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In hyperbolic terms i'd say that HN will become a consumer electronics & politics platform read by "metoo" developers who call them selves founders in exchange for giving up their pension and their rights as a employee. More will be driven to do the same because they read a story on HN covertly plugged by the only client of the previously mentioned metoo guy.
Tongue in cheek, this is a exaggerated version of the trend i see and that's what i hate most about HN.
Interrogate the thought more carefully. I understand why your default assumption is that securing DNS records is a good thing. But why is that, really? All sorts of things aren't secured cryptographically --- ARP! IP options! --- and we don't care. The modern Internet was designed with the assumption that the DNS is insecure.
A large class of features are necessary for scaling: those that automate something that previously required a support call. Handling all the KYC verification for every state and country, for example, takes a lot of engineering.
It depends quite a lot on what kind of autocompletion you're using, for which language. It's a mixed bag.
I like Quora for this. The threat of a BNBR ding is eternal and the panopticon unwavering. As a result every interaction becomes an opportunity for reflection.
That can't be your experience, because it doesn't happen; there's literally nothing in the software that works that way.

How it does work isn't much more complicated than what I just said.
While I strongly support the idea that no one should write a generic allocator in production, writing it as an exercise is a very good idea.

The article looks at lot like the tutorial I wrote a long time ago ... (Every now and then, I see my old PDF in post about implementing allocators, which is disturbing since I wrote it in a hurry as a quick support for a lecture and I found it very poorly written ... )

I think it's interesting to note that using sbrk(2) is a bit deprecated, it's way easier to implement malloc(3) using mmap(2) ...

There's also better ways to handle pointers arithmetic and list management. Someday I'll put only cleaner version only ... Someday ...
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Honestly nothing at all. It's a decent site that does what it says on the tin. In my ideal world we'd have more hacker and less news but I can always visit /show if I'm in a particularly tech mood.

I guess I would like to be able to add a reason to a flag. Always feel a bit weird just hitting flag and hoping there's someone on the other end that can interpret what I'm flagging
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False. DoH, DNS over TLS, and DNSCrypt/DNSCurve address that problem. DNSSEC does not.
Yes, I totally understand. Hence why I put 'victimless crime' in inverted commas. The perception around stealing music is not the same as stealing the handbag, or a loaf of bread - that's the point.
http://www.hnreplies.com works reasonably well for email notifications.
Don't worry, it's not going to spread.
The legit channels have a level of convenience now not seen in the piracy channels, because money pays for proper curation and surfacing of content.

I used Limewire back in the day. I couldn't tell you how many songs in my collection were artist credit "System of a Down." I think I had a System of a Down copy of the 1812 Overture in there somewhere.

(It is also possible that legit channels are over-counted in the data because they're easier to explicitly audit. If the error factor estimate is the same for legit and bootleg channels, the data will reach the wrong conclusions).
Here is the press release without ZDNet's autoplaying videos: https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/10/10/1619375/0/...
The fact that a more recent link with more upvotes can already be on the second page, while a link with a few upvotes and few comments is on the main page for more than a day. Apparently some links are artificially "buffed".
Walter Benjamin said that the nazis invented Aestheticization of politics.
I find that extremely unlikely, only because companies aren't entirely stupid, and if MANY companies have started doing that in this space, and since they started it their profits have gone up significantly, it points to this kind of tracking making a significant amount of money.

And most of the tracking happens on the server, the client really only keeping some tokens for state and sending them with the requests.
I took Cal 1 and 2 directly from Dr. Dawkins back in 2010-2011. He was the best teacher I had in college hands down. Totally changed the way I thought about math and I've been in love with it ever since.
You are entirely correct, and I should perhaps have been more precise. However, because Lisp_Objfwd is basically a pointer, zero-initialized is pretty much as good as uninitialized. It's not a useful value.
I don't understand how people make this argument with a straight face. Google cannot simply abandon .COM. The most commercially important domains in the western world are all controlled by Five Eyes governments.
I get the logic here. But in many religions god is the source of justice. Got no idea if OP is a Christian or not but there are plenty of judicial proceedings in portions of the Bible that lots of Christians overlook, particularly about the requirement for at the least two or three witnesses (which doesn't necessitate eyewitness but at least two credible witnesses) before a conviction takes place. There is also plenty of case law in the Hebrew scriptures about not imprisoning or punishing someone if there is no evidence (e.g. establishment of sanctuary cities for accused persons to go to while a just trial is pending).
It has been suggested that, in Xinjiang, "owning too many books" or "receiving email from abroad" contributes to one's likelihood of a police visit and ending up in such a camp.

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/05/31/china-has-turn...

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611815/who-needs-democrac...
I don't really hate anything about HN.

In terms of the community, I would like to see more people recognize fake leading questions that are answered by alt accounts promoting some product. Those don't get flagged fast enough.

I am also not a fan of news site reporters challenging anything that doesn't have several references to back it up. It takes away from discussions and becomes an academic research article. In my experience, links do not equate to facts. They are just more opinions on some other site.
Yes. The last time I looked, it was about a million lines of elisp, and only about a hundred thousand of C. We'll have it cleaned up in no time.
Are they any full time admins/mods of HN? Probably wrong, I get the feeling those who moderates are doing it during their idle time while working at YC?
It's likely the answer is "yes," since there's no way to deduplicate your activity.
Your arguments are flawed.

> (Just like jumping the turnstile in the subway is not a victimless crime even if there are free seats, or sneaking into a sports stadium.)

It's not at all like jumping a turnstile or sneaking into a stadium.

There are real costs associated with servicing an in-person customer on a train or stadium. From additional security, to garbage, to air conditioning. All those might seem small but it is an additional expense on the operator of those services.

Downloading music without paying doesn't cost the music industry a dime.

I'm not saying using IP without paying is acceptable but your comparison doesn't take a proper look at the issue.

Further...

> As to music industry revenues--they're basically flat over the last 20 years: https://www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=9McmTl.... Which is crazy, because the number of new consumers that can afford their product is through the roof.

The number of consumers is higher but so is the competition for entertainment. Netflix, YouTube, etc. are more likely taking revenue than someone downloading a song without paying.
https://www.gratiz.nl/ (1996) also never changed its winning recipe.
The build process of Emacs doesn't rely on any proprietary software. But it is quite complex :)
Why do you say that ddg can't rival Google? I've been using ddg almost exclusively in the past several weeks. It was very difficult to switch, and I still don't exclusively trust ddg (sometimes I'll check Google to see if ddg is giving me good results), but the more I use ddg the less apparent is to me that I'm no longer using Google.
The only gripe I have with HN is wrongthink, so I won't voice it here. Other than that, I love the site and its community.
Note that we are paying for this when buying equipment that can be used to copy!
Mass Migration blows up your entire scenario.
Rows are very under-appreciated. They work so many muscles at the same time.
So why haven't they found a use case yet?

Crypto and smart contracts have been around for awhile, and have certainly had enough hype and money thrown at them. So why aren't there any serious uses of these things yet?

How long did it take online travel booking, or ordering books from Amazon, to have a clear and growing market once the basic concept had been developed? How long did it take Instagram to get users? How about Stripe?

Why do people keep talking about how in the future we "will" do this and that other thing with blockchain, but years go by and we're not doing it?

Is it possible that the use case comes first and building out the tech comes second?
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Secure scuttle butt has an interesting old school tech community feel, but it's not a site per se and is really just a p2p social network.
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This is a terrific article. I've used some similar techniques to reduce negativity and reflexive opposition to change (mostly borrowed from sales techniques), but this logical formulation is very clear and easy to use.
Microsoft Outlook for Enterprises does that; it has a “lite” mode which is for people with older browsers, older computers, or have accessibility needs. However, my reasoning is a bit flawed as just because Microsoft does it doesn’t mean it’s correct.
Here's a vote for a smaller font, I browse at 90%. Font size on mobile is good though.
I see room for both, at least until Ethereum is more mature (and maybe longer).
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Have a look at the other possible views listed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/lists

For example it’s possible to go back in time, e.g. here is the front page from yesterday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2018-10-09
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While most people intuitively would agree with the headline, the study itself doesn't add a whole lot. Single study with 100-ish undergrads, evaluated only via the standard 'trails' test. Not a bad beginning, but a broader audience, a wider set of neuropsychiatric measurements and quantifying the duration of effects would be good to see.
They use the "trick" that all game platforms use, that they only sell you a license that is attached to your account, and if you check the TOS you will find that it is stipulated that you will lose access to the games if you lose access to the account.

I say "trick" because when you purchase a game on those platforms, it clearly says "buy" or "purchase", it does not say "license", so it relies on fine-print in a long legal document of dubious legal value to redefine what you actually purchase.
Also, that would mean maintain both editors going forward. Two UI-s means double the chance for regressions.
Ideas get lost too. The way out of the dark ages was made by monasteries who saved libraries. It still took forever to recover.

Maybe we’ll have a rennasaince. Maybe we won’t; but Paper Books will be critical
Not always.

I took a 14 month old iPhone 7 into the store which wouldn't charge or communicate via the lightning port. In the engineer's words it was "in perfect condition".

They couldn't repair it, wouldn't do anything because I didn't have apple care and the only way to get around it was a new device.

Nice paperweight though
And it gets worse.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/national/2014/08/03/fresh-...
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Chronic caffeine consumption builds a tolerance fast. At that point you will need a coffee just yo feel normal.
We still use the same unexec process as normal Lisp, not because we really like it but because it's easier to make small changes. It really is a defect attractor though (I even introduced one a few months back, and had to debug it), so we do want to simplify it.
I've thought about the default apps thing a lot. I'm anticipating missing that a great deal.

At the same time Android just isn't ... feeling good right now with privacy and etc.
There are 'bad things' in any programming language.

Common Lisp is actually quite a bit more advanced out of the box than Emacs Lisp: lexical binding, excellent error handling, good support for compilation, extensive object-oriented features, it has multiple implementations with independet code bases, implementations with threading, ...

CL has been used to develop Emacs editors already.

But the thing is a non-starter. There are a few million lines of Emacs Lisp for a specific editor, which nobody will rewrite.
Impact:

> The significant increase in virtual memory usage is usually not an issue, however security sensitive programs often lock their memory, causing a far greater performance degradation on low-spec computer hosts.
Holy shit. I'd like to see an anti-microsoft comment on this post...
Cars, weather satellites etc... We can evacuate a hurricane, we can't evacuate the planet.
Taking advantage of something someone created on terms different than what they’re willing to offer it to you is not a “victimless crime.” (Just like jumping the turnstile in the subway is not a victimless crime even if there are free seats, or sneaking into a sports stadium.) At the margin it lowers the price everyone is willing to pay for yhe item.

Let me offer the opposing perspective.

Why should a business use the State to enforce a broken scarce physical property model at odds with how information honestly disseminates (impedance mismatch or category error) just so they can prop up their own business models? If their business models can’t be profitable without enforcing draconian and perhaps misapplied rules, then their business model should not be viable and we should rely on eg open source collaboration or hobbyists. Perhaps businesses SHOULDN’T have a “right” to create really complex movies music and software if it means causing far more others harm downstream.

Humans make up systems to enforce this or that “right”, which is nothing but a guarantee from some organization (eg a state) that they will fight to coerce someone to honor some agreement, even if you didn’t make one explicitly.

I never made an agreement to NOT listen to someone’s song. With a turnstile, I can be physically prevented from entering the premises until I agree to an agreement. The turnstile can be made “unjumpable” - and many are. If I didn’t explicitly agree to anything then maybe I can jump the turnstile, in a libertarian world where we have to explicitly agree to something.

Anyway, now let’s assume we are not in an ancap utopia. So people form organizations and they figure out what system of coersion works and what doesn’t.

The system of private property requires force to enforce, just as much as other “government” things. So it may be justified for personal protection and chattel property, but as you move further away from that, it may be less justified and have less payoff. Should a person be able to own an idea, or 50000 acres of land if others can put it to good use?

And how did they come to own it? “Homesteading” the land or idea? John Locke who coined the idea also said a man shouldn’t own more land than he can cultivate himself or arrange an organization to do efficiently, or society is wasting land. And also you may have massive rent seeking and sharecropping. Like how we had now with A&R departments and actual artists before Spotify. Or — sorry fellow entrepreneurs — how Facebook Google and others exploit their infrastructure monopoly and lock-in to have access to all your data and exercise control because there are no open-source alternatives.

Is this really the best system? Is it the most moral? You appeal to morality of the individual in the system but you must first consider the benefits and legitimacy of the system itself.
“Quantum entanglement speed. It’s in excess of 10000 times the speed of light.”
This story is getting suppressed from HN. As of this writing, it has 25 points and was posted 1 hour ago, but it's already off the front page. In contrast, there's currently a story on the front page about mosh pits that only has 6 points and was also posted 1-2 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18179662

In other news: Y Combinator announced two months ago that it's launching a startup incubator in China: https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/14/y-combinator-china-qi-lu/
That's a miniature game embedded in the mobile version of the site.
I have empirically proven that empirically proving that things work is not sufficient to get past people's objections.

I'm serious. The idea that you can logic your way around feelings simply doesn't work in practice.
What consumer products have ridiculously high profit margins?
I've found that http://hckrnews.com/ is a better "front page" for HN; it bills itself as "a chronologic list of items that have made it onto the Hacker News homepage".
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Wow nice!
Exactly. I have a spotify subscription and I do buy some albums from bandcamp where I do know that a good portion of the money goes to the artist and not to some useless blood-sucking middle-man. With movies... tell me, where can I buy/stream a movie from the 90s or so that won't cost me 50$ for 2h of fun? With albums I rip them to my computer immediately and just store the CD( or buy digital). Can't do that with movies or shows.
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Why though? If it's a smaller project there won't be tons of toxic people (or people at all) that participate. And what if somebody really finds some bug? How is it better to not even know about it, even if you don't plan to fix it?
Yes 'A Time Of Gifts' a remarkable book, not least because as you say it is a snapshot of a world about to be destroyed, and because he is so open about the degree to which it didn't really impinge greatly upon his travels.

Last year I read the whole of the book from which this article is excerpted, and I really recommend it. It's out in paperback now I think. I was surprised she didn't quote Leight Fermor but there's tonnes of other great stuff in it I hadn't come across before.
We had a great professor and this was one of the most enjoyable classes I've ever taken. One particular assignment was a group paper where we were supposed to essentially explain and use the SIR model. We extended the model to an SIRZ model and effectively argued that zombie apocalypses in fiction are essentially impossible unless they include some supernatural elements. Under a wide range of assumptions (e.g., zombies rot/zombies don't rot) the infection always stopped before it spread significantly. (We got an A.)
This sounds strangely familiar in relation to what is occurring within the USA.
I wonder if the same play book is being used today in my country, the USA.
Fair enough, I probably deserve that response, especially since the TLS fix is apparently closer than I thought.

DNSSEC brings quite a bit of complexity and potential to break things while in a way further centralizing control (with CAs, at least there's multiple to choose from), so without the second half it seemed like a small gain at high cost.
> The difference is that you are paid to do that. You are not helping those people out of personal altruism.

I'm not working as a system administrator for its pay, I work here because I like my job. Payment is a side effect of it. So it's like a paying hobby for me. It also other side benefits like being able to carry my academic knowledge to my work and vice versa.

> , so wasted time is not lost.

I do not consider helping a person to learn something, to show something they don't know, or to point them the right direction as wasted time. It's kind of planting seeds. It may come alive or not. I just put in the effort that I can.

> You did a successful job nonetheless.

Honestly, thanks. :)

> If I on the other hand like to help people with coding problems in my free time, and they don't even bother to properly format the code they want me to look at, I'm wasting time if I still try to read it.

I'd auto-format in Eclipse and try to read for five minutes. If I fail, then I send back my formatting work and politely ask for making it more readable. This is my way of saying no: "Hey I can't help you, but that's what I've done while my time allowed. If you do your part, I'll try again to do my part when I have more free time."

My time, and nobody's time is for free, and using it effectively is very wise, you're right!
Also, the criminal Justice system is notoriously confident and resilient to self examination. It's amazing what it can take to get even one person a new trial.
> make it more appealing to young developers

In that case, they should rewrite the Lisp code in JavaScript.

Yes, I'm being sarcastic.
There’s been a lot of work showing mental benefits of exercise in general. It also seems to line up with my experience.

Of course, this isn’t a particularly high quality study, and exercise science is as bad as social psychology with regards to replication.
In the US the deductible is different depending on the treatment required. Defeats the purpose of insurance in my opinion.
And I'm still the only one in the last two jobs I've had that even knew of this sites existence, which he aptly points out in his tweet about the value of Reddit vs "Startup News".
How does Microsoft benefit from this step?
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The low-quality tech-related articles/blog posts that drown the front page from sources like Economist, Vice Motherboard, NY Times, and so on.
How does that affect royalties from android phone makers?
I'm sure one will come.
I'd only improve how it works on mobile devices, specifically making the collapse buttons [-] wider and some links larger. Just to make it easier to use for fatter fingers.

I wrote a firefox extension to do this for me, bit buggy but it helps a lot.
Go remote! the planet, along with your family, sanity, and happiness will thank you!

Every working programmer today can stand up, walk to their boss' desk, and have the conversation about going remote, even if only part time (for now). If they say no, ask how you can work towards that in the future, and if they don't relent, find a different job (don't immediately quit, obviously; now you have leverage in knowing that you want another job, but don't need it quite yet). When doing your job search, the first question you should ask is, "is the position remote friendly?"

Let's change the industry's culture from the ground up.
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Not being able to delete accounts.