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Isn't this just Object Oriented API Design 101?

I kept reading, looking for the punch line, but as far as I can tell he's just describing really basic information hiding and interface design.

Maybe it's OOD For Server Programmers? There's nothing wrong with it, it's just surprising to me that it's news.
Original EFF article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/04/facebooks-evil-interfa...

At the last Y Combinator Startup School, this guy got a standing ovation. Is it OK to deceive and cynically manipulate people if it builds an awesome business?
Yes, I was assuming that the cleaning fee was listed upfront. I have frequently seen these listed when booking right in the pricing section. If they aren't listed, then they are definitely unethical and I wouldn't pay it.
> The difference being, nicotine's psychoactive effects are minor compared to hard drugs. People don't die from a nicotine overdose.

Correction- People have died from Nicotine - and with e-cigs there;s concern that it may become more common:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotine_poisoning

"The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned in report released today that the number of phone calls to U.S. poison control centers related to e-cigarette use has increased from just one call per month on average in 2010 to nearly 200 calls per month in early 2014."
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2014/04/03/e-cigarette-po...
I looked at the wiki entry but something isn't right about that. I don't understand where they're getting the $30k figure.

The median household income in the US is over $53,000 - not $30,932. I think it's much higher in Australia as well (for example they list nominal median at $47k on the wiki).

http://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/acsbr12-02.pdf

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/00000.html

Even the chart graphic at the bottom right of that wikipedia entry shows $50k+ as the proper median income level:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/US_real_...
Unix is another example of a worse reimplementation of an earlier system to fit the hardware constraints of the day.

The thing is though, the security model of multics would be a much better fit for today's security needs, but we don't have it because the hardware that could run it was too expensive 40 years ago, which seems crazy when I think about it. Sometimes it feels like the industry as a whole is no longer ambitious, that building fundamentally better systems is no longer considered important. It's nice that you can run unix on your phone, but i would like to run something better than unix on my desktop. Where are the OS's that are ambitious enough to eventually turn into scarlett johansson in the movie 'Her'?
I don't do it all the time, but it can be fun and productive. I like tackling problems with others. One person types, the other person helps come up with ideas about what could be going wrong. It can also be nice to take a break from your own work to pair with someone. They get a fresh pair of eyes, you get to stop doing something you're tired of for a bit to work on a new problem.
Good news on that front: geospatial support has already passed code review and been merged into the codebase (check out this issue to learn about the implementation and progress: https://github.com/rethinkdb/rethinkdb/issues/2571).

There are a few limitations we'd like to work out (e.g. right now the implementation doesn't support compound geo indexes), but we're well on track to shipping 1.15.
That might be true, but to establish it, we would have to know the NSA'a budget (which is classified).
The same reason many states say that if the grocery store accidentally overcharges you by N cents for an item, you get 10 * N cents (up to a limit) off of the marked price.

This is encouraging the consumer to engage in self-help and gives them (in theory) just enough of them the motivation to keep on the lookout for the scam.

It's not the only way to run a regulatory regime, and it has some downsides, but it also has a measure of appeal.
No one really won the War of 1812. Instead everyone just got sick of fighting (the Americans got sick of spending money they didn't have and the British needed to worry more about Napoleon) and said let's act like nothing happened. A lot of people agree that because no one pushed for serious concessions in land or reparations the Treaty of Ghent is one of the main factors that allowed for the close relationship between the American, British, and indirectly, the Canadians for the 200 years following the war. So the running joke is that Canada won, even though Canada didn't even exists because the British retained what then became Canada.

There was one true loser though and that was the Native Americans. Most allied with the British and in the end they basically turned their back on the tribes and let the American do whatever they wanted to the Natives as they pushed west.
Bitcoin: 51% attack considered harmless
Um, that's what I was saying. Stabilization (at least at this level) is still not a $15,000 investment. Prosumer ones start in the $500 range.

Software stabilization obviously also supplants hardware cost, which makes even that # moot. Then there's the acceleration, which can be done by low-level video prod software already.

I'm seriously not trying to just poo-poo this, it's just very underwhelming as a total package.
Sure, happy to chat! What you're doing seems interesting, especially if you're not targeting the lawyer/case research market. My email address is in my HN profile. Though I am working nonstop on http://recent.io/ right now. :)
> ... perhaps I wasn't clear before. I would like to see links showing that the majority of burglaries, where cellphones were stolen, were to take the cellphone itself, and not just burglarize the house.

Perhaps I wasn't clear before, but my point was that it's not necessary to prove that someone had a specific and sole intent to steal a cell phone, for an anti-theft bill to make sense.
If the Ice Bucket Challenge Had Been on SNL in the 70s
Entrepreneurs are, by definition, outliers. I don't think it makes much sense to compare them to -- or include data for them in -- an analysis of the average worker.
Stop going to work drunk: You are not Don Draper
It could be awesome
How Physics Is Like Three-Chord Rock
How to build collaboration sync with Parse API and PubNub
I don't. Absolute security is impossible, all I can do is take precautions that minimise the risk. That's why sandboxing of apps seems a rather good idea: it reduces the risk without adding much inconvenience to the user.
I was told by a German, who had lived in the States for a few years in the past, that American Democrats resembled German conservatives. If that's the case it's hard to imagine what the German/European counterpart to a Republican would be.
This app rocks!!!
The only punch line is "hey microservice hipsters, those uncool Enterprise Java guys already solved this problem."
Callbacks v.s. Coroutines
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Great read. I have a question: who controls access to SS7. If I were to build an open source phone service I wont be able to talk to SS7 directly right ?
The Daily Read – Hyperlapse Edition
Very nice. But consider a lot terminal people are living in Linux. A fork uses a language that's commonly bundled with Linux distros will be awesome.
What would yo do to get a website?
Lets say you need a website for your company, but you don't have time to do it yourself. How would you get one? What would you search in google?
While sharks biting internet cables may be funnier, more often ship anchors and natural disasters cause cables to break.
Why the Google and Twitch $1B Acquisition Talks Blew Up
Liquibase – Source control for your database
Leave Emacs? Never, ever. A fool who thinks he could beat the power of Lisp! :P
I think most people would be OK with an additional flat fee so long as the notice is clear and conspicuous. For example, if I were renting a space daily and had to tack on a flat cleaning fee, I might write something like this:

$99 per day, plus $20 flat fee

In other words, you can develop whatever fee structure you want. You just have to adequately explain it to customers so they can make an informed decision.
Introducing Meteor 0.9.0, the Meteor Package Server, and Isobuild
MILLENNIALS AREN'T LISTENING TO YOU
BitTorrent Sync 1.4: simpler sharing and new UI
Just yesterday, I got an extra pickle spear from someone who didn't want theirs. :)

But yeah, social pressure != dependency.
L3 (on the more expensive side) is probably around $3/Mbps for not-huge commits. Junky providers, like HE, are probably under $1. You should be able to buy no-commit "blend" for around $5 without trying too hard and go from there. (The main issue is making sure they don't prefer something like HE, like e.g. IPTP does.) But some datacenters offer ludicrous prices like $15 or $25, and apparently get away with it.
Social Media and the ‘Spiral of Silence’
Tracking of information has been known about since the initial NSA whistleblowers after 9/11

I have not heard a single conspiracy theorist suggest any of the things disclosed by Snowden, and I have yet to see evidence of RFID chips and the government monitoring us through our microwaves, or that Person of Interest is based on a true story.

Extraordinary claims still require extraordinary evidence, and that evidence usually comes from someone involved, not from a random blog/site on the internet, or a youtube channel.

The one thing everyone misses with this, which is my main concern, is less that the entire NSA/Insert Alphabet Soup here can track me, but that any one individual within these organisations who decides they don't like you for any reason can majorly screw you over. It is not the whole that concerns me, it is the parts.
|Discussions about which design is better are pointless to me. Why don't we just try both and let the data decide?

This seems to indicate to me that you are stuck in the "expert beginner" phase of development. That's bad - but it's not necessarily your fault. And you're obviously making moves to try to escape this trap.

What you need - or at least what worked for me - was going out of my way to learn as much as I possibly can about the field I'm interested in, and even accepting that I might need to re-learn some things or reconsider some of my notions (for me, the biggest one was my low tolerance of messy code and extreme sense of organization - I worked on mastering refactoring tools to make it easier to fix messy code quickly if I need to, so I've given myself a higher tolerance for writing it).

I don't mean this badly. I'm still an expert beginner in plenty of things - it's just important to be humble and try to escape it so you can get some perspective. Perspective isn't something your environment will probably give you, you need to make it for yourself.

http://www.daedtech.com/how-developers-stop-learning-rise-of...
No. Protocol buffers are about using a single protocol for all your (micro)services.

Ilaksh is describing something closer to the goal of akka or erlang - you define the logic of your program, but it can be run as a distributed system or monolithically without changing your code.
I fail to see how ruining peoples' lives with criminal convictions, records, and incarceration helps anyone in any case. Addiction is a psychological and medical problem.

The real insult is that alcohol is legal. Heavy alcohol use results in severe addiction and physical harm comparable to chronic heroin and amphetamine abuse. Yet we treat alcoholism as a psychological and a medical problem (which it is), and do not further ruin the addict's life and worsen their problems with incarceration and persecution.
Thanks for your reply. It was difficult to limit explanation to 2000 chars, so a lot of my thinking/feeling was left out.

You're suggesting that the only things that will make the business a success are the financial and technology aspects. In my experience that's not the case at all. Money and tech are important, but the marketing and strategy are equally, if not more, important. You can build the best tech in the world, but without marketing and sales to get it to customers it's worth zero. Don't be so quick to discount your friend's marketing/strategy input.

I'm not at all suggesting, even to myself, the financial & tech aspects are the only things that will make it a success. I'm certainly not discounting my friend's marketing/strategy input. What his company, as the 30% holder, brings to the table is largely the deliverable of this endeavor--it just can't be brought profitably (in their minds) without the tech that automates as much as possible, which has turned into a lot of complexity. I was only trying to question if the tech input being valued at 5% was out of line (and included the 30% figure of my friend's pre-existing stake because it's the only number I know). At least, that's why I posted here, but I'll be sure to further check my assumptions to ensure I'm not mentally undervaluing others' contributions (I don't think I am, but it's difficult to express that within 2000 chars).

What I could not express in 2000 chars was that there appears to be a strong resistance, by MP, my friend, and the others who have already been established as partners to give up as little equity as possible (because they've already divided it up and are happy with their own numbers) while also wanting to drive down the cost of software as much as possible. It's difficult to express how that resistance is communicated, but I feel it rather strongly in conversation with both my friend and MP.

Anyway, thanks for taking the time to respond.
Life beyond Amazon: live-streaming Twitch alternatives
Detecting visited links by using redraw timing
Phone Mfg's will sometime release manufacturer-specific API's for Android that will only work on their phones.

I've always been disappointed at how/why Google allows fragmentation.

It certainly seems to me that they have the power to force a reunification in Android (and that if they did, the world would cheer).

Why not tell Samsung that Google must determine the update schedule, not Samsung? And if Samsung adds non-standard hardware, they must provide working updated code by this schedule.

And if Samsung doesn't like it, they are welcome to move everything over to their Tizen OS.

Even if Google cannot fix the past, why not do this going forward?
From a dumb-user perspective, I feel like most of the effort of package managers is spent on resolving these fundamentally incompatable philosophical dilemmas instead of common-denominator solvable problems like:

* Quality and Trust mechanisms. If there are 14 different postgres clients, which do I choose?

* Package Metadata management. Where can I send bug reports? Who is the maintainer? How can I contact someone? Is there an IRC channel?

* Documentation and Function/Class Metadata. Why should I go to the Github README for one package, and to a random domain for another package?

* Linking compile and runtime error messages to documentation or bug reports. Why is google still the best way to track down the cause of an obscure error message?

* Source data linking and code reviews. I should be able to type in a module/namespace qualified function name and view the source without having to scour a git repository. I should also be able to comment directly on that source in a way that is publicly visible or privately visible.
New code samples in Bing
How certain are you this happening? Have you talked to the cofounders? I'm not suggesting its not happening, and its certainly a lawsuit if it is the case but be damn sure that they are doing it before you take any legal action/go open with it. It would destroy you along with them if you take it to the public and you are wrong. If you can without a reasonable doubt say that they are, and have evidence that isn't based on negotiations or bonuses, then by all means sue them in court: you are owed money. This is a really hard case to prove though because the burden of proof is on your and thus you must be able to prove via emails from the founders/HR or recorded chats (concrete admissible evidence) of them saying to discriminate against people or its just slander. If you slander or libel them without proof, you will get sued and you will lose. It will also damage your reputation and future career prospects. Just because your salaries are lower doesn't mean there is discrimination; the other people could have negotiated better or negotiated at all. There can be other more innocent things as well such as buddies of the founders getting paid more not because they are men but because they are friends. There are a lot of scenarios at play here, and if they are discriminatory I hope you the best to win the case. Nobody deserves to be discriminated against.
I don't think everyone assumes that delivery fees are included in normal prices. I would say quite the opposite.
Who do I call or who's door do I bang on?
Hacker News is not an advertising venue.
We scam the Indian call centre scammers
Hey all. Slava here @ RethinkDB.

If you have any questions about the release, product roadmap, or anything RethinkDB-related, please ask! I'll be around all day to answer questions and incorporate your comments into the development roadmap.
If you're quitting - I don't really see the point of reporting anything. I would however, make sure that your current co-workers that are being discriminated against know it's happening (if it's happening). You may consider the fact that there may not be any discrimination going on at all...can you prove that some employees are making less than their male counterparts based solely on sex and not actual merit, contract negotiation, or earned bonuses? (I know I have been in more than one situation where I was making more not because I'm male - but simply because I asked for more)
Venezuela is the great example in South America.

They're, in theory, sitting on the world's largest oil reserves. Meanwhile their production has been falling for 15 years because the government, under Chavez and now, has squandered the opportunity.

They have somewhere between $10 trillion and $30 trillion in proven oil reserves, depending on who you believe (either way it's immense). They should be one of the wealthiest countries in history, right now. That's despite the challenges around extraction and the quality of their heavy oil.
Comcast & Friends are slowly but surely changing the internet from an open platform to one that serves the interests of their shareholders. If they continue to have this sort of success, there may eventually be little left to recognize it by.
While earthquake light does seem like one of the better explanations, the length of time it was observed (>30 min) would make it one of the longest observed earthquake light sightings.
I really like Dylan, but it has a huge problem that never gets discussed - verbosity. The syntax is entirely too verbose for a modern language. My suggestion would be to first complete the Intellij plugin and then actually change the syntax so it can compete with the scripting languages.
I think most people who tend to oppose regulation do so not because they believe a beneficial government regulation is impossible, but because the net effect of government regulation is negative.
3-D Printed Skeleton Keys Can Pick High-Security Locks in Seconds
Hear, hear!

I tried desperately to suppress my "Shut the hell up you whiney bitch" response, but, alas, I have failed to do so in this case.
Bitnami Releases Nginx Stack with PHP and MySQL (LEMP)
Multitasking Gene May Help Drone Operators Control Robotic Swarms
My last hotel bill had:

HSIA 5.95

OCC Tax 25.90

CTA Fee 0.10

Tour Tax 2.59

adding almost $35 to my room.

When I rent, I put down a deposit. If it's not in similar condition when I move out, they use the deposit for cleaning and repairs.
I doubt it. Humans hoodwinking others into giving up "the goods" (money, information, time, etc...) is older than the hills. Much like Doc Holiday, who no doubt was preceded by others who were brash with no care for their own life following a terminal diagnoses, just did it best.
Funny, last time I staid in a hotel, they didn't charge me a cleaning fee... and they cleaned the room every day!
Instagram just released Hyperlapse, its first ever app outside of Instagram
A Prison Riot in Brazil Resulting in Two Inmates Being Beheaded Is Now Over
64-bit Chrome Stable for Windows
Yes, that's true. It helps avoid people setting nightly rates low but then charging $100 cleaning fee.
That's very cool of you, Daniel. While of course I believe my version of events, it is after all just a Hacker News post.

Whether or not I can share the eventual outcome of this matter, I do plan to write an article on concrete steps that developers can take to protect themselves in situations like this.
Coroutines in Lua
I don't believe that no beneficial government regulations exist, but I believe the net effect of government regulations is negative. And I would point to game theory (and economics more generally) to support that view.
Comments are harsh today, to me this is a very promising project.

Calling it The sublime Text text-based if it does not (yet?) have the features that defines Sublime (multiple cursors, split screen, fuzzy search/commands) might not be the best move.
Understanding Bitcoin Mining Hashrates
It's kind of sad that web in some areas is catching up with... windows 95.

I'm building simple web-based tool for editing or replacing music in a movie. Simple player for preview the video with new music is really complicated. You have to build all processing infrastructure to convert avi, mpg etc. to, say, webm. Other option would be to leverage youtube for converting, but it's against terms of service.
The FAA vs. Model Airplanes
Perhaps, but then again America would not have participated very fully in the industrial revolution if not for oil, and would not have fielded a strong military during WW2 without oil.

It's likely America would have not have been able to afford a vast, high quality public transportation system had the economic foundations not been built up in the first place. Especially considering the spread out population base, and geographic size of the country.
Zweetvoeten voorkomen en genezen
> And I would point to game theory (and economics more generally) to support that view.

Please do, this sounds interesting.
Not only VIM but also UNIX people, because of ^C and ^Z.
Google doesn't control Android after they release it. It's open software (which is why Samsung gets to "skin" it the way they do) and Samsung could add anything they want or even rip bits out. It's not Google's decision.

Edit: this is a lot of downvotes for no comments. What's wrong with my comment?
The term is even funnier when you know German, since Zuckering is close to the word "Zuckern" which means "to sugar" or "sugaring". So they basically give you something sweet for you to forget about your privacy. Just like the creepy stranger they are.
Not for any practical measurements. This would work in say an anechoic environment – save for the wall under test – but you'd end up sampling multipath constructive/destrictuve interference instead of the wall reflections.