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>Indeed but Apple is aware that the FTC isn't likely to punish them enough that the behavior will be a net negative.

That makes it correct game theory, Apple has to do it because every other company does it. So it's necessary, but that doesn't make it fair.

So apparently the FTC won't punish them enough for it to be a net negative. Oh well, I guess that's it then. No one else has responsibility, right?

Wrong!

We have responsibility. The good news is, you don't have to work hard at it. If you want to punish apple for this, just stop buying their shit. It's actually easier than not doing it!
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Marissa Mayer makes 1,100 Yahooers jobless, calls it a 'remix'
Tangentially related, I have to give a shout out to Chris Marquardt's "1000 Pics 1 Hour" Lightroom workflow: https://shop.chrismarquardt.com/bookshop/product/1-hour-1000.... Simple but effective way of dealing with the massive volume of images we capture with digital cameras, and reducing your photos to the real keepers.

It's worth paying for the e-book as he goes into some interesting points, but in a nutshell the core concept is going through your imported photos in three passes: first, quickly pick all the ones that might have some potential merit (e.g. they are in focus and of something somewhat interesting), then go back through the picked ones and quickly rate them from 1-3 stars (1 being "has documentary value", 3 being "potentially a great photo), then take the 3 star ones and spend a bit of time retouching them if needed and giving them 4 or 5 stars if they are really special.

The end result is that you can quickly get down to keeping maybe one in ten photos from a shoot - it makes the whole process feel a lot more manageable and opening Lightroom less scary! Plus, it reduces the amount of photos we store so you need to worry less about the capacity of your cloud solution ;)
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There's no real incentive for regulators to regulate if you think about it. If you DO regulate you're less likely to have exit jobs to Wall Street. If you DON'T regulate and things go well, everything will be good and you'll go through the revolving door to work for big banks and big bucks. If you DON'T regulate and everything goes very badly (you know like a financial meltdown) it's "not your fault."
Here's all the possible word combinations:
https://github.com/zhangtiff/startup/blob/master/js/data.js

Nice that it's all clientside
Congrats on writing your own solution. I wonder though do you know how much your family actually uses it? In my experience if I share some photos via a link they view it and that's it. If I send a few select photos via MMS/WhatsApp they save them to their device and come back to them every now and then when browsing their own photo gallery. Does a lack of solution signal a lack of need in this case?

P.S. Any chance you'll open source that software if there are other people in the same position (or create a closed source SAAS product)?
P.P.S A product I've found that come close to what you need is iCloud shared photo streams. Did you look at that or does it fall short in some areas?
> Also I suspect Walmart has no idea the extent to which recyclables are used in their products since about 70% of Walmart's products are produced in China

You'd be 100% wrong. Walmart investigates the crap out of most if not all of their supply chain.
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Why would someone go to prison for being bad at their job? I don't think you know what a crime is.
> It's sad that Foucault laughs at it, because it's essentially an argument by authority (his own) and not based on anything with scientific substance.

> Of course if you pretend that "Science is always a power play" you can say whatever you want, because you've elevated your opinion to a position above criticism.

Or at least to a position where science is not a valid source of criticism.

If I understand correctly, poststructuralists say that all truth claims are about power, and only that, because objective truth cannot ever be determined. That leaves them free to make ever-more-blatant power plays in their own claims.
Maybe new entrants will pressure the entrenched players in markets where new entrants exist. Everywhere else will stay the same, it's not like we hear many people complaining about internet service in places where Google Fiber is deployed.
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Who profits? The banks that just issued risky loans, packaged them into CDOs and held onto the risky tranches?

(Typical names in that space were WaMu, BofA, Countrywide and Citi.)
finland.
> The ransomware developers could use public-key cryptography by generating a local session key to encrypt the victim's files, and then encrypting a copy of that key with the developers' public key. The paid ransomware service would then consist of decrypting that particular session key on request.

The private-key to generate the session-key has to exist somewhere -- you don't want it anywhere it can be traced back to you, so it would probably be on some automated control server - which tracks the payment addresses and forwards the decryption key on bitcoin payment receipt.

My guess best is that some of the keys got recovered in the C&C Server take-downs.
It would be possible to use bitmessage or another non-ip traceable method of communication to pass decryption keys and and keep the structure separate from the C&C servers.
> The difference between a legal transaction and an illegal one is often what was in the person's head, not just things you can deduce from a paper record.

From my understand of how a straddle works, that describes it quite well.
Cancels either are explicitly built into the fees or are captured currently as fill ratios. Spoofers (and everyone else) are happy to pay this. It won't prevent spoofing which was your original position.
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That doesn't make any sense. The more you regulate, the more banks need in-house regulatory folks and the more opportunities you have to go through the revolving door.

Deregulation is not a good thing for people who want to go in-house doing regulatory work.
You can do that in Go, yet like pointed out in [1], it tends to take more effort (well, this has been my experience at least).

But well: do what works for you, really :-) I'm not commenting to persuade you, I'm just sharing one data point.

[1] http://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/atlas/
What a shame. This would've been a neat prank at work (I'm the only Android user in an office full of iPhone/iPad users).
I think that's because programmers are humans, not machines :)
I didn't realize this when I first started using them, but Github's deploy keys are read/write as of the last time I tried them, with no option to make them read-only.

I actually used Bitbucket for a while because their repo-level keys are read-only.
More: NRVO, Pimpl, SBRM, EBO, NVI, ODR, CRTP, STL, RTTI, TMP.

I've been using C++ for the past year at work. It's an absolute nightmare to learn.
It says something about a deal when the stock price of both companies rises after an announcement like this.
This is awesome. Been cracking up for five minutes now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_intelligent_signal_tes... was designed to fix the problems with the Loebner Prize.
> A ninja armed with sustainable bags will arrive at your door to pick up your baby

> http://www.launchnik.com/babyio

o_O
I can understand what you mean, but isn't the consumer's best interest sort of... subjective?

Apple has obviously gone to great lengths to make their walled garden a reliable and safe place for consumers who have chosen to buy their products. If you talked to Tim Cook or Jony Ive, I bet they would make a case that the best thing for consumers is to be entirely invested in the Apple ecosystem. After all, it DOES give you the most consistent experience.

So if you look at it from that perspective, who's right is it to go into a company and say, "No, that's not what's best for the consumer!" Obviously people like what they are getting, otherwise they would be defecting to Android in droves. Contrary to what some people are saying here, they DO have a choice.

Thinking through it logically, I just can't see any scenario where a company, no matter how large, should be forced to push a competitor's products.
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Thanks!
You can forget to write a using statement. In C++ you can omit your destructor entirely if all the members are already RAII classes, whereas in C# you still need to write a .Dispose() method.

Memory management is by and far the vast majority of resource management in C++ for me, which C# takes care of with garbage collection - so I don't miss RAII too much in C#. But if you tried to give me a C++ with using blocks but no RAII (read: you gave me C) I'd scream.

RAII is no panacea[1] - I'd say C#'s manual resource burden without RAII is still less than C++'s with RAII. Which is why I don't miss it too much. But it'd still be a nice addition. And I missed it dearly during my initial adoption of C#.

[1] e.g. in C++, you still have to worry about reference cycles, implementing the RAII constructs in the first place if existing ones aren't suitable, ensuring parents are kept in scope while referencing children, etc..
Thiel should start focusing his network analysis tools on the internal workings of finance corporations instead of merely using it to create models to predict default risk.
There's a lot of backroom dealing on things like this. Some depends on how many suitors, and who wants the deal more. Other times it's more nefarious, and involves things like golden parachutes or planned roles in the new company.
It's hard to create a simple mark these days without bumping up against other branding. Couple people mentioned Mercedes as well.
On the other hand, many (all?) jobs require a background check, and it is possible for a felony conviction to tank your chances at any job, even in an unrelated field.
Would love to read more about the inside of paper like this, from the perspective of the technologists. What is the interaction like between product developers and journalists/editors? How does the back-and-forth go? Does the editorial process for interactive components match (in rigour) that of the written-side?
1. Signing up without knowing ANYTHING about the service... nope.

2. It rejects mailinator emails, but fortunately it doesn't reject other temporary email services :)

3. It's not a signup for the service; it's just a mailing list. How disappointing. It doesn't even tell you any details about the service after you sign up.

All in all, I'm dissuaded from using it when it becomes available, and I'm glad I didn't sign up with my real email.
As they should be. These aren't the UI abstractions you are looking for...
Same exact thing happened to me. Was looking at this page and headscratching, convinced it was real for about 45 seconds
> I opened a dozen hackernews tabs and then went to go do something else. When I came back to this I found myself looking at the home page of.... and I spent a good few minutes trying to figure out what in the hell they actually did...

so, in other words, just a normal day browsing HN...
The amount of money flowing from patronage pales in comparison to the capital of the VC industry. Patronage could never take over later rounds. There would still be bootstrapped startups, but far less of them. Another thought is that 10% weekly growth would flat out kill many businesses without access to easy capital. I don't think the statement "without start-ups, there would be slower rates of technological growth" is debatable.
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People should not be punished soley to 'make an example' or for large-scale 'behavior modification'. Punishment should only be doled out for actual wrongdoings and only proportional to that individual's actions.
Isn't this part of a larger, global trend of turning public institutions into private businesses?
It happened to the American prision system, it's happening to healthcare, education, and higher education.
Like "reverse surge pricing"... free coffee until the place gets busy.
And yet Wall Street is highly regulated (it might not be very effective, but there is a huge amount of regulation nonetheless), so it seems like there must be forces at work beyond what you're considering here.
I've been in Guatemala off and on for over 17 years[0]. My parents came down later and started a free medical clinic.

Healthcare for "Indians" here is often terrible[1]. There's tons of discrimination, and "indian" is often used as an insult ("que indio!"). There's a feedback loop, because the people distrust hospitals and thus go less since "people die there".

It's further compounded by local villager beliefs. My mom has several stories of kids dying, literally because their parents insisted on having a priest do something first, delaying critical care by hours. Or not treating things and losing a leg or more because of a simple cut. Stuff that we might take as basic, obvious things, are simply not.

Oh, and medicine compliance is extra difficult when the patients can't read and have relatives telling the patient that medicine is an evil trick.

Even giving out birth control faces opposition. Apparently a lot of the men think if their wife doesn't get pregnant every so often, she must be seeing another man on the side. Often women desperately don't want to have more kids, but "must". (And mix in a high infant mortality rate, and sometimes women won't even name the child for a while after birth to avoid attachment. Pretty fucked up.)

I'm alternately amazed and repulsed regarding the people that work and try to fix this. It's an unending stream of fucked-up-ness. My parents' clinic sees 50-70 people a day (3 days a week), and that's just from 3 small villages. Sure, it's great that they save people and no doubt that's what motivates them. But I step back and look at the overall horror and the constant onslaught -- it seems so hopeless without real large scale efforts. (Which really, probably translate to having another country come in and run things.) I just don't know how people deal with this - I certainly cannot face it.

Finally, keep in mind that overall, Guatemala is a rather messed up country with too much violence and incompetence. Healthcare is just one aspect. When there's essentially zero police response, things tend to go downhill quickly. Anyone can get away with anything, so long they aren't stopped in the act. (Hence every place, down to McDonalds, has "guards" with shotguns.)

0: I visited when I was 15 and realised I could drink all I wanted without being carded and it was cheap, so I dropped out and moved down. Ended up staying a bit too long.

1: Well healthcare in Guatemala is pretty shitty overall, even if you're paying and trying to find decent doctors. Bad education or just straight-out fraud (insisting on unnecessary surgeries, for the money). Some things, if done in the US or proper countries, would be viewed as outright criminal, beyond negligence.
I'm suddenly picturing epic car chases involving Audis being pursued by DHL trucks on the Autobahn.

Also, way to totally brush off the bigger news that the FAA's approved testing of Amazon's drone delivery :)
Someone has to step up and evolve. Once the Chinese are being born smarter, stronger, and defect-free other countries will be sure to follow. (We must not allow a mine shaft gap!)
If the reports are to be believed, it was the staff at the FCC and DOJ who were recommending to block the merger. These are usually career employees who serve across administrations; it's more likely they were just doing their job, not cowing to public demands.
Totally agree. RGB<->sRGB conversions are a huge mess, especially on young platforms like iOS. 16 bit channels would be easy for everyone to understand, and would eliminate pseudoscience jargon like high dynamic range (HDR).
Probably because they provide the best versions of those services. But hey, no good deed goes unpunished.
There's something of a shift toward professional training, but there still seem to be a glut of students entering college without a clear idea of what they're getting out of it or what it will cost them. Pressured to attend by the social expectation that everyone should go to college, the now-foolish guidance many in my generation received of "do what you love," and the ready supply of student loans, students are still throwing themselves into the gaping maw of debt and degrees that are not useful to them in the workforce. (I am very lucky that, for me, "do what you love" ended up meaning the field of computer science).

What we need is to break out of this idea that everyone must attend university "or else you'll be a garbageman" or whatever they were telling us in school growing up.
Atom Shell is no longer tied to Atom the text editor by name. It makes sense to change the name as Electron becomes more popular in projects outside of Atom.
They could be forced to split off the culpable area of the business and sell it at a below market value or even free price.
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populism certainly hasn't stopped other
terrible ideas from coming to fruition (Citizens United)

What does a SCOTUS justice care about populism? They're appointed for life. They care about their legacy, or the legitimacy of the institution[1], but it's not like Americans are going to show up at the Supreme Court with pitchforks and torches in hand. If you want to make sure another Citizens United decision doesn't happen any time soon, it would be worthwhile to think carefully about your choice for President next year.

edit: also, as others have noted, this deal wasn't under the purview of the Supreme Court, but instead the FCC, FTC, and DOJ.

[1] http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudenc...
> You can explore the doc for each layer by "SPC f e h". You can even jump to source from there.

But does it offer an access to the main docs? When I type "spacemacs" in there I get an empty README.md.

> Everything that works in stock Emacs should work in Spacemacs. Stock Emacs key bindings are always there

Yep, but I'm not an Emacs user so I do not know them!

> I think it should exist.

Well, you can try :h for yourself...

> However, even NeoVim wants to remove it: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1089

They are talking about removing Ex mode, not ex commands!

> I believe in Vim I can create empty buffers.

I don't believe in Vim you get an easy way to create a buffer that has a name that is not a filename...
In my experience, most malware creators are pretty terrible. Even in 2015 it's common for malware to communicate with C&C servers that have classic SQL injection vulnerabilities.

More specifically on the topic of ransomware, have a look at this gem [1], which uses RSA, but the key is 128 ASCII digits. Very similar to the cryptocat disaster. [2]

[1] http://blog.cassidiancybersecurity.com/post/2014/02/Bitcrypt...

[2] http://tobtu.com/decryptocat.php
is there much benefit to compressing your photos?
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Author here: Yes, that is one use-case I also consider in the post when I talk about using SSH Agent Forwarding into Linux namespaces. The same argument can be made about VMs, if you place the same trust in them as you do in your desktop.
This is a common technique in conceptual analysis. It reminds me of Castelfranchi's theory of trust. While trust was often modeled as a two place relation (X trusts Y) he turned it into a five place relation (X trusts Y for task T useful for goal G in context C).
However, the cost-benefit analysis is kind of different. Someone being able to defeat your program just means one lost sale.
Same. I'll run npm install on my desktop and suddenly dropbox is at 110% CPU doing nothing. I end up having to force quit it and forget to restart it. It's VERY frustrating.
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https://tectonic.com/

https://coreos.com/blog/kubernetes-on-any-platform/

https://coreos.com/docs/running-coreos/cloud-providers/ec2/

Disclaimer: I work on Google Cloud but not Kubernetes or GKE.
Anarchy means no rulers, it doesn't mean there are no rules. Maybe eventually it will if people keep perverting the meaning.

> Abusing a stranglehold or monopoly

Apple has a "stranglehold" on what exactly? I think you're just using hyperbolic words.

> I hope this kind of anti-competitive measures do get some kind of regulation

How about a little patience instead? How about not buying Apple products? Let's get the pitchforks out and demand the government punish these companies because they're inconveniencing us, or give it enough time and let consumers sort it out. Look what happened with Internet Explorer. Does it dominate the market anymore?
It's unnerving how many of the generated startups look like good investable propositions.
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If their job serious have a great deal of importance, then they should be put into jail for being bad at their job.
Not even close. Even if Walmart chooses to not stock a particular product, you can still purchase said product from other authorised retailers. This is more like if Walmart is the sole reseller in the U.S. for a certain hardware device used all around the world, and they choose not to stock it and you have no other venues from which to purchase it.
Also, this kind of document fraud was only a minor part of the financial collapse. The big mistake, which Stewart briefly touched on, was that the rating agencies massive fucked up.

Well, no, those are two sides of the same coin.

On the one hand you have people giving out dubious loans and reselling them while claiming that if you mix the shit up the right way it turns into gold.

On the other hand you have ratings agencies who bought into the nonsense.

The two were 100% complicit and, I think, equally to blame.
Rust is the answer. C++ is just soo legacy.
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Since this is on the front page of HN, I'll share a more recent and more detailed article from LWN about this.

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There are only so many LINQ's in the history of programming or any programming language. It is unlikely that anything added to the language, at this point, would have such an impact.

On testing and pre/post, this is an area around which I am quite sympathetic. However, I'm ambivalent about the unintended consequences of fleshing it out too far. It seems that by encouraging testable code, I get much of the relief to my pain. That said, it's a cat and mouse game for things like async-await features... followed by support for testing said language feature.
Being the second cable company in any given location is a terrible investment. Being the third is even worse.

The only company I know who does it is RCN, and they only do it in big cities.
Is it suitable for WYSIWYG or a plain text & source code editor? Does it originate initially from Mozilla's Ace text editor? https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace The name changes are a bit confusing (Mozilla Bespin -> Skywriter -> Ace ->(?) Atom -> Electron).
>During our joint investigation we have been able to obtain data that can help you to decrypt the files being held hostage on your PC.

Obtain data? How? :)
Loan Officers get a percentage of the loan amount, and it's not rare for them to make $300k/year in a good year.
That's a seriously confusing name. I thought this was a physics story of some kind.

Additionally it's also a bad name because it's impossible to google.
You've heard of criminal negligence, right? Where someone is so outrageously bad that it can only be intentional, with something important at stake that gets hurt.