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>Reddit is the upvote, not the moderator, isn't it?

In theory. In practice, strong moderators become more important the larger the community gets. And reddit is a very, very large community.

>The whole driving premise of Reddit is the upvote, and that's an incredibly powerful concept.

It's powerful, but not always in a good way.

I think one of the better examples is looking at the difference between /r/gaming (light moderation) and /r/games (heavier moderation). While I am sometimes entertained by the content on /r/gaming, in general, it's a terrible subreddit that does a good job of soaking up most of the crap discussions surrounding gaming (5 threads a day of "Has anyone else ever played Zelda?"). Whereas /r/games actually has content worth reading a vast majority of the time and it's not just a filtered versions of /r/all for threads that have "game" in the title.
How is Lua "not so open"? Looks like MIT license to me, and I think most people would consider that about as open as it gets.

http://www.lua.org/license.html
Congrats. Love the new design. Excited to see where this is going. Great great interviews!
Bluetooth is fairly hard to sniff because it has encryption and frequency-jumping built in. It can be done though, maybe with an UberTooth One or similar. http://ubertooth.blogspot.com/
Shellshock vulnerability detection in Opsmatic
The Political Hangover of Prohibition
Do you happen to be a white and/or male? The only reason I ask (rhetorically, obviously -- please don't answer) is that, if you are, you might fail to realize that your position is one of privilege in our society. One of those many privileges shared by you and me is that what society considers common, civil discourse is very rarely offensive to our personhoods. Others don't share that privilege. For others, what you would call civil discourse is full of barbarism, small mindedness, and offense.
My problem with Agile
Win2000 was more for business and a successor of WinNT.

WinME was the successor to Win98SE and it was absolute trash.
They are exactly the same as integers in that they are not pointers and thus count as dead-ends for the garbage collection algorithm.

In theory, you could unbox some extra things at the cost of complicating the garbage collection algorithm and the memory representatio of values. GHC does this for Haskell but the Ocaml guys don't because they highly value keeping the compiler as simple as possible.

By the way, integer tagging is only important if your code s heavy in arithmetic operations or floating point operations (Ocaml tries to unbox floating point arrays, but sometimes it has to box floats). This often not that big of a problem and in the worst case you can always link Ocaml with C if you really want to.
One way (maybe the only way) Yahoo can succeed
I think the most important thing here is that law enforcement must approach the individual. What happens next may end up a complicate web of legal acrobatics, but the individual at least knows the law is after them. That's a good thing, IMHO. If your privacy is being violated by police forcing you to open your phone to them... at least you know the "when", "how" and "what" info they're getting. I'm also pretty sure you'd at least have a strong suspicion on the "why" it's happening to you as well - fair or otherwise.
When companies like Redhat and VA Linux IPO'ed, they handed out some options to open source people.
One can entertain the idea that the eventual outcome was ultimately better for all parties than the alternatives (though it's far from clear that's the case when the alternatives included "not playing hardball over unconditional surrender" and the scientists' favoured alternative of "demonstrate the bomb in a relatively benign manner") but the minutes of the meetings that made the decision quite explicitly discuss relative merits of targets in terms of the anticipated destructive effect on civilians, speaking favourably about wiping out Kyoto because of its high concentration of intellectuals before ultimately choosing Hiroshima over more obvious military targets because it "has the advantage of being such a size and with possible focusing from nearby mountains that a large fraction of the city may be destroyed" (and not really being militarily significant, it was largely undamaged). The notion that the surviving Japanese might ultimately be better off doesn't seem to have featured so highly in the decision-making calculus.
"If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem."

Bjarne Stroustrup
I'm wondering about the load of shareholder service work that has to be done when corporate stuff gets put up to a vote. They have to notify people, and that might be hard if someone uses a throwaway account and somehow ends up acquiring a share because of it.

While I have a real name account there, TBH 95% of the time I'm using an alias.
Wonderfully said. People are failing to realize that the point is that YCombinator is being internally inconsistent.

Edit: allegedly being internally inconsistent
Yes, MarkLogic includes a full HTTP client and server so you can create and consume web services. In XQuery this would look like:

xdmp:http-get("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/2.5_month.geojson")

or in the upcoming release, you'll be able to do the same in server-side JavaScript (embedded V8):

xdmp.httpGet("http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/summary/2.5_month.geojson");

(Full disclosure: I’m a Product Manager at MarkLogic.)

I find this really convenient for quickly standing up web services and doing ETL-type logic that runs close to the data in the database.
For a long time, pay at Apple was well below industry average to boot. I don't know if that's changed. Also, finding an equivalent job in silicon valley might have been hard when Jobs and other execs had agreements about not hiring each other's people. I could see toughing it out for a couple years as a young person to pad my resume, but doing it long-term? Yeah, it's a little nuts.
Did they? Seems like something they should mention on https://mozillalabs.com

No-one to turn out the lights?
Internal TestFlight testers with multiple iTunes Connect accounts
So if the airmen wore shirts and were less sexy, you'd feel the whole situation was more safe? Or, do you need to take a time out and have a cold shower? Because it kinda of sounds like you are one Tom of Finland book away from hyperventilating.

This sort of appeal to superficial appearances generally doesn't hunt on HackerNews.
No way; it's become common to talk salary with my friends, if for no other reason than to have ammo when going into salary negotiations.
The only true scarcity in your life is your time.
I'm glad I keep ignoring pings from Apple recruiters.
That's not really a secure phone or black phone, that's just a prepaid phone. Nothing inherently secure about it other than it's difficult to trace. The parent was talking about purposefully secured phones with encrypted phone call and messaging, etc.
If you know NOW that you could be dying tomorrow and not have these regrets of the dying, then more power to you. But I wonder how realistic that is.

The 5 Regrets of the dying:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/03/top-5-regrets-of-th...

#2: "I wish I hadn't worked so hard"

Another longer version: The Top 10 regrets of the dying
http://dalepartridge.com/top-10-regrets-dying/
Linux course on edX is pretty good
I honestly think the blog approach where you highlight sections is the best way to do it. General transcripts are indeed almost impossible to do, especially when there are weekly shows that run for over two hours each episode.
Please don't editorialize titles. The site guidelines ask you to use the article title unless it is misleading or linkbait. If you want to call attention to a specific aspect, the place to do so is in the thread, not the title.
That's beside the point. You stated without government the "framework of trade [will] break down". On the contrary, even after scandals and shutdown markets, new markets pop up and, incredibly, people continue to use them.

As for Bitcoin networks being hacked that is a red herring as we often hear of non-black market sites being hacked--even with the all mighty government protection.
Also, it seemed like jobs became more intense once he knew he was going to die.
The point is that this cryptocurrency will be exchangeable for (backed by) shares of reddit, which is rather unlike current cryptocurrencies.
The term "RAM scraper" seems pretty stupid to me.

These are likely using hooking. They don't scan RAM all the time, instead they patch or inject code into the POS software and then record the data when that code is called.

Think of something like Microsoft Detours. RAM scrapers seems a pretty inaccurate description.
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Last time I checked the generated executables, Ocaml did include the extra NOPs for padding.
In my experience, users with high karma tend to post content which is reddit-referential. If that's the case, then this system would probably make the site less newbie-friendly.
Depends what you call "company". A 10 person business doesn't concentrate that much power, even if the CEO is a mean psychopathic dictator: that's only 9 employee under his command.

But if you look at big companies (let's say bigger than the equivalent of 1000 full time employees), this is a whole 'nother business.

I don't have the answer either way, but it could be interesting to see where most people are employed. Which masters yield the most labour? States? Companies? Big corporations?

Anyway, how did you came to the conclusion that companies are more democratic than official governments? Most are command economies inside! And while they don't have the legal power to kill you, they do have the power to banish you, and do so much more often than governments do.
I think it's far easier when your at the same career categories in unrelated companies. A lot of problems from sharing salaries get sidestepped, and the usefulness is that much more.

Americans should do it more as a cultural practice, so market prices of salaries can be better spread.
They are going straight into "think of the children mode" ... apparently "what about the terrorists?" isn't as effective anymore.

"They" in this case is the chief of a metro police department, whose forensic and surveillance resources are more often spent on pedophiles and drug dealers than terrorism. What else would they say?

If the article's authors wanted a "what about the terrorists?" quote they would have gone to a counter-terrorism official, just like they rang someone at the DEA for a "but drug organizations!" quote.

You're reading a paint-by-numbers article about government impotence and corporate supremacy like it's finely crafted pro-government propaganda.

Let's hope the public will see through their manipulative talking points.

You (and most HN commenters) didn't. Why should they? e.g.:

a) "Beyond lobbying the companies, there is little law enforcement can do without congressional action."

b) "A half-dozen police and federal officials interviewed said that Apple, in particular, was taking an aggressive posture on the issue."

When you take away the outrage-kindling, the gist of the article is that the stodgy old Washington government is incompetent and hip California tech companies are glorious. Not exactly a controversial opinion among the commentariat.
I think a lot of it is that people are scared of automake, so they reinvent their own build systems, with varying degrees of badness.

Then they claim that theirs is "easy" but they've only done the first half of "simple things should be easy, hard things should be possible".

A properly autotooled package offers an amazing level of control about where to put things.
I wonder if the name is a reference to the Game of Thrones character (a giant that is itself a reference to Phil Simms).
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Yep, sorry, you're naive. :) The law != common sense. If a law is on the books, it may be applied broadly, even to Timmy and Mark. That's why it's important to ensure the laws are sensible before they're enacted.

Here's one example. Let's say there's a 16-year old girl and a 17-year old boy who are in a consensual dating relationship and, you know, take some racy photos of one other. The photos were taken consensually, not shared with anyone else, and stored only on their own computers/accounts. And let's say they're living in Florida and under state law, they're legally old enough to have sex with each other.

It would be fear-mongering to expect that these two happy teenagers would ever be prosecuted and convicted on "child pornography" charges, right? Except they were. And, as I wrote in 2007, a Florida appeals court upheld their criminal conviction:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1030_3-6157857.html

Yes, sorry, Timmy and Mark, sometimes a judge and jury will let it go that far. Sometimes they will "literally lock up your children..."
Windows NT 3.1 ran on a 66Mhz with 16MB ram, the MIPS and Alpha versions that also existed at the time were incredibly fast if you could afford the hardware (I could not).

Theoretically, an embedded version of just the Windows kernel and basic services might fit that profile, if Microsoft were to resurrect a MIPS version. Also, Windows Phone runs on hardware that's not much faster.
Yeah. http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2014/09/professional-transiti... "It’s a little hard to tell – I guess we didn’t actually shutter anything, and though it was announced internally it is entirely unclear externally. But Mozilla Labs is definitely shut down."
>This isn't helped by the fact that the majority of popular subreddits are moderated by the same people, resulting in a kind of weird cabal situation.

This is because moderating is a shitty job and hardly anyone wants to actually spend time doing it.

>Heavily moderated subreddits are Reddit's biggest problem.

The problem isn't heavy moderation, it's poor moderation. Moderation is basically a requirement for any community of a decent size (and becomes more important as the community grows).

But as I said above, moderating is a terrible job. It's generally unpaid, a time suck, and you spend all your time dealing with the worst members of the community (which sometimes funnily enough also includes tends some of the most popular members of the community).

In my experience in the past, the people most vocal against moderators/moderation were the people causing the most trouble in the community.
jailbreak iOS 8.0.2Download Pangu
Maybe resurrect .Net MicroFramework with http://netduino.com/ ?
The hard part is when other people are put off by your intensity. I think it's subtly beaten out of people unless they get to higher positions, because they don't like your anger at them when they fuck up.
That was unexpected. I hope the product will be as "good".
This finding reported in the article is interesting: "Related to this discovery is an extreme irony. Governments and organisations around the world have, for a very long time, tried to stop algal blooms from strangling rivers by reducing phosphorous pollution, believing the algal feed off this nutrient boost. But in doing so, they might have encouraged the green snot that is Didymo. 'It goes against everything we’ve been thinking for 50 years,' says Spaulding."

The main takeaway from this interesting article is that we still need to do a lot more foundational science about microorganisms and their ecological relationships with various changes in the natural environment.
Is it really two parties? Are they really that different?

What's the difference between ISIS and WMDs? Barack Obama and George W. Bush?
This is a non-answer.
That definitely could imply they have received an NSL.
But as a user, when I say "they would leak that they're fighting it", I would consider that completely insufficient. If they are pulling the kind of crap you say they are, then it will come out. Guaranteed. And then nobody, including me, will ever trust them again.

editing my comment since I can't reply to hellbanner:
Percentage doesn't matter, it only takes one. One person to destroy a hundred billion dollar company overnight. I am not saying "Tim Cook can not possibly be lying." I am saying "If Tim Cook lied, he just made a hundred billion dollar bet that he can keep a secret." Personally, I doubt he's that dumb.
I do. I've wanted to get off of Earth and into space for as long as I can remember. I would grab a one-way ticket to Mars with only the merest moment's hesitation.

I also have zero interest in an underwater city.
"Powershell ISE" does
Man that start menu is getting huge and complex. I really didn't miss is in the brief time I spent with Windows 8, but I guess enough people did to make them completely backpedal.
It's for files over 2GB. So referencing 500mb files confused me a bit, too.
My favorite dead startup! Hopefully by charging for delivery, not taking inventory risk, and setting reasonable minimums they'll survive.
One nice thing would be a "Related Subreddit" spot on every post's comments. These can be user added and voted on based off of relevance. Page admins would be able to disable their subreddit from showing up in these if they are trying to maintain a smaller community, but otherwise anyone can add to the list. This could be a way to find new subreddits that are related to the content you are reading without having to sift through the comments hoping someone recommended the author to crosspost it there.
Perhaps it is sentient?
Yeah, exactly, it all circles back to this basic issue: Most users of reddit are racist and sexist and absolutely disgusting in every way.

That’s why bullshit like this happens.

Reddit delenda est.
> (which was ignored and they were incinerated along with the hundreds of thousands of Japanese civilians).

This is inaccurate. Much fewer than 200,000 people were killed immediately (totaled across both bombings), including both incinerated and not, civilian and not.
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Yes, this has been done because it was abused. We will make some smarter changes, which will allow removal of the content disposition header.
This is amazing product, but do not know how much it will cost and when it will come to the market. Awesome make it possible :)
But don't you see how problematic your argument is? You more or less beg the entire question by saying, "/r/games actually has content worth reading" -- I mean this in a non-offensive way, but who are you to say that? What's "content worth reading" for you may not actually be content worth reading for anyone else.

That's how I see the design of Reddit -- it doesn't seem to me to be the place where every single link is supposed to be tailored specifically for you/the crowd. I think people come to Reddit expecting a finished product, where the front page is a curated listing of the most interesting things that the Internet has to offer, when in reality, the only way Reddit works is if YOU help push it in that direction.

You're not viewing a finished product, you're helping make the product! Push those up/down votes and use that voice that you've got to make your Reddit reflect more of what you want it to be. I think that's partially why Sam Altman is giving some of his shares to actual users, isn't it?
They might as well start numbering based on the Fibonacci sequence and go from Windows 8 to Windows 13.
I'd say the model is most comparable to Dropbox in that it passively syncs your work in the background. The check-in, check-out approach works for developers but we found it to be too confusing for our target audience of designers. It's a bit of cognitive overhead to remember to constantly check-in, especially when using Photoshop, which crashes quite frequently.

Every save forms a new version online, but you can go back and retroactively mark certain versions as major milestones. Milestones are roughly equivalent to commits in Git.

Since we're primarily focused on graphic design formats, we don't attempt to do any merging of files since it's unclear that the end product would make much sense. We don't lock files either. If two users simultaneously edit the same file, one of them "loses" and shows up as a Conflicted copy that you can visually resolve in the Comparison view online.
So is that why the federal government poured our money into GM and Chrysler?

Oftentimes those with an anti-firearms agenda point out that Glocks are preferred among mass murderers. Glock is to guns as Toyota is to cars; reasonably priced and notoriously reliable.
Police do have official events to attend. In my state capital there is a yearly event to honor fallen officers where representatives from every police force in the state show up in their dress uniforms for a mass memorial service.
That's a fair point. powershell ships by default though, it should be the default instead of cmd.exe
The problem is that Win7 did not release until after the end of mainstream support, leaving less than five years to upgrade to it.
The fun thing is that as soon as I saw the plans to distribute ownership earlier today, I figured why not use their own cryptocurrency? I guess I'm starting to predict the future, albeit only a few hours in advance
Because most people probably are looking a little beyond the first day on Mars.

Fifty years of successful Martian colonization would be a good start towards self-sufficiency on that planet.
Not out of the box, but ctrl+v works with https://github.com/lzybkr/PSReadLine
Yes, but the problem is, the current mindset is to write laws that give them the right to do that.

The question isn't whether sanity would prevail in court. (I'm somewhat optimistic that it would, eventually.) The question is, given the current fear-driven mindset, isn't it probable that something like that will be written? And how do we stop it from being written (or at least enacted)?

Sanity in the court room is the last line of defense, not the first...
http://www.reddit.com/r/linguists and http://www.reddit.com/r/askhistorians are very good.
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EU slams Apple's Irish tax deal
More like 20 years. They were in FVWM when I made first contact with linux around 1995 or so.

They were in Unix's CDE too, which I presume would have been even earlier than that.
I find it interesting that on one hand the government is telling a technology company they can't create technology which makes communication private and on the other hand the government is charging the CEO of a tech company[0] for creating technology which removes the privacy from communication.[0]

"In the first prosecution of its kind, federal officials said that StealthGenie violated the law by offering the ability to secretly monitor phone calls and other communications in almost real time, something typically legal only for law enforcement."

[0] http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/make-of-ap...
How do they prevent you from making a copy of your E-Ticket and simply showing up to the event earlier than the buyer, or even selling it somewhere else?
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Yes, and you could also argue that if our progress rate was sampled at a rate proportional to the total duration of human progress, the period from the 1950's to today is really one sample and the curve at this moment is just beginning to look like a hockey stick.
Good Guy Sam Altman
While romantic imagery, it's cynics who propose that we 'reach for the stars' because there's no future on Earth, due to population explosion or nuclear war or environmental collapse or other doom.

We've also built an awful lot of rockets for war, to bring the power of the stars down on our enemies as H-bombs. The Gemini series launched on top of a repurposed ICBM. I don't know if developing nuclear bomb delivery vehicles falls under cynicism, but it's not part of reaching for the stars.
Better community moderation tools would be awesome.
Seems like the exact same approach and even using the same redis datastrucutres as this talk from RedisConf:

http://vimeo.com/52569901

(Granted, the solution presented here is not open sourced.)