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NPR's Fresh Air interviews Walter Isaacson, author of 'The Innovators'
Loggur (https://www.loggur.com) launched a few days ago. It's still pretty rough around the edges but the core concept is to be able to use interchangeable parts to build web apps in real-time with other developers. It of course has the added benefit of being able to easily build real-time apps for users. It also eliminates the need for most backend work.
This is the most patronizing thing I've read in a while. Women don't magically have some (ableist) disadvantage that prevents them from participating.

The thing that keeps them from participating is men bullying them and forcing them out.
And you have no idea how little respect I have for it.

It's a move that hurts more than it helps.
> If people publicly drag you through the mud, you have the right to respond.

You always have the 'right' to comment about people, you always have legal liability in [anything resembling] an official statement.
No: that product was not a success. A later product in the same product line released years later that had more benefits and fewer limitations became a huge success, but the original iPod was actually a flop that only held on to its mediocre sales due to brand loyalty, and its limited storage space and requirement to sync via a physical FireWire cable (as opposed to even USB) were in fact key to this failure.

(In particular, I will point out that the iTunes Music Store experience was what made the iPod really stand out, and that wasn't launched until 2003, in time for the 2004 release of the first truly successful iPod model, which also had a reasonable amount of storage and USB support.)

There is an awkward tendency in this space to fault people judging a specific product because they aren't taking into account that the same product line next year might actually be good, but unless users of the iPod are going to get a free upgrade next year, that's really a disingenuous way of judging new hardware.
>> Note that nobody else has built competing projects, and he didn't force any distribution to use them.

This is simply not true. Both systems were effectively pushed down everybody's throats because RedHat (through Fedora) made it that way. There were lots of competing options that we NEVER going to get consideration because they were "not invented here."

That is the thing that frustrates people most about him. That he may be a good developer, but what he does has less to do with engineering merit and more to do with politics.
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I only described the technical back-drop for mailing lists. The behaviors of setting Reply-To: headers, and of rejecting posts from non-subscribers, are still implemented as hacks against the old mechanism. These configuration features have not changed how mailing lists work.

My original original point is that moderating mailing lists is not possible. I have not seen an effective counterargument. Reply-to munging and subscribe-to-post do not add up to effective moderation, and are easily circumvented.

I have seen it happen: someone banned from posting to a mailing list harassing discussion participants anyway. Perhaps he subscribed with a phony e-mail address to collect the list traffic, and then just composed replies as himself to everyone in the debate, but excluding the list robot (which would reject the copy).

"Modern" mailing lists still pass through the Cc: material which makes this possible, even though they set Reply-To, and disallow posts from non-members.

I don't care how you set up your mailing list; you're not going to easily be able to moderate out persistent trolls. You can't use IP block banning easily, because trolls don't contact your server directly; they can go through any number of e-mail service providers. If a troll keeps coming back over and over again, using different gmail addresses, are you going to ban everything from gmail?
One of the advantages of Mailinator and 33mail (two other services in this space) is that they allow you to receive email at your aliases for as long as you want, so they don't preclude password recovery. I think this service is somewhat hamstrung by the limited period when the temporary address is accessible.
Karbonn Launches Titanium S5 Ultra Exclusively via EBAY
Wow I love the simplicity of the docs. Nice work!
I don't know what changed from the beginning of this project to current state, but at first almost every article on first page were really interesting. Now for some time I noticed I am lucky if even one of the posts in first page catches my attention so much that I actually click it. It just seems that at first there were stories that united everyone, that were almost universally interesting to all readers. Now there seems to be very much specialization, where unless you know that specific area of expertise, the story won't be that interesting. This coupled with the fact that interesting stories often lose traction because of comment penalizing makes all "top rated" stories really dull.
Um because one hospital staff member got herself infected (and then presumably went on to treat others, with less safety procedures, while infected with ebola).

This is the sort of thing that has happened in over a dozen MSF hospitals in Africa.
I would argue that being a lab staff is better, because you know what you're getting into. You were probably paid better, too. "cushy" is not a good thing to "prepare you for grad school", especially not for students who are noncommital (not saying that you are, but a lot of IRTAs are). OTOH, I knew a postbac whose job was to counsel macaques that had pieces of their brains gouged out (and therefore wound up with severe behavioral problems). So her job was pretty stressful.

Upshot: You made the right "choice".
Well, if women are leaving faster than men and often cite reasons of being bullied or otherwise forced out by men... why would women desire to enter that workforce?
No. If anything it's up to the company leadership to be tactful, level-headed, and importantly, magnanimous in the face of petty slights and provocations -- like those of the severed employee, in this case.

And that's what's so tragically stupid about this whole thing -- what happened at the outset (the employee's remarks in a public forum) was a very little thing. And what did Yishan do? He want out of his way to make it a big thing. It's like he sees a fire in the wastebasket, and his natural instinct is to throw more oil on it.
> some sort of long-term health problems.

The leading cause of cancer is life. Everything causes long-term health problems, eventually. People are too risk-averse, How can you enjoy anything if you are perpetually concerned about long-term health risks?
Andrew and his team have been working incredibly hard. It's great to see that YC is making an effort to find and support mission driven organizations.
This is an ugly affair, like firings always are. Perhaps an "official" response was necessary to "manage the narrative" as someone above commented, but I can't help but agree that the mud is rubbing off on the CEO here, mainly because of the tone. Badly handled.
What's the issue with Perl scripts on production web servers? Probably 90% of my (homegrown) scripts are written in Perl. What does Perl vs. PHP vs. Ruby vs. $languageoftheweek have to do with anything?
How does a back end developer approach front end web pages?
Currently working and a student. Still learning about tons of new technologies and mainly trying to get my head around things.

I have worked with node and django for back end web things but once i get to the visual side of things my non-artistic self struggles. Is there any solid way to get into creating nice css and html layouts? even just for prototyping purposes at hackathons/for demo's ( i'd love to be able to write full apps not just the back end )
I see a lot of that across Europe. I've been dying to do a road trip out that way (from the UK) but it's difficult with three children.

Everyone I've met and spoken to out there has been through some serious shit right up until the late 1990s from wars to genocides. They really are forward thinking because looking back hurts badly.

It might sound cheesy but I have a lot of hope for Europe and most of it comes from the East.

At the same time I'm disgusted at how the media and general population treats our fellow Europeans.
Shell companies are one of the greatest instruments for graft ever devised. I'm not a fan of them, and they get easier to make with every passing year. I don't have an opinion on cryptocurrencies. I'm sorry if it seemed that way.
Raspberry Pi compatible HDMI stick, STB seeks funding
> Of course the labor market isn't perfectly free, but it is approximately free

Bullshit, try going to economies that have suffered periods of extended unemployed labor to see how that impacts 5 and 10 years down the line.

Employment is most certainly a social issue and as such is well within the bounds of reasonable regulations, much more so than any commodity.
This is great. I like the simplistic, no-nonsense UI.

It would actually go well with this site:

https://www.domcomp.com
They could have SSL encryption on this site and perhaps launch it under some government TLD instead of .com.
Exactly. It's not like they're going to call up the OP to give him status updates.
Wow, I didn't realize HN was now accepting spamvertisements for ISO27001 compliance services.
In the sense that he seems to have successfully trolled a CEO, yes, he "forced" the issue.
> I'm pretty sure Saudi Arabia never had nukes pointed at us or tried to.

This was in 1963. And they sure don't have nukes now, or are likely to acquire them. Not to mention that you're conveniently forgetting US nukes in Italy and Turkey around the same time, or the Bay of Pigs invasion.

> Why must the US reward the Castros?

Why should it punish the Castros while turning a blind eye to Bahrain, who is busy oppressing its population with a brutality the Castro regime hasn't displayed in a long while?

> Whataboutism isn't addressing my issues.

If you didn't address the issue from a moral angle, your position may look a bit more solid than it is right now. Why not admit morality has a very small role to play in international politics, whatever narrative government dress it up in for internal consumption?

> Sadly, knee-jerk anti-americanism passes for "intellectualism" around here.

Oh, I'm not giving a pass to any government, don't worry.
Wow, that was incredibly unprofessional on Yishan Wong's part. I can only imagine how rotten and horrible Reddit's work culture must be. No one could possibly pay me enough to work there.
If you make a demonstrably false statement, yes.

Simply because you shouldn't go around lying about people isn't really relevant tho...
I think they can be both. If you think about it, there are a lot of very good and valuable startups that are not necessarily new ideas.

Stripe is one of my favorite startups with a valuable solution and we use them for our client sites and our own products. To me though they didn't do something that hadn't been done before, what they did do was take a pain in the ass problem and made it stupid easy to solve. I am sure they have some amazing technology especially on the fraud side, likely something that could be called revolutionary, but in the end they started by solving a problem that wasn't new, just painful for everyone.

BTW -- not trying to take anything away from Stripe, but other players were already in the market with payment API's before they started. So in that since they aren't revolutionary in my opinion.
It is to use Estonia's digital services and does not give you residency.

Nothing stops you opening a company in Estonia now, but that does not mean you would only pay corporation taxes there (they are at 10% when distributed as dividends), your physical location plays a role too.
Just a few examples: reinvent the wheel (Redis uses its own event loop, strings library, and in general has very little external deps). Always backporting new features when they have little interactions with the rest on the code base, to patch-level releases of the stable version. Using data structures or algorithms which are not common. For example Redis implements LRU by random sampling. Taking extreme tradeoffs: Redis is also a store but the dataset is in RAM, Redis Cluster does not try to achieve theoretical optimum of CP or AP in order to win latency, lack of metadata, simplicity, and so forth.
yes I can see the need to manage the narrative. But this is bad management of the narrative, because a clearly emotional CEO is letting his anger show, instead of, as you clearly point out, being dignified and making a concise statement of the facts. The statement is not concise (in itself showing a tendency towards a rant), nor does it display the necessary humility towards an employee, who, no matter his faults, no longer has a job (unlike the CEO).
Well, the average 21st-century car already has "contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs" and we regularly converse through our avatars... Maybe it's one more eerie Stephens pseudo-prediction that will come true.
I see absolutely nothing interesting here, it's just an error management with an error list. I'm pretty sure that I have similar handlers in my own code too.

You can even find this pattern in strerror.c which is handeling errno.h [1]. this is a really old concept.

[1] http://opensource.apple.com/source/gcc/gcc-926/libiberty/str...
Why didn't he use Shellshock to update bash on the vulnerable servers?
But again, nobody is forcing you to use systemd. You are upset because you want to upgrade some part of your OS but not have systemd, even though the developers of the part you want to upgrade decided to use it. But you could just .... not upgrade. You could use Debian Stable, or fork the programs that are using systemd to take it out.

It's been years since I used desktop Linux, but frankly so far my impression of systemd is that it sounds like someone in the Linux community is finally doing some damned architecture work for once instead of just trying to build a desktop on top of a pile of historical accidents. I remember when GNOME 2 was being developed (back then I was a user) and the massive, rampaging flamewars about how GNOME 2 was killing Linux, how it was fundamentally against the UNIX way etc. Back then it was Havoc Pennington who got shitted on by the "community" for daring to suggest that maybe you don't really need seven kinds of clock widget installed by default. And now what I see is people forking GNOME because they love GNOME 2 so much and they don't want to switch to GNOME 3.

Back when I used to work on Linux related stuff, one of my projects was a cross-distro packaging framework. The idea was you could create binaries that'd install and be upgradeable on any reasonable distribution. We did a lot of work into binary compatibility and other tools so you could make binaries that soft-linked against libraries, etc. The amount of crap we got was unreal. A lot of people in high places in the community, especially from distributions, hated the idea that maybe people could just download apps from a website and it'd work. I think at some level they understood that distros competed largely on the size of their package repositories and if that approach to software distribution became mainstream they'd lose their "lock in". And some of them had internalised the idea that "Linux is great. Linux doesn't distribute software in the same way as other platforms. Therefore that's what makes Linux great."

When I look at MacOS X what I see is a very successful OS that has an architecture rather similar to what systemd sounds like (the OS X equivalent is called Launch Services). So maybe that's why distros are getting behind it.
Project Cybersyn and the origins of the Big Data nation
"From a great deli in Ann Arbor, MI"

In my experience, Zingerman's is overpriced and overrated. That isn't to say bad by any means, it probably still makes the cut for "great", but honestly I had better experiences at Bread Basket for much cheaper (with the caveats that this was years ago, and I've every expectation it'll vary depending on what you're getting).
An Infographic Every Boss Should See
http://www.jobs-salary.com/berkeley-postdoctoral-scholar-emp...

An intro postdoc makes 30k.

BA/BS researchers have a higher pay distribution (this accords with my personal experience):

http://www.jobs-salary.com/university-of-california-berkeley...
The Best Places to Find a Mate (Who Has a Job)
A CEO's job isn't to be "a fucking human being". It's to be the public face of the company, and represent its interests in all of his/her professional (and often personal) interactions.

To get stroppy like this abrogates that responsibility in such a way, and to such a degree, that it may well be actionable.
If you want to pay taxes only in Estonia, consult a Double Tax Treaty between Estonia and your country of physical residence. Usually you would be able to employ a person in Estonia to close deals/contracts to qualify. But read the document.

As soon as you distribute the profits, 10% tax applies from the Estonian end.
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If you walk into my house through the backdoor you're trespassing. Your intentions are irrelevant.
I'm not sure where you got the idea that we are proposing a language where nothing ever changes :p

Both Bloom and Edelweiss are ideas about how to model time/change declaratively ie without having to specify control flow or incidental ordering. That doesn't seem to be too different to Glitch. Whether you think of imperative code pushing updates to data structures or declarative code pulling updates from stream is a matter of perspective. Either way, you still have to figure out how to order and combine those updates.

Bloom takes the approach that each fact is true at an explicit point in time, so rather than mutating in place you simple define the state at time T+1 in terms of the state at time T. Both states are simultaneously accessible so you don't have to worry about what order the changes happen in.

Edelweiss takes the approach discussed in Out Of The Tarpit where the true state is just the list of input events and everything else is an incrementally maintained view over these events. Edelweiss makes this practical by analysing datalog code to determine when an input event can no longer contribute to the state of the system. This is roughly analogous to GC, except that instead of relying on pointers to determine unreachability it uses static analysis. The appeal of this model is that you can always explain the state of system to the programmer by tracing backwards through the views.
The best thing to have said? Really, nothing at all. There was no reason that anyone in the company needed to chime in and acknowledge (let alone contradict) what this guy was saying.
"Should we have in place a more specific NDA or a letter of intent of some kind?"

If you don't have a good lawyer to whom you could put this question, you'll probably get screwed in this negotiation.
My guess is that there's similar stories to be told about coffee and chocolate - both of which now have fanatical followings. I'm sure they've been been told, but I have not yet read them.

On a related note, This American Life recently did an interesting item on the birth of the artisnal toast - well worth a listen.
This is a really cool idea, and I like the newsletter layout. My only critique is that it's not immediately clear what the site is for, and the paragraph that spells it out (top-left), is not in a position that I would tend to read first (I went logo then skim "Art of the Propogator" quote). It may be worth considering giving that paragraph a more prominent place, at least for the first few editions (or maybe just the web version, since presumably people know why they gave you their email address).
The App That Aims to Let Anyone Put Bitcoin in Their Wallet
Really this a question that can only be answered by a judge.

The CFAA in the US might apply, section a.2.c bit is pretty broad: information from any protected computer). The wikipedia article is full of interesting bits and bobs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act

Though whether or not a DA would be bothered with investigating and building a case is a different story (probably not, unless there were lots of complaints and/or "serious" complaints).

I strongly doubt anyone, even at the FBI, is tasked with finding hackers independent of any complaints.
I don't know, hearing stories of immigrants with good degrees having to do menial work in Europe isn't that uncommon.
True in theory, but in practice, even HN is full of comments like "Google is evil because [link to a random unfounded speculation/whining of ex-Googler]" and people believe them uncritically.
To me, this sounds deeply similar to Germany's Max Planck Society. I wonder if that model in something to be emulated in the US as well.
(I'm not asking combatitively, I'm genuinely curious)

Wouldn't RedHat be the one to blame here? And the complicity of other distro vendors who also included it? RedHat doesn't back KDE, but KDE does quite well.
UPDATE:

And they're being removed:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/josephbernstein/new-york-city-to-adv...
Deosn't suprise me when the Estonian president has been quite actively involved with for example Slush http://www.slush.org/
1) Something always glossed over in the PR is we've been feeding "sick" people nutritionally complete liquids out of a can for decades with no real problem. Baby formula, and old people and cancer patients drinking Ensure and the like. Its really old stuff and heavily studied. What is new, is marketing it to people who are more or less healthy (as healthy as you can be on the standard American diet of junk food, anyway). I've tried left over cans of ensure. Personally not my cup of tea. Like a melted mcdonalds shake, kind of. Also tried baby formula, not impressed, like super heavy cream, sorta. This previous experimentation does not encourage me to try soylent.

2) Like it or not, admit it or not, we're mammals just like livestock or pets. It seems that feeding housepets scientifically designed food, every day, for decades, really does boost their lifespan compared to a diet of mice and bugs in the wilderness. This gets the anti-evolutionary people all found up, the mere suggestion that us people are animals too or that their god didn't create us separately from the animals ... Also if you talk to a livestock rearing farmer about what he feeds his hogs / cows / whatevers to fatten them up for slaughter, and then compare what he fattens his livestock with, to the ingredients on the food aisles at walmart, and then look at how round the shoppers are, I'm just saying you won't be too surprised. You can dislike it all you want, but we are mammals.
> What kind of comparison is that?

Mexico is a giant country with huge (though dwindling) oil reserves, and the advantages of NAFTA (all the Detroit automakers have relocated down there).

Cuba and the DR are similar sized geographically and demographically, and have similar climates and resources.

> The DR is practically a failed state.

Don't know why you say that, DR has been politically stable for decades and is economically similar to many other small Latin American countries.
Exactly, pre-cooked bacon was the thing. And it is a thing, at least in my house where it is trivial to put some chopped pre-cooked bacon onto the pan next some stir fried green beans and spinach and poof really tasty side dish.