting less meaningful by the month. It only gets worse when you consider the big part of the community that refuses to actually move forward. In that sense, they're worse than the Perl community, because at least the Perl programmers had to wait an eternity for their new and improved language.
How is the email server an instance of corruption?
Can you rig a voting machine?
Could back-doors exist in either the software or hardware of these machines to manipulate the vote?

Are these systems audit-able by the general public they were meant to serve?
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If you had a Wii or Wii U then you can even buy 350+ games on their virtual console.
The first few days are going to be tough, as caffeine withdrawal has nasty side-effects (headache, sleepiness, lousy moods). It would be better to come off slowly, but that would require few more days of fasting.
You can't stream the output of an emulator?
Looks very cool - where are the models?
I haven't seen much in the way of specific predictions from Stallman. Basically his "predictions" amount to that closed source software allows corporations and governments to do bad things to users. We fairly regularly see evidence that this is the case, so hurray, the predictions were right. But it's not really a point I've ever heard someone argue against. Pretty much everyone agrees that yes, closed source software makes these bad things possible/easier and sometimes they do happen. Kind of reminds me of all the armchair economists predicting that the tech bubble will burst without ever providing a timeframe.

Anyways, people trot out the "Stallman has consistently been right" thing for every new Stallman article, as if the fact that a guy has made a series of uncontroversial, vague predictions is some sort of defense against the rest of the comments discussing the article's acerbic tone and/or starkly impractical conclusions.
These folks have done a lot around contact management. May be worth a read: https://www.fullcontact.com/blog/contact-versioning/
According my father, my grandfather (a telecoms engineer) helped lay the cabling in this complex. Somehow he became privy to some of the details of the invasion, and late on the night of June 5 or very early in the morning of June 6 1944 took my four-year-old father up a hill to watch the airborne forces covering the sky as they made their way to Normandy.
All it did is fuck up the ordinary people's life. Don't you think those that has serious amount of money, keeps dollars, euro and gold ?? Hello Also this was very much like a dictatorship like move!!
does it support firefox?
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And the workers of that non-profit organisations will work for free or use taxes for that ?
Doesn't he simply have Asperger's?
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I like the comment collapse idea but i think it would be worth having a sorter so you can see the top comment thread but also newest first and most up-and-coming threads.
Referring to one's opponent in a pejorative way is a common persuasion strategy. The problem is that Stallman isn't good at it.

See: Trump vis-à-vis "crooked Hillary."
And how many charged with child molestation will have the police raid their homes and check their computers? How many will end up only being charged with child porn to spare the actual child the trauma of going through a case and how many times is there not enough evidence to convict for child molestation but there is plenty to convict for child porn?
I think the "sharing economy" is one of the most impressive rebrands of an idea. It sounds all nice and friendly, who doesn't like sharing? And so new! I've not heard of the sharing economy before!

And it's just people selling things to other people. The same thing we've been doing as a species since we understood the concept of trading, something it seems chimpanzees have a grasp of.
London, frequently. Try getting a cab from Hammersmith out to Roehampton and you'll get a stream of "I'm not going that way" responses. Simple economic reason is that the driver is unlikely to pick up a return fare (source: talked about it with a taxi driver)
Does anybody know of an open source uber-like platform that could be used by local communities?
Yeah, such a better system. Even set up a bit coin address where they have to pay about $25 to get in to prove intent (along with visiting the site and then logging in).
Transparency should be a must, not a feature.
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Take the natural logarithm of the comment karma, and then use as the weight in a weighted shuffle algorithm?

Higher-voted comments will then be more likely to move up, but not guaranteed.

(You might want to consider putting a thumb on the scale to distinguish between comments which are low voted because they're uninteresting, and comments which contain flame-bait words etc.)
Wow, damned if you do, damned if you don't.
From the right's perspective, Facebook and Twitter actively censors unfavorable political opinions. This goes way beyond just policing hate speech and is one of the biggest reasons the Left didn't see Trump's victory coming. Silencing dissenting opinions doesn't mean those dissenting opinions just go away. But it is funny watching an entire industry fall over themselves trying to figure out the obvious.
The problem with education is, its self referential, as in you might not know at the start why you learn and you might be able to evaluate the goal of the whole endeavor only after you are halfway through it.

From the Napoleon hill of history, looking at it and assuming those down there in the trenches below the powder smoke can see the same whole picture of a worthwhile sacrifice of time - might be a big assumption based upon only your own accumulated post-experience knowledge.

A kid might not have a Feynman as father that encourages it to explore the world. Forcing this kid through mathematics, giving it the chance to later discover- hey you can program games with this or control drones- and live a different live then your dad who sits drinking in front of the TV all day - that is what the old teaching method provides. It sucks for those who educate there kids to have a expedition and curiosity mindset, but its hugely beneficial to those parts of society who do not understand the real benefits of education.
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What an oversimplification by somebody who sounds like an emotional failure. I am very active in writing OSS (probably more so than with my primary job). I also have two jobs (corporate web developer for a major dot com and army reserves) and yet still find time for the healthy marriage and kids (of whom are now teenagers). It certainly can be done. It certainly hasn't made me wealthy though.

I wouldn't be able to make this happen at all if it weren't for personality. A certain amount of charisma, dedication, humor, and patience. I am also a bit more hyper than the average person and require far less sleep than average and don't spend any time on Twitter or Facebook.
I support this kind of thing too. Independent learning is hugely important. I think kids are deterred from independent learning by stultifying practices in the classroom that make them feel that learning has to be bounded and dull. It doesn't have to be that way.

Edit: also,schools are vital places for socialising but most teachers insist on silence and attention. I think a better approach would be to allow socialising in a supervised environment, such that a teacher or some other role can suggest not being unkind etc, and in doing so foster constructive social skills. We often forget that social skills can be good or bad: furtive or open. Schools should encourage the right skills.