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As someone well versed in the affiliate space, I can say that a lot of the hate comes from the highly-visible low-quality affiliates out there.

People associate it with the most intrusive forms of online advertising including spam, toolbars, pop-ups/unders, misleading ads, annoying banners, and much scummier stuff.

It also doesn't help that is a strong association and overlap with the "get rich quick" folks.

There are definitely affiliates out there that add value, and affiliate programs in general can be a very profitable channel when managed properly. But there are MANY bad actors out there, and just as many eager newbies ready to take what they say as gospel based on promises of quick cash.
"it's slow"
"just write a C extension"
"but then why use Python?"

Because you typically need to write a C extension for like 2% or your code, while you could keep the remaining 98% in an easier to write (and more compact) language.
This has been confirmed by Apple
The space needed however is miniscule. You would be lucky to get any ad dollars whatever for a 1 inch by 1 inch web space.
As if to drive the point home.
If the end result is better, people will use it. At some point in history people were probably emotionally satisfied by knitting their own clothes. I'm sure some still do this for fun.
There seems to be some kind of dictation-based input
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Well, I assumed you'd want to spot that error before it happens rather than when it does. The exception being thrown by the assert (at run-time) means that the user sees the failure. That's sub-optimal, right? So you'd ensure that there is testing of all code that calls this code in order to trigger the exception ahead of time if that occurs. Or am I misunderstanding? It just seems that the assert applies the constraint too late in the process. It doesn't ensure you have the right type once you've deployed. Instead it ensures failure on wrong type, which is something different.
I'm not an expert an the matter, but surely something like that could be challenged under privacy laws or even unlawful search and seizure.

The legality of stingrays hasn't been brought before a court yet as far as I'm aware, and it sounds like law enforcement and prosecutors are in no hurry to allow it to be.
Oh, I agree, I just mean the previous pans I've used. My daily pan that I share with my roommate was $15 and is already warping and starting to become more difficult to clean.

My next pan will be in the $40-50 range (started scoping them out) but that's still 4-5x less than a Pantelligent pan.
You're measuring the surface temp of the skillet right? (Just clarifying.)
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>Then i'll just say you don't understand me or the folks that work for me.

I'm sorry, Google is a publicly traded company. Are you really saying that if there was a clear business reason to release proprietary LLVM modules, Google would damage their stockholders and continue to release them freely?

I don't think I understand you. I never made that claim. I do think that corporations exist to make money. I don't think this is unreasonable, and I think it's unreasonable to ask me to take such a leap of faith in the opposite direction of common sense when considering any corporation, even one as benevolent as Google.

>It is in fact, possible with GCC, despite your claims. In fact, all you would have to do is change the C and C++ runtime libraries (which is entirely doable nowadays). That's it. The FSF knows you can interpose stuff legally as well.

The GCC is released under the GPLv3. There are some libraries inserted into compiled code with a linking exception, but it isn't clear to me how you could release a fork of the GCC under a proprietary license.

If you make that claim, you're going to have to explain it in greater detail, because you're essentially claiming that the GPLv3 is totally toothless. My apologies if I've misunderstood you.

>Forking again was considered, by all the companies and people involved. But it wasn't worth it to any of them to have to have political fights with the FSF over software development every couple years, when they just want to get shit done.

I understand the desire to get shit done, but in some cases, you have to realize that there are dangers associated with charging ahead regardless of potential consequences. There's a reason why nuclear plants are rigorously regulated, even if a lack of regulation would probably cause more shit to be done.

And actually, none of this discussion about GCC or the FSF or whatever is even relevant. The authors of LLVM could have just released it under the GPL. They chose not to.

So if that decision costs the free world its compiler, they're who I'll blame. Not Google, unless Google was involved with that decision.
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Nope. Check the dev forums @ Apple.
Encryption without verification is not useless; it protects against snooping.
With the nuance that C forces you to deal with those never use these hacks in order to do anything non-trivial.

I can't see why anyone would go and mess with CPython's internals like that in production code. Other than for nefarious purposes, I guess.
As a colorblind person, this is actually quite useful. It's probably significantly easier to use this than constantly checking using a meat thermometer (and needing to wash the thermometer between checks lest you contaminate cooked meat with residue from when it was raw)﻿

edit: To clarify, trying to cook meat by sight as a colorblind person (at least for me) typically results in either raw meat or dried out overcooked meat.
If you bothered to RTFA, it's not stingray.
Regardless, there's a line: press intimidation is unacceptable from any company. Even if the press is biased and has an axe to grind. If their reports are factually untrue and you have evidence to the contrary, write a press release and present it publicly. If this happens to a reporter enough times, they'll be branded unreliable. If their reports are factually correct and the facts therein piss off your customers, well, that was always a risk of doing those things in the first place.

But this type of stuff has happened to Uber enough times that they've developed quite a shady reputation. Uber has lost the benefit of the doubt in many people's eyes because at the very best, they hire shady people to do shady things for them. At the worst, they're stalking private citizens and intimidating them to keep quiet.
Issue 18323: Need more bits (64-bit Mac version)
Password Security: By the Numbers
They haven't written the optimizing compiler yet. They are waiting.
Great article the gist I get from it is: running an experiment in computer science is easy (just ./bench), running an experiment in computer science in a correct way is hard. I agree with this assessment.

This plotty tool [0] seems interesting and valuable - but I'm not sure how it relates to the problem the author talks about.

[0] https://github.com/jamesbornholt/plotty
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I'm a bit confused, because this comment mostly seems in vigorous agreement with what we actually did. We restored the story to the front page, where it still is. But let me try to address your concerns as I understand them.

The posts were obvious duplicates, so we did the routine thing and demoted all but one of them. It's true that we didn't merge the threads (which we've recently begun doing in many such cases), but IIRC that's because most of the discussion in the other threads at that point was about why they weren't the Buzzfeed story. Did I get that wrong? If so, it was for the mundane reason that at 1 A.M. I was tired and less meticulous than I try to be.

By "seems destined, etc." I meant that many people here obviously cared about the story. "Media controversy" doesn't strike me as absurd at all, but let's not quarrel over wording; let's seek each other's meaning instead.

FWIW, my personal opinion is that, assuming the story is accurately reported, it's outrageous. But it's our duty to try to factor personal opinions out of moderation decisions.

You seem to be complaining that HN's front page isn't decided by votes alone. It never has been; it has always been a blend of voting and curation. Voting alone would cause HN to be dominated by outrage, gossip, fashion and promotion. That would kill the site. [1]

I dislike that fact as much as any HN user, and probably have more reason to dislike it. But there's no question that it's true. It's so true that it's an interesting question why it's true, given that this is a community of smart people, and I even have a whole theory about it... but I'll spare you.

1. I'm just echoing what tptacek already said in this thread, as well as regurgitating what I've posted dozens of times, but it does seem necessary to regurgitate.
If you love experimenting, Pantelligent gives you repeatability and data that you've never had before (Freestyle Mode), and the ability to walk away from the stove or get distracted and still keep an eye on your meal. You're still the chef -- Pantelligent is just a powerful tool.
Really? You don't know anyone who has a special-needs child? The public at large can be very unkind to any who aren't "normal". And that's leaving alone those disturbed individuals who just like to "break things" and are just looking for a target.

Even simply exposing that information is a threat, possibly causing a chilling effect - which is exactly what this Uber exec wants.
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Not considering the many holes, cyphersuites, running TLS 1.3+ etc.

( http://wingolog.org/archives/2014/10/17/ffs-ssl )

...it should probably look like this:

Safe against active attacks:

Encrypted (Certified) COOL GREEN

Safe against passive attacks:

Encrypted (Self-Signed) SCARY ORANGE

Safe against world peace, ie. UNSAFE:

Unencrypted EVIL RED
From chrome://chrome/ on Mac OS:

Version 39.0.2171.65 (64-bit)
Awesome! We hadn't thought of that specific use case, but that's great!
iCloud Bypass ActivationiOS 8 jailbreak
Wow, of all the arguments I could think of against the current CA/TLS/HTTPS situation, a hobbyist deciding to write their own web server would not be one of them... Yes, you should just conform and stop doing this. Or at the very least you could let another process to TLS termination and just handle HTTP if you really want to create your own off-by-one remote code execution errors instead of using the ones supplied by apache et al.
And replace your helmet every five years: http://www.smf.org/helmetfaq#aWhyReplace
As a die-hard Real Madrid fan as well as a technologist that's becoming more and more interested in what Microsoft is doing lately, I applaud this initiative.

Now if they could just open-source some of their training methods, diets and tactics/game analyses... Could that work for making Real Madrid and European football even better? Would love to see that.
My biggest problems with this:

Why would I choose this over a $180 Anova Precision cooker, or any other sous vide cooker?

With sous vide methods, you don't need to worry so much about the internal temperature of the meat when starting, because you can guarantee a homogenous temperature with enough time. With this, you will need to worry and check - just as you do now. Heterogeneously defrosted chicken, like the kind that happens when you try to defrost in a microwave, may be undercooked in some areas, overcooked in other areas. So there's no such thing as "set it and forget it" for the average consumer without fresh, because, let's face it, the average consumer doesn't always use fresh chicken.

There's no mention of support of induction burners.

Meat (aka pork and beef) will suck, plain and simple. It's going to be too hot to cook meat to a perfect doneness (maybe not with an electric burner)... but definitely not hot enough (nor with enough thermal mass) to generate a nice crust or a steak or a chop without (what I would consider) overcooking the inside.

For fresh fish, risotto, curries, etc- sure, I know it can excel there- but I don't want a $200 "set it and forget it" fish cooker, especially when there are guaranteed sous vide methods which can produce high quality food, and the saucy stuff is pretty easy anyway.

If you would want to try to change my mind, you could send one to Dave Arnold to evaluate.
Also, never forget blinkers at night!

Headlights aren't a bad idea either.
They're probably highly compressible as well.
If you want to give people freedom to modify and distribute your code, then that is a freedom as per the same dictionary that I use. I have no problem with its definition.

Freedom to, and freedom from, both include the word freedom. They share philosophical ideas, most which originate from the ancient Rome. The question we are having is how to solve the paradoxes which said philosophy created.

I thus personally prefer to use the word liberty rather than freedom. Liberty is commonly understood to have a philosophical connotation, while freedom is more associated as mechanical concept. A slave can reach freedom by running away, but to gain liberty, they got to be given rights.

(Not to imply that BSD isn't granting some liberties. It is. The above is about the word freedom.)
Exactly! So logically if Grothendieck also fell when dropped he was a witch!
http://robots-everywhere.com/re_wiki/index.php?n=Main.AudioS... If anyone wants the android serial output app (I did this in 2010, one way only though, fwiw) it's here. Their circuit is simpler, though - this was designed to work with a Parallax Prop or an Arduino. However, my app will work with this.
Is that not the point of his remark? As I understand him, he's implying that Larry Wall is the only one who knows more about language design than Rob Pike and Chris Lattner. Therefore, we should listen to Rob and Chris.

Or maybe it's your comment I'm misunderstanding?

Edit: Ah. It's been pointed out that perhaps your own remark about Larry Wall was intended as sarcasm (or, equivalently, was intended as a paraphrasing of the quote above it). So it's probably the latter.
It's a gateway tool into good cooking - I can see users actually making something tasty and impressing their friends for the first time with this. That will make them want to learn more.
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may be just like Sweden - just say "No" to war and declare to be neutral. Well, it worked for almost 2 centuries until

"The accession to the European Union in 1995 meant that neutrality as a principle was abolished." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_neutrality)
I find this type of work within companies (like google's famous 20% rule) an interesting contrast with non-tech companies. At a "normal" company if you attempt to spend time doing something of this sort, you'd get immediate pushback from higher ups who would likely say "this is not our core competency". With the secondary excuse being that they would not want to release any work like this for fear that it would help the competition.

It does raise the interesting question of whether facebook employees are doing this work just to avoid the work that is the "core competency" of the company. Especially given the fact they don't gain a competitive advantage from releasing the work that facebook paid for into the wild. By this I mean, the company benefit would seem to be attract other talent. And the personal benefit for the devs is to get their name out there are something cool and interesting. Certainly, working on the best way to advertise to users is a lot less exciting/sexy than working on static type checking for javascript.
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This seems to be in line, albeit with a different conclusion, with the Pew research into age and political leanings. It seems unlikely that political preference is tied to naming in that direction, rather popular name cycles occur during periods of political popularity, or infamy, imprinting those political views during the formative years.

http://www.people-press.org/2011/11/03/section-1-how-generat...
Beta tester here. There's a built in ruler/selector for thickness. The temperature of the pan surface actually changes depending on the starting temperature of the salmon and given the conductivity of aluminium and the location of the embedded sensor, you do get a good approximation of the temperature at the interface not at the dial. The temperature actually drops immediately when you flip a piece of food or add something in, so the app can tell when you've done something. It's pretty neat!

It's true that if you start with a really dry/old salmon, this won't magically make it not dry.
I think it could be one of the IBM Bluemix services in future. It is very likely that most of the IBM SaaS services will be hosted in there.
The SSH approach is exactly what I was thinking of, where you know the fingerprint of the other side you're connecting to.

I believe verification should be done out-of-band, using some other way (e.g. advertising) to transmit the fingerprint to the users. I've used self-signed certificates to collaborate over HTTPS with people I know in real life, and all I do is give them little pieces of paper with my cert printed on them.
Your First WatchKit Glance
"As I exhaled I became terribly afraid, my heart very rapid and strong, palms sweating. A terrible sense of dread and doom filled me -- I knew what was happening, I knew I couldn't stop it, but it was so devastating; I was being destroyed -- all that was familiar, all reference points, all identity -- all viciously shattered in a few seconds. I couldn't even mourn the loss -- there was no one left to do the mourning. Up, up, out, out, eyes closed, I am at the speed of light, expanding, expanding, expanding, faster and faster until I have become so large that I no longer exist -- my speed is so great that everything has come to a stop -- here I gaze upon the entire universe."
There's some interesting research out there suggesting that head/neck injuries are actually more common among helmeted bicyclists than the non-helmeted. The factors include the extra weight of the helmet, the size of the helmet causing the helmeted head to strike the ground when an unhelmeted head would not have, and additional risks taken by helmeted riders (think: risk homeostasis). Unfortunately I can't find the link that was making the rounds a few months ago.

In my own personal anecdotes, I have had one major bicycle wreck where I somersaulted into a car, one bicycle wreck where my chain snapped and I flung myself over the bars onto the street, and a couple of low-speed (~10mph) motorcycle offs where I collided with the ground but my head did not touch. Though there was one motorcycle case where the side of my helmet dragged on the ground slightly from about 5mph; it's arguable whether my head would have hit.

That said, I have hit my head incredibly hard snowboarding, after catching an edge at very low speed ("last run of the day!" type thing), and always always always wear a helmet every single time I ride a bicycle or motorcycle or snowboard, just as I always wear a seatbelt in the car. It's just a habit, and a good one.
I think the point of IBM Design is that it's not the same people.
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I'm sorry it came across as a taunt, I didn't mean it like that.

Downvote sprees without an explanation detract from healthy discussion since they basically mean "I'm so mad about how wrong you are that I don't even care about why you think you are right".

I guess I'll just ignore them...
Try to sell him on type-inference first?
Take a look at any of the popular skeptic publications, e.g. skepdic.com or sciencebasedmedicine.org, or at many of the numerous 'takedowns' of popular books that get posted on sites like HN or BoingBoing. The thing that most of these articles have in common is that they're generally designed to discourage people from reading the actual original sources. The whole value proposition is basically "you don't have to read this book about X, because we'll read it for you and tell you why it's wrong."

The problem is that skeptics themselves are wrong as often as not. And worse, the people reading these blog posts and articles never figure it out because they've bought into the idea that the original sources aren't worth reading. And the skeptics know this, so often they wildly distort the arguments of the original authors since they know they can rack up millions of pageviews from people who will never be the wiser.

Worse still, these people claim to be well-educated, when in reality they're basically destroying the Internet and undermining democracy. One site that I think gets it right is Amazon, because when people leave 1-star (or 5-star) reviews of a book without having actually read it or are wildly misrepresenting the ideas within, it's at least significantly easier (if not always easy) to tell this because of the surrounding context. But in general, while the ideas that skeptics profess to believe may be laudable, ultimately the whole worldview is like a game of telephone; even if the original analysis of any given subject was correct, once it's filtered through a dozen people who don't read books listening to other people who don't read books, all that's left is hollow dogma.
Beta tester here. I have both and use them for different things. Yes, 50 minutes in an Anova and finishing/searing for 5 minutes on a pan will get you a great medium rare steak. If I'm in a rush, I will use the pan and make a 90% as a good (okay, hand waving here) medium rare steak on the pan in about 15 minutes.
I was presently surprised moving to Australia to find that it was compulsory to have a helmet while on a bicycle.

Many on my cycle run have been attaching go-pro mounts to their skull cover; I wonder how ineffective it renders the helmet if you landed straight on it.
I'm in your camp on this one. I asked my self, "in what context could I say that?" and the answer is pretty bloody obvious. When I'm angry, and Uber gets a hell of a lot of smear in media.
There seems to be very little info on that page other than that it's a grill of some form. No video?
How closed-source/open-source are the recipes? Are they stored in something like hRecipe [1] format? Can users edit them, or is that held within the company?

[1] http://microformats.org/wiki/h-recipe
Men, tho'. So no one cares.
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Because it was written to do (certain) things very fast.
Hi ska, we understand. As engineers and chefs, we were also skeptical and curious as to how well surface temperature feedback would effect the pan cooking. So we built it, and the answer is that it worked far better than we imagined! Like, it's really, really tasty. Within a reasonable range of inputs, we found that the "other [variables] are at least as important" was an incorrect assumption. Surface temperature and time, when controlled via an adaptive recipe, really is the biggest upgrade you can make to your cooking.

For salmon in particular: yes there's an input selection of thickness. For steak, there's doneness and thickness.
I'll believe in cross-platform .Net when Microsoft releases Sharepoint for Apache.
Multiply the number of downvotes you have by 10.

That many years. At least.
Similar to google now cards. Showing travel times based on appointments, flights, etc. Also, exchange rate if I'm abroad, and gate changes/notices.

Some of those are less feasible if you have to keep it on-device, but perhaps Google Now offers an API?
There are actually 4 different types of Apple Watch apps:

1. Glances

2. Actionable notifications

3. Extension WatchKit apps (extension runs on iPhone, view runs on watch)

4. Fully native apps

It appears 1, 2, and 3 will be available for the initial launch, while #4 will be available later next year, probably starting with a beta released at WWDC.
He's disagreeing about Larry Wall.
That would be stupid. Google is a US company. NSA has NSLs. Mission accomplished. No certs involved.