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>Maybe, just maybe, post-Snowden and post-Sony hack, people and companies will start taking online security seriously, while at the same time, the main stakeholders of the Internet will make a solid effort to push everyone to more modern security systems that aren't based on stuff invented 20-30 years ago and are now unnecessarily complex + easy to hack.

It was only a matter of time. To be honest I could easily understand why a 60 year old exec wouldn't take IT security seriously. Even though they use it everyday, the recent "hacks" have only been a minor inconvenience to the companies targeted. Only banks and "younger" tech companies seem to take security seriously, because they have money to lose. Target had $0 taken from them when they got hacked. However now thats its clear that almost every facet of the company flows through technology people will no be more serious about security. Now that execs can't get paid and they lose money its an issue.

The SPE hack shows that if security isn't taken seriously, hackers will literally bomb you back to the stone ages. I'm sure any competent security engineer is now seeing their paychecks rise and their opinions taken more seriously. I feel bad for those that worked at Sony (moreso the employees - its not impossible that year from now their credit will be destroyed because some skiddy decided to use their SSNs to buy a hummer after the fact).

Even basic stuff - there doesn't even seem to be a post-hack disaster plan here too. Who knows how long it will take SPE to recover.
I’m wary of third-party repair facilities like this, especially for hardware. Having worked for a first-party repair shop, there are often times so many obvious fixes that require little to no effort that we would only know simply from the experience of seeing the issues repeatedly and knowing what works and what doesn’t, and our ability to get specific parts so quickly, and have repairs done in a few days or less would set us apart from shady third-parties who would otherwise take weeks to fix our equipment.

Thorough documentation on repair strategies and troubleshooting for all computer models is paramount to a good and fast repair.
It's kind of unfair to target lawyers in cases like this. The real problem is combination of a patchwork legal system and powerful people's willingness to exploit it for personal gain.

Lawyers are just the _means_ by which those people exploit the system. They're also the means by which people who are wronged can get justice, so they're exploitation agnostic.
But Google changed their TOS to forbid the app's actions a little over two weeks after the apps' changes were released. So you could say it's more like, "Google changes terms of service in order to remove Amazon app from their store".
If a group of people comes together, discusses, and comes by some process to a unanimous decision ("consensus") then it does usually make a lot of sense to regard the outcome as the "will of these people".

The point I am trying to make through the last n posts is that Arrow's theorem does concerns the impossibility of a certain, narrow-minded formalization. It is therefore incorrect to conclude that 'the "will of the people" is a nonsensical concept by Arrow's Impossibility Theorem', which is what you had claimed.

I have nothing to say about the people and churches of England.
>What makes the perspective of someone in a position without power more authentic than the perspective of someone with it...

General conservatism. People who have something to lose, be it money, fame, power, prestige, credibility, etc., will always weigh the benefits of their actions against the cost of losing what they have.

And they should. People with power are taken more seriously. Guys like Buffet can move the markets just by talking. But I think sometimes people don't WANT that kind of power/leverage when they write; maybe they just want to explore ideas, write for entertainment, or something else without all the hassle and baggage that status brings.
The app would have to display an ephemeral UUID that a bouncer/cashier could scan and independently query to the central server on their device.
We need a standard to measure up to when correcting what is just vs what isn't. The standard should preferably apply to all involved.
This is pretty subjective, but I honestly enjoy a certain amount of negative comments.

When I click a link on hacker news and end up on a project page, it’s generally all positive. You go to some new kickstarter and you don’t see “This product I want to build is alright.” You see “This new thing I’ve got is AMAZING!”. Every startup landing page tells you, at length, why it’s the best thing since sliced bread. Most github project list off all the things they’re good for.

When I click on an HN project link, I generally get a page telling me how awesome that project is.

So when I go back to the comments afterwards, I want a counterpoint. I’d like a list of things wrong with the glowing self-review I just read. I handful of “Gee, that’s nifty!” comments might be nice, but they don’t really help me evaluate the thing I just read about, and they’re not terribly useful for fostering interesting discussion.

This isn’t as critical for some software products where I can reasonably evaluate their merit on my own, but there are a lot of areas where I’m not an expert. If some post comes along with a tool that it claims will revolutionize farming, I’d love to have someone with a strong agriculture background come by and explain why it’s not nearly as good as advertised.

Of course, there’s a long ways between “this is shit!” and “This is neat, but here are some flaws.” I’m all for criticism being constructive, rather than destructive, but let’s not throw out useful negativity. When people put up sites telling me how awesome something is, it’s quite valuable to have reasonably well informed people arguing the other side.
Computer security in the business world consists of security groups in AD and a password policy based on 8 characters and asking staff to nicely not share their passwords. It's a huge joke and will continue to be because the technology isn't there and senior managers are not going to jail when these hacks happen and it comes out that they were incompetent and thought they knew what they were doing because they were nominated for a CISSP.

I'm about to walk away from the corporate IT world because I'm over beating my head against the desk while people who literally can not turn a computer on without a 1 hour demonstration tell me they know better.
(Put on a big tinfoil hat)

I'm doing some conjecturing here, but could hacking in the 21st century and cyber warfare be the new virtual/online 'rioting'?

For example, Sony aides the US army since it is affiliated with Rockwell Collins and Future Combat Systems, so it would make sense if 'socialists', leftists, progressives, and anarchists seek to destroy conglomerates where they get a large chunk of their profit, disabling any funding of the US army, since the majority government's ideology does not align with theirs. Whether these 'minorities' are citizens of the targeted country or not, this group of intelligent people seem to be growing increasingly disenchanted by how things are being played out in the world. We see it among hackers in North Korea and the Middle East. Increasingly, Japan's racist past has been brought up in the media lately, yet Kazuo Hirai allowed a racist movie for the sake of comedy to be funded. (For those not in the know, Japan is going through a period of negationism with its politics being controlled by ultra conservatives).

Post-Edward Snowden, it seems like there is very little hackers, developers, etc., can do that is not political or at least aiding or taking away from some socioeconomic issue. It's sad but it seems we are all somehow weakening the System or helping it. Sure, I'm not saying we should all worry about it. These are just the observations of an amateur.
I've had the same thing going for about a year now with some 7" andriod tablets I got from Aliexpress for $45 each. This is absolutely the way to go for smart-home stuff.

I found some fat picture frames at Walmart that attach them to the wall perfectly. Mine have front facing cameras so I used motion sensing to fade them in as you approach them. Its creepy-cool in a good way. Sadly, they don't fade smoothly all the way in from black like an iPad. I'm hoping to upgrade later to jailbroken ipads.
Jim Morgan [1] had this (relevant) mantra:

"Bad news is good news. Good news is no news. No news is bad news."

Essentially, it means:

Bad news (criticism) done right will show you where you need to focus to improve. That's why we upvote those comments.

Good news will give you little or no actionable items to improve.

No news means you are not getting any feedback, which means your progress will stall.

[1] I worked (far) under Jim Moran when he was the long-time CEO of a huge hardware tech company: http://www.appliedmaterials.com/en-in/profiles/james-c-morga...
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It depends on your use case. If you have a family, a big pot is fine. If you go through several coffees in a day, a larger pot is fine. If you are single and want a cup of coffee on your way out the door, a single cup maker really fits the bill.
I've been a software developer for about 5 years. I love working on my own projects but feel really stressed and bored at a coding job.

My escape plan is to move to B2B software sales. I know I might be optimistic but it has all the points that are appealing to me.

- large salary based on performance (good luck working your ass off on that API or optimizing product for a fixed salary)

- no programming (so I have brain cells left to work on my own projects after I come home)

- profit generation culture (when you are a cost overhead like many engineers, you tend to be treated like a machine and measured for efficiency, you tend to compete with other engineers, I'd rather be paid more to win and I love a good race I can run on my own against others, not have senior engineers or managers slow me down.)

- Everyday is a new ball game
Ask HN: Is it ok to use the same name as an existing service?
I had an idea for a side project/service late last year and but haven't had time to implement it yet (busy with $DAY_JOB). I did get the .com domain and the major social media properties for it. They were all unregistered so I registered them all. All of it is still empty as I haven't started work on it.

I recently noticed that someone else has created the exact service I was envisioning with the exact same name. As the .com was taken (by me) they registered it with a different suffix.

Ex: I was planning foobarservice with the domain foobarservice.com and they registered (and went live with) foobarservice.blah.

I'd still like to pursue this idea and I really like the name.

Would it be wrong to do so? Answers for both the moral and (IANAL-qualified...) legal question would be appreciated.
From my understanding it's mostly about build times and maybe a bit of better code minification snuck in. The current gradle build process with the android gradle plugin is really slow for larger procjets. My last project took 15 seconds to compile hot and over a 1 minute to compile from cold start. This adds up when you need to make a build and see it on a device to make sure it looks right.

They are also making improvements to a UI editor/preview but that never replaces actually testing on a device. Speed to build is a big feature here.
probably because they have other Amazon devices (Kindle, fire etc...), because Apps sometimes are cheaper or they prefer to make payments on Amazon.
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> Critical thinking is overrated constructive thinking is underrated.

Non-critical constructive thinking is useless. "Critical thinking" is not opposed to "constructive thinking".
It's actually an array of choices that have to be made consistently every day for many years, and which vary in difficulty from person to person. The choices could include changing homes, jobs, friends, all depending on their influence over the person's other choices. Nobody literally chooses to be obese and diabetic.
A question regarding TTL. If changing the TTL value of a record will speed up (for want of a better word) when that record is available to the DNS server, why would you ever set the TTL to 3600 or more? I understand that there is some kind of caching going on but I don't actually fully understand TTL and what is ideal.

Any advice/insights/explanations appreciated!
The Internet is a medium full of ads and self-promotion. A sizable number of articles on blogs, including this one, are of the form "why X is great", by someone selling X. We have plenty of boosterism on line already. Some negativity is useful.

This is a big problem on Wikipedia. In the old days, five years ago, most of the self-promotion on Wikipedia was by bands and DJs. Now it's companies and rich people. There are at least three rich convicted felons, famous for their crimes, with their own paid Wikipedia editors trying to launder their history.

It helps if the negativity is not anonymous. That's why I edit under my own real name.
I did receive education on the risks of the internet, starting in elementary school (around 4th grade). In grade school we where given school-district emails, which we used to communicate with teachers, get information from the school district, and could use to talk to other students.

I still remember when we where first given these, because our teacher gave a very long warning about using the internet. I remember the exact phrase "whatever you put on the internet will be there forever, and you can never take it down. Think about that before doing anything."

This was about a decade ago, but I grew up in Redmond, Washington, so my education is probably very different from other peoples (at least regarding computers).
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I'd much rather read from film critics about which films are good to see, rather than bloody myself and waste my time seeing five terrible films to find the one good one.

Folks have too narrow a view of what critics do. Critics critique. That can be a hugely beneficial thing. Ever had anyone proofread something for you? That's criticism. Ever had a mentor or an advisor? That involves criticism. And contrary to Roosevelt's comment, criticism can be a very worthy thing.

'Criticism' is not synonymous with 'disparagement'.
For those who are curious, Part 1 of Chandler Carruth's Pass Manager talk is avaliable here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY02LT08-J8 (slides: http://llvm.org/devmtg/2014-04/PDFs/Talks/Passes.pdf)
No but its used more and therefore in my mind overrated.
It's probably something that needs to be built inside appliances.It's called "demand response"(with relation to coal power, but the same tech should apply for solar power), and there's a big push behind it , including bills.
Theoretically yes, but I think with standard Facebook ad units and regular consumer brands sold in stores they'd be pretty unhappy with the results...

(since probability of giving stores your contact details post purchase and susceptibility to marketing messages pre-purchase are probably positively correlated and Facebook is permanently running concurrent trials of different kinds and being very selective about what they share, any positive effect they did manage to identify should be viewed as an almost certain overstatement of the ads' actual effectiveness anyway)
Spanish lobby that made Goggle News to shut down now asks for EU intervention
In less than 24 hours, which is quite funny.

AEDE, which is the organisation that lobbied to create the "Google Tax" in Spain that made them shut down Google News, is now asking Spain and EU authorities intervention to avoid it. In their words "they are willing to negotiate with Google" [1]
The announcement of shutting down Google News has been previously discussed in HN, just this morning [2] with a good summary in English from the top comment [3]

[1] http://www.abc.es/medios/20141211/abci-aede-editores-google-news-201412112017.html (sorry, in Spanish) Google-translated here: https://translate.google.ie/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.es%2Fmedios%2F20141211%2Fabci-aede-editores-google-news-201412112017.html&edit-text=&act=url

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732859
[3] http://cfenollosa.com/blog/spanish-media-just-shot-themselves-in-the-foot----or-maybe-in-the-head.html
Google changed the terms of the Developer Distribution Agreement, I don't believe Amazon was violating Google's terms when they initially put it in the play store. This article has more details: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/12/11/google-may-have-forc...
4chan thread: http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/45579191
This is incredibly clever. We have a completely separate, but equally crazy hack that we were thinking of using to implement this. But well done. And so glad you like it :)
Thanks for proving the point :)
It's also worth realizing how profound YC and pg's influence has been on early-stage tech.

Off the top of my head: startups being seen as a legitimate career path alongside BigCo/academia, greater founder control of boards (almost unheard of post-Series A a decade ago), willingness to fund people without "track records", higher relative value of ideas, etc.
I actually find tl;dr to be more immediately dismissive in tone (and therefore occasionally negative, whether it is intended to be or not). A summary implies you actually read something and are trying to boil it down.
Prosecutors know how to get an indictment when they want one.

We hear that cases involving police killings get treated differently in an effort to have more transparency, or perhaps to allow grand juries in these cases to make a "more informed" decision. I don't buy this anymore. It doesn't provide more transparency, it plants doubt in a group that isn't supposed to be wrestling with any notion of "beyond a reasonable doubt".

I served on a high-profile grand jury case once. I came away deeply disillusioned with how this process is said to work, and how it actually works.
Apparently it is an exclusive from this cocksucker for the establishment https://twitter.com/amir
An IT exec at a Fortune 100 company once described it as, "With 25K, someone can get into our network. We just need to make than # higher than most of the other companies out there. We can never be 100% sure as long as it's real people involved."
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This is related to something I occasionally think about.

I used to take a lot of pride in 'critical' thought. Certainly I frequently take this attitude toward the things floating around in my head, and I like that.

But I've learned not to do the same for ideas from others, especially in short comments on the internet, where it's basically a given that the other didn't fully express themselves anyway.

'critical' thought isn't all there is. 'constructive' thought is important too; maybe even more important. It's easy to be a critic and find 10 things wrong with another idea. It's harder, riskier, but more rewarding to then prioritize which of those 10 things should be worked out first and in what way.

If someone throws out a half baked idea. You can critique it. Most people stop there. But you can also continue forward and construct on top of it, propose changes, make it better.

I now try now to be not just critical but constructive in most parts of my life.
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er that's a tea break and these sort of breaks are supposedly for the blue collar workers (eg working on the line at audi ) if your salaried you are supposed to be adult enough to manage your own time.
I don't really buy the theory of this all being due to the education systems of Western culture. In my 20 years of education there was very little emphasis on challenging ideas or proving them wrong. I'm almost tempted to say that there was absolutely none. But as you can see from this very message, I'm totally happy to write a knee-jerk negative reply.

What I believe is really happening is that it's hard for a yes-man to add any value to the conversation. "What great points you have! Totally agree! +1" is going to be just noise. It takes a large amount of effort to simultaneously agree and add something to the original article. In contrast it's very easy to add value by pointing out any parts that are actually wrong, or by highlighting areas of disagreement since that's likely where the meat of the issue lies. (Of course there's going to be a threshold at which the value of pointing out errors is lower than the cost of the reply aggregated across all readers, such as pointing out insignificant typos or grammar mistakes).

Finally, I strongly disagree with this: "But pointing out all the places other people are wrong rarely teaches us anything". It probably doesn't teach anything to the person who disagrees, since they hopefully are already familiar with whatever issue they're disagree with. But it does teach something to others. And a place where people go to learn but nobody teaches sounds pretty miserable.
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Maybe this is just the efficient market hypothesis at work - everyone has (thinks they have?) figured out the signals that lead to success?

In any case, I wonder how companies with such massive escalation in their valuation will hire and raise subsequent funding. It really makes me wonder, you look at companies like Uber with $xx billion valuations, what's left for someone who joins now as an employee or investor?
The article says that the diorect link still works, so they were just delisted from search.
Matz, now get started on implementing transducers! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mTbuzafcII
Sorry but some negative comments are necessary and very good for society. People constantly try to peddle lies in the media and on the internet for their own benefit.

The sooner those lies are shot down the better. I have been reading a lot of financial articles lately, and i have to say at least half of the financial editorials i see peddle some idea that is false and/or extremely harmful to anyone that believes it.

A critical mind is absolutely necessary to survive in modern society. And when one expresses critical thinking one is just helping others.

Of course as with anything one can always go overboard. Some people exhibit a type of reflexive negativity, they simply dismiss everything that is new and different without thinking much about it. I think PG called this "the middlebrow putdown." One should always consider things carefully before criticizing in public.

But saying negative comments are bad in general is just wrong.
Only something like 11 cases out of 160,000 the accused has not been indicted. The prosecutors can already "automatically" put everyone through trial.

Not to mention plenty already "have their financial lives destroyed" through the Civil Forfeiture law.
No excuses. Just need to boost/sharpen some skills and apply for jobs that aren't in the rust belt. Nothing holding me here and I have the ability to re-locate.
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Whether your coding is up to par is for your employer to decide, you don't need to worry about it.

Find a remote programming gig, or just do a few hours on elance.

I had similar feelings when I was working tech support, now 13 years later I'm not coding so much anymore and am now managing devs.