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Agree, great hack guys, but you need to work on your votes. Some votes disappear after refresh, then again I can submit 2-3 votes if clicking quickly...
Thanks for reply. Software for manufactured systems is an area that can only grow so I hope more get involved in the way you did.
Github's actions are entirely understandable - I agree. They are just trying to survive as a business.

But I don't agree that the resultant alarmism is mind boggling. Folks are becoming increasingly anxious at the ever increasing signalling costs being applied to innocent discourse; applied by people who have little to no institutional authority, and who certainly aren't recognised by folk AS authorities.

In response - folk are responding instinctively by upping their own application of signalling costs in retaliation. So you see folks saying things like: I'll never use GitHub again if they do this, instead of just remarking to themselves privately - gee, that was a bit harsh of Github, and moving along with their day.

What I personally find interesting is that I'm not seeing much discussion about what the real causes of these rising signalling costs are. I kind of expected Hacker News to be interested in that sort of thing - but here, as everywhere else, everyone is just getting caught up in the fever. We are all human I suppose.

My favourite explanation is one predicted by various game theoretic models about punishment in human groups. Game theory predicts that as human group sizes increases more people become "punishers" and apply higher signalling costs. I can link to research papers if people request.

With the internet - of course - group sizes have increased massively. Furthermore - the economic costs of signalling have dropped dramatically. So we are collectively applying much higher social signalling costs to compensate.

I haven't been able to find research that specifically tries to confirm this hypothesis - but various related hypotheses, as well as the game theoretic models that generated them, have obtained significant confirmation. Hence I set high credence for this particular hypothesis of mine (though it does need a much more rigorous formulation).
Yes, I do.

Edit - I bet this would be a great poll.
Ask HN: Possible Computer Engineering Research Topics?
Hello guys, can you think of any interesting research topics on Computer Engineering that you would like to recommend?

We have some prospect topics but we're still kind of on the outs here, perhaps you can provide some ideas. Thanks very much.
Nginx can now pass requests directly to your app without buffering them fully
I third Haxe. From what I've read and done in it, it is a extremely nice language to work within. I just wish it had a bit more tutorials for people to learn from.
Interesting so the idea here is that developers of native apps will use high level ready made widgets/components but on the web they'll more likely try to make them from scratch.

I believe that's what Google has been trying to solve with polymer and web components.
She does a pseudo follow up using video interviews with founders. For example, https://vimeo.com/10119028 with AirBNB founders.

I think there was a site dedicated to these, but I can only find the Vimeo page.
Would being able to specify a HTTP (CONNECT) proxy to SSL Labs be useful to you for the testing of your internal hosts?
All the DVDs I've bought which were marked as protected I've played on more legally bought Windows 7 and 8 computers without the 3rd party programs.
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Right, if every assignment writes to memory and every expression reads from memory then you've effectively made every variable volatile (according to how compilers typically interpret volatile), so ignoring the qualifier wouldn't hurt anything.
GitHub is not a public benefit organization. They are not public infrastructure. They are a for-profit company that does what's best for Github. Just because they have free (as in beer) hosting doesn't make them trust-able public infrastructure. It's worrying that so much of today's free and open source software development community doesn't seem to understand that.
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> It isn't illegal, but does that mean they should still do it?

Exactly. They're a private company, they're free to do whatever they want within the legal limits. The argument isn't whether they're allowed to do it (whether the first amendment applies here), but rather, should they do it?

I say probably not. In many cases, morals/ethics are subjective and should not be enforced upon others. The key word is enforced -- I'm all for them contacting the user and saying "Listen, man, this isn't cool -- please change it."

In general, I'm against the enforcement of personal morals upon others, except in obvious circumstances (we probably shouldn't hurt/kill/steal from/etc. each other). Discussion and debate is cool, enforcement is not.

And just as the company itself has the right to censor whatever it pleases, its users have the right to stop using their services when they feel that the company is infringing on their rights -- which is what a lot of people here are saying (they're not saying "this is bad, the company should get in trouble for it," they're saying "this is bad, I refuse to do business with a bad company").
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I've have the distinct pleasure of opening an Apple package twice in my life. Looking at that cart full of boxes, 96 in one day/week/whatever... I don't know what to say about that.
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These are operating off of Chinese cell towers near the border, so the Nork authorities have no access to cellular system records. They have to use plain old RF direction finding techniques to pinpoint the location of a signal, and then catch a person with an illegal cell phone in their possession.
I think the only reasonable assumption is to assume it's all exposed, for everybody. Even if you don't use any online services yourself, you still probably have credit cards and insurance and a driver's license and have filed tax returns. It's almost certain that at least one of those has leaked your data.

The only people who are probably really safe from identity theft are people who just aren't in the system at all. Illegal immigrants, longterm homeless, drifters, i.e. people with no established identity to begin with.
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And of course the microwave oven was conceived when a guy walked in front of an operating radar and it melted the chocolate bar in his pocket. It gave him a genius idea!

The best part about this story is that if you tell people who don't know about it, they'll think you're full of shit. But it's absolutely true.
Ask HN: Clothing for a lazy programmer
At the moment I cycle between about 40 tees from H&M in either navy blue or navy blue. I recently went off to purchase a couple extra to discover they have discontinued the style and replaced it with a thin nylon stretch type.

Wasn't there a couple of startups in this space? Ideally they should deliver to the UK.
So glad you found the second episode more to your liking! The focus of each episode shifts based on who is on the show and where the story takes us. My guess is that different episodes will resonate with different people.

Looking forward to more feedback!
There is a growing amount of cheap contraband smartphones and electronics in DPRK. When it reaches a critical mass, the only thing stopping a revolution will be ISP access. Well-timed satellite or balloon based WiFi could foment a revolution?
As someone pointed out on Twitter, the reason The Verge and others are getting upset about "Mobile Safari" may be Apple's upcoming introduction of Safari Content Blockers, which would deprive them of advertising revenue. By badmouthing Safari (for something which isn't its fault), it can get people to switch to Chrome, which won't have ad-blocking on iOS.

This is hypothetical, of course.
Used Ionic, it's a joke just like the rest of hybrid app frameworks, imo. Just save time and go native.

Frankly, if you can't replicate the native UI elements of the target platforms you intend people to develop on as a baseline, I don't know what you're doing. It's laziness, and to blame it on the premise that developers need to create their own look and feel, well guess what, you've just dropped the experience bar below native.

Default Ionic themed apps no longer look like native apps, they look like Ionic apps.
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Planet money had a fascinating podcast on how trade deals are made with the example of NAFTA. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/06/26/417851577/episo...
Show HN: A Gratuitously Early Preview of Velocity NY
Why would Congress ever pass a law punishing lawyers who abuse the system for personal gain at the expense of the public? They're all lawyers whose entire careers have been spent doing just that.
Are there separate translation/localisation teams for different components of the system?

What happens when it automatically routed to the wrong team?
I wonder if the people who do the post-mortems on IT outages there are considered "crash investigators".
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The accused don't receive fair trials when they take a plea deal, though. You seem to think that plea deals are a good thing, so did you perhaps mean to say that you think the accused should receive fair trials if they want them? And even then, what if they want them, but they don't want them badly enough to risk the additional punishment you think they ought to receive for getting one?
I'm curious if you see this as validation that cc processing is a commodity?
Nmap has some very useful SSL scripts, such as ssl-enum-ciphers, ssl-heartbleed, ssl-poodle, ssl-ccs-injection and this one for testing Diffie-Hellman configurations: https://github.com/eSentire/nmap-esentire
I dislike the Microsoft privacy policy. I don't see a better way for it to navigate the legal minefield. If they promise any meaningful kind of protection, it is inevitable that it cannot be delivered.

The wired world leaks data. Much of it by design, e.g. to a first approximation all browsers work with cookies, store history, cache content, use some sort of thumbprint for SSL, etc. No browser vendor promises operational privacy because implementing it would make the browser unusable. Just using NoScript (as I do) is a bit of a pain in the ass. Microsoft has a browser plus a whole lot more stuff including third party vendors, and big stacks of cash to make itself a lawsuit magnet...some lawyer somewhere will allege transmitting an IP address is breech under a strong privacy policy.

The reality is that nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered private. The Microsoft privacy policy reflects this reality even if it upsets the world some of us wish existed [so long as we don't have to give up our mobile GPS, Uber, and iTunes]. But it hasn't existed since the days of credit card processing over copper. I admire Stallman, information wants to be free. Alas "An atom blaster point is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."
Just having to get up and move is a pain in the ass and loses productivity.

My firm moved me to a shared office for 6 months (finally I got my solo office back last month). They had that policy. "Oh for conference calls just use this admin office we set up." But nobody ever used it.

That's a huge "FUCK YOU" to your employee. The company is cheaping out and then making your job harder by forcing you to relocate.

And it plain just doesn't work. If a guy I'm working with calls with a quick question, what am I supposed to do? Call back?
It's funny because native developers put more time, effort, and budget into creating rich experiences than web developers do in general, and Ionic doesn't readily enable web developers to create the same caliber work.

You still end up putting in the time, effort, and budget native developers will, so what's the gain?
Fixed it for you:

Note that this very tactic is used by big companies to avoid licensing valid and useful patents owned by smaller NON PRACTICING entities.

Yes, big companies have a better track record against trolls. And yes, this unfair. But that doesn't mean trolls are OK.
The market is actually fairly constant, because older people - usually middle class - gravitate away from pop and become more interested in classical music in middle age.

The Proms aren't going to go away, nor are concert series in most of the UK's bigger cities. Nor is Classic FM, which is pretty much just Spotify with DJ chat and someone else's playlist, and is a good gateway pusher to classical recordings.

And middle class families will keep giving their kids piano and cello lessons, because that's what they do.

What's happened more - according to people I know - is that the intake at the Royal College and the Royal Academy is almost exclusively posh kids now, because rich parents are the only ones who can afford to hothouse and support their darlings through the exams. It was much more diverse a couple of decades ago, because music education - all education, in fact - was much more freely available.

That will do more to kill classical music than Spotify's metadata will, because it will become something that isn't made available to most of the population.
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Common Lisp was way too restrictive for me. I had to write my own language.
Thanks for the info. It is welcome to hear that the Start Menu will continue to evolve based on user feedback. Windows 10 is certainly launching in a strong place regardless.
She has a point, but overall I'm reminded of Louis C.K.'s "Everything's amazing and nobody's happy" schtick. I've gotten pretty deep into classical music - consuming a dozen or so books on the subject and listening to nearly all of the referenced works - essentially because of streaming services. I would have had to spend thousands of dollars to be able to listen to all the classical music I've listened to in the last 2 - 3 years.

Yes, finding a specific recording is sometimes hit-or-miss, but I've found world class recordings of just about everything I've looked up, and it's almost always easy. It's pretty easy to spot a Deutsche Grammaphone or Naxos recording, and I find that the services are getting better and better at surfacing high quality recordings when you search for a given work.

It's odd that she doesn't mention Apple Music since it has been in the news - I find their metadata and presentation of that metadata to be worlds better than Spotify or Rdio.
This is the great detractor from using anything in the cloud. Companies/groups/projects/developers should host things internally, themselves and that way they can control the whole process from soup to nuts. Depending on any cloud company, especially a private one is a massive gamble they don't decide to pull the rug out from under you on a whim.
Yes, that :)
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Sri Lanka inks deal for Google Loon broadband floating 'telecom towers'
Indeed, Kim Jong Un has an iMac: http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/183576/image_update_aa...
I think they prefer to be called robber barons these days
We also need to comply with laws in order to live in a civilized society. Where in the world are there no patents today and that also has any significant positive impact on society as does America and Europe? Europe does have software patents after all.
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Why you should teach programming
oh cool - hey everybody! this guy says it's okay!!
I don't really see the appeal, nor do I see Go carving its own way into any field in particular in general. Least of all, game development.
>"Synergy, You know what that means?"
>"Does it mean take a stack of cash and light it on fire?"
"Well-timed satellite or balloon based WiFi could foment a revolution?"

Assuming the key players want a revolution, i.e. China, US, South Korea. We've seen how those sorts of revolutions can play out and they're not always better than what came before, at least in the short term (I'm mainly thinking about Syria and Yemen).
nothing you do on a computer connected to the internet should be considered private

Amen. This is what I have been telling people for the past few years. If you put something online, consider it public and irrevocable.
Ok, the comment was a bit extreme and the reality is surely a bit more like a multiple of shade of gray.

But what the other comment mention is on the right track as members of a corporation can easily rip the benefice produced by it, but can as easily distance themselves from it, should it find itself in financial or legal troubles. Of course one can argue that owners and decision makers from that particular entity can be sued individually. And that's fine as well.

And before anyone mention, that investor should have some kind of protection, may I kindly remind you that there should be a balance: the Greek bailout (and the other big bailout from the last few years) is anything but a way from private entities to off load onto the public some mistakes they have made. I don't know of a single instance of a family that has had their debt wipe out during the same period.

I guess there is a critical size to acquire for any social actor to be able to leverage the government and the law makers into protecting them from catastrophic outcome.
Ask HN: Is the answer to iTunes’ design woes re-imagined UI, or better AI?
Could Siri handle everything iTunes does? Is Siri iTunes future?
CQRS does not involve a service bus (though people like to sell them). This sounds like some people were led down very bad paths. Using event sourcing and a service bus together is frankly retarded.

Greg
I'm talking about patents. Patents are tools in the same sense that landmines are.
Even native music players don't get classical right. It's virtually impossible to shuffle through a classical music library because you always get plopped in some movement in the middle of a piece. I've always wished that there were a way to group certain pieces together so that all the movements are treated as one piece for the purposes of shuffle. I remember someone else making this complaint about three years ago and, to my knowledge, nothing has happened since:

http://sigma-star.com/blog/post/startup-idea--classical-musi...
I believe it's at the judges discretion. There was recently a case against a journalist who paid bribes on behalf of a news corporation in which the judge outright stated that if the corporation had been paying costs he would have ruled for a much larger costs settlement then he did when it emerged the journalist himself was going to have to pay. The remainder gets picked up by the taxpayer, so whatever happens the winning party isn't expected to pay the loser's costs.
I would love to be entrepreneur in residence at a VC firm because that would simply imply that I'd been successful as an entrepreneur.
The first thing I did when reading this article was test to see if Word or Swiftkey would try to correct a lowercase "internet".

They didn't.

I have no idea what the author is going on about.
Can somebody ELI5 the whole TPP thing? As an European should I be concerned? Does it matter only to countries involved?
If you were trying to do automated software testing on native OS X machines (instead of virtualization), I suppose it could make sense. Or something.
Here you go: http://help.trello.com/article/993-enabling-two-factor-authe...

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Localization is handled by dedicated teams. People are constantly combing through the bug tracker and we have internal tools that assist in making sure bugs get routed to the right owners.
`WKWebView` has issues that made it untenable for use as a web browser last year, but there's nothing I'm aware of preventing its use for common in-app browsers.
> a lot of racists (and reverse-racists, it needs to be said)

No such thing as reverse racists, it's all just racism and racists.
You don't influence policy by talking about facts, especially when appealing to the public. You build a good story, and get people to read that story. A key aspect of is using symbols to imply things you can't outright say. (luxury hotel -> out of touch elite corporate fat cat). It's most important to do so when it's a technical issue most people don't have the domain knowledge to understnad.

The EFF is a successful lobbying organization, and would not have been nearly as successful if they didn't play this game. You want to keep the ability to use strong encryption? To protect your privacy? Well, you're going to have to tell some half-truths and make some cheap shots.

There are the people who stick to their principles, and then there are the people who actually do good in the world. You can't be both.
Funny, I've wished for some kind of built-in compressor (as in the audio dynamics effect) for car listening - when dealing with road noise, city noise, treadmill noise, etc., I'd like to be able to turn up the volume without getting my ears blown out by the brass.
I used to, and then I worked for one. Granted, it wasn't a top tier firm, but I hobnobbed with plenty of partners from actual top tier firms and came to realize they are all pretty much the same. They are all cowboys that try to act like visionaries and sages, and either peter out or get lucky with a big exit, because a single big exit from your first fund is enough to guarantee the rest of your career.

If I got an offer with AH though, I would take it. Hell, as an entrepreneur, I'd probably be skeptical of taking any money that wasn't from AH. They're the only ones that seem to do anything prescient.
All of this seems like a rehash of the last comment the article quoted.
Hit the Ogg stream and it loaded in VLC (Devuan linux, basically Debian 8, on my old Thinkpad). Oddly enough, given the OA, I can't find any information within VLC about what I'm listening to. The announcer has just explained that it was a Brendel recording of a Mozart sonata.

Nice station.

Edit: the what's playing page has a full time plan of the 'broadcast' with links to purchasing the particular recording being played. Those links contain the full performer/artist information.
Everyone is offended by something; every snowflake has a trigger. If we start censoring because someone might be offended, ultimately everyone will be silent.

The irony here is that GIT is British english for idiot. Github is therefore the network of idiocy.
Solitaire on the new Windows 10 upgrade is now Freemium
That much is true in the US as well.
I agree that it's not bad for them to not publish it [edit: I mean, not bad for the kids books publisher to not publish the 4 Chan book of shock images and racist jokes] (probably good actually), but does that mean it isn't censorship?

It seems like the only things which might be why it isn't "censorship" would be because either we like it (or it is objectively good by some reasoning) (which would be a terrible definition of censorship), or because there are sufficiently many comparable other options.

So, it seems that either some censorship is good, or whether something is censorship depends on what the other options for publication are?

I guess that conclusion (that or statement) is reasonable?

Thoughts?
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Ya I know... Like people in the front were able to have a budget of ~2000 dollars per person (hello Thunderbolt Displays!) but for others it was not even more than 300 dollars.
Ha! Yeah, we got the kid back. They'd spend the drill hidden in the admin office, eating ice cream.

Really the most worrying part of the whole thing was teaching the stolen kids that if an adult walks up to them and tells them to quietly sneak away, they get ice cream.
Woa, mail client. I've always hated the lack of good mail clients on Windows, may I ask which client you think is so good that you're willing to start VirtualBox for it? Thanks :-)