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There's one important issue with this picture

You don't have the bigger picture. In fact sometimes you don't even know that a person in another country (or why not, maybe in another university in the same city) did what you were trying to do, or already knows something you don't.

Not to mention the Feuds, aah the feuds. Like something showing up in IEEE but in ACM it's gone and forgotten (or the other way round)
Except that in Iran, you get hung for being gay. It's not a huge stretch to see what this search is implying

> “Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran“… “Places where they’ve worked.”
Do not google "site:nl 2 girls 1 cup". Should you so google, do not click.

You have been warned.

But I should add, even if you so click, the result is less obscene than Carmen Ortiz!
On servers, distros that has sane defaults and do not force one to configure every little piece of software is clearly "winning" over the more old ways of compile and configure. Back when BSD was the normal OS for servers, distros like Debian really showed the way that sane defaults was way superior than to the no defaults policy some had.

Thankfully we have moved away from the no defaults. Some places still need to see the benefits first hand, but universally, the old policy that said one should have no defaults is long gone. Those that previously had no defaults have mostly moved to the same style as Debian.
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Disgusting as the video is, I'm pretty sure having a council of random citizens deciding what is and isn't "art" is the start of a slippery slope...
If you fail to see the danger that a tool with the ability to search a network for such things as "Islamic men interested in other men, living in Tehran," a tool that can then display their place of work or other contact details (that they may have willingly ((yet unwittingly)) entered), in the hands of bullies, bigots or oppressive regimes then personally I feel you are similarly limited in your world experience to what the grandparent poster is accusing Zuckerberg of being.

Basically, it's one of two things:

1.) such incredible naiveté that, frankly: you require supervision

2.) such hideous cynicism, so deeply felt, that it represents, to my sensibilities, a form of evil

This thing is dangerous. The people to whom it poses danger are the ones least likely even to comprehend the danger imposed upon them.

I cannot see how you could defend such a thing.

BTW: decrying the state of HN when you feel personally ill at ease with the general feeling of the community is poor form and a very strong indicator of butthurt.
Steve's letter is a disappointment to me. I wrote up my thoughts here, in a post entitled "It’s important not to worship any hero wholesale":

http://dorkitude.com/post/41267859215/its-important-not-to-w...
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This linked article is one of the first things that has made me think of Steve in a positive light.

I'm generally fairly negative about him because 1. I have a natural aversion to cults of personality and all that goes with them and 2. the Apple vision of the world is about consumer products. I think this is exactly the wrong direction for all of society (producer products are the future), and I worry that if they ever 'won' or even came as close to winning as Microsoft did for a while that there would be no place for me in such a world. No plausible endgame for Apple is good for me (although they've done a lot of good in breaking the stranglehold of windows and making the concept of other OS more mainstream).

There's a little bit of 3. too, which is that most of what I've read of him makes him come across as a bit of a nightmare as a person.

Anyway, this article felt very real, and just talked about a guy with passion who left the CEO hat at the door. That would be a guy I could potentially respect.
> Facebook hides privacy settings

I have a direct link to privacy settings in the header. I don't know how can they make it more visible.
You already know this, but the name is terrible.
I don't think that's quite it. It wasn't simply about taking it to market, it's seeing research that you know needs to be in a product because you want to use it right now.

I get that feeling a lot from research, concepts, and so on. I end up building the products I want to use, and it turns out that's a really good way to build something people like.

The way you word it makes it sound like it's all about selling things to other people — where I really believe that Steve Jobs under Apple and NeXT was designing the computers, devices and software that he personally wanted to exist. Selling them was a way to continue to fund that process.
Of course it's implied because > 99% of high traffic volume files on Mega are going to be copyrighted material. To suggest otherwise would be insane. Is high traffic proof of anything? Of course not. Is it reason to investigate? Absolutely, unless your stated mission is to cover your eyes singing "lalalalalala".

Kim Dotcom has already made hundreds of millions of dollars off copyrighted material and he's trying to do it again. I'd say the fact that anyone supports his antics is bewildering but the power of selfishness knows no bounds.
Interesting question but part of them problem is like this:

Crypto Guy 1: That system would take about three weeks to implement.
Crypto Guy 2: That system would take about three months to implement.

Who do you hire? You have a number of scenarios. 1 could have a set of tools that are trusted and he has experience and knows exactly. And 2 doesn't have a clue and needs a month to get up on speed with crypto code. But the reverse scenario is applicable as well. You can't be sure if guy 1 is just a fast coder that hacks together some algorithms from various sources and 2 knows exactly what is needed to from his crypto toolbelt giving you a bigger estimate from experience.
I'm very curious about this claim

> I appreciate the most about having a treadmill desk is that even if I don’t turn it on once during a day it still functions by default as a standing desk, which is already way better for you than sitting!

As far as I can tell the only thing we know is sitting is bad. We don't know that standing desks are good. Standing desks could ruin your feet. Treadmills could ruin your eye site as your head bounces as you try to read.

If there is some evidence that standing desks and treadmill desks are actually a net positive it would be nice to see the citations rather the just citations that sitting is bad.
Who said the issue was independent entities? That's the solution. The issue is conflicted interests having too much influence.

I'd agree the unwillingness of the gov't to use the powers it has is a problem. But that's a separate and equally important issue that others in this thread have flagged, filed under the label 'regulatory capture'.

It's not a situation that requires fire and brimstone and outrage. It should just be approached with dispassionate understanding: we have a defective system that is not designed to withstand attacks by self-interested system 'hackers'.

The solution is to design a system that neutralises short-term, narrow self-interest.
Even obscenity being a crime doesn't make any sense in free society.
They're a simply amazing blessing. You press 3 buttons (cup size, right or left coffee (right is always house blend), then "Start"), and a minute later you have delicious coffee. Anywhere on campus, any time of day or night. The machine does Short (8oz), or a Tall (12oz) which makes a beautiful latte in my 16oz cup with 4oz of milk.
"aaron knew what he was getting into when he broke the law. in the end suicide is the easy way out"

Wow, that just a horrible thing to say. Really, screw you.

I'm deeply disappointed reading the replies in this thread. Jeff Atwood's article IS offensive, and if you knew the anything about depression you wouldn't be saying what you just said.

I'm not much for starting fights on the internet, but seriously, you deserve a big "Screw you!" :(
I got a standing desk. A year later I had foot problems and my podiatrist told me to stop standing at my desk as it was hurting my feet.
"Jobs is trying to coerce a non-compete clause out of Colligan. To the best of my knowledge, that is just flat out illegal in California."

Non-compete clauses aren't enforceable, but I don't think agreeing to them, or requesting that you agree to them, is in violation of any State law. It certainly was the case that every severance agreement that I've ever signed had a non-compete clause - which I happily signed as I was aware it was completely unenforceable.
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A platform which is transparent, open and shared by it's nature. A platform for which the first and foremost priority is to be trustworthy with no conflict of interest between being all the above and economically feasible. This would probably become a government-funded international push rather than a single corporation with commercial interests.

The big problem in the future will be the fact that as the line between "real" and "online" life diminishes, the party which holds the data will become an authority akin to governments we have today. When or why should we trust an authority? How can we be sure that the authority is trustworthy? Politics is hard enough and we all know that we can't trust politicians, how on earth are we going to trust a party with commercial interests to somehow manage our social lifes?

You seem very optimistic about things like Facebook collecting data and interlinking people's social life via their platform by using the collected data. I for one find this very scary, to such extent that I'll rather cripple my social life and not use Facebook than trust an commercial authority over the data collected about me which I have no control over.

I provide the data. I see the data. I own the data. I control the data. What is so hard about it? Honestly.
You are absolutely right.

Plus, the greasers of the slippery slope cost money, which comes out of those boxes on your paycheck, for which you get less than nothing.
> yours is a prime example.

Glad I could help. tips hat
Google and Apple have close to $200 Billion in cash, so a even a "substantial" penalty to them is like taking a quarter out of my pocket. Put a few execs in jail and see how fast it stops.
Moore's Law in observation made about transistor density; not some universal law of technology.
I'm no lawyer, but I'm pretty sure what Jobs was suggesting was some form of collusion. I don't know that his threats could be held up as extortion, but collusion is a prosecutable offense. My question is, what might be the statute of limitations on something like this? Does it disappear with the passing of Jobs, or could Apple still be held responsible for this?
I prematurely up-voted for the warning; but regretted it when I noticed the completely unnecessary Carmen Ortiz part.
It's worth noting this is not the producer of "2 girls 1 cup", however he invoked it in his defense during the proceedings [1]

Not exactly sure what this gentleman "produced", but I won't complain if I never see it.

However, I'm a little torn (in principle) on "obscenity" laws if all acts were between consenting parties (obviously, beastiality is inherently non-consentual).

That said, our society has bigger fish to fry.

[1] http://betabeat.com/2013/01/2-girls-1-cup-creator-sentenced-...
> UK undergrad programs are a lot more focused, so students tend to be a lot further along before they start a PhD program.

It depends. Definitely doing a theory-based PhD can benefit from a European (not just UK) undergrad education, but in systems or implementation, American undergrads actually have an edge (everything else being equal, which is never true).

> PhD students are funded for a fixed time 3(?) years, and then you're supposed to be done.

Truth. I didn't know anyone to get out in 5 or 6 years, let alone three (in the American system).
We need to be careful not to read too much into this data without context. "Liking" a fan page used to be a much lighter thing before the FB interest graph became interwoven into other applications & this new search feature.

I used to "like" friends fan pages without much thought, if they asked me to. Re: Ashley Madison, there are married people who work there and will choose to "like" their employer. This represents a small number of users, but is meant to show that there are legitimate use cases.
He also produced bestiality films which may have prompted the obscenity conviction.
I don't understand this at all. Why would one get sentenced to prison for producing an obscene video? Isn't all porn obscene? Aren't all horror movies obscene?

Don't get me wrong... I don't approve of the "artistic" qualities of the film, I find it very disturbing and disgusting, but that's not a reason to send someone to prison!

I guess if this is how the law works... let's imprison all the coprophiles in the world. Why not make a huge prison and put everybody in it because if you think about it, we are all twisted and sick in our own little ways.
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This is a headache to do (could someone build an app to make this easier?) but I'm putting this into my personal task list for next week.
The site is a little unclear: it appears he wasn't prosecuted for the "2 girls" video, but rather "hours of videos in which females engaged in sex acts involving human waste and animals." [1] His Wikipedia page lists some of the titles that suggest that a horse (horses?) and dogs were involved, as well as "evidence suggesting Isaacs' provided controlled substances to the actresses in his films to compel them to perform." [2]

[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2264024/Ira-Isaacs-F...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ira_Isaacs
Now it can incrementally suck more.

Seriously, after the shit ton of badness canonical have pumped into Ubuntu in the last 3 years I couldn't trust them on this.
Welcome to the kitchen of the future. By the year 2000, all of mom's cooking and cleaning duties will be performed by Rosie the maid.
Yea, the Palm letter clearly had been reviewed by someone in his corporate counsel. They probably coached him on what points to hit on that might look good to a judge one day.
I don't think many around these parts idolise the Fortune 100 either.
It has two major flaws:

* When you move code around, you have to pay a lot of attention to the "ant turd tokens": ; , and . or the lack of one in the right places. That is very annoying.

* It's very repetitive at times. Redundancy is great for servers, not so much for code you have to modify. Take this as an example:

https://github.com/erlang/otp/blob/master/lib/stdlib/src/fil...

It's got a lot of things repeated, and you have to play "spot the difference" to read the code and figure out what's going on. That's a fun game for my four year old, not so much when you're working. I like pattern matching, and it seems that with some tweaks, you could extract common bits of code and end up with something more succinct, so that you only write code that regards the actual differences between two code paths, rather than also having to write the same boilerplate over and over. I have been spoiled by Ruby's "don't repeat yourself" mentality.
You don't seem to understand the power information has over people's lives. Have you ever disclosed information to some of your friends that you wouldn't disclose to the general public? What about information that could get you arrested or executed? This is real.
We fizzled out and went back to Debian stable. LTS is far from supported, even when you pay for it.
More fundamentally then the reasons others have already stated is that the JavaScript is loaded from a server anyway. So you trust the server anyway, and hence may as well just do the encryption on the server.
That last point isn't particularly deep; the same techniques used in http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/ can be used for two files which are UTF-16 encoded and contains sections which are commented out.

With this said, that is a collision attack and not a preimage attack and so your first point is crucial.
Ask HN: Would you be interested in a Twitter hashtag tracker?
More precisely :

- Would you be interested in a way to easily track your use of hashtags
- Would you be interested in a way to see the most active users for a given hashtag?
Thanks for the link, that made my day.
People on Hacker News might've, but the general public had a far slower uptake on it.
It's certainly interesting to look back at these events from our current vantage point. In particular, how 3 companies conducted themselves at the time - and where they are now (Apple, Google, Palm).

This is correlation, and not necessarily causal. However, it's rather bitter sweet to think about nonetheless.
Do not google "site:nl 2 girls 1 cup". Should you so google, do not click.

You have been warned.
You can get convicted for that ?
Yes, sir.
Yes but this conveniently distracts from the bigger fish...
Just because he said what you were thinking doesn't make him right or the argument right. These feelings of frustration and anger are pretty normal with depression and its ugly cousin suicide.

Depression and suicide aren't feelings that you can reason away with friends or cheer in the best of times. To say that he killed himself because of the court case is speculation at best and likely wrong. Aaron wrote candidly about his struggles with depression and thoughts of suicide. I'm sure the court case didn't help with his feelings of unhappiness, loneliness, guilt and crushing anxiety but to say that he killed him self as the easy way out is... ignorant. Depression isn't rational; it is a terrible disease. It whispers in your ear and tells you that compliments are mere mockery. It tells you that your accomplishments are hollow. It poisons relationships with mistrust and isolation.

I understand that it makes one feel frustrated! Why didn't he just hold out a bit longer or realize that he had so many friends and supporters or realize that even if he lost it wasn't the end of the world or ... He probably did but was poisoned by a disease that affected the very essence of his thinking. Even if he rationally knew that he had lots of supporters, he would be clouded with self-doubt about their motivation or what not. Depression can be painfully frustrating because you just want to shake the person and shout and tell them that people are here for them and that they are smart and passionate and accomplished and somehow make them realize that they have it all wrong if they would just listen.
Like I said, I think Apple should be more strict with their policy.

I just thought it was nice that they actually checked our app, and told us to clearly warn our users about background GPS.

They've done this sort of thing a lot to our apps. One game we had still had placeholder art. They found it, rejected it, and told us to fix the placeholder art.

I also like that they reject outright if your app crashes during the review process.

Sadly, I think they have been getting more and more lenient as the sheer volume of App submissions increases.
> if all acts were between consenting parties (obviously, beastiality is inherently non-consentual)

Consuming a filet mignon is non-consensual (as it regards the late beast, that is).

IOW, it should be at least as legal to fuck a cow as to eat one. After all, in the former case, the cow gets to keep chewing its cud.
Those were surprisingly shocking to see. I never imagined high-level CEOs would actually put things like this on paper.

Just a reminder to yourself that everything you do as a CEO has to be able to survive public scrutiny...
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Your post include many different topics, but I will just try to address one of them. The anecdotal about open source and the implied socialist implication.

Many people only see programming as a job, and thus do not understand why anyone would ever program if they didn't get paid. That is the only aspect they see in it, and thus they think that their logic is without fault. But had one been spending time playing music, with that independent band in a an abandon factory and only playing music "for free" at charities and bars, that mother would not wonder why you where "working for free". We would also not call it a socialist thing to do.

There is of course political movements involved with programming, ie free software. But even there, the term socialism is hard to use when there is so many large companies involved. If one then take a look at music bands that refuse "the big labels", or who are anti-establishment, we would also there not call them socialistic just because they do stuff without getting paid.

In the end, one can not take a single economic model and apply it to open source or free software, or for that matter any other thing that people has as a both work and hobby.
There are very rare instances where non-competes are enforceable but generally are more for founders than employees for anyone reading this.
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adding malware to Java installers

Actually, the ask.com Toolbar has always been part of the installer.

increasingly introducing new security holes

FYI One of these two definitely is pre-Oracle.
Callousness doesn't need a target.

It's callous because it displays a severe lack of empathy and understanding. As someone who has suffered from serious depression and suicidal thought (to the point where I physically harmed myself) I can say that I was disgusted by the notion of suicide being a deliberate, egotistical choice. I'm disappointed in Atwood, and I can't help but think less of him now.
If that's just your criticism, fair enough.

But, in case you think that makes you unable to actually read the article: on the Nexus 7, you can click the "menu" button (those three vertical dots) and select "Request desktop site".
OK. So she wasn't involved in the instant prosecution.

But she nevertheless is employed by the same corrupt organization.
One question I have is this: if we let robots produce our fast food, what guarantees of food hygiene do we have? I imagine it can be pretty difficult to get a robot to self-clean all of the relevant parts, and it's not hard to imagine critters getting inside and making a nice home for themselves.

The picture in the article does nothing to convince me that a burger produced by this machine will not give me food poisoning.
Too many things are called ratchet. Reading your comment, I got you confused with

maker.github.com/ratchet/
Small nitpick: Clojure's macros are not hygienic. For better or for worse, this was a conscious decision.

If anything, Elixir's macros look more like Scheme's syntax-case, Rust's macros or sweet.js.
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i doubt anyone is seriously thinking of putting their sensitive data into mega. More than likely, it is going to be a storage medium for music, movies and/or pictures.
"Destroying jobs" with technology is not a bad thing. The world benefits from cheaper products, and we shouldn't keep people working in jobs where they are no longer needed just for the sake of letting them work. They should learn new skills, find other jobs, and contribute to society in other ways.

No company would hesitate to fire every one of their employees if they could get machines to do better work for cheaper. The only reason McDonald's hasn't done it yet is because they haven't found a cost-effective way to do it.