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The three-book series on the Third Reich by historian Richard Evans[1] (the author of the essay kindly submitted here) was recommended to Hacker News readers in a comment in August 2014. I am glad I saw that recommendation. Three volumes of thoroughly footnoted history covering a lifetime (Bismarck's era to the end of World War II) in a large country was a lot of reading, but I'm glad I plunged in. The Allied war effort against the Nazi regime was a big part of the young experience of several of my uncles, and undoubtedly shaped the childhoods of both of my parents. And of course the result of World War II redrew the map of Europe. I think it's useful to be aware of the facts (and Evans's book series digs deeply into the facts) and not just the legends about the Nazis.

Anyway, the Nazis still have followers today. I have been doing research on a younger generation (that is, people with birth years like my parents, in the 1930s) of neo-Nazis[2] in the postwar era, and there are even people younger than that (birth years in the 1980s and 1990s) who haven't learned enough about Nazi history to know that the Nazis are no example worth following for anyone. We must never forget.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Third-Reich-Richard-Evans/dp/01...

http://www.amazon.com/Third-Reich-Power-Richard-Evans/dp/014...

http://www.amazon.com/The-Third-Reich-at-War/dp/0143116711

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Nazi-Connection-Eugenics-American-Soci...

http://www.amazon.com/Funding-Scientific-Racism-Wickliffe-Pi...

http://www.amazon.com/Race-Racism-Science-Interaction-Societ...
I'm surprised to realize this: Firefox must be the best browser there is, in order to fulfill its mission.

Shouldn't be so surprising in retrospect (like many things), but I never fully got that before.

Power comes from being chosen by end users. Firefox needs power to be able to resist this kind of crap. In this case, they didn't quite have enough power (probably because they let memory bloat get away from them a few years back, giving Chrome the upper hand which is has done a decent job of holding on to).
Yep it sent me to Pizza Hut too but there were a couple redirects in there. Looks like some shady affiliate bought the domain and sending ppl to Pizza Hut for commissions. Pretty funny IMO!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_sign
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In the "options" page for the Chrome extension there's a whitelist tab.
still not able to block youtube ads, thanks, but no thanks. I´ll stick with adblock edge.
I have feared throughout this 'discussion' that Title II designation will mean more restrictions on the kinds of services that insurgent local networks (especially mesh networks) might provide.

For example, it's not at all hard to imagine that this will mean that a local mesh network must provide the same level of access to foxnews.com that they do to local music content, despite the local content being far easier for the network to deliver.

If anything, this might mean that this small number of large companies now faces less plausible insurgent competition.

Although, for my part, I'm in favor of separation of network and state generally.
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Didn't make it past the 1st sentence. Any article that begins with "It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is going to be so full of similar misinformation that I'm surprised the author hasn't embarrassed himself to death. From the comments, I see that I'm not wrong. Rat park, though, is a really interesting story.
There are some alternative theories on this, too. The one I learned was the sign being derived from the Pillars of Hercules (two vertical bars) with a banner (the "S") wrapped around it, reading "[non] plus ultra", as adopted by Charles V for the Spanish coat of arms and later stamped on the reverse of Spanish dollar coins.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Columnas_Plus_Ultra.png

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar

[Edit:] There's actually a bit of irony in this, considering the Pillars of Hercules were marking the end of the world (as lined out by the banner "non plus ultra") and the minted silver coming from the New World beyond ...
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I wonder if there is an viable alternative to YouTube. I find the idea intersting and could see people gaining something from watching others code, but sadly live streams are yet another thing I cannot use without a proxy.

There seem to be legal problems with them in Germany or is it some European law and other countries are also blocked? Does anyone know what exactly the problem is? Just potential copyright infringements from audio in the background e.x.?
It was the latest party in Western world that launched a World War & proceeded to coldly, methodically and institutionally to exterminate groups of people based on their race, skin color, belief.

Now the reason I mentioned the War is because the War they started was lost by them. Had they won, who knows what the history would have been like.

It is also worth mentioning that US population has not necessarily been that terribly outraged by what Germany was doing. There were German communities that celebrated the fall of Paris at their Octoberfest festivals. Also Eugenics was going in full swing in US has well. Sterilizations of "inferior" people was praised as the new way forward.

US businesses have not exactly come clean in their dealings with the Nazi germany. Especially, IBM and its Hollerith tabulating machines. Those have alledgely been using in concentration camps. And those were not just buy and forget type deals. They had to have IBM technicians go visit the sites to fix and maintain them. For all I know, IBM hasn't opened their archives yet to be scrutinized for their connection with the Nazi Germany.
Did you enable the 3rd Party Filters?
As much as I hate Oracle / IBM contracted software (my alma mater paid Oracle more than $600 millions to replace our university portal, and half of what they did was customize existing ecommerce system to fit our need), compare to this project, I feel much better about the new portal Oracle delivered to my alma mater.

Look, I am okay with the contractor subcontracts to 34 other contractors. I will take that as hiring consultants from 34 other consulting agencies. But I can bet with my life they were all working in vacuum and in a full water fall model. No doubt we need to start with analysis, and propose a possible solution like database schema and migration, but one can still work with other parts of the project iteratively, e.g. front-end and some other micro-services. I also suspect contractors hire offshore which can further complicate the development process as one has to deal with language barrier (kind of a minor issue) and timezone difference. FYI I do work with offshore day-to-day and the one I work with are excellent.

Like healtcare.gov, and the fictional (but based on real life stories) Phoenix Project, there was little to no human resource and IT capacity planning, and management oversight is completely broken with 35 contractors involved.

I cannot underestimate the complexity involved in migrating old data, but I bet if we gather a bunch of database professors they can probably come up with a pretty good database migration plan and a new database schema design.
> I'm more concerned that twitch.tv is already good and has it's own culture developed for this.

Twitch is ok, but it is against ToS to stream non-gamedev programming. These rules aren't enforced strictly though.

VOD support for twitch sucks. Personally, I prefer my videos not getting deleted after 14 days. So that's why I stream on youtube.

As for the other stuff, we have a few ideas(most of them vague). One of them: auto speeding up "boring" parts of videos(e.g. silent thinking) in recorded videos.
It's what they were making per month in October 2014. How is that misleading? Their costs don't appear to be that substantial if you watch the video.
If the proposal says nothing about video and decoupling it, then internet companies can still sell you TV and internet, effectively selling you data twice. But they will have competition they can't squash from netflix, youtube, amazon, hulu, and many other places. I would think this would be a net loss.

What does it mean for competition between internet providers though?
How interesting.
'Paisa' used in India as currency also sounds like peso, however, seems to have different origin:

"""The word paisa is from Hindi & Urdu paisā, a quarter-anna coin, ultimately from Sanskrit term padāṁśa meaning 'quarter part', from pada "foot or quarter" and aṁśa "part".""" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paisa
> There seem to be legal problems with them in Germany or is it some European law and other countries are also blocked?

It is a stupid law in Germany. :(

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/qLbjw...

"Because of the German law (RStV), you must have a broadcast licence from the media authorities when you make a live stream that can reach more than 500 people at the same time. Not getting one would result in a fine of up to 500 000€.
However, even if you would have one, Google might need one as well (because they somewhat are the "television channel") and they don't have one (if you do stuff that is against German law in your live stream, Google would lose its licence because of you)."
I have never seen a single YouTube ad with uBlock and Chrome.
This may be a good place to ask this question -- I think I saw a website which had videos of how well-respected experts write projects from start to finish. So, if I were interested in learning how experts in golang write a web-service end-to-end (design, DB, write, test, deploy, debug), I could watch those videos and learn the right(ish) way to write a web-service in golang. I'm sure I'll learn a few other things too (like how they replaced a block of code in vim in 4 keystrokes where it would have taken me 12). Does anything like that exist? If not, then that sounds like a fantastic opportunity to me.
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Does ublock still block crash reporters like newrelic and self hosted party statistics like piwik?

PS, I had major issues on two mainstream travel sites with ublock. It made then unusable with ublocksl's default settings.
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I left a comment in TFA with links to the regexes I used to update this gist.
Exactly, this is what I always wanted to say.People working so hard here to remove this tag.
Personally I find a couple of hard drives in raid at home the most reliable photo backup strategy. It doesn't protect them from natural disasters, but these are much less likely than a cloud service being bought/sunsetted. I can not even trust Google Photos because since it's not Google's core product I have to assume they can decide to discontinue it overnight any time.
Would a bug be more practical? Then they don't have to worry about which brand of TV it is.
Browser plugins were never standardized. NPAPI was just done at netscape, later used by some other browsers too, but not all - not by Internet Explorer, in particular, which has its own plugin API.

At some point Google proposed standardizing PPAPI, a new plugin API (and a very large and complex one), but it met with no interest.
At a theoretical level, it wouldn't be too difficult to write a C interpreter from scratch, with enough simple obfuscation that detecting what it is interpreting really would start looking like strong AI.

And even if such a sophisticated program were written and somehow managed to not take up too much CPU time, it would at least probably result in rather large binary size increases in whatever it's injected into... even Linux isn't so big that a few hundred kilobytes wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
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Pretty much, yes. The telecoms protestations to Title II have very much the ring of "please Brer Fox, don't throw me into the briar patch."

What they want most of all is to be totally unregulated and have no competition. But that isn't long-term stable. That's how you get everyone to hate you with such a passion that it causes everyone to get together and do something about it, and they have to know that. But if Title II and network neutrality will keep the public's rage at a simmer rather than a rolling boil then it means they don't have to worry about a stronger backlash like widespread construction of municipal fiber.
I use a bunch of these: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007UZH7B8/ref=cm_sw_su_dp to accomplish the same. They are a bit pricey for mass-deployment unfortunately but have led to some very interesting insights about power usage.
I should be clearer. They didn't specifically reject me for that. There was just a sense that the interview wasn't going well from that point forward. They may just have felt that their request was clear and my response was smart-assed, and in truth that is probably fair.
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"For all I know, IBM hasn't opened their archives yet to be scrutinized"

In a post photocopier era, if you downsize a quarter of a million citizens (probably more) over several decades and nothing surfaces, that proves nothing exists. Maybe everything was shredded in a big cover up in a pre-photocopier era. Maybe, perhaps most likely, nothing ever existed.
Denying 3rd-party resources by default is nice, but definitely experts-only. Pages will break in weird ways when half their rat's nests of JavaScript are missing, and it will take some coding knowledge to figure out which parts are necessary. I may switch to this myself, but I think I'll keep telling friends and family to use Ghostery
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-t...

Update 16. It went out on Friday.
Other people in this comment thread made good point about value for viewers, so I'm not going to focus on streamers in my response.

> blog, tutorial video, stackoverflow post, book, etc

Well, how does one records a tutorial video? It is not that easy, there are a lot of details: language, library, length of video, format(i.e. what things to explain, in what order, etc, etc). Streaming is straightforward, you code as you normally would and explain stuff as you go. As for information density, I think it is possible to speed up "boring" parts(e.g. silent thinking) in recorded videos. We aren't 100% sure, but we're coding a prototype.
I would love to chat. My agency helped to take one of our clients to #1 grossing in both the itunes and google play store for education using primarily paid social advertising.

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Not even bizzaro IMO. Everyone knew this was coming and was priced in. When it wasn't as bad as it could be the stock price went back up.
The ideology that underpinned Stalin’s policies of mass extermination died in 1989 with the fall of communism, but the racism that drove Hitler’s lives on in myriad forms that continue to trouble the world today.

The opposite is true. While countries like North Korea and Cuba continue to experience the joys of communism in all its range (from genocidal to merely impoverishing), the west is so obsessed with not being racist that we will let heinous crimes slide, or even actively cover them up, like in the Rotherham sex abuse scandal.

I do wonder why communism gets a pass. Is it because they won and had half a century more for propaganda? Because intellectuals like the idea of central planning?
I imagine there's a possibility that algorithmic-trading bots may have just seen an uptick in news about these organizations and through a frenzy of general "activity" drove the prices up. That signal might have led other, more sane bots and people to make moves.

This would be similar to the idea raised in this Atlantic article[1], that news of "Anne Hathaway" movie releases causes upticks in "Berkshire Hathaway" stock. Perhaps there's also some sentiment analysis in there -- a lot of people sounding happy and optimistic in articles about Comcast may be read as a signal to buy.

1 - http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/03/does-a...
PeepCode did this with its Play by Play series. They were acquired by PluralSight, and the series is still going on there [0].

[0]: http://www.pluralsight.com/search/?searchTerm=play%20by%20pl...
"unblock resources" is too vague, can't provide an accurate answer.
What, why? Google Fiber, municipal fiber, etc. will continue to exist and grow regardless of how broadband is classified.

Title II doesn't mean "no competition."
A good use case is to redirect output into a file you only can modify with sudo. Trying to do it like this doesn't work:

sudo echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1000000" > /etc/sysctl.conf

as the redirection happens within the shell, thus without root permissions. However, the following does work:

echo "fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1000000" | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.conf

as the writing is done by the elevated tee process.
Was making $1.5mm, in October of last year. There are some off the cuff calculations in the reddit thread [0] that indicate the same setup would currently be netting only about a tenth of that amount now.

0 - http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2v02n9/life_inside_...
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Recently, I was amazed at how fast one of our devs were. When trying to see what made him so fast, it was a combination of being very good at reading code and understanding the underlying structure of the code, and also he was very fast with his editor. I could barely follow what he was doing as he was tracing his way through the code.

Watching him work as we were discussing an architecture made me more inspired to type faster, learn my tools better, and get better at reading code.
I tend to agree. There have been approximately zero times I've been given a file with 100,000 numbers that needed to be sorted. Similar tasks are honestly rare enough that my intermediate command line skill has gotten me by just fine. Every once in a while a complex task pops up but I just google it and figure it out fairly quickly.
The question in that thread is a good one, and unfortunately not actually answered. What defines 'live stream'? Obviously basic sharing of non-commercial recordings cannot require a license.
Thanks for the link.

This is kind of surprising to me, that Microsoft would license PlayReady for a non-Microsoft platform, in this case Matchstick. I wonder if their policy was always that way, but it just didn't happen, or if it changed?
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Okay, I'm probably stupid. This would allow me to throw away NoScript, Disconnect and Adblock.

But I can't figure out how to enable deny by default mode?!
(Yes I have advanced mode enabled)
Gawker Media turning wikipedia entries into articles. Well I do it sometimes as well.
"While all the rats who were alone and unhappy became heavy users, none of the rats who had a happy environment did."

This thesis probally has a lot of validity. That said, I
have meet a lot if people with seemingly good lives who drink
like there's no tomorrow? Plus, they have the disposable income to buy harder drugs without resorting to crime--diverting being caught, and identified.

Personally, I think we have been conditioned to believing
addiction is a disease and there's no hope unless you go to
Rehab, or if you are poor--"You must go to AA!".

I feel media, and even a lot if MD's have made getting off drugs, including alcohol; a lot harder than it is in reality. I give a pass to most MD's because they were taught
that patients lie about how much of a drug they are using.
(You tell a doctor you are drinking 750 ml bottle of wine a night, they are doubling the amount in their minds--so they
don't even want to take the risk of telling you that you can
titrate yourself off the drug.)

I know getting off drugs is hard; I just don't know how hard it is. The damage, or thoughts have already been engrained in the psyche of most people. I'm not sure how they can properly(controlled, double blind, etc., honest) study the
problem, or if their is a problem.

For myself, I was a heavy drinker. My doctor flat out told me "don't fuck with it--going off without medical oversight
is extremely dangerous. Well I wasen't going to spend the last of my savings on an expensive rehab, so I kept drinking. I finally
got to the point where I really wanted to stop. I decreased
the amout I was drinking by roughly 10% every two days and eventually became a non-drinker. In my case it worked. Maybe, I got lucky?

One other antidotal story. My best friend died from COPD.
He smoked 2-3 packs of cigs for 50 plus years. We used to watch tv together and see those commercials equating stopping
smoking to quitting Heroin and just watched in silence. I gave up asking him to quit. I even bought him cigarettes when he was to sick to buy them himself--because if I didn't he would drag himself to the store and buy them himself--huffing, etc.
(I'm not proud about picking up his cigarettes.) Well one day, we decided together he would stop. Actually--I told him
I'm done--you need to stop. Day 1 (slight cravings). By day 3, or 4--he called me up and literally said, "I was so easier than I thought. Not stopping sooner was the biggest mistake of my life." It was too late, but his COPD got slightly better, and he lived another 5 decent quality years.

There's a quote by Burroughs and it pops into my mind weekly--I wonder how much truth it holds?

William Burroughs, who spent two decades on heroin, said that
“getting off drugs is not all that difficult. It’s vastly exaggerated—only a month, whatever method is used, a slow withdrawal or whatever, and they’re going to be out of the woods.”
Another great place to find dev streams (game developers):

http://www.twitch.tv/directory/game/Game%20Development
The 'Qu' almost-ligature is great. But wow, is font licensing screwed up...."contact us" for > 10K views per month!
From the article's comment section:

It is not the case, I'm sorry to say, although that is certainly a commonly-repeated story. (There's a similar urban legend in Brazil involving the Pillars of Heracles and the meandering route used by Tariq ibn Ziyad.) But the textual evidence (years and years of preserved handwritten merchant communications from multiple nations and colonies on both sides of the Atlantic showing a clear progression from PS to a $) is very much in favor of the superimposed PS.
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Piwki would be fine if it was hosted on a subdomain of the first party domain.

If you visit test.com, piwki.test.com would work. However, piwik.not-test.com would be blocked.
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