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This is the actual article, that other one just has a quote and a link to this: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/04/18/bono-on-apple-you-can...
OK agreed. Perhaps that should have read "the best argument for fence sitters on why we need to clean this up is ..." because a disturbing percentage of Americans seem to believe torture was justified http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/new-po...
Interesting thought experiment. What if that party you voted for, which was the lesser of two evils, then commits an act that makes them worse than the other party? Do the people that were previously "on the hook" now switch to being blameless, since, they are now technically the voters of the lesser of two evils, and you now suddenly inherit all the responsibility?
Since the interview didn't go into your Tcl work I want to use this occasion to thank you for creating Jim Tcl. It is an excellent embedded programming language.

For those of you who are not aware of it take a look at http://jim.tcl.tk/index.html/doc/www/www/index.html. If you thought Tcl had to be big compared to Lua and others you will be pleasantly surprised, especially since it comes with UTF-8 support out of the box.
Part of the aggressive downvoting comes from people who have actually lost loved ones or lost money and time in road accidents and really really want this technology to get somewhere. If I had downvote powers I would have downvoted you too.
Voting for a third party sends a message to the two actual parties that they could get your vote if they took <distinguishing position of your third party>. Obviously, an single vote for a third party will not make a difference, but a single vote for a main party won't make a difference anyway. However, if a third party gets even 1% of the votes, then the two main parties would notice that and think about what they can do to win that 1% of the voting population.
Actually, they could definitely open an AL Fund that would be SEC compliant
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Politics are off topic here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6120530

You have the whole internet to talk about politics - do you really need to wreck this site with this stuff?

Also, haven't you people ever heard of Godwin's law?
Other companies have good marketing departments. They're not the unique part of Apple.

But, all parts are important. Every link in the chain holds up the final experience. Attempt to reduce it to any one part and you miss the point.

Quality is the word. It is holistic and irreducible.
The products are their own best marketing.
This seems extremely over the top.
First, I'd like to point out you are referring to something that isn't on the Kickstarter page, but linked to by it. You are talking about this: http://utter.io/prezo. Yes, it's a little out of date. Yes, I substitute the industry's word 'datacenter' for Amazon's term 'region'.

Three days ago I updated the longer video version from that page and put it on the Kickstarter page, down below the other video. In addition to removing other content, I edited out the amounts you are referring to because they change constantly and are less important to my pitch now I'm doing a Kickstarter campaign. Also, AWS added a 10th region to their list a few months ago. I don't 'count' the government cloud as a public offering.

It remains a truth that AWS runs out of ten geographic regions. So, 80% of the world's public cloud is run out of (by your math) <~40 physical buildings. Not a cloud, IMHO.

Besides, there doesn't appear to be any public information on how many physically different locations Amazon runs for AWS, which makes it impossible to say how many physical locations (datacenters) they run. I'm not 100% convinced that a 'zone' maps to a physical building, given my memory of ping times across zones and having issues with two neighbor zones at the same time in the early days of using AWS.

Amazon having different terminology than the industry's causes confusion and my comments reflected that confusion when I used the term 'datacenter' erroneously. FWIW, Rackspace calls their dataceneters 'datacenters': http://www.rackspace.com/about/datacenters.

Any remaining minutia related to this topic will be resolved by the end of the week. I'm updating Utter.io in preperation for the Kickstarter launch.
Not extremely, but yes, it's unpleasant. It counts the keystrokes and mouse clicks to prove activity and it takes one screenshot every 10 minutes which you can delete, at the cost of the corresponding 10 minutes not being billed.
> So, has it been 100% confirmed that NK is behind all of this?

There is no actual released evidence, only statements from government agencies. The information that has been released says that some of the attacks did originate from servers hosted by NK IP space. That's it.

NK itself says that they didn't do it, and that doesn't match their previous threatening behavior.
For anyone else worried about this, the best way to mitigate this going forward is to have secondary DNS servers.

Your primary DNS provider should allow automatic zone transfers. This makes it so that any changes you do to your primary service gets propagated to the secondary service within seconds.

Once setup you'll automatically have redundancy incase the primary provider starts timing out.
The ICC can't do anything. "The ICJ held that the U.S. had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors. The United States refused to participate in the proceedings after the Court rejected its argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. The U.S. later blocked enforcement of the judgment by the United Nations Security Council and thereby prevented Nicaragua from obtaining any actual compensation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
When I feel like it, I click on an arrow.
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Liberal Nader voters in 2000 were partly responsible for Bush getting elected, because they could have prevented it. Absent instant run-off voting or some other way that a third party can be viable, voting for a third party simply wastes an opportunity to vote against the greater evil. It sends no viable message. The 2 main parties will give it no weight whatsoever, as they have total control.
There's really no good way around this for iOS - it's really a limitation of how push notifications work vs. how XMPP is designed. You'll find that things like IRC clients have the exact same problems on iOS (similar problem space, similar protocol that expects constant connections).

If you want to do this for real, what you end up doing is implementing your own server backend that receives XMPP messages and then sends out push notifications to a mobile client. Generally a pain in the rear, but do-able. Getting your own iOS developer key & dealing with app store approval for stuff like this is probably the hardest part (for shops that aren't already doing mobile development). There are 3rd-party services that help bridge this gap: examples are https://pushover.net/ or https://boxcar.io/

If you're okay with a hosted solution and don't really want to deal with development or deploying a XMPP solution yourself, many of our clients have had good success with Slack (https://slack.com/)
The solution isn't to change which single point of failure - that is, DDoS target - you depend on, it's to depend on more than one network.

We recently went through this with another provider and wrote about it (http://blog.papertrailapp.com/dns-outage-on-monday-december-... the gist: "Relying on one DNS infrastructure, no matter how large or distributed, is an unnecessary risk"
I used to have a Clevercat litter box for my cat and she still tracked litter in places - not as much, but still. I replaced it with the Breeze litter box (http://www.tidycats.com/Products/Breeze) and I've been very happy ever since. Might be something to look into, although it doesn't solve the dog problem ;)

Big pellets easier to deal with if flung out of the box + pads (you can use cheaper chux instead) drastically cuts down on the waste/effort and heavy bags of used and new litter, and makes me and my cat happy because there's no litter dust whatsoever to make us sneeze. It's a little loud and smellier, but whatever. One bag of pellets is one month, one pad per week (for my cat) and it's about ~$10-12 from Amazon (in bulk).

There are some interesting workarounds for the box too, like I've heard of people using Feline Pine instead of the pellets and having the sawdust collect in the pad tray.
Anyone looking for an innovative mobile game concept?
I’m looking for a mobile game development team to realize an innovative game concept to mobile app markets. Game concept was a finalist in the 2008 Nokia mobile gaming innovation challenge. However our sponsor (can’t really say an investor) at the time went bankrupt; we first lost our motivation, then missed timing and finally lost our small gaming team.

Game is basically a 2D space shoot ‘em up. Key innovation in the game requires efficient processing of certain sounds recorded by phone microphone. In the proof of concept we’ve used FFT to analyze patterns. Not sure, if this is still the best way to do it.

During my recent university speeches, I’ve mentioned the game a few times and the response was strong, people kept asking me why didn’t we release the game. Today I don’t have a pipeline and a team for mobile game development and I’m not willing to create one.

To be clear, what can I support? Improving the concept. You need to finance it on your own terms or find an investor (I can also help you with pitching the concept) I think the game would be feasible for either somebody with a mobile gaming pipeline or some capable developer with a graphics designer friend. What do I want? A mention and a trip gift for two if you do really good.

Game is not suitable for long hours of playing. Game play inevitably draws some public attention and not easy to play in noisy environments (although there are workarounds). Concept is really funny and has sharing potential, that’s all I can promise. Anyway if you are interested please do contact me from linkedin for more. Best!
I used your salary negotiation piece, among other sources, to negotiate a ~15% boost in my offer at the company I started at about a year ago. Most money I ever made from a 3-sentence email and a 5-minute phone call.
He's the guy that loudly banged the drum for content marketing with BCC. The basic gist is that he hired a teacher (iirc) to write a few pages of "Bingo Cards for <x>" every month to have a unique page for a lot of different things. Try typing "US Presidents Bingo" or something and you'll probably get BCC as the first result. Patrick outsourced that page to someone working part time. There area /a lot/ of those pages on BCC.

Also, he made $4,000 an hour on BCC, so it seems like he's left with a lot! And even so, business come and go all the time. Doing nothing on BCC as it fades from $60k a year to $0 over the course of a decade while doing minimal work on it for the last half of that decade doesn't sound like a bad idea to me at all. Sounds like 'free' money.
I think it's unrealistic to assign success to a single cog of a large production, but I do think there is truth behind the power of intrinsic motivation over extrinsic motivation.
99% of all 2015 planning meetings have included the following phrase
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If you can guarantee #2, doesn't #1 become much more difficult?
With such a small subnet, the idea that all the various sysadmins who read this article are immediately going to run a quick ping check to confirm NK is still down, and that in itself turning into sufficient traffic to DDoS the entire country, makes me giggle a bit.
Another problem is that it can be used by others to justify torturing US soldiers, agents or officials that fall into their hands, if those others see the US as an enemy, and feel the US gov was conspiring or operating against them. That's not a world we want to live in. Torture is wrong, period. We're not the Good Guys because we wave a wand and say so. If we want to act like we have moral authority, and have credibility, and be able to show international leadership in the future again when there may be another major good-vs-evil rallying cause, requiring a coalition, then the US needs to maintain a certain image. But one based on facts, not on lies and contra-factual propaganda.
if all Apple made was junk, the best marketing department in the world couldn't get them anywhere near their level of success
No. You made the best possible choice when you made it. That's what makes you blameless. If when you made the choice there was strong reason to believe such shift would happen, then your culpability would be less clear.
Al Qaeda also initially denied responsibility for 9/11. It doesn't really mean anything.
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An easy argument to see that CRCs can be parallelized [1] is as follows. Note that CRC(a XOR b) = CRC(a) XOR CRC(b) per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check#Data_in... this allows you to do e.g. CRC(first_half || second_half) = CRC(first_half || 000...0) XOR CRC(000...0 || second_half). A bit of cleverness allows you to speed up the part with lots of zeroes.

[1] I've never implemented this, and I'm not at all sure that the proposed implementation is the fastest possible - and it's definitely not the most general solution!
Permitting large-scale "exploitation" requires large-scale irrationality, wouldn't you think? It's not rational to be exploited, and it's really not rational to be in an exploited minority.

One of the reasons the Marxists see this is that they see a trade in which one side benefits "more" than the other according to one scale, and scream "exploitation!" But... it's still a trade that benefited both sides. It may indeed still be a bit exploitative (and our laws have cases to cover this) if for instance one side is a monopoly or something; capitalism does not begin and end with microecon 101, after all [1]. But it's a different character of exploitation than one in which one side fails to benefit, and Marxist theory has a major hole in it where it has a really hard time explaining why an agent would enter into a trade in which it comes out behind by its own value system, when one can visibly see that no force is being applied. (Let me also forstall the fact that there are cases where force has been applied, but I'd say those are nowhere near sufficient to explain the modern economy.)

[1]: And let me underline that. Microecon is not the beginning and the end of capitalism, and it's not as if it has no problems. I'm interested in informed discussions of capitalism's problems, but one must start from a proper understanding of what it really is. In a more neutral context, one can argue about whether "real" numbers actually exist and whether they should be used mathematically, but this argument is not helped by getting wrong what "real" numbers are from the getgo.
Promising idea!

I don't own an iPhone so I can't try it. :-(

An idea for growing the user base is to get people using it at a big conference where you already have a bunch of people near each other, who are already interested in networking. You could get a few of you to go round convincing people to install it. I think having an Android and/or web version first is a must though.

Also might be good at co-working spaces to help people get to know each other.

Anywhere where people already have the urge to want to get to know people around them.
Extremely nice, very out of the box.

On TV in the Netherlands we have a program that aims to educate the public (state sponsored tv), every couple of months there is a new episode, they are listed here (but they are in Dutch): http://dewerelddraaitdoor.vara.nl/DWDD-University.2772.0.htm...

So far they were about the big bang, the quantum world, Einstein (All from Robbert Dijkgraaf, now director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton), The cow and silicon valley. They were always set in a large theater (with live public) with a stage full of props (Inflating balloons to represent the inflating universe, buckets of sand to represent the amount of stars in a galaxy, cameras on rails to represent relativity, living cows as well as all their nice parts of meat on display.) These "presentations" are very nice to watch and my wife who is not a scientist always enjoys them as well.

There are also museums like Nemo in Amsterdam (https://www.e-nemo.nl/nl/ontdek/brein/) and Naturalis in Leiden (http://www.naturalis.nl/en/), these places are filled with rooms with stuff to touch and experiments to perform. I'm sure the US is laced with those as well so it is not that ground-breaking of an idea.

A holo-deck would be the killer feature for this way of communicating.
Citation won't be given. Downvote instead (it's a throwaway).
Spoken like a true fanboy.
That link is about appropriate submissions, not the comments below the submissions.

As this article has already been upvoted over 200 times (implying some interest from hackers), trying to stifle further discussion is rather a lost cause.
It's all about limits, as systems grow in size and complexity and do more computational work you can build more massive systems. But at the same time the programming/maintenance work requires grows.

So you either need

1) a smarter approach
2) focus on whether the problem is tractable or not
3) If you're going to be ambitious you're going to have to pay for it.

Human beings aren't really known for their wisdom however.
Many other parts of the internet do more to encourage or tolerate or ignore meanness. That's what makes them other parts of the internet and not HN.

The degree to which StackOverflow has more actively discouraged these things and succeeded to a greater extent than HN is one of the reasons for its success.
At the moment, they are. But Apple has had plenty of flop products, and it was their marketing that kept them in the game and brought them to the fore, along with the iphone.
My dad used to work for Key Technology. They did some fascinating stuff. They had teams of hardware engineers trying to push as much sorting logic into hardware to meet the speed requirements they were looking for.
Almost all the time, for nearly every if condition or new function. When I've got the basics right I contiune with error handling etc and tests that also
I don't think it is : why provoke a country that has nothing to loose in a cyber war when mostly everything in the US is dependent on the Internet ?

Look at what happened to Sony (even if NK may had nothing to do with it) and imagine what would happen if NK decided to shut down several US companies 'Sony style'.

The financial damage would be tremendous for the economy.

IMO cyber war is a bit like nuclear war : the goal is not to use it, or life can become really complicated really fast.
question: how exactly do you prosecute the to bosses in a democracy? As the top bosses is the voters..So how will we prosecute the voters?
What the fuck is up with all these clickbait-y articles on Hacker News lately? The title reads like an Elite Daily headline I might see on Facebook, and the actual content is just blogspam rehashing a 2 year old article(http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/04/18/bono-on-apple-you-can...).
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I didn't say the design was bad. I said that no-one talks about their marketing department with this kind of fervour.

The converse is true, by the way - there are plenty of excellent designs that were relegated to the scrapheap because of poor marketing.
Actually, "people" don't object to spending money on education and scholarship that is not directly profitable to the student; you do.
If routers are being directly attacked, the router IPs can just be null routed, as they don't need to be reachable by the Internet at large to be the next hop for passing traffic between routers. Some networks use unadvertised IP space for their router point-to-point and loopback IPs for that reason. Guess it's not too surprising that North Korea doesn't have better network engineers.
Or it could be an actual false flag operation by the US to instigate something.... Something is very weird about their attitude towards north korea regarding this break in.
Not really. Either we are going to inhabit Mars as residents or just spend money on space tourism. If we're intending to inhabit it, then the deal has to be one way. Otherwise, sending machines is vastly more cost effective.
Yes it is like debt, but not exactly. Analogies always break. Developing an app isn't like building a house, for example.
exciting to be young and engaged in technology at a time like this
Start drawing random lines.

I got this on my first try:

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I got that by drawing an exterior square with a single entrance in the bottom right hand corner. I then drew a line from the top wall to the bottom wall parallel to the left and right walls. I then drew a diagonal line from about a quarter of the way down the right wall left and downwards towards the bottom wall. I then drew a diagonal line from about three quarters of the way down the right wall, up and to left towards the top wall. This blocks off most of the maze. So I'm not sure the algorithm works as has been described.
And Justice Douglass (from the US supreme court) agreed with that: "I thought at the time and still think that the Nuremberg trials were unprincipled, Law was created ex post facto to suit the passion and clamor of the time." [1]

Ex post facto is also explicitly forbidden by the US consitution (Article 1, sections 9, 10) [2], and by the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 11, section 2) [3].

On a technical level, you can argue that torture was already illegal under US law, however the torturers were advised by agents of the State that what they were doing was legal, so ex-post-facto could very reasonably apply. There may be people high up on the chain of command who can be prosecuted under US law, but for the most part prosecutions would have to go through international law.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials#cite_ref-reapp...
[2] http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_trans...
[3] http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/
Is this [1] the original message? How does anyone know this was actually uploaded by the Sony hackers?

1. https://www.quickleak.org/HFgbYdfG
What honest person interprets "response" as anything but "attack"? Seriously?

I didn't mean to imply that there'd be a body count attached to the "response" BTW. That's (hopefully) far-fetched. But an attack in the same way that hacking some computers and releasing some embarrassing information is an "attack"? Absolutely.

Isn't that the entire point of the quote? (And yes, I reproduced Obama's words pretty faithfully I believe. They were playing on repeat on the radio.)

I mean, if you don't think "response" means "attack" in a gimmicky "cyber-warfare" way, what does it mean? A strongly worded letter?

If I run over my neighbor's cat, and he says to me: "I'll respond all right. At a time, place and method of my choosing." Any rational person would have to interpret that as an explicit threat of an impending attack.

Just because politically it may be weaseled out of does not mean it's in any way ambiguous in delivery or intended reception to Joe the Plumber.
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