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Does every inconsequential defacement need to make the news?
Please don't tell me what to do. Every one of Toshiba's major competitors do things that are wrong and fail to own up to them.

It would take a lot more than this to get me to avoid a company as large as Toshiba.
Facebook isn't dead yet, and i think you want the word "militates" which means the opposite of mitigates.
Do HN commenters need to get over their obsession with headlines?
While we may or may not be a bubble, its hard to pay much credence to statements like "there is no bubble!" by someone heavily invested in the potential bubble.
There's nothing stopping you from swizzling that method for one that does, though. I've done it without any apparent problems.
PDF facsimiles of some original manuals are here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/704/

In addition to the manual for the computer itself, describing the assembly language and so forth, these include documentation for the earliest versions of Fortran.

Bitsavers has a lot of neat stuff on all sorts of old computers, including other old IBM systems, the B5500, (recently mentioned here) and a whole lot of old DEC equipment.
Indeed. I really don't find the wide array of screen sizes to be that big of a problem. Of course, it is a little scary if you're used to designing apps with fixed-size bitmaps. But with Android's XML drawables, fragments, and nine-patch images, it's remarkably easy to design an app that works on virtually all screens.
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I've been running into this line of thought quite a bit as I explore containers, but nowhere is it addressed how contained applications talk to each other. An app seldom lives on its own - it will integrate databases, API calls into other systems, etc - how are those configured reliably and correctly when in such a transient environment? Are they also containers? If so, how are they discovered? Dynamic configuration generation or does the application have to be aware of how to discover them at runtime?

What about in a dev environment? It seems that configuration on a single local host would look vastly different, in spite of the same code running.
If you have this issue in your life, using any service is a bad idea. This includes Facebook, Pinterest, anything. When you interact with services you create data and in many ways data exhaust that can be used to locate you or reveal things about your interests, traits, etc.
TLS FTW. (or sometimes TLS MITM FTW.)
oh man you just killed a major feature of mashape.com
This is not a variant of the puzzle above.

This is a variant of the hat puzzle, and the solution requires some set-theory.
Most brands are made in Foxcon anyways. I think it is the support and service that makes the brand.
Random observation - that article has a highly entertaining reader comment section, particularly that equity risk premium discussion thread.
If you put yourself out there, you probably should expect people to start forming opinions about you.

People are very quick to punish others, this shouldn't be surprising.
I think that the argument about lack of participation of general public is a red herring. Quote Wikipedia:

'An economic bubble is "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values". It could also be described as a situation in which asset prices appear to be based on implausible or inconsistent views about the future.'

Make a solid argument about whether this is or is not the case but "no cab drivers on the buying side" is a crappy argument.
It might be because the CEO is basically the same age as his users.
Right.

My point is that, given that so many people love to hate EA (for better or worse, and regardless of whether their reasons make sense or not), it's really no surprise that EA is continually "awarded" such "honors".

Maybe you, knappe, have other (better) reasons to hate EA than those that relate to some ten-year-old drama that (probably) didn't personally affect you. Maybe you don't. But there is an Internet full of people who will probably never stop hating EA, no matter what.
> a trusted third-party service

That's a big problem.
No. And I hope there are a lot of first-gen iPads still in use, since the alternative would mean millions of abandoned pieces of hardware, rather than just millions of us abandoned users. If only I'd had the hindsight to stick with iOS 4 - at least my tablet would then be usable without inducing stress, fury, and bitter regret.
Your post - it's just so generic that I don't know how anyone other than you could answer it. What does "bad" mean to you? What specific Oracle products are you talking about? How much do you know about the data warehouse design or the OLAP design? What is it that you are doing exactly?

You just are way too general - Oracle probably makes 500 products and is a multi-billion dollar enterprise-focused company. If all Oracle products were "so bad" (as typified by "so many problems"), surely they wouldn't be such a massive company, no?
That would match the initial specification. The point is for the candidate to note that the initial specification is too ambiguous and determine what they do about it.

If they gave that answer and then said "which is why the specification is weak" then great! If they gave that answer and called it done... well... not so good.
That's actually rather useful, to avoid manually constructing and uploading images for a quick memetic response.

The example linked at the top works, but when I try to construct one, I get a "We're sorry, but something went wrong." error. For instance: http://maas.rohits.me/boromir/One%20does%20not%20simply/serv...

How much traffic does it cost? If you put ads on it to pay for the traffic, and added some usage statistics and "top N served" (by traffic and by unique referrer) to get people to browse the site directly, you could probably keep it going pretty easily. It'd be handy.

Also, have you considered directly serving the image in response to the request? That way, people could use your URLs directly in the img tags rather than the imgur URLs, which would let you get the traffic statistics for the images, and promote the use of your service.
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I didn't say they were dead, or even dying. But they certainly aren't growing at a rate that warrants a literal doubling in their stock price over a six-month period.

And, yes; I meant "mitigates." "v.tr To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate."
If someone doesn't accept the blame, perhaps they're less likely to make sure the problem doesn't repeat.
Data migrations are tricky no matter what technology you apply to automate them.

Also, there is no real animosity or conflicting choice between Chef/Puppet and Docker. While there's overlap, there's nothing preventing you from taking the best of both technologies and integrating them. In fact, there are projects (like deis.io) which attempt to do just that.

I have written about how to do basic data migrations with Docker. You can find the link in my profile.
I was only in one building (maybe building 39, probably 6 years ago) and every office I saw had 2 people. My bad! I'm also generalizing about Google - I only saw building 43.
If we are it's product, then yes it should be expected you can lose control over it.
Counting is how they measure the days passed versus how many blue-eyed people they see. I'm sure you're right, but I have to check the assumption that seeing everyone is the same as hearing a fact about everyone.
Indeed; if I understand it correctly encrypted data goes into a standard bloom filter.

If that's indeed the case then, assuming that users can never be removed, a daily update would just contain the indexes of the additional bits set by the newly registered users, which could never be 40MB.

It seems they also forgot to include lowering the p-value of the bloom filter as a trade-off, since it seems that a false positive means that a contact is sent to the server which shouldn't have been.

If you push that down to p=.95/.98/.99 or so you'd get a much smaller Bloom filter and many people might not object to a few % of 'collateral uploads' so to speak.

Minimizing the amount of information leaked through these various tradeoffs is an interesting problem though, since you'll have to leak something one way or the other.
This is great until you realize the average address book is a disgusting mess of spelling errors, wrong values in wrong fields, punctuation in places where punctuation isn't necessary (commas in phone number fields, digits in name fields, etc.)

The only field that might be fairly consistent is email address and even that is no guarantee. Sure, it's possible to clean up a contact before hashing, but when you consider the fact that the typical phone contains >500 contacts it's not something that can be done in a reasonable amount of time on a modern smartphone. For the last two years I've been working on a product that involves cleaning/organizing contacts and making them searchable, when I started I had no idea what a massive undertaking it would be.

So, hash till your hearts content, but if you have 10 different people with the same contact in their address book I would be willing to bet that you will get 10 different hashes because humans are not good at data entry.
I wish other developers would adopt such a considerate attitude. Alas, my personal experience is that many simply abandon users who dare to have a device more than a couple of years old. My worst personal experience being an app that became obsolete, only to be replaced by an app that doesn't support my version of iOS.
This may be true, but Amazon has more weight than a single Toshiba owner. If they are selling the product in a location where Toshiba is refusing to service the warranty, they may go to bat for their customers.
BF4 spotlights EA's inability to launch games, treat players with dignity
I bet this uncensored database is worth more than the Snapchat company
Yikes. People need to realize that when they're more fortunate than others, it's bad form to get so defensive. The anger towards tech is misplaced, but there's a legitimate image problem, and income inequality is a real problem in America. This is the kind of thing people hate Wall Street for -- can we try to be better?
Anytime you use a free service, you do so with the full knowledge that this is the likely eventual outcome. I'm amazed that people are still so 'shocked and outraged' every single time something like this happens.
Someone making 100k/year in wages likely couldn't afford to stop working for more than a few years unless they already spent decades saving money. That means they aren't upper class. Someone who is upper class could maintain a high standard of living indefinitely without ever working.
So if other companies are worse does that excuse another of doing wrong?
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Really? I would argue that somebody who has put millions of dollars behind his views has more authority than somebody who has put zero dollars behind them. He has a lot of money on the line. I'm pretty sure he's thought this through thoroughly.
Where can I find your app?
There is. Mostly 460 and 900 MHz packet modems that only speak UDP. It's for telemetry data and data between trucks. As of 2000, there were working prototypes of both an anti-collision system and fully autonomous driving / grading.
Version helps scriptkids manage versions of your projects
Version any directory and easily increase version numbers in scripts.
In submitting this I was actually trying to find this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6993968 but it submitted it as a new link instead.
You can't downvote direct replies.
Yeah, that was the ultimate kick in the teeth from Apple for all us pre-iOS7-ers - 'sorry, you don't even get our free stuff anymore, luddites'
It doesn't even do it good. It's easy to stalk your friends and see who they message the most and figure out when they do. It was just first.
Maybe it's cynical of me, but this reads like an admission that the company is failing and trying to cut costs to keep the lights on a bit longer. As a content hosting company you don't irrevocably delete your customers' data without warning and then expect "the best original web series" to rely on your service.

Still, I'm a bit surprised that there was no offer to transition to a paid tier or an opportunity to download your media first. Yes, the users should have had local copies, but it's a fact of life that some people won't.

EDIT: I'm basing my assumption of no offer to download your content on of Osvaldo Santana Neto's blog post comment. From jsdalton's HN comment[1] and the replies to it, that may or may not be correct.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7008324
I was thinking the same thing but could you imagine your phone vibrating in your pocket every 5 minutes? If I didn't expect my phone to also vibrate for phone calls and messages all day long, an app would be viable... sadly, you probably need to distinguish in an obvious way
Sorry you have to face this annoyance!

I had a similar problem with top-end ultrabook from ASUS (13.3" FHD i7 Zenbook Prime with discrete graphics) in 2012.

The ultrabook stopped after 2.5 months (keyboard problem), then after RMA got update that it was a customer induced damage (definitely not, it was an issue many people complained about) requiring replacement of both keyboard and motherboard almost for the price of a new ultrabook. I was really upset and after 6 months of having it in a drawer I sent the ultrabook for an analysis to an independent lab - it turned out only the keyboard module was damaged, motherboard was OK. I ordered a keyboard replacement from asusparts (~$100) and it works till today. Never heard any sorry from ASUS for trying to extract money from me for a "damaged" motherboard.

Having said that, I scratched ASUS off my list for the rest of my life. This happened in Germany. Paradoxically I was just thinking about buying Toshiba Qosmio X70-136 as my DTR but after reading this I will go with some Clevo-based manufacturer like. Thanks!
My startup has no IP, no funding, and runs code cut-and-pasted from a tutorial. It also could be the next 100 Billion dollar messaging-wrapping powerhouse. And it will be, just as soon as I figure out how to do it. Or wait for Snapchat to figure it out and then leapfrog them & do something even better. But any offers for funding under 10 Billion will be firmly rejected. I'll read them, however.
The very first thing that comes to mind when reading your front page is "SEO spammer", and reading the rest of the site does nothing to dispel that impression. You might want to give some specific portfolios of what you've done in the past for specific sites, to reinforce that you're not (for instance) comment/forum/blog spammers.
Phone numbers are not unique values, you should never assume that a phone number alone (or even a phone number and last name) is enough information to uniquely identify an individual.

Case in point: I work with a guy who used to work at his dads office. He and his dad both have the same name, and they both had the same office number. This algorithm would incorrectly identify both people as being the same person when in fact they are not.
Would it help to think of docker as a VM with significantly lower overhead? (Yeah, yeah, technically, it's not...)

You're already running VMs with 1-service per-VM for the sanity of dev-ops, right?

Instead of 1 VM per-service, with docker, you can make 1 larger host, run 1-service per-docker container, and get more performance out of a single machine.
This is an actual academic paper about tracking time travelers online
I can't speak to the support/service (which seems to be lacking here). I'm just saying they were, by far, the most reliable machines we bought/sold.
OK, that all makes sense. I was clearly mistaken on that part then, thanks for the info.
Your figures are quite a bit off. A Big Mac is $7.51[1], and the average wage in Norway is around $6440 a month[2], or around $40 an hour (based on a 170 hour work month).

They are high - they're nowhere near as high as you're making out.

[1]:http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
[2]:http://www.ssb.no/en/lonnansatt/
It's not public yet (focused on the enterprise space right now), I'll send you a pm to our website.

edit not sure how to do a pm here, if you use reddit send me a private message user/MagicWishMonkey
The bull case on Snapchat is that there's a company in China called Tencent that's worth $100 billion. And Tencent is worth $100 billion because it takes its messaging services on a smartphone and then wraps them in a wide range of services—things like gaming and social networking and emojis, and video chat—and then charges for all these add-on services. And it has been one of the most successful technology companies of all time and is worth literally $100 billion on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Maybe that's [CEO Evan Spiegel's] plan. Maybe Evan's plan is to transplant the Tencent business model into the U.S., which nobody has actually been able to do yet.

This explains why Snapchat walked away from $3 billion dollars. If you have a VCs mindset and even have a 10% belief in that bull market, then the offer was too low.
The good news is that Toshiba probably gets to choose the venue and the arbiter! What could possibly go wrong?
> Building a social network is not easy. Social networks have value proportional to their size, so participants aren’t motivated to join new social networks which aren’t already large. It’s a paradox where if people haven’t already joined, people aren’t motivated to join.

Value is relative. For stakeholders, value is indeed given by the network’s size. For users (participants), it’s very debatable whether size equals value. The author seems to be mistaking the two perspectives for a single one. No paradox here.
One thing I don't understand is if there are third party libraries holding people back then why isn't there something in the python 3 standard library that you can substitute?
You might consider running ads, or providing a simple Android app for random/popular/rotating wallpapers.
Just reset the hardware clock back whenever you power off. The pretend your clock is three years out of whack, and that you don't care. Hey presto - your ancient windows install looks "fresh".
I actually liked the kid quote. I decided when I was a child that I never wanted to be a parent. When it came up in conversation people would usually dismiss me and say that I'd change my mind when I got older. I got older, and I still don't want or have children. It always bothered me that people felt that my answer was invalid; that they could just overrule me and assert that I'd become wiser (e.g. agree with them) when I was older.

Now I lead a comfortable and happy life, and I got here by taking some risks I couldn't have taken if I'd had kids to care for. I'm not saying my answer was the only correct path, but it worked for me and I'm happy with it. And yes, I'm a little bitter towards the people who thought I was incapable of making life decisions for myself.

That said, you're completely right that an attack is the worst way to proceed if we want non-techies to accept us.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6998936
'VC investment was at a peak.'

With all the recent insane valuations by VC's, you'd assume that there'd at least be a tech bubble in the private investment market. However, VCs aren't even close to investing as much as they did in 1999 and 2000 (less than half). In fact, they even invested a little more in 2007-2008 than they did in 2011-2012 [0].

[0]: http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/17/vcs-invested-26-5b-in-3698-...
While I'm personally not a fan, it's not all that silly. If you've registered a domain in the past, your registrar likely invoices you by emailing you the invoice when your domain comes up for renewal (margins are so tight that it's the only cost-effective way). And if you're not checking your mail and you haven't authorised them to automatically charge your credit card, it's possible to miss your payment reminders, which could lead your domain to go into redemption and be deleted for non-payment.

Also, the verification checks only need to be done after you initially submit your contact details or after you attempt to change them, so it shouldn't be too much of an issue.

The big problem that registrars face is that law enforcement want us, the registrars, to verify phone numbers and addresses too, which is going to push up costs quite a bit, even if we find ways of doing so without having to actually phone people.

It's going to suck.
"My bitcoins are stored in our safe deposit box, and my son and daughter are tech savvy. I think they're safe enough. I'm comfortable with my legacy."
Might be workable if you have the option to change the vibration pattern to something clearly distinct from a notification.
Um.. That's sort of their job? Why the outrage here? It's not like the story actually calls for Snapchat's CEO's head to really be severed. That might be offensive.

I think the author's point is a good one. If CEO is really so obtuse he should go. If he is being coached to act this way then his coach should be fired[1].

Pretty straight forward business journalism. It's not like the business journalist went on a long diatribe about API security. That would be out of place.

[1]Unless your argument is that in order to criticize a business leader's actions you must outline each of the myriad possible corrective steps between "Do Nothing" and "Terminate".
s/Most of them/Most of the retail ones/

Not the industrial ones. They're unit tested ad-nauseum, subjected to crush and environmental testing. You can run over the units with fully-loaded haul truck, the cases are cast steel. They also retail for $10k USD a piece.
Geography has everything to do with government. Where you are geographically determines how you are governed and who governs you.

psuter said, "I find the idea that political and cultural boundaries should align to be a very sad and unimaginative one." Which I took to mean that psuter believes realigning CA along cultural or political boundaries (like saying, "republicans over here, democrats over there") is very sad and unimaginative.

To which you responded "How else could you do it? Tax only the people in favor of infrastructure improvements and prevent everyone else from using them? Only arrest people using recreational drugs if they voted against legalization?"

Which is why I tried to answer your question "How else could you do it?" by pointing out another way it can be done is, you keep things the way they are now meaning, you arrest, tax, and govern everyone equally depending on where they are standing (some things being illegal in some jurisdictions and not in others).

It seems like there's some sort of breakdown in understanding between the two of us here.
So you are saying that a majority of the legislators and the executive are all pursuing foreign wars... because some voters in their districts work for defense companies? I don't think that argument holds water because it's not true that defense employs an overwhelming number of people in the average legislative (Senate or Congress) district.

Or are you saying they are directly being bribed large sums of money to do it? If so, please provide evidence. That doesn't seem plausible in the US where direct bribes are rare and can be caught.

> It should be obvious but that is just my opinion.

Oh, right. The reason your argument is not specific and empirical is because you are appealing to the "obvious" i.e. "your opinion." And I must be stupid to not see that your opinion is just obvious.
The author probably misunderstood because having an IPv4 allocation makes the IPv6 allocation faster, almost automatic, since you have already proven that you need IPs and the RIR will want to encourage IPv6 adoption. (but having ipv4 is by no means mandatory)
"Requires iOS 6.0 or later" - ARGH!