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>And I thought boycotts were supposed to be the free-market way of changing company policy.

Boycotts are what shrill activists on the losing side engage with. The free-market way to change company policy is to start a new company and make new policy. Doing otherwise is just trying to leech off of the success of other, stronger people.

>Not supporting *BSD themselves is one thing, but systemd explicitly refuses patches to make it more portable.

This is exactly what OpenBSD is doing with LibreSSL, so excuse me if I don't listen to the pot calling the kettle black.

The fact of the matter is that Linux won. Systemd won. Alternatives had every chance to make themselves successful, but they lost, and they have nobody to blame for that but themselves.
Oh wow, I am so sorry. I don't really want to imagine what would have happened if I had been bullied for that long..

Indeed, I was made fun of for maybe 10 minutes; and it completely changed me. Back in 2005, last day of school (8th grade), many of us had gathered in a park in order to hang out and just spend time together before the start of the summer holidays. And then, the girl I had a crush on for the past two years, approached me with 3-4 other friends of her. She told me that she really liked me. It felt so thrilling and exciting and I was so happy and I told her that I liked her as well...

And then they left, and met up with a group of another ~30 people or so, maybe a 100 meters away. They all started laughing.. I felt so empty, I wanted to disappear, when one of them came to tell me "Oh by the way it was a joke that she likes you".

That summer I started playing MMORPGs, did not go to the beach once, just stayed home. Indeed, I spent the rest of high school pretty much isolated (although luckily eventually I replaced MMORPGs with actually studying). Whenever a girl showed interest in me, I immediately avoided her as much as possible, since I thought she just wanted to make fun of me. And it took 8 years, maybe a bit longer, until I started trusting people again.

So, why did I write all of this? Partially, because it came into memory after reading this thread. But more importantly, I am really scared by the fact, that the bullying I experienced was so so minor compared to the other stories here; yet it affected me so fundamentally.
Right, so why would you want to waste good wine when everything tastes great? From experience, the more intoxicated I get, the lower my capacity for actually enjoying what I'm drinking is. The best time for tasting is your very first drink, all downhill from there.
That is what I am saying. If you want someone to work from tomorrow, then you look for people whose notice period is ending tomorrow or has already ended. You can no longer poach employees.

Did you want to say something else? Could you please explain further?
Not really useful when so many geolocated images are so random. I don't necessarily want to see people's selfies or food pictures if I'm trying to see pics from a certain location.
"Can you imagine any other industry where the people doing most of the work aren't compensated financially and conglomerates make most of the profit."

http://www.debeers.com/
The world's smallest magazine cover is 2,000 times smaller than a grain of salt
i.e. people are just using instagram more, and this counts as DAU.
In a way this is kind of a workaround to the original Color app idea right? Not exactly the same, but color wanted you do be able to see photos of other people around you that weren't your friends, kind of the same concept, which is cool.
"Because our business model is to get bought, not becoming profitable."
My assumption is that FB bought Whatsapp for its attach business AKA for its data minning opportunity. I bet they won't throw ads in there, but rest assure that if you're talking vacations with your group "Family", you'll see a suggestion around that via Facebook site/mobile, and so will the rest of your family.
Right I am saying strategically they should have figured out a way to skip all that and just get people using the platform for rss first
In theory, sure. In practice, all that stuff adds up very quickly.

Let's assume you have ~500 friends. Assume each of those friends posts at least once a day. That's 500 posts per day that you'd need to sift through, in chronological order. There's no way most people would be able to do that, maintaining a clear mental backlog day in and day out, and consistently find the comments they like. This would be a serious needle-in-the-haystack problem. The brute force of one's time, reading speed, and strength of intent might be able to solve it for maybe a few days before giving up.

And those numbers are simplistic estimates. If anything, they are spectacularly conservative.

I'm not suggesting that FB's methods always get things right. There's a LOT of room for improvement. But some automated sorting process is better than its complete absence, as much as we'd like to think it's not. Most people can't process as much information as comes through a typical news feed on a typical week.

Now, what about email? Isn't that similar? Don't some of us, especially in busy offices, get hundreds of emails a day and manage just fine? Sure. The difference is that most email is pre-"selected" for us, on account of the sender's intent that we read it. We're not just being bombarded by every stray thought that occurs to senders. We're not being cc'ed on all the email our contacts send. A completely unsorted Facebook newsfeed would be a bit like getting cc'ed on every email sent by your network, every day.
This was a great post. I enjoyed the book, and it's always interesting to hear about a writer's process. Everyone tackles the big challenge in a different way.

The only detail I disagree with is the one about telling your friends and family what you're doing as a way to keep motivated. A few years ago I read a paper about the psychological effects of talking about goals. [0]

The takeaway was that, for most people, sharing a goal provides a sense of satisfaction and self-validation. While it is pleasing, the sensation makes us significantly less likely to accomplish goals such as writing books, losing weight, etc.

Again, I enjoyed the post very much and don't mean to nitpick. I just think this is another interesting perspective to consider when you're setting out to tackle a big goal.

[0] Unfortunately, my memory is failing me, but if anyone knows of the paper - or an article or paper along these lines - please feel free to contribute.
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They can degrade into monopolies when competition is low. It's the whole basis of the antitrust laws for example. Or you think such regulation is not needed?

I don't know. Is it? I can believe that some markets degrade into monopolies when competition is low. But all of those have been regulated markets, because as I've wrote, regulation is pervasive. I'm not convinced that we know what actually happens in unregulated markets.

No regulations means "let's trust these companies, they won't turn into thugs" and "invisible hand of the market will correct things". It doesn't work that way in practice.

How do you know? That's why I asked: can you give me one example of an unregulated market?
Find a way to make the deal work for him so he wins instead of loses. Don't take his employees. Don't charge him. Give him generous advisor shares. Make him want to help you raise money and build the idea.
I'm okay with people believing G+ is dead if they want to.

But this is a news article concluding G+ is dead, based on stated arguments.

Except the arguments are lousy.

Lousy journalism is bad for everyone.
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"Daily Active Users (DAUs). We define a daily active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or took an action to share content or activity with his or her Facebook friends or connections via a third-party website or app that is integrated with Facebook, on a given day. We view DAUs, and DAUs as a percentage of MAUs, as measures of user engagement."

instagram and other sites that use Facebook login count for DAU.

So is Facebook becoming more addictive or just more integrated.
Selling ads isn't cool.

You know what's cool?

Giving your user info to Facebook to mine and monetize.
It's more of an acquired taste than people give it credit for.
If you care about the time you spend online, you owe it to yourself to start actively installing and using programs that take the addictiveness out of content. F.B.Purify is a good start for Facebook users.
The whole WhatsApp acquisition touches on some of the same personal nerves that Google's acquisition of EtherPad did. It was a really great product that I used daily. At the time Google had big plans for their Wave product, and the entire deal seemed to make sense. Fast forward a few months and Wave is a dud and EtherPad is no more.

I'm not saying that WhatsApp won't be useful to Facebook, but I do think that the philosophy and goal of the two companies are very different. Ads is one potential "technology" that could monetise the product and it's obviously against the founders' philosophy. There will however probably be many other (more subtle) influences from Facebook's side that'll slowly shift it away from the original vision - and promises to users. That's life I guess: take the cash or keep you vision.
I don't see it that way. After selling to FB it became clear that hey intended to launch VoIP. If they actually wanted to launch a high-quality product, better voice service than the one offered by carriers (and therefore much better than what Viber has to offer), they would probably have struggled to do it without the help of FB. Every carrier on earth would be against them.
Yeah, there are definitely similarities to what Color was trying to do. Originally I made the app to only see photos close by, but realized most users wanted to see other places.

It also uses Instagram photos so there's already a ton of useful content, unlike Color's approach.
> hyperbolic, accusatory, narrow-minded, stubborn and often rude

Plus:

> fight fire with fire

Seriosly.
If you are using a site-signed cert and giving intended visitors a corresponding browser cert (being your own CA), and turn on HSTS, I assume the non-bypassable warning page would not be triggered, and the author's reference to "self-signed certs" is an inaccurate shorthand for "site certs the browser doesn't trust a CA for". (If this interpretation is wrong, HSTS would prevent a secure connection in this scenario.)

And if your server is rewriting URLs instead of using 301, then clients are not vulnerable to the redirect loophole and HSTS gives no benefit in that respect?
That's because low quality sites were the only ones that would run the kind of ads we had back then. Then someone built an ad blocker and forced the industry to rethink its approach.
This is simply the cable tv model applied to internet services. Cable went from pay to avoid ads to pay and still get ads (and of course there is Hulu). These guys just figured out how to double dip in a really subtle way.
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Lawful intercept could be added without routing all traffic to their nodes. Perhaps MS correctly realised that offering a service which uses arbitrary amounts of computing and bandwidth from users is a crappy thing to do and not in-line with an MS offering?
Yes, but obviously unrelated to Asperger's or any similar behavior.
The more things change, the more they stay the same...

It seems people always have a tendency to worship something, to let the means become the end or what is supposed to be their servant become their master.

TDD is a tool to ensure software quality. If TDD works for you then great. If you can achieve the same results with another method it's just as great. But I find the religion wars over it quite silly.
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Not in our lifetime. Cryptocurrencies will just be another bolt on and thing we need to integrate. The upshot is that the banks probably won't manage this. The downside is that the banks probably won't manage this.
Instagram does not count as DAU - Read the first page of this filing: http://investor.fb.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1326801-13-31&...
Your parent literally said "most people," i.e. one example is not enough.

And I have to agree. There's a reason the idiom "every man has his price" exists. Certainly, if a large company offered me billions of dollars for a small business of my own, there are relatively few scenarios I can imagine where I'd turn it down.
You want your date to get drunk.
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Not necessarily, you'd be surprised just how hardy both the yeast granules (really sporulated yeast) and ADH can be. I've actually done some research in this area (for unrelated reasons) but here's the a "must read" paper from 1975 if you're curious: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1165444/
RAINT-1, to be exact.
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You might want to try posting this question on specialist electronics subreddits and forums like r/electronics, r/rfelectronics, r/electronic_circuits/, r/hwstartups and r/hardware. So I guess my advice would be to treat it like a numbers' game :). There's bound to be someone out there who can help you.
Thanks a lot!

Yes, it is a native ios app. For animations I used https://github.com/zrxq/UIView-EasingFunctions/

For animations, it's very important to use the right easing function to make it fit the feeling you want to evoke.

For instance, I used a keyframe animation for the login modal when you close it to not log in. It evokes a feeling of disappointment because it awkwardly swings down because you are not logging in :)
Yes this is more like a fee or small tax on the bad behavior.

"Bob make sure to budget in 300m for the anti-poaching agreements and get those out to the teams and companies. Run it by the senators + lobbyists so we can get that paid and proceed. We don't want anyone that helped us helping themselves or anyone else in the future." -- said the feudal kings stopping engineers and innovation.
Well, at least one of the CEOs is dead.
for $50 less you can get a motorized one including a nice top https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2036834894/the-most-aff...
I'm sorry but you are incredibly misinformed. As someone that has sold sponsored posts for a very long time with some of the biggest websites on the internet, I can confirm to you that it is happening at a much larger scale than you can ever imagine. For those that know, this story is not really news and has been going on for several years. Google has indeed been fighting spam and has done a decent job at it but in many cases the smaller sites are the ones affected the most and the big name sites get away with it.

"We don't know if these tactics are even working." They are working. Google is catching up but it's still FAR from being ahead in fighting these blackhat SEO practices. What you mean is that Google WON'T be saying "these guys are right, we favor big sites" but the reality is they do.

I made a fairly large comment on here with the last report. Many of the comments said "show me proof!" which then I came along and did just that. Matt Cutts reached out to me shortly after and I forwarded over emails received from Expedia. The funny thing is, a few weeks after that I STILL got emails from Expedia BUT it wasn't from Expedia.com. "Only Expedia.com was affected so we're still going to sell links for Expedia.co.uk". It amazes me sometimes how blind everyone is about this.
In 2014, everyone who uses https should enable PFS (ECDHE) and HSTS, at the very least.
You make it sound as though there's some reason to worry about getting involved in a land war in Asia.
Yeah. I noticed that paypal.com has a max-age of 4 hours.
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I participate on Disqus, but only on economics and tech blogs. Effectively, I've compartmentalized my Disqus identity to a particular persona (not much different to my HN one).

I don't comment on any website using Facebook. Actually, I have FB completely blocked in my primary browser, so I never even see any assets served up by facebook.com or fbcdn.net etc. If there is a Facebook comment section, I don't see it.

It's a matter of identity and overlaps in facades.

In real life I behave differently in business meetings, in pub chats with coworkers and other people in the industry, at college friend meetups, at secondary school friend meetups, at family meetups. I'm effectively different people with different shared culture for all these people. Comments I make in one context will not translate, and in some cases may even offend, in one of the other contexts because it will rely on the culture shared with that group - especially when the culture was created when I was much younger.

This is why wider web Facebook identity is abhorrent to me, just as much or almost more so than Google+ unified identity. The straw that broke the back of Google+ for me was Youtube comments. When I couldn't leave a comment on a silly cat video without wondering if it was showing up to my business contacts, I deleted my Google+ profile so that I could break the link with my YT account. I couldn't find any other way to break the link, and Google+'s benefits, such as they are, weigh so little with me that I would, and have, give them up in a heartbeat in order to be able to make another pseudonymous comment on YT.

So the question to me is more subtle than non-mandatory Google+ integration meaning Google+ is dead. Non-integration of Google+ with YT is all positive, as far as I'm concerned. And more deeply, for people who live more of their lives online (rather than especially older relatives who mostly use the internet to keep in contact with family and close friends), the idea of a single unified identity for the internet is fundamentally a non-starter. So any move from Google to make it non-mandatory is actually the only workable way forward.
Cool! Does this use the Flickr API?
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Sure.

I suppose part of the problem is that we talk about privacy, when really it's publicity that has changed. The situation where basically every individual can create recordings and publish them to the entire world is actually somewhat novel. We reach for analogies about privacy, but really we need to think about what sort of rights people have to their own publicity.
Reminds me of call/cc, which amuses me since that's the only (major) feature of Scheme I hadn't yet seen anyone calling for in Javascript (eg. there are plenty, including me, who want tail-call optimisation; I've seen pre-compilers implementing hygenic macros, libraries implementing numeric towers, etc.).
I like bragging about bugs I should have fixed in the first place too. Condescending tone helps.
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Is this the worst corporate tweet ever?
As a bullying victim, I concur that ignoring the bullies does not work.

In my case I switched schools (bullying continued, probably because of my personality), and things didn't improve until my last year of school, when I switched schools again.
Title could not be worse. Netflix will not be a channel. You need a Netflix subscription and a TiVo. This deal is only working around some bizarre business constraints around streaming video.

The only interesting part here is watching Netflix "without switching remotes or inputs", which frankly is a sign of how desperate cable providers are to keep subscribers locked in to their STB model.
I don't enjoy being high anymore. The ritual is still pretty fun though, and for me hooka bars fill some of that void.
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He may want to have a conversation with his parents, explain something to them, or just share his point of view without "wanting their approval"
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It's a moment like "and then"
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If you are a vegetarian and you are told to go to a butcher to buy meat, you shouldn't do it out of principle.

When you are WhatsApp and you are against advertising - referencing a quote with great aversion towards it - you shouldn't accept billions from a company who is build on the single premise of advertising.

They have lost all my trust.
Realistically:

(a) It threw a small but vocal corner of the internet into an uproar. Now many, many of those people were smart and had really thought about the issue and the problems it would cause, but the sad truth is that a vast majority of people really didn't care.

(b) Pretty much anything throws a small but vocal corner of the internet into an uproar.
As someone who has built an MP3 player with the RPi, I can tell you that the RPi is NOT made to run of a battery.

http://pepijndevos.nl/2013/11/21/raspberry-pi-mp3-player.htm...

The 2200Mah battery will only last a couple of hours.
I had been wondering if writing a book on GitHub in markdown was a legitimate idea or just based on my inexperience with other writing tools. I still don't know, but the author's work has convinced me that's how I want to do my next writing project.
I deleted my whole G+ account just so I could make an anonymous YT comment.

FWIW.
My friends and I have found the level of drunkenness really all depends on how quickly you drink your first 2-3 drinks. We're Australian, I like to think we've had some practice.

If you drink them down fast, you'll get a buzz, and feel quite drunk after not many more. No matter what you do for the rest of the night, you'll be more drunk than usual for the number of drinks you've had.

If you drink the first 2-3 drinks slowly, you'll have one of those nights where you're not as drunk as you normally would be for the number of drinks you've had. Sure, if you drink a ton, you'll be drunk, but you won't be "wasted".

Tip: If you ever find yourself in some kind of drinking contest, have two beer before the contest even starts, but take 30-45 minutes to drink each beer. You won't be nearly as drunk later on.
In Safari one can delete ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist
Your "except" doesn't actually contradict what you're responding to.
Not sure exactly how your app works but maybe you can use the API to check for tags on each photo you load. If any tag contains some word that would relate to food, then just don't load/display it.
If Facebook was using missiles in their airplanes instead of wifi, you might have a point.
This site and I share a very strong link.

Apparently neither of us consider PHP to be programming.
> My theory would be the cost in terms of space and electricity to generate 10Gbe of video streams has dropped orders of magnitude

Spot on.

You can stream video with basically nginx serving static files, you just need a 10G network card with TSO.

the CPU power needed is an order of magnitude lower than what you need to run full stack server side frameworks.

Just make sure the content fits in your page cache (RAM is cheap), and you will fill the pipe.

In the upcoming month, you will be able to do this with an ARM SOC sitting on a 10cm^2 board, for 5W TDP.
Thus far, he's led his nation effectively, and for the most part done a good job of looking out for the interests of his people. One may respect the skill he has thus demonstrated, without approving of every policy he's enacted in so doing.

The alternative, I suppose, would be to declare Putin the Enemy, complete with majuscule -- whether of one's nation, or of some nebulous progressive concept of social justice, or whatever you like -- and thenceforth reflexively despise the man and his policies at the very least, if not also the nation he so effectively governs, until such time as he should conform his behavior more closely to whatever constraints one might define.

I suppose that's all right for some, but I prefer to keep an open mind. Isn't that something people regard as a virtue around here?