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Haha, actually it's the other way around. Originally I had "The longer I spend in this environment" at the top but moved it when I thought it'd be good to start my comment with an example of a type of office environment I like the idea of.
or 410 Gone if the content doesn't live at a new location.
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Carriers not rolling out updates a) doesn't waive Google's responsibility to roll out patches to their largest OS cohort and b) is really all Google's fault because they let the carriers get away with it and have never reigned them in even after years of incompetence on the carriers' part.

It's not an excuse.
augmented reality's first home run will be in the mundane industrial sector where it can be used for training, inventory management, logistics, and any number of other things.

i take this as a cautionary tale of product-market fit. as mark andreessen says, where a market exists and a competent but not visionary startup finds itself, the market will often "pull the product out of the startup."

that obviously didn't happen here. i think it is because glass was both narrative AND product. narrative meaning that glass was supposed to be a transformational product, meant to elevate google from a search company to a product company.

they weren't going to let the product find its market (my thesis: industrial). instead, pushed it to the market they wanted it pushed to (consumer), because it fit a narrative they _wanted_ to be true.
You are probably correct, but it would better serve the idea that people are actually being paid for what they are worth...

"Worth" just gets to be too sticky of a subject. If I went to either side of my extended family and asked for a list of things that made someone "worthy" of receiving money, I would expect drastically different results. I think if we can't get people to agree on a choice, we have to restructure the problem to remove the need for a choice.

Plus, I think we'd be better off if all the "worth" that anyone needed to deserve some dignity was simply being human.

A lot of people like to think that BI is paying people for nothing. It isn't. You still have civil responsibilities, and upholding those responsibilities has real economic value.

Civic responsibility is important, but as with defining "worth", it seems one would be unlikely to get much agreement on a definition.
Beam Penetration
Relying on Google to mitigate problems sounds a lot like centralization to me.
It tends to fail much more noisily if you try to use an uninitialized variable - C will probably segfault (or end up removing a garbage string of probably-unprintable characters), Python and Perl will throw exceptions.
Urbit is postmodern computer science (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism). It is not intended to be a troll, but it is intended to be deliberately obscure so that only the elites will "get it". My personal opinion is that the emperor has no clothes, but I wouldn't bet my entire life savings on it. Curtis is crazy, but he's not an idiot.
lol, ok lets break this down Barney style:

Converting sunlight to electricity is a solved problem. The "energy crisis" remains unsolved.

Jailing processes is a solved problem. Preventing users from shooting themselves in the foot remains unsolved.

Now let us reexamine the post:

> ...would be a helpful thing to build into modern operating systems...

Already built in.

> Why can’t we also have something analogous where different files or other system resources are only accessible to applications that have been approved for that access?

We do. Solved problem. Now if we want to prevent users from shooting themselves, that is a different problem.

That last paragraph sure makes it sound like the writer is unaware of these solution's existence... but let us suppose that he knows about them and is coming at it from your perspective. In that case I agree, we don't have a solution in place - and I'd love to see one in common use. I'd think you'd be able to implement such a system through package management for the majority of software, an added chroot step. That is why I included distro and application devs in those that share blame for the problem. Users are also included, to a smaller degree, because this is a known problem with a known solution.
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Well, I certainly didn't expect that google search to lead me to the Unabomber's manifesto. Did you expect everyone to know that by name?
I think you may be right. Admittedly, most of what I said was really only applicable to a Genie superintelligence that implements our wishes on a command-by-command basis.

A friendly Sovereign superintelligence (i.e. operating under its own goal/value-directed volition) would probably not rob us of purpose, though the societal changes in either scenario would likely still be quite profound.

Of course, a positive superintelligence outcome would be a miracle in and of itself, so there's that. Coming to terms with a newly created utopian society sure beats extinction.
> attacks by a government against DNSSEC

When people talk about government attacks against DNSSEC, I assume that means co-opting the TLD operator and feeding alternate, signed, validated-to-the-DNS-root copies of a particular domain to some target. Is that not the mode of attack being described?
None of those 1-4 exist in any open-office-layout company that I've ever experienced. People playing foosball? They're in a room where the walls keep sound in.
Though it turned out to be irrelevant, I really enjoyed your spiel about "me-ware". The distinction between it and finished software is too easy to forget.
The line between patentable and not patentable inventions is very fuzzy, and always seems to drift toward allowing a little more each year.

That hasn't been true for several years, and the PTO has been very tough on software patents since the Supreme Court decided Alice v. CLS. The PTO is currently rejecting applications that fail the "machine or transformation of matter" test, although sometimes they can be argued out of a rejection. The Alice decision is rather unclear, which annoys everybody.

The "patent troll" problem isn't that big. The EFF's data indicate that almost all the bulk infringement claims come from three lawyers in the Eastern District of Texas.
The reaction images/memes are priceless.
Its the manufacturer's (HTC, Samsung ..) fault that they cannot be updated.
It's not what they spent developing Sovaldi -- it's the fortune the industry as a whole spends developing drugs that never make it to market.

That said, it's quite likely true that marketing is a bigger share of costs than R&D. Pharma companies are out there to maximize revenue, just like any other corporation. It's a reflection of the poor state of regulation in the US that we pay far more of than our share (compared to the rest of the world).
"Fuck it. Ship it." -- Betaworks

Variations on a theme.

http://www.startupvitamins.com/products/startup-poster-fuck-...
I'm sorry, but that talk is depressing. It starts with a grand statement that there's no such thing as threadsafe ruby code, and as a demonstration of that, it shows multithreaded code written by someone who had apparently never heard of synchronization primitives. It then goes on to explain how to use synchronization primitives to make your code threadsafe. It's like watching someone discover error handling for the first time.
> I'd rather take the first option. At least my reputation will still be somewhat intact.

I'd take the same option, but for different reasons: the customer's data. Only pictures of e.g. a deceased wife, no backup, and you just deleted them. You can arm-wave all you like about backing up, but you deleted them.
Urbit is not intended to be deliberately obscure. Communication is hard, especially with such radically new ideas. That's why we're building this repository, to lower the barrier to entry. Urbit is vast and new and often difficult to comprehend, but if there's any way we can help you guys understand it, let us know.
I live in Australia, so when I was a kid it wasn't called Radioshack here, but rather Tandy Electronics (same company though, different name). You could by electronic components; resistors, LED's, hobbyist kits, breadboards and all kinds of electric items. Then they started moving out of the space into more consumer focused electronics, eventually you couldn't even buy a a packet of LED's like you once could. Eventually forgoing non-consumer focused electronic components altogether.

Such a shame that a company as iconic as Radioshack is filing for bankruptcy. Would things have been different if they stayed in the electronic component/hobbyist side of things? Who knows. They obviously got out of the components game for a reason. Here in Australia we have Jaycar Electronics which is exactly how I remember Tandy being when I was a kid. Electronic components, educational breadboard/electronic kits, weird gadgets, DIY kits and more. They seem to be doing fairly well and best of all: no televisions or computers in sight.
Having the stability to chase higher quality clients without sacrificing the steady ones I have.
Tight deadlines, limited resources (programmers), limited budget, limited QA
I have the same frustration as you as someone who is also using Gmail (Apps version) in China. Even you can get through using VPN, but Gmail web is slow.

Sometimes I am even impulsed to make an email client that has all the Gmail features I love so that I can migrate to another IMAP-enabled email service like FastMail, but I know it's not easy even if I have already built http://ownmycopy.com which already does cloud-to-desktop backup for Gmail and has a viewer for Gmail labels and emails......

And sometimes I think, if I ever fight against the evil GOV, such a frustration is what make it happen. Well, this is just a thought, I'm putting me in danger if I wrote this in Chinese and on a Chinese website......
> Source? Evidence?

A few hundred thousand years of human history. What kind of a stupid question is that? Examples of the human struggle to clear difficult hurdles and advance abound.

No. Not everyone succeeds.

> You could have simply got a job and worked 10-15 hours a week to have your basic needs met and yet you worked your ass off.

That's the beauty of freedom. I chose to work hard, invent technologies, build companies and, as a result, create jobs for people like you who chose a different path in life. One isn't any less than the other, just choices. Yet not everyone is willing to take the risks lots of entrepreneurs will gladly brave in the pursuit of their dreams and ideas.

What is wrong is taking from those who work 80 hours a week to subsidize thise who only want to work 10. If you work 10 then you get to live the life 10 hours a week affords you.

I'll give you another example of this. Up until Obamacare our family was paying $600 a month with a $3,000 annual deductible for health insurance. After Obamacare we pay $1,400 per month and our deductible is fucking $9,000 per year. So we went from $10,200 per year to $25,800. And we are likely subsidizing people who want to work 10 hours per week. That is theft.

It is simple. If you want to choose the 10 hour per week lifestyle, fantastic. Do not steal from others to get he things your work ethic cannot get you.

You can't have it both ways unless you are willing to take risks and work hard to rise to a different level. Today I probably work less than 10 hours a week and make more per month than most Silicon Valley developers make in a year. That took effort, sacrifice, loosing it all twice, learning from mistakes and not giving up.
Cubicles are cheap and flexible, yet they solve the distraction problems open offices present. Who decided to knock the walls down when irrefutable data and science says otherwise?

> From anecdotes to data, it's been shown over and over and over agains that, in the general knowledge worker sense, they don't

> You can't measure a software developer's productivity in KLoCs/unit time, and you can't make development go faster by throwing more people at it.

So what metric do you use to show that open offices simply don't work? What reproducible scenario can I use (i.e. scientific method) that will demonstrate your stated inefficiencies in perpetuity?

> Knock yourself out with some studies showing that open offices offer higher productivity.

Can't say I've ever stated that. For the record, I personally don't find open offices to be effective, but that doesn't change my stance that an irrefutable conclusion is impossible to draw on this issue.
Great idea guys, this will benefit the visual impairment community greatly :). I had a similar idea several years ago but for the web. Where you could use a sighted person's eyes to navigate a webpage.
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The news on a radio station in my area commented on this, saying something like:

"...just like you recycle your milk bottles, cardboard etc. a company has tried to /recycle/ a rocket and it blew up...haha"

It made me sad since I knew it was SpaceEx, understood the complexity of what they're attempting and they reduced it to comparing it to throwing an empty beer bottle in a bucket.

I am relieved to see that SpaceEx is viewing it largely as a success/excellent learning experience; in my opinion they are by far the most exciting thing in science/technology at the moment.
Before you all rush out to book your flights to India to stock up on inexpensive generic drugs, read this article:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-06/flies-found-by-fda-...

It's a link I posted in this[1] HN discussion. Any amount of Google-fu can turn up a plethora of similar articles. I hope you're feeling lucky, because IMO the potency and efficacy of Indian generics is very hit or miss.

I don't mean to single India out. The "race to the bottom" is one of the overarching global themes of the previous few decades of late stage capitalism.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8773481
It's hard to be professional if no one wants or values it but you. The word your manager would use is "obstinate."

If they have not internalized the consequences of the risks they're asking their subordinates to take, they'll weigh what look like vague misgivings about "mumble, should be better, dangerous, blah blah" against the better understood risk of their bonus disappearing if the product doesn't ship on time.

Even if you choose to sacrifice yourself, your reputation, and your future prospects--again, if almost no employer in your industry would value what you call professionalism over short-term profits--someone else will ship the code you wouldn't.

That isn't a defense of anything; it's just a fact. Taboos (e.g. against bad code) don't work if they're not shared by the majority.
And the US continues to subsidize health care across the world. You're welcome world, you're welcome.

Ok, so that's unnecessarily strong sarcasm, but it has more than a few ounces of truth to it. Even Canada has significantly cheaper drugs because US citizens get the privilege of paying more.
It took me less than an hour to complete. I don't consider that great value for money.

How long did you take to complete it?
Excuse me if I think that sounds like a "We have to do something. This is something. So we must do this"-type argument.
I think the servers must be getting killed because the mobile web version loads incredibly slowly or not at all.

Also @rohamg I think there are some compatibility issues. In Firefox for Android I see only the site logo on a gray background. Chrome for Android loads ... eventually.
I'm not sure if we can all it a healthy ecosystem, but I guess most IT people here in China will agree with me that, while the Great Fire Wall's original purpose should be purely political censorship, it actually helped the growth of the Google-clone, the youtube-clone, the twitter-clone, and most other clones in this country, because the massive majority of the my fellow countrymen cannot access those original websites.
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By your definition, most state venture-funds are born to die. What you are describing is a structural issue, which while plausible, is not definitive the structure that a state VC will wield. Some very good examples of state VCs that did not fall into this trip are Temasek/GIC from my country (Singapore), as well as that of Norway. And yes, Termasek have a VC that does tech fundings too. They recently funded Snapchat.
I am distinguishing on the attacker, not the means. Sorry if that was not clear.

Of course DNSSEC is vulnerable to NSLs, but that is not relevant. What is relevant is:

- DNSSEC is vulnerable to nation-state attacks.

- The CA system is vulnerable to nation-state attacks.

- The CA system is vulnerable to attacks from any CA.
Irony of 5 sec review
This would be easy to study, figure out, and possibly come to conclusive results over: examine the budgets and expenses of pharmaceutical R&D departments.
A single FDA clinical trial can cost up to 100 million. Total spend to get a new drug to market can be as much as 1 billion dollars. Most drugs don't make it. So the successes have to pay for themselves and all the losses. And the potential upside to having a success must be worth the significant financial risk required to get there.
I think you've misread the parent comment.
A master of taking things out of context. Ugh back.
And follow the comments for more.
This is a textbook example of why some economic activities cannot be based on a profit motive.

There should be an international drug research agency, to which every country should contribute, and that agency should be responsible for exploring cures for diseases, by funding academics, labs, etc.
Why not 'Sharing things anonymously'?
Giving user a secret pen name or internet username to publish post.
Or maybe it was Magic Leap, which they invested in, and will probably be the next "Google Glass".
Richard Branson Announces World's Largest Ever Satellite Constellation
Not exactly abuse, but I think this app might be a way for non-blind people to get to know some random potentially nice person. Sort of like chat roulette but without the dicks.
Seriously, if you depend on heavily unreliable third parties to deploy critical patches to your product, your release mechanism is broken.
I wanted to call bullshit on those numbers, but wow. They're accurate. The math is almost exact even. It turns out 3.2 million people in the US have hep c (1%). Although most have no symptoms.

However the per year is bullshit. That's the cost to treat every person is California who has it. But it's expensive and popular because the cure rate is very high. That makes it more of a one time cost, not a per year cost.
And that would demonstrate that ultimately the system stays
in balance. And that ultimately the planet doesn't really
care about us at all.

So the planet will ultimately be OK, but what about the billions of individual plants and animals we're causing the (very often unnecessary) death and suffering of in the meantime?

(That said, I upvoted you because I think it's still a good post.)
It's weird to seeing people obsess over tiny little things just to please an algorithm.
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Telepresence in Dataspace (VPRI 165a)
Think what you want, but IMO 90 days (even rounded to the nearest patch Tuesday) is plenty of time to fix the critical security issue. Clearly Microsoft is acting weird here.
IMO... Design of the thing only took into account the technical side. If they're going to push new social norms... they should go full futurist. Maybe try redesigning the social cues... In lieu of a red camera light maybe some electrochromic lenses or mirror, and build social trust that way.
> It's worth keeping in mind that the Turkish government hi-jacked DNS resolvers; as-deployed DNSSEC would in no way have helped.

Entirely false! ! ! Please get your facts right. [Not talking about the 2nd part of your comment]

Yes, the Turkish government hijacked the Turkish DNS resolvers, so they were returning incorrect IPs for the twitter.com domain.

Yes, DNSSEC would have helped. The Turkish government does not have any of:

- The keys for the root zone

- The keys for the .com TLD

- The keys for the twitter.com domain

As a result, the Turkish government had no way to forge signatures for the twitter.com domain. All they could do was send a fake AD bit.

Using DNSSEC to validate answers for twitter.com from Turkey during the hijack would have failed. That is the exact purpose of DNSSEC.
While in others, it would make X a drug dealer.
I'm not sure it's radically new. Our machines only know one basic language and Urbit is an extension of that.
Cross-platform Python framework for embedding Chromium browser in a desktop app
This is true. If it works dont change it. I had many experiences with google and penalties. Now im afraid even to add a banner to a site because google might not like it.
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Whatever time frame Google would come up with Microsoft would still find a reason to delay past it and publicly cry out loud.
Probably to delete subfolders.
>Bitcoin, by definition, is not "centrally controlled."

Except if more than 50% mining capacity is held by a single entity, you know that.
Yep. Need line 123425938039 of a gigantic file? [0]

sed -e 'NR == 123425938039 { print; exit; }' < file

Fast as hell and takes no memory to speak of. Google 'awesome awk' for goodies.

[0]: Yes, this happens.
> others that Microsoft would just put off fixes forever if Google didn't do this.

People wouldn't think that if MS didn't have a long history of doing exactly that.
Elon Musk released crashed photos of Falcon 9 on twitter
Yeah, Google really should not really worry about discovering all those endless Windows vulnerabilities and let all those hacks (such as Sony's) to continue. Security by obscurity.
But if that external usb drive is mounted at the time (as in the case of the user this thread is about), then all data on that drive will be deleted.

For this reason, the recommened way to use things like rsnapshot is to have your backup directories owned by root and with permissions masked to something like rwxr--r--. If you then want to read your backups easily, you do things like mount it under NFS as read-only.
One of the funniest things was to see a bicycle pile-up in Amsterdam when a tourist walked into the bike lanes. OK, well, it wasn't funny at the moment. This jay walking thing is dangerous, cars or not.

I am all for personal responsibility. However, here in the US the driver would get sued to hell and back if a person were to jaywalk and get hit. Going back to the Netherlands, it was interesting to take tours of windmills and find no safety barriers between the tourists and the internal mechanism. Here in the US we'd probably add a full plexiglass barrier to prevent accidents. So I have to wonder how much of this is due to differences in the laws around the world.