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Brilliantly impressive. Especially considering they're operating out of an old McDonalds on the NASA Ames campus.
Twitch spacecraft anyone?
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Different. Not better. Each has their strengths and weaknesses. Mojo has websockets, catalyst has excellent backwards compatibility, proven scalability and works well with large teams of developers. Although catalyst has more dependencies, but that comes with the featureset.

As for quick prototyping, they're both good for that once you know how to use them, and they both have excellent docs, although catalyst has been around for longer and has more deployments and realworld examples, which is always good.

Overall though, they're both constantly being improved, and competition is healthy, and it all depends in what you want, websockets, extra rapid prototyping and no deps, or reliability, support, large feature set, excellent scalability and a proven track record both in production and during development ;)
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To add to this, it's not just Canada either. Here in Portugal we have what we call Ordens, not just for engineers but for physicians, lawyers, and other professions. The title of Engineer is also reserved for members of the Ordem, but you only need a degree from an accredited institution.[0] While this does not have much of a legal implication for software engineering, civil engineering projects can only be signed off by members of the Ordem, given the nature of the field.

[0] Lawyers, on the other hand, undergo very extensive examination, and they can only practice law if they are members of the Ordem.
Anyone interested in details of LibreSSL development can watch the BSDCan talk at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM6S7FEUfkU - there really are a LOT of instances of braindamaged code in OpenSSL and a radical repair is pretty much the only thing which will work.
so according to your username and that wiki page, you are therefore her half-brother ben tilly. your mother is patricia, your father is john ward, and you are from british columbia, specifically texada island.

honestly, i'm not really sure why you would post identifying information on the internet.

edit: just checked your profile. hey ben!
As much as I enjoy reading Terry's posts, I think he's better left an open secret. He's like a Hacker News Easter egg.

Besides, if he is unbanned, I'm afraid every thread he posts in will have a junk subthread with posters berating him or re-explaining the situation.
Any solution that allows for FTL transfer of information violates causality, at least according to relativity. If you can transmit information over entangled photons instantaneously, you can use the time dilation effects of relativity to send information back in time to yourself.
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So I guess an analogy for this move would be like if Google announced Gmail was going ad-free for freeloaders because their Google Apps platform was now their sole money-spinner. Though, I imagine, vastly different cost structure and conversion rates.

I find it hard to be too cynical when OpenDNS were one of the few companies to give DNSCurve a whirl.
I love the Girl Scouts logo. Very unique and clever.
That isn't my issue. My issue is that this isn't about forgiving or not forgiving a person. I don't have a personal grudge against, say, people who post cat memes, but I still believe somebody who persists in doing so should be banned. This isn't because of my hatred of them as a person; it's because they routinely post crap that is not welcome here.

Terry posts stuff that is very much not welcome here and is offensive, but that doesn't mean I hate him or anything. But I still think he should remain hellbanned, because although I may not have anything against Terry himself, his backstory doesn't make the actual racist and otherwise nonsensical content more permissible.

For this reason, I voted to keep the account hellbanned. He can keep posting in his hellbanned state without junking up the site at large, and those who wish to see his dead comments can opt to see them. This is as it should be.
Ask HN: How do you define KPIs for a Customer Satisfaction person for a startup?
Do you have a Customer Satisfaction 'person' / Community Manager in a startup? Or even better, are you one?

How do measure performance of someone like that on your team?

Just like devs, we want to measure by quality, not quantity. I've done a lot of Dev team management, where estimates, sprints and retrospectives work. But with something like customer satisfaction (where the focus is on the satisfaction rather than simply support), how do you know whether someone is performing well?

Any help is appreciated.
I assume Vimeo doesn't have this because it always sucks for everybody on every network.
Yeah, it must be so nice to do something that everybody understands. "What do you do?" "I'm a lawyer."
> You were well aware that if I had gone to trial I would have gotten full exoneration. Instead, I sacrificed full exoneration for the sake of the Company’s IPO, and – more importantly – for you and for our shareholders.

So basically, here's a guy who is more than happy to be publicly branded as someone who assaults women in order to get a few more dollars.

Whether he's lying about the above or not, he sounds like an incredibly unpleasant and amoral person.
Its nice to say "we stopped doing it because we love our users" but I always feel like there is something more behind the scenes that makes these things happen.

Did chrome or Firefox recently change the way they handle nonexistent DNS answers so that opendns '404 pages' would no longer work? If the writing was on the wall it might make sense for opendns to get ahead of it, since there wouldn't be much they could do to combat browser level changes.

Or:

Did google/yahoo not renew their search feed agreement with them to be the search provider and/or significantly change the rates?
I know google has been coming down very hard on toolbar makers so perhaps this is googles way of getting out of that biz (And forcing opendns's hand)
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Maybe it already does. Somehow this comment isn't dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7791436. Not sure what it means, though.
The amount of users they have lost to Google and other DNS providers without ads and that follow the standards (i.e. NXDOMAIN, etc.) must be big.
I don't believe that was point of the article based on the first paragraph "An online start-up (tech) was crowdfunding a shipment of single women from New York to San Francisco".
SF is nothing like this. The article is poorly written--little more than we-did-this-then-we-did-that. The author is painfully lacking in self-awareness or humility. The only insight to be gained from the article is about the author, a caricature of severe narcissism played out through speed dating the few men in San Francisco bored and desperate enough to participate. I think this paints a worse picture of New York than it does of San Francisco.
Aren't we all... to a degree?
I see nothing wrong with this. It's cringe-worthy, but not wrong morally, or legally.

More power to the women who wanted to give it a shot.
> If you're deploying something you know has vulnerabilities ...

Everything has vulnerabilities.
And YC wonders why it has an image problem among female founders.

Sam, what is this.
I've got a feeling that a big part of our sentiment towards the logo comes after the company succeeds. That's when stories, associations and emotions reinforce our perception of the brand as a whole.

Just imagine Apple producing crappy, cheap devices. Would we still consider their logo awesome? I doubt it.
Don't you need the same amount of training to be called a software engineer?
That's one heck of a game of shoots and ladders.
> Text ads and banners alike, they’re all vectors for the spread of malware.

That's an excellent argument pro-ad blockers. Typically ad-blocker users are berated because they're 'stealing from the publishers' or something to that effect, but it makes good sense from a security point of view too. And it rationalizes so much better than 'the web is faster this way' (assuming that's even the case).
Forgiving works when the other person has expressed regret for their actions and doesn't repeat them. Neither apply in this case. I too voted to keep him banned.
I see nothing wrong with this at all. In fact I have suggested to men that they will have an easier time dating and finding love in NYC and to women that they will have an easier time dating and finding love in SF or the Bay Area. Because of the ratios of men to women and vice versa. What's wrong with that exactly?

When I was dating myself years ago I had a trivially easy time getting really good looking women (that I would never meet locally) by driving a bit to NYC. I remember thinking "I need to move here even if this relationship (the women that I met doing this) breaks up".

The name for this is a "target rich environment". It's as much about supply and demand as it is about other issues.
I don't think he's saying, "I'm not the target market, therefore ban articles that aren't relevant to me." It seems far more likely that saying he wasn't the target market was more of a disclaimer.
I would disagree that his post is "intolerant." OP believes the piece is sexist, which you may or many not agree with, but taking issues with perceived sexism doesn't strike me as intolerant.
Out of curiosity, are you affiliated with the article? I couldn't help but notice your account was made a few minutes ago (HN highlights new accounts).
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Well... I never said it should be banned. I am actually a pretty tolerant person. It just feels gross to me. I was more curious how it was allowed to happen at a time when lots of people are working hard to make tech a more inviting place for women. I don't think this is helping. Admittedly, I know this is not a tech recruiting ring... these women don't sound like they're on a path to be in tech. They just want to date a techie. But if this isn't insulting to women in tech (all women? everyone in tech? everyone?) then I truly have lost all sense of acceptability. I probably should have picked a better word than "allowed."
No, it just paints a picture of that individual, or those individuals that partook in this particular venture.

It says absolutely nothing about New York or San Francisco or any appreciable fraction of their residents.
Even if he regrets his comments — which he may sometimes, as people with his condition are given to do, but I don't know him well enough to say — he can't promise not to repeat them. He's not a well man. There's really nothing to be gained from hating this person. He deserves sympathy, not ire.
I didn't know about this! Looks like there's some experimental support for Emacs out there... Thanks!
If the Clippers are worth $2 billion I can't even imagine what the Bulls, Lakers, or Heat would cost on the open market. I wonder if the increase in value over the past few decades relates to the fact that live sporting events drive such a huge premium in today's consume at your own pace media culture.
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Or, you know, just request a new login link, use it and delete the email. If they are fast enough you won't even notice the notification on your phone.
I've always hated ads. Because most of the time products use it without embracing it and integrating it fully.
Anywhoo, I'm happy to see OpenDNS getting out of this revenue model, I hope it's gonna work so other might be inspired! Who knows.
What's remarkable about this whole affair is that when all is said and done, one can step back and see the following:

A guy bought an NBA team for $12.5 million in 1981, made some horribly racist remarks in 2014, and then realized a 160x return on his investment because of those remarks and the attention they brought to the team.

Quite a world we live in, eh?
It's weird that people are punished for talking about dongles in a professional setting when dongles are a technical term relevant to their profession, and the context of the word is not a joke or innuendo unless there is some insinuating tone of voice to accompany that otherwise pretty innocuous comment.
He should rename them to the LA Clippys.

(I know I'm risking downvotes by posting this. But c'mon.)
Two possibilities.

They either don't know about it or they don't care.

For further thought by someone "who doesn't see the problem" (me) read my other comment.

Feel free to reply to that and let me know what you think about what I have said. I think it's a practical solution to a problem.
I agree that significantly reducing the penalties under the CFAA would mitigate almost all of the damage it causes, but I don't see how that makes the language any better. It just limits the damage.

"Don't mess with systems that don't belong to you" worked much better in 1980 when typical computers cost a million dollars and were only expected to be used by the employees of the bank or government that owned them, because in that context you know you're authorized when you file a W2 and are issued a security badge.

Once you put systems on the internet for access by the general public it changes everything. "Mess with systems that don't belong to you" is practically the definition of The Cloud. The defining question is no longer who is authorized, because everybody is authorized, so the question becomes what everybody is authorized to do.

The problem is that nobody has any idea what that means in practice. All we can do is make some wild guesses -- maybe SQL injection against random servers of unsuspecting third parties is unauthorized access whereas typing "google.com" into a web browser without prior written permission from Google, Inc. is not. But what about changing your useragent string to Googlebot? What if that will bypass a paywall? What if that will bypass a paywall, but you're a web spider like the real Googlebot? What if you demonstrate a buffer overrun against the web host you use in order to prove their breach of a contract to keep the server patched? Can you charge a journalist for reading a company's internal documents when the company made its intranet server accessible to the internet without any authentication?

The answers to these questions depend primarily on which judge is deciding the case. Which is ridiculous, and the hallmark of a bad piece of legislation.
As a software "Developer" in Canada who does some work in the USA with the title Software Engineer this is a constant struggle which I seem to constantly have to explain.

Unfortunately some higher ups don't seem to understand what the title engineer means. I have a formal comp sci education and I have heard things like "We can't pay you $x, you aren't even an engineer!".

Walk into an interview with a ring on your pinky (I am serious) and you have an edge on the field.
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(Oh, I was just answering your literal question, very narrowly.)
Well the valuation was always there, not sure his how his racist remarks helped realize the gains aside from forcing him to sell.
What specifically do you find offensive about this? All the participants (male & female, consumers and company) are willing and eager.

I don't necessarily agree with firing people over politically incorrect jokes either, but in this case there is no party that is potentially suffering damages. I.e. in the case of misogynist jokes by an employee, the company may believe it's reputation would suffer unless mitigating action was taken.

There is no analog here ..
Lakers? More. Others? Not as much. The only other NBA team worth that kinda scratch is the Knicks. Ballmer WAY overpaid for a second tier team that happened to be in a prime market. He should seriously consider renaming and rebranding it as soon as possible.
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Is there a term for self-loathing your own generation? It's exhausting me.
I doubt the Heat and Bulls are as much as the Lakers/Clippers. Sports revenue is highly dependent on the size of the city's media market.

Live TV broadcasting rights are getting into the billions for some teams.
Ignoring the first emotional reaction... what's actually gross about it. Sure, I wouldn't want the whole society to be based on a mail order bride model, and the whole thing sounds like Breakfast at Tiffany's, but wrong/gross? I don't think so. There was only one actually wrong part that was mentioned as far as I can tell (inappropriate touching) which was dealt with. (was just ignoring it enough? I'll leave that to the author)

As long as the participants knew what they were getting into, I think it was fine - everyone got what they signed up for, no promises of results were given. (as far as I understand from the article)
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My guess is that a) the ads on the page don't monetize well, b) the ad networks willing to pay to advertise there are sketchy, and c) users complain.
Or maybe the truth is just as they explained it? That people don't like ads, that this fact is the most-cited reason people don't use OpenDNS, that they have an even better revenue model now (security analysis), and that by dropping their old way of doing things they will be able to attract vastly more people to use their service which will make their "security big data" even bigger and thus more useful/profitable?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar...

(By the way I think this change is awesome. Now if I could only get my cell phone provider -Tmobile cough- to stop hijacking my nonexistent-domain dns queries)
That analysis is deeply flawed. He didn't realize a 160x return because of those remarks. I highly doubt that those remarks increased the value of the team.
I come from a family of bibliophiles. Been there, done that, and much, much more.

And I throw that all under the bus in favor of the internet for discovering new books and finding reviews, without hesitation or reservation.

I'd even search old microfilmed newspaper archives. Bah.
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> He should seriously consider renaming and rebranding it as soon as possible.

Supersonics has a nice ring to it. :)

Does Ballmer still reside in Seattle? As someone who does, even the idea of a Seattle/Microsoft guy buying a basketball team will surely raise curiousity (warranted or not).
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The difference between the established small business and these startup "businesses" is that the startups are well-connected, usually young white males, that get access to Sillicon Valley's Wall Street money spigot. They don't have to worry about such mundane things as profit so they can try to take over a market and destroy hundreds of small businesses that were bootstrapped slowly over years of toil. If the small businesses somehow were able to get access to free investment money I'm sure they could also come up with creative ways to expand since they know their market well.
Looks like Google's 8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4 stole them quite a bunch of traffic, simply due to it being (often) faster and ad-free. It was e.g. impossible to use OpenDNS on a server doing mail stuff because OpenDNS would resolve everything and their dead mother instead of returning NXDOMAIN.

Well, now I think I'll switch over to OpenDNS as soon as they prove to deliver un-manipulated DNS service. One way less for Google to track me.

edit: does anyone know if Cloudflare is also in the DNS business, from the resolver side? I know they and Amazon (Route53) do DNS server hosting, but does Cloudflare also provide public resolvers?
Accounts and people are not the same thing. Here's a suggestion about how HN might handle this:

- Mods ban TempleOS (offensive, no redeeming value) and similar accounts.
- We set showdead = true if we do not agree with mods on "no redeeming value."
- We all try not to pass judgement on the people behind those accounts.
- We let people with banned accounts make new accounts and try again.

I voted no in the poll. I want to keep TempleOS banned, because it's an account with racist and generally meaningless content. But that's very different from keeping Terry out, which I don't think should be our goal.
But once it's a peripheral the drivers are loaded as modules and it doesn't matter what the board is ... ?

Sorry, just don't really get it. Been running debian on (mostly headless) ARM boards for about a decade now and I don't really grok why a community around a particular board is that useful. Once you have a system you have a system...
"Get on your feet" should be played with the lineups before each game.

Seriously, though, content is being bifurcated into "live, can't find/steal online" and everything else. The former is apparently worth a lot these days.
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the Clippers are the most valuable franchise in the NBA right now (or second to the Lakers). They're in a massive (albeit shared) market, have (part of) one of the best arenas in the league and are in the midst of a resurgence with some of the best players in the world. The Knicks and the Nets would also be way up there. The Heat, though successful and highly marketable, are in a relatively tiny market in Miami.
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He posted in this thread "When you know you're banned, you are very slightly less inhibited than when not banned, LOL."

So why unban him? He knows that his comments still get viewed, so he continues to comment. He can use the guise of being banned to feel more free to speak his mind, which sounds good.

I am not saying I approve of what he is saying, but we are allowing him to have an outlet to feel free to say anything, without being worried about being banned again.

Isn't that the basis of free speech?
Fairly wild given that I don't believe Staples Center is part of the deal. A lot of what drives prices up for sports teams (most evident in the NFL) is tying a Stadium along with the team.
I thought you were joking (and maybe you are) but now that I think about it, that's a really good life philosophy. Tolerate behavior in others beyond what you would engage in yourself.

Of course, this works better for social conventions like "call me by my last name" or "pay for your date's dinner" than for stuff like "don't be gay", which is sadly what's more associated with conservatism in this country.
Well, thank you very much for the explanation. I had seen http://terry.davis.usesthis.com/ the other day and didn't understand anything.
Girls/women in technology is a totally separate issue. If the issue is with the women that flew to SF, then I think that there are a lot of different kinds of people and archetypes - these people's existence shouldn't discourage other people with different inclinations and/or ambitions. There isn't, or shouldn't be "one role model to rule them all".

If the issue is with the men that they met, then I guess women in technology shouldn't date them if those kinds of men put them off? Romance and work is separate, at least if you want it to be.
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I don't believe we can trust the NSA's comment regarding "the only communication from Snowden it[NSA] could find". I highly doubt if they found evidence to support Snowden bringing up issues internally, that they would release that information.