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I agree with you completely, however the article does say:

"Bouganim says that he and his investors are looking to pour funds into companies that demonstrated that they know how to work with government, whether that's understanding how to slide under the procurement limits that trigger mounds of paperwork or make use of cloud computing in a way that works within government's often-strict security requirements.

So it seems as if they are looking to invest in companies that have already made it into the walled garden of government contracting.
Similar quote always stuck with me: "You judge others by their actions and yourself by your intentions"
I used to work for a company contracted to a major US Telecom to provide certain SMS related network services. There were basically zero protections on user data. Anyone who wanted to could watch the stream of SMSs go by.
"Our business is not based on having information about you."

That would be awesome if that was true, but Apple knows a lot about all of us, including our credit card numbers (iTunes/Appple Pay), your music, movie and media purchases, contacts, files, photos ... the list goes on.

Cook can draw the line where he think it's appropriate, but for others that line is much, much different.

Apple is simply on a spectrum of companies that store personal information about you. They aren't the worst, but they certainly aren't the best either.
> The image server remains in the dark about who has actually requested it. That’s a big plus for your privacy.

Unless, of course, the image has an email-unique key in the URL somewhere.
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Glad ya like it :)
He's not saying that not applying causes not succeeding, but that the reasons you give for not applying cause not succeeding. That is, correlation, not causation.
> Now in some ways this may seem silly

Not at all!

Typing should be a conversation with the compiler. If you have a strong understanding of what you are writing then, yes, writing the types first makes sense. On the other hand, sometimes I only understand how some particular pieces fit together—at this point, I want the compiler to throw its inference engine at my code fragment and tell me everything it can!

Typing and programming is exactly the same as theorem stating and proving in mathematics. It would be idiotic to have one-way information flow only.

That said, it's also practically criminal to just hand someone a proof without stating what you think it's supposed to be proving. Ultimately, that it where you must wind up.
Ripoff...Lamest i have seen in weeks.
bet you have even copy/pasted Minecraft code...

For a real attempt at a "Minecraft MMO", try Everquest Next.
Not OP, but I use HNNotify. http://hnnotify.com/
ahh...the "tyranny of the experts" redux

on of my favorite podcasts, Econtalk, had a wonderful show on this very topic not too long ago.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/06/william_easterl.htm...
I think that abusing privilege from his job instead of going to the police is evidence enough.
Quoting the page you just linked: "Once sales start dying and a minimum time has passed, I will release the game source code as some kind of open source. "

Sales are not dying and minimum time did not passed. It does not even look like the sales will die soon. He was thinking about releasing the game when the game is dead and abandoned by gamers. Even if you take the above as a promise, the initial condition is not met and there is no requirement on him to do anything.
as always, intel comes up with nice tutorial from time to time.
What's the point without https?
And we put music on your device without asking you.
I think it should be clear to every programmer that there are different trade-offs to be made when designing systems, including the trade-off between generic-code&fast-development&slow-speed and specific-code&slow-development&fast-speed. People that don't get that shouldn't be programmers, and people that get it should have the freedom to make their own trade-offs.

In other words, the only "cost" of generics, thus, is the social cost (there is no purely technical cost). Here, it boils down to the philosophical/political freedom-vs-safety question, and I strongly incline towards freedom. Go does not. Go's position is, if not wrong, at least loosing, since programmers demonstrably are using work-arounds (`interface {}`) when they need generics.
Well it certainly looks interesting, shame there's no kind of demo to see what the game's actually like, without paying £75.
You should try to watch How I Met Your Mother in german, that is so weird, but quite hilarious.
I learned long time ago not to sell my soul the company or whatever is the tech of the day.

Go to work, do the 8 hours, only stay if the team really needs help.

No one is going to remember overtime when the next round of firings comes.

One should keep learning, after all the technology changes everyday, but not at the expense of family and friends.

There is only one life.
Is Samsung being funny?
Why Microsoft Chose Minecraft Over Disney
I'm a big fan of Rails, but I think that Rails does not really give a lot of weight to backwards compatibility. The Ruby community in general often feels like it's always charging forward, very often with tons of cool new things, but occasionally leaving broken, incompatible software in its wake.
Even if they do fast vuln updates, what about older devices? Even Google only offers 2y of support.
Ah, I see what you mean. There are probably extrinsic and intrinsic components in everything. In that light, Dota is like most sports, you play because you like it, but you also produce a spectacle to fans in the process.

Photography, for me, is similar. I take photos because I like the process and the output, not specifically so other people can see them. There's a tradeoff there, but I'm not sure I could say that playing basketball is useless, for example (although that has more health benefits than Dota).

It's a hard question. Similarly, learning a foreign language feels very useful to me, even though it doesn't produce anything at all.
Apple’s iPhone 6 NFC chip is locked to Apple Pay
Do you have a "coporate account" with them? I wanted to register a country specific domain (Irish) and noticed that a) I need to sign up for their "corporate services" which presumably is a paid subscription and b) their pricing for .ie domains was €75/year compared to ~€20/year elsewhere
Exactly! I installed this on my original iPhone at one point, and it was a complete waste of time. Apple's goal is to ensure that old iDevices are 100% useless by refusing to update them, and this project does absolutely nothing to rectify that.
So long as it's locked at a software level, I'm seeing them unlock it when Apple Pay opens up worldwide.
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I gave a citation. The quote is more than enough evidence to disprove your naive "the researchers didn't bother to test for regression to mean" hypothesis. They didn't give a p-value, but the reported effect size is quite huge to be chance, and the study included thousands of people.
I don't see that at all, and I'm from the UK.

The fact that you're using PopcornTime as an example is interesting - there hasn't been a Popcorntime discussion on HN for months. There's been plenty of threads[1], but mostly about the development of the apps. You have to go back 5 months for real discussion (more than 100 comments). I realise that this is just one example, but I'd be wary of suggesting there's an implicit bias to US-centric discussion using a thread from that long ago on a forum that gets hundreds of submissions and dozens of discussions daily.

Essentially, I think it's important to question how much of the US focus is real and how much stems from our biases. I don't think there's very much, but maybe that's because I ignore it.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=popcorn#!/story/sort_by_date/0/pop...
Would it not also exclude learning a foreign language, though? Not to mention that it's pretty arbitrary that those skills are considered worthy, but others aren't...

I don't think I can formalize it easily, sadly. I guess I hate Dota because I play it even though it frustrates me most of the time, and it doesn't leave me with any lasting skill other than itself.
I have edited that sentence to say "where the request came from" rather than "who has actually requested it".

Overall though, its still an improvement. A key in the URL does verify that the email address is deliverable, which isn't nothing, but still can't be directly correlated with an IP address or other tracking data.
Apple's U2 Album give-away worse than spam
Yep, that's what I use too. It's a free service, and it breaks sometimes, but it's fantastic.
>And since it's proprietary software, they can trigger a resend of your recent messages to Bob.

Apple control iOS so they could just release an update that disables crypto and leaks all the messages - your point is irrelevant since they can't trigger a resend without an update to iOS.
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Are dolphins cleverer than dogs?
You're still making big assumptions based on your opinion of a person or specific action. We still don't know if the guy was abusive or not. And until we do, it's just as reasonable to think that he used other means to solve his problem because he was desperate/determined or maybe he was in fear of his children's lives, etc.

Even the wording you chose to use now, "abusing privilege", is loaded with negative connotations.
And I bet Samsung still won't use it for their terrible low-end phones because of their darned skin.
Yea but Woz isn't contributing technically anymore
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I don't think it's as clear as that. I want to get good enough to win Dota most of the time, but the global matchmaking means that I only win 50% of games, and enjoy only a percentage of those.

Similarly, for photography, it frustrates me that I can browse the top page on 500px and see thousands of photos per hour that I can never hope to match even once. Still, I do it because I like it. I don't think I've ever done anything just because I want to get good at it, and I've been programming most of the day for 20 years, because it's fun for me.

All in all, there's a spectrum of the metrics you mention, I don't think it's discrete.
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I think Berlin is more as a term of a startup scene, rather than a geographical location in a country. If I'm mistaken it would not be interested in BHN at all.
Having a subjective criterion is fine, as long as it's applied to oneself, and not to judge others. Telling other people what constitutes improvement for them won't go over well, but could be very useful way of deciding how to spend your own time.
I think Google needs to change that as well. Android is seen as a second class OS by a large percentage of people, and these kinds of revelations only increase that percentage. Google can do better, but for whatever reason they aren't.
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Next to nothing.

First, it's not obviously superior. The learning curve, both for playing and creating, is much higher. Proponents with slight (or more than slight) elitist tendencies might see that as a positive, but everyone else sees it as a negative. Also, the mechanics of DF don't lend themselves as well to free-form experimentation as Minecraft's. As a GAME with a goal etc. perhaps DF is better, but as an ACTIVITY and particularly as a learning experience it's far behind.

More importantly, the value of Minecraft goes well beyond the game itself. It's also about the community, the business relationships, the approval of educators. There's a maker place that my daughter goes to, where they offer several very popular courses in Minecraft building and modding. There are probably thousands of such places, and millions of individual kids talking about Minecraft after school. Critical mass matters, and DF will never have that.

So you enjoy DF more? Bully for you. Your enjoyment DOES NOT MATTER in terms of valuation. "Worth" is determined directly by the purchaser, indirectly by the market as a whole, not at all by the opinion of one person who wasn't involved.
I think this is an awesome idea.
Since the startup scene is growing steadily with loads of meetups, hackathons, a great influx of international tech people coming to Berlin and the startup infrastructure advancing, having a Berlin focused hn clone could really be a neat means to get info on what is happening around the city.
See yesterday's discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8317358
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I just did the test, and whoohoo I got perfect colour vision: http://i.imgur.com/WFoktvP.png (yay!)

But does that really mean I got all of them correct?! I was squinting and squinting (and cursing insertion sort), and I was pretty tired out near the end. I thought I might've been able to squeeze out some last tiny errors if I would have gone over all those bars again, flipping a few boxes that were not just quite right.

Also if I look at the rainbow bar in the screenshot, I'm assuming that's the full range of colours I sorted, I can clearly see there's a few errors and discontinuities in there still.

I wonder if it maybe just rounds down really small errors to zero because they're "close enough"? That's too bad, because I'm tempted to go back and try to do better :) But if it won't increase my score (decrease my error rate), I only have my own judgement of that final full rainbow hue bar to go by :)

(also, remember to disable Flux/Redshift. it probably doesn't help accuracy :) )
A short and meaningful post. We all indulge in the so called "wasteful" activities, but I have found some of my best ideas and inspirations sprang from those wasteful moments. It is during these moments, I believe, the brain is relaxed enough to have a spark of creativity. In these moments, brain consolidates knowledge and finds connections. Even if that does not happen, the joy that such activities bring is in itself priceless.

P.S. I have also posted this comment in the blog post.
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The peer-reviewed "feature review article" discussed in this article is an interesting read. See PubMed for an open-access abstract,[1] and Trends in Genetics[2] for the full paper. As the abstract says, "However, it is now clear that long-range migration, admixture, and population replacement subsequent to the initial out-of-Africa expansion have altered the genetic structure of most of the world's human populations."

{1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25168683

[2] http://www.sciencedirect.com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/sci...
To me this is part of software eating the world. It seems like a good idea, and probably is, but now architects have to become software engineers. No longer can they rely on the builders to sort out the uneven land or the plans that are off by 2 mm.

Its perfect or it does not go "compile".

Software really is eating theworld.
Nail meet head. That's why I don’t like going to developer meetups and such - I always feel inadequate. I'm just not as good as the person sitting next to me. I'm a child and they're the grown up. I'm a 9to5r with feelings of inadequacy.

I feel such guilt about it and shame that it just makes it worse that too often I surf pages for way too long counting the minutes until I can get off the computer. There are moments of true bliss working on some code, but it's so hard to take the first steps to get there, having to climb over this giant wall I put up in front of myself.
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Just do suicide you stupid fuck! :P
Thanks - I appreciate that.
Thanks for the suggestions both look very similar to MailChimp.
Thanks for letting me know - I'll add another media query for these dimensions. (By the way, which device did you use to view it at these dimensions?)
Minecraft? I don't suppose you mean... Infiniminer?
Not everyone has a "passion", and if only the passionate were allowed to be programmers, the industry would have a ridiculous labor shortage.

Some of us do software development because we find it more enjoyable than, say, law, and because it pays the bills pretty damn well. Guess what? Outside this profession, and probably inside too, that's the reason MOST people in "professional" occupations choose their careers. The difference (that shouldn't exist) is that in most careers it's perfectly acceptable to work 9-6 to pay the bills and then spend your free time doing something you care about (like spending time with family) that will never earn you a dime.
> Go's position is, if not wrong, at least loosing, since programmers demonstrably are using work-arounds (`interface {}`) when they need generics.

I just got through telling you that this type of use is actively discouraged, so no, people aren't using it as often as you might think.

If you want generics, you've got to pay for it. The implementation you've suggested requires a runtime performance penalty to use generics. Therefore, you have not demonstrated that generics are free.
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I was explaining why, in my opinion, the facial captcha project isn't very functional, at least as it is described on the artist's website.
It was an explanation of the simplest method a bot could use to game that system.
Anyone who want to take software that someone else made and slap their own license on it has to be careful. It can be "open source", "free software", "free ware", "abandon ware", "stuff they downloaded from the Internet", or "stuff they bought". If they want to add their own set of restrictions onto the software, reading and understanding the license is the only way prevent being sued for copyright infringement.

Everyone else who do not want to add their own restrictions to the software has a much easier time.
That's mostly lwjgl. So they would need to move away from that before that goes away.
I think this will make quite some sense for the German startup scene, not just Berlin.
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Also known as a catch 22 problem. In theory you are right, in practice there is a path: friends and family. Start your portfolio with low risk small projects (a website, a simple app) and keep climbing; the big tickets will come.
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I'm no fan of Apple, but this is baseless Apple bashing.
"Refusing" to update old devices is certainly reasonable. You cannot continue to support 7 year old phones when there is so much (hardware) development, it would either make them unsuitably slow or deprive newer models of features.

iPhone 4 (06-2010) received it's last (?) update in 06-2014, 4 years of support, other devices have had similar durations of support.

Compare that to Google: Nexus One (01-2010) never received 4.0 (10-2011): less than 2 years, Nexus S 11-2010 to 10-2012: 2 years,
Nexus S 10-2011 to 07-2013: less than 2 years.
This.

The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper tells Congress that the NSA doesn't conduct intelligence on American citizens, and then later gets caught out. He committed Perjury without any ramifications.

Why do people think that CEOs are telling the truth when they are all in the same boat paddling up shit river?
My job as a student involved working in an IT office, and we had a policy of "always lock your screen". Those who didn't got creative pranks put on their computer. Only rules were no root level pranks and it had to be SFW.

Some of them I can remember

- Randomly eject CD drive. This was done in various formats like a background script running, aliased commands, etc.

- Alias 2 commands to each other (e.g. switch ls and cd)

- Switch key bindings

- Wallpaper switching

- Screensaver switching
Really nice to see Intel giving Julia some attention.
Kali comes with some forensic tools.
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This will help them much with big customers who decide if they should use Docker - because they have now longer-term stability and support.
If only Meego took off.
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Just open up two separate tabs. One for hn and one for bhn. ;)
Netflix launches in Germany
And you know this ability isn't latent with iOS currently how?
I have my microphone (and webcam) disabled from the BIOS. It's pretty effective.
Docker raises $40M
Fing about Arsenal is, they always try an' walk it in.
I think this looks great. I love Minecraft but this takes a different approach to it, which is good. I could, however, see Microsoft moving Minecraft in the same direction, connecting servers together and making it more like an MMO..
The fact that TV overdubs movies (with like 5 voice actors for all the movies collectively) belies the fact that most Germans speak English and understand it just fine.

I have lots of contact with Germany, go there frequently and speak passable German but when I have people with me that don't this is never a problem and not because I'm translating.

The Germans that don't speak English are usually either quite old or are from rural areas. City and < 60: you can basically assume they speak English, and if you try German first they'll switch to English if you can't find your words unprompted.

This goes for most of Europe by the way.
This looks like it should be "random javascript github" based on what you have on the submit page. Namely that a demo page and github url are required.
Fully agree (german here), except for jobs and meetup types of posts. Those are the minority here, but I for one would welcome a geo-filterable subsection of HN for those.
Stupid “Gamergate” conspiracies on HN. What is wrong with you? Why are you posing this here?!
a colleague and a manager both frowned upon me or even scoffed when I admitted I didn't do much (or any) programming in my spare time

Did they actually scoff or did you, essentially, "scoff" yourself.

There is often a subtext to this sort of observation, and it comes through in the blog entry as well -- it isn't enough to say "I don't do that. Too bad.", but instead has to take it further to saying "I don't do it, and neither do you, damn dirty liar. And if you do, you're doing it wrong anyways."

It's kind of ridiculous.

Some people really live this 16/7. And good for them. Others live it 8/5, and if it works for them then good for them as well. But it is obnoxious for the 8/5 crew to tell the 16/7 crew that they're wrong.
I wonder how Earley compares to GLL.
And the article doesn't even mention Fibonacci or Al-Kashi.
At times there have been thoughts rolling around at the back of my mind about doing another variation on the HN theme. But geography was never one of the driving forces.
Remember the phrase "I'll go thermonuclear on Google" by S. Jobs.
... and the title starts with "Jury finds".

Which is kind of my initial point.
If you’re a games company pitching the ‘next Minecraft’, co-developed with users, then be clear that players have no ownership unless you give them equity.
Or Cook could just reap some PR-points with a convincingly stated flat out lie. It's not like anyone will remember it in a couple of weeks anyway.
"Reinventing the wheel is a young man's game" - Gary Bernhardt

Thing is, most young people (read: 20's) don't understand this. They think they need to be the person who came out with underscore.asm (or whatever terrible fad) to work on their "brand." Get those Github stars! Write more blog posts! Get more Twitter followers!

Because nothing says "hacker" like slavishly believing increasing a bunch of crappy vanity metrics means anything.