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> Allow me this one; are your belongings really yours if you forget to lock the door?

Practically, it depends on where you live. In major urban areas: no they're gone and they probably aren't coming back. Insurance might replace some of them.

In the sticks? Most people don't lock their doors, even if they shut them.

> I know bringing things from the real world into the digital realm often results in badly overstretched metaphors.

Except this metaphor is already stretched beyond breaking. An index isn't even a copy.

Copying a set of publicly available read-only files is not theft (you still have your copy I haven't deprived you of it).

But we're not even talking about copying your files, just the names you've assigned to them. And in his proposed form, even allowing you to remove the names from our index.

Pretty kind treatment for a copy that you've given me when I asked for it.
Actually, Amazon does not use the Google Play services and app suite, so they can do anything they like, and they do, with the Android SDK which is also mostly Apache licensed.

In a sense they are freeloading. But Google long ago took the gamble that having a broad community, that might include competitors, using the Android OS and creating apps for the Android runtime environment is better than trying to do it all in-house and proprietary.
FileValult problems: http://mjtsai.com/blog/2012/08/07/filevault-2s-apple-id-back...

AFAIK they don't login to fix hardware issues -- they netboot diagnostics software but on multiple occasions I was informed by people that Apple had "made a backup of their system" before a reinstall. What that entails and what the retention policy is, I do not know but I suspect unless they're doing a three-pass erase on their temporary storage devices afterwards (which is unlikely) then your data is easy pickings...

My MBP, which is incidentally knackered, is still FileVault encrypted. It will stop a casual theif getting in but not much more
I really like cffi for interacting with external c libraries. See for example my post on talking to openssl using cffi:

http://unchainyourbrain.com/using-openssl-from-python-with-p...
Try this one by Armin Ronacher: http://timesched.pocoo.org/ - it's open source as well
Thanks for the viewership! :)
No great stagnation in Bay Area and other innovation capitals of the world. Facebook (FB) keeps making new highs. Now is a great time to be an economist, coder, real estate investor, self-actualizer, speculator, etc. Not so great if you graduated in a non stem major with mountains of debt.
Josh Brown debunks this 1929 comparison chart http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2014/02/13/the-chart-that-w...

Stocks will keep going up along with Bay Area real estate prices (especially Palo Alto and Athlerton.

Nerds are the ones making all the money in this new era while being showered with accolades by the media for the innovations they bring to society.
I think Hitler was rather more cynical than that - when he wanted to exploit socialists to achieve his ends he supported socialism. However, after the Röhm purge (AKA "The Night of the Long Knives") most of the socialists within the party were removed (and often killed) - making the Nazis far more acceptable to the rich industrialists and military leaders that Hitler needed support from to get total power.
Ask HN: What cloudflare settings do you use?
And what pros or cons do you see by using them?

I just signed up for the $20/mo plan and am scratching my head as to what to pick for "Security" and "Performance" options at the end of the signup page.

The options for Performance are:

- CDN ONLY

- CDN + Basic optimizations (faster)

- CDN + Full optimizations (bleeding edge speed)

And the options for Security are:

- Essentially Off

- Low

- Medium

- High

I chose the highest security and the full optimizations as I figure I may as well get what I paid for. I am a little worried about the mention of possible captchas for accessing my site, however.
>First, the number of well-paid middle-skill jobs in manufacturing and clerical occupations has decreased substantially since the mid-1980s.

in all these articles/analysis replace the middle-skill jobs in manufacturing with the programming/IT jobs - the middle-skill jobs of today - and you'd hardly find any decline
...and to make things worse, innocent people are often in jail for a considerable amount of time. If you're waiting for trial and can't pay bail...tough luck.
I know it is cheap but really - what am I paying for?
>50 different terms people can use to identify their gender

wow
I'm pretty sure that black males are less economically disenfranchised today than in the past, in spite of increases in inequality. For example, we no longer have Jim Crow laws attempting to correct the excesses of capitalism (greedy employers hiring blacks instead of whites).

A quick google search suggests black men are less sexually disenfranchized than non-blacks.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/07/20/sex-statist...

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/19374216/#.Uv0a2HX_SFk
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I actually created a site that pairs up hackers for lunch. Currently its only for hackers in SF.

Check it out: http://hackerlunch.com/
That is the use case that AWS is best for. That is not the use case covered in the article, though. The use case being discussed is that for a cluster of always-on machines with a fairly consistent load. If you have a minimum baseline load on your servers, fulfilling that from AWS, or Azure, or similar services doesn't make financial sense. Colocated (if you don't mind dealing with the hardware) or leased (if you do mind) servers for your baseline load combined with cloud machines for load spikes makes the most sense.
Yes, a strange and perhaps odd liberating feeling is there. Also slight terror about you yourself being nearly fully accountable for any backups, downtime or losses.

Linode have great hardware, too. I can see how 15 sites would be possible. It's pretty incredible, really. As mentioned elsewhere, if only Wordpress could run on sqlite, trending towards less resources rather than more...
The "friends" OP mentions are probably women. It's less to do with the particular hackathon and more to do with their gender.
Yeah we found that library posted on HN a few days ago, and figured since we have very low traffic right now we'd have nothing to lose with a library like this (even with the additional requests it sometimes incurs when a user hovers but doesn't click). It's so fast now I'm not sure I could ever bear to build a site without it ever again.
Scan a QR code, click the link --- aaaaand attacker has a shell on your phone.
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Many of the top results are organisations which are legally required to publish their payroll (public universities, government agencies, and so on).

So it isn't quite as bad as it might immediately appear...
Doesn't that imply that with Firefox OS, every app is second class?

And if it doesn't, then why is the app "second class" when run on an iOS device? Phones running Firefox OS do have native apps running (e.g. the browser). Is Firefox OS doing the wrong thing by preventing users from installing native apps?

If it's A-okay when Mozilla does it, the same should be true when Apple does it.
>Whereas C was from the onset one of the fastest or THE fastest language on any machine.

You can't write performance critical code in C. C is great for high level code, but if performance is important there is no alternative to assembly.
> I do not believe the world wars happened due to inequality - so no, I'm not worried.

Do you not believe the earth is more than 4,000 years old and that we evolved from other forms of life eons ago as well?

Some things are already established as fact; not everything is an opinion, not all opinions are valid, and the ones you've stated are just flat-out contradictory with actual real data.
The shootout has been utterly ridiculous for quite a long time. I remember when the maintainer(s?) threw a fit when pypy devs tried getting python versions not relying on cpython tricks (which didn't bench well for pypy) even though multiple programs per language had not been an issue before. Then they ended up banning multiple implementations, but their implementation pick is completely arbitrary.
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Good call - trending towards less resources, a more optimized experience over less bloat would be an ideal direction for 'our' market.
In Denmark and Netherlands, they use almost the same letters than in English. In Japan, China and Russia, they use other scripts, so the names are more difficult to Google unless you use some kind of transliteration or nickname.

For example, there was a very important Russian mathematician Чебышёв, every book transliterates his name in a different way: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pafnuty_Chebyshev
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/netflix-goes-edge...
I got those as well. This appears to be completely unrelated to malleability.
I'm getting very tired of this. What's happened to ars and why do they seem so anti-android these days? Where's the FUD against windows phone or IOS?

Here's some perspective: Every time Apple releases a new OSX version, ars does a 20 page spread covering every tiny detail. This is an OS that is developed using a model very similar to Android, yet, the reception is totally different. I don't get it. Does Ars now employ shills?
Yep. But that was done on a time crunch or had to get it done times. So, I make note of things as I write such code wishing to fix them one day :D
You just had to go and look that up, didn't you?
As much as I am happy that my profession pays well, it is unreasonable to think everyone has the ability to do what we do. Adapting to skills beyond your domain is really hard, especially when you are aging.

Here's a scenario. Let's say that US loses it's energy supply (due to any fictional reason you can imagine). Who do you think is going to be in demand? No, no no kids...it's not going to be us programmers. The demand will be for the physically abled. The guys who can lift and ship without breaking too much sweat.

Different environment, different demands. We are just plain lucky to be in the workforce today and to have an interest (and aptitude) in tech stuff.

For society to function, everyone needs to have a reasonable chance at having the ability to live.
Unintended consequence #1: duplicated questions.

http://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/4021/numero-de-vezes-q...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21550842/amazon-cloudsear...

Corollary: answer "arbitrage" (translating existing answers for duplicated questions).
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> With the game loop, it's easy for me to just take milliseconds timestamps before and after each subroutine. For example, I can just time how long it takes for me to run (prepopulate-monsters).

Well, you can do the same here, for each actor's loop. With a single loop you're letting your hardware go to waste and limit your scalability.

> So then, I have to aggregate the loop running-times for every entity, or take a census of entities overrunning?

You can do both. Whatever makes sense for you.

> However, consistent game ticks are useful for various aspects of simulation and game AI.

Well it's a tradeoff. I think that given the current state of hardware, you need to use all your cores.

> A laudable goal, but what if one is prioritizing "never lag" over efficiency?

I don't think the two are mutually exclusive. How will you achieve "never lag" if your single thread can't perform all the computation in time?

> My game is to have some of the same "a-life simulation with a game attached" quality that Dwarf Fortress has.

Sounds like a perfect fit for the actor approach.

> To ensure that such calculation never interferes with player responsiveness, I was planning to put such background processing on an entirely different instance, then import the resulting evolved monster species into player instances. How would this be architected differently using actors?

Well, you could always still use a single-threaded loop and offload computation to actors. But a better way would be to split each entity to two actors. One for sending feedback to the player, and one for slow computation. If you want to ensure little interference, you can run the different kinds of actors in different Quasar schedulers, each using a different thread-pool, and control the number of threads in each of the pools. Quasar also supports distributed actors, so you can place the slow, computation-heavy ones on different machines, just as you have planned.
250ms is probably ok for RTSs and turn based games, but would not work for anything fast paced.
I wish this looked less like a Sky Mall item. If I had not found this via HN I would have thought this was a scam.
how do you deal with irresponsible press releases, like for example national ignition facility defining down "breakeven"?
fair enough. I suppose your view is a form of radical honesty. In my observations, it takes a particularly mature person to take public shaming in stride, and I tend not to credit most people with that level of maturity.
All those people apparently felt some sort of personal connection by the act, it was a very strange phenomenon. He had not cleared out his contacts in a decade! He had "reached out" to many past vendors, former colleagues, etc. They all want to "reconnect" and were emailing, messaging, etc. It was literally (in the correct use of the word), taking up a lot of his time with all the influx of emails and calls.
Apologies, my internal sense of time basically became just a long blur after my first child in 2009 :)

I take your point on sourcing.
>See, but what if I'm writing a little script using Bash to run on my server? Does it go in Unix? Or programming? Or serverfault?

That would depend on why help was needed--is it a problem with expressing a certain programming concept in Bash? or with portability across various Unixen? Or with the proper way to invoke some server managament program?

If someone genuinely doesn't know which stackexchange community has the most relevant expertise to help with a problem, there's a mechanism in place to handle that; just post a question somewhere and see if it gets migrated or closed as "belongs on xxx".
>Many four year college graduates today have more mathematics than a professor of mathematics had 100 years ago.

Is this actually true? Have there been many major advancements in math in the past 100 years?
Is one of the secrets HN upvote ring?
More likely a different three-letter agency: http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/2013/12/06...
Agree 100% with most of what you've said, but I know this bit to be false:

> ...you can normally get a pretty good feel for how your site will do under a load using "ab" (apache benchmark) from your local machine.

A single web server can easily out-serve the vast majority of internet connections you get at a home or office. I have 35 mbps down, 5 mbps up, and I can saturate my link (usually uplink) well before our web/app servers choke up.

If you're testing a VPS at a provider like DO, you can spin up the cheapest Droplet in the same datacenter, then use it to test. Run your benchmarks in one shell session, while keeping another open with iptraf running to make sure you're not running in to network overhead.

I know this sounds like overkill, and you qualified with "pretty good feel", which could very well mean "find out if your web server falls over at 10 concurrency", but it's always amazing to me how quickly bottlenecks creep in and muck up benchmarking results.
I love destructuring in coffeescript, it's one of the best additions ever made to js.
> why should we care about income inequality?

It's up to you what you care about. Some people find the arguments in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_Level:_Why_More_Equ... persuasive.

> The post WW2 area had less income inequality because the world economy had been torn apart.

If that was true, then as the economy recovered, income inequality would have increased. But it didn't, it continued to decrease in the USA and UK until about 1980, when it started rising again.

I feel that it is unlikely to be a coincidence that the trend changed around the same time Thatcher and Reagan were elected.

> We are now just going back to pre WW1 rates - ie basically reaching the point where we were before 2 world wars destroyed so much wealth.

There was a vast net increase in wealth between 1914 and 1945.
While it's a rather ancient vulnerability (654 days at the least, according to the references), the Metasploit module is new. Metasploit versions of exploits tends to raise the profile of bugs, so hopefully the vendors will pay attention and maybe even come up with a solution for not selling brand new phones with old OSes.

(FD: I worked on this module a wee bit)
Ha. We are experimenting with different covers right now. Thank you for the feedback.
This is what I was wondering. I live in an area that only had comcast an no other option. When I visit places it seems to be either Time Warner and Comcast but not usually both.
People have speculated that this is an attempt by some attacker to correlate ownership of older and newer addresses en masse. Some wallets give the user no control over which address(es) are used as the source for any given payment. When a tiny sum shows up in some old empty address still being tracked by the wallet, those coins will eventually be sent on automatically as part of a larger payment, alongside coins from one of the user's currently active addresses, and suddenly the common ownership of those two addresses becomes public record.
I made my wife a blog / marketing page for her business a few weeks ago as her 'early' valentines day present. The domain name was $13 or so, and using s3 (it's a static generated site) is basically free for how small it is. I decided not to pay 0.50/month for route53 apex support - www. is fine. No SSL.

I'm a backend programmer, but it was fun to learn bootstrap 3 and put something together, and run it through google pagespeed :-). It was a good week of effort, along with helping her learn markdown.
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Most Russian programmers I know speak enough English to get by in most situations. I can't speak for other countries though.
While what you say is true it does not change the fact that one of the main leverages used by Hitler was the economic inequality that the German public believed had been foisted upon them by the other European powers.

Regardless of how the Reich was built, or oriented politically, economic inequality (and nationalism) were a primary tool used to gain momentum.

You are totally correct that German leaders of business and holders of wealth were courted into the Reich. Many of them from Bayer to IG Farben benefited directly from the concentration camps.
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I have made more than one good decision choosing from the Random Picks list. For all I know they're not random and very calculated, but they seem to 'stretch' my taste.
You don't know anyone on Dating Ring dates - compared to Grouper, where you are going with a couple friends.

I have been on a few Dating Ring dates and I have found that the human input does help - it filters out people that make for truly horrible dates. Unfortunately, those horrible experiences are relatively common on platforms like Grouper and regular online dating.
The U.S. House of Representatives, driven by the GOP Tea Party faction, threatened to default on US debt payments last year. You didn't find that destabilizing?

Who is driving the Tea Party? I would contend economically disenfranchised (though, granted, not particularly young in a lot of cases) voters reacting to increasing economic polarization.

Do Tea Party rank-and-file see their grievances in those terms? Not when they're talking about guns rights and Obamacare perhaps. But get them talking about Wall Street and bank bailouts and it's a different story.
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The video he presents as evidence does exactly the opposite! That is the video we all point to when we say the whole interface was lifted from iPhone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1FJHY...

That is the exact old skool interface that was so terrible.

That is Android pre-iPhone.

His only argument is 'well look later, there's some touch too'. But that's even more damning as the touch was so badly designed and clunky.

Watch the whole thing if you want. Notice the use of right-click menus. Notice the zoom had to use buttons. The program switcher is lifted from Vista and looks nothing like what actually happened, which was a iPhone copied home button.

What the video shows is that Android had an interface and it was nothing like the one that came out 6 months later which was wholesale lifted from the iPhone.

Windows Mobile showed you didn't have to do it anything like Apple did, so why did android look so much like the iOS?
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Except Chrome increasingly doesn't implement the standard. For example, Adobe's recent CSS stuff isn't in, and instead an early version of the shadow DOM stuff which even Mozilla doesn't agree with is going in, on top of all the Chrome app API itself.

As I keep pointing out, you can literally implement something that presents the user a button and on pressing it downloads an apk, installs the package and runs the content in about 10 minutes. Can you do that with crx files in Chrome or Chromium without it triggering a nasty popup? Can your locally installed app then provide services to this other app we just downloaded without needing an intermediary server? If not, it's not as open as Android is.
If you're talking about how we resolve questions when the answer is (supposedly) known - we try to be pretty careful about what sources we tap and have a growing list of subject matter experts we reach out to to understand what may really be going on. We also have partnerships with IEEE, AAAS, and a few other professional societies who are helping both author forecasting questions and resolve questions. This is all a public/open effort so if anyone wanted to get involved themselves by posting forecast questions in addition to making predictions, they can do so.
Well, try it a few times and see if you can convince yourself :)

The evidence is different because there are different outcomes. For the two-tailed test the possible outcomes are: biased toward heads or tails, or not biased at all. For the one-tailed experiment, the outcomes are: biased toward heads, or not. Getting 5 tails in a row would be evidence in favor of the coin being biased, but not being biased toward heads.

Think of it this way: the two-tailed test is running 2 experiments at the same time (one for heads and one for tails) with the option of picking the one that gives you better results. So obviously the standard for significance has to be higher, because you're cherry-picking results. https://xkcd.com/882/
It is still a threat under the definition, but because he said "kindergarten" instead of naming a specific kindergarten I am saying it is protected speech under the 1st Amendment.

There are exceptions, but generally, it is not criminal to discuss committing a crime, in order to constitute a crime there usually needs to be a substantial step in furtherance of committing the crime.
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Just some complaining about JavaScript and CSS, move along.
The public telephone company here, "state owned", was de-regulated decades ago.

What was once a state of the art network, the first all-digital telephone system, is now worse than what they're deploying in Eastern Europe. Prices have never been higher for a service that should be cheaper.

How do they even charge for long-distance voice calls these days? It's borderline criminal.
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