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>Vice arrived at its current incarnation by a circuitous route. It emerged in 1994 as the Voice of Montreal, a countercultural magazine funded by Canadian welfare money

So, Gavin McInnes' fame, wealth and notoriety is all due to Canada's public funding of the arts!
Do you fault the progun people who over emphasize the successful prevention of home invasion by a gun owner even though its a statistical anomaly compared to a wife being killed by her husband? Or any close associate or family, for that matter.

So rather than remove some of the ease with which people obtain firearms, why don't we build a European style welfare state and decriminalize drugs? I'm all for it. How likely is that?

Progun forces describe their opponents as actual traitors that are actively trying to destroy the basics of what makes us a free people... for regulating a dangerous consumer product. When you start policing their tactics I will take you seriously, until then I support anything that defeats them.
Keep XUL, XBL. Mark it deprecated. Make plugin development as easy as in Chrome for the new API. Would be awesome and so appreciated!
OP please add an nsfw tag ..
Exactly right. Make it wholely unacceptable to make these "threats-in-jest" and a lot of the problem goes away.
Not only android. Waze is very popular in israel, even on IOS.
Hard to say at this point given that this hasn't launched yet. I'll need to see what it looks like when it does its pilot in Israel.

Google's long-term play has a decent chance of involving self-driving cars and monetizing via advertising and data with some fee from the ride. Nothing says "open up your wallets" to large brick and mortar advertisers like "we literally drove the customer to your doorstep."

Getting users hooked and getting this tested via commute data is a great approach before branching out to something else. It also lets users browse the web, and Google likely has clear visibility into the search behavior of users searching while in their rides to determine the incremental ad revenue this enabled.

Google doesn't need to offer this for free to provide a great experience at a lower price than any current competitors like Uber or Lyft. They have substantial revenue from other areas to fuel this and so can price their competition out of the market. Other companies do the same thing to squeeze into a dominant position in a market they want to enter.
the ZipCar difference is the same as buying a used car that's already been manufactured and counted towards another person's P value
I'm not sure I understand your first interrogative.
In the end though, readability/maintainability end up being at odds with features/speed. I like to think about the hypothetical programmer that has to take over my project ten years from now. Is the value of a new feature worth their pain and suffering? Is my project going to be too painful to keep alive?

I think the projects at http://suckless.org have taken maintainability to a really inspirational level.
Heh heh heh this is exactly the right question. A fund is just another tradable instrument. I don't see much difference between evaluating the fund's management and historical performance vs. evaluating those of a public corporation -- except that in the latter case, you can probably get more information.

I saw an analysis somewhere that claimed that for mutual funds, annual performance is negatively autocorrelated: the funds that are likeliest to do well next year are the ones that did the worst last year. I wouldn't be surprised if this held true for hedge funds as well.
You do whatever it takes to survive. I still remember making $20 last the entire month for food for two early in my career. I remember being rendered destitute. Twice. I remember having the tax man on my ass for a ton of money I didn't have after a particularly catastrophic failure. I've lived in 2 square meters of space while looking for a job. During that time, I wrote https://github.com/kstenerud/Musashi to keep myself sane. I've begged family members for a plane ticket just to get me the hell out of a bad situation. Now, 20 years into my career, I finally have some stability. Part of that is my fault, since I'm entrepreneurial at heart, and I'm too stubborn to lie down and die.

When you're not born rich, you have a big challenge ahead of you. You fight, or you die.
Could you expand a bit further on the tax revenue impact?
Oh my God! What? How is this not a major, major thing? How are Mozilla and Google not pushing hard for government CAs to have these, like, stat? And for OpenSSL to actually check them?

I am bewildered. What happened? Is this just apathy?

http://blog.codekills.net/2012/04/08/adventures-in-x509-the-...

Unbelievable. This is SRV for HTTP all over again. The Betamax of the 21st century.
woah that list is huge!
Just let zoom with double click in the map and you'll make it
Point 3 is highly debatable—people have always (since the invention of the cipher) had ways to secure their physical assets with ciphers, languages, etc. Self-incriminating testimony is protected against by the Fifth Amendment, and as far as I know, there was never a law use a compromised cipher. The argument Comey makes is absurd.

Further, the FBI has always been in need of oversight—or have we forgotten history already?
The problem is that we don't teach ETHICS to software developers. Just because we can create skynet, does it mean we should? The power to create comes the power to destroy.
Here is a 2014 article from David Carr giving them a bit more credit

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/business/media/its-edge-in...
>So Goldman got Federal prosecutors to prosecute a person for violations of commerce law where Goldman was performing no commerce?

No, the distinction was that it was a service they used in commerce when the law only said "product." Now the law was amended to say product or service in interstate commerce.

>and so his constitutional right to not be tried multiple times for the same behavior does not exist.

Double Jeopardy only applies to to the same sovereign entity. If you do something that breaks federal and state law, that is on you.

That is how it has always been, it wasn't surprising that the court didn't agree with double jeopardy.
If you like his book "The Art Thief", I would also recommend "The Art Forger" as well. In the Art Forger, they reference famous forgers and their actual methods. The book goes into pretty deep detail about certain methods that forgers use. If you're an art person, it's pretty geeky. It uses the unsolved heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as a backdrop for the main story line.

http://www.amazon.com/Art-Forger-Novel-B-Shapiro/dp/16162031...
> Is it a given that responding to the community is the proper role for a CEO?

No, it isn't.

Ellen Pao being at fault for everything is a meme spawned by the Gamergate/MRW/anti-SJW crowd. The recent mishandling of the fatpeoplehate ban and then the lack of communication about letting Victoria go have just fanned those existing flames.

If the CEO was some boring old white man, nobody would be calling for his head like this, nor would they be the best person to be publishing apologies.
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The money in your bank account is an IOU. It doesn't represent physical money at all.
I wonder if there could be some collaboration where firefox, chrome, safari, IE, opera, etc. can exchange and sync - possibly too much to deal with, and might hurt innovation.
Maybe your README intro should communicate this? Most of us are not accustomed to something on Github being "finished", so a project where there aren't current commits is unsettling.
Your "empirical evidence" amounts to repeating anecdotes and strongly held suppositions with higher and higher levels of emotion. It's not at all convincing to me--someone who's predisposed to support very high levels of access to birth control, for everyone--and is certainly not convincing to anyone who's predisposed to oppose it.

Also, a nit: the butterfly effect has nothing to do with this discussion. It's an effect in chaotic systems where a small perturbation in initial conditions leads to large, unpredictable, non-linear differences in later states. I'm arguing that it's not crazy to think a small perturbation in policy (an x% decrease in the total cost of having sex) would likely lead to a small and proportionate response in behavior (a roughly x% increase in the amount of sex had).

Resolution of the truth-value of that requires, yes, actual scientific studies (which have almost certainly already been done already). The fact that some religiously-inclined folk might come to the "wrong" conclusion from a confirmation of this effect doesn't obviate the value of studying it.

ETA: Just as an example of such a study, look at this one [0]. It's about how certain abstinence-only programs, which presumably doesn't include access to contraceptives, can legitimately prevent the onset of teenage sexual activity. I'm sure there's plenty of room for methodological critiques, and there are also plenty of studies that come to other conclusions, naturally. I personally still would expect those to be confirmed in the end. But this isn't a question that you can resolve by loudly proclaiming that anyone who asks for evidence is an idiot.

[0] http://archpedi.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=38279...
I really enjoyed this piece. I don't connect with the artsy side of my brain too often and didn't think I would enjoy your piece, but definitely the best and most interesting thing I've read all day! (currently now reading your "Don't Go to Art School" piece).
He defended that there is a universal set of values, which are generally in common across almost all ancient religions and philosophies.

But I don't think Lewis would be on board with the idea of "objectively good". For example, he said that "this will destroy mankind" can only lead to "don't do this" by way of "mankind should be preserved", which, while clearly common sense and agreed to by all ethical systems, is not necessarily something that you can say is "objectively good". You can't get there by pure reason, because pure reason gives you only an "is", and from an "is" you can't get to an "ought". The only way to the "ought" is what they used to call "practical reason", and that is inherently not just objective.

I may be mis-stating this slightly - it's been a while since I read "The Abolition of Man". But what I've said is more or less in the right direction.
This sounds a lot like what Adobe did with Brackets by building it with HTML, CSS and JS.

The advantages are numerous, so I can understand why they're going this route.
Now I just need nvcc to ditch linux entirely. Sadly, that's not going to be forthcoming in this or any other universe.
It's possible that this is like what they did with motorola, initially it looked like they were trying to have vertical integration similar to apple, but then for other reasons felt compelled to give that up.

In any case this is dissimilar to most google projects because it looks like it's mostly under Waze's control which atm has a lot of autonomy, it's likely being called a google project by the Waze team because of the brand recognition and by reporters because it's more interesting to talk about how google might be putting itself in a precarious legal position (vis-a-vis a conflict of interest), instead of saying Waze created yet another ridesharing app.
I think the trail showed just out out of touch with reality Chairman Pao really is. In my humble opinon, she needs psychiatric help, not the job of a CEO.
I'd recommend googling such team travel sites, they usually list tourneys they work with, and then just make the call & pitch them to switch. I don't think it would be that hard of a sale tbh given the nature of some of these companies.

Anyways, enough unsolicited advice from a random guy on Hacker News :) Good luck to you all.
The Buddhist and the Neuroscientist
So if you don't use Gnome or KDE - what should be used? I'm using XFCE at home, and Cinnamon at work.
Looks like airfare / room and board is all they're offering.
This is old "Monday, February 9, 2015"
If you haven't already seen this thread on conceptart, it follows an artist's progress over ten years from crude sketches to masterful portraits. Very inspiring! http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php/870-Journey-...
I agree with you although this particular article seems far better than most.

Anecdotally (my personal experience, with zero statistical significance), the last 10 years seems like it had a huge explosion of interest in fad diets among twenty- and thirtysomething tech industry people. Not sure if this is an actual trend or just a consequence of where I live and who I spend time with these days.

I'm solidly middle-aged at this point. When I was in my 20s and 30s, there were just as many fad diets and nutritional voodoo but it was generally super credulous, spacey middle-aged and older people that were into them. The phenomenon of a degreed, professional 23-year-old wanting to have long and enthusiastic conversations with me about the properties of gluten (or whatever) in casual social contexts feels really bizarre.

This is a very roundabout way of saying that for whatever reason, at this point in time there is a big overlap between people who are into voodoo health crazes and the core HN demographic. This seems like a recent trend to me, but that's only anecdotal.
This is great. I've posted about this before, but my biggest pet peeve with /jobs is a lack of location in the title. Presently there are 18 jobs posted there, only 1 (GoCardless - London) mentions a location in the title.

I live in NY and the difference in an office in Brooklyn / Midtown would be the difference in me applying to the job. I imagine East Bay vs. Palo Alto is a similar story.
I don't find it funny, and I bet that most people in the groups that he's "trolling" (exercising hate speech toward) don't either.
Great work! This will be helpful to me and I'm sure a lot of others.
I think domesticated is a big term for naming an interaction between two predators. Domestication implies a transformation in the morphology of the domesticated species, this is just mutual tolerance at best.
Benjamin app: Tinder meets deals
Just opened our beta - would love your thoughts. Search "benjamin deals" in the app stores or find download links at benjaminapp.co.
What they meant was taking arbitrary data and turning it into a valid video file that plays back. For instance, you could read each bit off as audio (zero, one, zero, zero...). The quest is to find the most efficient, yet resilient way to do so.
I'll let the people bombing you know that you are unhappy they have bombs and refuse to make your own to deter them from bombing you because you don't support the use of bombs.

Would you like your message to include the sound of the bomb explosion that killed your brother or should we leave that out?

The point people are trying to get you to understand is that there are hundreds (if not thousands) of years of human history that has shown that when two groups of people disagree and cannot come to an agreement: they war.

Even when they reach an agreement, it's possible that one group will backstab the other group. Or perhaps they interpreted a given part of an agreement in different ways and are now arguing over which is the proper interpretation (a naive understanding of the Shia-Sunni relations)?

So Group A decides they are correct and will force Group B to agree by force. They approach Group B with their army armed with bows and swords. Group B has to submit to Group A, die, or fight back. To fight back they need a better trained army with superior bows and superior swords.

Group A is fearful that Group B now has a superior army with superior weaponry. So Group A invents guns. The sword-armed troops of Group B no longer stand a fighting chance against Group A. Fearing they will have to submit to Group A or die - Group B invents explosives... and so on and so on.

Now we have nuclear weapons that devastate miles of land and kill anyone caught in the blast. Fearing that a war between Group A and Group B would kill both sides and a Group C might enforce their ways, Group A and Group B have decided against using such powerful weapons against each other.

Now imagine you have 250 groups.
248 don't believe in using bombs.
Which 2 groups are in power? Hint: it's not one of the 248 "peaceful" groups.
> Things that allow you to keep reproducing longer will be less strongly selected for.

No. This is the fallacy.

> I guarantee that if there were a gene that let men and woman keep popping out babies for a century, it would be very likely to be preserved.

It would be preserved, yes. The fallacy is that it will not be perserved in preference of lack of the gene, because there is nothing selecting against not having that gene. In other words, both lines will continue to live on, because there is nothing selecting against either of them.

As long as individuals can reproduce, then their traits are not being selected against. If there are multiple variations of the traits, those will become part of the population's natural variation. Which is a good thing to have in terms of the population, because natural variation helps prevent genetic bottlenecks.
Thanks for the feedback

ad 1. Yes, I think you right about the this being a bit confusing. Although I'm not sure if scrolling to bottom, would be ideal as well. Although I will try to test your suggestion. Maybe will feel right.

ad. 2. Fixed. This was default for CloudFare (they are awesome)

ad. NOTE. No worries, all the feedback here was great and supper useful.
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Great, thanks for the reply. I commend you for staying focused on your main use case.

Only other thing - I'd like to be able to hit the "Close viewer" button with a keyboard press; not sure if Esc or Space is more appropriate.
Just $50k? I have $200k of debt :( . Thankfully software engineering has been a good profession to me, but it has forced me to be ruthless about salary negotiations and focusing on my career.

Honestly, you could be in a much worse position - I was homeless out of grad school with no prospect of netting a job...for 2 1/2 years. I spent one week eating nothing but oatmeal due to lack of money.

Focus on saving your money and using it judiciously - don't pay your debts until you can safely manage it. Accruing them in the long term is better than making irresponsible payments.
Thank you for thinking about this. It's a very worthy topic for thought. If you'd care to link the thread you mention, I'm sure others would like to help.

BTW, a very good primer on learning how to be helpful is http://juliepagano.com/blog/2014/05/10/so-you-want-to-be-an-...
> It's a crime because he has someone else's car.

That doesn't make any sense.

It's a crime because the someone else doesn't have their car.

If he could somehow have the car and the owner still have it, then there'd be no harm. Arguably even no crime.

What you describe doesn't criminalize theft... it criminalizes possession.
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It'd be great to see this work with Bootstrap.
Thing about orbits - anything that's currently high above the north pole will very soon be less high, and above the south pole...
Maybe I'd be as invested if my Reddit check stopped coming in or it started to look funny after Ellen took over.
>There is no market for stolen code. If I stole Google's search algorithm, who would I sell it to? Microsoft wouldn't be interested and it is not like you can take out an ad on ebay

This is just not the case. Google "sued trade secret misappropriation." The classic example is a company hiring someone with a wink and nod and they bring over all sorts of stolen documents.
Except that, in terms of investment exposure, your effort is leveraged significantly when you evaluate a fund's management vs. a single public company.
Programming is like mathematics, except all proofs are omitted.
There is a note here http://whoishiring.it/#!/add/ about suggested format.

Although "Who is hiring?" has its own tradition and flexibility. So formant shouldn't be enforced be some tool that maps job posts :)
I recommend working with React-Native for the next month and then work on Swift the following month. Get something working. I think your chances are better starting with React-Native. I've dabbled a little with it. Layout is super easy compared to Swift+IB+Autolayout (although StackViews are nice).
This website "Who is hiring?" series.
Will there be a recording of this somewhere? Would love to watch it but not available at this time.

In other news, I'm desperately trying to find some part-time freelance work. I'm a Python/Django dev with 4 years experience that leans a little more heavily on front-end. Ideally would like a mentor-type relationship where I can work with someone more experienced. If anyone has any leads or would like to chat, I'd be much obliged! https://www.linkedin.com/in/pnichols104 https://github.com/pnichols104
This is a great writeup. We sent our Chief Scientist to CVPR and he came away with a lot of the same conclusions - and now he wants to apply CNN to teach our cloud-based large scale SLAM map better real world objects :P.

More broadly though it was clear that most of the really good real time environmental applications for CV (SLAM etc...) are being applied to autonomous navigation. That's great but it crowds out investments in the stuff like we (Visidraft) are doing with AR and makes hiring and finding investors harder.
Faulting one sort of nonsensical campaign doesn't mean I support the opposing nonsensical campaign.

There are pro-gun that spout silly things like, "We need to arm every teacher!" and there are anti-gun people that say things like, "We should go door to door and confiscate every gun by force!"

"When you start policing their tactics I will take you seriously, until then I support anything that defeats them."

How am I supposed to 'police' anyone's tactics? People have a right to free speech and that means spouting nonsense to further their goals. My point is that spouting nonsense rarely results in meaningful progress.
This is a nonsensical response ignoring the intrinsic relationship between morality and the information given.

Since the situation is intrinsically related to morality. My advice is therefore also related to morality. Just because the OP doesn't specifically ask for a moral answer doesn't preclude me addressing morality.

Betrayal and ownership are subjective in this context. However, there is still a majority consensus that can be arrived at based on the information given. Many will come to a single conclusion on who is the betrayer and who morally deserves ownership. When a person thoughtlessly steals his best friends girlfriend, what do you think the majority consensus will be?
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"You block ads on search engines you don't own and you do so for commercial purposes. That smells to me like copyright infringement."

Some content providers have the idea that their ad-based business model is somehow protected by copyright, and that users can't block ads. This has no basis in law and has gone nowhere in court.[1]

"And seriously, who patents an ad blocker?"

Google's Eric Schimdt once testified before Congress that it was technically impossible for Google to evaluate the legitimacy of web site operators. We did it. That meets one of the strongest criteria for invention - the big guys tried to do it and failed. Ad Limiter is a demo of that.

We're looking for someone who wants to take a bite out of Google. Yahoo gave up on search and became a Bing reseller, and Bing is just too confused internally. As computing gets cheaper, it becomes cheaper to provide search services, which makes Google vulnerable. As costs went down, ad density should have decreased. But it didn't. This puts Google on the wrong side of Moore's Law. A non ad supported search engine may become feasible, especially in the mobile space where it can go on the phone bill. It's interesting to see what Verizon is starting to do with Bing.

[1] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0%2Fef6fe54e-046d-11e5-a5c3-00144fea...