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So, launching a product or service 101: speak to your potential customers first to gauge their response and limits.

This is a good change. I'm glad they listened to feedback on pricing and removed the header. Had the commercial licence lunched like this, would there still have been unhappy people? Probably, yes, people like to complain and don't like to pay, but I don't think it would have even been on the same scale. Instead, I think the majority of people would have understood that developers need to live.

The pricing change seems great - the startup plan looks good (you can pay monthly!), and the price per instance for other commercial use looks much more reasonable.
In the land of infosec, it's always "when" something happens, not "if". You do your damndest to shore up defenses but a breach is inevitable.
Still, the conditions he described at the end of the article would sure be present. I remember a Mir astronaut that couldn't sleep with anything heavier than the lighhtest blanket.
Shoppers get upset when sellers advertise one price online and then try charging them another. No hidden voodoo psychology there.
AES and ChaCha20 are faster.
A Michael Lewis article about Thaler was also posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432905.

Edit: also a Thaler article from 2015 at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433053.
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Does the FIDO U2F feature on them get targeted by hackers?
This is a good change. Your typical side project making a few $/month probably doesn't need custom plugin hosting.
When I moved here I was quite surprised with the stone age ATMs compared with what we had in Portugal almost two decades ago, where all kinds of services were available (train tickets, concert tickets, charging mobile phones, internet payments, ...) and best of all, at no additional charge regardless of the bankcard origin.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432617.
It's because very few of them listened to, or believed in, their psychologist colleagues. And given how difficult it is to conduct experiments at the macroeconomic level, the field as a whole has a poor tradition of running experiments and collecting evidence, which would have burst that bubble decades earlier.
They can certainly work with Angular/React. There's templates to get started with that. It would be a .NET backend, but a .NET backend isn't exclusive to Windows any more with .NET Core and related Docker images.
Only seven schools in the UK are actually 'public schools'. It's a precise legal status. So 'private school' and 'public school' does not mean the same thing.

Originally they were the only schools that educated members of the general public, rather than people just from the local village or church or things like that, so the name does make sense.
> This will also free up labor and capital to do other things.

Yes we definitely need more people on disability watching Maury
It feels inevitable, but it's still a shame.

I think the Windows Mobile interface was the most functional of the mobile UIs. I switched to Android years ago, but I still miss it.
I think Amazon's case is a little more specific. People want trustworthy delivery, and they like getting a few larger packages rather than many small packages.

I could buy a few items from non-Prime sellers with free shipping, but then I'm going to get a bunch of different boxes spread out over a few days due to different sellers and shipping speeds. If I pay a little extra per item I know that Amazon will ship my stuff quickly and it usually comes in a single package, unless the items in my order are unusually different from each other.
Other comment thread, but essentially the same news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15432720
We had a small bespoke customer support system we wrote back in 2000 or so. The system would allow an operator to type the message body, and would automatically generate the mail text e.g. "Dear {customer name}, {body}, Regards {operator name}". Cutting edge stuff back then!

One day, we get a call that an operator couldn't send an email since the third word was classed as "offensive", however the message body was fine. After firing up the debugger, it became obvious... the customer's surname was "Dick".

We never got to the bottom of how to solve it, so hacked something in. I wonder how many times Mr. Dick has issues with false positives in profanity filters.
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> he is alleged to have used Tor, anonymized online testing services and PureVPN in an attempt to protect his identity

Well, VPN can protect your privacy up to a certain degree. If you go over it, there are always methods to dig you out, especially FBI is the one hunting.

The only possible way to protect your privacy is use anonymous services like Tor etc. But even those services can't guarantee 100% anonymity as there are still have way to compromise them.

So, I guess just don't broke the law then.
This surprises no one.

I'm more interested in: what's the future for UWP apps now? Another dead end like silverlight?

A cross platform UI library that runs on .Net core (ie. windows, mac, linux, android, ios), some kind of hybrid of ??? and Xamarin forms could potentially be quite a nice tool... but its pretty hard to be excited about the prospect with their track record of killed off UI frameworks so far.
Neurocore claims brain training can treat autism – but there's no data
Yes if you using medical marijuana you probably substituting that for something else
Previous occurances on hacker news:

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12026879

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2570269

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3452408

and some more..

I counted 19 times so far
Ok, we changed the URL to that from https://betanews.com/2017/10/09/purevpn-logs-fbi/. Thanks!
> Isn’t all this the same thing that Simon got a Nobel for in 1978?

My understanding is, no. Simon's work dealt with microeconomic decisions, which is exactly what Thaler said many were dismissing as self-cancelling noise at the macro level. Kahneman's demonstrates it does not, at least for a subset of macro decisions.
A video from Alibaba's mysql specialist, http://www.highload.ru/2015/abstracts/1915.html
Technically was good perhaps even better platform than iOS and Android.

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> Given unlimited computing power now, we would have no way of making the AI have the same goals as us, because we have no idea how to program a safe AI.

And a counterpoint: Given unlimited computing power now, we would have no way of making the AI, because we have no idea how to program a general AI.

There are algorithms for global optimization, but those optimization problems are given a specific goal to optimize. We don't even know what "goals" to put in to make a general intelligence.

"Assuming unlimited computing power" is a good thought experiment because it lays bare the fact that we wouldn't have a clue how to create an AI even if we had unlimited computing and we can take a closer look at what we are missing even in that case.

Worrying about killer robots is like worrying about overpopulation on Mars (-Ng). I agree that job replacement is a concern in the next 10 years, but that is completely different than "making our goals align". The "making our goals align" concern is just as distant as killer robots or overpopulation on Mars.

You say, "you can't just assume the problem will solve itself." To which I say, What Problem?

A theoretical problem in your thoughts is not a problem that needs to be solved.
Not so far fetched ... http://uk.businessinsider.com/apples-growing-irish-empire-in...
It can be useful to avoid geographic restrictions on content, for example, but is a pretty terrible idea from a privacy perspective.
Because "it's complicated" isn't usually considered an exhaustive exploration of the topic?

It's also a great symbol, emphasising how economics is trying to incorporate new knowledge of all the "failure modes" of classical models. There are enough people retelling that "square chicken" joke over and over, and such prices help to spread the word that, contrary to public opinion, there are lots of efforts to make the models match closer with behavioural realities.
I would assume if you're going this far you're likely running this module under a Linux VM so only specifics go through Tor.
I can't imagine him winning it. The Nobels in Economics are exclusively academics with large bodies of peer reviewed work. The ones who have veered towards practical projects (or hedge funds) still have long formal academic histories. The committee [0] is 100% academics. Unless Satoshi had a strong background of other papers in esteemed journals, he wouldn't win it. (It's not a "pop culture" prize like Peace)

[0] https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/pr...
3B Yahoo Accounts Hacked, but Don’t Delete Your Email Yet
If Lufthansa crashes a plane tomorrow in Berlin that'll also make the German news, while them flying hundreds of flights a day doesn't make it because it's not noteworthy.

It's the news because it's notable or out of the ordinary.
I think it has a little more hope with XBOX One support.
> a company which has approximately infinite resources

The classic Apple problem is they they compatibility have much less corporate employees than other tech companies and they're stretched too thin, despite all their money.
Long article on this topic, arguing “no”, https://amp.businessinsider.com/blue-blocking-glasses-scienc...

For computers, Flux (http://justgetflux.com) offers more control of blue light, and it does make a difference. Also, increase your blinking, periodically focus on distant objects (use a timer if needed) and don’t look at a bright screen in a dark room without ambient light.
Well the Xbox is still a UWP target, so there are still multiple platforms that use it.

Also I wouldn't be surprised if we see microsoft make a push to allow UWP to target Android.
Oooo, thanks for that! Know of anything where I can read more / see the legal definitions?
It may be impossible to MITM your connection. However, it is entirely possible for the authorities to just prevent the connection from working in the first place.
Simon was more about decision-making in organizations. But Kahneman certainly did a lot of work in psychology that helped form the basis for behavioral economics work.
what's biometric about bankid?
I tend to find source code comments written in German quite often.
How I Broke Envato Search Engine [XSS Injection]
Java is well suited to very large projects only because developers are "commodity." With the modern language updates, the core java collections library is really broken for modern multi-paradigm programming. There are no true immutable collections in the core lib which makes Java really show its age with the newer language features compared to other more modern languages such as scala. Functions are bolted on as "Single Abstract Method" classes, which make functions essentially syntactic sugar instead of a first class language feature. Java9 makes some improvements but I wouldn't consider using Java for any new projects unless I was at a big enterprise that can only hire really cheap developer and needs to hire a whole lot of em really fast.
We merged the comments there—thanks.
If you decide to do Javascript, I highly recommend FreeCodeCamp. https://www.freecodecamp.org
I mean you wouldn't need to set fish as the default shell. But even if it was, you could `do ssh $i "bash -c '...'";`
I remember disabling some insecure kex algorithms last year and suddenly some co-workers were complaining. Apparently they hadn't updated their putty in many years. One update and they could login again. :)

That situation will likely repeat itself with this latest upgrade.
Also caused major issues for the rare users who had antivirus software installed.
What's interesting to me is that the version of Disk Utility in the High Sierra installer doesn't have this issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Schools_Act_1868
Every country considers Europe and Asia a single continent. (Because they literally are.)
WinForms, WPF, Silverlight, ... it doesn't matter. The whole .NET Framework 4.x and .NET Core 1 have the "legacy" tag on. Their new thing is .NET Core 2. The rest moved on to cross-platform.
I can find no good empirically-based argument here against the declarative style other than an appeal to taste/preference.

The only effective difference IMHO is that the declarative style does deferred evaluation which makes it more difficult to examine "intermediate states" (aka "debugging") but as the author stated themselves, this is simply a matter of outputting those intermediate states/setting them as outputs... this is no different from examining intermediate state in every programming paradigm ever invented. Unit-testing every step is IMHO a far better way of debugging/ensuring validity, but this is possibly much more difficult in the "black box" environment of self-weighting neural networks than it is in your more traditional programming environment
Debian in particular has an entire alternatives system. Nothing stops somebody from creating the packages `nice_tools` and `select_nice_tools` that will install those tools and make them the default binaries for the commands.
Never buy the first version of any new product
So now the free official binary distribution doesn't allow commercial use but you can build it yourself from the source (which is licensed under Apache 2.0) and use it commercially for free:

"""

Q: Which license do I need?

A: If your company uses official Caddy binaries internally, in production, or distributes Caddy, a commercial license is required. This includes companies that use Caddy for research. The personal license is appropriate for academic research, personal projects, websites that aren't for profit, and development at home.

Q: Is Caddy open source?

A: Yes, it is. Caddy's source code is licensed under Apache 2.0, which requires attribution and stating changes made to the code when forking it, using it in your own projects, or distributing it. This website distributes official, compiled Caddy binaries, which are licensed differently.

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Url changed to this (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15433098) from http://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10-mobile-microsoft-jus..., a slightly less substantive article.
ESCORT ALICE – ESCORTS – ESCORT ATHENS – ESCORTS ATHENS
A lot of this seems gravity-related. The answer is relatively simple: if we are going to Mars, use a rotating spaceship (or one with an internal centrifugr).

The SLS Block 1B can carry rigid cargo that's up to 10m wide and the BFR seems to be able to carry up to 9. That's enough for an internal centrifuge astronauts could spend lots of time in, only moving to the zero-g areas out of it when needed. If we think about inflatable modules, the space becomes even larger.

I wonder if a centrifuge could be added to the ISS or if the vibration would be too much of a problem.
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I'd leave passwordHint as a string; but password... That might be an interesting type. Particularly if it zeroed out memory as a freebie in the destructor. Actually that was my take-away from this article, the "maybe in MY projects I should wrap passwords in a special type to stop me typo-ing the raw password to output."
That was kind of obvious a year or two ago when Microsoft gutted 99% of the Nokia division.
you can get ELM (30 /40 MBS) in the UK for £70/month we used it for a stop gap whist our1MBS was provisioned
Charles Stross's Eschaton series: Singularity Sky and Iron Sunrise. It's an interesting hard-scifi take on what happens to humanity after one AI becomes, for all intents and purposes, God.
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I'm not alleging that. I'm closer to alleging that the article is wrong.
> No just pointing out you are creating a false narrative.

And just dodging my question.

I find it endlessly fascinating why liberals can't stick to straight Q&A despite the truth on their side.

Oh, is that not a fair comment? Then answer the simple question I asked.
Self consciousness is almost certainly required for intelligence. So much so that one way to categorize animal intelligence is whether or not they pass a "dot test". When seeing a dot on themselves in a mirror they recognize that the dot is, in fact, on themselves and try to see / clean it on themselves.

Until there is a decent demonstration of generalization to the point of self-awareness runaway AI will be an "overpopulation on Mars" problem.

Even when awareness is demonstrated in an algorithm the algorithm will not be able to solve NP problems in P time.

EDIT: ok, it is extremely unlikely they will be able to solve NP problems in P time. If they privately demonstrate P=NP then we are screwed. However, we are going to have all manner of dense, but self-aware programs before we get a CS super genius. We will make the first C3PO level intelligence well before we have super-intelligence, and we haven't even made anything close to that yet.
I like this advice, but I would point out that the con you mentioned really could be a con for any profession. Perhaps it occurs more often in coding jobs, but I haven't seen any hard data to this effect.
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“The Industry Is Fundamentally Broken”: Women on Sexism in Silicon Valley
I loved the UI, design, consistency, etc. I liked it because it was straightforward and rarely notified me about anything.

I left because of w10m specifically. They took away the consistency. It felt as janky as Android does.

After I dropped and broke my last WP8 device, I had to decide whether I wanted to order another old WP8 phone online or just switch to Android. I switched to Android.

It's not nearly as nice as WP8 was but what can you do?
The problem is that after 25 years of the Internet, we have almost completely stopped using multi-user systems.

It even used to be easier to make stuff run from your homedir. We are moving from it, not towards it. It is really a shame for the few multi-user setups out there.
except maybe Mac OS X 10.6

Snow Leopard. What a wonderful high-point in Desktop OSes that was. Seriously considering rolling back one or two of my old computers, even just to have a living breathing reference-point.
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I posted a scientific study backing up my claims. You offered anecdata like OP. I am just going to sit here and smirk.
UWP apps wouldn't be so bad for Windows if maybe Microsoft extended their functionality a little and kept improving their performance.

However, what scares me to death as a user is that if UWP is let's say super-popular with developers 5-10 years from now, and everyone builds their apps as UWP apps for Windows, then Microsoft will eventually restrict "normal" users (read: most "consumer" Windows machines) from even side-loading apps from outside of the store.

If that's something that has even crossed the minds of Microsoft's leadership, then I definitely don't want UWP to gain any sort of real traction. And I'd rather see Microsoft improve user security through instant virtualization for apps, like what they're doing with App Guard for Edge, even if it's only an option users could choose, and not something that works by default for most or all apps.
>People left without a job/role in society often don't matter even to themselves -- low self esteem, turning to drugs, alcohol, etc.

I see this argument all the time here, but no one accounts for the fact that we live in a society in which people's worth is largely determined by their ability to secure financial stability. Who's to say that people without jobs, allowed to live without societal derision in a (best case) post work future would be inevitably reduced in spirit?
I'll expand this later but there are four categories of approaches to use in parallel

1) https://getcoldturkey.com/ https://freedom.to/ and http://selfcontrolapp.com/. You wouldn't tell a dieter to keep cookies on their desk. Don't keep braincandy on yours.

2) Better sleep, diet, exercise

3) Build tolerance to discomfort by taking a cold shower every morning and by reading Stoic philosophy

4) Make better plans for yourself so that the answer to "what should I do next" is less ambiguous. Before starting any coding project, start by asking and answering "why is this worth doing?"
Assuming rational actors simplifies theory to make it within reach of undergraduate students, so it is useful to get people started in the field. Lots of things are explained by rational choice, such as the actions of many corporations (that have research analysts collecting and refining data to make better decisions).

I think a lot of irrational actions taken by humans is better explained by them having incomplete information. The contrived nature of these experiments occludes their structure to the participants. Using the viral disease/antidote example: If you presented each scenario to the students at the same time and then explained how they reduced to the exact same decision, then many students (but probably not all) would assign the same price to each scenario.

Instead what these experiments do is say "make a decision," then they say "make a decision on this new complicated phrasing which makes you think that the situation has changed but only I realize that it is actually the same." No surprise there when the outcome is different.
I'd suggest writing a book, or a set of anonymized blog posts if you want to remain unknown. It's easier than piecing together from your comment history :P
That's just part of growing pains. I imagine that when Microsoft finishes their long term plan for .NET the layers will basically be:

.NET Core - implements .NET Standard.

Everything else is layered on top of .NET Core: .NET Framework (Windows), Xamarin (Linux, MacOS GUI, Android, iOS).

So basically everything in use will support .NET Standard.

Retconning is a bitch :p
The NixOS way would be to install binaries at the system directories, but for your user only.

I don't know if this is possible with plain Nix (not the OS).
> The reason I think its heinous: one rule for whites, another set for Torres-Straight Islanders/Original Occupants. Racism is intrinsically encoded in Australian law and Australians unwillingness to do anything about it is a sheer and utter embarrassment to the enlightened world.

I think your phrase "racism is intrinsically encoded in Australian law" accurately describes the legal situation up until the reforms of the 1960s and 1970s. But I'm not convinced it is an accurate description of Australian law in the present-day. Can you give some examples of present-day Australian laws which in your view "intrinsically encode" racism?
Physicists assume things are spheres and use that to solve a bunch of problems. It's important to know 'why' economists use this abstraction for modeling before patently dismissing it. Economists notice that on average, people in the aggregate tend to behave rationally sometimes. Scrutiny should be applied to the assumptions, but it can still help explain economic systems.
Yes, but that isn't really the point. Legacy and embedded computers without AES instructions don't get those gains, so they use blowfish. And those with blowfish configured will either A) fail to connect entirely due to "Ciphers: blowfish-cbc" excluding all others, or B) fall back to another cipher that's slow on that system. Things are going to break, is my point.
>Had Microsoft put quality dev teams on building high quality third-party apps I think the chances of success would have greatly improved.

For one app? For an app they would have to give away for free? For an app that would always be behind the FB built ios/android apps?
To be fair they had no idea about their potential customers and assumed most of which were hobbyists. I think it's good they're trying to monetize though, it allows them to keep the lights on a focus on their project full-time without having to hand it off to another major org like Apache or anybody else.
Assuming that one day there will reproducible builds, how will they ever tell apart the legal use from the illegal use of the (bit-for-bit identical) binary?