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Macquarie Capital isn't little known here. They are famous for being able to extract maximum fees from public infrastructure. If they live up to past form [1,2], they will turn UTOPIA into a river of gold, and the source of that river will be the customers.

[1] http://www.smh.com.au/travel/blogs/travellers-check/the-true...

[2] http://www.smh.com.au/business/macquaries-sydney-airport-pla...
Nice; that's a much better version. It includes references, for one.

For those interested, here is a non-paywalled version of the Walker 2009 paper that describes the case study [1].

[1] http://www4.utsouthwestern.edu/cellbio/shay-wright/publicati...
Pushbullet has an iOS version too.
This certainly is the standard, but it seems quaintly out of date these days. The standard was developed at a time when putting a letter in an envelope constituted a reasonable expectation of privacy. Now the primary mode of communication is essentially assumed to be bugged.

Suggesting that the solution is to have every individual maintain their own private e-mail server, while certainly pragmatic, ignores the realities of modern communications.
I really dislike Windows, and use OS X and Linux entirely (and have for the past... hell, nearly 8 years now!) -- but Visual Studio is an amazing IDE. Like, really really good. VS.Php[0], Resharper... tonnes of amazing plugins so even other languages other than .Net are amazing in it.

Where I work, it's a 50/40/10% split between Windows, OS X and Linux as our DE's, though most of us run a Linux VM for the development server to run on. Makes life easier that way, and with Vagrant we're all running the exact same environment, despite differing opinions on how to do things!

[0] http://www.vsphp.com/
I think there is a bit of a disconnect here between the old guard of verification work and the avant-garde. Partly this is a difference of tools and terminology—current work in verification has a type-theory feel, and Floyd-style axiomatic semantics are out of vogue. It is also the role of old professors to slowly lose currency with the cutting edge of a field. I wouldn't think too much of Knuth's comments.
They're wrong about the defendant being the customer. The courts are becoming businesses that produce criminals and then sell them to a mix of private contractor prisons, debt collectors, and sweetheart deal service providers like the electronic monitors.

The defendants are the raw materials. They're being captured and sold to modern-day plantations. This statement gets less hyperbolic every year.
I'm not, in that at work I use a Mac. I write Java server code for web servers and batch data-analysis, deployed on Linux boxes. A significant portion of my time is spent either ssh'ed into a Linux machine, or using the various Unix utilities as well as git and mvn in the terminal.

My point, perhaps poorly stated, was this: I prefer a terminal-heavy development environment because that is the most efficient way of interacting with remote servers for the work that I do. I can't consider using Windows without a sense that they've made it a priority to address my use cases and scenarios, and the single lowest hanging fruit possible in that regard is to spend half a dev team (2-3 devs) on modernizing the terminal to the point where when I'm at home and want to check something on a server, I use my Windows desktop instead of switching to my Mac laptop. Even better would be dedicating one or two dev teams to supporting a Unix environment natively, so Cygwin isn't necessary.

For what it's worth, I much prefer the Windows GUI to either Mac or Linux. I was a test developer at Microsoft for Windows 7 and part of 8, and I wrote this comment on my home PC running Win7. I would like to be able to use Windows for the UI and the familiarity I have with it, but those two things, a good terminal and a Unix-like environment, are requirements for my job. And I know from experience that this scenario is absolutely the furthest thing from the minds of the people working on Windows.
A moderator tagged it as unsubstantive.
I'm pretty sure by now they've dropped the "Don't".
>But for the vast majority of the population (think "flyover states" and probably a good bit of the east coast) visiting anywhere in the bay area is just as good as the "real" san francisco.

Not really, no. If I said I visited SF, my grandfather from Florida would ask me what neighborhoods I visited and restaurants in SF I went to.
I've used Mac for 8 years (since the 1st gen Intel MacBook) but now I really want to run away. My current Mac is a server-level 2013 i7 Mac Mini with 8G RAM. It's not uncommon for me to run Mail, SubLime Text, IntelliJ IDEA and one or two VirtualBox guests on it, and then CPU goes high, the whole machine slows down, and fan produces loud noises. On the other hand, my ThinkPad running Windows 8.1 with a similar hardware spec can handle them smoothly. I agree Mac is more developer friendly than Windows, but doing daily developing work with cygwin/SubLime Text/IntelliJ IDEA is almost identical on both platforms. I admit I'll try installing Linux if I make the decision to switch to the ThinkPad as my main desktop.
He's very enthusiastic about sharing his tricks too. I spent the day hanging out with him at Troopers in March and we spent a lot of time discussing the structure of PDFs.

He's the one behind the file tricks in the journal of POC||GTFO - http://www.exploit-db.com/wp-content/themes/exploit/docs/poc...

In fact, he set a fun challenge - can you produce a PDF file that is different every time it's opened? e.g. a bingo card generator.

The back of his business cards have cut down introductions versions of his posters, so everyone takes something away from meeting him. It's fun watching people decide which one they want.
You are completely forgetting that if the parent organism has extra copies so do all the children.

Compare 2^100 vs 3^100:

2^100: 1267650600228229401496703205376
3^100: 515377520732011331036461129765621272702107522001
How Can Social Media Add Value to Cold Calling
Major funding for FRONTLINE’s broadcast season is provided by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

I do not believe that those grants are completely without perks for the big doners.

That said- I don't think MS is the most interesting story here. Google has earned their reputation with Eric Schmidt's cavilier attitude and hypocrisy.
Along these lines, can someone ask whether net neutrality ever existed at all? Akamai and F5 have been helping big corporations like Disney circumvent internet bottlenecks for over a decade now. Those who have had the money have managed to purchase faster delivery schemes for over a decade.
Could it be, then, that telecommunications companies are consolidating so that they can extort money not from the small guys, but from the big guys? Are Hulu, Netflix and others willingly submitting to the extortion because they see no other way out?
To be sure, the telecommunications industry is in desperate need of regulation because providing good service at a reasonable price for a reasonable profit is not good enough for them.
By most reports this bill was watered down on the express meddling of the White house.

This is very unfortunate in that Senator Obama had clearly promised in his pre-election speeches to explicitly push for what this bill was (somewhat) trying to do.
Watch this point-by-point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vixVPE4LBAU#!

Now that he is in a position to do so, President Obama is fighting tooth-and-nail to make this a toothless(!) bill.

Why?
Looking at the word "al-jabr", part of me wonders if this might've been the lexical root that inspired Frank Herbert to name his mystical device "The Gom Jabbar" in his novel, Dune.

Meanwhile, in an effort to stay on-topic, and not get distracted by so much navel gazing...

From the article:

Mobile penetration is over 120% — meaning many people have more than one device.

Pure speculation on my part, but might this be due to a trend in keeping burner phones, in order to avoid a heavy-handed state-sponsored surveillance apparatus?
Why not get a new MBP if you want a work horse notebook. Yes im sure you can give me reasons but you should at least compare apples with apples.
yes its kind of funny he condemns the government for murdering children and adults etc and then praises a guy who did the same thing. this would have been a piece of art without that.
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Apple is really good at delivering a "sane defaults" desktop.

It is not, by definition, an "optimal for task" desktop.

I've used OS X off and on for much of the past decade. It's not a serious productivity platform.
Ask HN:  A delete button for the web.
I go to many websites, some of these sites I go to daily and I have to re-scan the same content for new information, its frustrating. My email client has a delete button, I just push the delete button once I've finished reading and its gone. I want the same thing for websites, like a buffer button, click it and I will never see that article link again. If I'm searching real estate, once I've checked a property I want to be able to press a delete button and not see that content again. Maybe websites could hook into this data and serve me new content. Maybe my workflow is just plain wrong.
Netflix to launch in 6 new European markets
Commute to work 3x week on a bicycle. Long rides on weekends. Lifting 1x / week.

Working on my diet as well, even though I'm already fairly lean. Trying to cut out all processed crap and just stick to real foods - paleo-ish diet.
It reads like a an unbelievable chapter from Orwell's 1984, and it occurred in the United States of America, the oft stated bastion of democracy.

At every possible opportunity resistance was stymied, with the presumption that the will to resist would eventually collapse.

They lost because they never once contemplated the possibility of you being willing to shut down your business because of your principles, something they couldn't fathom or conceive of, since such a concept is anathema to their wholly illegal and unconstitutional activities.
Amazon keeps blowing me away with the speed of new feature introductions and the breadth of their cloud platform.

I really hope that Rackspace and other players figure out how to make an open standards version of Amazon's platform, or else we are all basically going to be locked into Amazon for the foreseeable future.

Once you get hooked into all these awesome features, its hard to migrate to another provider.
My friend and I have been working on something similar for a while (for Android + Windows): http://triggrapp.com
Inmates’ Newspaper Covers a World Behind San Quentin’s Walls
Think about it from the perspective of genetic material temporarily 'trapped' in the body like passengers on a boat. All else being equal, a new boat is better than an old boat. And, a new body is better than an old body (even if all the error correction machinery is there and fully working, a 26 year-old body has an advantage over a 46 year-old one, or an 86 year-old one). After the genetic material has been transferred to a new body, via reproduction, i.e. the passengers have been transferred to the new boat, what purpose does the old boat serve other than to consume resources that could be used by the new one?

I think there is a case to be made that death gives organisms, that is to say it gives genetic material (which is the important bit, not the organism which is a mere vessel for the genes) an evolutionary advantage.
No. Never tried it.
I don't believe that is exactly correct. Both OS X and iOS are based on the BSD kernel, but I don't think iOS was 'derived' from OS X.
The idea that competing governments, financial institutions, telecommunications and energy companies, etc use the same software – when it’s proven that there is no such thing as real security – is ludicrous. Perhaps Microsoft’s next big profit will be through developing unique software for single government and corporate entities with connectivity for general information but totally secure for trade and government secrets and personal identification.
"pragmatic reader" Thank you for this, this is the type of comments I miss from hackernews. People never used to take everything at face value, there was extra rational analyses and everyone debated around these issues. The whole Snowden affair has turned hackernews into an irrational and one sided debate and people often turning a blind eye to valid comments against their stance.
This is wrong It can absolutely happen, and does fairly often. I know plenty of people in research and academia who have been affected by cutbacks. Maybe we should be spreading those cost saving efforts around more than we are currently.
I'm in a similar situation. My new job is an all-mac shop, which is funny because we are mostly writing software for Linux boxes out in the Internet. I didn't mind though, because they bought me about $5,200 worth of mac equipment to keep. I've been using BSD and then later Linux since 1999, and that was about the last time I used a mac, OS 7. I was expecting to somewhat dislike it, but they do Clojure and I wanted to go that way. I really have enjoyed the change though, and even bought an iPhone.
Favoritism, not hostility, causes most discrimination
Ask HN: Customer Experience Challenges – Telecom
Hi HN,

What according to you all are the customer experience challenges plaguing the telecom sector? Simply put, what are the challenges you are facing while using using phone or broadband.

It can be something small like a consolidated bill for all your connections or detailed usage breakup etc.

PS: If any telco experts or customer challenges present here, please do mention some challenges for which there isnt a ready product/solution available in the market.

Need the data for a project.

Thanks,
Ryan
> Knuth accused me quite harshly (IMO) to be some kind of Stallman fan talking nonsense about licenses and did not acknowledge the bug.

Strange. Knuth appears to be a significant GNU supporter: http://www.gnu.org/thankgnus/2014supporters.html
Plenty of people moved from Linux and BSD to OSX for a wide variety of reasons, especially for laptops. I'd consider a non-mac workstation for serious desktop use, and OSX for servers is essentially insane (I actually have one mini in colo though, in addition to linux and freebsd servers). I've been using Unix OSes since ~1990, and a laptop since mid 1990s running Linux and FreeBSD.

90% of what I do is in terminal and in a web browser. Sublime Text gets a lot of the rest. But I still want Photoshop/Lightroom, Keynote, etc.

I generally use local VMs (I find VMware Fusion to be better than e.g. VirtualBox), but also use MacPorts. I wish I could get 32-64GB in a Mac laptop, though.
But that's total nonsense. Taking the model you describe, where everyone has two children, look at two scenarios:

1. You, and only you, have a magically extended life, such that if you choose you can reproduce at any point.

In scenario (1), every generation after you represents one copy of your genes. When you have a third child in the fifth generation, the world goes from one additional copy of you to 1.5 copies, a 50% increase.

2. You, and all of your descendants, never die.

In scenario (2), every generation after you is still one full copy of your genes, but they add up over time because they never die. When you have an extra child in the fifth generation, the number of copies of your genes (again, not counting you) goes from 5 to 5.5, a 10% increase. That's still hugely significant.

Let's imagine a third scenario:

3. Your genes are so massively successful that people in your family line have three children, not two children. But except for you, they die like normal.

In scenario (3), after 5 generations your 243 generation-5 descendants represent 7.6 copies of your genes. An extra child at this point would increase your representation to 8.1, a 6.6% increase.

The mistake you appear to be making is in not realizing that the exponential increase in your descendants is offset by an exponential decay in how related they are to you. Another child, at any point, is hugely valuable, because your child is 16 times more strongly related to you than your great-great-great-grandchild.
FWIW serving libraries from CDN cache buys you and your users and the whole of the internet bandwidth and electricity.
I'm trying to figure out how to measure performance here. Both Chrome and Firefox seem to take about the same wall-clock time to go through 5000 examples. Should I be waiting longer? Measuring something else?
Lets think about this for a moment. Is it a legitimate action to pretend to be another party and to damage their brand? What if I take to the streets to pretend to be you, to damage the brand of your start up? What if I defame minorities, release foolish and buggy products, and plaster the pseudo-wares with racist pronouncements? Is it enough for me to say that I disagree with you, and that my intentions are parody, for such action to be pardonable?

I don't think pretending to be another entity should ever be permissible. The integrity of communications should not be compromised. Nor is that the intention of the parody-based fair use principles in IP law. The intention of the parody exception to liability is to give artists an opportunity to make fun of the high and mighty. Not to pretend to be them.

If we allow fraudulent messaging to come under the umbrella of parody protection, then this same exception will be abused by parties to malign their competitors. It will be difficult for consumers to know or trust the source of messaging, goods, or services.

It is no excuse to say no goods or services were actually produced, because to advertise a shitty bundle of goods in the name of another is enough to cast doubt on the good sense of that other.

A proper parody makes no pretense of its source. It proudly proclaims itself a form of protest. It doesn't dissemble and try to corrupt the flow of information/communication in commerce.
Distractions in the form of irrelevant minutia from concern trolls about problems that don't exist and questions that have already been asked and answered a thousand times, are the enemy of clear thinking and efficient discussion.

And, it's not dogma. Show me the evidence that vaccines cause autism or are contraindicated for any other reason and I will engage it.
That'd seriously put logging startups in a tough position, but I guess processing the logs is still the main differentiator which you must do by hand on S3.
YC application asked: tell us something surprising that you discovered.
At school, they told me: work hard now, and you'll go further & suffer less. I discovered there's an exception to the rule: Big surf hold-downs & xtreme freediving. If you follow that advice & your at your edge, that sh*t will literally get you killed, & you should do the absolutely 180 degrees opposite if you care to survive.
Nice post, just goes to show the value of properly validating uploads!
You think that people that work in the intelligence industrial complex don't use information they are privileged to for their own economic advantage? Heck, even members of congress are allowed to buy and sell stocks in companies even when there are conflicts of interest.

It may not be as direct as "I'll sell you 10k files from your main foreign competitor", but just because its done at arms length in the US doesn't make it any less corrupt.
It is not required to disguise yourself as another to make people think.

Parodies in the past did not depend on fooling people as to the source of words. It is enough to conjure up a thought of the parties parodied, through use of similar symbols/words/methods. One doesn't have to actually pretend to be them in an exact way for parody to hit its mark. Nor in the past have I seen great parodies do this.
I was once asked in a deposition if, in my opinion, was Wikipedia an authoritative source. Which I replied, "No, it is not." When asked how I came to that conclusion, I cited the 'birthday incident' and how Wikipedia rigidly held on to a non-fact as fact given its process. This really annoyed the opposing counsel who had submitted a number of Wikipedia pages as exhibits in support of their case.

I could not imagine that someone who was being paid top dollar for their services wouldn't do their own research. Wikipedia is a great place to get pointers to where people have found things but other than that, one really has to be careful acting on or drawing conclusions from the information it contains on any given day.
Drop by Boulder sometime...
Sounds like something to use Kinesis[1] for. Read the kinesis stream, process the updates and write/rewrite the S3 file.

1 - https://aws.amazon.com/kinesis/
How many MS fanboys do you think there are on HN? If there were any considerable, this MS pro post like any other wouldn't get flagged off from the frontpage in less than 8 hours.

>why don't you go ahead and regurgitate a Microsoft market phrase since that apparently trumps actual facts.

What facts are your referring to? That iOS dominates the enterprise world? It may but its rarely work related, my gf and her colleagues got awarded an iPad from work (she is not a techie), the most she does is email some documents and maybe make minor excel modifications. Its shouldn't take a genius to figure out that the current versions of tablets are anything but a productivity tool. I am not going to say Surface dominates the enterprise market but more realistically no tablet dominates it yet. However on a wild guess, I believe a hybrid version of any OS on a tablet would be the future.
When you provide him with great education, there is high probability that he realizes his father's wishes and aspires to fulfill them. Im just guessing he would be smart enough to understand his father.
> this question from someone who knows very little about both

Then I'm not sure anyone can answer this adequately without also explaining both.

But the shortest answer is that they're totally unlike each other in almost every way.
Introducing Cornerstore
elm was my daily-use email client at work twelve years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elm_(email_client)
Haven't had any luck connecting either. It seems like I can only connect to the iPhone if I have Personal Hotspot turned on. Even when turning it on, Notifyr still doesn't find the device.
I cannot remember the name of it, but I definitely read a post somewhere about a company X that does this as a service. In short, company A who you have an existing account with shares your info with X, who saves it to a cookie. Company B which you visited does the same. Both of them can ask X for info about a site visitor by virtue of the sharing policy...

I find the idea pretty disgusting.
It's also better on account of being accessible to a wider audience. I'd wager far more users know what a QR code is than abrt, kdump etc. If there's just a cursory error message and a QR code with dump nearly everyone can submit helpful bug reports.
Why is kermitdance's reply to this post dead now?
Ask SA: How come HN doesn't use Google Analytics?
If you look at the source code for HN, there is no Google Analytics code or anything related. Do you guys do any analytics for HN?
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Correct, but we have not added this feature yet.
Why are we working on this?
Leave it to internet companies to turn a fun day with small hidden easter eggs into a day of cringeworthy bad jokes plastered all over the web.

Ten aprils fools. That's ten days. It took ten days to run a perfectly fun day into a day where a lot of people would rather stay to listen to Rush Limbaugh read the phonebook than go on any website, at any point of the day.

I think it's inherently impossible for an megaentity existing purely for monetary gain to seem lighthearted and human. I wish they'd stop trying.