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Criticism is fine. Gratuitous negativity is not. Your comments routinely have a lot of that, and it's time for it to stop. Please stick to the substance and drop the personal bile from now on.
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Damaged Karma: Commoditization and Exploitation of Asians in Tech by Brian Kung
How the New York Times Is Eluding Censors in China
Agreed, it is human nature to want some things that may ultimately be not good (or even actively harmful) for our own well being.

I was just pointing out the fact that there is a difference between "There's no market for X" and "Users of X would be better off doing without, so X should not exist."

The first is a fact, the second is a combination of a judgement of value + a prescription based on that particular judgement. And while there are many useful prescriptions based on judgements, there is a slippery slope that ends up with one small group doing all the judgements and the rest of society enduring the prescriptions. So, it's better to proceed with caution.

(Which itself is a judgement/prescription pair... so take it with a grain of salt, or not)
At least they could acknowledge that they're going abroad to help themselves, rather than the beneficiaries of their "charity."
I really find SpaceX fundamentally unfair. It's as if The USA politically is jammed, but the administration just kind of ignores this and goes around making killer long term investments in everything from NASA to biotech. And it's not like this is SpaceX getting the fat from the US - they deserve it, it's just that it's an American thing - no other nation is even close to "let's fund private capital to learn from public investment" on this scale.

Never mind the also-rans like Uber or airbnb, who frankly are just playing fast and loose with the rules, and never mind the companies like square or stripe or Dropbox who are using new technology to solve old problems, the real reveal in this list (and my poor knowledge of the other (70!) billion dollar unicorns, is that American public investments made decades ago are paying real dividends in private capital even today.

And the UK? We don't even have an aircraft carrier. The last time we landed something on Mars, it was not the result of a pipeline of funded missions, it was a one time try out.

Damn it. We are going to have to go European if we want to go toe to toe with US, India and China.

And those investments start today, and trust me, our politics is too jammed up to make them.

So who has been making yours? Can we borrow them?

Edit: just to clarify, yes SpaceX / Musk really took risks and deserves the rewards. yes, they are "just" borrowing NASA technology. And that's the point. Only the US has the technology to borrow and the willingness to hand it over to the private sector. That's kind of the unfair bit
This is what I call a perfect answer.
Thank you for all the awesome feedback! I'll collate some of them here:

1. It's confusing

- This is also my concern. It diffs/merges playlists, so it can be confusing how your requests map to what's actually playing. The other thing it does is count votes and exclude below-average tracks.

2. Thumbs up/down

- Thumbs up votes for an encore/repeat. Thumbs down votes to skip. It weighs your votes against the number of requests for the track.

3. Song length limit

- That's actually a great idea, to keep things moving along.

4. It's annoying when people skip lots of tracks

- Indeed, perhaps a rate limit per user would be a good idea?
Love how simple and friction-less the UX is! Also, search auto-complete is really fast, how did you do that? (wouldn't suppose you cached entire YouTube's index)
You can apply `position: fixed` to a `thead` element, but you need to either exactly specify or calculate (and recalculate on resize) all of the column widths in pxs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tithe

10% of income is doable.

I treat it like a form of tax in which I have a say. It's going to be taken (that's the way in which I think of it as a tax), but now I get to say who receives it.

Last year I favoured Medicine San Frontiers due to the Ebola outbreak, but in general I favour Liberty, Open Rights Group and small charities that provide computers to Africa, or bicycles for the disabled in the UK (Wheels for Wellbeing).

10% really isn't too much, and so long as you do it early you'll likely never notice it.

Then again... perhaps this is why I don't have a deposit for a mortgage. Or perhaps that was poor budgeting for the bit of salary I did take home and keep.
Except yours isn't free.

Your "free" tier costs $1 + 10% per transaction, which is ridiculously expensive. Even Paypal doesn't rip me off that bad.
Turkey Blocks Twitter, YouTube and Sites That Published Hostage Photo
The normal method lacks the responsive features in this implementation.
As the sage once said, "your failed business model is not my problem". If someone wants to spend time and money making stuff and instructing a web server to give it away for free, on the gamble that people who want that stuff might also download a bunch of ads, it is not my responsibility to ensure that their gamble pays off by acting according to their predictions.
Emailing them is fine, but calling them is far more effective and meaningful.

http://www.usa.gov/Contact/US-Congress.shtml
It's not technically investment but it sort of is. The government pays for development of a product that might not even work.

But it's par for the course in that industry.
Functional, Reactive Programming for Dynamic JavaScript UIs
Turning the Arduino Uno into an Apple II
Watching YouTube using Chrome on Windows is the double battery killer. Chrome doesn't let Windows go into low power states and YouTube is serving up video that can't be hardware decoded.
If you mean functional red-black trees in general, then there's http://matt.might.net/articles/red-black-delete/
Because you can't expect companies to pay for insecurity either. If you demand security you have to offer it, a company which cannot relay on it's employees because they work remotely, work at odd hours, or work inconsistent hours each month takes on a huge risk.

That risk is accepted based on the fact that said company pays less for that specific job than it does for a full employee due to less payouts in benefits and employer contributions, shorter and cheaper employee on-boarding, and in some cases less competitive pay.

Without those cost reductions "flexible" hour contracts do not make sense for jobs that otherwise would be occupied by a full time employee.
First, for youtube, right-click -> Stats for nerds. Watch the "Dropped frames" counter, with hw acceleration it usually stays close to zero("-").

For youtube&everything-else, you got two major tools:
1. CPU usage, just watch it, if you don't see spikes while playing video, you're good(on quad core 4th gen Intel core I get around 7% increase in load for HW-accelerated youtube 1080p video).
2. Even better: Tools like GPU-Z[0] have "Video Engine Load" meters for some GPUs(e.g. Nvidia GTX), where you can see if the GPU dedicated accelerator is working(and how much). For other GPU-Z(e.g. Intel HD) you can monitor the general "GPU Load", you will see an increase there as instead.

[0] http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

P.S. In addition to the above, in some browsers(in chrome, via chrome://flags) & media players you can disable the hardware acceleration support and observe the results using the tools I've mentioned.
Happy birthday, Git Cheers to 10 years
An ethical moratorium doesn't outlaw the tech outright, but it does influence sources of funding, availability of laboratory facilities and capital, and the diversity of personnel willing to advance the state of the art.

It would be similar to the impact that an executive order by G.W.Bush had on stem cell research in the U.S. It was delayed by a few years, and some research moved overseas, but then the issue largely became moot when the tech progressed past the need for embryo harvesting.

At most, this would slow down gene mod tech for a few years, as the pressure in the djinn bottle builds. As long as we don't annihilate our civilization, it is practically inevitable that every human will one day have ready access to cheap gene mod tech, in the same way that they now have ready access to networked computer resources.

The only way to reasonably keep this tech out of the hands of the irresponsible public is to convince scientists to not develop it in the first place. And that's what this is. I question the motive behind the suggestion, but that's my foil hat talking.
>Sorry, last night HN didn't show me a "reply" button on the thread, so I thought maybe it tapped out at a depth of four?

Aha, the automatic flamewar limiter I guess. Happens to me as well. (clicking on the xx minutes ago link seems to help most of the time.)

> I don't have security-bugs access, but I explained offline to the OP that "Won't Fix" covers a lot of cases, including "already fixed" / "duplicate", not simply "your bug report is being ignored".

I don't know what I'd do if anyone reporting to me used wontfix for all those kind of cases. It doesn't exactly encourage bug reporting.
But remember to not use dick pics as a communication medium, please! :)
ca·reer
kəˈrir/
noun
1.
an occupation undertaken for a significant period of a person's life and with opportunities for progress.

There really aren't different definitions. It's a "work life", it doesn't include retirement.
Should you also donate money to save hypothetical aliens in a far away galaxy, if we find out they exist? What about a fund to help people relocate from flooded cities from global warming 200 years in the future? What about donating to keep A.I. simulations from being shut off? Why donate to help people and not animals or bacteria? What about the fact that the universe is going to die from entropy, and all people die anyways from old age? What's the point?

Note: I try to not donate any of my money to any cause ever
Living on $75k or so after-tax in NYC as a young single man isn't 'very frugal'. A nice room in a roommate situation can be had for $1000/mo, a very nice one for $2000, which totals $12k-$24k per year. Likewise a modest reasonably-located 1bedroom/studio can be had for $2000/mo. After that, the only mandatory expenses are $1000 or so a year for transportation and reasonable expenses for food, though much of that cost is likely paid by his employer.
Share and share alike: Police lack policy for monitoring social media
I am pretty sure that Firefox 28 added VP9. It just seems odd that in the "Where can I use VP9?" section, that Firefox and Opera where not mentioned.

Edit: I just noticed that Firefox is currently using Flash on Youtube for video playback. The video referenced in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwnefUaKCbc
From the person who "cloned" your product.

> I looked at a few self-hosted Online Course platforms, but they all wanted a monthly fee + transaction fees, which I think is excessive.
Does anyone know if this format will work with youtube-dl and VLC?
I would disagree with the latter half of the moral as stated. I think those are entirely reasonable concerns to hesitate in giving money to e.g. a specific charity.

That said, what I think you intend to get at - don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good - do some basic due diligence, but don't let "due diligence" freeze you into inaction - I agree with that.

(edit: I started a sentence without finishing it -_-;;)
Too bad they can't get rid of DASH, because DASH is the real problem behind buffering, jerky playback and other nonsense. I really strongly dislike how bad the video playback experience is and has been for quite some time on YouTube.
There's http://www.hackathonwatch.com/

Also checking out eventbrite is a good idea.

Non-student hackathons can be a pretty mixed bag so be careful which ones you choose to go to.

Battlehack is a pretty fun hackathon that's not just for students: http://battlehack.net/
Very interesting article. Minor nit (just a typo I think): in the definition of flatMapError, shouldn't mapError be fmapError?
Intel and Counterintel in Eve Online
The wifi password situation seems to be addressed here [0]. It was a limited batch of these that were sent out with lacking wifi security.
[0] https://anonabox.com/news/anonabox-blog-when-there-is-blood-...
Encoding Uniform Scale in Quaternions and Dual Quaternions
CoreOS Tightens Fit with Kubernetes, Raises $12M from Google Ventures
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SoundCloud is in the works. It needs a (client side) metasearch function, which I think lunr.js could help with.

The source is in the pipeline, but not quite ready yet! This is actually a rewrite of an earlier project of mine and shares most of the ideas: https://github.com/jyio/jamwithfriends
You can still answer 'no' without violating the law , if you rearrange the headline a bit without changing its meaning at all.
Will your grandkids run out of oxygen to breathe by 2100?
No.
To me you were. They are nothing alike to me. Different states of mind, different objectives, different strategies.

Donating and saving are two entirely different activities in my life, and the only similarity are the numbers on the ledger. (one has an immediate payoff (donating feels good) while the other is not satisfying at all (just helps me sleep)).

You're advice sounded a lot like the financial version of, "stop eating less and you won't be fat." ... but I guess that does work for some people ...
The motivations are different: paying down my debt enhances my own financial well-being, while donating to charities enhances others'. Or: paying down debt is self-interested, while donating is selfless (or at least self-interested in a different way).
It is also similar to the criticism of CEO pay for nonprofits. If the CEO brings in additional donations and furthers the organization's mission, why wouldn't they have pay competitive to a for-profit org? Why should you be paid less to do good than evil?

or non-good, marginal good, regular doings, etc.
Yeah, and the remote root shell with password "admin"?
Mlpack: A scalable C++ machine learning library
I spent a bunch of time reading the website and I can't tell what this product does: Is it a database engine or an abstraction on top of other products?

If it's a database engine, then here are my thoughts: How is this database engine built to replace SQL and No-SQL? If it doesn't support JOINS why would I replace my SQL with it? Are transactions ACID? Why would anyone use this if there are no built-in user / group security mechanisms to protect data?
Why you should go for React.js, instead of Angular 2.0
Interesting - can you please elaborate on those different cognitive skills?

(also, both your plight and the efforts you put towards getting out of it sound very serious - best of luck to you)
Theoretically speaking, does Hurd still have anything to offer over the Linux kernel's monolithic architecture?
What do you think of services like Parse and Treeline?
As a designer/frontend dev I find these backend builders really intriguing.

http://treeline.io , http://parse.com

I'm curious what the dev/engineering community thinks bout them. Have you used them? Are they only good for quick product hacks or could they scale over time?
Step-By-Step Guide to Video Marketing for MSPs: Lights, Camera, Conversion
CoreOS (YC S13) Raises $12M to Bring Kubernetes to the Enterprise
The only bad press is no press: What Ellen Pao’s loss means for women
I think you are both wrong, and right.

The people in charge of these programs believe in the United States Government, not the nation, not the people not the constitution, but the government

They believe that Anyone that disagrees with the government at any level is the enemy and they must protect their government from that enemy even if those people are the citizens of that very nation they are suppose to serve.
Is HVEC really used anywhere/by anybody yet?
If we had cheap self driving cars, it would be immediately economical. Those cheap low skilled workers are still taking 80% of the revenue.
For the company it's probably not relevant but for the employee it is. As long as the pay is financially sufficient for you then it's more important if the job is something you will enjoy doing and are a good fit for.

The pay does reflect how much value you bring to the company. The better you are for a position the greater value you should be providing and your pay should reflect this.
Tectonic: CoreOS Stack and Kubernetes
Given that student pitch-a-thons (ex: business plan competition type events) can earn you pretty decent amounts of money, how much longer till hackathons on college campuses fall the way of corporate hackathons?

As food for thought, there are "Consulting Case Competitions" for business school students year round, and some students decide to spend their time optimizing for winning a bunch of these one after another all around the country. I'm not sure if this is a good, bad, or neutral thing.
Google Capital and Google Ventures are two different investments arms of Google. Google Ventures focuses a lot more on early stage companies (and makes many investments throughout the year), while Google Capital focus on later, growth stage companies. Google Capital tends to only do a few large investments each year. In ZenPayroll's case, we were honored to have strong interest from both GCap and GV, so they both invested, with GCap leading.
It would be nice if they had an actual video comparison; I can make either of two codecs that are even close in performance look way better with single frame-grabs.
The URL is annoyingly similar to https://crates.io/
That's one way to look at it. If someone paid me a certain amount to live and work in Hawaii, for example, and I knew I would live well on that amount and it would make me happy then how do you optimize for happiness?

I make more than the proposed compensation and am no happier than when I was making half of that. I probably did something wrong in making my arrangements but it wasn't in the money department.
Felix,

I'm the founder of http://usefedora.com -- a product you are intimately familiar with.

Love the effort and open source contribution -- but definitely put off by stealing our UI/UX almost verbatim (example site built with our tool: http://bitfountain.io/courses/iwatch-course <-- the same people as your case study, your tool: http://www.onedayrails.com/)

While it is incredibly flattering for a small startup like ours to have an open-source derivative, stealing our interface and design patterns for a project that you charge hundreds of dollars in installation fees definitely leaves a bad taste.

Do it right and we'd have probably helped you promote it. But this just doesn't seem cool.
I'm ashamed to say I donate $0. It's the right thing to do, it's altruistic and I respect the people that do it; but I can't bring myself to care more about the rest of the world then I care about myself/my family. Am i the norm or the minority?
Nothing shows on IE11 on Win7. Also the header image has a horizontal scroll bar.

http://postimg.org/image/qxyl332ef/
This idea of people not using tools until they understand how they work (or in the Matasano shorthand, until they can implement them, in "build your own light saber" fashion) is I think very true of professional testers, but not true for developers.

If your full-time job is going to be about developing a radar for assumptions that developers make and a deviousness about breaking those assumptions, tools --- and most especially opaque tools --- totally hamstring you. We both know plenty of testers that develop a kind of blindness from relying on tools too much.

But I'm guessing most of HN doesn't really understand the mindset that's involved in pentesting full-time. I certainly wouldn't tell a developer that they should avoid valgrind.
Minister of Algorithms
Thank you. Kharabetam :D
I can't see why you are being downvoted. You are making a valid argument in the current discussion.
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Free translation without a smartphone
Ah thanks for the insight. I know that GV is a separate entity from Google proper with a chinese wall in place between the corporate mothership and itself. Is this the case with GC as well?
This is amazing! Finally I'm able to watch YouTube without my Macbook initiating a take off sequence when something is available in resolutions over 1080p.

On OSX there is a noticeable difference in performance of video playback in Safari and Chrome, and I'm pretty sure it's all down to hardware accelerated decoding.
Thanks for your response Ed. I appreciate that you're willing to respond here.

It is my company that wanted to operate as a PEO i.e. we would be the employer of record for the employees of our client companies. We then hoped to use ZenPayroll to process our payroll. I was told that you all like to work with companies that have 10 employees or fewer, which is fine, but it doesn't sound like if companies grow past 10 employees you kick them off your platform.

I think you all are a great company, and your colleagues have been both friendly and responsive in our dealings so my questioning isn't meant to detract from that.

Thanks.
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One thing that really helps is getting involved with the growing Effective Altruism movement. There are several effective altruists at Jane Street (where Matt works), as well as meetups in NYC (and most major cities in the USA) and being part of a community makes sticking to those ideals a lot easier.

Also, note that 5% of your income donated to effective charities is still huge, and enough to save many lives during your career.