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Exactly. Can you imagine all of the Java/C developers telling Ruby developers that they are idiots and don't know anything about programming ? Simply because they choose a technology that is designed for developer productivity at the expense of scalability.

Because that what seems to happen for every database discussion.
Gitpoints (http://gitpoints.com) - Github meets Gamification

We got some initial traction with hundreds of subscribers and we are testing the MVP with few dozen startups.
Does OCaml do any sort of structural sharing behind the scenes? This is always the thing that bothers me about the functional JavaScript movement, since mutable state everywhere makes such sharing infeasible, meaning that I have to worry a lot more about space complexity when I'm doing something like a map over a collection. How does OCaml fare in that regard?
Windows 7 was a business-friendly OS, focused on Desktop experience, with a release cycle that aligned fairly well with the long-overdue XP sunset, and required only minor retraining of the average workforce.

Windows 8 was a consumer-oriented OS, focused on touchscreen devices, released shortly after most businesses had just moved on from XP, and would have required massive retraining of the average workforce.

In that perspective, I think 200 millions is actually a surprisingly good number.
Changing definitions? Citation needed. A detailed link, not a vague referral to a conspiracy site.
Until recently, Upworthy was without a doubt the most significant source of noise in my Facebook feed. Glad to know there will be somewhat less of that going forward.
I'm not an authority on hushmail, but it seems like they do crypto on the server, and the server is just trusted to throw away the keys and plaintext?

In the keybase Web client, all crypto happens on the browser. The server knows no keys or data in plaintext. Of course, you'd have to audit the front-end JS code to believe that claim.

But our intention is that the only way to compromise the Web-based tools would be to insert malicious JavaScript into the client's browser. A read-only compromise of the server yields only encrypted data, and the server never has access to the decryption keys.
pg must be thrilled that this site has now devolved to the point where we talk longingly about putting entrepreneurs up against the wall.
People find it hard to use, between i2p and multi-sig, and so they don't use it and then you have the usual chicken-egg problem. You might think i2p & multi-sig are trivial conveniences worth paying for security from site operators scamming you (currently the #1 cause of black-market death in my compilation), but we here, on HN of all places, should appreciate how important usability is and how hard ordinary people find crypto stuff to use: most black-market users can't even PGP-encrypt their addresses when ordering drugs. (You might expect 100% of addresses to be encrypted, but actually encryption rates range from 8% to 90%, depending on which marketplace & vendor you ask.)
Only if I were disagreeing with some substantive point he made, which I'm not (I'm not agreeing, either). The substantive issue of my comment was his tone. I'm not disagreeing with him or trying to convince others that he's wrong; I'm just calling him out for being a jackass.
I've certainly had enough negative interactions to make me very wary, but I also remember some positive ones. Off the top of my head:

* An incident where I was driving and spun across a lane of traffic and off the road in a heavy snowstorm, very fortunately hitting nothing but a reflector post in the process. A highway patrolman stopped, checked to make sure no one was injured, congratulated us on being lucky, and encouraged us to be careful out there.

* An incident where I was being followed around -- no, pursued through -- town by a car I didn't recognize, and I called the dispatcher and eventually drove to the police station.

* A few incidents where I'd pulled off highways to sleep, and officers knocked on the window just to make sure everything was OK. One, when I told him why I was there said "Smartest person I've met tonight" (I suspect any highway patrol officer has seen more drowsy driving accidents than they care to).

* Incidents where I'd been hanging out in my car, using my laptop tethered to a cell phone, in a parking lot or neighborhood long enough to make someone in the neighborhood apparently uncomfortable. In two cases I remember, the officers were gently inquisitive, explained what was going on, ran a check on my plates/ID, and said I wasn't doing anything wrong but might want to consider moving on before too long.

* Incidents where there was nothing particularly positive about the interaction but the officers simply did their jobs and either issued reasonable instructions or a citation.

I've also had a number of incidents where this has gone somewhat less well (attempts to escalate to a search of my car or a DUI investigation, weird and menacing lines of questioning, threats to charge me with illegal camping/vagrancy, occasional browbeatings, on-site detention with no explanation, and at least one encounter where an angry officer was threatening me with extralegal violence), so I understand it doesn't always go like this, so I encourage reforms and increased accountability. But I also think it's fair to remember appreciate the officers who acted reasonably, kindly, and professionally.
So sad to read stories like this.. I empathize with you..
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Bzt.

The real reason is that the promise of "open source" in Android has always been wildly overstated.

Over time, the OEMs have come to realize that Android is prone to vulnerabilities, they don't get the support for updated code that they do fully purchased OS's, and google is rapidly eliminating any opportunity for differentiation of experience. Google wants the OEMs to only focus on the plastic covers of the phones, which does not make a sustainable business model.

That forceful negotiation over time has resulted in Samsung's investment in Taizen and a legitimate opportunity for FirefoxOS & Ubuntu for Phones. All it's going to take is for someone to create a VM on windows phone and the other OS's for executing android sdks- google is going to be in real trouble with their OEMs. The OEMs won't drown without lashing out for survival.
Next time you get jury duty, and a cop takes the stand (or even if not), remember how cops treat the citizens they serve.
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Aah. I see this website is by Ghostery itself. Anyway, what makes you say DNTMe is probably the worst choice? I use it along with ABP, and in the cases I have observed so far (few hours), both Disconnect and DNTMe block almost the same things. Of course, Disconnect.me mentions a very big number but it is just the number of requests and not the actual number of 'trackers' blocked. I'm still doing more experiments, but so far both are almost the same. And the numbers Disconnect shows are buggy - they are sometimes different when you expand their sections.

And yes, still not going to use Ghostery. :)
You are saying exactly that.

You said: "It's totally horrible for me to say this but a deadly flu pandemic is needed for the health of our economy."

Mass death is needed for the health of our economy, is what that says. Emphasis on needed and for the health of our economy.
Apple, yes (through BYO and the iPhone/iPad trojan horses). The rest, probably not. Any large business with an IT department worth its salt would steer well clear of "supportless" nonstandard oddities like ChromeOS.
Are you trolling or just woefully underinformed to be throwing around the words "conspiracy site"? The computations were changed in a major way during the Clinton administration . http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1995/10/art3full.pdf
...or the SSN of anyone who resembles you.
That whole "money-as-substitue-for-all-valuations" thing is an underlying assumption of nearly all of modern microeconomics.

In technical terms, it's a quasilinear utility function[0], where preferences are linear in money.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasilinear_utility
http://www.classicshell.net/ or http://www.stardock.com/products/start8/ gives you the start menu it should've shipped with.
Scale matters.

(Likely more to the point: it's probably harder to clean out your own liquor store and claim robbers did it.)
>That's when I understood that it is a choice by business owners and business managers to only hire pre-trained workers. It is a choice to run at half staff while waiting for a "perfect fit".

I would say that it is entirely the prisoner's dilemma. It benefits everyone to have a supply of well-trained workers. However, if you can skimp on training by hiring workers that other companies have trained, you can an advantage. But when everybody does so, suddenly you can't find any "perfect fits".

It makes perfect sense from any one company to refuse to hire non-perfect fits, but it is ridiculous for every company to do so.
How does that differ from the norms of non-internet companies?
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Sayang, amigo.
You're putting arguments in my mouth. I'm not saying that there's only one economic pie that we all pull from, I'm just not spelling out every single way how a currently powerful class of people is robbing our future.

Sure, wealth gets created, but that doesn't mean you can't have a confluence of conditions that cause an economy/to decline.

Arguing that we're fucking ourselves over long-term is not the same as saying wealth is finite. If my premise is flawed, it's no moreso than your response.
Because you more-than-implied that nobody who got hit with it is a professional.
Oh, the power of low standards?
Understanding the problem should not make you puss out and be wary of it and act scared all the time, avoiding those problems, because that's how those problems grow until you can't fight them anymore.

Explaining society doesn't justify the issues at hand.

Understanding the problems should allow you to see your errors and rectify and communicate your best intentions, and then tell you're sorry so you can get out of the situation.

OP demonstrate that if you don't have that essential pearl of wisdom to communicate your best intention and if you're not able to keep your calm in any situation, you will fall into this police jail trap.

I think this article should point out that it's stupid to argue that you should keep your calm, because statistically, many people will get an abusive treatment if they can't keep their calm.

If the police is preying of your lack of temper management to get a chance to get you, then that's a real problem, because if it puts a distrust in the police, it's potentially dangerous for society.

Understanding nature will help individual, but won't help society, because you can only help society by setting better standards.
Sure, just pointing out that it's still basically useless.
OK, finally looking at it on a desktop...

So my first question is this: if I know "maria" and I want to look her up to get her GPG key, how does keybase handle that? Does it just do an email address lookup, as in goes to, say, GitHub, grabs her email address, maria@example.com, then goes to a public key server and grabs the key that corresponds to maria@example.com?

If that's the case, there is a security issue: what if Maria never published a GPG key, but Chloe did using Maria's email address? Moreover, what if Chloe has access to Maria's inbox and can read these messages I believe to be only readable by Maria?

Edit: I see from responses below that various online presences of an identity tied to "maria" are checked. Is this not then susceptible to its own attack? For example, if Maria does not have a Twitter account and I create one, or compromise hers and post a different key, will I be able to at least introduce doubt into her identity, if not take it over outright?
How about Ocaml or Rust? They are both safer than C and are almost as fast.

I don't think we'd reinvent C on modern machines, which have millions of times more memory than K&R had to work with on their PDP-7.
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LUKS on all of my drives - internal and external. I decided a while ago that CPU usage is a small price to pay for having the default be encrypted. And an immediate benefit is that it makes it really easy to wipe the drive.

I still consider these files to be relatively insecure (as the volumes are open constantly, and synced across several machines), so any sensitive stuff goes in encfs on top of that.

I actually view these staying inaccessible in case of my death as a feature. Anything I care to share should be explicitly published, and everything else should vanish just like the information in my head.
Well, there's healthy and unhealthy entrepreneurship.

I'm sure patent trolls consider themselves entrepreneurs too.

If someone is a greedy asshole at the expense of others, I have no problem advocating putting them up against the wall.
Houses can appreciate and are often considered investments. You also need a place to live and you have to consider expenditures made it terms of rent. When considering rents vs. mortgage interest vs. housing cost, there is some point where taking a loan out to buy a house makes financial sense.

Cars are often necessary for transportation. I don't have one, but if I was living in the states they could help me save time and get to work (where I make money). Of course, there is a point where buying a used car with cash makes sense, but there is also a point where buying a car new under a loan makes sense (depends on loan costs, interest, car price, etc...).

Taking a loan out for college can make sense, considering the returns you make afterwards and the lower interest rates often offered through government programs.

I personally haven't bothered with a loan yet (consumer or otherwise, no house or car, but living in China is a bit different from living in the states), but I can see the utility of it.
This is the Economist, and this is the party line. The economy was destroyed due to a demand crisis that we haven't even made an attempt to recover from yet. Crying about a supply problem is silly.

It's like when they complain about the graying of America, and how there will be too many seniors to too few workers - and in the next breath about permanent structural unemployment. Both not enough and too many workers, depending on the argument they're trying to make.
"thinking of a way to create an "optimal" language"

The Korean tried inventing an optimal alphabet a few centuries ago and it caught on. [0] Traditional Korean writing (in Chinese characters) has been almost abandoned.

The Korean Hangul alphabet doesn't include all possible sounds but I don't think that's really what you want. All those guttural consonants, tonal vowels, and clicks and snaps and buzzes that are possible add complexity, but the real breadth of words is mostly combinatorial rather than based on having a lot of letters.

[0]http://www.learnkoreanlanguage.com/learn-hangul.html
In Seattle, 120 strikes and you're out:

http://petapixel.com/2014/02/04/police-officer-threatened-ar...
Every public servant is a person. Refusing to recognize that isn't pragmatic.
> I think the moral of this story is to not open an account with an anonymous exchange. Instead, open an account with a marketplace backed by some high-profile VC's who have some skin in the game. You can bet that Andreesen isn't going to be careless and ignorant enough to let the same thing happen to Coinbase.

Great. Call me when Andreesen funds a black-market for highly illegal drugs.
> Sure they do, by definition code that uses the extensions is not standards compliant.

I don't follow. How's having non-standard complying code taking advantage of the extensions offered makes the compiler itself any less standard capable? I was under the impression being standard compliant didn't mean forbidding extensions... But I suppose I could have been mistaken. :(

> GNU C is a strict superset of ANSI C...

In the same way that I said "Plan 9's C is a restricted ANSI C variety". Yes. It takes some good stuff from ANSI C and leaves some unnecessary stuff out by default. Still, keeping to the standard.

> some ANSI C things are missing; e.g. const.

Surprisingly irrelevant. The draft actually said "If an attempt is made to modify an object defined with a const-qualified type through use of an lvalue with non-const-qualified type, the behavior is undefined.". So, regardless of what the Plan9 doc says about giving warnings and not implementing const in a standard confirming way, no behavior was ever expected in the first place by the standard so the compiler is unwittingly compliant :D And volatile follows suit...

My guess to why the standard requires to implement a keyword without specifying explicit behavior, is that they wanted backward-compatibility with some vendor compiler that did implement these but didn't want to force any actual functionality.

Mind you the standard is far more lax then most people give it credit: Even "void main()" and "exits(0);" that usually raise a few eyebrows are all implementation-specific according to the standard and thus are compliant.

> The compiler document is very accurate...

I was thinking about https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xN-g6qjjWflecSP08LNgh2uF... but I'm obviously not as versed as you in the state of the tool-chain so that's that I suppose.
I personally did some work on getting the compiler to work on a MIPS router I had a few years back but my work was superseded by something better before I could even think about release so that was that... It was at a pretty late stage though with most of the assembly written down. So the impression I got at the time must have had mostly to do with the assembler. But that's ancient history I suppose.

So, from what I can tell out of the standard and the actual behavior of the compiler, it's complaint regardless of what it's docs say. More so, I can't think of a lot of non-confirming compilers I came across outside the embedded circles in recent years. Why, even MSVC is at most a custom header away per project away from compliance and since boiler-plate was never restricted it might as well be considered standard.

TL;DR Standards are highly overrated.
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I find it frustrating that your argument, as mean-spirited as it is fallacious, can get traction just by being both those things simultaneously.

The fall of the USSR initiated a period of privation that involved a significant population decrease through starvation. This event did nothing to improve their economy, indeed it hobbled it.

You are correct that some wars have helped economies improve. Protip: it's the massive economic reorganization rather than the death that does that.

Edit: it is true that in Europe, the black death eventually resulted in considerable economic growth but that was an utterly different economy and the changes were on the order of hundreds of years, not decades.

Edit2: Re: regarding the randomness of disease: the deaths involved in wars have generally fallen on the less well off, at least in the times modern warfare (Post US civil war and the machine gun). Contrawise, the deaths involved in the collapse of the USSR were fairly widespread and uniform because most previously existing enterprises became unviable and so many otherwise skilled laborers and professionals were left unpaid.
this little thread is a great example of brainwashed people of all breeds who just cant grasp the concept of liberty. they love to subject themselves to the status quo and its concepts, enforced by others. because it's so beautifully easy. so please, don't poke their world view!
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I was being (quite obviously) cheeky. I mean, this is the internet...
Ceceo Spanish dialects have the /θ/ sound but most accents don't.
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Well, there's healthy and unhealthy entrepreneurship.

And how does a "class war" distinguish them?
"...privacy violations they subject their users to..."

You lost me. Which privacy policies are they violating?
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Hindley-Milner is fun until you need nominal subtyping or mutable assignment, then the whole "semi-unification is undecidable in general" comes up to bite you.
I will say ElasticSearch features heavily in our infrastructure elsewhere, but for the Person API product, it's purely a primary-key lookup.

My coworker wrote a bit about how the search functionality of our offering works here: http://www.fullcontact.com/blog/sherlock_search_engine_that_...

That might make more sense why we do PK lookups.
Totally agree.

However... wouldn't it be nice if the Supreme Court ruled that:

1. All of the Constitutional rights must be protected by states & localities as well.

2. The Commerce Clause is legitimate.

And left the rest to the states? No significant Federal control of drug laws, drinking age, blah blah blah...

I would be so happy.
You don't believe in evolution then ? I'm pretty sure it says that

1) populations will grow far above reasonable levels and extremely far above sustainable levels.

2) this WILL get resolved.
The problem with what you're saying is that it didn't affect everyone pseudo-randomly like a highly infectious disease does. Certain classes of people thrived and got filthy-fucking rich off the fall of the USSR and most of that had to do with how much power they had from the outset.

The whole point of the "deadly plague" comment is that it kills kings and paupers alike.
The plan 9 team do not consider it a feature. Hence it does not exist.
Why should OS sales numbers be on increasing trend when PC shipment is on decreasing trend?
>We're talking about people with a preference for bicycles not their religion, race or gender

You're missing the point. I'm talking about your personal experiences not speaking to a larger issue.

You've clearly had negative interactions with cyclists that have helped you arrive at your view, that isn't in dispute here. What I'm trying to say is don't apply your narrow vision on what is a diverse group of people, the majority of whom obey the law and make a positive contribution to society.

Again; Your personal observations do not equate to evidence of a widespread problem, just as my negative interactions with red haired people does equate to evidence of a MILITANT Ginger brigade out to do harm.
No, that's not the assumption at all.

The assumption is that any business that's not deserving of trust is very easy to detect and kill in the internet era, solely through the distributed actions of consumers with good access to information.

And this distributed form of regulation is significantly less corruptible than centralized, political regulation.
No. When faced with an officer, you record the interaction, note the badge number, and comply with orders, and the only question you ask an officer is "officer, am I being detained, or am I free to go?"

If the officer is wrong, unless your life is in immediate danger, you comply and you sort it out later.
Call your lawyer to complain when you get home.
well it is implemented on the backend anyways, but you still need to handle the restrictions on the front-end somehow as well, right? coz backend API and the front-end are not always a 1 to 1 match of resources
Prime age employment (18-54) is lower than it's been since around 1985.

http://stefanmikarlsson.blogspot.com/2014/01/were-not-seeing...
At these income levels you should probably just hire a maid.
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