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There's no conspiracy, 42Floors just shares the HN blog post links internally and gets people to upvote them. You only need a few quick upvotes to hit the front page, and having a few 42Floors employees vote up 42Floors content is more than enough.

The 42Floors blogposts are generally good quality too, so nobody has any reason to flag them, and they're generally on topic and somewhat interesting, like this one.
Some UI burdens seem high, some are high. An interesting class of UI problem is the set of things that intuitively look difficult, but actually aren't.

Human brains are incredibly good at raw memorization of associations. Hoon has about 100 digraphs, and their internal structure isn't random. How hard is to learn 100 characters of Chinese? Perhaps easier than you think.

Nor are there no payoffs. For instance, most languages are very bad at defining large, mostly static hierarchical trees, so when it comes time to write code that generates, say, an HTML page, you reach for a special "template language" DSL. That's not a problem we have in Hoon. Also, most functional languages have a very annoying tendency to crawl off the right side of your screen and disappear, because indentation depth matches functional depth. That's also not a problem we have in Hoon.

So... you pay, definitely. But you also receive.
It still sounds like a kind of browser plugin to me, but the "plugging in" is done at the OS level instead of within the browser + the OS (as with, say, Flash having an application component and a browser plugin component).

It really doesn't seem like a bad idea, though, so long as the sandboxing is done safely and securely.
Discovery for this issue, gibwell (a 3-day old account that already has pages upon pages of attacks on Samsung, Google, and Amazon. Such a mystery who you imagine your team is).

Samsung, it seems (again, this is why the judge is demanding discovery) didn't actually leak the information -- an outside law firm did. It is entirely possible Samsung (meaning specific executives) was simply ignorant about their right to have that information when it dropped in their FTP folder, as openly stating it and flaunting it in the face of a competitor virtually guaranteed that what is happening now would happen.
I don't know if that number means anything on its own. There are many more conventional cars including some older ones often maintained by shade tree mechanics.

Newer electric cars are relatively expensive and have owners who probably don't fiddle with things like that.

I'd be more interested in what percentage of electric cars catch have fire as compared to the percentage of late model conventional cars catching fire.

Gas cars could be more dangerous. It's just that the number 250K doesn't mean much without more information.
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I always suspected that ABC (or whoever) got equity in the companies, because they have (or used to have) a brief notice at the end of the show at the bottom of the screen with suggests that. But surely this must have tainted the whole process, because while an entrepreneur is considering a deal with the sharks, they would also have to take into account the equity they give away by just being a part of the show. I'm glad that's gone now.

It probably means though, that the entrepreneurs will be able to buy back the equity, or buy their way out of the profit sharing agreement, more than likely at the highest possible valuations. But at least there is a way out. And it's good to know that future contestants won't have that to deal with.
Nothing (except in how they accrue, but that's getting very specific). Personal time originally was offered in place of sick days and other floating religious holidays. But Seattle now requires paid sick days, so you now get personal days + sick days.
There's an informative discussion with the author here: http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1nmarr/dynamic_typing_...
How will this work with open-source browsers like Firefox? After all, what's to stop somebody from publishing an extension or even a modified version of the browser itself? DRM seems fundamentally unenforceable, after all.

Are the people pushing for this hoping it's just too much hassle?

These questions aren't rhetorical: I'm interested in what exactly the DRM people are pushing and how they expect it to work. Just not interested enough to read about it myself :D. (Also, I think this makes for a great conversation topic.)
"There are two types of people in this world: those who divide people into two groups, and those who don't."
The EFF has strong words about where this is taking the open web [1]:

"A Web where you cannot cut and paste text; where your browser can't "Save As..." an image; where the "allowed" uses of saved files are monitored beyond the browser; where JavaScript is sealed away in opaque tombs; and maybe even where we can no longer effectively "View Source" on some sites, is a very different Web from the one we have today. It's a Web where user agents—browsers—must navigate a nest of enforced duties every time they visit a page. It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the "Web" technologies. They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable."

They suggest the W3C may be digging itself into another hole like the one that led to the formation of WHATWG. A good read.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/lowering-your-standard...
> deny product faults and quietly settle years later e.g. iPhone 4 Antenna

Didn't they hold an entire press conference, invite everyone and say (essentially) "we don't think there's a problem; most phones have similar issues; to anyone complaining, we're offering free iPhone cases" ?

That doesn't sound like "quietly settling" to me.
As an official government functionary of a country with which Congress had declared war, I imagine there would be scant legal difficulty in finding him guilty of treason in absentia. But absent that, no, I would not find it alright to target Goebbels if he were an American citizen.

Forget about email snooping or IRS targeting, I think as a citizen the first thing I should demand of my government is not to be killed without due process.

It's seriously disturbing that the President has an extra-judicial kill list on which he can place US citizens.
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Prediction #1: There will be more of a push for gun control.

Prediction #2: Conspiracy theorists will say that this was a false flag operation to increase gun control all along.
Top thread comment is a blank anti-Israel comment with no arguments. Congrats guys, you've officially turned HN into a mix of r/politics and r/worldnews.
@grun: you submitted this 49 days ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6219354). What has changed?
It doesn't seem as if AlexeyBrin is the author of the article, just the submitter.
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Which is fine, but also understand that others will be judging you.
I do katas every week and think they are great for both reinforcing good practice and helping you get over rough patches in your understanding of a language.

That said there are quite a few katas out there that are either trivial or merely puzzles to solve. The former are great for beginners but pointless for anyone else. The latter are fine if you are doing them for the same reasons you would do a crossword puzzle but they are probably better avoided if your goals are more practically oriented. The hard part is wading through the chaff to get to the wheat.
Model T vs Buggy Whip is a radical change. The closest that could apply to this case would be EBook vs Physical book.

But that's not what this is about. France has a regulated market for book. When stuff happen, like a player that manage to dodge the regulation thanks to specific circumstances, regulation need changing.

If you want to wonder about something, wonder why does France regulate book market ?
Nope -- the reason is that you can't realistically research much information or reach out to many users in $150 of time. Figuring out and deploying a strategy to find and acquire users takes human time - it's very different from just purchasing a list of leads!
I have to admit to cheating and putting 'if (i === '.htaccess') return 'htaccess';' to save time :)
Notable absence is Noah Glass (imho) - the 4th cofounder pushed out in 2006
Re-Ask HN: HN hiring threads became crowded, dumb job boards. Alternatives?
HN hiring threads are not so personal anymore. Full of resume black holes.

Getting noticed is like a gambling, lottery... due to massive applications I guess.

It just got like a yet another dumb job board (Craigslist, Dice, Monster, lately Stackoverflow).

So are there any alternatives or maybe some ways to fix this on HN?

Thanks.
too bad since in France we have seen this exact scenario happen 10 years ago with radio networks (they destroyed most independent local radios). With the real hard irony that the main network who killed everybody (NRJ) used to be a pirate radio from before the free radio, and a real offspring of the radio liberalization in 1986. Now you mainly have 2 kinds of radios: non-profit and big networks.

Charities/non-profits are heavily regulated in France, and they simply can't get enough "capital" to try this kind of scheme. You need so much capital (basically you're trading capital for market share, you'd better be the biggest when you start the race) that it's mostly public companies who can do that. That is also why Europe doesn't like state owned companies on free market, having the state budget as "available" capital, they can undercut everybody without endangering their lives (that's where the left/right doctrine kicks in).
Any plans for an API? That would be super useful for our users to purchase leads from your service through our app.
Usually the shoes are referenced with the plural "Jordans", whereas the player is referenced with the singular "Jordan".
6%..? Wow, time to buy two!
Based on your comment, I'm going to assume you've never worked in B2B sales. "Lead Lists" are not something enterprises want to share - small or large.
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You're coming at this all wrong. Take a step back and think about the users. Imagine your a Yahoo user and you learn that a hacker finds an exploit to take over accounts and tries to submit it to the company. They in tern send him a tshirt a friendly smile and a handshake. What does that tell you about the company? Does that make you feel like your account, data, etc is secure and more exploits will just be handed over?

It's not about the money, it's about sending a message. And instead of chaos and people wearing masks, we've got vulnerabilities, and the idea the Yahoo actually values its users.
I think you missed the point of the (poorly phrased) question. I think the intended question was "would the down-to-earthness score of TAPL fall in the top 1% of the down-to-earthness scores of Java books?"
Wherein Hayden nominates himself for conspiracy to the premeditated homicide of a U.S. national living on foreign soil.

I just hope that before he's convicted (and if necessary, extradited) he is able to enjoy the rights to due process that he so openly seeks to deny his would-be victims.
as untog mentioned, since Azure came on the scene, a whole bunch of new languages and runtimes have been supported: java, python, php, node.js, hadoop, ... even linux. i'd say that from a visual studio perspective Python is the best oss/non-msft language that's currently supported.
>+Now Samsung has illegally obtained knowledge of secret information that Apple and its partners had

It sounds like it's their legal team who are at fault. Did Samsung break into the law offices and steal this information?
I don't see it taking too long for someone to make an open source DRM-free browser that just ignores the HTML 5 DRM functionality.
because the State pays for long terms problems, always?
Certainly. Finance, insurance, software development, and real estate have been four verticals that have been particularly common.
I don't think so, but I wouldn't know enough to tell you. I can tell you that I am not very interested in 20th-century formal logic, at least as a way of defining programming, but you knew that. I think it seems like a logical equivalent that my approach is not very interesting from the standpoint of 20th-century formal logic.
This is exactly the point, you may think your system is rigorous and disciplined but how do you convey that to other people with them having the same degree of certainty that you feel your system has. The answer to that is the proofs and formalization, and that is the essence of what rigor in programming language design is about.
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They are afraid of droning, not work. Fine with me as the droning pays my mortgage.

edit: and it is pretty applicable to any generation - Gates or Zuckerberg (saying with all my distaste for FB or its creator) could have continue droning in Harvard and beyond, yet they declined, and as far as i know they are very far from being slackers.
I don't follow. In the US, we went from ridiculously expensive per minute plans 10 years ago to unlimited, nationwide calling for a pretty low flat-fee per month. This seems to be the opposite of predatory pricing...

US Telecom in general is an interesting example because it's one of the few industries that typically do soak consumers, because of what essentially amount to government enforced monopolies.
There might be a point here, but the whole "just suck it up and keep going for years and years" attitude that I'm getting from this post feels, well, misguided.

If you think you can improve your life, work better, with more fun, with more meaning, with better challenges, then by all means go for it. There's no need to stay put at a place that sucks for you and that slowly boils your brain to pulp just because some old guy on HN did his time, too. Sure, there are plenty places where you're valued based on the amount of years to "put in for the business", but thank god there are also plenty places that got past that.

The other side is, of course, that if you give up too soon, you'll never get anywhere. But my impression is that most programmers stick around places too long, rather than too short. They just don't blog about it as much.
Don't forget the "conciously choosingto let people burn to death rather than fix the fault because lawsuits are cheaper" bit of the story.
Except it doesn't actually have the "we're sorry" part. :-)
I see. Thanks for the clarification.

I still find it troubling that there's no burden of proof to violating someone's privacy before the court (there also doesn't seem to be any guarantee that decrypting the partition before the court would be done behind closed doors). But I guess there are many privacy issues not currently well addressed by U.S. laws...
I remember them having checksums to ensure line integrity.
I wish there was a smaller / one-time price option. I would love to contract out a very specific 'early adopters' type of search (person with x background in y local area so I can meet them in person), get maybe 10-25 leads, and then I can reach out to them and pitch my idea and get feedback on a MVP or whatever.

There is something to be said for doing this type of search for a potential market yourself, but if you are exploring multiple ideas at the same time it could be helpful.
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Tesla's got two things going for it that Toyota didn't. It's an American company so it's not fighting against any xenophobic tendencies in the media or public. It's a singular incident, not a series of incidents. If more minor accidents similarly result in fires then they've got a problem, if they can show that most of the minor accidents (might be hard to get statistics on, but they can try and collect them going forward) result in nothing worse than needing repair work then they won't have an issue. It also helps that, in general, they're perceived as a very transparent company when it comes to safety.
Am I right in boiling this down to "outsourced BDRs", or is there more to it than that? Finding quality talent in that space is tough, so hats off to you for finding a good team and scaling up the business. My company (SalesLoft) makes tools for BDRs, so maybe we should talk about how you plan to keep scaling and if we can help in any way.
I own several thousand shares of TSLA, so %6 saves me quite a bit between buying at ~$170 vs ~$190. I bought the initial investment at $17, but I keep looking for drops in price to increase my holdings.
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This is the essence of prediction markets.

Prediction markets pay for information to become public (if not the source).
SalesLoft is awesome!
Counterpoint - http://simpleprogrammer.com/2013/08/26/dont-code-katas/

tl;dr: doing the same thing repetitively only improves your skill to a point after which you need to increase the difficulty of the task if you are to continue to improve.
I am using Noscript and the page works fine:

- usvsthem is white-listed so Javascript runs, which is all that's strictly required.

- White-listed sites are still blocked from running plugins including <AUDIO>. It's straightforward to override this on a plugin-by-plugin basis but I typically don't want to.

11:14. The 14 seconds were enough for the first two questions, but I find strings and array handling tough when switching languages.
Would that be possible? Then can this still be called DRM?

Edit: How can it be DRM if the algorithms/formats/protocols are open? Or aren't they open?
It does. And the best I can say is that I'm genuinely interested in the results of my experiment.

It would certainly be an interesting practical experiment to try to adapt a conventional syntax to the same semantics, or even to discard Hoon and create a more conventional language targeting Nock (which Urbit would have no trouble running).
What is the WHATWG's position on this? They represent the browser makers. If they support DRM then it's game over. Another break-away standards group won't be able to do anything to sway the browser makers. What could they do?
Most likely there was a lot of lobbying for this to happen. People with big money but no clue about how the internet really works.

I'm quite surprised to see Tim Berners-Lee approve this in fact, I wonder what made him say yes to this.
Perhaps. Arc could also use Linux Containers (LXC) directly for the aforementioned benefits.

In the future, Arc will be agnostic and support multiple hypervisors. One could use LXC on Linux, HyperV on Windows, VirtualBox, etc.
We do need an open, documented alternative to PNaCl.
This news makes me so sad. Also: The more things progress, the more and more sense RMS makes.
Indeed. SpaceX isn't public, or I would've bought their stock after seeing how their vehicle handled the aborted launch during their first ISS resupply mission. These guys understand the meaning of "fail safe."
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe make that part more apparent on the site. But how does the JS in the browser talk to Arc without a plugin?
Doesn't the android version sync with the others using dropbox? It says so here:

https://agilebits.com/onepassword/android
From what I hear, Node is getting a lot of love (all things considered) at Microsoft and especially at Azure.
No, not unless the browser found a way to give false positives when EME asks for DRM validation.
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Because competition is good in theory but, in practice, many kinds of competition have side effects. Many big companies (Walmart comes to mind) have the capacity to distort the market they're in, change the rule of the market itself. Those external effects that goes beyond "simple" competition may be considered unfair.

For example in France, Carrefour ( the french walmart ) used dumping for a few decades, destroying any competition, then slowly increased its prices. Logically, competition should emerge but Carrefour is so entrenched into the infrastructure of the market that a competitor cannot really survive. This is a simplification (the french market is more an oligopoly than a monopoly) but the overall scheme is true.

Amazon may or may not have one of these effects. I don't (yet) know or more precisely I don't have enough info to have an opinion.
This is an excellent line of reasoning.

PL research just hasn't had much affect at all on mainstream programming.

It's too bad. The PL world has a lot of good ideas. It's unfortunate they try to make them totally inaccessible.

Worse still that industry has no interest in raiding the PL world. A lot of the languages that have been designed are perfectly usable by mere mortals and a real step up from languages coming out of industry.

Compare OCaml and Java in 1996. OCaml (then Caml Special Light) was clearly the better language. Why didn't anyone get to use it?
We have our own trained crowd from all over the world of people doing different parts of sales automation. So while your lead generation could be done by someone in Philippines your outreach would be sent by someone in the United States. So overall it balances out. We are not based on Mechanical Turk but on MobileWorks which is the company behind the product.

Right now we don't share the lead data between companies because each client has it's own special need. If the leads overlap (which they might sometime) it lowers the effort because the sales people know where to look.

The big advantage we have is the lead list and emails pitches are custom made for each client so we have a much higher response and engagement rate.
A language that has "cube", "face", "stem", "bulb", "coil", "foot", "battery", "gene", "gold", "iron", "ash", and "yew"...

It's not that other languages don't make up arbitrary terms as well, but it's hard to understand why a language that claims to be simple and "moronic" does it so enthusiastically, with the result that anyone trying to learn it has to first memorize a large number of terms.
I think it's more that you get good at what you practice. Someone who goes out every night of the week is practicing social interaction, and they will probably get pretty good at it. Someone who spends time with their family will have a strong family relationship. Someone who watches TV every night of the week will know an awful lot about the TV shows currently on the air. Someone who plays Farmville or Scramble with Friends or StarCraft with all their spare time will get pretty good at that. Someone who spends a lot of time on Hacker News will have really high karma.

And then ask yourself: is the stuff you're good at the stuff you want to be good at? Because if you want to be good at StarCraft or TV trivia and that's what you do with your spare time, great. But if you want to be good at programming but it's not your day job and you spend all your free time watching TV, you have some problems. Similarly, if you want to have a strong family relationship but spend all your time programming or holed up in your man-cave, you also have some problems.
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I think the message he was portraying more is of the annoyance with someone showing up with a vulnerability and demanding a reward. The same way you might view someone mowing your lawn without your permission and then getting angry when you didn't pay enough for it.
You, sir, have a finely tuned sense of irony.