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Thanks for taking your time to look up these points.

> A lot of us already subscribe to the mass psychosis of a all seeing White Man
in the cloud watching over us.

Erm... really? He wants to bring Religion into this? This isn't the only time
he references Religion either, but its the most noticeable.

I think this specific connection to religion is spot-on and therefore appropriate. He indirectly highlights the strong connection between humans feeling being watched and their behaviour, and thus why privacy is important.

> Like these _beautiful_ Nexus phones

Rather disparaging to owners of Nexus phones. He's pretty much calling you a
dumb-fuck at this point for buying into Android.

He says these phones are beautiful, and he means it. They are.

But the way he says it is to warn us that their beauty is deceiving us. Basically, he says: "Ignore for a moment how beautiful they are and think about the problem I'm describing."

This seems to be standard rhetoric to me.

I'm an owner of a Nexus phone and I don't feel disparaged. At least not by him.

On the contrary, if you wish to "Red Pill" a Nexus user, you don't start off
the argument by calling them a dumb fuck.
In fact, you need to be sure to NEVER call them a dumb fuck throughout the
entire presentation.

And yes, he is calling members of the audience who disagrees with him,
dumb fucks.

> Dumb Fucks. And maybe we deserve it.

Lets be frank here, his point is "If you disagree with me, you're a Dumb Fuck".

These disgusting words are not Aral Balkan's, but Mark Zuckerberg's. He cynically repeats them to make it as clear as possible how the people in power at these companies think about you. They see you as dumb fucks if you entrust them with your data. This is extremely noteworthy.

I think you misunderstand him in that he is calling you a dumb fuck, but in fact the tells you what they are thinking about you.

But he's so disparaging and elitist it is very hard to actually recommend
this video to anyone I know.

So, I seriously do not see why he would be disparaging or elitist.

as soon as you start splitting the crowd up on Religious or
"WHITE POWER!!!?!?!?" grounds

He was criticizing the huge amount of power a small group of mostly white people have. This is criticism of the current society and neither disparaging nor elitist, quite the opposite.

I think you misunderstand him.
That's fair. But it doesn't work like that for me.

Now that I think about it, I can come up two reasons:

1) The sums involved. Both for the deals in question (AOL, WhatsApp) or in my football example, the sums are mind-bendingly large. I .. cannot grasp those. Millions are already insane, but billions? I have no clue how to value _anything_ at those levels. Certainly not things that aren't entirely new or special. My gut feeling says "That's far too much" a lot earlier already, more or less regardless of what we're talking about.

2) I guess the market is hard to estimate if you're not only not part of it, you're actively surrounding yourself with people that are like-minded. Sure, every WhatsApp user can tell a story about friends and family getting a lot of value out of it. Of course! In a similar fashion I can point out that none of my family members (as far as I'm aware) use it, none of my friends seems to require it, it .. doesn't exist in my ecosystem and the last person that asked if I am on WhatsApp - about 3 month ago - was a manager at work. I mean.. WTH? "No, and certainly not for work". It's reinforcing the initial position, confirming my bias. "No one uses it, no one needs it".

Then again, maybe that _is_ a lack of empathy. You're the judge. I merely express my disbelief and sense of wonder here, if everyone thinks these values are cool then yes, I'm obviously wrong.
So we read a lot on HN about how JRuby has taken off, in terms of Chris Seaton's work with Truffle, Graal, and dynamicinvoke research for Java. JRuby, with efforts by him and sepearate work by others, has shown that jokes aside, porting successful languages or language styles to Java (JRuby, Clojure, Scala, and others) has real benefits. I mean even if you hate Java/JVM stuff, you can use paradigms and tools, partially or completely, on a stack you hate. For some of us that is a godsend, and I think it shows how cool open source programming is, where people are porting whole runtimes and languages to mix-match for their pleasure.

Now, with that in mind, I heard a long time ago, and it might be utter BS that Jython is way behind JRuby in terms of community, and very fairly, not as performant or robust bc there are only so many eyes for shallow bugs. Is this true? I see geovizer and others are making use of it, but others using it to good effect and it is worth their while?

I am now studying Java academically, and played with Python for years. The idea of doing Django-REST-Framework on Jython instead of learning Rails-API for JRuby as trial by fire exercise, at least in my mind, is more appealing. So anyone know how realistic this is?
WhatsApp's user base is largely non-US, so I wouldn't expect you'd see many people in the US using it compared to its actual popularity.
Interesting they don't mention any Database related tech ie set theory relvars and PL/SQL et all (plus the no sql query language)
Exchangel adds Pied Piper for fantasy investing
Did someone make a Firefox version yet?
Reverse Engineering Birds’ Beaks into Dinosaur Bones
If I'm going to be writing something that consists mostly of chaining commands together, I'm going to write a shell script, just because it gets out of my way for that purpose.

At the same time, anything I do at that level is probably going to be the exact opposite of portable: it's going to be something I intend to be specific to the exact system I'm writing for (namely, it's meant to run on a specific version of a specific Linux distribution, and possibly even to specifics of the installation on that machine). While I'm not likely to take advantage of many bash-specific features just because anything I write in shell tends to be so simple as to not need them, I'd also be an idiot to eschew useful features like arrays just because they're bash extensions.
Illegal to collect environmental data in Wyoming
I've been thinking of it as somewhat like a Bluetooth pairing. Only exists when two devices are connected.
Satellite internet can also be had for prices which aren't completely absurd.
An 'I'm Busy, Go Away' sign for open workspaces
Picture the attack being something agencies knew for months but decided to let happen to teach people a lesson and revamp their operations...

(Yeah, that would never happen...)
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Is now a good time to raise VC?
Yes, git does use hashes, but git similarly doesn't work in that manner for the same reason. Git commits can only point to commits in the past and not future commits. It is not possible to update old commits like you suggest.

The HEAD of a repository is like a pointer to the hash of a commit. You may think of HEAD like a repointable alias. `cat .git/refs/heads/master` in any of your git repositories to see what I mean.
The article says:

"For quite some time we've been grilling our candidates about dirty corners of TCP/IP stack. Every engineer here must prove his/her comprehensive understanding of the full network stack. For example: what are the differences in checksumming algorithms between IPv4 and IPv6 stacks?
I'm joking of course, but in the spirit of the old TCP/IP pub game I want to share some of the amusing TCP/IP quirks I've bumped into over the last few months while working on CloudFlare's automatic attack mitigation systems."

That is, these are not real interview questions. They are trivia questions.

I doubt most engineers even at Cloudflare can answer these without research.
Have we already forgotten shellshock? Especially in 2015 it seems like a good idea to avoid bash for anything non-interactive.
Since Lenovo is now on the shit-list, any recommendations for well-built laptops these days?
But Deku gives them the advantage of not being bound to possibly devastating patent licenses.
True, most schools run both, or at least my university did/does. but for the self taught, go android, more phones thus cheaper to get into the game.
Snoop Dogg Launches Album on Product Hunt
Are there timed-out blacklists yet? this is something we have been asking for a while.
I've made an honest effort with C++ >= C++11. The language has improved -- lots -- but there's just no getting around the fact that:

- Most of the improvements hellaciously leverage the hideous template system, and

- Actually writing template-leveraging libraries is an exercise in pain, repetition, and insanely slow compile times.

C++ won't be a "Rust-killer" (insert any other modern low-level type parameterized systems language here) until a human being can actually read and make sense of the C++ standard library without needing to decipher repetitive, often recursive, and almost always unreadable templates.
> But why?

The first thing that came to my mind is that this could be a great tool to fight censorship
The one complaint I can understand from authorities is that many app drivers don't have adequate insurance. I think there's a legitimate worry that if an accident happens while drivers are working their insurance won't cover it. Beyond that I agree the whole medallion idea is out of date.
just write everything in bash..
> worker protection in the Netherlands is much better than in the US or UK

I don't think you should lump the UK with the US on this one. You can't "just fire someone" in the UK, most employees can't work more than 48hrs/week, paying extra for overtime is standard, 28 days holiday is minimum¹ and taking it is normal, if you're ill you don't need to use a holiday day, etc.

The new-ish government website is a bit of a mess for linking to whole sections, but anyway: https://www.gov.uk/browse/working

¹ That legal minimum includes public holidays.
that was only an issue once when a guys previous company was bought by Oracle and they offered him a load of money and paid for him to go to grad school. In general though, compensation was never a problem.
It's a relief to see post-redesign diagrams. But at the same time I have tiny 'bus factor' fear by relying on a single language, is it (that) absurd ?
HTTP Public Key Pinning Usage Is Essentially Zero
COBOL will never die, either.
Can someone explain the equation better than the article?
Just because one story in his book was wrong, it doesn't invalidate the whole book. That's like saying evolution theory is wrong because you have found some paleontologists wrong interpretation of a random artifact.

I suppose science is never really complete, that's what people should keep in mind.
That C/C++ have a formal standard and have an entire tool ecosystem is a huge advantage over Rust for mission critical and safety critical areas (not that Rust would be used for SC applications).
I'm no particular fan of the car buying experience although if you can take both financing and trade-in totally out of the equation--and have done your research--it gets a lot easier. You're also right that there are no haggle dealers and brands. When I bought one of my current vehicles (about 15 years ago now!) I test drove a couple different variants and the purchase process probably took less than an hour at a no haggle dealer that was selling the car at just about dealer cost according to Consumer Reports.
I was really surprised to see this wasn't implemented much earlier. Chrome apparently had support for XHTML 1.1 Ruby since 2010!

I am also surprised to see how verbose actual ruby markup is.

Better examples of mark-up on wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character#HTML_markup
Google suspends Map Maker because of vandalism
Yeah, especially that last part. It would be great if all permissions started with "Upon page load..." or "Upon clicking the extension icon..."
Also a owner of the dash and I'll confirm it's pretty useful. You can also think of it as a registry tool. If you bring it into a store, you can scan a bunch of products and it'll sync up to the cloud when you connect back to wifi.
This also happened in my constituency
Another Singapore minister translated the PM's C Sudoku solver to JavaScript
Some people have never had bad law enforcement experiences. I know someone whose brother was shot to death in a traffic stop. I know a woman who was stalked by a deputy. And I know of an entire city neighborhood that got tear gassed because the PD drove protestors into a residential area. In the early evening.

Cops are people too, and sometimes people are assholes. Really, really big assholes. This is why we have rules instead of a police state. Well, had.
Should Apple buy Greece?
FYI: LinkedIn API changes are rolling out slowly (over a week)
No.

The best reason is: Not bound to Facebook License and Patents.
It's mostly unrelated.

Mercury is a collection of libraries together which can be used as a framework. The most comparable subcomponent of mercury to deku is virtual-dom. Comparing virtual-dom and deku is pretty simple: v-d is not "component based" and has no internal state management.
> We can measure the rate of learning. Google scholar counts the number of times a paper is cited by other papers. I believe that well-informed scholars who cite the original paper ought to cite the subsequent papers.

Possibly related, but Google and the very concept of PageRank was born out of Page and Brin's work on Backrub, which attempted to surface the importance/relevance of an academic paper based on which other papers cited it.
Those of us expecting the hammer to come down today might have a small/temporary reprieve of sorts, it looks like they're going to take a week to roll out the API changes.

The bad news is: If you're waiting to see if your LinkedIn App breaks, you might need to wait a full week to confirm that.
I get that this is a translation but it's very poorly written even considering that. lots of repetitive conclusion jumping in what I can only assume is an attempt to baffle the reader into uncritically accepting what appears to be a largely unsupported opinion.

the only evidence the post seems to offer is that rust is slow because it showed up 5th in a set of microbenchmarks. everything else is rhetorical garbage, frankly.
Performance regressions in GHC are taken seriously as far as I've seen. It's not that big of a deal since you should test/profile your program on any compiler upgrade.

If you see any regressions, just post it to the ghc mailing list and it will probably be solved for you since it's much needed regression feedback/data.
[...] you probably suck

It doesn't matter how good you are when your whole department or office is axed. The wheat is thrown out along with the chaff.

if low wage, and probably lower skilled workers can take your job

What actually happened in many cases was executives thought low wage unskilled workers could do your job, and over the course of a few years discovered whoops, no, they really can't. Jobs are then repatriated. Then a few years later some executive gets a bright idea... It seems to be a cycle these days.
#apple introduces #ios8 .4 to beta developers﻿
So, of course everything you do is for a selfish reason. You behave to fulfill behavioral and emotional needs, but its mostly based on emotion; for without that you would just sit and die. Emotions drive all, even "logic" and "reasoning".

But, the issue is not that we act selfishly, for that will always be, as that is how we can be autonomous; selflessness though, facilitates us acting as a group instead. It is pro-social to improve things for others, and so there must naturally be internal mechanisms that drive that behavior, and dopamine is pretty good at getting behavioral responses.

But to say 'selflessness" doesn't exist is like saying there is no sun. Selfless does not mean you get nothing out of it, just that you get little to nothing out of it; or may even end up suffering considerably for it.

Maybe our definition of selfishness/selflessness is skewed, but they both exist.
IBM and AgencyLogic CEO Stephen Fells to Co-Present Cloud Computing Seminar
How the CEO of Fetch Robotics is leading the future of robots
http://wellwellapp.meteor.com

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I was curious so I googled him and saw he created Coffeescript, backbone.js and underscore.js. Is there part of his background I'm missing that makes this funny. Seriously I don't get it and it's bugging me :)
There's a mistake in that code:

.fizzbuzz:nth-of-type(3n)::before{
content: "buzz";
}

Should be "fizz".
Replication Data For: Exposure to Ideologically Diverse News/Opinion on Facebook
The actual live speedrun/TAS communities seem to get along fine. TASbot has been well-received at Awesome Games Done Quick, for instance. I think it's generally acknowledged that live speedrunning is meant to push human skills to the limit, while TAS is meant to push the game to the limit, and that these are complementary goals (and that both require a great deal of cleverness).

That doesn't change how every YouTube video of a TAS has comments along the lines of "this is dumb, ur cheating lol". But YouTube comments are always bad.
Nothing forces it to be on your network. If there's a neighbor with open wifi, or easily cracked wifi, or wifi Amazon already has the key for, (from an Amazon tablet/phone that's been connected to it before) then it could talk on that instead.
>(People laying down in front of tanks, etc.)

There are a couple ways to handle this.

First, humans are not inherently rational. How many times does a human desire one goal but performs something that moves that goal further away from them, perhaps to the extent they destroy any hope of obtaining that goal?

Second, there are social benefits to selflessness that we will tend to be able to enjoy the benefits of but which are not always going to be there.

Consider a bird trained to press a button for food though the food only has a chance of being produced. Even in cases where there isn't food, the bird is still pressing the button to get food. Even when an outside observer knows the next press will not generate food, the bird is still pressing it for food. Even if we could inform the bird that food would not result from the next press, the bird would likely make the decision anyways to disregard our advice and press the button for the sake of food.
We used to need one parent working, then they changed mortgage lending to incorporate two incomes and surprise: land prices doubled.

I'm not convinced this is as true as a separate issues: many desirable cities and first-tier suburbs have implemented severe land-use controls that force families who want better school districts to pay for housing. This is a point Avent makes in The Gated City (http://www.amazon.com/Gated-City-Kindle-Single-ebook/dp/B005...) and Yglesias makes in The Rent is Too Damn High (http://www.amazon.com/Rent-Too-Damn-High-Matters-ebook/dp/B0...).

I read Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry in the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth but am worried that land-use controls weren't really even on George's radar for obvious reasons; in the 19th C the U.S. was a different place. I don't think the book is bad exactly but much has changed. think the causal issue runs from "land use restriction" -> "higher prices" rather than "dual income" -> "higher prices."
NAR Study: Majority of Metro Areas Experiencing Widening Inequality
I'm curious about the decision to elide the synthetic event system. Does Segment only target modern browsers? What is the compatibility delta on including or eliding synthetic events?
The backbone.js stuff was during NYT work if I recall.
Cool vid http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/a1ab6f2785e2df2f08f70168413e3a...
Is he not still at the New York Times?
Can anyone recommend some intermediate resources for learning CSS. I have gone though css dog, and I kind of know most of that stuff already. Everything seems to be beginner or expert level.

And not csszengarden. It has some wonderful examples, but doesn't really explain how they work.
I believe I received it for my S4 (AT&T) about 3 weeks ago, and it's having trouble installing for whatever reason. I'm pretty peeved it took so long to get it and will probably switch back to Apple the next go around.
One of the main reasons I want to pursue an MS is that I want to work in the Silicon Valley, build some network and build a startup out of there. Do you think it might be the correct approach?
The about page of TASVideos.org now defines the term as "Tool-Assisted Superplays".

I'm pretty sure that is a re-definition of an acronym that began life as "Tool-Assisted Speedrun". It's worth noting that the video you linked to talks a lot about "saving frames" in its description - not something anyone would care about if speed wasn't still a thing on their mind.
Google need to think about this from a "Brand" perspective.

Likewise some of Googles published API's are "in need of improvement" - which is polite civil service speak for your on a PIP
No: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9531943
What the author seems to miss is that before he could describe decay pathways he had to learn what an isotope was. We shouldn't mistake the simplestory-tellers for tenured scholars - their job is not to render dissertation. It is to provide insight appropriate to the audience's level of understanding.
The Roland TR-808: the drum machine that revolutionised music
I was wondering why it showed as monospace for me, and then I noticed I had menlo installed on my system xD
The pain points you listed there are a lot different. Passwords are a huge pain. I don't mind having multiple cards in my wallet or keys on my keyring.

What everybody misses with the whole "Too many cards in our wallets" 'problem', is that there's utility in having multiple cards in your wallet. My wallet isn't just a place to store cards, it's a physical interface designed to make it easy to pick the right card quickly.

If you replace that all with one card then sure, you've solved a (very tiny) problem, but unless that device's interface does a better job than my wallet does with letting me pick the card I want to use instantly and clearly, then it's simply a non-starter.
DocuMe: Generate documentation in README from source files
15 Awesome Resources for iOS App Development
If you're waiting for self-driving cars in the sense of ordering one from your phone to pick you up at an arbitrary location, I'm afraid you're going to be waiting a long time. The fact that autopilot systems seem to work pretty well on highways in good weather has IMO made a lot of people way way optimistic about robo-Uber arriving in timescales less than multiple decades.

I'd love to be wrong but there's a huge gap between works pretty well on highways and can negotiate city streets to an arbitrary location without a human present.
Ah ok, that is pretty funny.
Ya, OP should have a look at icecomm for that... makes it really easy to implement WebRTC in multiple browsers. It was on hacker news a while back:

http://icecomm.io/
Databases weren't part of the core CS curriculum at least when I was a student. I still don't understand why since it seems as core to understanding modern software as anything to me.
Elon Musk: Why all the hate?
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/elon-musk-clear-things/story?id=30978448

The comment threads on articles like this are unbelievable. Every time I read a news article about anything "green" related (electric cars, thorium power, solar energy, progressive policies, etc) I see that the comments are dominated by hate, fear, and ignorance.

Is this real? or are they paid trolls? Is this a channel for opposing interests trying to (attempt to) sway public opinion?

Has anyone conducted a study on this?
>> No, you pretty much don't need to bother with version control systems unless you're writing code on a team with others.

If you are writing hello-world, maybe you don't need a VCS.
Anything bigger than that can benefit from using one.
Or getting copy editing done via crowd sourceing
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