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Questions about using an older version. I no longer update my mobile apps. Twitter state:

"On versions of Twitter for iOS before 6.19.1, the Tailor Twitter based on my apps setting may not display correctly. If you are impacted by this issue, please upgrade to the latest version of Twitter for iOS."

Does this mean that it is disabled for those old versions? Does it mean that they will do it but users will not be able to disable it? Does it imply that the old apps are already sending this data to them? Or is it a ploy to get people to upgrade, and not upgrading could also be a way to remain more private?
Relevant BBC story: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-32844123
I don't know how much a two-letter domain is worth, but I suspect it's a lot. Trusting the current owner is fine, but should something happen to him, the domain might be considered an asset to be sold off, at which point hosting will end.
I ran into this scam in New York City last year, I was walking down 8th Avenue, up at 115st, a guy bumped into me and dropped a bag on the ground, the bag started to leak, he said he had just bought some expensive whiskey, now it was wasted, I should pay him so he could replace the whiskey, etc, etc. An obvious scam.
Start with Toki Pona: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toki_pona
Jim, what can we do to increase the odds of our email reaching the intended destination on self-hosted domains?
Yea and that makes sense for products that are actual necessities. It is bullshit if applied to an arbitrary "product".
I've often thought a .js TLD would be useful but given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely.

So perhaps this is the next best thing. Though would be nice to have a bit more transparency about who is behind it.
With a normal transaction, goods or services are provided in exchange for money.

With a crowd funded transaction, a promise of future goods or services are provided in exchange for money. Thats why it's treated differently in the payments industry.

Another way to think of it: If crowdfunding wasn't available to the business, a loan would serve the exact same purpose, wouldn't it? And if the business got loans from multiple providers, wouldn't that be a form of crowd funding? The only difference is that traditional loan providers have to work out their own security with the business, while crowdfunders get security from the chargeback mechanisms of their payment processor.

Do you see any of what I wrote as disingenuous?
I'm always fascinated by this. Here's a few of my favorites:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udAL48P5NJU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

http://scaleofuniverse.com/universe-large.jpg (large image)
I'm working on a conlang called 7erb (pronounced Verb).

It's a language of only seven (7) words in its entire vocabulary. Here's what I got so far:

- All seven words in the vocabulary are a negative. A word means "everything but that word. Words are then "stacked" to be more "anti-specific"

- 7erb is completely present-tense. Past and future are not acknowledged

- Anything in this world that can be evaluated in various ways depending upon arbitrary conditions are generally avoided in 7erb. 7erb is a language of reality, not subjectivity and opinion. There are no words in 7erb that function as adjectives

- However, vocal pitch and tonality can indicate degrees of closeness, height, intensity etc. In written form, this can be expressed with bold text, underscoring etc

If anyone is interested in developing this new language, please contact me (see my profile).
"given it would be dependent on a new country being formed and taking that as its ISO country code, I guess it's unlikely"

is that true anymore?
Why does one have to trust science, or what we think of the scientific process today? Does science enable us to do things in the "reality" that one and others may perceive than without it? I'd think yes. Is the way we go about it now, forever the most optimal for constructing such things? Probably not, but humans are probably closer to a local maxima constrained by all the things that make the process inefficient now… which to be fair, I don't think is limited to science but how we are as humans.
Underscore and Lodash Discuss Merging
He literally says that those who disagree with his code style should be shot. That's completely unacceptable language to use and makes him sound like he hasn't mastered English. I'm not sure anyone should take c-language style tips from such a boor.
It looks like taking down botnets is important to all search engines, here's a old news article about Bing taking down a botnet[0].

Similar to Bing, does Google also pursue and do an actual takedown of these botnets? Most of the article was about showing off how nasty these exploits are, nothing about taking them down.

[0] http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/huge-zeroaccess-botnet-dis...
Does the ping protocol have any capability to provide location information? Because it should if it doesn't..
I think a js.org email would be pretty rad also.
This is sadly true. With just greylisting, spam isn't much of a problem. I get some spam, most of it to an address leaked from the adobe-hack (I don't drop mail to it, I just keep the few spam emails that get through greylisting, for possible future use for training a bayesian spam filter), and some sent to my publicly registered company email (mandated by law in Norway).

It's unfortunately pretty hard to tell the difference between people being slow to reply to mails to gmail addresses, and google flagging your mail as spam for no discernibly good reason.

Anecdotally they don't care about anyone other than gmail users, so there's not much to do about it other than a) give up on the idea that gmail interops with standard email, b) hope that more people move away from gmail, or c) just tell people that you don't care that your email is filtered as spam because they're using an email provider (gmail) that doesn't deal well with email.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2009/01/14/93177...
I think so - ICANN prohibit the creation of 2-letter TLDs. From http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...:

2.12 Can a New gTLD name be 2 letters?

Applied-for gTLD strings in ASCII must be composed of three or more visually distinct characters. Two-character ASCII strings are not permitted, to avoid conflicting with current and future country-codes based on the ISO 3166-1 standard.
Oh, there's plenty of punishment. Avoiding the punishment in the difficult part. And you can do that the easy way or the hard way.
PS: Thanks for the sporadic upvotes on this - nice to know my comment was interesting. Please consider upvoting this request for help:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9629868

Largely speaking it has sunk without trace, but another couple of votes will get it to the "Ask" page, so there's a chance someone who can help me will see it, and I'd appreciate that.

Edit: And almost immediately there's a vote - thank you, I do really appreciate that.
It feels like natural languages would evolve shortcuts based on the cultural context in which they arise.

I would think that a language based on predicate logic would be less efficient at communicating oft-expressed things, like a Huffman code dictionary where all the entries are weighted equally.
for, if, and while without curly braces for single statement blocks are easily one of the worst things about C. It bites you in the ass every time. The balance between its utility and its capacity to cause bugs is so one sided, I don't understand why it's even taught to beginners. If you are teaching a new programmer that saving keystrokes is important, you're on the fast track to creating a shitty programmer.
“X-Ray Art” turns your body into a unique piece of art
Two of my favorite books growing up were The Real Diary of a Real Boy and The Great Brain. Both are accounts of a young boy growing up in 19th century, small town America. The Real Diary is about Exeter, NH in the 1840s. The Great Brain is about Utah (and is much better written, I think most Hacker News readers would benefit from giving this book to their child). The books were penned after the fact, but were based on the author's boyhood experiences. These books both painted a portrait of old-time life, and also gave me a feeling of continuity with the past.
Recruiting U.S. Banks Against FIFA Bribery
Maybe they have a sample user group who are equipped with some keyboard/mouse logging type system that can report to them?

They could even do it to all (or some subset) of visitors via Google Analytics[1] to report the (x,y) position when click occurs. It wouldn't surprise me if an awful lot of the internal use of GA is for ad-fraud detection.

I recall way back in the day some ad networks were using imagemaps[2] instead of plain links because they'd report an (x,y) postition relative to the image, and could probably filter out the really dumb clickbots that would hit the precise pixel centre of the element every time.

[1] https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_map
Cool, thanks for finding that. And thank you, Stefan!
If you look at ex-feminists who have strayed from the group they're treated much like (many) Christians treat ex-Christians.

People who "knew the truth but turned their back on it" get a special level of disdain from groups with strong ideologies, in their eyes it's worse than being ignorant of the truth.

That being said it's hard to imagine the author receiving more venom than all the men who wouldn't have dreamed to write such an article.
This is an important point many overlook (despite being aware of Google Apps for Work (nee Business)) -- registering a personal domain in order to have at least one email that will follow you for as long as you want -- does not mean you have to run your own incomming/outgoing email servers!

Most domain registrars will forward email for free, and most offer some form of cheap, but reasonable email service (smtp+imap).
That's pretty severe. Written with spacing, its really pretty clear what is meant by

if (condition)
Foo(x)

Braces are, in my opinion, an unfortunate necessity in some cases. They are a much larger cause of error than NOT using them ever could be.

An ideal IDE would make blocking visible (background tone change etc), and braces could be emitted automatically by the IDE without ever cluttering up the code shown to the programmer.
AFAIK the only "benefit" to semicolons is that you can put multiple statements on the same line.
Is het Dukan dieet ook een gezond dieet? – Leef Nu Gezonder
Terrine de Lapin – Rabbit Terrine
For all the problems we've manage to create, I'll trust Norwegian provider Telenor much more than I do Google. If only because they share my jurisdiction (Norway) -- where I have rights. I have no rights in the US -- at least when I'm not physically there.
I'm reminded of 'Google Will Eat Itself'[1], which purportedly used this technique to purchase stock in Google, and also pay for additional ad-clicks, with the goal of buying out Google entirely from received ad revenue.

I don't know (or really believe) that it ever actually operated in the way described though. More of an art/thought project.

[1] http://www.gwei.org/pages/diagram/diagram.html
It would probably not be practical just because you'd need extremely long Fourier transform windows. At 100bom and 44.1khz, downbeats are 26000+ samples between downbeats. It may work with shorter windows for music that is rhythmically complex (more subdivisions would be analogous to more harmonics in the typical pitch detection application) but would certainly fall apart at lower tempos.
And that's the problem of being a moderate leftist trying to defend yourself against radical leftists, unless you can get the ACLU to pick up your case you have to turn to outside groups like the far right, who you don't understand, for help.

This would be a risky case for a leftist lawyer to take pro bono because they may face a severe political backlash for it.
It's called hyperbole, it's quite common in english.
Sure golden age Athens had many brilliant minds, but the relation to the Socratic method is dubious. The Socratic method was pioneered by Socrates in opposition to contemporary education, which is the environment where all these minds grew up.

So it is absolutely not the case that everyone in golden age Athens was educated through the Socratic method. It seems to have been more of a fringe school. After all, Socrates was controversial enough to be executed for corrupting the young! If the satire in Aristophanes "The Clouds" represents the mainstream view, Socrates was considered kind of a nutcase.

In any case, the Socratic method might be useful for teaching critical thinking and philosophy, but it has pretty limited use for the natural science, since it doesn't help you to discover new facts about the world, only to think logically about the facts you already know.

The Socratic method will not help you decide if the earth is round or flat, and neither will it help you decide if evolution or creationism is the most correct theory. You need observations and experiments in addition to logic to discern that.
Keep in mind: that's the dipshit that thinks he's the avatar of Pan.
It does not resolve here.
> In any case, my original argument wasn't about the scientists; my argument was: most people treat science as a religion. They feel very superior to the religious people who are accepting everything they are told uncritically and then turn around and accept everything that is prefixed with "science says".

We had a subject in my lab yesterday that after the experiment had a "heated" debate where he put physics vs religion with one of the volunteers who was religious. While I was in the control room tinkering with the software, I listened in on their conversation and could hear the smugness of the subject as he used science as a tool to try and "convert" the volunteer. I thought the volunteer handled the conversation quite well, but it seemed like quite the inquisition from the "scientist"…
Show HN: UXTest – Make your site more successful for $199
Outside of a fashion week couture fashion tech concept house like Anrealage[1], what will this do for us? Project Jacquard strikes me as a solution to a problem, but I can't think of a single problem it solves. A smart watch tells time, streamlines notifications, and maybe keeps me in shape, but this? What will this do for me?

[1]: http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/anrealage-aw15-16/
The only problem with this is if/when someone comes along and doesn't notice the missing braces and does

if (condition)
Foo(x)
Bar(x)

Expecting Bar(x) to be part of the conditional. This can and does happen.
The usual method is to get the device's MAC address, use that to track down/identify the switch port it's connected to, then physically trace the network cable that's plugged into that switch port.
This is a great talk about being impulsive, having fun and experimenting while creating software from the guy who made browserify.

It has little to do with ghosts, javascript or the future.
Pdfmake – PDF printing in pure JavaScript
Interesting example. The results for ddg improve dramatically if you add "tracker" ("tile tracker"). I'm not sure I'd consider Google's default results better -- but then I don't own a "Tile". I do get that inferring that the connection "disasemble tile" implies something other than ceramic tiles (as opposed to "repair tile" -- here ddg and google are very similar for "repair tile" and "repair tile tracker" -- although none seem to give a result for software/a device to track progress of repairing ceramic tiles...).
Disconnect cables from each switch and see when the ping replies stop :).
KeyFrameBased animation framework for UIKit.Perfect scrolling AppIntros for IOS
Religion Can Make You Prosocial, Depending on Your Genes
I hear folks say that, but don't encounter it in the wild. Maybe once in 20 years so far. That construct, reading it just now, just screams out at me "Indentation error!"

Anyway it nicely illustrates the need to get braces out of there altogether. The programmers' intent is obvious; let the IDE 'make it so' by emitting braces in the generated code.
Material icons – Google Design
Making others feel warm and fuzzy is one of the most important things in life. I don't like that it's downplayed.
Does it generally do this in expressions, based on operator precedence, or is it limited to the outer parentheses on selected statements?
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" aliens are using a prototype language like Javascript, instead of a class based language like Java. I think we need a programming language that takes this to its natural conclusion, where everything is expressed as weighted directed associations between objects (or weights on ordered lists of objects).
So often the switch cables disappear in a bundle into a cable tray in the ceiling.
Moreover, you'd expect languages based on predicate language to be identical in their written and spoken forms.
That was my though exactly when I started, but I've realized that Google gains a greater power than showing tailored ads. Google remembers who I was better than I do, knows everything that I do today, and can probably guess who I will become. They have the power to shape the information I see and influence me to do things that will drive their bottom line with unparalleled precision.

We're really giving Google the power to read our minds: are you comfortable with that?

Aside from that, I'm vaguely concerned about keeping everything about me so centralized. There's too much to lose too easily if someone manages to hack me despite the 2FA and insane passwords.
Eh, a lot of industry doesn't write as many test benches as they should. I've worked for companies that have written no test benches.
Huh. The argument is deleted. What was the substance of it?
Or, if the hardware supports it, eject the CD/DVD ROM drive.
Ihasapp (2011): https://github.com/danielamitay/iHasApp/blob/master/README.m...

Discussion here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8671080

Fun fact: Lots of major analytics SDKs read out your app list in this way (Android is even simpler). Your app list is already known to lots of 3rd parties if you have downloaded any of about 80% of the top 100 apps in the last 4 years.
So we think that is a dangerous thing? Believing the best, tested results of experiments (science) is not superior to random religious tracts written thousands of years ago?

The critical difference between treating science as a religion, and treating religion as a religion, is that the science people have a good chance of being right.

Its rational and reasonable to be uncritical of scientific results - the scientist has already been critical for you. That's kind of the whole point.
It doesn't have to be an independent country, autonomous regions also get 2-letter TLDs.

So all it takes is for Brazil to declare Jaraguá do Sul [1] an autonomous city-state. The local government can then apply for the .js TLD and start getting rich by selling domains to developers. Simple as pie!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaraguá_do_Sul
> If someone is a programmer they probably are tired of seeing a screen full of letters.

Actually, as a (Linux) programmer I feel right at home with a plain text design... Minimalism suggests efficiency, and is part of the Unix tradition. Although I like well-designed pages, HN is about content, not looks. To quote PG: "The graphic design is as plain as possible ... The goal is that the only thing to interest someone arriving at HN for the first time should be the ideas expressed there." (http://www.paulgraham.com/hackernews.html)

Quite apart from that, it is one of the few sites left on the Internet that is friendly all those without a cheap, high-speed connection. One HN page takes about 10KB, that is a real plus in some parts of the world (like where I am at the moment).

I do not find the functionality in any way difficult.

I joined this site recently because it seems to be a great community of people with similar interests, and a brilliant place to learn new stuff.
Goo racer
I see his point though, just like the Oculus has reignited interest in VR simply by being under development, Glass could have done the same thing for wearables. There's maybe a dozen consumer level VR projects out in the world right now, and the same could have been said for Glass.
KeystoneML – Machine Learning Pipelines with Apache Spark
> After trying really hard to find anyone who cares, I managed to get this bug fixed in like 10 days.

Sounds like it did get fixed, but it was a little confusing because he goes on to talk about how he could make millions counterfeiting gift cards.
Ask HN: Is there any startup works on global Internet payment system
it uses both bank account and credit card

by the way, i living in Indonesia. I cant do transaction to overseas. Because my country has low internet penetration

I can only afford bank account credit card is quite expensive. I'm homless help me please.
What else? An infographic? Sounds like a Designer complaint.
John Nash: A life of brilliance, madness, and reawakening
I know this post/comment is aging but I feel I have to add my disagreement. Depending on skill and perhaps more than a little luck, navigating your way up to a senior position in the "old school" corporate world can actually be relatively conflict-free. Certainly, exploitative bosses are as widespread as you suggest, but that doesn't mean that every boss is exploitative.
I'm an engineer too, and I fully agree with you.

My particular peeve is engineers who kowtow to economics, putting it in a much higher pedestal than sociology or anthropology, because it is "mathy". The implicit assumptions are usually along the lines of "the assumptions seem obvious enough, and look at all those formulae in the transformations thereof!"
How to Evaluate Machine Learning Models: Hyperparameter Tuning
I can't read it because of an obnoxious paywall.

There needs to be a better way to monetize written content online than this...
Yup, precisely - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/04/12/missing_novell_serve...
Converting PNG to SVG with command-line tool
I wonder what the Carbon Footprint of all this unused compute power is?
If you think everything called a "function", in every context, is the same thing, you are going to have a very bad day.
It kind of makes me think/wonder that in criminal cases perhaps forensic biometrics work should be done by two or more labs (maybe using two different methods) to help cross-validate the results. My understanding is that most of this work happens in a single lab under one test, so contamination or procedural problems go unchecked.
Indeed. I looked weird on my college campus with a Mac. However, after the iPod the idea of using a Mac became more acceptable I saw a lot more of them. Now they are ubiquitous - something I would not have imagined 15 years ago.
Its easy to be smug about science; its so often right. If you don't have time to research the subject yourself, I'd always advise taking the side of the scientist.
Unless it's on a WiFi connection, in which case things get substantially more complicated :)
Are you affiliated with mullvad?
And PEG too https://github.com/Ilmen-vodhr/ilmentufa/
Iron – An Extensible, Concurrent Web Framework for Rust
I live in the UK and people writing about on-going court cases need to be very careful how they do it or they risk heavy fines, sometimes even prison, for contempt.

There's a guide to reporting sub judice here:

http://www.out-law.com/en/topics/tmt--sourcing/media-and-cre...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/journalism/article/art201307021...

I'm not sure why you're so heavily downvoted. What you're saying doesn't seem so outlandish: be careful when you blog about stuff that's currently being litigated.