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> and they are now killing VNC

Um, no. This feature substitutes for one small VNC use case -- a use case already largely controlled by commercial products like TeamViewer and Copilot anyway.

VNC has much broader uses than this.
Often the money went the other direction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola
As will "sf pride", a reference to the San Francisco Pride parade and celebration, which happens to be this weekend.
Content Choreography
Let's not confuse things. I could go hoarse talking about how there are tons and tons of porn out there that 1) depict degradation of women as something positive and 2) create unrealistic ideas about and expectations for sex. I imagine that both of those aspects can be quite toxic to young minds who are just learning about sex and have neither preconceptions of their own nor guidance from anyone with more experience. Among other things, that stuff can do a lot to promote the rape culture, where that culture exists. And no, there's nothing "so-called" about rape culture, although I personally don't agree with some of the hype surrounding it.

That said, I totally agree with the "control over libido" argument. Men and women are perpetually being forced into predefined gender roles and prescribed sexual behavior. Kids are taught -- implicitly rather than explicitly -- that they should be ashamed of masturbating and/or watching porn. They're also taught to think of sex in terms of performance.

The author certainly has problems and, while some of them can be attributed to porn as such, a lot of them have to do with the attitude towards porn and masturbation and, apparently, a rather dire lack of support and guidance from parents.

I personally don't find it so weird that his partner expressed outright disgust about "cumshot scenes", though. I think it's a lot easier to find people who fantasize about being on the ejaculating end of that particular fetish, than those fantasizing about being on the other end ;)
China's Shenzhou-10 Spacecraft Returns to Earth
> A question that receives answers fits [in Stack Overflow], I don't know how you could say otherwise.
But it wasn't the NSA's chat logs, they'd need a warrant signed by every single Supreme Court Justice for that.
I wasn't looking for a perfect analogy. Simply put that like WalMart killing off mom & pop shops, Google / Microsoft / Amazon are doing the same thing to niche application vendors who do one thing well to make a simple living.
Will he be less of a hero if he's assassinated? No, it's not intended to be funny.
Per the article, FM radio pays royalties to the songwriter but not the performers.
Not particularly. If you read further down, they've marked themselves down because they intentionally disabled protection against the BEAST attack, in order to collect some kind of stats on vulnerable clients.
i don`t even... what?! since when is it cool and trendy to write code?
A PR firm would have been much more selective with the truths.
Storefront Gets $1.6M To Grow Its ‘Pop-Up Shop’ Marketplace
Available on MSDN subscriber downloads in x64 ISO form now.

Downloading at a pitiful 600k/sec :(
Not sure how you would figure that...my take on Sift is that they utilize pattern recognition to determine risk level of a transaction for the seller. Basically, the goal is thwart fraudulent transactions before they get to delivery status.

EDIT: I just checked out what you mean, since Sift utilizes Javascript code for their api call to determine risk, I agree with you...it would render their pattern check ineffective for the Javascript api integration...they need to run server side code, which Sift offers in their REST API.
This is spam. Their product isn't innovative or even interesting. They're not doing anything new. Google Analytics and Microsoft's AdCenter give merchants the same information.
>It even works today, and there are no known attacks against AES that can reduce the work enough to beat the heat death of the universe.

Well, that's the problem isn't it? The known attacks aren't the ones you have to worry about. Nearly every form of cryptography to date was expected to last longer than it actually did. I would not be at all surprised to find AES-256 broken before I'm on the wrong side of the grass.
It's clearly a feasible business model. They've survived a long time, and haven't bled out. With some strict cost cutting, they can probably break even, and that's more the problem.

To be a prospering model, rather than a struggling one, they might have to raise prices on customers while trying to hold royalty payments to a steady %.

The biggest potential threat to Pandora, other than the labels killing them with royalties, is Apple and Google.
You'd have to be getting an insane amount of airplay indefinitely to make any sort of living.
Firefox can't do anything to prevent a plugin from crashing. That and I'd wager most of the Flash movies are very poorly coded, resulting in exceptions that could've been prevented. You can tell by browsing the web with a debug build of Flash.
One thing I have noticed is that the boldface on unread articles appears to be off.

For example, one of my subscriptions is Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com/rss). If I 'mark all as read' then the unread count goes to 0 and all articles titles appear in plain text, as expected. 10 minutes later the unread count is now 4. Click on that subscription and there is now maybe a dozen or more titles in bold text - and not just the top dozen (the most recent) but randomly spread out.
Good points.. however I don't thing they're killing off VNC. VNC, I believe, has a pretty narrow user base. Google's addition of remote desktop control will be doing more harm to small companies and their apps like FogCreek's Copilot.
It's simple things like this, that blow my mind. How ignorant I was the whole time, about a very important thing!

Anyway, long term catastrophe averted.
To several significant figures, American deaths from both terrorism and bedbugs are 0% of total American deaths.

Tremendous damage to United States infrastructure? What are you talking about? Those buildings damaged and destroyed in downtown Manhattan? Yes, billions of dollars in damage, but way down in the noise in the economy overall. Congress causes more financial damage in a night of gridlock than that.

It's hard for you to believe? Well, believe it. I am making the argument. We react far too hard to terrorism, by several orders of magnitude. It's basically an allergic reaction. The story of terrorism and the US over the past decade and change is pretty much the story of a bee and a person with a bee allergy. Essentially all of the damage is done by the massive overreaction to the sting, not the by the bee. The difference is that we can, at least in theory, simply choose to stop being allergic. The problem won't be solved by overreacting even more.
Typeclasses provide nothing but convenience there (see [1] for instance). The real power comes from the Algebraic Data Types which are intact.

[1] http://www.haskellforall.com/2012/05/scrap-your-type-classes...
Sorry about that. We had some miscommunication internally. We used publicly available usernames.
>Porn is about control.

If that's what you really think, then you have a really fucked-up relationship to sex.
Fair point.

One could say that an intellectual's goal should be to get as little filter bubbled as possible, but then we'd all end up like the cranky people on lesswrong.com.
More referral links :) If the other one is already exhausted..

https://www.nitrous.io/join/AqqPlW923Js
I know some sites like this have been funny, but not all of them are. Is that context the only reason you think this is supposed to be funny? Or does it really seem like a joke?
I always think of the Excorcist quote about how the Devil doesn't lie but rather mixes lies with the truth. That's what makes it truly perplexing.
Guys, that was sarcasm. I wasn't claiming that the Austrian students are responsible for UK CCTV policy.
No not really, actually I didn't even know wat Nemo or Sailfish was before you posted it and I searched for it.
I love clojure/clojurescript, but will core.typed really be comparable to Haskell's type system?
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I stutter and was taught that trying to breathe using the stomach might help as it reduces tension in the vocal cords and is more relaxing. I usually forget to do it but seeing this reminded me of that advice.
This is why I suspect they've drug their feet on Google Voice integration. They want to make that seamless. You want to call [Person] and you shouldn't have to even think about whether it's over Hangouts or PTSN.

That's what Google Voice will give them. You call them from the Hangouts app and they pass it through Google Voice if they're not signed into any Hangout machines. It roughly works this way already for existing GV users.
Pandora as it operates today is a money-losing enterprise. So assuming those competitors pay the same licensing rates, and barring one of them inventing some genius new revenue stream, the answer to "why won't users just switch to those other services" is that those other services will just go out of business.
From the most recent 10Q. Revenue was $125M ($105 Ads / $20 Subscriber). Expenses: $82M Content, $10M hosting, $7M Prod Dev., $40M Marketing/Sales, $14M All Other. Net Result: $28M loss.
So you're just counting down the minutes until you get shut off, basically?
If you try to breath with you stomach, you are going to have some gaz to evacuate. Better breathing with your lungs ;)
"valid" aside from the fact that there's no way in this world or the next that all of that video and remote desktop traffic is going though Google's servers.
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Somewhat off topic but for Easter Google did what?
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57577171-1/google-cesar-...

It's their site and all but as a business they should be more inclusive. Ironic since billions of people are (at least nominally) Christian and most probably observe or note Easter.
Short instructional videos from Instagram
would be more like $10,000[0]
They are Qt centric, so I thought you've heard of them, since you work on Qt based client.

* https://wiki.merproject.org/wiki/Nemo

* https://sailfishos.org/
I guess sam can chime in but I didn't really see anything sarcastic in his reply.
There's other ways to waste $90k, you could just send it to me!
The Shark's Fin Redux
One tip: make it dead easy to set up. Look at the Text Secure app: you can first pair with just a click, and everything is handled automatically through SMS. Nothing to type. The verification part is a bit more involved, but easy to do with QR codes.

The real problem with end to end security and things like email is that you cannot automate it without a central authority. You will still need to exchange keys at one time, and making that secure is hard.

If you are ready to make compromises, you could set up email clients so that they always send their public key in a header somewhere (or a pointer to their public key). You would not be sure on the first exchange that it is really the person you are talking to, but you would get the assurance that future messages come from the same person.
Plenty of celebrities get remembered too. Ever heard of Marilyn Monroe? It's pop culture, this is just how it works.
jquery-turbolinks as a drop-in fix worked great for my application. The only tweaks my own code required at that point were resources I assumed would die and be recreated on the next page load, like doubling up setInterval handles in domready.
At the moment is kind of a "chicken and the egg" thing. I need to have people know about the hashtag and use it. There are a few "instructions" and "diy" tags out there but neither are used what I was looking at.

Any suggested tags, or better yet how to get people to use this tag would be appreciated.
I said "want" in the context of the _sender_ not the recipient. Ie. the person who is using Close.io to send a sales email to a recipient. In this case, the _sender_ would want to know if the email was opened or not.
> Stallman is just always swimming against the tide of what people actually want.

Isn't that the mark of a thinking man? A drug dealer gives people what they want; a thinker tells them what they should want. So what if they don't listen? That's the normal division of labor: the prophet warns and the people ignore him.
> Am I the only one surprised that it took such a long time for them to do this?

It only started last year.
How much does a premium membership of Google Analytics or AdCenter cost? For a small company, under 10k transactions for free is pretty much unbeatable.
Try it out for yourself http://snapchat.com/<username>
There are a lot of public datasets that consist of raw GeoJSON data so that non-developers can easily view/use the data. As an example, http://github.com/slugis/incidents
Don't forget about Tree Style Tab
Say "free software", not "open source": http://www.thebaffler.com/past/the_meme_hustler
Show HN: Repl.co, real-time collaborative editor with in-browser C# execution
When you send an email with Gmail's SMTP servers, Gmail automatically stores a copy of that message in your "sent" IMAP folder. This is what the author was talking about.
Ask HN: I failed a lot, what should I do?
I somehow got in to a top 5 CS program.
I got D's in a lot of classes because they didn't want to give me F's.
It was very hard following lectures and reading and understanding test questions.
I graduated about a year ago.
I did interviews and each one I got I was mercilessly shot down with tough CS questions.
I got a job in sales, I was fired for paperwork errors.
I am now unemployed, occasionally making web sites for people.
It turns out my doctor says I probably have ADHD and I have been working with him on getting this diagnosed correctly but it takes time and I am already on medication, I don't want more.
I can't get to grad school, I am having a hard time finding a job. I don't know what to do, I narrowed it down to either
1) going back to school for another degree taking on more loans to improve grades
2) trying my hand at a startup but I have about $1000 in my bank account and no ideas.
3) Looking for a job that requires a degree and no skills like selling insurance or loans at a bank but I am worried about being bored and prefer computers.
I don't know what to do next, I live with my parents and they don't care what I do so long as I leave. My confidence in myself has been completely destroyed by all of this.
You're missing my question. Of course death is not funny. So, why do you think this is a joke?

Edit: ok, sorry you feel that way. I'm not scrutinizing Snowden, I'm pointing out that I don't trust my own government not to kill him. That's a worrying and important point, I think.
Photo Sharing and The Tyranny of the Remembering Self
Has anyone else even heard of the "internet hall of fame" before now?
That's awesome! I have played a lot with Scala and Android, and type safety, options, futures really improved the development on Android (less code, less bugs).
I would be curious to try Haskell on that platform.
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You realise there is a reason that there is no API, right? Nice job on violating Snapchat's terms.
> Obviously if sharing songs via violating copyright weren't an option, listeners would happily pay a little more for Pandora premium or endure a few more commercials.

Why is that obvious? If violating copyrights was impossible, I would probably just be exposed to a lot less music, and would thusly end up spending less on music (I pay for iTunes Match, usually spend $50-100 a year on albums, and $100-200 a year on concerts).
Not me man. I never said any dumb shit when I was younger. No way.
So http://masswerk.at/404 just got 1,017,260 hits this month generating no revenues at all ... (as of June 26, partly thanks to a post on HN earlier this month)

Meaning: all this "1 million of anything must be worth tons" isn't really what everything should be all about.
Nice fluent APIs for testing
Supporting gay marriage always bring more popularity than almost any other cause
I heard from people at the University of Belfast say that CAR Hoar had never used the universities computer system during the time he discovered quicksort. When asked about this he supposedly answered: "I proved it works, so why should I implement it"
This feels like some interns summer project and not a real feature.
I'll assume that's a real story (because why not?), and somewhat echo nkohari: This is not the end of the world. Companies rise and fall. People who work for startups do (and should) know the risk and life-to-death ratios involved. A startup has more chance of failing than making it, statistically. As long as you tried and did you best, you can only learn from the experience and move on to implement that learning in your next adventure.
That's not to say that people not using more free (as in speech) isn't a bad thing. It's just that for quite a few things, there are either no free software alternatives or the free software alternatives are not user-friendly enough, not fully-featured enough, are not compatible enough with popular proprietary programs or proprietary hardware, or just generally aren't as good. We should work on improving the free alternatives and advocate their use, but we should also be mindful that users will often need to use a piece of proprietary software because there aren't any good alternatives available. Just saying, "If you use any proprietary software at all, you hate your own freedom" is not an effective strategy for driving mass adoption of free software.
Former Sift intern here.

Sift Science also has both Javascript and server side APIs. See https://siftscience.com/docs/rest-api for info on the REST API. This allows companies to send all relevant transaction and behavioral data to Sift even for users who don't execute Javascript.
There's an important difference, in that Obama is using authority granted him by Congress and affirmed by the courts, whereas Nixon did his stuff independently of the other branches of government.

The consequences of this can be seen in what happened when they were found out. Nixon got drummed out of office, while Obama gets essentially a free pass. Sure, Congress is asking a few inconvenient questions, but about unimportant details.
I hacked this together in one weekend about a month and a half ago, and figured others might find it useful.

Also, to be clear, it's not actually a REPL or meant to be one; I just liked the name.
Definitely, if you want to see an extreme example of it take a look at Tumblr. The echo-chamber nature of the site leads to a positive feedback loop of certain illnesses. In this case I'm thinking of pro-anorexia content of that site being reblogged compulsively and the new content that spawns from such influence is ghastly and viral.

Ask any serious WoW player how the game has impacted their life. From what people have told me, the social relations in-game are such that one becomes reliant on a group and vice-versa to advance in the game. Soon those reliances become responsibilities that start to overshadow real life.

Some anime is specifically drawn and written to take advantage of the type of person that would obsessively envelope themselves into their favorite anime's branding. Do a google image search for otaku, and you will immediately see the kind of profits people peddling 50 different editions of the same figurine must be raking in.

Take a look a bluelight.ru and erowid. The former is a forum for discussion of psychoactives the latter a index of chemicals and experience reports submitted by users. Instead of the harm reduction espoused, it encourages dangerous behavior in the name of 'sharing research'; which is just ingesting what could be a chemical without much human research and just writing about it. One wouldn't be compelled to put themselves in such a position if it wasn't normalized and encouraged by a community that was warped by a pattern of addictive behavior.

Grouphug.us is another example. Reddit certainly is as well. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc all provide that supplemental 'reward' of positive human interaction without the human component. Your brain isn't stupid, when actual human interaction doesn't provide the reward you WANT, it will learn where it can get it. Psychological addiction is quite the beast.
This only works with calls that can be resolved at compile time (unless you mean a trampoline). That happens to be most of the common use, which is great, but it's not perfect.

Trampolines still work, albeit with a pretty substantial perf penalty.
Since 1984. (You had to be there...)
I don't find this very great to be honest.

Consider the case of a confused kid looking things up in school or something similar, someone spots the rainbow walking behind him, since its very different from the normal Google and gets outed.
I have to be logged in to my Google account to use it.

Did I mention that I use two-factor authentication?

Show me another Remote Desktop software that enforces two-factor authentication.
"Industry is shady, it needs to be taken over
Label owners hate me, I'm raising the status quo up" - Jay-Z, Izzo

There are way too many hands in the cookie jar and it's way too easy for artists to connect directly with fans and sell to them directly. The current model serves the labels and associated organizations.
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I don't know if you'll see this, but I'm curious: would you prefer to live in a world without AdWords? That is to say, all things being equal, if Google magically had revenue from another source and AdWords did not exist, would you prefer that world?

If not, what value do you believe AdWords brings to the table, beyond the value of organic search results?
I am very exited for webrtc in Firefox stable.
I don't know where this horrible practice originated, but this usually means 5000 function calls, yes. I often hear people say "do {this website] have APIs" too, with plurals.
Half the artists I discover are due to Pandora.

I'm guessing I've bought dozens of CDs and gone to multiple concerts thanks to Pandora.
100% agreed and this feature is already nearly ready to be shipped :)
On what basis do you believe as content distribution technology improves, the percentage given to content creators will increase? This is in direct contrast to historical examples such as monopolies and amazon clearly wants to become a near-monopoly; further, even if the percentage increases, if the absolute amounts fall the content creators still end up worse off. See eg recent articles on HN about the economics of movies being damaged by the move from dvd purchase to $4 or $5 digital rentals.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as internet hall of fame, is in fact, GNU/internet hall of fame, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus internet hall of fame. Internet hall of fame is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called 'internet hall of fame', and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a internet hall of fame, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.
Internet hall of fame is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Internet hall of fame is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with internet hall of fame added, or GNU/internet hall of fame. All the so-called 'internet hall of fame' distributions are really distributions of GNU/internet hall of fame.