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> If you have your domain name from Gandi, isn't it a bad idea to let Gandi host your website?

Why? I'm with a small web shop for nearly 10 years for my private site, and happy as can be. You might say I'm putting all eggs into one basket, but for me it's rather a single point of failure, which so far never failed me. I expect if they, god forbid, ever go down or get bought, to be as gentlemanly as humanly and technically possible about that. I know you'll have to take my word for that, but let's just grant those things; so what am I missing that I should be worrying about?
"The accident occurred at 1:25 a.m. on westbound Interstate 80 in Citrus Heights during heavy rain,"

"Hertzell said the Lyft was traveling around 65 miles per hour."

I'd say settle quick.
And why do they want to operate out of a single factory?
I do, routinely. I get occasional admin challenge dialog boxes that are easy to deal with. Once in a great while, I'll have an issue with something quite simple, like trying to save a Mail attachment to a folder in Documents, and I get a "can't do this because you don't have permission to write to etc.". Annoying, but happens rarely and so far has always been fixable with a reboot.
Moral of the story: Use iMessage to text and use FaceTime Audio for your phone conversations.

It really makes me wonder where Apple will end up in all of this.

With the Australian Government pushing through a bill to allow for 2 years worth of metadata to be stored for every person in the country in a 30 minute rushed meeting... I really hope Apple strives for a technological solution to allow for the same type of user protection with all web browsing as well.

Is it technically a possibility that Apple could say, route ALL traffic from Apple devices through a secure non-trackable network before going out to the internet?

(by non-trackable, I really mean non-user-identifiable)
BD has a brief blog post testing knot strengths: http://blackdiamondequipment.com/en/experience-story?cid=qc-...
The real question is why don't credit cards and bank transactions have two factor auth, or one time tokens. Someone shouldn't be able to steal money just by hacking one account or getting one number.
tl;dr: Comey: "The Bill of Rights is inconvenient. We'd like to wipe our backside with it, and we need Congress to make that legal. Support such a law because $BOGEYMAN. Thank you, citizen."
Or higher rent prices would drive property values up, causing existing owners of real estate capital to deploy their capital to lobby for protectionist zoning. Which is what is mostly seems to be happening.
They're really not in this case.

play.rust-lang.org is a bite sized code compile \ execute environment that lets you play, explore, delect different compilers and share failed build to get help. Its fantastically useful ... but its not a REPL, and being one would in no way make it more useful.

REPLs are useful where a few lines can make a meaningful program.

That is not the case in rust.
And so what? You believe in the promise, and putting your money where your mouth is is one of the most powerful market forces. People are putting their money in BTC because they believe in it.
In no particular order, my favorites are:

Various podcasts from the BBC: Discovery, Documentaries, Science Hour
The Joe Rogan Experience
Stuff You Should Know
The Freelancers' Show
The Tim Ferriss Show
Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
Freakonomics Radio
The entire anime industry is pretty much the worst thing ever, economics wise.

The companies behind the anime (And there are generally a lot - not just the production studio) invest the money to produce it, /and/ to book the slot that it airs on. Anime ratings aren't great for the vast majority of shows, and the TV networks would rather just pump out a cheap talk show or similar and get better ratings if they're left in charge of things.

So, now you've got the show produced, have booked a time slot, and start airing your show. You're not making money off of the advertising. Where do you make your money, then?

Merchandising and dvd/blu-ray sales. So this results in the ridiculous quantity of merchandise anime series have.

And then the blu-ray/dvd sales. These are what really drives the market, and it's completely ludicrous. A season will be released piece by piece, 2-4 episodes at a time, for $30-$60 each. Buying a copy of both seasons of Fate/Zero, for example, would cost you $591

The sales of these pieced out dvds/blu-rays basically determine the life of a show - at a time where only the domestic market is purchasing. Streams like Crunchyroll have basically zero bearing on how the committees running the show view it's success. If domestic sales are good, a sequel is likely to be made. If domestic sales are bad, even if it is an absolute runaway hit elsewhere (and I mean fairly universally - something could sell well in China, the US, etc etc etc and if it didn't do well in Japan, it's still dead)

Add all of that together, and there's really zero incentive for westerners (Or any non-Japanese market) to not pirate anime, outside of the whole "contributing financially [in an extremely diminished capacity] to the people who made the product you enjoy".

About the only time they take notice of international success at all is when it's a ridiculous runaway, like Bleach, Naruto, etc.
This is an important article, but I doubt there will be a useful discussion of it here.

The developed world has incredible productive capacity. With 1% of the workforce in agriculture and 8% in manufacturing, the US produces as much stuff as China. There are no significant shortages of any manufactured good anywhere in the developed world. Quality is pretty good across the board, too. This is unique in history.

That's great. But there's less productive work to go around. We're out of buying power. Labor is worth less because there's a labor glut. Our economic system can't cope with that. On top of this, more of what most people can do is being automated, and for less money. Automation used to be expensive. Now, if a computer can do it, it will be far cheaper than a human.

The financial system has become primarily self-serving, running on self-generated zero-sum tasks. It's part of the problem, not part of the solution. If we had a capital shortage, that might be a problem. Instead, we have a capital glut, and no place to put it that produces good returns on investment. This is "secular stagnation", as the article puts it.

Japan hit this around 1989, when their real estate bubble collapsed. Japan never came back from that. There was hope that the Japanese would figure out something. 25 years later, they haven't. They've built up their safety net and put money into infrastructure projects, so that fewer people are suffering. That's the best they could come up with.

We have no successful model for dealing with this. What capitalism gives us by default is a small number of rich people and a large number of poor people competing for a shrinking pool of low-paying jobs. Nobody really knows what to do about this, including the people who say they do.
Here is a good idea that worked for us: Monitor all outgoing email with spamassasin.
If I'm reading this correctly, I find it surprising that Apple does not have a bug bounty program.
The trolling in posts below is top notch.
FWIW, I have an Asus netbook running Linux, and the trackpad seems to work fine and not exhibit this behavior. Reading the article, this seems to be a Windows-specific issue (or, more accurately, an issue with the Asus Windows driver).

Oddly, I also don't see the problem as described by the Asus engineers. Perhaps it's because Linux power management is different enough that it doesn't apply, or because it's a different processor type (dual-core Atom).

One would think they could at least make this a configuration setting so users may choose whether to live with janky scrolling in order to not have gestures turn the laptop into a space heater.
Released pangu8 1.1 jailbreak English version iOS 8 to iOS 8.1
Very nice project. Thank You ^_^
This was a weirdly defensive response. I'm actually a paying Fastmail customer (for about six months) and so far the service has been good.
It's not clear what programming language is being used in this blog entry from April 2014, but it does show a trick or two using a higher level function as input to the foldr recursive function.

This feels like it has some examples of how to use it and how NOT to use it, but there is some confusion expressed by the writer as well.
And what would he do about an international tip service that is not incorporated in Austria that pestered him like this?

The jurisdiction of almost any country besides the US in terms of what happens online is almost nil. I don't see the recourse an Austrian would take against an online tip service in China or South Africa that spams them with tip notifications.
How to Scratch Your Own Itch and Build a 6-Figure SaaS Business
>after her ordination

Nuns aren't ordained. They take vows but ordination is only for priests (or deacons).
I come away from this thinking that Omidyar doesn’t have any particular expertise or insight about running a journalism startup. He seems like a dilletante, trying to improve the world perhaps, but mostly trying to live an interesting life. Which is fine but not a recipe for success.

He’d be more effective either as a foundation giving grants to worthy journalists, or as a VC of same.
If only he/I could get an invite :(
Show HN: Python 3 home automation with Polymer/Material design front end
In order to view the the terms of service you must be logged in. It probably only has one term, "1. We own you."
This is brilliant, specially the UI. Loved it!
They're not marketed to cure a disease, they are "probiotics". They are using the yogurt rule

>Also technical note: these microbes are not unknown/uncultured/unsequenced. See MetaHIT, the Human Microbiome Project and the American Gut Project you mentioned.

Yes the are, we have metagenomics on them (v4 rDNA sequence reads) not full seq data. We can't ID which bug and then grow it. We just know some of its rDNA is in the mix. Being able to phylotype =/= known microbe.
I quite liked that it was possible to download my raw data file from ubiome. I got my first results back a couple months ago. Then I got sick and in a while I'll know precisely how a course of antibiotics devastated my microbiome (but killed what it needed to, so I'll probably live.)
There is a process of building unity by demonizing the "other" that you don't agree with. I think this is going on with many fanboys.

This article presents an example of a Microsoft Fanboy who attacks Apple because they dare to not be Microsoft.
My ISP (Comcast) support IPv6, but I had to turn it off because the router doesn't work with it.[1]

[1] http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Home-Networking-Router-WiFi/Net...
edit: missed the "unlimited" bit, i agree if you're buying an "unlimited" service, there shouldn't be an artificial cap

why not? if I only want to use a small amount of bandwidth per month, why should I pay the same as someone who uses 10 or 20 times as much? (I don't only use a small amount, but that's why i sprung the extra $10 a month to go from 500GB to unlimited)

having grown up with segmentation on both speed and quota, i struggle to understand why there's such opposition to the idea
I'm always annoyed that while pointing out that the right-wing extremist parties are stronger in the east than in the west of Germany, they really don't matter at all. Look at their numbers[1]. However, the left-wing extremist party "Die Linke" is a direct successor of the SED, which was the communist party of the DDR, is surprisingly strong [2]. Clearly, it shows the disappointment of the reunion of quite some people in eastern Germany. The disturbing fact here is:

The difficulties these regions face are a direct consequence of the exploitation done by the communist dictation (the SED). It took billions of euros to alone fix the environmental damage, e.g. in Bitterfeld [3](unfortunately in German). Also, the industry there was not on level to compete in the world market, how should it? State-directed economy might have theoretically advantages when applied worldwide by humans without human flaws, but in our real world it has been proven wrong again and again.

The damage done to a region by 40 years socialism can't be fixed within 25 years with 0.95 ... 2 trillion (!) [4] euros. But people still vote for the party who has done all the damage. (And I haven't talked about the personal damage that has been done by prosecution, murder and torture by the Stasi (the secret forces of the DDR).

[1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationaldemokratische_Partei_De...
[2] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Linke
[3] http://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/20-jahre-umweltunion-m...
[4] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosten_der_deutschen_Einheit
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Is it accurate to call this "lobbying"?
The Telcos have been documented to be in bed with the government for almost as long as they have existed [1].

[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2022653...
gandi.net came with free webmail.

I used name.com and they charge the price of another .com for webmail access. whois privacy costs extra too. gandi includes all these things at no extra charge. I'm going to be moving to gandi.net permanently pretty much had it with getting hustled by name.com
route ALL traffic from Apple devices through a secure non-trackable network before going out to the internet

I.e. make all connections through something like Tor by default? Apple technically could do that, but given the performance of the Tor network, I don't think it would be a good idea. (I think the similar idea of having every one of their desktops be a Tor relay by default would also face some strong opposition.)

And this lobbying is not so "secret" anymore now, is it...
That is a really poor argument and can be debunked with some simple thought modeling. Imagine a system where returns on capital are higher than labor, and there are a relatively small number of people with large amounts of capital and no 'socialist' policies in place to attempt to interrupt the capital flow. After a period of time, assuming everyone is working and investing if they have capital to spare, would the income be more or less evenly distributed? This result would occur outside of socialist policies so it's very doubtful they are the cause.
Have you directly expressed that you're looking for a co-founder to your prospects? Do you have a clearly defined mission for your business? If so, and you've told the prospects about your mission, their reactions should provide some insight into which are excited to work toward that goal with you.

I know that while I worked with digital goods, I was very intrigued by and pursued some challenges for fun when they weren't the best way to increase my income. The developers who are curiously attracted to the challenges you seek to overcome may be better than a less-interested but better programmer.
Earlier this month, FBI Director James Comey gave a speech arguing that the "post-Snowden pendulum has swung too far,"

There's a post-Snowden pendulum? And it's swung too far? In my country at least, the pendulum's swing appears to be unchanged from the way it was going pre-Snowden. If anything its swung further out - still in the same direction - post-Snowden.

Has there been some significant news in other countries that I've missed?
> ...the most educated and most productive free people in the world, people who through democratic institutions can shape their societies as they see fit...

I don't accept this premise. Voting is only a small input into the colossal self-propelling machinery of bureaucracy (and the government-to-corporations-and-back chain of what could be called pay-offs or bribes... ie campaign donations, to profit-increasing changes in government policy, and back again).
Only if you have some existing interest in the hardware in question. This is a hobby retro-computing project, for a chip that was popular 30 years ago.

If you want to get into a low-level, open source project that is relevant today, I would try RISC-V (http://riscv.org/). It's an ISA and family of processor cores designed to be competitive with the niche that ARM usually fills these days, but fully open source, with a freely implemtable ISA. Now, it's pretty new and you can't buy RISC-V chips yet, but it's done by a team led by David Patterson, who is one of the fathers of the RISC architecture, and it looks pretty promising as a new open ISA and family of processor cores.

Or if you want to work on hardware that is actually available today, ARM would probably be your best bet. Maybe try porting Linux, or an RTOS like NuttX (http://www.nuttx.org/), to an ARM SOC that it doesn't yet run on.
Nails it. Great quote. And you can't reverse the damage of this economic system overnight, especially when almost all of the young people willing to build and create something new have moved away.
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Capitalism requires growth, finite resources/demand can't always live up to it. I have always believed that the virtual economy / digital goods is really where most of the growth needs to be.

We are seeing lots of this but maybe not enough. The only limited resource in virtual worlds is imagination, storage, network and power (energy), but it takes fractions of what physical goods take. If we can pull something off like in Ready Player One OASIS or even just more participating in buying digital goods I think this is part of the solution.

Another area I think can help is loans/investments but of digital currencies. The world of funding could be revolutionized by bitcoin like systems where they are primarily for hoarding, but they are also perfect for supplying capital. Capital could be made available to the 99% out there in new interesting ways, shaking up baked in wealth of the 1% that is immovable at times of need. If there ever is a basic income, I believe it will be some sort of digital currency, a new currency might even start out that way.
FreeBSD is or at least was capable of higher concurrent connections per server, which is presumably why Whatsapp uses it. FreeBSD also has a reputation for performing more consistently and being more responsive under duress. These might be important attributes for a social network.

When comparing between CentOS and Debian, I'd say Debian's apt system is superior to the RedHat family's rpm system, both in terms of usability and when building your own packages. If you plan to run commercial software however, most are made for use on RedHat although that's starting to change with Ubuntu also being a target nowadays. So in general, I'd say go CentOS for commercial software, or Debian for open source software.
wow I never expected Berlin to be on East Germany.
There's a lot of conflation in this article between distribution and economic growth, which I think arises from the Spiegel's European perspective.

Going back to the start of the DAX tracking (mid-2011), we see okay performance in German DAX index, stagnation for the French CAC and British FTSE, and strong performance in the US S&P 500 and Japanese Nikkei. [1] Eurozone unemployment has soared into double digits of late, while in the US and Japan it is converging with the natural rate, <6%.

The economic situation in Europe is truly awful, in contrast to the US and Japan where growth has been respectable. But you would never have guessed this from the tone of the article.

The article raises a second narrative about inequality. Fair enough! But this is an orthogonal issue to Europe's economic malaise. The US is infamous at not distributing the benefits of growth. In the US, we have one thing that's working (growth) and one thing that's not (inequality). This is due to many institutional problems and governance decisions and it will be a lot of work to improve the situation.

The thing I found alarming about this was the way they denigrated stimulus. This is an area of major divergence between Japan/US and Europe. Nominal GDP growth, the measure of the 'easiness' of money (it's the sum of all money trading hands), has stagnated under the European Central Bank (ECB) while the US Fed (FOMC) has used stimulus to keep it growing in the United States [2]. If anyone believes the central banks have "run out of ammunition" as the article suggests, look what happened just last Friday in Japan: The BoJ announced unexpectedly high stimulus and the Nikkei instantly soared 4%, despite the fact that interest rates were already 0. [3]

The ECB needs to be more like the FOMC and BoJ. The Spiegel seems to think the opposite. It seems like the ECB's policy reflects this hawkish European perspective. And that's scary for Europe.

PS It's true that Japan has been stagnating for decades. That is likely related to the ultratight monetary policy they've pursued since the early 90's (as well as structural issues of course); NGDP actually shrunk there over 2 decades [4]. But they've been moving in a different direction lately, and the shift seems to be paying dividends.

[1] Drag the slider here back to mid-2011 to get a long-ish view: https://www.google.com/finance?chdnp=1&chfdeh=0&chdet=141499...

[2] http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2014/9/11/sauploa...

[3] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/31/nikkei-japan-stimul...

[4] http://uneasymoney.com/2012/02/13/japans-2-decade-experiment...
> In the wake of the Edward Snowden leaks, most lawmakers seem more interested in reining in government surveillance than expanding it.

Is there evidence for this? Walking out of Citizen Four tonight, my immediate thoughts were on how seemingly underplayed the issue has been this election cycle.
> Only idiots are communicating their addresses unencrypted

Yeah, I mentioned in the parent post that I was talking to someone who had done exactly that, but my writing was a bit unclear.
Meat addiction is destroying the planet
You live in San Francisco, what do you expect? When was it last a normal city?
I remember playing with the JS "Cat" interpreter[0] in college to get my feet wet.

but for myself, the fun is in writing a toy concatenative language. The parsing difficulty borders on non-existent, making it easy to skip to thinking about semantics. once you actually try to implement programs within concatenative syntax, you will surely run into its main pitfalls: there are too many valid programs that produce wrong results, and there are whole new classes of errors introduced through having to maintain stack state yourself. writing code in this style can develop into a complex puzzle very quickly, although it's beautiful when it does work.

[0] http://www.cat-language.com/interpreter.html
Hell yeah, Ilya Grigorik.

https://www.igvita.com/archives

"A word to the wise is sufficient." When he speaks, it's quite often relevant at a quantum level beyond your average tech post or presentation.
Base salaries are often only $100k but then generous vacation compensation, incentives, 2x and 3x overtime, and such bring it close to $200k. Gold plated health and other benefits often bring current compensation for CA cops (CHP, BART, SF, &c) over $200k.

Then generous pensions kick in. CA cops and firemen usually get full pensions after 20-25 years but the pension is paid not just on salary but a multiple of final year vacation and comp time. Pensions can be 2x-3.5x final 'base' salary and higher than any overtime adjusted salary. CalPERS is hoping for 5% above inflation returns but for a decade has made about 1%. At 1%, you essentially have to save or take on future liability for the whole pension during working life. No private employer provides these benefits after 20-25 years or on this basis at all because it would mean bankruptcy.

Public finance allows it so the total compensation of a cop getting $200k in salary, adjustments, and benefits is often over $500k all in. Some of that will be the bankruptcy and bailout.

Google "Vallejo firefighter bankruptcy" for details of CA's future public safety service.