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> Sonos sounds great, has nice features and "just works".

Perhaps not for long, if you do not accept their take-it-or-leave-it terms. Personally, I don't mind not accepting the TOS and simply leaving my software in the state that it currently is in, forever. My device is currently working acceptably, so I don't see why I need an update. But if they're saying it's going to eventually stop working, that's where any sane person should draw the line.
Would you please not post unsubstantive comments, and especially not flamebait, to HN?

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An approach like that would be suitable for this case, but it doesn't and cannot scale to be suitable for the general, standard process that can work for blocking abusive accounts on Google scale. All kinds of spammers, trolls and simply abusive users are able to create many accounts (often in a semi-automated way) and create new ones when you block them. You need a way to block hundreds of thousands of such accounts every day in a cost-efficient manner, because the service is free and revenue per user - low. This applies to pretty much any free service with a large user base, by the way - all of those need ways to efficiently ban lots of accounts and can't afford to negotiate with the banned ones.

This means that you pretty much need a way where the average time spent per blocking an account (including any answers and appeals if you allow them) is measured in seconds, not minutes; and the accounts that need to be blocked will use these facilities just as much, and likely more.

In addition, you generally can't simply give a straight answer in public (the only reason why they'd want to give a straight answer, due to this publicity) - reasons for blocking accounts involve either claiming that the account owner has done something shady, or involve non-public data (e.g. if child porn was transferred in emails or something like that). If you want to publish specific claims of abuse performed by someone, you need to be very thorough and careful about anything you claim (much more thorough than you want to be when choosing to block accounts - you need to be able to block accounts quickly and efficiently) or you open yourself up to all kinds of libel issues, so that can't be done as a routine customer service activity without involving lawyers, making the process even more expensive.
Are they subject to a class action lawsuit because of this?
How do you get number of Google searches programatically? Is there an API or something?
Marketing depth has a budget usually and can hire external graphic talent as needed. Not saying that this was the case eh, speaking generally.
> Lin is an engineer on the Mozilla Developer Relations team. She tinkers with JavaScript, WebAssembly, Rust, and Servo, and also draws code cartoons.
For the "cheap" part one'll probably need a system that has erasure coding and can survive partial outages.

E.g. if one backs up to hubiC, OneDrive and Google Drive, with a RAID5-like redundancy, they can have just 33% overhead and still be sure shall any of those vendors discontinue the service or suffer a failure, their data would be still safe. Some call that RAIC - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Clouds.

git-annex and Tahoe-LAFS do this, but they're not actual backup solutions.
That's why I never use the "yell fire" example. I always use the example of ordering a hit on somebody. Technically all you did was speak, but that speech has big consequences beyond simple conversation. It would be ludicrous to say that the principle of free speech demands we allow people to put hits on other people. That's an extreme example, but it illustrates that there are reasonable limits to free speech.
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just make a client front-end for Linux, please! there’s literally dozens of us who would pay for the privilege.

or let us pay what the Mac and Windows users do for whatever frontend we want. switching everyone over to the B2 protocol is one thing, but making us pay more for the privilege of doing the same backups your Windows/Mac users do is another.
Staff blogger perhaps?

I've been hired before by companies to take something their engineering team has done and turn it into a blogpost. I can't do graphics, but I can write a mean blogpost about pretty much anything you can think of.

Some posts/articles that came out of such initiatives have gone on to get published in dead-tree magazines or stick around the frontpage of HN for a few hours.

Broadly speaking, if you were doing this as a job job, I think it would fall under "developer evangelist". Your job is to make the company look good to potential hires and API consumers. Do whatever it takes. That involves going to conferences, writing blogposts, drawing graphics, and using freelancer resources to help you out in areas where you can't go. Usually evangelists can do most of the job on their own.
Looks like they took a logical cue from the emulators. The quick save, restart feature was basically the only way I was beating some of those older games. Punishingly difficult.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on HN. We ban accounts that post like this. Your other comments with this account so far are good, so we won't ban you for this one. But would you please take care not to post uncivil, unsubstantive, and/or flamebait comments?

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I hope you don't get downvoted through the floor for saying this, because that's the kind of reaction I've gotten the past n > 8 years for suggesting people don't run an antivirus on Windows.
Couldn't agree more. The more we get pushed outside of our comfort zones, the better. It helps you improve both as a person, and in your vocation.
The 'when to travel' could be made dependend on where you live. When I lived in Norway I thought 25C is quite warm. Now that I live in south Germany I think 25C is more intermediate. Also in Spring, temperatures feel a lot higher (since I got used to cold winter weather) then by the end of summer (when I got used to hot weather).
Yeah kind of lame. Still this got me excited to play Mario RPG Seven Stars, that game is dope!
I don't think I've ever seen a longer list of arbitrary fees than when I signed all the paperwork when buying a house. It felt like death by a thousand cuts with dozens of little $50-500 line items that seemed so arbitrary. When I would ask about them, I basically got told, "do you want the home or not..."
> Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour. [1]

If I don't mow my lawn or pick up my garbage (labour) then my homeowners' association or local government can initiate legal proceedings which may end in me not "owning" my home.

Look, I'm actually for taxes generally, whatever you want to think about that, as long as they provide equal value to the people. However, our current system is designed so that any local government can arbitrarily decide that they're incorporated and I'm subject to their laws and taxation. 99% of us work towards putting more into the system than we get back and many do so exponentially.

Last time I checked, eminent domain and asset forfeiture are still actual things that happen in 2017.

We may not live in an outright "feudal system" but many of us live in a system closer to one than not.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
I'm not sure if you're objecting for ideological or practical reasons. I totally get the ideological objection, but on practical grounds,

1. Is this a problem if you're using a G Suite account run by a company instead of a personal Google account (as in the linked case, as far as I can tell)?

2. Is this a problem if you're using on-prem AD for auth instead of Google accounts, which is one of the things specifically being introduced in this launch?

I mean, independent of whether you think this was Google shutting down free speech or whatever, it totally seems like neither Google's algorithms or humans should be able to shut down a single corporate account (there's of course cases for shutting down an entire corporate G Suite setup, e.g., if it's used by spammers), but also that seems like such a basic feature that I would have assumed that's written into the contract.
I considered doing that for a small non profit -- but realized I really didn't want the employees to be able to restore/see each other's data.

The business plan has isolated accounts.
It really does seem like luck is the thing, even in something like the ivory tower. It stinks, but all that hard work is the price of the lotto ticket; it still ends up being just plain luck in the end.

I also feel like it's a race to the bottom now. It used to be 'publish or perish', now it's 'funding or famine'. The paper numbers, impact, and truthfulness have nothing to do with anything. I see so many PIs that essentially end up as one income households, their spouse's, not their own. The 'good ones' just get pushed out or leave, an evaporative effect, leaving only the liars. The academy is in real trouble these days. It isn't on life support yet, but it's not able to climb the stairs anymore.
I bet you could do this by looking at all the Yelp reviews for an area over time. Some combination of average review score and total review quantity would produce a legit metric.

But Yelp and Google's APIs aren't really designed for this kind of use sadly.
I believe she just has a talent for it, she's an engineer as far as I know and has other related cartoon descriptions: http://lin-clark.com/

Her talk on react fiber this year is quite good as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCuYPiUIONs
Atom 1.1, though. We're at version 1.20...
> which we do not trust the government with, let alone companies or individuals

Actually, I think it's legal for individuals or companies but not for the government. For example, the government can't install surveillance cameras in a shopping mall, but the mall owner can. The government can't watch people shop in stores, but stores are installing cameras to track how people move through the store, what items they smile at, and what they finally buy.

I was listening to a podcast recently where they were talking about a future where companies will drive around, pick up peoples trash, then process it to build a profile of the household. Because trash is fair game once you drop it off at the curb, they claimed there was nothing stopping anybody from doing this.
> According to Ed Higgs, Interim Director of Global Service Delivery for Group IT at Rentokil: “With over 500 Chromebooks in use in our organization, Chrome now forms part of our standard offering within Rentokil Initial."

500? Do you even lift bro?
Firefox collecting data in of itself isn't at all rude, or problematic. Nobody cares if Mozilla has "data". What they care about is if they collect data that violates the user's privacy. The whole point of RAPPOR and differential privacy is it's an approach to collecting data that is supposed to preserve user privacy. So the real question is, does it preserve user privacy sufficiently that it's ok to make something opt-out instead of opt-in? But that's not what you're complaining about, you're just ranting because they're collecting data, period, without actually understanding the extent to which your privacy is being violated (if at all).

And of course this all started with you saying that you may as well switch to another company's products, a company which you know violates your privacy quite significantly. You still haven't explained why Firefox collecting a small amount of data in a way that tries to minimize any privacy violations means you should just give up any semblance of privacy and use a product that tries to collect as much personal information as possible.
Escrow is a valuable instrument, but there fees charged for it today is unwarranted.

In the future, escrows will be handled by smart contacts for a lot cheaper, not people.

As for property manager, with the surfeit of online tools for everything from listing, screening tenants to rent payment, their value is significantly diminished
How about looking at average flight prices?
It's even worse than that though. Even if you chose to forego updates promising features or better security, it seems like this product's box should actually say "not guaranteed to continue working past arbitrary dates, even if the hardware is still fine!"
Author of the compilation here.

Sweet lords, I have made the front page of the Hacker News for the first time of my life! I had no idea that this would generate so much traction, especially as my own submission at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15012678 went across HN rather unnoticed.
If you find that significantly expanding the retention limit doesn't fit within the current pricing structure (as I expect it wouldn't given how competitively priced Backblaze is), consider offering it as an add-on feature, as Dropbox does with Extended Version History (+$40/yr for 1-year retention of deleted files).
Actually... it kinda.. does.

No? Don't pay your property tax. See how fast you get evicted from that home you "own" by the sheriff.
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I'd venture less into Common Lisp territory and more into Racket, myself...
There is a comment which was voted dead which actually answered the question.
These services have their own crawlers. If you ever spot for example MajesticBot in your access logs you have found one of the biggest.
You can also reprogram off the shelf gaming Steelseries mouse:

http://hackaday.com/2017/07/29/injecting-code-into-mouse-fir...

+tons of other mice use STM32 micro http://www.overclock.net/t/1533712/gaming-mouse-mcu-list
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What is wrong with considering downsides of CoC while enforcing it? I'd say that exactly what person charged with enforcing it should be doing, and if they refuse to even admit the thought there might be any and haven't discussed them before, they may not be ready to enforce it properly. Reevaluating the premises and ensuring that upsides of the current rules exceed downsides, and challenging them if they do not, is the part of a healthy governance process, and flipping out at the mere thought of it is not a sign of a healthy one.

Imagine a judge that is sure there's never downsides and unintended consequences of any law, and never admits a thought that the application of law can be unjust or hurt somebody. Wouldn't you be scared of such Judge Dredd?
Someone should tell the US Navy: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/22/us_navy_4th_ship_mi...

I don't care how many fancy screens you have, one person on watch with a pair of binoculars should have spotted a bloody oil tanker.
>1> IPO underwriter

The underwriter provides value by being _one_ convenient transaction to sell my company's shares. Instead of haggling with 1000 individual investors on "price", I haggle with just the bankers at Goldman Sachs or Merril Lynch. The investment bank then wires me the money and I get to concentrate my efforts elsewhere (like the product) instead of fundraising. (Damnit Jim I'm a tech CEO and not a hedge fund portfolio salesman!) The investment bank is now on the hook for selling the shares to those 1000 investors. Also, the investment bank has the prestige and the rolodex of potential buyers. For me (say a young 20-something) to replicate that would require many golf games and champagne dinners that take my time away from improving the product. Saving me time is worth something, right? (Maybe not a 3% underwriting fee but it's definitely worth something.)

Cutting out the underwriter also means I leave "money on the table" because many investors would rather buy initial shares from a reputable intermediary like Goldman Sachs rather than a startup like me.

If you as a company, prefer to _do_ the same investor relationship work that underwriters do, by all means, skip the underwriter fees.
Who's the gang you're speaking of? I'd like to get to know them. The aforementioned quote is AFAIR from Reddit, not Teknik, so the credit goes there; you can trace the answers to individual comments inside the Reddit thread linked in the article.

Personally, I use teknik.io as a blogging service and Git hosting.
And now in Chicago all I can get is Comcast. Thanks a lot.

There's no reason why we can't require leasing for all carriers, ISPs etc, to any company that wants to lease it. That works just fine for DSL. I recall having the option with DSL. Obviously I chose my telco and had good service and decent billing. That was a fine arrangement.

When it comes to cell phone service? I can use any pay as you go carrier, sure, but not on the Verizon network? What do I get in return for that, I can use a verizon phone on any carrier. Except I can't, cuz they're violating their agreements with the FCC. Screw these cell carriers.
Yes, what I said in ZFS you can instantly (and without using extra space) create a writable filesystem from snapshot using zfs clone (you can create multiple filesystems from one snapshot), but snapshots by itself are always read only.
Do you have better sources for the back-story? If so then it would be nice to see them. If not it would be nice for you to say so. That way lies closure.
Yep, everyone has different requirements. And I think we have tested the world where, those different requirements all being equal, has served customers well. And innovation for that matter -- if video had a shotgun to it's back during its formative technology years who knows what kind of crappy technology we'd be dealing with right now.

I'm kinda in the same boat where I'm not someone who is just churning through video bandwidth, im rarely hitting 5GB across 2 phones on a heavy month. But that said I also would like to get great quality for the videos I do watch, and occasionally I'll throw a video to a tv and there you can definitely appreciate higher bandwidth there. I mean, I don't see the problem with the world where you can let applications & operation systems present choices to users, who will then set sensible defaults / pick and choose / etc. Enforcing this on a network layer is a pretty extreme measure.
I get what you're saying, but Google's history here is atrocious, which is why business' are skittish, people aren't just going to take their word for it. You go first, if you and 100 others have a good experience maybe that attitude will change. Until then, hard pass.
I agree. It seems pretty bonkers, but I'm sure some PM thought it would be great for some subset of customers to just be able to plug things in and have things "magically work". Anything beyond the most basic network though, and it really causes problems.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? We're hoping for a higher quality of discussion here.

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It's a play on the title of the original blogpost. Quoting myself from there:

It's somewhat baffling to say that "experts", whoever they are, have gathered to respond to this question - I simply assume that the people who have voiced their opinion on the topic - regardless of who they are - know what they are talking of, and therefore their comments should be, and have been, included here.

But, on the other hand, correct, Lisp ain't dead yet. At least not any deader than the usual.
Possibly Oceania.
That's an apples-and-oranges comparison. The system you cite differs from the one under discussion in several ways; the most important of which are:

1. The cited system does not include a light-harvesting component. It merely postulates that the required energy could be generated from photovoltaics. This would introduce additional cost and complexity along with an efficiency hit.

2. The cited system comprises a bacterium in conjuction with an electrode-supported catalyst, whereas the system under discussion is solely an engineered bacterium.

Finally, it is not correct to refer to cadmium and cysteine as feedstocks. They are components of the catalyst, and they are not consumed during catalysis. The only feedstocks for both systems are CO2 and water.
Presumably, a native Clojure would be able to tap into the C/C++ ecosystem through similar FFI mechanisms. Granted, that code would be no more portable than the intersection of the platforms supported by each library, but that's already the situation with classic native code.
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> We believe the data should be owned by the community and not the government.

> ... sell to neighborhoods ...

> ... allow residents to opt-out ...

(emphasis mine)

I'm not a linguist or a political scientist, but I don't think you have a very clear understanding of the word 'own' or what a government really is.
As far as I know bubbling up errors instead of handling them is recommended practice: https://github.com/nats-io/go-nats-streaming/issues/143#issu...
There are people who run Minecraft game servers as a small business. A more efficient implementation lets them make more money, so for them this could beat Mojang's server.
Generally, I would agree, and in the broadest sense of the terms, they are not equal. You can call anything whatever you want; you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still a pig. England used taxation as a way to maintain control over its colonies regardless of how it turned out. Eventually, and most famously, the U.S. realized the taxation was a form of oppression and not for the common good.

People who didn't pay the "taxes" were evicted and their possessions given to loyalists; sounds a lot like renting.
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> I want to thank Bitdefender and especially Marius for their response as well as for fixing the bug.

I don't see an update for the mac version.
I remember carefully crafting a software framework for my Ph.D. I got it running, it worked perfectly, it didn't deliver any advantages vs state of the art. I think it took me 7 mths to write. I then slapped together another one, and that took me 3 mths, it worked (just about), it produced some decent results, and I could move onto the next thing. The software I was producing now was not good but this was in fact excellent experience for research software development as as my work progressed into more innovative areas I found that many, many ideas didn't work out at all, so the priority was to be able to develop code really really fast. I suspect that this is what is going on with most research code - write it really fast, not really good.
I've tried Spideroak and I really tried to like / use it, but it never worked very well, feels unfocused and a bit unfinished.

I'm probably going to just move my photos to Dropbox (I know, its not a backup program, but it works and is very simple to deal with)
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Interesting point - even though some animals might thrive in the dark, the food chain can also be undermined in a way that it topples the foundation of the members above, thus indirectly destroying it.

Owls consume rodents such as squirrels, rats, and mice, which are nocturnal.

Kiwis eat grubs and worms - only the latter of which I know can be nocturnal.
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