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> What exactly are you proposing? An alternative credo for hackers to ascribe to?

I'm proposing a basic understanding of how markets work, specifically in this case how they can be distorted by a power disparity. Huge companies like Apple, Google, Facebook, etc. have an incentive and the means to do so, which means there needs to be some form of collective pressure to prevent that. This could be government regulation (i.e. what happened here), unions or something else but no ideological cult is going to make the problem magically disappear.

> Edit: I see you're using Windows, so would you mind also listing your tech experience?

I wasn't aware that pointing out the logical flaws in someone's argument required passing a shibboleth. I would also note that your observation could both be trivially answered if you put any effort into it so perhaps you should not be in the business of challenging the expertise of others.
Wow, I didn't know about it! That's a shame it was removed - I couldn't find a site to test it or the issue in Chromium tracker about removing it though.

More information: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=50874

And in Mozilla Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/DNSSEC-TLS-details
Does anybody know if it is the browser or the operating system that checks the validity of the dns records? Is it enabled on all clients?
Thanks. I should have included that part; after The Return, the number of programmers on the Mac do indeed become visible again.
Hoping you do a blog what you now buy to replace everything, based on all your travel experience.
There's something about the dynamic proposed (and said to exist currently) that I'm not understanding (I know little of economics).

You would think that because of all the automation causing the low employment and the aggregation of wealth into only a small number of people's hands that prices would not go up because most people had less money to spend cause they're not working.

But in many places (Bay Area) it seems like a lot of people are benefiting from the tech boom, enough that they do drive up prices. But how can such a small percentage of the population (what percentage of the population in the Bay Area works in tech?) affect things so universally?

It seems like there might be enough benefit to the automation to go around but would require people to shift their skill sets?
It seems that HN have switched to a different OS, but used be on FreeBSD:

(scroll to "Hosting History")

http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=https%3A%2F%2Fne...
Quick and dirty, and the image-sizing could be improved, but here's a proof-of concept on one way to accomplish it.

http://jsfiddle.net/4EYh4/
... Well. To begin with, the reason Schwarzenegger was up and in the gym at seven in the morning was so that he could train—with massive intensity, yes—for maybe two hours ... and then spend eight to ten hours relaxing and doing nothing strenuous in order to recover in time for his second and final session in the evening. That's what he did six days a week with Sundays off, a routine that makes G.H. Hardy's schedule with its afternoon cricket http://www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/Biographies/Hardy.html look packed, and comes to probably significantly less than 30 hours of iron-pumping a week. Keeping your schedule clear for months on end to focus on your work while not actually working all that many hours a week? Sounds more similar to technical work than sales to me.
I think you missed the point. 30 years from today (January 24th, 1984) is celebrating the release of the original Macintosh, which was the first modern personal computer. Of course there have been "bad Apples" along the way — the Apple computer line sucked during much of the 90's, as you pointed out.

But the simple fact is that Apple's original Macintosh was the definitive introduction of modern personal computing to the general public. It's not an arbitrary "30 years of personal computing"... it's commemorating a watershed moment.
Disney's Frozen Free Fall also.
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Do we really expect the iPhone to become a real gaming platform? I'm not being rude, it's an honest question.

I don't see it ever becoming more, as a gaming platform, than it is now -- something to do to kill time while waiting in line or whatever else. I feel like the people who want a real gaming platform are, for the most part, more likely to go out and buy a full computer, an XBox, a Playstation, etc.
Which is ironic, as that could be resolved with a simple Executive Order.
If I bought a toaster/car/tv/pacemaker and it physically didn't work for long periods at a time, I'd consider it crippled. Of course, that's the business model, but that doesn't stop it being true.
:-) Yes, but unintentionally!

What I meant to convey with that first sentence is that any effort at measuring the effect is bound to be highly politicized and subjected to endless debate, so it's best to focus first on the documented actions of these CEOs, which are objective facts.

The most relevant questions right now, I think, are not about the magnitude of the effect, but about the actions themselves: who, what, when, why, and to whom?
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Historically the MySQL query planner has been pretty bad, although it's improved significantly in the past couple years. It was particularly bad dealing with subqueries as you mentioned, although several of the performance issues have been solved in MySQL 5.6.

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/subquery-optimizations-map/
Earlier this week I was using ed(1) to edit a conf file, because (as the parent says) I only know one vi command :-)
> But it should be at the price I'm paying for it.

Are you talking about the 13" or 15"? As a lifelong PC user I just bought a 13" because the comparable ultraportables costs more than the rMBP. I'm getting better hardware for less money w/ Apple. Look at the new Lenovo X1. They want $2100 for 8GB/256GB!
Ha! Your account was created just 21 days ago!
You can get it on the iPhone and it's a bit fiddly. Definitely playable though.
Why not jump over to Chile? They have some exciting stuff happening with startups there.

Surprisingly, I didn't expect you to say a country like Argentina, but now that you mention it, I can understand why they have a dislike for dollars.
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You believe that this ends at Silicon Valley. This most likely is common practice across a multitude of companies and industries.
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This is the right question. ICANN likes to put out these happy press releases, but they don't give us the details. It's necessary to name and shame the TLDs that are behind the curve.
I was under the impression that the new editor is already in Pharo 3? I don't remember all the details, but I think I at one point saw some rich editing classes while browsing packages in my image. It implemented line-numbers and other niceties. But it may have been something I installed from squeaksource. Anyway, I only recently started playing with Pharo 3, and noticed many improvements to editor, but didn't have the time to investigate so I just assumed it's already done.

I would really like to contribute somehow to Pharo development, it's absolutely fantastic piece of software. I went through tickets on official bug-tracker, but there are many of them and it's hard to tell which are important and which are being worked on. (BTW: Komitter is a very nice idea!) I didn't write to the mailing list, because I don't have (especially lately) enough time to do anything substantial; I just wanted to get some simple regression (for example) which I could fix in a couple of minutes/half an hour. The section of bug tracker with tickets like this would be a great help. Otherwise I'll certainly try to get involved more once I have a bit more free time :)
It's inaccurate because that's not it's purpose. It's purpose is about control and politics. It's not about science.
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There some really REALLY good graphic adventure games for iOS, like the tell tale games for instance. The walking dead series is one of the best iOS games I've ever played.
Getting an earlier version of Visual Studio won't be difficult. I think they give them away for free.
>But in many places (Bay Area) it seems like a lot of people are benefiting from the tech boom, enough that they do drive up prices. But how can such a small percentage of the population (what percentage of the population in the Bay Area works in tech?) affect things so universally?

With housing it's because they purchase it as an investment, not as a place to live in.

With treasuries earning almost nothing, reliable stores of wealth are few and far betwen. That makes housing popular.

It wouldn't be so bad if wealth inequality wasn't quite so extreme.
What are your living expenses, though. It's not top-line salary that matters, if you have to piss it away on renting a one-bedroom apt...
I love match 3. I owned a legit copy of Bejwelled 2 on Windows Mobile (heh), Android, and now my iPad and iPhone. I love that game.
If you can grab the phone while it's unlocked (steal it off a table when someone walks away, within the lock timeout window), you can grab the PIN before the phone locks itself and have the PIN forevery after that (or learn the PIN to change the PIN).

You can steal a phone regardless, but if the phone ever locks the screen, you're now locked out.
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The site is down now, so I'm linking to a Google cache site. Original URL is: http://blog.ethereum.org/?p=39/slasher-a-punitive-proof-of-stake-algorithm
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7114310
Who takes a report by the right wing genocidal maniacs of the Council for Foreign Relations seriously?

The fact that they are endorsing the MMR vaccine is probably good reason not to take it all.
So enforcement is a executive thing. Next election could result in a very different attitude running federal law enforcement.

This messiness is how it works. Give it a couple years one of two things will happen: it will be declared a mistake and repealed, or there will be more states where it is legal. Somewhere around twenty states, I predict it will stop being a federal issue, it will start with some official memos and take decades to be officially removed from the controlled lists just due to the nature of the dea and their reluctants to put themselves out of business. In the meantime, the entrepreneurs in that field are in the Wild West and face all sorts of very unique business challenges. The farce that has been mmj has really shown that all hell hasn't broke loose, the vast majority of mj users sem to be responsible and somewhat private about it.
I just played the first episode of The Walking Dead on my iPad. Please, give it a try... It's mind blowingly good.
Whether you think Doge is funny-money or not (I think it is), the thing I like about it is that it's changing hands (even if it's just for tipping people for making funny comments) and not really being hoarded for value.

At least not yet. Hopefully not ever.
ADHD isn't really a problem. AIDS is a problem. Malaria is a problem. TB is a problem. First-world emotional issues aren't a problem. If that were the case, I would think 95% of Iraqis would need psychiatric and psychological assistance.
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They have potential access to the password manager on his Mac as well.

If you use a good password manager you should have the time to reset all your password so that if they somehow manager to crack the manager all the passwords in there are worthless.

Also if you immediately ask iCloud to lock your iPhone they can't use the any of the two-factor authenticators without connecting to the Internet which would brick the phone.
You depend on Drudge for facts? Yikes.
I'm thinking this will be the first viable micropayments platform which is very exciting.

It seems like that would open up a ton of new opportunities but for the life of me, I can't think of any good uses for micropayments (beyond paying for content). Any ideas, HN?
Don't conflate "technically superior" with "more featureful" and "bigger numbers".
In general, copyright belongs to the photographer. The person in the photo might have image/personality rights, depending on the jurisdiction (there's no Berne Convention on image rights) - in the US, the law varies state by state.

Which means that if you're going to have naked pictures taken, it's best to do selfies than having someone take it for you :)
I don't know. I would never buy a smartphone game at this point because they look so low quality. Square Enix has offerings in the play store that I know are going to be good, so I can pay a few dollars more for that game instead of spending 0.99 on DRAGON DUNGEON CASTLE LOLICON SAGA.
>It seems the whole "game" and all mechanics are just designed to slowly get you hooked and extract money at the most susceptible time. And it's executed almost to the point of perfection.

Like an arcade game? It costs $0.99 for a fresh set of lives in Candy Crush Saga. $0.25 cents in 1984, adjusted for inflation, is $0.54 today, so an extra set of five lives in the game is about double what an arcade game cost in 1984. So what's the big deal?
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More on this topic can be found in this talk by djb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok
Dude what are you talking about? Honestly, are you trolling?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/in-major-shi...

Turns out that old white dudes - which I think would most clearly fit your label of "squares" (please) - are actually not the ones who strongly oppose legalization. True, this is just DC proper and not Virginia/Maryland, but given that Maryland has had votes to decriminalize it and such I don't think it's absurd to apply some general lessons from this to other parts of the area. Really, the only people who reliably oppose legalization seem to be older black women and republicans - which is kinda funny if you ask me.
You can root the phone from a sdcard and then have access to it. You'll need root rights anyway to access the hash and salt. This might not work with every Android version.
Will HN ever integrate Doge tips?
Amazon RedShift (based on Postgres) has an approximate function that can be used to return results faster while calculating distinct values from a large table with an error approximation of +2% (http://docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift/latest/dg/r_COUNT.html). To give some perspective, we ran a test query on a RedShift table with > 900 million records to fetch unique user id's. With the approximate function applied, the results were returned in 8 seconds while it took the usual distinct query 51 seconds, ~84% faster !
Any idea if there's a plugin for evaling pre-processed languages like Haml, Sass or CoffeeScript?

And is there a good place to find a list of plugins? I've tried googling for them but I feel like there are probably plugins I'd use that I wouldn't think to google for.
Very strange, because this feature was removed from Chrome just after DANE RFC was published and all work is done. It is evident that DANE will kill SSL certification business. The development suspension may result from pressure coming from CA's.
Hmmmm. Very interesting.
I think 'relatively' easier would be more precise than 'extremely' extremely.
This is a really important point and isn't stated enough. People think of DNSSEC as some panacea that "fixes" DNS, but it really does nothing of the sort.

Moxie gave an absolutely fantastic talk at Blackhat a few years ago in which he explained problem as it relates to SSL and a proposed solution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA
Good luck with your relaunch! I'll look for it, so I can support it again!
Original video, complete with download links:

http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2010/27c3-4295-en-high_s...

This was djbs introduction to CurveCP, a project to replace TCP with an encrypted, authenticated, end-to-end solution that always gives you PFS. Unfortunately the Nacl code base (containing the CurveCP reference implementation) hasn't seen any community love that I know of, so the project seems to be kind of stillborn... although ZeroMQ recycled some of the ideas and cryptography in CurveZMQ
For anyone who didn't catch it, the onion story about Miley at the VMAs: http://www.theonion.com/articles/let-me-explain-why-miley-cy... "by" the managing editor of cnn.com
No, the Fed has unlimited buying power for Treasuries, so it could prop up the price as long as it wanted.

The question is what the side effects of that would be. So perhaps I should say they can prop up the nominal price for as long as it wanted. The real price can't be manipulated so easily.
I think we should. What would it take? I think it can be done by a third party, no? It wouldn't require any changes on the HN code.
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Before the iPod/iMac, Apple didn't have that marketing engine. They didn't have that stellar reputation. They built that from nothing with a single generation of products.

Today, Apple occupies a special place in the market that very few players could approach. In 2000? That market was wide open for anybody who could get their crap together and do the same things Apple did - well-designed products with a good marketing campaign. The PC industry was only just starting to abandon the ugly beige metal boxes.
Except they're not going to go after Disney, only smaller companies without the cash to throw lawyers at problem.
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If HN is ever going to include a cryptocurrency tipping system (spoiler alert: it won't), why should it integrate Dogecoin?
Tips for good stack overflow answers maybe?
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I'm not sure that there are any opportunities for micropayments. It seems like a solution looking for a problem.
I want a HN without voting, but only tipping.
I read the declarative language promise as you will never have to know what's going on under the hood. This is never true in any non-trivial declarative language being used for non-trivial work. I have developed a very negative initial reaction to anything that claims to be "declarative".
you sincerely want to change the world and make it a better place,...

You shouldn't believe that crap. That is simply keyword optimization to attract VCs who "believe in people, not the company".

If you want to make the world a better place, you don't need to profit off of it at the same time.

A rational human being is driven to maximizing his own utility. While he may want to fund a tech school in Ghana when he becomes a millionaire, he will want to do it after he has made 10x the amount he gives away and many will do it openly, because fame is as desired as money (if not more).
And now they conspired to bring down the site that hosted this article...
Why not?
PS. Spoilers break the intrigue.
The iPod was demonstrably and objectively superior to its early competitors in an important way: you could navigate to your songs more quickly and easily.
It would be pretty funny if dogecoin became a serious currency that one might use to buy property with for example, but is there any reason it has less chance than bitcoin?
It certainly comes off better if you frame it in that way. It's probably my bias which lead me to read too far into some of the quotes used about the Mac bringing new capabilities that didn't exist for the consumer previously. The 1984 machine is/was an amazing thing, but the 90's and even the early 00's Macs were anything but.
Rather than refute the negative prediction for Facebook we're presented with a sarcastic appeal to those who don't think Facebook could ever dissipate.

This only speaks more towards an argument that Facebook isn't being serious enough with its own statistics. Of all organizations Facebook should be the first to spot a trend especially with esteemed data scientists like Mr. Develin.
I like that it is mildly inflationary over the long term, as opposed to deflationary.
You don't have to use bash, or just one process. You can completely replace their solution as long as you do roughly the same thing and they can run your binary (C, python, ruby, java, whatever).
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ICANN publishes the TLD DNSSEC Report : http://stats.research.icann.org/dns/tld_report/

For ccTLDs only, there is this list : http://www.statdns.com/cctlds/
Damages are damages. If I throw a bowling ball into your garage late at night, is it "fair" that I have to pay more because you own a new Ferrari while the damages would be much less if you owned a 15 year old Honda?

Once you commit a tort, it's generally all on you.
Am I incorrect in stating that this isn't necessarily true? Just because a statement is earlier in a script doesn't mean it will be optimized first.
Yeah, we tried qb64 out a few days ago. Its IDE is a little broken in the latest release. Any time you press any key, you have to wait anywhere from 2-5 seconds before the computer reacts. It's apparently part of its syntax-check-as-you-type program, but there's no obvious way to turn it off.

I just tried DrRacket last night, and the IDE was pretty confusing to get started with for me. Plus I think it will be easier for him to get started with a non-Lisp language. (Disclaimer: my favorite language right now is Clojure.)
Yeah, the Fed buys crazy lots of bonds, and it's pretty impressive that it hasn't caused inflation yet. A big bond dump by China may be enough to actually trigger a substantial piece of inflation - heck, maybe you'd see an instant jump in prices of a few percent overnight, and the US would have to make some painful choices about spending and debt...

But it wouldn't in and of itself cause catastrophic hyperinflation. Not on an ongoing basis, anyway. Continuing inflation requires continuing increases in the monetary base (or monetary velocity).
What's the easiest way to buy Dogecoin with USD or BTC? An exchange that doesn't require a drivers license and wait period?
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Another Bitcoin crypto-clone. Why does this need crowdfunding? Is the traditional mining and conversion to other cryptocurrencies not enough of a financial reward?
He turns 10 in a few weeks. But I'm really trying to avoid having to apologize to him the whole time he's learning, which is why I'm avoiding JS, Ruby and Python.
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Why do you need to be an ass? We celebrate computers every single day. Is it unreasonable to acknowledge a brand that many many professionals feel emotionally attached? Did you complain when we were celebrating VAX, Atari, Commodore, Walkman, PlayStation 2?

Mac brought to the mass many things we take for granted today -- graphical interface, mouse, all-in-one form factor, SSD, etc.

Once popular brands -- IBM, Compag, Gateway, DEC, Sun -- are gone. Mac is still here and going strong. Not remarkable at all?
My understanding is that it just implements the postgres protocol, its query planner is now completely different.

"ParAccel's DBMS engine is built for analytics, initially based on PostgreSQL" -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParAccel