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> Why not?

As a rule, the intellectual return on energy invested is less than what I would get from picking up my phone and going back to my ebook.

> Certainly, if you were speaking about something you were passionate about, would you not agree that I would learn at least a little bit of something by trying to grasp the source and fuel of your passion?

What if I already understand that, and find it uninteresting to me? Am I now obligated to review it all over again, because someone else hopes that I will have a Damascene conversion that failed to happen the previous fifty times someone went on about how much they love football?

> Have I not just related to you as a fellow human in a meaningful way?

Perhaps it's meaningful for you. That doesn't make it meaningful for me. I don't consider the sort of compulsive extroversion you seem to be in favor of to be a meaningful or valuable thing for me.

> Surely you cannot be ready to say that you have learned all there is worth knowing about yourself and are now stagnant in desire and interest? Why close the door on an opportunity to learn?

Because the alternative is not "not learning", as you seem to think. The alternative is investing my time and energy in something that I know has a much greater probability of being valuable to me.

Bluntly, I don't share your priorities. This does not make me a broken person. I am not broken. I do not need your "fixing".

Did you read the article "When Nerds Collide" posted a few days ago? You should. Read it here: https://medium.com/@maradydd/when-nerds-collide-31895b01e68c

Now I'll quote a section for you:

> Humans are social animals, and part of what makes a social species social is that its members place a high priority on signaling their commitment to other members of their species. Weirdoes’ priorities are different; our primary commitment is to an idea or a project or a field of inquiry. Species-membership commitment doesn’t just take a back seat, it’s in the trunk with a bag over its head.

I'm one of those weirdos. You aren't. That's fine. Stop trying to force me to be like you.
And you're confusing an argument about my right to know about what I'm eating with my understanding of genetic modification and pesticides.

My argument is about where Starbucks stands with their labeling policy, not with their policy regarding GMOs - I have a right to know what I'm consuming and make informed decisions. Their label policy is completely counter to that.
Here in Canada, I can do an email money transfer to virtually any financial institution. All the recipient needs to do is bank with one that supports it and use online banking.

I don't know how innovative it is, but it works relatively well.

https://www.interac.ca/en/interac-etransfer/etransfer-detail
Or, the game development industry was dominated by men at the start, who wanted to play action/violence games because they were socialized to find this fun, and these games socialized younger males.

Natural inclination is unnecessary to the story. The burden of proof is on you to prove that it exists in the first place.
>That's basically it. The effects this simple game produces can truly be magnificent.

Especially with a teaser like this.
> I imagine the code is on average about just as safe as Rust code is.

The same claim can be made for C++ (with uniqe_ptr<T>), but we know how that faired. It is telling enough that there is a race detector tool for Go.
Sounds like something that would be against the acceptable use policy... and wouldn't be testable without quickly getting you banned.
> MS publishes new builds like biweekly through MSDN.

While this is supposed to be true, there hasn't been a new public build in 50-something days. Most of the new information is coming from leaked internal builds.
Musk will say anything to stop the stock from slipping.
Never heard of Venmo.
Also, suspend works perfectly on XPS 15 with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10, although I had to add a couple of statements to rc.local to prevent it from waking in my backpack:

echo EHC1 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
echo EHC2 > /proc/acpi/wakeup
echo XHC > /proc/acpi/wakeup

After this, the only two devices enabled in /proc/acpi/wakeup are power button and the lid (exactly what I want):

cat /proc/acpi/wakeup | grep enabled
PWRB	S4	*enabled
LID0	S4	*enabled

Don't know if that helps...would probably need more detail on what isn't working with your model's suspend.
I love Hacker News!

I came to up-vote the inevitable "fittest is relative" type comment. Instead, I find 5 of the 6 main comments are saying it :-). (Now 5 of 7, because I'm totally contaminating the conversation with my observer comment.)

Thank you for restoring my faith in science education!
I don't think that's the message. The message was, "You said you couldn't imagine a scenario where this goes well. Here's one simple example of it going well, and that was easy to think of."
Perhaps read the article. These are public spaces, like parks.
When it comes to arrays, they use () to emphasize the fact that this is a function- arr(1) is arr.apply(1)- instead of directly accessing an element like other languages.

Scala makes sense and has a logic behind all its reasons, but sometimes it seems to go against convention for the sake of its own philosophy.
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Canada has a similar solution, but it works across all of the big banks. Chase's solution is only for Chase customers, though it appears that the recipient doesn't necessarily need to be a Chase customer.

https://www.interac.ca/en/interac-etransfer/etransfer-detail
I don't know why you were down voted.

We have to support Ie7,8,9,10,11 and 11 for metro in and out of compatibility mode across three fucking platforms due to control styling differences. Now we have Spartan and whatever shtcrock will ship as legacy.

We'll lose IE7 when vista is dead. We'll be left with enterprise IE11 well into 2028!

Why? In financial services all our clients are cheap, dumb and incompetent. Unpatched win7 from "managed service providers" is the reality. If yore lucky they're not some hideous terminal services shit crock.

This is why we go "oh joy".

Its also why everyone who works at the places goes home to Apple and Android kit.
I'd argue that in Apple's case, a company with a (long) history, they could not afford not to focus on packaging while positioning themselves as the kind of brand they wanted to become. Higher stakes and with Google/Android a potentially dangerous competitor (whose strategy only became very evident later, ie. not wanting to compete on hardware as well). Now however, especially due to the profits they're making, they have little incentive to care about anything else but maintaining status.

Why change something not visibly broken?

I disagree that non-luxury packaging automatically means the company doesn't care about the product contained inside. It's a matter of strategy & costs. I'm not familiar with HP packaging, but you should know that ASUS does offer luxury packaging for its gaming range of products for instance, especially laptops.

My opinion is that it's possible to design thoughtful, non-generic packaging without crossing into luxury materials territory. Experience and loads of creativity are required though. At least this is what I understood from the article (taking into account the Pencil example as well), that startups should bet on resourcefulness instead of throwing money in non-priority directions.

Another aspect to consider: I don't have the specific numbers to back this up, but we live in a world where the general trend is towards minimalism and simplifying our lives, which includes getting rid of no longer necessary stuff, such as a product's temporary home (packaging). Considering it has such a short life, it makes little sense to invest a lot of resources into packaging as a startup, unless you're selling electronics, where at least some consumers have a habit of saving the packaging materials to increase resale value of the product when they decide to upgrade.
How is this different than Alfred Club, the startup that won at Disrupt that coordinates all your on-demand services? What makes the Happy Home Company different than scheduling a Munchery every night, a wash.io weekly and a Homejoy once a week?
$4 in fees
Because then I have to manage that server. I'm suddenly responsible for security, rebooting if there's an outage, keeping things up-to-date, etc. I've had both a small personal Linux server (for web hosting) and Fastmail (for everything else) for several years, and I've easily spent 2-3 times the cost of my Fastmail account in time spent fiddling with my web server over that time period.
I'm sure; hopefully my meaning got through that it only stopped being so widespread and normal a couple of decades ago.
I'll be interested to see how these work out. There were two issues that scared me away from the predecessor: Reported wifi issues and coil whine. If they can avoid significant issues, then it's a nice laptop, although the battery life could be better.
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I'm... not sure what they hope to accomplish with this. What would it mean to discuss "race relations" with your barista?

Barista: "Would you like to talk about race relations?"

Me: "Sure. Um... racism exists, and it fucking sucks."

Barista: "...Yep."

Me: "..."

On the one hand, I applaud them for doing something. On the other, I'm not sure what effect this could have.
So that is 2 requirements for bitcoin versus 5 requirements for sending via facebook: bank acct, debit/credit card, email acct, facebook acct, facebook messenger (let's not forget the immense amount of personal information you willingly give away).

Yet, bitcoin seems like way more friction?
100% is a pretty close minded point of view.

Are the plants that have been forcefully and unnaturally hybridized over the last 1000 years 100% safe to you?

You walk by cars that emit gasses that are definitely not safe for you every day but probably don't go out of your way to live in a country-side free of combustion engines. 100% is an unattainable goal post and is effectively saying, "I don't care what anyone says, there's a chance!" Life is full of risk, most far and away more dangerous than the remote possibility that some GMOs, in certain circumstances, may be harmful.
To be specific, the ones _that occur_ at run-time. It's not a "will maybe kinda sorta detect data race conditions" situation.
About 25 plus or minus.
That gif went by way too fast.

If anyone is confused like me: It looks like Github will now show PDFs inline.

It took me a minute to figure out that the GIF was a demo (and this had nothing to do with rendering PDFs into realspace using a 3d printing robot), and the page was from github's official blog.
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It turns into the send button as soon as you start typing
Do you remember what country that was in?

I know in France there was a major victory in court against Lenovo and Windows bundling. So may be there the situation is better now and Lenovo can't get away with forcing the Windows tax anymore.
Why do you think "upvote conversion rate" is an important metric for anything?

You might enjoy this post by Dave McClure:

http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/06/internet-market....
It's from Build 10036, and this feature is not present in any MSDN builds.
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Followed you and agreed up until the last paragraph. Can you elaborate?
I like this comment Your Team's Capacity = Your Executional Ability

The limit of a team's capacity is the leadership and management (executional ability) of the leader.
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The problem with achieving real adoption of crypto had historically been made a lot harder than it should be because too many problems are trying to be solved at the same time.

Separate the problems! It is much easier to find realistic solutions when the requirements are narrower. The remaining needs can be solved later on. Once some usable infrastructure has been established, it might be possible to leverage that infrastructure to add back in some of the missing features.

For HTTPS, a good start would be PHK's suggestion of simply auto-generating self-signed certs in apache by default, as a replacement for plaintext. Authenticating those certs can happen later.

After keys are everywhere, a potential solution might be t o allow both PKI authorities and some sort of web-of-trust (or other methods? blockchain? something new?), and exposing the source of trust to the user in way they can manage.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the trust problem, so let the user decide because they know what their requirements are. If I'm browsing to some bank, a well-known PKI root might be a good trust source. If I'm chatting on some local forum, a web-of-trust auth might be better (it's a local forum, so fingerprints can be exchanged manually, friend-to-friend).
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Not along the top row. As a column down the side. http://blog.laptopmag.com/wpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/...

As for "different (key)strokes", I wouldn't have an issue if the choice to have these as independent keys were still around, but right now if you want that you have very limited choice. Hence my distaste for the trend.
I understand, sorry about that.
This is the core of the Han Unification debate.

"G" and "g" are the same letter. They started off as stylistic forms of a unicameral alphabet. Over time they took on separate meanings, and now we have a bicameral alphabet, where the two forms have different code points.

Of course, over the last 2000 years, we've developed rules for how to use them. "I was reading a nice book on Polish polish on the way from Reading to Nice" contains three pairs of words where the capitalization changes the meaning and pronunciation. (In simplified form, "What do you know about polish?" is different than "What do you know about Polish?")

If there were a simple rule to specify capitalization, eg, only the first letter of a sentence, and it were easy to detect the start of a sentence, then the alternate you might say it's pointless to have both "g" and "G"; we should have only a single form and let the local setup determine how to display it. (Something like the Greek sigma, which has the form ς when used at the end of a word, though Unicode has them as two different glyphs.)

In Someone's nice example, it's easy to think of how the two divergent forms of 'g' might take on their own meaning. Perhaps the Americans have decided that double-story g was the sign of true patriots, and that single-story g was for traitors. (Akin to the shibboleth of how to say 'H' in Northern Ireland; aitch was Protestant, haitch was Catholic, and using the wrong version could get you into trouble.) Perhaps they started to use the new 'g' preference as a currency symbol, in the way that £ is the same letter as L, from the Latin libra pondo.
A lot of more traditional places will fire you for trying to automate a task unless you do it on the sly or can do it quickly within a day or two.
Rust does not yet have a SSL library implemented as far as I am aware of. Go, however, does indeed have it's own pure-Go SSL library[1] and does not use OpenSSL at all.

[1] http://golang.org/pkg/crypto/tls/
He got 40€ out and paid 4€ in fees. Thats not uncommon in Germany, where different bank groups (eg Deutsche Bank, the Raiffeisen cooperative association and the Sparkasse) charge nothing for withdrawals but other bank customers get charged. Couple of years ago it was introduced that the fees had to be displayed prior to withdrawal but they're still high.
> On a related tangent, apparently modern karate originated in Okinawa

it's well documented actually, before 1900 or so no one in mainland Japan knew anything about what would later be called karate.

Gichin Funakoshi (father of shotokan karate, even though he never called it that himself) moved to mainland Japan in 1922 to popularize it. Before then only a few people in the Japanese navy and the prince/emperor-to-be had seen it while visiting Okinawa.

Yes, there are other styles other than Funakoshi but he is undisputably the one who broke into mainland Japan first
Was country was that store in? Did you buy it straight from Lenovo or from some of their retail partners?
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Thank you for your feedback. What was it that you felt we're trying to swindle you? Thx.
In Canada there are dirt simple ways to transfer money. Every bank has an app. Every card has a chip. And so on.
I would feel a lot better about using email transfers if my bank had better security than my bloody smartphone, but as it stands my pin can't be any more complex than the pin to my smartphone. Canadian banking security is embarrassing, though I understand its not much better elsewhere.
You don't have to be friends with someone to send them a message. If they're a friend of a friend then they'll be easy to find.
Was British rule actually a net negative, in retrospect? Have there been studies done using objective criteria (not emotional) over counties that were colonies versus ones that weren't? I suppose you can't really quantify the value of people that were destroyed by colonization, but you can look at the current population.

Also I just gotta wonder: suppose European or other relatively simple-to-encode languages didn't exist, and everyone used the OPs language. How would they have handled advancing computers? I've seen photos of Japanese typewriters and they look... unwieldy to say the least. And graphics tech took a while to get advanced enough to handle such languages, let alone input. (MS Japanese IME uses some light AI to pick the desired kanji, right?)

Disclaimer: I don't mean this in an offensive way, just a dispassionate curiosity.
A JS implementation (especially where we could drag and drop our own examples) would be especially neat.
Yeah, I know the feeling.
I love room in my coffee.
That Apple has a huge amount of mindshare but nobody realizes how much of OSX is based on BSD/FreeBSD is a problem.

The license is a success in the sense that the code is being used, but it's failed to protect the project/brand from a situation where their code is being used worldwide without anybody realizing it.
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because you can just press space/shift+space.
Ask HN: Please review my Startup OneMillionLoops.com
We are launching a crowdsourced platform for loops. It makes it easier for musicians to find any loop they want and jam to them by changing tempos, adding metronome and looping on repeat. Loops are for sell in high quality multi-track, all musicians can make money by uploading and selling their loops to the community.

If we have any musicians in the house, would you use it?

Do you (or would) buy loops? If so, at what price?

Thank you all!
I use an overpriced laundry service, and have food delivered though an app 3+ times a week. Not sure if I would want a service like this unless it was all contracted through the same company. Ordering these services is already pretty convenient. Why pay for homejoy and washio to be booked for me?

When I lived overseas I had a maid that would come and do my laundry in my apartment. She knew that I liked to have milk/OJ/coffee in the fridge at all times. She also did light cleaning. I would pay for something like this in a heartbeat.

Someone I trusted, knew their name, but didn't have to pay them directly. Kept shit shit order so I don't have to wear a wrinkled shirt to the office and eat breakfast at Starbucks...

I would probably pay somewhere around $100+ a week. They wouldn't have to come every day. Just stop in every once and a while when I was at work. Through a load of laundry in. Put some eggs in the fridge. Make the bed then leave.
Why is anyone still paying ATM fees??? Change to a bank that refunds the fee.
That'll get them to the location, but how long will they stick around.
I'll just like to point out that no selection system, including the puzzle game, is without flaws and bias. IIRC (I might be wrong) the catmit puzzle was released when most people in the US were awake, which meant it was the middle of the night for me. I was also pretty annoyed that it involved calling a US number.
Personally I've been a fan as it aligns incentives for developers to care deeply about code quality/stability/etc. YMMV if not working on a SaaS product where build/deploy is measured in just a few minutes.

We've invested in a mix of both automated testing, of course, and a lot of monitoring/alerting/tracing to detect problems quickly. That can act as a safety net for deploying frequently that problems will be caught early and can be corrected (rollback or fix & roll-forward).

I'm a fan of saying we've chosen to optimize for MTTR instead of MTBF.
>That doesn't make any sense. If people could take GPL code and switch it to MIT license then GPL would be meaningless

He never said that, he said you can you can combine your permissively licensed code with GPL licensed code and _your_ code will still be available as permissive.

You stated that you wanted to share _your_ code with 'everyone', nothing prevents you from doing that.

Someone else's GPL licensed code is NOT _your_ code just because you decide to use it.
> Yea I see the point, but there will always need to be an asterisk after the statement, "a biometric is a username, not a password", because it's only valid in the sense there are concerns about the security of the biometric template. Down the line maybe we'll figure out this spoofing/liveness test thing, but we won't find out while many instantly write off the merit of the system to begin with.

Any sensor accurate enough to perform biometrics is simultaneously accurate enough to create a spoof capable of fooling the authentication sensor. The only way to avoid this requires an active activity, at which case you've just duplicated the password [e.g. the act of typing is identical to the act of sufficient action to make it virtually impossible to duplicate] which has better known security characteristics.

> I did mention this somewhat in the original post. Saving a raw biometric template (minutiae points or whatnot) is synonymous to keeping a database of plain text passwords. It's just wrong. The data breaches (Uber, Target, etc.) are proof that in 2015, we still have this problem. I would never trust a start-up or large corporation with consumer grade biometric authentication. However, on my laptop a different story...i've been using the Thinkpad fingerprint reader for years and love it.

A single breach and you cannot rely on biometric data for life is the reason this is only safe to use as a "username" and not a password. You won't be able to significantly change your biometrics w/o breaking other identification issues.

Biometrics are only valid as a username or secondary authentication factor.
Good question to ask when you are just 23. School will make it easy for you as you grow old. Self discipline is the key. Keep your expenses as low as possible and work hard, save money and finish school. There will be many a time you will be thankful that you finished school.
That honeypotting only works with open unencrypted WiFis. For encrypted networks you have to know the password too to setup a honeypot.

But sniffing can work even if the connection is WPA2 encrypted and there are untrusted users on the same network.

That's why you should use a secure VPN on any public network.
Modern IE is actually pretty respectable. Its biggest issue is that unlike its competitors, it only works on a single platform.
Strait from Lenovo in Canada. You need to speak with a rep though. I didn't ask for the discount, just mentioned I didn't want Windows and asked about Linux options.