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I guess you have a point, but a: this isn't targeting anything particular and this is done for fun (otherwise they wouldn't be making those silly categories).
Snowden interview starts at 15:55 - https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=15m55s
TeamCity -> Octopus Deploy. If you're tracking dvcs revisions with builds for an 'edge' env, or building for the test/master branch (using gitflow style) you're rarely in the interface, as your CI should kick off builds and tests.

Having an interface somewhere devoted to deployments, status, failures and such is actually useful. Additionally, if you're needing multiparty sign-off for release to certain environments, there's that capability.
Do you really need to criticise the actions of others as 'stupid' to make yourself smile?
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omg, spoiler alert! :-)
In the computer, you also have no descriptive variable names and make excessive use of gotos. This is far from a good argument.

> Haskell does support mutation, but inside of particular monads.

You are mistaken. Monads do not involve mutation; that would defeat their entire purpose. Although it's true that the monadic code is being compiled into assembly that involves mutation, just as $LANGUAGE code is being compiled into assembly that includes a lot of goto.
This isn't satire at all. This is a real hackathon designed specifically to develop stupid things for fun.

A lot of startups began as stupid ideas and became billion-dollar corporations. What's so negative about doing it on purpose?
The universal declaration of human rights has a number of things that could be classified as "things that must be provided".

It's also the most accepted definition.

Have a read of the section on economic and social rights: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic,_social_and_cultural...
I dispute the premise. Very of the things on that list are accurate descriptions of real startups! I haven't heard of anybody working on flesh skeumorphism, for instance, and as far as I know the only person working on monetizing the eschaton is Peter Thiel.
I live in the Northern Territories (Key Largo) and I have a Conch Republic passport.
Artisteer is on the brink of development
US prisons are 5 star hotels.
Being in a work crew is optional. You can sit in your cell all day.
If Google were doing this at a large scale, the US Government or state government/s would usually be willing to sue them over it.

At a medium scale (in # of cases), you might find a law firm willing to take on a lot of cases, in exchange for a big cut. You can also choose to pursue your own situation individually.

At a small scale (just your case let's say, and a small'ish sum of money), you're going to mostly be limited to small claim's court, which can work perfectly well sometimes:

http://consumerist.com/2008/01/21/suing-big-companies-in-sma...
Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got this AM radio and I cant get DAB.....
Imagine a venn diagram, where the left circle is "FB users" and the right is "Messanger users". I think it's a quite big overlap. Are you seriously suggesting it was a right decision to degrade the service for the users using both services?
That's not optimizing, it's just plain stupid.
Nothing would have prevented them from both a) letting people do simple messaging inside the FB app, while at the same time b) providing a kick ass advanced separate Messanger app for the users only interested in messaging.
https://youtu.be/XEVlyP4_11M?t=953 is a better link
We don't tip because their min wage is so low, their minimum wage is so low because we tip.

Tipping is a cultural thing. And practically wait staff make much more from tips than they would if they were paid hourly by their employers.
There are truly a lot of banks in Taiwan.
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> in the computer, things need to mutate, and so a language that doesn't mutate is therefore far from the computer

I hear this argument a lot but I don't buy it. You could also say

"In the computer, things are highly asynchronous quantum-level electrical fluctuations, and so a language that doesn't model highly asynchronous quantum-level electrical fluctuations is therefore far from the computer."

which is clearly invalid. Some explanation is needed of why the argument for mutation holds, but for quantum fluctuations does not hold.
Interesting: here the key point is composability.
I wrote a validation library in the same vein but using functions as representations of sets
https://github.com/gcanti/tcomb-validation
> You are mistaken. Monads do not involve mutation.

Indeed. IO and ST involve mutation. They just so happen to be instances of Monad, but that's tangential.
From "New Hacker News Guideline
by Sam Altman":

"Negativity isn't the problem -- gratuitous negativity is. By that we mean negativity that adds nothing of substance to a comment."

Doesn't say anything about not linking to satire. Though I've noted satire in the actual comments here doesn't seem to go down well.
But being guilty isn't a criterion apparently.

http://www.npr.org/2011/03/09/134394946/illinois-abolishes-d...
>Is this not the gratuitous negativity that Hacker News seeks to avoid? Satire is not universally good. Many start-ups in their infancy could be classified using that list.

And many startups are crap because of that, both in their infancy and later development.

There's nothing wrong with criticizing BAD things to snip them in the bud, and satire is not "gratuitous negativity", it's critique + humor.
some people believe that showing support for anything below the latest release of IE is detrimental to the entire industry.
Assembling a detailed and accurate history of the 80386, including a complete listing of all the "steppings" (revisions), when they were released, what "errata" (problems) each stepping suffered from, and which of those problems were fixed by a later stepping, seems virtually impossible at this late date.

I'd guess that part of this could be because a lot of interesting info used to be on various small now-defunct or deindexed sites. Even if it's largely historical information, it doesn't feel right to just let it disappear, as sometimes it can be used to solve some mysteries. It's too bad the Internet Archive doesn't have a Google-like search function.

However, as long as this list is, it seems to be missing the somewhat more famous POPA(D) bug:

http://computer-programming-forum.com/46-asm/c4c6d6725060904...
Everything is accessible, it's just a question of how many layers of plastic you have to remove to get there. I wouldn't call the bus he found in this article user accessible but he still found it by removing some cover.
>How can 'Stupid Shit No One Needs' be classified as a social critique by any respectable semantician?

In that we live in a society that, alas, DOES produce "stupid shit no one needs" by the ton?
> Either ways seems silly - especially do what you did before but with complex dance around it.

Interesting you think that. I think the opposite. It seems silly to overwrite something that someone else may have been relying on to not change when I can do a persistent update with pretty much the same performance.
don't feel left out. I'm blocked as using a VPN or tor, which i'm not.
Bummer for me. Learning ruby these days and trying to pick up other js related things. It's utterly overwhelming.
>So if we're headed towards many players of exclusive content, why wouldn't a Netflix or HBO pull the same cash grab once their subscriber growth goes flat? Hey, I probably would if I was in charge over there.

If they do I am done watching. I don't think I am alone in this (I don't watch broadcast TV or youtube on my phone for the same reason).

Also their content isn't as exclusive as they like to think: you can get it on pirate sites.
Worth a watch. It is painful and seemingly stupid at times but it's worth trying to see it from the perspective of someone who, thus far, hasn't noticed or cared about any of it. I can't quite do it, but the underlying intelligence of Oliver's argument and performance illuminates the lack of traction he's had at the societal level and hints at a possible way forward. Kudos, I suppose...
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they don't involve mutation on the language semantics level. The mutation happens through the runtime (via calls to the C FFI).

In reality they're implemented in a mutation-heavy way for performaance reasons, but on the language level absolutely no mutation happens ( it's the whole World -> (Result, World) analogy)
In my neck of the woods, people are perhaps less gullible, too.
They have a spread though so they don't need to charge an explicit commission to be profitable.
Later, people who wanted to violate "individual rights" made up the "human rights" idea as a contrast to "individual rights."

That's a tendentious misrepresentation, bordering on incendiary, not at all suitable for this discussion forum. The human rights movement has roots in the Red Cross, the Geneva convention, and the post-war efforts to create international peace.

International conventions on human rights are not primarily used to "violate individual rights." Yes, they are used to make claims for the positive duties of states and societies to care for the suffering. When water is available, none should be excluded; when water is needed, that is a human rights issue, and measures should be taken.

(To make a counterpoint, the "individual" rights—of which you speak from a libertarian or Randian perspective—are not really all that individual. That's why the rhetoric of individual rights is so often used by those in favor of the rights of corporations. Randians equivocate the notions of the individual and the corporation for ideological reasons.)
No doubt Wi-Fi helped to push laptops to a new level of popularity. But the laptop became a big mainstream success—as a fraction of the total size of the business PC market, which is roughly the yardstick the author held up—even before dial-up Internet and the WWW became popular. The Compaq LTE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_LTE came out in 1989, and by the end of 1992 the ThinkPad and PowerBook were both with us.
Adobe Slate has too much similarity in design and workflow to Pixotale
Where did you get the 1bn figure from? Coindesk puts it at closer to $400m for 2014.

http://www.coindesk.com/venture-capital-funding-bitcoin-star...

We're at around $200m for 2015 with 95% of that between 21 and Coinbase.
I discovered Diceware a few months ago when looking for a password generation scheme for my company. We were just letting people choose their own passwords before, which I don't think is a good idea. I really like it. My only annoyance, which isn't really the fault of Diceware, is that for lots of passwords I am required to have a capital letter, a digit and/or a special character. Obviously this is to try and increase the entropy in the password, but I know that I have enough entropy in my diceware password and I just want something easy to type.

I also discovered the password strength estimator zxcvbn at about the same time. It's pretty clever. It works out which password generation schemes could be used to generate your password and then uses that information to calculate the entropy correctly (assuming the attacker would know what scheme you used).
it's the web nobody asked for!
My point isn't that stupid ideas don't exist, but that the great ones seem stupid. Dropbox was criticised on here; many thought AirBnb stupid.
It really depends what you're deploying. Presumably, you're using .NET or SQL Server, or you'd not be using Windows.

In my experience making everything run in IIS (with activation, if needed) and using msdeploy to deploy to IIS and SQL Server was the best setup.
I think they were referring to taking a course at a university.
Exactly. Coinbase takes your money but doesn't buy BTC for several days, so if the price goes down, they pocket the difference. If the price goes up, they will often cancel your order. It goes without saying that bitcoins are volatile so this isn't such a rare occurrence.

https://www.google.com/search?q=coinbase+scam
Unfortunately, as Google likes to say, the operate at "Google scale". My guess based on the sheer number of complaints in the forums, there were at least 1,000 merchants that this happened to. However, that was a tiny percentage of the merchant base. So, no one cared. As far as the BBB, they are useless. They consider any response at all from the business as meaning that the business has resolved the complaint. Once they told the BBB that my money was stolen due to "proprietary and confidential" reasons, they marked it as resolved and it actually benefited their BBB rating.
What I found interesting is that the original version had plain HTML tables, not ascii in images: http://blog.dataweave.in/post/87589606893/json-vs-simplejson...
>Nobody wants to be part of a sales funnel.
Maybe not, but lots and lots of people are wanting to buy things. I my case it is a car - if I go to a car dealer I become part of a sales funnel (a particular unprofitable one, but that is a side issue).

>If the product is actually good and useful, it will sell itself by word of mouth.

The cure for cancer will sell itself that way, yes. But even things that should sell, such as cheaper cellphone plans, don't.
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The predictions have been off in one important aspect - they've completely failed to predict the rate at which these things are happening. Even the more exaggerated estimates have been way too low compared to how quickly the Arctic ice is actually disintegrating.
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I wonder why there are so many people with absolutely no comprehension of sarcasm (and other similar constructs) on HN.

Probably the same who then complain about their companies favouring bosses who have more communication/social skills.

Or maybe they're just trolling.

I'm all for founding a company which specializes in "Stupid shit no one needs" and is valued at billions of dollars. Sign me up!
An "anti-negativity" super power for Google Chrome. Really. Try reading something negative with this on. Even the most negative of things is lessened.
Even in non-Haskell, a lazy list is a obvious possibility for that. It's not for no reason that many languages have implemented map, reduce, filter; laziness can still be pretty efficient while increasing composability and readability.

Even Java has finally been dragged into the 1960s!
To clarify, these are CNC milled, not 3D printed. They are opposites.
Funny, I wrote a blog post on why ads suck (http://www.tomjen.net/why-ads-suck/), but the key take away message is that you don't get ads for the best products as often as you get ads for not so good products. In your example you would get ads for bad vacations, less decent flight deals, etc.
The difference is abstraction.

When you code, you're building on top of assembly / cpu registers and instructions. The fact that X86/64 runs on a bunch of electrical fluctuations is actually inconsequential and an implementation detail.

Any x86/64 processor built of transistors naturally needs to take into account the behavior of the transistors it's made up of. But once you've gone above the micro-code/processor level, those details are fully abstracted.

Regardless what programming language you use, that is abstracted away identically and matters not.

However, the fact that registers in the process and memory locations exist and mutate is not something abstracted away from every language. It's abstracted in some, but not others, so it's valid to say that this difference is within the scope of the programming language.

That is why the argument differs. If the above isn't clear, I'd be happy to give another go at explaining it.
>*Slavery is explicitly permitted in prisons by the constitution.

Slavery, the death penalty, the largest incanceration rates in the world.

And some natives consider the country some kind of champion for "freedom"...
I feel like John Oliver is the first journalist who gave a somewhat balanced view of Snowden. That being said I don't really read the news all that much.
Perhaps, however in this case it just seems to be blanket block on IE. I'm using the most recent release of IE on Windows Phone (AFAIK) and it's still blocking me. Furthermore, I can understand warning people, but blocking them completely seems a step too far.
"Don't you just love Comic Sans!?"

"Maybe we should present an alert() to the user here"
I agree - programming your browser through an extension to selectively retrieve elements is probably not circumvention or exceeding authorized access.

But I think it has been shown that iterating curl from a bash script was exceeding authorized access in Weev's case. Standard HTTP GET's to which the server replies "200 OK" but after the fact was deemed to be illegal.

Hence, there is some space between Point A and Point B but it's quite mirky IMO how large that space actually is.

We know, from a copyright standpoint, for example, that it's illegal to use an extension to surround someone else's material with your own ads. So you can't add ads, but you can remove them?

I don't know if there exists a case where a site has gone after users they knew to be using blockers (it wouldn't be difficult to determine this from the logs). But it would be an interesting case, to be sure.
The inspiration that brings Haskell to me is the similarity when you do : ls . | wc -l on console. Each monad is to be composed to each other, without knowing others. Each monad is self-controlled and has its own world. Pureness!
Seems like there should be a standard Python mechanism for constructing "atoms" or "symbols" that automatically get commoned up.
I thought the standard procedure to shutdown a Bitcoin exchange was to get "hacked"? ;)
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That's not what sanswork was saying. sanswork was saying that the buy price is higher than the sell price, so coinbase makes money off the price difference.

I don't think they intentionally cancel transactions as a way to make profit. You can see reports of them cancelling transactions when the price goes down as well but still refunding the full previous amount.

I also have an instant account so I can immediately get my funds with no chance of cancelling.
The possibility of you turning into a teapot is non-zero, just astronomically low.
>But even things that should sell, such as cheaper cellphone plans, don't

Source?

Anyone who's specifically shopping around for cell phone plans doesn't need to be force-fed advertisements. If anyone's unhappy with their cellular plan, they'll be shopping around.

The hassle of switching cell phone plans greatly outweighs my dissatisfaction with my carrier at present. Therefore even if there are cheaper plans, they aren't so cheap that I give a shit. If Bell starts a 5$/mo plan with unlimited talk/text/data, word will get around and I'll switch.
>I honestly don't see a difference except in degree

Well, that's pretty concerning.
Amazing pictures, especially liked that video on Earthrise with the real audio.

Also, that's a pretty nice site.
Yes, but there's only so much power in research -- humans can find and exploit existing entropic gradients. We cannot create them.

And people have been looking at the exhaustion of fossil fuels since the late 18th century. Yes, 18th, not 19th, with the first questions arising over how long Britain's coal would last.

In that time, the three big developments have been accessing petroleum (1859), commercial electricity generation (1870s), and nuclear fission (1935).

Petroleum replaced one fossil fuel with another (albeit a vastly more useful one). Electricity allowed for energy generation and use to be decoupled by thousands of miles, if necessary (transmission losses for long-distance electricity are quite low). And nuclear fission offered one possible out, though it's been a highly problematic option.

Wind and water power have been utilized by humans for centuries, if not longer. Solar power has progressed hugely in recent decades, but it's far more fundamentally limited than many people realize. Raw availability at Earth's surface is ~8,000x present human energy consumption. Factor in land area (30% of total), population and per-capita energy growth (roughly doubling energy demand even at a small fraction of present US energy use levels), total conversion efficiencies (you're left with about 1% of the available incident energy after PV conversion, capacity factor, spacing factors, and inverters), and we're down to a 20x surplus of solar energy as available capacity if you pave over the entire Earth's landmass.

You start rapidly arriving at the conclusion that either we're 1) not going to see levels of resource consumption comparable to those of the advanced world, or 2) not for projected populations, or both.

You can hypothesize alternatives, but most are assuming tremendous advances which have been exceptionally non-forthcoming.
>It'd be status-suicide to admit you are looking for stupidity.

In our tribe yes, but in general no. Otherwise "normal" people wouldn't be talking about it on Facebook.

>apple watch anyone
Status symbol: nobody needs a 10k gold watch, which is why it allows you to show that you can afford to throw 10k away.
Yep, they block IE 11 on Windows 8.1.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9077549
Good example of how to use mantle, too!
Indeed, this is how things are described in a textbook. And how they should be. But, for example, after you've learned how to draw an ellipse using a string, a pen and two pins (like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UD8hOs-vaI) your intuition and unconscious perception of what an ellipse is will be tied to the process of producing it and a visual representation of this process, not to the arid definition of it like "a curve on a plane surrounding two focal points such that the sum of the distances to the two focal points is constant for every point on the curve".

This is why people find really learning mathematics so incredibly hard, because our intuitions are process oriented. And why you can take anyone who is not what I call a "mud-mind" (people that just can't do rigorous logical thought) and and teach him/her how to write code in an imperative language until they can get something working, while making the same person understand (not memorize!) a mathematical proof or envision such a proof is just 10x times harder.

I love functional programming and being able to do "what is" reasoning about programs. But I think this is just inherently hard for the human mind to do, we're not optimized for it, we're optimized for generating sequences of instructions that we send to our muscles to execute (and our muscles and bodies and mind too are obviously stateful, btw) and we're much better at generalizing this "dirty" way of thinking even for abstract pursuits like software development...
These exact same roadblocks exist today throughout parts of the southwest united states, but they have (to my knowledge) not been challenged by their respective states. It's kind of terrifying that they continue to be allowed to exist.
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But brand awareness is waste: you put money in, your competitor put money in and the two cancel each other out.
Check out intern(): https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#intern
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