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>I made the switch, I came crawling back to iOS.

My Nexus 4 died and I used iPhone 5 for a month. Couldn't stand it, and bought a Nexus 5. To each his own.
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You could say the same thing about almost any law. The difference between an accidental fire and arson is criminal intent. While in theory it's not possible to observe someone's inner mental state, in practice their outward actions usually give a pretty good clue, and edge cases where the same actions could be interpreted either way are rare. The same is true in spoofing: while it's theoretically possible that exactly the same strategy might be used by a legitimate trader and by a spoofer, differing only by intent, in practice some strategies are overwhelmingly more likely to be spoofing. The edge cases are tricky, but they don't invalidate the entire concept.

In this particular case, the trader in question would have been financially ruined if his spoofed orders had been executed, so it's pretty clear he didn't intend for them to be.

Caveat: In my opinion, this isn't a distinction well suited to the criminal justice system. I'd rather that exchanges identify probable spoofers and ban them from trading (after some warnings), with the burden of proof (in arbitration) on the accused to show that the suspicious orders were part of a legitimate strategy.
I was actually talking to a couple new friends from Sweden and Germany yesterday somewhat related to this.

It seems the people who have moved around or traveled a lot tend to be more open to making new friends.

While those who never left their hometown tend to be less approachable, and prefer the company of friends they already have.
Isn't that kind of the point. I had 4 apps with Pebble support (and noted in the description) approved in the last week, along with countless others as mentioned. This is more likely to be the bad/unlucky review than all the others.

While it is another example of a bad review, it's not necessarily an example of a ridiculous new practice by Apple. Maybe it is maybe it isn't, but 1 app is far from proof.
It comes with Arc: http://arclanguage.org/install
Foucault and other French Postmodern Philosophers are sometimes hard going. Foucault came up with lots of interesting ideas. My favourite is one of his concepts on power and knowledge. The idea is that one way the powerless can gain power is by creating knowledge, even in small bits. Twitter is probably proof of this.
Dude, this is insane. You basically telling people what they should say with quoted sentences.
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Rebooting is not a bad thing. It isn't something that I mind at all, unless it is done in mass. I mentioned this in another comment, but I am worried we may get into a situation where every other movie is a reboot or origin story. I would not mind soft-reboots such as Kate Bishop Hawkeye, Bucky Barnes Captain America, Dick Grayson Batman, or even Miles Morales Spider-Man.
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I don't think this holds up. WalMart choosing not to stock a product doesn't mean that the product won't be made at all. WalMart doesn't decide to stop stocking Hanes underwear because Hanes ships boxers to KMart and Target too.

Now maybe in some cases WalMart does demand exclusive right to sell something. But imagine they did it for EVERY. FUCKING. PRODUCT. I think people would get pretty pissed off. And rightfully so.
There was an excellent presentation on this at Fosdem 2014: http://video.fosdem.org/2014/UD2120_Chavanne/Saturday/OSv_a_...
I have an Obama "Yes We Scan" image as the banner of my Facebook page. And yes, I see the irony of me having a Facebook page. I use it minimally, and to post social criticism rather than baby and cat pix. Fighting fire with fire.

I am cynical about human apathy and selfishness. Which makes me cynical of your cynicism, which is directed at people's taking a stand :(
A bit off topic but pertains to your question:
I made an iOS app with Parse.com for my backend[1]. Should I worry about others breaking in to my user's info? What can I do to protect their data?

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/habit-streaks-create-good/id...
He doesn't have to be a programmer. If a cab driver kills a person while driving drunk, they just get a new job when they get out. One that doesn't involve driving.
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MY "observation" is that your "observation" cannot be trusted because you're being "unfair" in your "characterization" of C++'s new features as being the negative phrase "accumulating features" rather than "evolving" despite the idea that "evolving" implies getting "new features".

I also enjoy using "double quotes"
Who is Meduza?

(It's unfortunate but) we need to be careful what information we consume - and from where - during these times of propaganda warfare.
I will never understand how "competitive" and "anticompetitive" came to be used interchangeably.
I liked Vernor Vinge's idea that a programmer will be called "software archielogist" and his main job is unearthing existing pieces of code created over the past hundred years and putting them together. Sometimes it feels like we're already at that point.

But you'd think with 130 years of software behind us we'd have code for everything.
Involving an UB (unlike const_cast)! :)
This SXSW presentation by Geoff Lewis is spot-on:

http://www.slideshare.net/justGlew/the-terminal-plan-how-to-...

I'm also a fan of Basil Peters' Early Exits book. I don't agree that you need an 'exit coach' or an 'M&A advisor' to do this stuff, though, which is what he's been emphasizing on his website.

http://www.early-exits.com/
I don't think you're going to see a serious competitor to Wordpress in anything but PHP for a long time. The core target audience for a CMS is content creators and designers without strong compsci backgrounds. The things that make it hackable (trivial to modify in-place, extremely forgiving of type errors, no internal sandboxing, etc.) are the very things that make it attractive to non-developers.

Nothing is going to dethrone Wordpress unless it's at least as easy to cargo cult, and anything that does will more or less by definition annoy experienced developers more than what it replaced.
very cool, thanks for sharing this
Supporting Firefox and IE are decisions. I choose not to do it until something I've built had had consistent usage for a few months. Then I spend the time and support them but it's a pain. I test on chrome and safari web and mobile (blankslate is not a good mobile experience mind you). I'll jump in and fix the known Firefox layout weirdness soon but it's not laziness, it's a choice. Instead of doing that I built a google docs integration and PDF converter, I felt that was more worthwhile. You don't, that's fine.

As for the commenter saying he hacks my stuff, he has told me the problems and I appreciate it as I always do. He's always been a dick about it for some reason but that's his prerogative. I hope he keeps hacking what he thinks of as my projects (almost everything he's hacked before was something I was either re-coding or didn't code at all).
Discipline and Punish was my first introduction to any of this kind of thought, and it was great. Highly recommended.
I like Go, and I am replacing aspects of Rails apps with Go, but for a lot of web app uses, Rails is really, really good.

Hashicorp, who has a very high Go competence, migrated away from Go to Rails for their web service.

http://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2014/atlas/

> Once we decided to evaluate other technologies for our web service, we had a few choices. Based on having Rails experience and the maturity of that tooling we saw it as the most pragmatic option. As we began our initial port, we realized that over two weeks worth of work in Go had been replaced in just a few hours in Rails. We were sold.
Be that as it may, it's no sign of virtue on behalf of the person who gives it to you.
I liked the part where your investors are also random startups.
If Dropbox synchronizes folders, including edits made to files, why wouldn't it synchronize a delete? If the expected behavior would be that it propagates anything but a deletion, that would be truly bizarre and confusing wouldn't it?
This is so cool. What a creative idea. Wish I had thought of it :(
Haha this is the video version of what people tell me happened. I still can't confirm for myself.
I don't think shaming someone is an effective way to encourage them to create better quality software.
But when an app is the official embodiment of X, you'd really expect that to go first. If Apple were actively trying to get rid of Pebble-friendly apps, I would think the main/official Pebble app would be first to go.

None of this really matters though because the title/claim are still bogus.
Odd. RoR and Go address entirely different app domains.

The only thing that connects them is that RoR was trendy yesterday, and Go is trendy today.

If this is the rationale for replacement, the author will be writing plenty of "replacing" articles in the years forward.
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This is great! I look forward to seeing the original (and modified) source code released. I love old text adventure games.

If you want to try your hand at another obscure, early text adventure, there's a version of Warp (early 1980s) hosted here:

http://empire.openmpe.com/empire/other_games.html

(You have to access it through telnet.)

It's a huge game with a very advanced parser, but it only runs on the HP e3000 and the source code has never been released. This is another one I'd like to eventually see the source code to, but I tried contacting one of the authors and got no reply.
(a) Thank you, very much, really.

(b) It has actually been not at all a long time since our last update. It's a dev project. It's proceeding like dev projects do. :)

(c) Erin's got an update coming soon, but she's also ferociously debugging an emulator that is sucking up a lot of her cycles.

(d) We'd be using the term "game" in a much much looser sense than this story is. :) If you haven't already gotten through Microcorruption.com (our first "game" like this), and you're impatient for Starfighter, well, Microcorruption is good too!
Question to Matt Mullenweb, co-founder of WordPress and Automattic: If you could instantly rewrite WordPress in any programming language, which would it be?

Answer: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1jg781/i_am_matt_mulle...
Planet Money had the reverse side of this less than a month ago - a recycler barely making it by IIRC. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/03/27/395815221/episode-...

This is also heavily influenced by oil prices - if oil is cheaper then plastics made from it are cheaper but the collection / cleaning / processing costs for recycled materials aren't nearly as volatile. I'm pretty sure recycled metals don't have the same issues.
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Nice work! I'll have to explore a bit more.
Looks good. Add yourself to http://redis.io/clients.
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Also see Paul Gardner-Stephen's blog entry "Introducing the MEGA65 Retro Computer"

http://c65gs.blogspot.de/2015/04/introducing-mega65-retro-co...
Will Online Search Tools Make Realtors Obsolete?
Your issue is going to be what gets shipped there. The darknet market people try to find anyway to get stuff delivered to somewhere that doesn't belong to them. This is an issue with a lot of drop shipping services.
Not really. My understanding is that there were really two manipulations.

One (the most morally reprehensible) happened before the crisis, but affected the rounding of the libor fixings. Pennies to most people but serious money for a few trading desks holding a massive open position on futures. I don't know how much money they made but my guess is that it is a few millions per year per trader. Peanuts for a large bank but big enough to a few individual traders.

The second (morally more ambiguous, but with a much larger impact to the market) occurred during the crisis. Basically banks under-estimating their cost of funding published through the Libor fixing contributions in order to not appear having trouble raising money. This may have resulted in reducing their overall funding cost but that was certainly not the motivation (banks typically try not to have a large directional exposure to interest rates, so if Libor goes down, it also means they receive less on their assets). This was really about messaging to the market that they are not in trouble, in a world were runs on the bank were happening pretty much weekly.

These fines are an order of magnitude of the gains made on these manipulation. Which is precisely the intention of the regulators.
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Feedback welcome! Especially on the UI for API consoles.
"I'm sure you'll be very fulfilled at the trailer park you live in near the industrially-contaminated river while going to your minimum-wage job wiping old people's asses or working 14-hour days picking crops, competing against illegal migrants for wage.."

I agree with you, but let's not overlook that life in a (world)city can also fit this description (replace picking crops with any menial labour). So the chips have to be stacked somewhat in your favour to benefit form these liberties.

A major benefit of leaving is to live free of parochial judgement (it is singular!) - just as you describe. Also the cultural benefits also are great - for whatever definition of culture you prefer.
Still, returning to see family feels like playing out Rilke's Prodigal son short.
I like Ruby/Rails I like Go. I use Go for all backend stuff but as a web framework Rails is miles better than anything on Go currently. E.g: templating in Go...no thx
> Can't all of that, except teaching, be done by a secretary?

Not really, most of these tasks require some expertise. For exemple, committee meetings could be about recruiting colleagues and assessing their work or selecting papers for a journal or a conference. Grant writing requires expertise too...
Is it "journalists of the world?" It just sounds like American propaganda to me, I haven't noticed a similar sentiment towards China in Greek news, for example.

I think Russia and China get the "criminals by default" attitude in the US.
Should the 101st airborne have been comprised of lawyers trying to serve criminal complaints behind Normandy Beach?
Because someone else breaking the rules is no excuse for you breaking the rules. It's like when you were a kid, and you tried to say, "But Johnny's doing it!".
Understood, the community really needs more idiomatic examples for building web apps. Someone should take this up.
But I think it might still be a way to "discourage" them from being the same lazy next time or be unconcerned about their users' security (as the other user pointed out). IMO, public shaming, as a concept, works.
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Factoring out microservices into Go (I assume where you need better performance or concurrency) seems like a really interesting way to go rather than cutting over wholesale. Anything about it particularly difficult or interesting, or was it pretty straight forward?
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All programming languages have runtimes.
You'd think after living outside the box for a while, you'd learn to think outside it. Just because you live in or move to a small town, doesn't mean you have to have a low paying dead end job just because it has (or doesn't) benefits or you can be part of a union. There are ways to carve a niche for yourself that is meaningful to yourself and your community that will allow you to live a comfortable life.
Keep in mind they attracted some amount of regulatory attention via their "no third party frameworks" rule, even in the US.

http://www.macrumors.com/2010/08/10/european-commission-join...

I agree that they're unlikely to be spanked under antitrust rules--unless they end up dominating the smart watch market, in which case they'll be very vulnerable, but they're not there yet. But even if they don't fall under those rules, they're definitely under scrutiny.

Plus, Apple is definitely heading where Microsoft was: perceived as big enough to be the public's favorite piñata. That may ultimately be a bigger problem for them than any business realities.
This is your project?

This is a choice, sure, but it's a choice to be lazy, at the expense of 10-20% (depending on your source) of users. It's probably higher still for a technical audience, which effectively removes IE and boosts Firefox through anti-google users.
Can you give me a concrete example of what you mean. A lot of things that people claim as being "legacy" are service/server level (i.e. a database engine, a runtime, a programming language, a protocol, etc) - these don't have any intrinsic UX or UI so I'm not sure I understand what type of things you're actually referring to
The point that the author's trying to make is that you need to have obvious value to the buyer. If value is not obvious, it is an uphill battle to convince them of the purchase.

This applies not just for companies, but for products in general.
For anyone who hasn't watched the actual, full video of the debate, you should do so. Watching them argue in two languages at the same time is super fun. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wfNl2L0Gf8

Okay, here's what the video is saying, in slightly-longer form. The exchange in the video is basically Chomsky saying "human nature" and Foucault laughing.

This gets at the heart of the hour-long debate: do humans have some sort of nature? Foucault, and philosophers like him, think that the idea of 'human nature' is complete and utter garbage. So when Chomsky admits that his position boils down to an appeal of human nature, Foucault just laughs at him.

It's a great moment that really highlights the whole thing. I love it.
Great dayrates as a contractor doing CQ5 in London. I'm almost certain it's not worth it, but hey, you never know.
Personally, I value relationships as much as I do ambition. I don't see the two as an either/or - it's a balancing act.

The big problem with the "progressive, socialist economy which makes marriage+kids easier" - it doesn't allow for choice. I may not want to have kids - so why should I be forced to go down that road (or work to support those who do)? Because a study tells me I'll be happier?

In the current system, the ones who are ultimately successful are the ones who find a way to strike a balance. That's difficult for everyone - and it's more difficult for some than others. But taking away one's choice of where to land on that balance beam seems like an even worse idea than the system we currently live in.

That being said, while I'm happy to agree to disagree with you there, I think we can both agree on one thing - in this game, there are no easy answers.

(On a completely difficult note - and perhaps the most philosophical discussion I've ever gotten into on an HN post - maybe that's what makes it valuable? Would life mean less if everything were easy?)
Absolutely. The only other way is through the Cydia app store which requires a jailbroken device, or with a nifty web app.
Mostly. It is possible to distribute applications to jailbroken phones without Apple's help, but that's a minority of phones. When a new version of iOS comes out, a new method of jailbreaking usually needs to be found.

Stock phones can only install apps from the app store, or apps signed for that specific device by a developer. Developer signing is also controlled by Apple, though.
And how are you authenticating keybase.io? SSL?
I don't know, dont' get me wrong these are all nice features but it's nothing that I think will drastically change or improve the way I code (like for instance LINQ or generics did). With the possible exception of null tracking (no pun intended). Making testing and eliminating bugs easier is the one area that really could benefit from a grand new concept or methodology.

I was really hoping for better integration of tests and pre/post conditions
This is a poisonous attitude to have with regards to the security of applications that you built. I hope that you take these claims seriously. Otherwise, I have no desire to use anything that you have built.
Well, it's the combination that's illegal. Anti-competitive behavior as a non-monopoly is generally fine (and expected). As your market influence grows, it becomes riskier.
Newton was ridiculed by his peers (or at least his contemporaries). Part of the reason why people tell the story of Halley convincing Newton to publish the Principia is that Newton hadn't published anything after the reception of some of his early work on optics.

For example, one of Newton's observations was that the spectrum cast by a prism he'd bought at a local fair was elongated. Being Newton, and therefore given to extreme of care, he had arranged the prism in a room that was about twenty feet long and was struck by sunlight coming through a pinhole in a shutter. This is not a simple thing to arrange, and because the Earth is rotating the correct geometry lasts quite a short time. But it allowed him to see the elongation of the spectrum.

The problem was that received wisdom said the spectrum should be circular, as it was cast by a circular beam. Some of the replies to Newton's paper were on the order of, "Well, I held up a prism and took a quick look and it seemed ciruclar to me! Mr Newton is a fool."

Science is always going to be like this. People are mostly idiots (I certainly am, most of the time.) But the author's point is that it is worse now, and that the institutional incentives that make it worse are pretty clear. Get a couple of beer into an older scientist and they'll often tell you that they couldn't have gotten an academic position in the current climate.

Furthermore, similar incentives are in play all over the world--althouhg a friend in the Far East tells me things are better there because universities are still trying to build reputations so they are engaged in more fundamental research rather than just grant-writing.

Given this, and given we depend on science to solve some of our biggest problems, and given we have a lot of smart, passionate, dedicated people going into the sciences to solve those problems, an institutional structure that fails to deliver on the promise of giving those people a meaningful career solving problems that matter is a serious problem for Enlightenment civilization.
After 25 times, you'd have a 50/50 chance of having gone through those nodes at least once.
> the level of transparency to Java's ambitions

They are fairly transparent if you ask me. Here are a few examples[1][2], there are more to be found on the openjdk page

Additionally, scala already has some of the features proposed for the inclusion in C# in the future.

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/0

[2] http://openjdk.java.net/projects/panama/
Which Is Better for Startups, Growth Hacking or Lean Marketing?
Grid Engine to Speak Mesos? Why? What about UX?
Rails is still the best framework for building CRUD applications. It shouldn't be used for every scenario but if you want to build a traditional CRUD app, nothing is better than Rails in my opinion.
Sure. Toss up some side bar / status / score thing, and run the game in 8 bit coordinates.

Or, double up on movement, make the game 160 pixels, and just run that way.

The multi-color mode on C64 is 160 pixels, and that got used for a ton of games.

Finally, mixed screen setups. Sprites, high resolution (320) and multi-color (160) all were used concurrently. The coordinates for those could easily be 8 bits, and just operate in regions of the screen.
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