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That's like saying that food with sauce isn't food... It's simply a different way of enjoying coffee.

I'm a massive coffee snob, but I love a good flat white (like a late but smaller (160-180mL as opposed to a late which is more like 215mL, and served in a cup), especially with a double shot.
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Thank you for your view about my given comment. You are right, i am not native English speaker and here i never intended to hurt anyone. I was just sharing my view about situation.

To all,

I would not intentionally hurt your feelings and I have tremendous respect for culture, God and people around me.

I will definitely take care next time,

Sorry if anyone felt bad from my given comment.

Regards
> Pragmatism doesn't need to get in the way of being nice to people.

You're right, it doesn't. 'gwern could politely break off the conversation when it becomes apparent that the person has some issues to work out, or he could simply stop responding. You don't have to break off the conversation rudely.

This said, he hardly owes anybody trying to blackmail him a polite response. If somebody is trying to blackmail you and you are pretty sure they are way off-base, it is probably best to make a general policy of /dev/null-ing their messages.
Pretty sure my dad's 12-year-old machine has no hope of running Windows 8, and even if it could, what exactly would be the upgrade path?
You got that quite backwards.

The Swiss government does usually not put things to a vote. Like any other government the parliament legislates and the executive proposes laws and executes.

If parliament enacts a law that parts of the population doesn't like they can call for a referendum. If they gather 50k signatures within a specific timeframe then there will be a popular vote about th law.

The other way issues can come to a vote is by an initiative. This is usually how the "crazy" issues come to a vote.

Note, however, that most issues are not crazy at all. The crazy ones are the ones that you hear about in the international press.

An initiative on federal level requires 100k valid signatures.
Those halcyon days, I remember them well.
I'm more concerned at the long vertical rows of spaces and |'s. How does that happen by chance?
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"Because we’re in this transition period between PHP and Ruby, we couldn’t use PostgreSQL on Heroku because PHP doesn’t speak PostgreSQL."

sigh
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I prefer designers who are engineers on that specific platform. Instead if you're working on user interface alone, you better be damn sure to code that implementation of the
interface you designed.

I've grown tired of photoshop monkeys and UX snake oil salesmen these days.
It's not like common sense and designing usability can't be understood by developers of the platforms, especially when the software engineering tools are so close to the design for GUI.
Perhaps the one with a higher count, and if they both have the same count (in the case of the "China Mobile" phrase) keep the longer one. You might want to test different strategies against different sets of data and see which makes more sense.
I'd really like to know what about the iPhone 5S is "forward thinking" other than the ARM64.
Seem a few startup here fail because of payment to amazon.It realy worth to host application on cloud platform or much better host server yourself method.
> I consider such things a "sharpen your saws" sort of activity, and that is best done in isolation from the crunch of deadlines anyway.

Kudos to you for that attitude, and I wish it was more widespread. Too many developers lose that attitude develop a sense of entitlement not very far into their career.

> As to Scott's writings, yes, that is what I was referring to. I get a distinct vibe from some of his writings that goes like: "we are mediocre, and that's okay, let's laugh it off!"

I'd attribute that moreso to self-deprecating humor. You may also notice Jeff Atwood of StackOverflow fame is very modest abut his capabilities, despite affecting the technical world far more than 90% of the self-impressed people you may encounter online.

However, I'd also wager that "Windows guys" don't take themselves nearly as serious as "Unix guys", at least in part because Unix guys tend to in fact be smarter, because you have to be. I mean that as a genuine compliment. But I will follow up with an "insult" - I've met a lot of too smart people (in both camps I suppose) who let their brilliance and devotion to technical correctness and purity blind out any consideration of both economics and plain common sense, which is fine if you're running your own startup I suppose, but when you're playing with other people's money it's a different story.
Absolutely. Before I began divorcing my online identity from my 'real' identity^, I had several nutters try to reach out and effect my life 'in the real world'. Dredging through old posts, calling ex-employers, etc. All because they felt slighted for various absurd reasons.

Normally when you have problems with a person like this, you can go to the police and get a restraining order. It becomes harder when it is online because you have to weight the possibility that anything that you do to defend yourself might get them closer to finding you.

These days I find myself being fairly sensitive to 'craziness', whenever I get the slightest whiff of it I break off the conversation completely. I'm not a professional who is trained in how to deal with people with these sort of problems, so I am not going to attempt it.

^ Technically I was not using my real name, but a pseudonym that was unique enough to only return results relevant to me when googled. I've since taken to using names of characters from history or fiction as my pseudonyms, and picking new ones at least once a year.
How did the NSA hack our emails?
I look at it this way: if enough people wanted that checkbox to move the needle in the market, then my skillset that a lot of employers find extremely valuable would probably be a lot more common and hence less valuable.
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Yes, I was straight up denied coverage for broken leg rehab and pneumonia coverage for having the intestinal issues, and only through fighting it was it covered. It was not anything other than insurance companies being dickish, hadn't reached the annual cap or anything like that. Other friends of mine with chronic illnesses have had similar issues.

Needless to say, I'm looking forward to that provision of obamacare.
Chase is issuing new cards -- the limits are temporary, and until the new cards arrive.

"Watch for your new card. We plan to reissue all affected debit cards and Chase Liquid Cards automatically over the coming weeks. Until then, you can use your debit or Liquid card with the temporary limits."
I worked for a few of these organizations (CPL, WSVG) and have always been sad to see what's happened to esports/gaming.

As you mentioned, GGL was a particularly sketchy organization.

To be honest I'm happy to even see a fellow former Q3 player here :) Most of my gaming buddies and clan mates moved on to other fields. Who did you play for?
The A1530 actually falls back to 3G and then 2G depending on the part of Beijing. I don't really understand how that works, but the 3G is also much better than the 2G, which is pretty awful.

One very painful thing about the A1530 is that the 4G connection gets broken (and thrown back to 3G or 2G, depending on location) whenever a call comes in or you make a call out. You then have to manually reconnect to the 4G network. I don't really understand why this is. Maybe the voice data is being sent over the 4G network during a call or something? The China Mobile people told me explicitly about the problem. 4G has only been available since the 18th, so haven't had that much time with it, but coverage seems decent.
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Must be a typo. Can't get 20 coffees from 50g. My guess would be that it should be 500g.
That's a good idea. I'll definitely work on making the API faster.
"Roberts is actually the one Supreme Court Justice heavily involved in the FISA court, as he is responsible for appointing the Federal judges that sit on its bench."

I doubt he really wants this, actually (and I believe he's said as much). It's simply what congress made law, so he does it.
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I usually pull from there tables - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_symbols
Ask HN: How is /ask generated?
On the submission page, there doesn't seem to be any place to semantically designate the submission as an "ask" link, so does the /ask page just list all the submissions that match some regex, like /^[a-zA-Z]+ HN: /?
Wait, what am I missing here?
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Well, Chinese policy requires TDD-LTE devices to be compatible with TD-SCDMA.
How might this compound compare to HGH, etc. by getting in top physical shape by working out (a lot), healthy diet and sleep?
Great write up and insights into Teespring's history, current stack and workflow, really fun read! Awesome to learn from others tribulations, especially enjoyed reading about their solution to getting correct postal addresses, and the tech they used to do so.
What in Python is "magical"? The fact that methods take a "self" argument is a result of it not being magical.
Wasn't meaning this specific case so much as Eliezer's rather blanket advice to not deal with the mentally ill, just in case they top themselves and someone then sues you, which seemed more than a little bit harsh.
I hope weev has access to plenty computing books in prison. I can't imagine being very involved in technology and then be separated from its progress for several years.
That's awesome. Will definitely be adding it in, thanks!
That is not the only approach. False dichotomy.
Wayback link, since gwern.net is down right now: https://web.archive.org/web/20131223023402/http://www.gwern....
If you can afford it, AWS is nice, especially with the ability to spin up capacity only when you need it, which can make the economics work in your favour. If you're not sure if you can afford it, then stay off it. It's easy, but that convenience doesn't come cheap.
I thought this was going to be a joke post along the lines of "disrupt threadmaking" -> "disrupt sewing machines" -> "disrupt sweatshop labor issues" -> "disrupt textile design and manufacturing process cycle" -> "disrupt fashion industry" -> "disrupt ecommerce" -> "disrupt logistics"
At least the saving/helping part is existent in his calculation of actions. A lot of people, most notably the ultrarich like the Zuckerbergs, would think it's not even worth their time to deal with "crazy people".

But anyway, I didn't think Eliezer's comment seemed especially objectionable. Life is all about making compromises and finding the right balance. Looking out for yourself can be, and should be a part of the process when you're deciding to help out something. If only for the chance to save the next person after you save the first one. :)

Whereas you were, I don't know, shocked by Eliezer's cavalier attitude, I was touched that he at least tries to reason with people who can be reasoned with. I do think you should take a little bit of break. :) Be well, and take care!
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I would imagine that some sort of pair programming recorded session, where either side can pause the session and argue against what the other side would like to do next and why they believe it to be inappropriate.
Is that really code for "merchants who sold something to a fraudulent card will have that money taken back, and effectively lose the merchandise they sold"? In my experience (several years ago, through PayPal though) that was the case.
I really like the way Simple handled this situation. Their notification to me was actually the first I heard about this happening. They even suggested leveraging the feature to temporary block the card as an added security measure.

An excerpt from their message:

Due to a recent data security breach at a large national chain, we’re sending you a new Simple card. No worries: your current card will continue to work as normal until you receive and activate the new card in about 5-7 business days. And of course, there’s no fee to replace this card.

We have no evidence to suggest that your specific card was compromised. We are taking this step as a precaution, since you shopped at the store in question during the time of the compromise.
Huh? What's to stop them from doing this to credit cards?

Edit: To clarify, I understood the parent comment to mean that this lowering of limits was why I should use credit cards over debit cards.
Don't tempt us
You're over generalizing.
And one involves a developer who is likely of a much higher technical ability. Given his technical ability, Levinson's hourly rate is probably several times higher than the rate for the Verizon employee that would be assigned to do the work. It's not like a manager would authorize putting their best and brightest to do work that does not generate revenue.
Right, and I'm just looking to collaborate.
i was thinking the same thing - i read about that in Dan Arieli's book Predictably Irrational. I suspect open salaries probably increases them on average.
When DNSChanger was spreading, the FBI eventually shut down their command & control servers, which disconnected approximately 300000 computers from the Internet. Although it was an indirect shutdown of peoples' Internet connections, there wasn't much of an outcry when it happened.

If Windows XP gets sufficiently targeted by malware authors using derivative Vista/7 zero-days unlatched in XP, is there a point where it makes more sense to forcefully disconnect WinXP machines from the Internet for the greater health of the Internet?
Thanks for your article. It was very interesting to read about the development of such "serious" software. :)
It's not that they couldn't do it to credit cards, but credit cards generally have better consumer fraud protections than debit cards.
The other thing that gets me is what while they sort of hint that there was no such secret contract, they simultaneously (and rather clearly) state that they cannot divulge customer contracts. So, whether or not it's a "secret" contract is moot; they aren't going to release information about any and all contracts. I guess that effectively makes them all secret, but it seems to me that debating whether or not these contracts are or are not secret is a pointless endeavor. We cannot find out the details of them through RSA (they are contractually obligated not to provide this information), so we must instead rely on the leaked documents Snowden has been providing, assuming it's true. And it probably is.

I think the real kicker here isn't that RSA was intentionally including maliciously modified algorithms as much as the NSA simply bribed^Woffered them $10 million to, err, "prioritize" its inclusion. This is probably more a lesson on distrusting government offers for lucrative contracts in exchange for nifty tools more than anything, IMO.
You can easily reverse the charges on credit cards, unlike (usually, though not in this case per the banks' statements) debit cards.
I don't know what it means to weaken DES against brute-force attacks, but, if I recall correctly, their changes did weaken it against linear crypto analysis. Their change was to replace the random constants of DES's s-boxes with their own constants. They have since then published the criteria that they used to generated these constants. Based on the fact that everything I have read on the subject, and talking with several cryptographers, says that the change was to strengthen DES against differential crypto-analysis, I think it is reasonable to believe that this is supported by looking at how they generated the constants.
I learned ruby as a result of epplets. Hell, I got into Linux due to a printout of a dr15 screenshot someone left lying around in a lab in '97. Rasterman has a lot to answer for.
It would be interesting, if, when replying, other comments by the person on the same HN post were available.
I think the word "hostage" was just a statement of fact, and not a value judgement. I don't think the author blamed the sysadmin for doing so.
They could sue Snowden. But I imagine, it will not payback as a strategy.
I was one of those people proudly announcing the year of the linux desktop in 1999. Microsoft was the evil empire, and the linux rebel alliance was going to shoot down their outdated-at-release windows 98 OS, giving all PC users the freedom they deserved. All we needed was a way in, a PC manufacturer shipping linux by default. Once people used it they would see how much better it was.

It's amusing to realize that linux is now the dominant consumer OS by being at the heart of android, even while linux on the desktop never went anywhere.
Debit cards with a Visa or Mastercard logo have the same protections as credit cards, by contract (though unlike credit cards not by law), when used for non-PIN transactions.
With your attitude I don't think we would ever invent or discover any medicine or treatment. Agreed, natural systems are complicated and delicately balanced, but we have Physics, Math, Chemistry and Computer Science to help us understand those delicately balanced and complicated systems. Please give some credit to Human Intelligence that itself is a product of millions of years of evolution.
I often hear people saying "X can't be done because evolution perfected it". I call it bullshit. Evolutionary systems are not perfect and can be improved with right tools and we do have the tools.
Boom. This was a great rebuttal, I just needed to say that.
That piece of code is an algorithm just fine.
Yeah, I've used both MySQL and Postgres in the same app before (legacy transition/migration). There is no issue with Postgres in PHP, and it works just fine with, e.g., PDO.
I'd rate DiGiorno pizzas fairly high, and also Beecher's Mac & Cheese. The frozen stuff that you stick in the oven for 40 minutes, not the results you get on Google.
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I wish we could do something for losethos. "There but for the grace of god" captures it perfectly.
If you do, I promise I will buy one.

I'll buy a dozen if you manage to make the fabric as well.

And I will send thousands of adorable kittens, on the hour, every hour, if you manage to grow/produce your own fibre or at least make sure it is traceably sourced to groups that are not total bastards.

If you are going to hack t-shirts, you might as well do the entire chain. :)

edit - note: you are not allowed to source the fibre from the kittens just to get the kittens, that's cheating.
Very bad incompatibility between oses indeed. It hurts when you learn but you can never ever forget. I feel for you.

Actually I did not learned the hard way. But I was about to..
You're not really supposed to finish your coffee before you finish your dessert. I mean, it's fine to, but the last thing you ingest at a restaurant should be a beverage.
I think this article is great for learning about strace but it's not a good advice on learning about open source software.

Why not to look into the source?

I used strace for different scenarios and always it saved the day. But this would not be my play for learning about killall.
I am unable to get it to work... No matter what i enter, i end up with an empty graph. even when i wrote "NSA" and "Edward Snowden"
interesting. haven't had a chance to really dive in yet, though.

wish it wasn't a bunch of pdf's...
That's unlikely in a situation like this where the merchants are faultless. Chase has insurance for stuff like this, and they can always sue Target as well.
;) Thanks for the response.
or does he? we just don't know...
I think you're arguing with the tone, but not the advice -- reading gwern's post, by the end of it I had a pretty strong feeling that he was being unwise (and somewhat cruel) in the way he carried his side of the exchange. Taunting the mentally ill (and intentionally encouraging their delusions) just to eke out a bit more "purple prose" is a bit mean at best, and could be quite damaging to them at worst.

I suppose you might take issue with the word "crazy" generally (that's fair); but the real point is that there can be real-life consequences to pressing the buttons of the mentally-ill that can be way out of whack with your actual interaction -- e.g., with a more balanced person an internet argument is a minor diversion and possibly an annoyance. With a mentally-ill person it could be the same, or you might set them back months in therapy, or they could commit suicide, or they could harm others.

Have we really reached the point where we are calculating the likelihood of "sav[ing] someone by argument" vs. the risk of civil liability?

Option one is futile waste of time; option two involves real-life permanent damage (first to the ill person, incidentally to you) -- basically, don't wade into an exchange that will be (1) and best and (2) at worst.
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I think it is actually a bad idea for bitcoin to be treated like a currency. People should not push for it to be treated like a currency because then that only leads to regulation. It should be treated like a financial vehicle or commodity because that is what it is. Just like people openly trade Treasury bills or other bonds on the open market, people now openly trade bitcoins. I can take T-bill certificates anywhere in the world and they will most likely be able to find someone to trade with for real currency just like I could take bitcoins and trade them for other currency. The difference is that T-bills can be freely traded without being controlled banking regulations. There are already problems brewing in china from the government rulings about banks rejecting bitcoins as a currency
If you passed a homeless person on the street, would you give them a dollar? Or just keep on walking?
Maybe they should sue the NSA for writing misleading classified slides and then letting them get leaked. :-)
If you imagine the NSA minus the espionage, isn't that basically the FBI computer crimes division?
I wonder: What information does Palantir have about this situation?
Your mockery is not even correct.
Please, abstain from making useless comments on HN.
A dead commenter said, "Any startup ideas on cleaning the Ocean? I guess no country wants to pay for this yet?" and I had two thoughts in response:

There's a reason for the word "tragedy" in the phrase, "the tragedy of the commons";
"cleaning" probably isn't going to cut it; ocean warming and acidification will quite possibly cause mass extinctions.
Thanks for that explanation. That's a really effective way to look at it, I think.
Do you really think people are going to keep putting time and effort into this?
Full title: David Byrne: “Do you really think people are going to keep putting time and effort into this, if no one is making any money?”
Walker from Teespring here. Wanted to jump in and say I was also confused by this, and Evan is on a well-deserved vacation right now so he's not around to clarify.

This was a real-time interview, and I was the one who edited for grammar because Evan had already left. I'm assuming this didn't come out the way he intended it to. I can't imagine (though I could be wrong I suppose) he is under the impression Postgres doesn't work with PHP.

When he gets back I'll have him chime in!
I think people underestimate the importance of "consistency"! As a coffee lover I value consistency a lot. Nespresso may not be "the best" coffee but it offers a great taste/cost/practicality value.
How can one be such an egotistical asshole? Am I the only one reading this? I guess there's always more of them out there than you think. It's really a shame to read such a response. I don't ever want to be in your presence.