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Saturday, October 31, 2015

orionblastar comments on "GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released"

By orionblastar

Windows NT 3.1 was based on Microsoft OS/2 NT 3.0, it was originally Microsoft’s version of OS/2 with the Windows 3>X GUI added to it instead of IBM’s Presentation Manager.

The NT Kernel and OS was designed to run DOS, POSIX, OS/2 1.X CLI apps (But not GUI) and 16 bit Windows and 32 bit Windows apps. Later on OS/2 and POSIX support got dropped.

Microsoft OS/2 NT 3.0 was a rewrite of OS/2 for 32 bit systems, before that OS/2 was on 16 bit systems with 1.X and IBM and Microsoft fought over 2.0 standards, and Microsoft stopped support for OS/2 and focused on Windows instead. Then renamed their OS/2 to NT for New Technologies.

The Interesting thing about Windows NT was that Microsoft had plans to port it to different processors and eventually dropped those plans and stuck with X86 processors instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_NT

It was designed as a modified microkernel.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485287

orionblastar comments on "GNU Hurd 0.7 has been released"

pmtarantino comments on "Ask HN: What is the best way to generate revenue on a blog"

My experience: Partnership with commerce in area of interests, with affiliate links + free products for me.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485215

pmtarantino comments on "Ask HN: What is the best way to generate revenue on a blog"

1 – Really Free Music

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://musickey.cc/

1 – Really Free Music

2 – Ask HN: How do you save and sync your private and important documents?

2 points, 1 comment

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10485111

2 – Ask HN: How do you save and sync your private and important documents?

1 – Ruby Tricks

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://github.com/franzejr/ruby-tricks

1 – Ruby Tricks

2 – Show HN: A very minimalistic puzzle game

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://www.facebook.com/games/pnpgame/

2 – Show HN: A very minimalistic puzzle game

tptacek comments on "Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience"

Modal as in the statistical mode.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480923

tptacek comments on "Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience"

petra comments on "The Real Population Problem (2013)"

>> Good luck convincing people

In a world with a real pressing population problem, coupled with good alternatives(meatless meat that’s good as the real thing, healthier ,cheaper, marketed well) it seems doable.

>> local food production.

In the grand scale of things, i’m not sure that’s a huge problem. food miles are just 10% of food emissions, and we have some other ways to get rid of that(clean transport, greenhouses spread around cities) that seem more practical.

But if you’re interested, there’s some interesting research on large-scale vertical agriculture[pdf]:

www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/jas/article/download/4526/3952

But to build it would be expensive – 200 million euro, and as far as i can remember , it wasn’t price competitive.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480952

petra comments on "The Real Population Problem (2013)"

echion comments on "Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience"

The sentence is close to literally true, but what I think you’re questioning is the implied “[at a price close to the current price]” at the end of it.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480772

echion comments on "Developing in Stockfighter with No Trading Experience"

Kalium comments on "Argentina May Have Figured Out How to Get GMOs Right"

> How many members of the EPA & FDA are former employees of Arcadia and Bioceres

This line of thinking is so odd to me. Shouldn’t we want people in regulatory bodies to have an insider’s understanding of an industry?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480641

Kalium comments on "Argentina May Have Figured Out How to Get GMOs Right"

masukomi comments on "Klout Score: Measuring Influence Across Multiple Social Networks"

I don’t get it:

“In this work, we present the Klout

Score, an influence scoring system that assigns scores

to 750 million users across 9 different social networks

on a daily basis. We propose a hierarchical framework

for generating an influence score for each user, by

incorporating information for the user from multiple

networks and communities.”

why are they “proposing a hierarchical framework”. the thing already exists. It’s like me proposing we have a vehicles that use four wheels and internal combustion engines.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480467

masukomi comments on "Klout Score: Measuring Influence Across Multiple Social Networks"

3 – Amazon Removes All Apple TV, Chromecast Listings from Its Website

3 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://variety.com/2015/digital/news/amazon-chromecast-apple-tv-ban-1201630010/

3 – Amazon Removes All Apple TV, Chromecast Listings from Its Website

1 – This Week in Redox 4

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.redox-os.org/news/this-week-in-redox-4/

1 – This Week in Redox 4

JonnieCache comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

Who would get the blame though?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10480123

JonnieCache comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

nilkn comments on "The Economist's US college rankings"

If I were a prospective student interested in making a lot of money out of college, surely I’d still just follow this very simple model:

Take all the schools I could get into, look up their actual median earnings, and go to the one which is highest (let’s ignore issues of cost of attendance).

If it turns out that the one which is highest isn’t ranked high on this particular list, I don’t see why that would suggest I still shouldn’t pick that school. Imagine these are my options, for instance:

(A) A school with expected earnings of $90k and actual earnings of $75k.

(B) A school with expected earnings of $50k and actual earnings of $55k.

(B) will rank vastly higher than (A) in this study, but I’d pick (A) over (B) every time if I just wanted money.

In short, I don’t actually see the value add here from this list. How am I supposed to act on these rankings? How are these rankings supposed to change any idea I might have about which school I should attend?

It seems if you want to know which school to attend based on earnings we already have much more reliable data for that: actual earnings data.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479949

nilkn comments on "The Economist's US college rankings"

impendia comments on "The Economist's US college rankings"

Unfortunate to hear this about Caltech.

Nevertheless, as a graduate, I hope you regard it as self-evident that, even if your alma mater has slipped, it still deserves a place in the top 98%?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479740

impendia comments on "The Economist's US college rankings"

5 – Introducing the BeeWallet app, powered by Uphold

5 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://uphold.com/en/blog/posts/uphold/introducing-beewallet-for-iphone

5 – Introducing the BeeWallet app, powered by Uphold

downandout comments on "Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document"

>I’m sure Facebook and Mr. Zuckerberg will learn a lesson to be more diligent in such matters. That’s the point.

The point is to be awarded millions of dollars in legal fees, which they will undoubtedly receive.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479548

downandout comments on "Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document"

mcguire comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

Note to those confused: I have PS1 set to ‘$’ on every account. It just saves confusion.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10479007

mcguire comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

2 – Bang-on parody of the pretentious startup “re-branding process.”

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://medium.com/@localweb/forward-slash-the-story-of-how-massimo-guzm%C3%A1n-turned-our-simple-logo-into-a-brand-of-possibility-e32817bda1d3#.gyqup5vff&HN

2 – Bang-on parody of the pretentious startup “re-branding process.”

kibwen comments on "Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code"

Rust and Scala may be cousins due to their ML influence, but Rust itself isn’t particularly influenced by Scala. In contrast, there are quite a few design decisions in Rust that were lifted directly from OCaml. Calling Rust “C++20 + OCaml” would be a decent categorical starting point.

(Caveat: the lead designer of Rust’s type system, Niko Matsakis, has done a fair bit of work with Scala, so there may be subtle influences.)

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478721

kibwen comments on "Rust-Doom: A Doom renderer in Rust, with no unsafe code"

2 – Seattle Police Dept tech officer quits, files 200 more public-records requests

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/spd-tech-officer-resigns-resumes-public-records-requests/

2 – Seattle Police Dept tech officer quits, files 200 more public-records requests

NietTim comments on "Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?"

No.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10478131

NietTim comments on "Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?"

Friday, October 30, 2015

57 – NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

57 points, 8 comments

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-ancient-earthworks.html

57 – NASA Adds to Evidence of Mysterious Ancient Earthworks

luma comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

That would only work in the event that a majority of users coordinate their efforts to deploy such a thing. Seems like it’d be easier for them to setup a VPS.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477893

luma comments on "Show HN: Twitch Installs Arch Linux – A cooperative text-based horror game"

_ak comments on "Node.js 5.0 Released"

By _ak

@Touche: because they were introduced by the developers. The type of changes you make dictate the semver, but semver doesn’t dictate what changes you can or can’t make.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477704

_ak comments on "Node.js 5.0 Released"

tootie comments on "How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook"

A grown-up wouldn’t get sympathy from the enterprise sales team at Parse.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477543

tootie comments on "How One 17-Year-Old Coded a #1 App and Got Hired by Facebook"

jameshart comments on "Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com"

Keep in mind these are generally demos that are designed to push the capabilities of shaders to the limit. Many of these things could be done more efficiently using other techniques but they’re building the entire scene in a vertex shader.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477397

jameshart comments on "Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com"

dingaling comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

> Will UK folks actually protest this or have they become like the US public, completely complacent and apathetic to all intrusions,

What do you suggest we do?

We can have million-person marches in London, doesn’t change a thing.

We can write to our MPs and receive form answers. MPs have no interest in changing the system that ensures them their lifestyle.

We can vote for non-party candidates at elections and see them crushed by the parties.

So what’s left?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477230

dingaling comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

4 – Working with Codekit and Git

4 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.git-tower.com/blog/codekit-git/

4 – Working with Codekit and Git

2 – Fancy magnet configuration used in wallets

By fho

2 points, 1 comment

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halbach_array

2 – Fancy magnet configuration used in wallets

Kristine1975 comments on "Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com"

By Kristine1975

Shadertoy: You write a program that is executed once for every pixel on the screen and produces the pixel’s color.

This: You write a program that is executed once for every vertex (the number of which you specify) and produces the vertex’s position and color. Vertices are then drawn to the screen using the primitive type you specify: With points, each vertex results in a point (a small square, really); with triangles, three vertexes result in a triangle and so on.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10477089

Kristine1975 comments on "Show HN: Vertexshaderart.com"

1 – Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js Presentation [YouTube]

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztspvPYybIY

1 – Ryan Dahl: Original Node.js Presentation [YouTube]

Lockyy comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

But when you think about it, wasn’t Frankenstein the real monster?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476892

Lockyy comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

bruceb comments on "A $99.99 Surfboard Upends the Industry"

Apparently by $99 they mean about $200 with tax http://www.costco.com/surfboards.html

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476805

bruceb comments on "A $99.99 Surfboard Upends the Industry"

madaxe_again comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

By madaxe_again

How incredibly naif. As others point out media control has got to the point that the people always want what they’re told they want, and if they don’t, too bad, they’re getting it anyway.

I suppose you’re one of these poor bairns who quakes under his bedsheets at the thought of the ghost of Bin Laden coming back to be Muslim in your presence?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476724

madaxe_again comments on "UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop"

1 – Why client-server must die

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.javaworld.com/article/2999498/application-development/why-client-server-must-die.html

1 – Why client-server must die

TeMPOraL comments on "Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”"

(Please don’t take it personally; I want to comment on a generic phenomenon.)

There is a pattern I see in every HN thread about Facebook. It consists of comments structured like this: “I haven’t had a Facebook account for [1 year - ever]. I don’t see what’s useful about it. I think relationships maintained by it are bad / artificial / unnecessary.” Am I the only one who notices that comments of the form “I don’t use X therefore I have an opinion on X” are of… limited usefulness?

–

> I found that any event worth going to the organizer would simply call, message or email you because they wanted you to be there.

Facebook invitations are equivalent to the forms above.

> People vastly underestimate the power of their real social network

Facebook is as real as any other social network.

> and what friendship or love can do to motivate people to maintain relationships.

If you’re my friend or love interest, why are you making it more difficult for me to contact you?

> Some advice for anyone who plans on closing their Facebook account: scrape any photos with you in them (and anyone you have an affinity for), phone numbers and the big one: birthdays. My calendar reminds me when someone has a birthday and their phone numbers sit in my contacts list.

One of the most pathetic things people do on-line is putting a fake birthday into Facebook (and before that, into the IMs they were using), to see who actually remembers the real date. It always makes me wonder, what they’re trying to prove this way? That some people don’t care about them enough to remember the date? Well guess what, nobody is that fucking important. Your parents and your spouse may remember the date, but why should anyone else?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476531

TeMPOraL comments on "Facebook Blocks Internet Pioneer “R.U. Sirius”"

breadbox comments on "Interview Humiliation"

I hear this sort of thing so often. Not the OP; I mean your comment. “I can’t believe anyone in this industry could be so obnoxious/callous/racist/misogynist/solipsist.” It’s true that most people are unreliable witnesses, but don’t forget there is also our tendency to discredit unflattering stories of people like ourselves. Let’s face it: this kind of bullshit behavior is hardly unheard of. The only surprising part of the story is the quantity of bullshit — the quality of each individual nugget is all too familiar.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476455

breadbox comments on "Interview Humiliation"

1 – Dear Cat, thank you for taking the fall for us

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://in.pinterest.com/pin/37154765653423904/

1 – Dear Cat, thank you for taking the fall for us

hackuser comments on "Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls"

Related news: The Internal Revenue Service is using StingRays:

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/258209-irs-head-…

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476337

hackuser comments on "Police Stingray Tools Can Indeed Record Calls"

gkop comments on "Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android"

I don’t know how old your grandfather is, but Chrome OS is a much better choice than Windows for an elderly person. The sheer power of Windows combined with the most malware of all OSes and unnecessarily frequent UI changes make Windows the very worst OS for the elderly. OS X is better than Windows in this regard, and iOS is better still. Chrome OS is just great for old folks and Chrome OS devices are extremely cost competitive (Chromebooks are cheaper!) with Apple devices.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476286

gkop comments on "Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android"

snogglethorpe comments on "The Subway Map War of 1978"

By snogglethorpe

Of course, sometimes the decision is easy because you’re bumping up against complexity limits, and you just can’t fit any geographical reality on a map and still have something remotely readable:

http://www.meik.jp/2rosenzu/jpg_640/tkyo_yko_chba.jpg

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476205

snogglethorpe comments on "The Subway Map War of 1978"

evincarofautumn comments on "Random Acts of Optimization"

By evincarofautumn

Of course. I have no problem with generic, implicit optimisation. However, people often need to optimise further, manually. Without good language support, they start coding to a particular implementation: using less-than-portable intrinsics, or worse, trying to trigger heuristics that produce the optimisations they actually want.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476139

evincarofautumn comments on "Random Acts of Optimization"

danieltillett comments on "Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document"

By danieltillett

Well if you are the first to introduce something then I think it is fair to say you are being innovative. They were both critically important to the success of Facebook so I think we have to give credit where credit is due.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10476055

danieltillett comments on "Mark Zuckerberg Signed the Wrong Document"

lobster_johnson comments on "Atom 1.1 is out"

By lobster_johnson

My main issue with Atom is performance. It can’t open files larger than a few thousand lines, which means I have to keep Sublime around — and I must make a mental decision about which app to use every time I have some file or pipe to open. Sublime, of course, is super fast.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475974

lobster_johnson comments on "Atom 1.1 is out"

Thursday, October 29, 2015

2 – React to the Future

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://elijahmanor.com/talks/react-to-the-future/dist/#/

2 – React to the Future

stordoff comments on "Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults"

It’s not ideal, but at least the VHS release of Song of the South is fairly easy to find in the UK. I had it as kid (I’m 25 FWIW) and there are plenty of copies for sale on Amazon.

It doesn’t help that some people are very quick to claim something is offensive to them / a category of people, and can rather vocal about it, even if the thing in question is totally inoffensive (for example, I saw a forum thread this morning claiming that using ‘niggles’ to describe minor hardware issues was a ‘borderline racist’ term).

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475774

stordoff comments on "Too many classic films remain buried in studios' vaults"

makecheck comments on "Making It Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10"

I think their “aren’t we great for doing you this favor?” attitude about the 31 day downgrade is really weird. Last I checked, disks don’t have an expiration date that is shorter than milk, and most people appear to have more space than they know what to do with. Why, then, is there any period after which an archived OS should be forcibly removed? It should stay there as long as you want it to.

The older OS is paid for. It represents a big investment. And, there is no way that every possible problem will be magically found and resolved within 31 days. What if it takes you 2 months to boot up a game that is apparently broken on Windows 10, for example.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475677

makecheck comments on "Making It Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10"

yeukhon comments on "Breaches, traders, plain text passwords, ethical disclosure and 000webhost"

No. The terrible thing is what have they been doing with people’s password if the DBA, some random offshore $1 per hour guy working for this hosting company was able to read the password in plaintext, he/she could have hack the accounts or sold them to people well before the compromise. Do people ever wonder how identity thief can happen? Unsafe transaction leaving greedy and unethical people selling information to organized criminals… no duh.

Like the other commenter said, sadly, 000webhost and many were very popular back in mid 2000s during the Great PHP Frontier goldrush. I had used it, but luckily I was using a ghost email address that couldn’t tie back to my real identity, so the best people can do is add that password to a list of known password database.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475577

yeukhon comments on "Breaches, traders, plain text passwords, ethical disclosure and 000webhost"

2 – China to end one-child policy

By cft

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34665539

2 – China to end one-child policy

EvilMonkeyMat comments on "Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers"

By EvilMonkeyMat

I’m pretty sure they aren’t, but I must admit, I have never checked. I supposed that would be known by now… One thing is sure, access logs are located on my own VM, and are processed locally by awstats. The only thing that binds requests to an actual user is the IP address, and one must contact ISPs to have more information. I don’t have the authority to do that.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475499

EvilMonkeyMat comments on "Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web Developers"

rtpg comments on "Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android"

How do you qualify Android as the worst security-shipping product? Is it mainly due to the lack of sound update mechanisms? Because conceptually, Android’s model (each application is its own Unix user) seems pretty good

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10475397

rtpg comments on "Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android"

acveilleux comments on "For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting"

Worse, the only reason he was held in contempt is because the judge had to pro-actively order the evidence to be turned over.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470841

acveilleux comments on "For the First Time, a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting"

t0mk comments on "Portus – Docker Registry Web UI"

Cool. Is there any other Docker registry web fronted and/or user and ACL tool besides this and cesanta/docker_auth?

Some notes (IMO):

- would be more cool to package this as a single docker image which people can docker pull

- rather than supplying a registry image, I’d just instruct people what they need to set in their registry (seems that those are atm notification[endpoints] and auth[token]).

- supervisor sucks, is there really no other way to do async tasks with Docker and Rails? I’d even rather do it from another container rather than with supervisor.

- this https://github.com/SUSE/Portus/blob/master/docker/registry/e… is ugly and needs special entrypoint. Why not just force a link name to the registry in the compose file?

Overall the project looks great and I’m gonna try it out!

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470592

t0mk comments on "Portus – Docker Registry Web UI"

IkmoIkmo comments on "China to end one-child policy"

Hans Rosling has a documentary about it, check it out via Google, it’s on youtube of vimeo or something.

It’s not so much that overpopulation isn’t an issue, of course it is (that’s why it’s called ‘over’ population), but rather that the trend line is that population growth is very rapidly slowing, that people tend to overestimate population growth, are unaware of big population centres that are shrinking, that the average worldwide children per woman rate is 5 just 50 years ago) and that population will likely decline after we add a few billion more.

That’s not to say that it isn’t an issue, but traditionally we held some really weird views about overpopulation. Basically we looked at this graph: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Po…

and extrapolated the exponential growth, and ended up with scenarios of doom, war etc. Food shortages for example are consistently predicted, but food production growth has outstripped population growth substantially and food security is better than any time in the past (yet far from perfect).

Obviously there are huge sustainability concerns, but the biggest source is our level of consumption levels and patterns, not our population numbers, which comes in second.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470621

IkmoIkmo comments on "China to end one-child policy"

1 – No Hike Rate

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/monetary/20151028a.htm

1 – No Hike Rate

startupguy1293 comments on "YC Decisions Are Out"

By startupguy1293

Hypothetically if YC decides to invest in you, what is the average time to receive funds?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470173

startupguy1293 comments on "YC Decisions Are Out"

2 – The New DMCA Rules Don't Go Far Enough

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://gizmodo.com/the-new-dmca-rules-dont-go-far-enough-1739174855

2 – The New DMCA Rules Don't Go Far Enough

2 – Nock, Hoon, etc. For Non-Vulcans (Why Urbit Matters)

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://popehat.com/2013/12/06/nock-hoon-etc-for-non-vulcans-why-urbit-matters/

2 – Nock, Hoon, etc. For Non-Vulcans (Why Urbit Matters)

digitalengineer comments on "Sweden closer to being the first cashless society with negative interest rates"

By digitalengineer

Executive Order 6102: “forbidding the Hoarding of gold coin, gold bullion, and gold certificates within the continental United States”.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10470024

digitalengineer comments on "Sweden closer to being the first cashless society with negative interest rates"

brusch64 comments on "Inside The Fine Art Factories of China"

Wow Joseph Zbukvic is impressive.

Brings back my horror art lessons in school. We had a watercolour artist as an art teacher and we had to use those big hair brushes too. Too bad I sucked completely with this brush and hated going to art class.

But it’s really impressive watching what this guys doing ! Thank you for the link.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469942

brusch64 comments on "Inside The Fine Art Factories of China"

junto comments on "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

In the UK the liquidators hold the assets in a kind of trust. It is their responsibility to try and liquidate the assets to return money to the creditors.

In my case one of our founders purchased the domain name and the “good will of the company”, and continued to run the company under that name as a “trading name”. The actual company entity going forward was completely different.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469877

junto comments on "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

smcl comments on "Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets"

Alternatively there’s the Open Processor Foundation, who are taking advantage of the fact that Hitachi’s SuperH patents are lapsing over the next few years (some already have): http://0pf.org/about-ocf.html

The official website above has a lot of info, but there is a nicer intro @ lwn: https://lwn.net/Articles/647636/

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469751

smcl comments on "Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets"

sarahh comments on "IBM to Acquire the Weather Company"

Hope to see improvements in the weather industry.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469682

sarahh comments on "IBM to Acquire the Weather Company"

venomsnake comments on "Firms help websites evade ad blockers"

And I allow all adds. Haven’t had malware problem in ages. And I am getting better at ignoring them. And there is always F12 to remove from the dom something that obscures the content.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469557

venomsnake comments on "Firms help websites evade ad blockers"

dudereally comments on "A lot happens"

For God’s sake, man, move to your kids. Jobs are everywhere.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469429

dudereally comments on "A lot happens"

2 – Ask HN: For those who got an interview, a few questions

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469302

2 – Ask HN: For those who got an interview, a few questions

2 – Legofy – python program to make an image to look as if it was created by Legos

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: https://github.com/JuanPotato/Legofy

2 – Legofy – python program to make an image to look as if it was created by Legos

jakeogh comments on "Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets"

Also see Joanna Rutkowska’s recent paper: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10458318 (fun reading).

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469174

jakeogh comments on "Novena: A Laptop with No Secrets"

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Encosia comments on "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

I’ve seen that before, but it’s essentially the opposite of disavowing isn’t it? He’s doing quite a bit of rationalizing and misdirecting in that post, IMO.

At the time, I remember being incredibly disappointed to see him hide behind the EULA and “This one seems a matter of opinion.” That’s why it came to mind immediately and I was curious if YC ever took a more respectable position in the interim.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469050

Encosia comments on "Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?"

2 – Tiny 'ThumbSats' Aim to Bring Space to All

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://news.discovery.com/space/private-spaceflight/tiny-thumbsats-aim-to-bring-space-to-all-151026.htm

2 – Tiny 'ThumbSats' Aim to Bring Space to All

2 – Egypt's women-only taxi service promises protection from male drivers

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/07/egypt-pink-taxi-service-women-safe-haven-patronising

2 – Egypt's women-only taxi service promises protection from male drivers

1 – Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://medium.com/@zsupalla/processed-meats-as-bad-as-cigarettes-bad-reporting-on-good-science-ac43a97be603#.7t8gqi8xu

1 – Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science

oxide comments on "Apple shuts down app that uses 'Force Touch' to weigh objects"

I don’t know about you, but if that’s the only reason, it sounds an awful lot like a clear cut case of overreach.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468593

oxide comments on "Apple shuts down app that uses 'Force Touch' to weigh objects"

cjensen comments on "Apple shuts down app that uses 'Force Touch' to weigh objects"

Using an extremely expensive ultra-thin high-resolution touch-sensitive display as a scale is a pretty terrible idea. If Apple allows the app and someone weighs tiny diamonds on the screen, whose fault is it that the display is scratched? Ordinary people may not understand how the Mohs hardness scale works. Ordinary people may not be accurate judges of whether or not something is too heavy to place on a phone without damaging it. Cute hack, but too many unintended consequences in the real world.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468480

cjensen comments on "Apple shuts down app that uses 'Force Touch' to weigh objects"

1 – Bitcoin [mtgox] CEO spent embezzled funds on prostitutes

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.hindustantimes.com/world/bitcoin-ceo-spent-embezzled-funds-on-prostitutes-reports/story-Bi0kJ4nS7qDUm6r1ws50bP.html

1 – Bitcoin [mtgox] CEO spent embezzled funds on prostitutes

TACIXAT comments on "Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995)"

They also funded socialist literary magazines.

http://www.theawl.com/2015/08/literary-magazines-for-sociali…

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463950

TACIXAT comments on "Modern art was CIA 'weapon' (1995)"

2 – How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes(2012)

By hvo

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/business/apples-tax-strategy-aims-at-low-tax-states-and-nations.html

2 – How Apple Sidesteps Billions in Taxes(2012)

1 – Mark Zuckerberg, in India, Defends Facebook’s Plan to Expand Internet Access

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.tenreads.io/story/2821273

1 – Mark Zuckerberg, in India, Defends Facebook’s Plan to Expand Internet Access

janko-m comments on "Shrine – A new solution for handling file uploads in Ruby"

The part that I mind about both delayed_paperclip and carrierwave_backgrounder is that it doesn’t really allow you to write your own job classes. This can be quite limiting for example if you want your jobs to send information to some monitoring services.

Another part that I mind is the user experience. Ok, both of these gems allow you to know when the backgrond job is in process, and then you can display some placeholder image until the processing is done. But that’s not really nice user experience. In Shrine the user immediately sees the image they uploaded, because it has that image already cached (usually on the filesystem), and then from the user’s point of view the uploading is finished, before the background job even started. CarrierWave also has the cached image, but by design it’s not possible to use it, while Paperclip doesn’t cache images.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463614

janko-m comments on "Shrine – A new solution for handling file uploads in Ruby"

bgribble comments on "Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business"

This works great if you don’t mind cutting down the number of car models a whole lot. Factories are reconfigured multiple times a year to make different models and there’s weeks of downtime between manufacturing runs. It might be months before there’s a factory that is ready to make a lower-volume model.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463463

bgribble comments on "Kill the laws that keep car dealers in business"

PepeGomez comments on "Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days"

You mean except that one study which started it…

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463377

PepeGomez comments on "Cutting Back Sugar Improves Obese Children's Health in Just 10 Days"

angrybobby comments on "Open-source polymer/firebase sample admin dashboard"

What do you think about Polymer guys?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463308

angrybobby comments on "Open-source polymer/firebase sample admin dashboard"

jonahx comments on "CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters"

If you’re saying your sole reason for doing this is to ease your javascript selection, I think that’s a poor reason. If you have a serious dynamic javascript page of any complexity, you have should have a pure js model and your view should be updating off that, using react, mithril, or your own vanilla update function. Now, not everyone would agree with that, and there may be use cases where it’s overkill, but in that case I still don’t buy the argument, as you can just write a short helper function that makes things just as easy as selecting with dataset.

I don’t think a fear of javascript should be driving decisions about markup. You should write your markup in the clearest, most semantic way possible, and let what are ultimately trivial js problems take care of themselves.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463250

jonahx comments on "CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters"

2 – Maybe It's Time to Stop Snickering About Aliens

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2015/10/27/452276775/maybe-it-s-time-to-stop-snickering-about-aliens

2 – Maybe It's Time to Stop Snickering About Aliens

x0x0 comments on "Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced"

I used greenplum until about three years ago when that employer replaced it. There is no way to describe it other than brittle and unsuited for production work. My peers discovered multiple ways to kill the db, all with data loss. Before you use it you should find a current user. It is one of a handful of techs on my personal “never again” list.

Licensing was also ludicrously expensive, including an attempt to multiply our license cost by 10 one year. I’d be very leery of lock-in given the owners. I also suspect this is the result of a failed attempt to sell it and is an open-source hail mary.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10463146

x0x0 comments on "Pivotal Greenplum Database has been open sourced"

1 – Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html

1 – Modern art was CIA 'weapon'

1 – New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-public-data-set-real-time-and-archived-nexrad-weather-data/

1 – New AWS Public Data Set – Real-Time and Archived NEXRAD Weather Data

msh comments on "Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges"

By msh

Roaming charges in the eu have always been a way to legally rip off the customers.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462955

msh comments on "Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges"

michaelZejoop comments on "Publicizing who my customers are for validation"

By michaelZejoop

I think this is a great response; it may come in handy for what I am up to.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462894

michaelZejoop comments on "Publicizing who my customers are for validation"

rizwank comments on "Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India"

With Band 12 LTE, this is changing rapidly on TMO.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462817

rizwank comments on "Facebook '2G Tuesdays' to better understand markets like India"

voltagex_ comments on "Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges"

AFAICR dialup was pay-by-the-minute (for call costs) in Germany.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462726

voltagex_ comments on "Europe abolishes mobile phone roaming charges"

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

tlb comments on "Ask HN: Do I choose a few team members or lose our only investor?"

By tlb

You should have given all the employees equity when they joined. It’s better to give them equity sooner rather than later, but definitely before the next funding round (because the strike price has to be higher).

Employees with drone experience are in high demand right now. You have to give them equity to compete with other startups, as well as Amazon, Google, DJI, and others that can pay higher salaries.

Investors often have good advice from years of experience, but ultimately the CEO has to make the decisions.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462654

tlb comments on "Ask HN: Do I choose a few team members or lose our only investor?"

1 – Have Tesla and Apple disrupted the auto industry past the point of no return?

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://qz.com/529428/have-tesla-and-apple-disrupted-the-auto-industry-past-the-point-of-no-return/

1 – Have Tesla and Apple disrupted the auto industry past the point of no return?

2 – Attacks on packet length may be surprisingly good: Hookt on fon-iks

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://lists.randombit.net/pipermail/cryptography/2015-October/007413.html

2 – Attacks on packet length may be surprisingly good: Hookt on fon-iks

JoshTriplett comments on "Walgreens announces deal to buy Rite Aid for $9 a share"

By JoshTriplett

The ability to open a pharmacy in an area isn’t restricted the way Internet and television providers are. Nothing stops a new store or chain from opening.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462294

JoshTriplett comments on "Walgreens announces deal to buy Rite Aid for $9 a share"

pdpi comments on "More parents, students saying 'no' to homework"

Like I said: I agree with the general sentiment of giving kids more time to be kids, to play and to learn non-academic stuff.

What I’m advocating, though, is that this should be, at least partially, at the expense of structured lectures, rather than homework.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462192

pdpi comments on "More parents, students saying 'no' to homework"

Sir_Cmpwn comments on "CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters"

I honestly could use this for something I’m working on at work. Thanks!

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10462090

Sir_Cmpwn comments on "CSSgram: CSS library for Instagram filters"

2 – Facebook is killing its most hated feature

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://fortune.com/2015/10/27/facebook-message-requests/

2 – Facebook is killing its most hated feature

an6n comments on "Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown"

Thank you for your reply, I should’ve been more detailed in my question. I think I would prefer a setup where I edit using vim and the rendered html is instantaneously rendered next to the vim window. However, I think that embedding images from clipboard is tricky using vim, at least to my knowledge. So I don’t really know how to setup an efficient workflow regarding that.

I think I will have to take a look at that jekyll now next.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457213

an6n comments on "Classeur.io: Re-enjoy writing, with Markdown"

LoneWolf comments on "Portugal Government Fuels Debate About Democracy in Europe"

As a voter I feel betrayed by this post-election coalition (if it ever forms they seem too unstable), because there is a difference for me between voting for a party or a coalition of multiple ones, if I am against the ideologies of one of the parties I may not vote for them.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10457104

LoneWolf comments on "Portugal Government Fuels Debate About Democracy in Europe"

olavk comments on "Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS"

Well if MS thought they had a better model, they could have proposed it to the W3C and introduced it as -ms-box-model or something. Even if IE’s model were superior, it was disastrous to have to contradicting models in different browsers.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456978

olavk comments on "Incomplete List of Mistakes in the Design of CSS"

BillinghamJ comments on "Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox"

Doesn’t seem to be working in Safari on Mac. I’m getting over 650 CSP errors in my console.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456897

BillinghamJ comments on "Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox"

2 – How to De-Identify Your Data: Balancing Accuracy and Privacy

By alanfranzoni

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2838930

2 – How to De-Identify Your Data: Balancing Accuracy and Privacy

seanmcdirmid comments on "Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet"

By seanmcdirmid

It most definitely is accessible. I’m not running a VPN.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456837

seanmcdirmid comments on "Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet"

1 – Coding in the Real World

By ShaunFinglas

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://blog.shaunfinglas.co.uk/2015/10/coding-in-real-world.html

1 – Coding in the Real World

vldr comments on "Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science"

Any thoughts on

http://www.zoeharcombe.com/2015/10/world-health-organisation…

?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456692

vldr comments on "Processed meats as bad as cigarettes: bad reporting on good science"

lm______ comments on "Did Times Underplay Drone Program Leak?"

> It’s a difference between knowingly killing and accidentally killing. Legally, there is a huge difference. I’d argue morally there is too, but you can decide for yourself.

I wonder if the victim’s families give much of a shit about the difference in question here.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456645

lm______ comments on "Did Times Underplay Drone Program Leak?"

1 – Dragon Law Makes Creating Legal Documents in Hong Kong Affordable and Easy

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/joshsteimle/2015/06/15/dragon-law-makes-creating-legal-documents-in-hong-kong-affordable-and-easy/

1 – Dragon Law Makes Creating Legal Documents in Hong Kong Affordable and Easy

1 – Marx's theory of alienation

By DanielRibeiro

1 point, 0 comments

Read more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_alienation

1 – Marx's theory of alienation

gardnr comments on "Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?"

During a period of my life I played World of Warcraft. I eventually got banned for botting. After initially feeling anger, I felt free. Who wants to play a game so boring that a robot could do it? The 80 people are probably intelligent and reliable people. They will find something more challenging and rewarding.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456400

gardnr comments on "Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?"

angersock comments on "Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?"

Comedy option:

Go to their manager, explain that your software might cause the loss of their department/minions, and instead see if they’re willing to pay you extra for your tool/consulting on using the tool/guarantee you won’t share your tool.

Everyone can win in this situation.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456335

angersock comments on "Ask HN: Should I deploy my code and lay off 80 people?"

BlackAura comments on "SXSW Cancels Gamer Panels After Threats"

Umm… That report does not say what you think it says.

Whoever did that excerpt was either utterly useless at statistics (and reading comprehension), or was trying to twist the results to try to prove a point.

The report was about harassment on Twitter in general, not GG. They were trying to get a very broad sample from all over Twitter, covering any abuse or harassment that was reported to them.

Since the whole GG mess was ongoing at the time of the research, the researchers decided to use the ggautoblocker list to see how much overlap their was between their sample, and people connected to GG, to find out how much it affected their results.

The result is that there was a fair bit of overlap – about 12% of the people in their sample were also on the ggautoblocker list. Most of the harassment they found was not related to GG.

Their finding: “Reports to WAM! constitute a much wider range of harassment than the GamerGate controversy alone”.

That’s not what the excerpt you posted claims at all. It interprets that as “only 65 out of 9,844 accounts on the ggautoblocker list engaged in harassment”. Which is bunk – the study found nothing at all about the remaining 9,779 accounts on that list. Only that those 65 accounts were in both sample sets.

Here’s another way to look at it. The 65 harassers who were also on the ggautoblocker list were responsible for 12% of the harassment on Twitter that these researchers found. So they obviously only noticed 0.6% of GamerGate. Therefore, if they’d found all of the GG-associated harassment and abuse, they’d end up with about with 18 times more harassment reports, of which 95% would have been associated with GamerGate.

That analysis is also complete garbage, but it’s just as sound as the analysis in that excerpt you posted, and based on exactly the same faulty reasoning.

Many of the accounts on the ggautoblocker list are either bots, or duplicate accounts created specifically for the purpose of harassing people and discarded when they are no longer useful.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456232

BlackAura comments on "SXSW Cancels Gamer Panels After Threats"

falsedan comments on "SXSW Cancels Gamer Panels After Threats"

A parody of what? Seems like a regular human making normal tweets about interacting with ridiculous close-minded misoginist chaps.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456113

falsedan comments on "SXSW Cancels Gamer Panels After Threats"

ihnorton comments on "Light Table 0.8.0-alpha"

The next version will be based on Atom.

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10456012

ihnorton comments on "Light Table 0.8.0-alpha"

2 – NOVA-PBS Documentary: CyberWar Threat, Exposes STUXNET and Car Hacking

2 points, 0 comments

Read more here: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/cyberwar-threat.html

2 – NOVA-PBS Documentary: CyberWar Threat, Exposes STUXNET and Car Hacking

Monday, October 26, 2015

peteretep comments on "Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox"

I didn’t get any xxx sites. Dominos Pizza, Hipchat, and a few others only. So apparently pretty accurate as I’m religious about using incognito mode for “personal” browsing…

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455915

peteretep comments on "Timing attack against HSTS to sniff browser history in Chrome and Firefox"

2 – How to Legally Own Another Person [pdf]

By micaeloliveira

2 points, 1 comment

Read more here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/50282823/employee.pdf

2 – How to Legally Own Another Person [pdf]

tdicola comments on "REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside"

Enjoy the outdoors.. in late November?

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455660

tdicola comments on "REI to shut on Black Friday to have employees go outside"

rayalez comments on "Ask HN: Do you use Medium? Whom do you follow? Can you link to your blog?"

I’ve just created myself a blog on Medium, and I thought it would be fun to find like-minded people there.

In my blog I post short sci-fi stories and articles on programming and tech:

https://medium.com/@rayalez

Read more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10455511

rayalez comments on "Ask HN: Do you use Medium? Whom do you follow? Can you link to your blog?"

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