Emacs Live (2013) - <AUTHOR> http://overtone.github.io/emacs-live/ <comment><USER3> Given that Emacs Live has received new interest over here - I've just pushed a new release - v1.0beta28. This has support for all the latest Clojure goodies as well as many other lib updates :-)

Simply do a git pull from ~/.emacs.d to update

<comment><USER4> The screenshots in the README.md on GitHub - at least for me - <USER2> displaying. Just FYI.

<comment><USER5> Here is a PR to fix this issue: [https://github.com/overtone/emacs- live/pull/238](https://github.com/overtone/emacs-live/pull/238) .

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> Also worth checking out is Sam Aaron's current project, Sonic-Pi: [http://sonic-pi.net](http://sonic-pi.net)

<comment><USER7> Sam Aaron is so inspirational to see in person - so focused on achieving something of cultural significance (teaching a generating to code by drawing them into music-via-code), so effective in his mission. I can't recommend enough seeing him, or having uk as a keynote speaker, or having him as an amazing dj at your conference.

Sonic-pi (and overtone, which was my first intro to this stuff) is a wonderful piece of creative software on its own, but combined with a human it's really a new form of art.

<comment><USER8> Totally agree, this is great stuff. Every school could have a "music programming lab" with inexpensive Sonic Pi workstations. They are easy to mass produce. I hope teams of parents get together and fund these for their local schools. I put together my own from a Pi 2 and mostly spare parts.

        Pi 2, case, power supply (Adafruit $65 shipped)
        8g Micro SD w/ Raspian Linux  (spare parts)
        Keyboard, Mouse        (spare parts)
        Speakers or headphones (spare parts)
        HDMI, Ethernet cables  (spare parts)
        Monitor                (just used my TV)

You can also run Sonic-Pi on a PC/Mac, which would let some kids continue their explorations outside of the lab.

<comment><USER7> Speaking of funding, Sam has a Patreon page to support his amazing work (and transitively the children learning to code with his tools). It's definitely worth supporting with a few quid a month at [https://patreon.com/samaaron](https://patreon.com/samaaron)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> See also: [http://spacemacs.org](http://spacemacs.org).

<comment><USER10> I absolutely want to love Spacemacs, it's beautiful, highly functional and relatively easy to transition to as a Vim user.

Every time I try it though I just can't get indentation detection to work at all. For the amount of functionality built in I'd really expect that to be built in or easy to configure. Having Emacs control indentation with the TAB key drives me insane too, I'd just like to control it myself.

For developers who work over a range of different projects with different indentation styles, that sort of functionality is essential. dtrt-indent seems like it should solve the detection issue but I've had very little success getting it to reliably work.

<comment><USER11> FWIW, I've had better mileage out of `dtrt-indent` by increasing the `dtrt- indent-min-quality` option to `90.0`, which has the heuristics a tad more strict in choosing the correct indentation. However, there are still cases where the wrong choice is made and fixing is extremely annoying.

I've been using Spacemacs for about 3 months now, moving from Sublime Text, and while the initial experience was mixed, there are things that I just couldn't do without (project management felt weird at first, but now feels seamless, the fact you can edit over SSH transparently etc).

There are still many pain points, such as the sub-standard multiple cursor implementation (with `evil-mc`, `iedit` isn't much better) or the fragmented and incomplete tagging implementation (GNU Global doesn't support everything and generating isn't transparent, though `dumb-jump` is being implemented which may help).

However, I feel that both Emacs and Spacemacs have very strong foundations and extremely vibrant communities, and am confident a lot of the pain points (at least the ones that aren't architecture-related) will be fixed given enough time. Spacemacs is well on its way for a new major release, which should fix a few things.

<comment><USER10> Your `dtrt-indent-min-quality` tip has essentially solved my indentation detection issues, thanks!

I've never really been a fan of multiple cursors, Vim users tend to use macros to solve this. It's a highly valuable thing to learn and practise.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I used Emacs Live for quite some time. Then tried [https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude](https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude) because I couldn't get Emacs Live work with the most recent CIDER (clojure environment). I have been using that ever since.

<comment><USER3> If you check out the most recent release (as of 40 mins ago) you should see that Emacs Live now includes the most recent CIDER. You just need to include the following in your ~/.lein/profiles.clj

{:user {:plugins [[cider/cider-nrepl "0.12.0"] [refactor-nrepl "2.2.0"]]}}

<comment><USER13> The most recent CIDER should auto-inject those dependencies for you on cider- jack-in.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER14> The installation instructions tell me to curl a script straight into bash. Isn't this rather dangerous?

<comment><USER15> Dangerous compared to what?

./configure && make && sudo make install?

apt install xxxxxx?

Downloading and running an exe?

pip install git+[https://github.com/somerandorepo/package-name-seems- legit.gi...](https://github.com/somerandorepo/package-name-seems-legit.git)

You download and run arbitrary code without reviewing it all the time. Why does this specific method seem more dangerous to you than any other?

<comment><USER16> [https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your- shell.html](https://www.seancassidy.me/dont-pipe-to-your-shell.html)

For one.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER17> I tried emacs Live and found it way to distracting to use for development work. It's like having an MTV video on your screen while you code.

<comment><USER18> I used emacs-live for development for a while. The color scheme is just horrible, however, emacs-live did a good job of showing me what was possible with emacs.

<comment><USER19> If you don't like the default color scheme try Gandalf. It's a little more subdued and "normal".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER20> Hope to see some cool music made in Overtone being shared in this thread!

<comment><USER21> I use Extempore by Andrew Sorensen, which grew out of his Impromptu work [1]. It is a livecoding environment with its own language xtlang (vs. Clojure on the VM for Overtone). Watch some of his videos linked on the site, or on YouTube. Pretty incredible.

Lately, I realized I am not much of a livecoder in the same respect that I am not a performing musician. I have now picked up Euterpea again, a Haskell- based livecoding environment that you can compose at the signal or note level, but it is not really suited for live performance [2].

Grace, an all-in-one download, multi-platform, scheme-based music coding environment based upon Common Music (CM) is a great way to start without having to do much setup. It has great tutorials and samples in the menu under Help [3].

Livecoding is definitely more popular overseas than in the U.S. although there was recently an algorave in NY this year.

[1] [http://extempore.moso.com.au/](http://extempore.moso.com.au/) [2] [http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/](http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/euterpea/) [3] [http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net](http://commonmusic.sourceforge.net)

<comment><USER22> Can you experiment with non-western tuning systems (e.g. just intonation, etc) with any of these?

<comment><USER3> You can with Sonic Pi which supports a number of different tuning systems.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Please compare it to Spacemacs. The page mentions Prelude and StarterKit (both in the 2k stars), where Spacemacs much more popular (7k+ stars).

I'm really curious why they did not contribute to Spacemacs and decided to start yet another effort.

<comment><USER3> Spacemacs didn't exist way back when I started Emacs Live :-)

<comment><USER23> Fair enough!

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER24> Is this the way to go for Clojure? I've been using prelude (I wrote a 270 page book published by Packt in emacs org mode!) emacs is amazing</comment>


An introduction to Clear Containers - <AUTHOR> https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/644675/1fe1338432498dc9/

<comment><AUTHOR> Nice to see this announced; true hardware virtual machines with sufficiently good performance to compete with containers.</comment>


42 ways to distribute DeCSS - <AUTHOR> http://decss.zoy.org/

<comment><AUTHOR> Quite old page but still interesting</comment>


A Scientist Must Go Where the Evidence Leads - <AUTHOR> https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/a-scientist-must-go-where-the-evidence-leads/ <comment><USER2> 18 hour old discussion: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708116](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708116)</comment>


Up and running quick with Grunt - <AUTHOR> http://thomasloh.com/2014/01/26/quick-start-with-grunt.html

<comment><USER2> Nice, I used to use browsers extensions to achieve the same thing. Your solution is better.

<comment><AUTHOR> thanks. by the end of the day, it's all about getting the job done == Ease of entry</comment></comment>


Why I won't be attending 'Systems We Love' - <AUTHOR> https://blog.valerieaurora.org/2016/10/22/why-i-wont-be-attending-systems-we-love/ <comment><USER2> After reading this, I'm at a loss for what to do about stuff like this on a personal level. The simplest way to put this seems to be: "How do I avoid being some inhospitable jerk that drives people away?", because at times, I know I've been that jerk, usually when I'm frustrated at something (usually technical, not interpersonal) about a project.

So, how does one do technical work (or any work) but avoid becoming a Brian? Is there a way to turn this proactive - some list of things that you _should do_ rather than not do?

Also, how do you go about making it obvious that you _want_ this kind of kind of critique and feedback?

<comment><USER3> Spend a year being the person who makes new arrivals feel welcome :)</comment></comment>


Open Source Eclipse Celebrates 10th Birthday - <AUTHOR> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/11/02/1729211/open-source-eclipse-celebrates-10th-birthday

<comment><USER2> Happy Birthday Eclipse. Just as awkward and clunky as a tween should be.</comment>


Ask HN: Should my startup file for software patents? - <AUTHOR> I'm a founder of a US-based startup that has been active for a couple of years, has decent revenue, and could be acquired in 1-3 years.
Is it worth the effort (time and money) to file for patents (assuming we have eligible IP)?
Would it make the company more valuable to acquirers, or reduce risks? <comment><USER2> It's a contentious subject.

I would think less about the cost of filing and more about how much you're willing to spend to defend it if needed. For smaller companies, it's hard to stand a chance. If you have VC funding, IP is attractive.</comment>


A GitHub project for creating collection of algorithm implementations - <AUTHOR> https://github.com/arunan123/algorithmdb <comment><AUTHOR> Anyone interested please join the project</comment>


Show HN: Creep Alert – Check if friends or colleagues track you via email - <AUTHOR> https://www.replidy.com/creepalert <comment><AUTHOR> Hi everyone,

We wanted to see if we could create an email tracking blocker that appeals to "normal" non-technical people. Creep Alert is based on Trocker, the open- source project. The main thing that's new in our version is that we have added a "NOT OK"-button. This button opens up the reply field with a prewritten, polite message asking them to disable the tracking in future emails.

I'm all ears if you have any feedback or other ideas for things we should add :)</comment>


Counter-strike trading found to be 'nearly all' money laundering - <AUTHOR> https://www.theguardian.com/games/2019/oct/30/counter-strike-trading-found-to-be-nearly-all-money-laundering <comment><USER2> I don't see how that claim makes any sense. As a criminal enterprise, no one knows the totality of money laundering approaches. This is the availability heuristic at work.</comment>


Show HN: Game development collaboration platform. Make games together - <AUTHOR> http://www.gamestarter.io/#

<comment><USER2> I really have no idea what your platform does. Can you explain at all what you actually do for people?

Why is your product better than GitHub? Are your tools something that engineers can use from the command line while my artist friends can use the web?

<comment><USER3> > I really have no idea what your platform does.

I'd like to just re-state that again, as I also can't find out. Maybe a kickstarter for game development?

The signup area wants you to partition yourself into one of two categories: Game Player or Creator, and their video says that they let the player community decide upon the gameplay mechanics used in their game, so perhaps it offers a voting system for selecting the game mechanics for a new game?

<comment><USER4> I don't understand how these websites with mystery products make it to the front page? Who is upvoting them? Why?

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> 1) Name sounds too close to Kickstarter, choose a better name to help it stand out.

2) Your landing page while nice doesn't say anything about what the platform does. I'm not going to sign up if I don't understand what is the deal about and why would I want to sign up.

<comment><USER6> In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.

<comment><USER5> That sounds nice, but you need to make a stronger case about it in the site if you want to get people interested. Think of what features would make people excited about your platform and talk about those, don't just say "My platform is about this" but "My platform is about this and you will like it because this this and that." and go into great length on the second part of that sentence.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER7> I can't comment on the usefulness of this as I don't make any games, but the site looks nice!

However, I'll have to say that personally I really dislike the name. I get that it's somewhat related Kickstarter, but when I see names which are copies of other company names, it leaves a very poor impression.

Of course this is just my opinion and maybe others will disagree with me.

</comment><comment><USER8> I have no idea what this site does, but it sounds like it lets game players pitch ideas to game developers. Look at the ideas section of Steam Greenlight and you'll understand immediately why this is a bad idea.

</comment><comment><USER6> For those asking more about GameStarter's process. In the end game, Gamestarter will be an online platform, optimized to assist game creators around the world to collaborate on game projects. While there is focus on tools to directly work together, our main goal is to unite creators with others who share their unique, game vision.

So firstly, creators, find your dream game-making team through our platform, and get to work conceptualizing games.

While creators are hard at work, game players will comment, critique and rate these games.

This process allows the community to choose their favorite games from the pool, at which point GameStarter will work with the favourited games creators to develop said game.

<comment><USER9> That doesn't sound like crowd-sourcing at all, that sounds like an endless hackathon combined with funnel to an incubator for game projects. Plus, the whole "give no information whatsoever, but make sure to ask for their email address, along with an appeal based on emotion and no quality" thing you got going on your website is skeevy as hell.

<comment><USER6> Understand that our platform is not yet ready. You're signing up through our splash page to be a part of GameStarter when we go live. You are not looking at a ready platform. I can assure, once it's ready, GameStarter will have everything you need to efficiently collaborate, not a 'hackathon' as you said.

I fail to see how gathering creators and players from the crowd, to collaborate together to validate and create games, is not crowdsourcing. Check crowdsourcing on Google.

<comment><USER9> At the point where you "will work with the favourited games", presumably for some take.

Further, regardless of how much you assure anyone, you've not even shown so much as a hint of an ui design. I have no idea what "everything i need to efficiently collaborate" is, and you are not doing a great job convincing me you know.

Lastly, your vocabulary, your writing style, and your phrasing all sound like a buzzword-worshipping middle manager trying hard to make a sale. It is hard for me to overstate just how untrustworthy that makes you sound.

Just to not leave you confused, here are the parts that make you sound as if you're trying very hard to pretend that you know what you're doing in order to pull a sale:

        "our platform"
        "a part of"
        "I can assure"
        "once it's ready"
        "everything you need to efficiently collaborate"
        "the crowd"

If you wish to be trusted, speak in simple and humble terms.

<comment><AUTHOR> Hey, love the feedback. Any chance you could flick me your email to firstname.lastname@example.com

I want to get future phasing right, dodge buzzwords and drive simplified messages.

Would love if I could run future messaging past you.

Feedback like this is why I posted on HackerNews

<comment><USER9> Why not, mail sent.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


Alex Miller's Statement on Curtis Yarvin and Strange Loop - <AUTHOR> https://twitter.com/puredanger/status/606663407635283968 <comment><USER2> Really surprised this hasn't gotten more traction here, as it seems to be right in HN's wheelhouse.

I hadn't heard of Curtis Yarvin or his online _nom de plume_ until yesterday, but this statement is completely unconvincing on why someone whose presentation passed a pretty thorough review process should be disinvited for essentially unrelated political writings.

<comment><USER3> As Alex Payne (@al3x) helpfully explains [1], those calling for Yarvin's talk invitation to be rescinded didn't do so because of _politics_ —oh, no—but because of _hate_. You see, it's important to be inclusive, even of "far- right" views, but we should draw the line at _hate_. "Hate has no place in the Strange Loop community, nor in any community with a future." And who gets to determine which beliefs cross the line from merely "uncomfortable," or even "fascistic," to truly hateful? Why, Alex Payne! And the rest of the Thought Police.

[1]: [https://al3x.net/2015/06/04/wouldn't-censorship-be- exciting....](https://al3x.net/2015/06/04/wouldn't-censorship-be- exciting.html)

</comment></comment><comment><USER3> Virtually every tech conference operating today is a vehicle for progressive ideology. But since virtually everyone is a progressive, attendees hardly notice, like a fish not noticing water. Consider, for example, this egregious talk, which can reasonably be summarized as "the liberal arts have done a good job at decreasing the relative proportion of white men, and we in technology should learn from their example":

[http://railsconf.com/program#prop_842](http://railsconf.com/program#prop_842)

Or take a look at this one:

[http://selfconference.org/sessions#session_33](http://selfconference.org/sessions#session_33)

When "tech" conferences include talks like "Empathy & Gender Diversity: AMA," I'm afraid the pattern is clear.

We in tech are going to have to make a decision about whether we want this process to continue. It's already rather badly violating some cherished liberal principles, such as the policy of offering need-based scholarships to worthy recipients, but _only to members of favored underrepresented groups_. In other words, poor white and Asian men are out of luck. This policy is being pursued by organizations such as the Y Combinator–backed Recurse Center [1] and by the Strange Loop conference itself [2]. Perhaps we need a fork: in addition to the current events, with their trigger warnings and diversity agendas, maybe we need events that say, "This event is open to anyone. We are all adults here, so if you hear something that upsets you, leave the room or take it in stride. And this is a tech event, so please leave your politics at the door."

[1]: [https://www.recurse.com/diversity](https://www.recurse.com/diversity)

[2]: [http://www.thestrangeloop.com/opportunity.html](http://www.thestrangeloop.com/opportunity.html)

</comment><comment><USER4> Ugh, what a disappointing and frankly inexcusable decision. I had thought StrangeLoop was one of the better conferences.

</comment><comment><USER5> Strange. His political blog has been inactive for over a year.

<comment><USER6> He's been busy writing Urbit (and raising a family.)

<comment><USER5> That's my point. His political persona has been dormant for long enough that this decision seems suspect.

<comment><USER6> I have a friend who is a level-headed critical thinker that reads a lot more than I do, who did read Moldbug when he was publishing, and he still hates Moldbug and I can hear the blood start boiling when I ask him to explain why. I won't ask again.

One of the sad facts of the internet is, whether you are the one saying "[X person] is a racist" or "[X person] is not a bigot", to the casual observer all they see is (conversation) "[X person] blah blah racist bigot."

I can understand why this decision was made, even if I don't agree with it. The people calling out Yarvin would have made it uncomfortable for everyone. So, go ahead and get on with your conference then.

<comment><USER2> This is called a heckler's veto and it's a terrible precedent to set at what is (nominally) a non-partisan, non-political tech conference.</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment>


"Anonymous" Hackers Take Down Child Porn Websites, Leak Users' Names - <AUTHOR> http://www.securitynewsdaily.com/anonymous-hackers-child-porn-sites-1260/

<comment><USER2> So Anonymous:

\- Downloaded a bunch of child porn.

\- Released a useless list of psudonyms extracted from the forum's DB.

\- Claim to have used a timing attack against Tor to find the physical location of the machine hosting the CP, without providing any details. Tor _is_ vulnerable to timing attacks but I don't think any are trivial enough for any "Anonymous members" to handle.

\- Also, if they had the level of access to Freedom Hosting's server which they claim to, they should have reverse-connected across the non-Tor Internet and located the machine (and presumably the machine's hosting provider and datacenter) that way. Given the amateur-looking setup illustrated in the Anonymous press-releases, I highly doubt the Freedom Hosting machine was firewalled from connecting back across the normal Internet.

\- Then Anonymous removed the machine from service so it can't possibly be located by real law enforcement and the real owners can't be found.

It sounds like this is a net loss in any kind of real battle against CP - I'm all for removing obvious distribution points for CP when they're found, but doing so in this manner makes it much harder to track down and prosecute the actual producers and consumers of child porn.

Also, the linked article is poorly researched and written - The Examiner doesn't report anything; it's a pay-per-pageview CMS that anyone can write for, with limited-to-no editorial oversight. The original author should be cited instead.

<comment><USER3> This isn't a comic book. Whether or not you think Anonymous are mostly good or mostly bad, there is a simple fact about them: they are humans. You are aware that people are not strictly good or evil right? Most hardened criminals still love their kids, and most regular Joe's have asshole moments or have even committed crimes! (think, half the people in the us are guilty of using illegal drugs at some point, half have driven drunk, and so on).

I'm sure if anonymous tracked down the stuff and told the police they would all have been arrested for child porn themselves, as this seems to be well on the side of "going to jail", based on precedent previously set by prosecutors all over the US. Further, (because details are lacking) if the server and/or the viewers are not in the same country, full prosecution becomes quite difficult.

But whatev, they did a bad because they are anonymous. No credit to them for stopping something that proper authorities were apparently ignoring or completely ignorant of -- either way those authorities were being completely ineffective.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> For anyone who hasn't used Tor before, I'm going to clarify some of the inaccuracies/FUD in the article.

\- A darknet did not 'grow out' of the Tor software. The ability for anyone to host websites on their computer anonymously is a standard feature of the Tor network.

\- Tor is not strictly a set of browser plugins. Tor is routing software that routes over TCP/IP. Any program can use it assuming they have set the proxy settings on their computer/program correctly. There is a plugin for Firefox, but the functionality of that is limited to one-click setup of the correct settings, and changing some default Firefox settings to increase anonymity and security.

\- The site the article mentioned called 'Hard Candy' is a standard wiki page hosted on the Hidden Wiki. The purpose of the Hidden Wiki is to be a huge directory of all the sites on the Tor network, as search bots are impractical. As distasteful as it is, it would be impossible to enforce those links to be removed.

\- As far as I'm aware Freedom Hosting never had a normally accessible domain name, so the article claiming things about WHOIS data is almsot certainly irrelevant.

EDIT: These are my own views, and not those of any other person/organisation. I have experience with the Tor network due to my pet interest in Anonymous networks, and how they function.

</comment><comment><USER5> While I support the vigilante destruction of child porn sites, I do want to point out that in doing so, they may have interrupted an ongoing investigation. Outing the names may embarras the users, but it may also make it harder for authorities to prosecute them or to move up the food chain.

<comment><USER6> This is just free market law enforcement. No reason to wait some self- designated "authorities" to deliver justice.

Edit: I'd appreciate it if people who downvote all my comments explain why they are downvoting. I am writing thoughtful responses to any of your questions. Downvoting just because you disagree isn't cool.

<comment><USER5> Anonymous isn't putting anyone behind bars, that's the difference. Yes, the "authorities" will take more time, but that's because they have to build a case that will convince a jury and hopefully 1) lock the guys up, or at the very least 2) get them into a sex offender registry.

The list of names released by Anonymous won't be considered authoritative.

<comment><USER6> Anonymous isn't putting them behind bars, but by releasing names, communities can ostracize these people and keep them away from children.

<comment><USER7> Anonymous didn't release a list of names, it released a list of pseudonyms which is virtually useless (<http://pastebin.com/88Lzs1XR>). I presume these people are smart enough not to use the same pseudonym on other services so this list is pretty eminently useless.

<comment><USER8> Actually, I just did a cursory google search on a few of the more unique looking names, and they come up all over the internet. One of them is definitely not too worried, their pseudonym is also registered on a bestiality/zoophilia forum as well as some overclocking forums. I think this is definitely enough information to nail some of these people, with the right investigation.

<comment><USER9> No guarantees though, choosing an existing handle/username with a tarnished reputation seems like a pretty good strategy to me for online shenanigans.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> Since they've hacked numerous police departments and government agencies of those pursuing them, how do we know they haven't inserted some of the names of those people into the list?

<comment><USER5> That would be hilariously ironic, since that's exactly the kind of thing the Church of Scientology does to discredit its detractors.

<comment><USER11> Yes, because Anonymous is such a moral entity, that they would never use the bad tactics of their enemies...

<comment><USER12> The irony comes from Anonymous being vaulted into the MSM spotlight via their campaign against the Church of Scientology, and then later adopting their tactics.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><AUTHOR> Timeline and details of the Hack: <http://pastebin.com/T1LHnzEW>

</comment><comment><USER13> Mob rule, 21st Century Style.

</comment><comment><USER14> POLL: Does this improve your impression of Anonymous? [http://www.wepolls.com/p/4088470/Now-that-Anonymous-has- take...](http://www.wepolls.com/p/4088470/Now-that-Anonymous-has-taken-down-a- huge-child-porn-ring%2C-are-you-more-supportive-of-what-they-do)

<comment><USER15> Could you please stop spamming HN with webpolls? That would certainly increase my impression of you.

Thank you.

</comment></comment><comment><USER16> What I find really scary in this article is the existence of the "darknet" that contains pedophile website and also apparently an assassination service. This creates many questions: how many people get access to this hidden network? who created it? Had the authorities knowledge of its existence? While this could give topic for science fiction books, I also makes me feel insecure.

<comment><USER4> The ability to securely and anonymously host websites is a standard feature of the freely available, open source Tor software.

Tor was originally funded by the EFF and the US Navy. So yes, the authorities most definitely know of its existence.

<comment><USER16> Thanks for the pointer, I'll have a look at Tor software. But I find it scary the existence of a website offering highly illegal services where only a selected few can access.

<comment><USER17> What's so scary about it? It's no different than meeting someone in a park, or the basement of a bar, to do the exact same things. Places where "highly illegal" services are offered where only a select few can access have been around for ages. It's just much more convenient to do it on the internet.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Ask HN: Aussie in the US Seeking Professional Advise and HELP - <AUTHOR> Thank you for clicking on this thread! Long time lurker here, but first time poster.
Post could be a little long (sorry) but I feel the need to be as transparent as possible as I am in need of genuine advise/help! Got an update fr Google 2 days ago, I did not make the cut for the final round of F2F interviews (Product Manager role).  Exact feedback fr recruiter: "While our interviewer feedback is confidential, I can let you know that our interviewer thought you had strong analytical insights, but wanted to see more in terms of your product design and strategic thinking."
The interviewer was a PM 8 years at Google, 4 yrs in YouTube – I got caught out in the mostly YT related questions despite preparing on all different areas of PM and reading /practicing answers for PM Q&A related books and blogs.
Gutted, nevertheless, handled it much better as this is the 2nd time failing – 7 months ago had interviewed for another role (BSA) and reached the final campus round at Mountain View only to be depressed for a few months in a row after the negative news. (with no feedback at all as compared to this time round).
Continued below...https://goo.gl/DRjbJV <comment><USER2> This is probably a better for something like Reddit. You likely won't get much response here.

<comment><AUTHOR> Noted Any particular sub to post to?</comment></comment>


Video: The Art of the Start - <AUTHOR> http://www.chafic.net/the-art-of-the-start-video/ <comment><USER2> Non-linkjacked:

<http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/the_art_of_the_.html>

Has already appeared on News.YC in non-jacked form:

<http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=1645>

Now would be a great time for a down arrow on submissions.</comment>


Maxwell's demon faces the heat - <AUTHOR> https://www.sciencenews.org/article/maxwells-demon-faces-heat <comment><USER2> "The work confirms theoretical research showing that information and heat are intertwined: The demon heats up because it must discard the information it learned to manipulate the system."

</comment><comment><USER3> The link between information-theoretic entropy and thermodynamic entropy is particularly interesting in light of reversible logic. Irreversible logic destroys information, and thus physical implementations of irreversible logic gates must produce waste heat in proportion to the information thrown away. Reversible logic, on the other hand, could in principle consume dramatically less power- proportional to the inputs and outputs of the system rather than the complexity of the logic networks.

</comment><comment><USER4> On the surface, this seems like a refreshingly not-bad article among those intended for the lay population.

<comment><USER5> Does "On the surface" mean "actually this is false, but one needs to look deeper to see", or just "I haven't yet determined whether this surface impression is correct"? (Not snarky: I want to know how seriously to take it.)

<comment><USER6> It probably means he hasn't actually RTFA.

<comment><USER4> It means I RTFA, but not the actual source paper. Often times with articles like this, actual qualified people show up and say "that's a nice article but it doesn't explain the actual research correctly at all."</comment></comment></comment></comment>


ADHD meds may be a prescription for bullying - <AUTHOR> https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/11/151120092135.htm <comment><USER2> (2015)

Wish it had numbers for those with ADHD not taking medicine. Feels like you can't make strong conclusions without that.</comment>


Mud Maker: The Man Behind MLB's Essential Secret Sauce - <AUTHOR> https://www.si.com/mlb/2019/08/07/baseball-mud-rawlings <comment><AUTHOR>
      Good mud needs to mature. It needs to be cleansed. ("Clean mud," he'll have you know, is not a contradiction in terms.)</comment>


Stop Corporate Takeover of New Internet Names - <AUTHOR> http://www.change.org/petitions/icann-stop-corporate-takeover-of-new-internet-names <comment><USER3> What benefit do these new TLDs bring to the table? If ICANN need additional revenue, why not fractionally increase the cost of the current gTLDs instead of introducing more?

All these new domains can possibly achieve, IMHO, is to confuse the consumer and allow corporations to control access to 'desirable' gTLDs.

If the domain space is so overcrowded, then by all means introduce a new gTLD - but keep it ICANN controlled. Either run a poll to choose, or allow the corporations to 'sponsor' their choice of TLDs incorporation into ICANN - <USER2> there is no way they should be commercially controlled!

UPDATE: Im really upset that I missed this - looks like ICANN opened up a discussion for public comment (which has now closed after only a month? Surely such a major change should be open to larger public debate..): [http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/closed- generic-0...](http://www.icann.org/en/news/public-comment/closed- generic-05feb13-en.htm)

UPDATE2: I have sent an email to email@example.com requesting that the discussion be reopened. I believe it is our duty as a community to publicise this discussion amongst web professionals and have a further chance to fight it. I would respectfully request that you do the same!

<comment><USER3> UPDATE3: The more I think about this, the more concerned I become. These new gTLDs, given the proliferation of combined search and location bars in modern browsers are tantamount to a direct keyword to those corporations with $185k to spend. Type in 'antivirus', and you will be directed to symantec - not the search results you would likely expect. This has to stop - NOW.

<comment><USER4> That's hardly a reason to stop the new TLDs, you just need a rule that says you can't have A/AAAA records on the new TLDs.

<comment><USER3> There are many reasons. That is just one of them.

Please see parent and other posts in the thread, comments on the linked article, and discussions in the forums for others.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Franky, I don't see the point of this. It opens an all-new can of worms, just like allowing unicode in DNS, while being useless even for marketing purposes (people are used to sites being ".com" and suspect anything else).

So ".com" is crowded. It would be much better if someone did something about squatters. So many parked domains and so little done about it...

<comment><USER6> I agree. I think a viable solution would be something like if you haven't done something with in 1 year then the domain becomes available. I personally hate getting an idea, checking through domains only to see someone waiting for someone else to purchase their domain that they bought for $10 bucks off godaddy.

<comment><USER7> So domainers only have to upload a Wordpress and post some blog post (with copied content) and they have done something with the domain,that is not the solution

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Problem: The .com and similar namespaces are crowded. As someone who has been searching this weekend for a domain, the sad fact is that a huge number of domains are simply "Parked free, courtesy of ..." or "Coming soon", or "Under construction", or "This domain is for sale, please contact..." In short, domains are being bought up and not used, and the commons is ruined.

Solution: Increase the price of .com and .net and other tlds to approximately $X. End the domain squatting market and put the sort of implicit requirement that the domain must generate $X for you to want to hold on to it into the equation. Now, let's argue about where $X is.

<comment><USER9> It seems like this solution means that if you want to have your own domain, either you must be rich or the website must be profitable. You're basically saying that only the rich should have access to domain-branded blogs and other non-commercial sites, and everyone else can make do with subdomains like a blogspot or blogger website. I think raising fees would have consequences for well-intentioned users far beyond the effect it had on domain squatters.

<comment><USER8> In particular I refer to the .com namespace which, after all, should be used for commercial purposes. We already have .name and so forth for personal sites. Given that .name presents the ultimate namespace collision factory we do come down to a scarcity problem though. Thoughts on how we can handle that?

Also: Note that I said we should argue about the value of $X. I did not at all imply that $X should be such that "only the rich" have access to the ability to purchase a domain. That said, people spend $1200 annually for cell phone service, which I think we can draw comparisons between and DNS. If a person pays $1200 a year for a number they can be reached at through the POTS, is it unreasonable to expect them to pay $X (which we still haven't defined, simply said should be higher than $10) to be reachable on the Internet?

<comment><USER4> That's an US centered view. No regular person spends anywhere near $100/month on cellphone service where I live, nor could many afford it. For $80/month, you can get a cellphone plan with unlimited sms and calls, 100mbps home internet, 100 TV channels, and a POTS-over-IP line. And yet, many still can't afford cable TV or home Internet.

And this is the problem is pricing global product and/or services; what's reasonable in a market like the US is prohibitively expensive in many others.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER10> It's a little unnerving that large companies want control over some entire gTLDs. I wonder if Google will let iOS app developers have ".app" domains? I doubt it.

For example, here are some relevant portions from Google's applications for the .app gTLD:

(Note: Charleston Road Registry is a company wholly owned by Google.)

 _The proposed gTLD will provide Google with direct association to the term ʺapp,ʺ which is an abbreviation of ʺapplication.ʺ The mission of this gTLD, .app, is to provide a dedicated domain space in which Google and select members of its application developer network ("Network") can enact second- level domains that relate to the offering of Google's and its Network's applications and application-specific content. Charleston Road Registry expects uses of the gTLD may include but are not limited to Chrome applications, web applications, Google App Engine applications, Android applications, and mobile applications on other platforms. The proposed gTLD will enhance consumer choice by providing new availability in the second-level domain space in which Google and its Network can deliver new content and offerings. It also creates new layers of organization on the Internet and signals the kind of content available in the domain._

 _Charleston Road Registry intends to operate the proposed gTLD as a closed registry with Google as the sole registrar and registrant. The goal of the proposed gTLD is to allow Google and its Network to manage the domain name space for their application offerings. The proposed gTLD will provide Google and its Network with the ability to customize domain and website name application offerings to signal to the general population of Internet users that .app websites are indeed managed by Google. The specialization goal of the proposed gTLD is to extend the Google brand and reputation to each .app second-level domain. This specialization provides a mechanism by which Google and its Network can easily link and manage their applications and related services. This specialization makes it clear to Internet users that this is the authoritative and designated space where they can find Google's and its Network's applications offered in association with the Google brand and accessible via differentiated and streamlined web addresses._

<comment><USER11> The text you copied explicitly states that they would be opening this up to other platforms:

 _and mobile applications on other platforms_

Not that I necessarily agree or disagree with the expansion of these TLDs, but Google is hardly the kind of bad actor I would worry about.

<comment><USER10> If you read the quoted sections further:

 _The proposed gTLD will provide Google and its Network with the ability to customize domain and website name application offerings to signal to the general population of Internet users that .app websites are indeed managed by Google. The specialization goal of the proposed gTLD is to extend the Google brand and reputation to each .app second-level domain. This specialization provides a mechanism by which Google and its Network can easily link and manage their applications and related services. This specialization makes it clear to Internet users that this is the authoritative and designated space where they can find Google's and its Network's applications offered in association with the Google brand and accessible via differentiated and streamlined web addresses._

So all .app domains would be Google branded? That hardly bodes well for "all mobile applications on other platforms".

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I somewhat doubt that most of these new domains will catch on. We already have .jobs, .aero, .travel and .mobi which I have yet to run into while browsing the web.

Plus people have already gotten used to recognizing a domain name simply by having a string of characters followed by .com or one of the other popular TLDs. Trying to keep them from prefixing the domain with www has been a losing battle.

I could see .app taking off though.

<comment><USER13> I can imagine this could change in the future. Just a matter of educating the people and if companies of this scale decide to do it, they certainly have the resources.

Incentive for corporates could be branding marketing. As we know, .com is crowded. Could be easier to push <http://aging.beauty> into peoples minds than some clever .com variation.

Currently users solve the problem by using Google or Facebook, but that is not in the interest of businesses. They probably would like to see the customers coming directly to then, instead of going through search engine (where user is bombarded with messages from competitors)

<comment><USER14> >" Just a matter of educating the people and if companies of this scale decide to do it, they certainly have the resources."

As others have pointed out, we've had things like "travel", "biz", "pro", "me", "mobi", etc for some time now. Not many legit sites operate under these, so I don't really think that these new ones have a big chance. Consumers are already confused about what "www" really is and there is a lot of bad / not- quite-correct / flat-wrong info about what "www" is if you ask even folks who self-identify as "tech savvy".

I sense a lot of consumer confusion coming up, a lot of malware / marketeers using these things, snakeoil SEO firms insisting on them, brands buying up tons because they're scared, and generally a bad time for domains.

<comment><USER15> me is actually the ccTLD for Montenegro.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> This is why we need something like namecoin to take off: <http://dot- bit.org/Main_Page>

<comment><USER14> Yup; let us know when ya'll are done with the ICANN shenanigans so we can start implementing P2P DNS more widely, start publishing worthy content on it to draw people to it, then take back what is rightfully ours:

The Internet.

</comment></comment><comment><USER17> An open requirement from ICANN won't prevent Amazon requiring something outrageous ($1'000+) per domain that most won't afford.

Any open requirements should come as a maximum price limit for creating new additional entries under the TLD.

Hopefully they'll also include non-discriminatory pricing (so that the owner of a TLD won't be able to raise the rent once a specific domain becomes popular in traffic/sales).

<comment><USER18> That would be a PR nightmare for Amazon - instead of the PR coup that giving them away for free would be. Would be one helluva promotional tool for AWS if it came with unlimited free .app domains.

I don't understand why people are so quick to assume companies are buying these up for nefarious reasons or to harm consumers.

<comment><USER19> > I don't understand why people are so quick to assume companies are buying > these up for nefarious reasons or to harm consumers.

Because, historically speaking, that's what big faceless corporations usually create monopolies for.

It's not that they're against consumers, it's that they are _for_ themselves. This rarely aligns with what's best for consumers on a small scale.

<comment><USER18> This is the exact opposite of a monopoly. Everybody and their sister is going to have their own extension and anybody who can afford one can still buy their own.

<comment><USER20> _Everybody and their sister is going to have their own extension and anybody who can afford one can still buy their own._

so I can get a .shop extension too after Google gets the one and only?

<comment><USER18> think about them like really expensive .com's and this will be easier to swallow. you can't get google.com or sex.com because they are taken - but you can get any other .com that is available. or you can get on somebody elses domain for free like .blogspot.com .wordpress.com .tumblr.com etc.

there are a lot of reasons i don't like that ICANN is doing this but fear that these companies are going to employ abusive monopolistic tactics is not one of them. and i think ICANN is likely to just ignore such complaints, because they don't make any sense. this is the opposite of a monopoly and these companies would be dumb not to share the extensions.

<comment><USER20> edit: his comment was edited after I typed mine and I'm too lazy to change it back and forth-

for $1 million plus in costs. You are confusing the extension with a domain name. The point is not to have ONE company own and control an extension (like .com) and all the domains in it. ICAAN should control them and then allow people and corps to register domains within that extension.

<comment><USER18> I'm not confusing anything I'm trying to put it in terms you will understand.

One company does control .com right now, and .net. Their name is VeriSign. Just like VeriSign administers those, Google is going to administer .shop.

<comment><USER20> Wrong, they do not control anything, they administer it. I can register any .com that is free and Verisign cannot stop me. Google can refuse to allow anyone else from having televisions.shop or whatever.shop

<comment><USER18> That's a theoretical problem that wont matter in practice. Google only has two practical options: they can make .shop completely open and operate it just like .co or .io, or they can lock it down and use it only for themselves, in which case it will essentially just be a vanity domain, not an extension.

If they choose the latter, just use any one of the hundreds of other extensions that will be available.

I hate that ICANN is doing this - but not because of some theoretical power it technically gives Google.

<comment><USER21> I understand what you're saying, but not sure it will be that benign in practice.

That is, given that the domain format requires a minimum of two parts (the TLD and one other), ownership of entire swaths of possibilities/permutations can be locked down via complete ownership of one TLD.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER22> I'm still trying to figure out why ICANN charges what it does for just registering a domain name. Yes--close to $7.00 a year is too much for what they actually do.

If you have a problem with your domain name, and try to go up against Corporate Lawyers--you're in for a loosing, expensive battle.

That $7.00 times millions equalls a lot of money, but they won't, actively, defend your rights with competent lawyers.

The whole name game has irritated anyone involved with website design, at least in my world.

In the end, the poor and middle class webmasters need to stick together, and fight Corporate Abuse of Power.

</comment><comment><USER23> TLDs were originally going to communicate something to the user, they never actually did.

Now they represent... how many wasted keystrokes per day? If Berners-Lee agonizes over the second slash after http, then ".com" has to be one of the biggest failures of usability in history.

TLDs were designed by folks who guessed most of the internet would be used for governments and non-profits, and commerce would be this token side niche. Now that nearly everything's .com (or under a quirky country domain to sidestep the whole system), it's lost any significance.

We should scrap it as soon as possible.

<comment><USER24> And replace it with what? If everyone has to fight over a global namespace we just wind up with a different sort of problem.

<comment><USER25> I think the point of the comment you're replying to is that everyone _is_ fighting over a global namespace now, but one that unnecessarily appends ".com" to everything in it.

That interpretation might be overly colored by my personal view of things.

However much I might be inclined to agree that we have a global namespace now, I can't agree that ".com" is 'one of the biggest usability failures in history'. The point has been made before, but seeing "facebook.com" immediately signifies a website to people, using fewer characters than "find us on the web at facebook" ever really could. I found it very interesting to see mainland chinese advertisements with web addresses - for example, renren.com might appear in an ad as "人人网". The two 人 would be written in pinyin as "ren", and directly represent the name of the site; the 网 is pronounced "wang" and means net (here, the internet), but actually represents the unpronounceable suffix ".com". Thus I argue that ".com" is not even a clear loss in usability; it's providing context that people want.

<comment><USER23> a) That was indeed my point,

b) I was gilding the lily a bit, that's fair,

c) I remain skeptical the benefits exceed the costs, (given the viability of sites that don't end in ".com", and the fact no one's raising "lack of context" as a counterpoint to expansion of TLDs), but you make a provocative point. I could see it as an open question.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER26> The only one I find even remotely interesting is .blog nothing else.

In the end the rule for which domain you should get is: .com .com and .com.

</comment><comment><USER27> I think it'd be smarter to just add 10 - 20 new names for specific categories rather than an extension for every brand you can imagine ".apple, .amazon, etc". This could lower the resell price of the .com slightly and raise revenue. Like .co did but it wouldn't confuse the user heavily as this move feels like its changing everything.

<comment><USER28> Like .biz, .travel and .museum? :P

</comment></comment><comment><USER29> I hope this works. The attempt to grab .ski domains for ski related companies only [1] would keep me from obtaining my dream email address.

[1] [http://www.dot-ski.com/2012/06/13/starting-dot- application-f...](http://www.dot-ski.com/2012/06/13/starting-dot-application- for-ski-top-level-domain-officially-revealed-by-icann/)

</comment><comment><USER30> Could you create a viable alternative DNS root today, preferably one without TLDs at all? It seems like none of the attempts so far [1] gained much traction.

[1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root>

<comment><USER31> No - the network effect here is huge, and so is the cost of change.

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Attempt number 1000 to generate crowd's excitement over long, worthless and often confusing domain extensions. Instead of adding really useful and short two-letter extensions, such as .js and others.

<comment><USER33> I completely agree. I'd love it if there was a broader selection of "anagramable" 2 letter extensions that aren't encumbered with geopolitical associations (e.g. ly=Libya, ir=Iran, etc.) I have zero interest in .long_noun extensions.

</comment></comment><comment><USER34> This is pretty silly. ICANN is only opening these domains so they can collect $100k application fees from big companies so of course big companies are taking them over.</comment>


How to Spot Satoshi - <AUTHOR> http://hackingdistributed.com/2015/12/10/how-to-spot-satoshi/ <comment><USER2> Read all the way down to para 16 to find the strongest claim in this article.</comment>


Ask HN: Please suggest a side-project idea that can help to solve a problem - <AUTHOR> <comment><USER2> What problem?</comment>


Russians hacking the GPS system to send ships bogus GNSS navigation data - <AUTHOR> https://www.businessinsider.com/gnss-hacking-spoofing-jamming-russians-screwing-with-gps-2019-4 <comment><USER2> Perhaps it's about time to allow civilian use of encrypted GPS to provide authenticity through cryptographic signing. At least the European system supports this.

<comment><USER3> I don't see any design which could allow civilians to use the encrypted signal without also letting the attacker spoof the same signal.</comment></comment>


The OPEN Act (SOPA/PIPA alternative) needs more discussion time - <AUTHOR> http://keepthewebopen.com/sopa-vs-open

<comment><USER2> As someone that hasn't followed this very closely (and is not more than very vaguely familiar with the OPEN act), I wonder if SOPA and PIPA were never intended to pass, but only to make the OPEN act seem positively moderate by comparison so that it would fly right through the process.

Ironically, I think this tactic may have had the opposite effect -- raising awareness and willingness to take opposing action, ultimately resulting in a more anti-OPEN sentiment than if they had just started off with it in the first place.</comment>


Creating a personal website: a short practical guide - <AUTHOR> https://redtachyon.me/post/personal-website/ <comment><AUTHOR> Hello World, author here!

After a long time of preparations and attempts, I finally managed to set up a nice-looking personal website in anticipation of my PhD, so to help people in the situation of me-a-few-months-back, I decided to write about my experience with some hints how to avoid at least some of the inevitable frustrations.

By no means is this a comprehensive resource, but is instead intended so that beginners can have a working site without (or before) actually having to become web developers themselves.

So give it a read and let me know what you think!</comment>


Why a hacker without work is like a lion without food - <AUTHOR> http://www.zachbruhnke.com/why-a-hacker-without-work-is-like-a-lion-without-food

<comment><USER2> Websense won't let me get through, but the analogy absolutely holds. Every job I've ever had, I've told people I'm happier trying to cram 10 hours of work into an 8 hour day than I am trying to stretch 4 hours of work to stay busy.

Thus far, employers take me seriously roughly 0% of the time.</comment>


A pile of matchboxes that can learn [video] - <AUTHOR> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9c-_neaxeU <comment><USER2> I really like the physicality of this method of teaching people about ML. Often times people get lost in all the abstraction, especially if they haven't be trained to be comfortable with an abstract concept on top of an abstract concept.

If you want to play against MENACE you can do so here: [http://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/](http://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/).

<comment><USER3> As mentioned in the video I managed to get MENACE to resign on the first turn After just under 40 Games of beating it in a row.

</comment></comment><comment><USER4> I first "encountered" MENACE in a children's book on robotics after I got my first city library card when I was in the second grade; so around age 7 or so.

The explanation of how it worked, from what I recall, was very brief, and I didn't understand it much at all.

But it was my first introduction to the concept - outside of my experiences with "science fiction" of the time - that an inanimate "machine" could actually learn. This really ignited my passion for computing and robotics, something I have carried with me since.

It ultimately led me to becoming a software engineer, and to exploring machine learning and artificial intelligence over the years as well.

</comment><comment><USER5> When I was a kid I made tick-tack-toe playing matchbox automaton. It was described in one of the M. Gardners book.

</comment><comment><USER6> Why is this better than drawing a state diagram on paper?

<comment><USER7> Because it's tangible and interactive and approachable and memorable. It's something that anyone (read: everyone who doesn't know how what state diagrams are) can visualize and understand within a few minutes at a fun little booth at a public science fair.

<comment><USER6> The match boxes are a state diagram, so if someone can't comprehend a paper diagram they can't comprehend this either.

<comment><USER8> I know people for whom this is much more understandable than state diagrams. They are equivalent under an appropriate isomorphism, but that doesn't mean that they are equally easy to understand for everyone.

They aren't. You made this assertion:

        ... if someone can't comprehend a
        paper diagram they can't comprehend
        this either.

I believe you are wrong.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER9> A 15 min video. Hmmm. Maybe somebody who watched it wants to recap ?

<comment><USER10> It plays tic-tac-toe. There are 304 matchboxes for each possible state in tic- tac-toe[1]. Each match box has three colored beads in it. Different colors indicate the next move to make.

You take the state of the board, find the corresponding matchbox, draw one bead at random out of the box, and make the move.

Depending on if the game is a win, loss, or draw, you add or remove beads in the matchboxes to increase or decrease the odds of making that move again.

After about 150 games or so, the matchboxes almost always draw against a competent opponent.

There is a 1/10 chance that the matchboxes get into a bad state where they can get an empty matchbox. This does not happen in the video.

[1] In this scenario, the matchboxes always go first. Letting it go second slightly more than doubles the number of matchboxes.

<comment><USER11> This is the very similar to the technique described in Fred Saberhagen's short story "Without a Thought."</comment></comment></comment>


How I slowly moved to Linux - <AUTHOR> http://karmanebula.com/technically-borked/2013/7/4/t7stoo5ur6d6coeh7bb86d1bpqzjrf

<comment><USER2> Great documentation of your progress.</comment>


Study: Are Election 2020 Poll Respondents Honest About Their Vote? - <AUTHOR> https://www.cloudresearch.com/resources/blog/election-2020-poll-respondent-honesty/ <comment><USER2> Definitely not. The reward/risk ratio incentive is for answering a poll truthfully is zero.

Even if you paid me, I doubt I'd answer truthfully given the nature of data breaches in recent years.</comment>


Epigenetic variation in the Egfr gene generates quantitative variation in ants - <AUTHOR> http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2015/150311/ncomms7513/full/ncomms7513.html <comment><AUTHOR> TLDR: scientists double the size of ants by manipulating gene expression</comment>


Heart Attack Risk and Daylight Savings Linked - <AUTHOR> http://www.thelocal.se/15332/20081030/

<comment><USER2> Saving; no 's'.</comment>


Celebratory gunfire – Falling-bullet injuries - <AUTHOR> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebratory_gunfire#Falling-bullet_injuries

<comment><USER2> Interesting that nobody has tried giving away blanks. That would save quite a few lives at a low overall cost.</comment>


Systemd again (or how to obliterate your system) - <AUTHOR> https://www.preining.info/blog/2017/04/systemd-again/ <comment><USER2> This is secondary commentary, the primary item being covered at [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130043](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14130043) .</comment>


User tracking without cookies, localstorage, etc. - <AUTHOR> http://ochronus.com/tracking-without-cookies/ <comment><USER2> An effective implementation that works as it says: thanks for demonstrating this.

<comment><AUTHOR> Thanks for the kind words</comment></comment>


Is Amazon Planning to Purchase Target? - <AUTHOR> http://rec0ded88.blogspot.com/2018/01/will-amazon-purchase-target-next.html <comment><USER2> Listened to an FT article about this yesterday ([https://goo.gl/2p8fDH](https://goo.gl/2p8fDH)) on the back of a VC's prediction of a tie-up in 2018. It would definitely place added competitive pressures on Walmart and, I imagine, allow Amazon to build a bigger/better Click and Collect business.</comment>


JSON Hijacking - vulnerability in some GET situations - <AUTHOR> http://haacked.com/archive/2009/06/25/json-hijacking.aspx <comment><USER2> This is Stephan Di Paola's "Prototype Hijacking" attack, and it's more than 2 years old. We wrote it up here:

[http://www.matasano.com/log/672/di-paolas-prototype- injectio...](http://www.matasano.com/log/672/di-paolas-prototype-injection- attack/)

<comment><USER3> Yeah, XSSI has been well known for a while.

This article's argument against using custom headers is a bit bunk. If you're not properly disabling proxy caching for sensitive data, you're asking for trouble anyways. Disabling caching properly is a bit tricky, but there are some useful details here: [http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Document_cach...](http://code.google.com/p/browsersec/wiki/Part2#Document_caching)

<comment><USER3> Perhaps there are some interesting corner-cases where the browser will locally cache the JSON. Time to go play with it...

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> For some more practical advice, this is the point of using crumbs, kids.

If you pass a unique verifiable value with your request you can avoid this sort of thing. This is also true of any GET request that can change user data (which you shouldn't be doing anyway).

A typical way to do this is to hash some secret for the user with a salt and a timestamp. The timestamp and the secret are passed with the request and can be used to verify the secret.</comment>


Ask HN: Are you using Atom Editor? - <AUTHOR>

What features/packages have gotten you to switch over? What works or doesn't work? Is speed ever an issue? <comment><USER2> No. It's currently much slower than Sublime Text, obviously has fewer features and plugins, and doesn't offer any benefits for my workflow.

Glad it's there, of course! From what I gather, it's substantially easier to develop for; I haven't really done any serious work on either of them, though.

<comment><USER3> Which Sublime version are you using?

<comment><USER2> Three; from what I understand there were substantial performance improvements in this release.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER4> I've been using it for a few weeks now. It has been really enjoyable so far. I don't take advantage of all of its features, but my web development has been spot on.

<comment><AUTHOR> What editor were you using previously, and what in Atom made you switch over?

<comment><USER4> I was using Aquamacs Emacs editor. I tend to like simple editors for coding at home. I use IntelliJ and VisualStudio for my day work. One major feature I enjoy is the multiple selections hotkey. I've been making some level designs and editing a 20x20 array can be slow.

<comment><USER5> That would've been very possible in Emacs. Oh well. [http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rec...](http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Rectangles.html)

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER6> No.

Its Mac Only right now. can't try yet.

</comment><comment><USER7> Used it for a few hours. It was slow, switched back to sublime.

</comment><comment><USER8> I used it for a day or so, but it was just too slow and clunky compared to Sublime text. I'll come back to it in about 6 months and give it another shot.

</comment><comment><USER9> No, I think text editors need to be open source. Too important to trust proprietary software with.

</comment><comment><USER10> No, I might once I get deeper into JS though, if the VIM bundles don't satisfy me.

</comment><comment><USER11> Been using it for several weeks. I prefer it slightly over ST2.

</comment><comment><USER12> Not using it. Not sure what is the big deal.

</comment><comment><USER13> Since it is Mac only, no.

</comment><comment><USER14> emacs!</comment>


DoubleRecall (YC S11) Nabs $1.6 Million For Alternative To Paywalls - <AUTHOR> http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/12/doublerecall-funding/ <comment><USER2> Forcing people to read ads -- check off another world-problem solved :p This stuff bums me out. Guessing this a solid group of engineers; could be working on something that matters instead.

<comment><USER3> I'd rephrase this as: Enabling people to skip the paywall by doing a minimal thing which is a little more than a click.

Behavior design matters and is a great challenge for engineers.

<comment><USER4> If your phrasing were where this is going I'd have no issues with it, but I think (if this is successful) it's going to be much worse:

"The idea is to create experiences that ... are targeted and clickable enough for brands to actually make money and potentially avoid using a paywall altogether."

The most likely use case is to make pop-over ads 100x more annoying, not to complement a paywall. I would hope user revolts would kill this, but I'm not optimistic...

<comment><USER3> Not everything is a conspiracy theory. As a start-up we wanted to solve only one problem: giving users alternative for paying for the quality content. Where this leads us we'll see. As a species we already made a mistake thousand years ago when starting to mass produce the food. But today we're here and it's not that bad.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> Interesting the amount of value that is attributed to a user typing a slogan.

<comment><USER3> Inception is currently very underpriced behavior goal.

We do our best to measure it and wake-up the brands. They're quite entertained by other flashy & wavy stuff on the screen at this time.

</comment></comment><comment><USER6> Google's currently doing a similar thing with their new Customer Insights—on sites like ZAGAT.com, instead of seeing a paywall, the user is asked to answer a survey question.

</comment><comment><USER7> SolveMedia.com has been doing this for sometime now. What's different here?

<comment><USER3> With DoubleRecall you don't prove that you are a human, but you prove that you've read the message so you get something in return = quality content.

<comment><USER7> Yes, I'm getting something in return, I get to take the desired action on the publisher's site. That's the case with any CAPTCHA. With the old CAPTCHA, I was at least helping convert printed books to digital formats. How is Double Recall different from Solve Media? It's obviously the same business model.

<comment><USER3> SolveMedia is a CAPTCHA system which verifies that you're a human, DoubleRecall is not a CAPTCHA system and it only verifies you read the advertisers message. It's much easier to decypher than CAPTCHA, so more straightforward.

We did more than 100 of design iterations on millions of people to come to the current simplistic design.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Congrats guys! There is easily millions of dollars worth of value in this idea, even if it's not for everyone.

</comment><comment><USER9> Congratz guys!

If you ever need someone taking up room at your place again, you know where to find me.

<comment><USER10> Swizec should mention that he was an intern at DoubleRecall last summer.</comment></comment>


Fairbnb: Community Powered Tourism - <AUTHOR> https://fairbnb.coop/ <comment><USER2> Not sure about picking a name that contains your competitor's brand name. I guess Airbnb's legal team will be sending a cease & desist soon</comment>


Deep Fakes, FaceApp and Child Pornography - <AUTHOR> https://medium.com/@jacobyoung84/deep-fakes-faceapp-and-child-pornography-63ee23e56f30 <comment><USER2> People are so funny. I saw a bbc documentary about sex dolls. The reporter had a tour of a Japanese sex doll factory and stumbled across a sex doll that looked exactly like a 12 yo girl. This straight, grown male reporter immediately began to weep. His response was to sob. It was hilarious. It was so politically incorrect that it broke his brain. Perfect example of how irrational people become when child sexuality is involved. Especially brits. It's just a doll you twit.</comment>


Dell Ultra Sharp 24" 4K display - <AUTHOR> http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=860-BBCD <comment><USER2> Note that this display has no hardware scaling; if sent a signal that's less than the native resolution, it's displayed centred and unscaled. Last I checked, drivers for nVidia at least don't yet support cheap scaling for it. That means playing GPU-taxing games on it is unfeasible for the moment.

I also expect prices to come down, as 4K TV panels start to create economies of scale (even though the price isn't extortionate for what it is in the current market). The panel shouldn't always be a niche like 1920x1200 is. So I reckon this one is for early adopters.

<comment><USER3> Yep, you can already get a 39" 4k TV that can serve as a monitor for $499:

[http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch- Ultra/d...](http://www.amazon.com/Seiki-Digital-SE39UY04-39-Inch- Ultra/dp/B00DOPGO2G/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1388071305&sr=1-1&keywords=seiki+4k+39+inch)

But it can only do 30Hz at 4K due to its limted inputs. You can game on it at 1080p@60Hz (hopefully without any scaling issues since 4K has exactly 4 pixels for every 1080p pixel).

<comment><USER4> I'm wondering if I don't play games, would 30Hz @ 4K be sufficient for web browsing, coding, and movies?

<comment><USER5> Most people can't tell the difference between 30 and 60Hz, except in certain situations. Most TV programs are filmed at 30Hz, and until very recently, most movies were filmed at 24Hz.

You may notice a little bit of stuttering during long, slow pans, but for everything else, it should work pretty well.

<comment><USER6> As a long time Amiga user who had a 'flicker fixer' card I can assure you that some people _can_ and _do_ notice significant degradation of the monitor experience at 30hz. Now granted part of that was the fact that 30Hz interleaved had really annoying flicker on single pixel horizontal lines, but even the 'turn your head and it blinks' stuff was pretty annoying too.

I'd be interested to see this display in action (not quite interested enough to experiment with $500 though) to see how it affected my vision of things.

<comment><USER7> I'm not sure if you're misremembering the Amiga flicker-fixer but the FF converted the 15KHz interlaced display of the Amiga to 30KHz (VGA style). It was the 15KHz interlace flickering that was noticeable, not the upgraded 30KHz signal from the FF.

<comment><USER6> I didn't write my comment clearly, with the FF it was not an issue, but without the FF the display in interlaced mode was painful. I had a long phosphor monitor which I used to mitigate that but until I got the FF it was an issue.

That said, the points above about the mechanics of LCD's being different enough that I might not object are reasonable. I've really not tried using a 30hz LCD display.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER8> Does it bother anyone else that we've moved from describing displays by vertical resolution (1080/720) to horizontal resolution (4K)?

It seems confusing for the semi-informed.

Is there an explanation other than marketing reasons?

<comment><USER9> Dell might agree. 4K does not appear anywhere on that webpage.

<comment><USER10> AFAICS it doesn't meet all aspects of the TV world's 4K spec, specifically the new colour regime. (99% of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space) has to be a smaller colour space than [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rec._2020) surely.)

<comment><USER11> The article you linked on Rec. 2020 says:

> In coverage of the CIE 1931 color space the Rec. 2020 color space covers > 75.8%, the digital cinema reference projector color space covers 53.6%, the > Adobe RGB color space covers 52.1%, and the Rec. 709 color space covers > 35.9%.

So yes, Adobe RGB covers less of the reference color space than Rec. 2020 (4k/UHD), but more than Rec. 709 (HDTV).

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER12> I have one of those IBM T221 which do 3840x2400 (16:10) on 22.2" (204dpi). See [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_T220/T221_LCD_monitors) for details.

These monitors are old, they have a fan, they require 4x DVI achieve this resolution and they are limited to 41Hz screen refreshes (not flickering though). Still, once you get used to truly sharp fonts, you don't want to go back. Can't wait for more of these new monitors to arrive in different sizes, with 60Hz refresh (preferably also offering 1920x1080@120Hz) and with HDMI 2.0. I believe 27" is the perfect size for a single desktop monitor.

</comment><comment><USER13> Glad to see the pixel count finally increasing. I remember having a moderately-high-quality CRT when I was in high school that easily did 1600x1200. It was quite a while before LCDs did anything like that. Then resolution went _backwards_ as companies realized they could sell you a 100" monitor with a resolution of 1920x1 ("super wide screen true HD!!111!") for $20. And there we've been stuck for like 5 years, with monitors getting wider every day but with the vertical resolution decreasing.

I think I'm going to get the 32" 4k variant and replace my TV with it. This is especially relevant since shows are starting to be released in 4k resolution, though I worry that 32" is kind of big for computer work and kind of small for TV. Sigh. Small apartments :(

<comment><USER14> You will love the 32" monitor especially with such high resolution. Finally one have enough pixel real estate for the monitor to serve as a desktop. Now you can have your documents arranged on that desktop without having to maximize their windows to do anything useful.

I love my 2560x1600 30" and will certainly by a 32" with bigger resolution. However that 30" is just big enough for two a4 documents side to side. So higher resolution is very welcome.

</comment></comment><comment><USER15> It would have been nice if this monitor was 16:10 and not 16:9.

<comment><USER16> Actually I still miss 4:3.

<comment><USER17> I personally love my 1280x1024 desktop LCD screen. I am going to hate it when that thing dies.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER16> I'm still a bit annoyed at how the 16:9 content consumer has kept displays stuck at 1080p for many years now. But I can't say I don't benefit from those economies of scale. So I'll just have to wait politely for prices to come down.

</comment><comment><USER18> Price from Dell USA: $1299. Price from Dell UK: £1270. _sigh_

<comment><USER19> ...and you get free health care. I wouldn't complain.

<comment><USER20> He doesn't get free healthcare, he gets socialized healthcare that he pays for with taxes. It's not a gift out of magic, it's a political and economical choice.

<comment><USER21> That depends on whether or not he's paying taxes ;)

<comment><USER22> If he's not paying the tax then his parents either are or did. Same here in Australia, it's just a part of the basic standard we are prepared to be taxed for.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER23> Potentially dumb question, but will this work with a MacBook? (Like with some sort of thunderbolt adapter )

<comment><USER24> Only the latest MacBooks with Haswell chips support 4k over Thunderbolt 2

<comment><USER25> Do you know if they will they run the screen in a scaled mode? (i.e., 1920x1080 logical pixels, while using retina scaled assets)

<comment><USER26> This monitor doesn't support scaling. If you push 1080p, it will not fill the screen.

<comment><USER27> That's not what HiDPI mode does; rather than rely on the (uniformly crappy) on-board scaling logic on the display, the computer sends a full resolution picture that it has scaled already. And there's no reason to think that this won't be available with this display.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER28> I'm almost more excited about 30bit color than the 4k res. No more ugly banding in gradients!!!

<comment><USER29> 10 bits per channel is nothing new, but requires specific openGL application + driver + video card support, so you don't get access to it in standard photo viewing/editing apps.

Are you sure the banding you are seeing isn't just because, like most users, you have a 6 bit panel?

</comment></comment><comment><USER30> Is the lack of hardware scaling an attempt to keep the costs down or to 'encourage' people to upgrade their PCs?

It's a beautiful piece of kit. I'm guessing any hardware scaling would seriously impact on the image quality and this type of screen would show up any imperfection.

<comment><USER31> Hardware scaling on this monitor would actually be better than most 1080p screens, since you have more pixels to approximate the original image with. If your target resolution was exactly half the pixels on vertical and horizontal, it would be "perfect" (albeit with pixels four times as large as normal).

</comment></comment><comment><USER32> Help! I don't understand much about such monitors.

E.g., currently my computer has a dedicated video adapter card and is sending 1024 x 768 pixels to a CRT with a 15.5" diagonal. It appears from Windows > Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings that the most pixels is 1280 x 960.

For me, 1024 x 768 pixels are plenty, but on my screen with diagonal only 15.5", a lot of text is too small to read, even if I used a magnifying glass.

So, I'd like a bigger screen, but still with only about 1024 x 768 pixels.

That a screen can display more pixels is from useless to me down to a concern: My guess is that, now that CRTs are out, the current solid state displays have some actual physical pixels, independent of the signal from the computer, and that when the computer sends, say, 1024 pixels on a line somehow the display (or video card?) has to fit the 1024 pixels across the 1200 or whatever the number of pixels the screen has. Sounds like a good opportunity for some moire effects.

Also, my old video card may be sending a signal that newer monitors can't use.

So:

Q 1. What should I do to display the 1024 x 768 pixels I want but on a screen with diagonal longer than 15.5"

Q 2. What about moire effects or other issues from displaying, say, 1024 pixels from my video card on a screen with more than 1024 pixels, say, 1200 or many more?

Q 3. How can I use the signal from my old video card, or do I need to get a new video card?

Thanks!

<comment><USER33> > For me, 1024 x 768 pixels are plenty, but on my screen with diagonal only > 15.5", a lot of text is too small to read, even if I used a magnifying > glass.

> So, I'd like a bigger screen, but still with only about 1024 x 768 pixels.

Why? You can have bigger _text_ without having bigger pixels (and, at any given size, readability should be better with more pixels because the lines making up the characters will have better definition.)

Get a monitor the size you want, with as many pixels as you can (given your budget), use all of them, and use the text scaling setting in your OS to get text the size you want. Don't hobble yourself with a low-resolution device (or low-resolution setting on a high-resolution device) to get bigger text, that's the worst possible way to do that.

<comment><USER32> If the characters of the alphabet are larger on my screen, then the maximum number of characters per line is lower which means that at a lot of Web sites I can't read a full line of text without horizontal scrolling. In that case, commonly I copy the text to the system clipboard, pull it into my favorite text editor, 'reflow' the lines, and then read them. Bummer.

But a larger screen with each character taking the same amount of area on the screen as now would make the maximum number of characters per line larger letting me see whole lines more often without scrolling and/or let me have each character take up more screen area without scrolling.

E.g., here at HN I'm seeing 90 characters per line which is way too many. Why HN wants such long lines I don't know. What does HN want, screens 10 feet wide? Traditional typing at 10 characters per inch horizontally on 8 1/2 x 11" paper with 1" margins gives maximum line lengths of 6 1/2" or 65 characters per line. Newspapers commonly had many fewer characters per line. 90 characters per line is just wacko in several respects -- there's no good reason for it.

On my Windows XP SP3 system (yes, I recently got a DVD of Windows 7 Professional 64 bit, for my next computer when I finally give up on XP), it appears that nearly all the text from Microsoft's programs, e.g., essentially everything that comes from the tree rooted at Start > Control Panel and Start > My Computer, was designed for a screen with diagonal about my 15.5" but with 640 x 480 pixels. Using the Microsoft software to set the screen _resolution_ down to 640 x 480 makes the old Microsoft software much easier to read but, then, commonly has too few characters per screen to display all the screen contents -- e.g., the screen from Start gives a message that some content could not be displayed. So, keeping my present 1024 x 768 pixels per screen but having a screen with diagonal larger than 15.5" should basically just _magnify_ what is shown on the screen, that is, each character would take up more screen area and be larger and easier to read. But a screen with a diagonal larger than 15.5" and, say, 1280 x 960 pixels or some, say, 2048 x 1536 would, unless I got a huge screen, say, diagonal 31", make each character on the screen take up less screen area and, thus, be still more difficult to read.

Yes, more pixels per character would give nicer looking characters, but characters with just 10 x 18 pixels are easy enough to read if they take up enough screen area. That is, for reading text, I don't really need more pixels per character, as nice as that could be.

E.g., in my Web site development, commonly I am specifying font sizes in terms of pixels, e.g.,

         font-size:  25px;
         line-height: 30px;

Then, with such a Web page, many more pixels per screen would make each character take up less screen area and, thus, be still more difficult to read. Yes, when using a Web browser I can ask for it to magnify the whole image and commonly do. But other software need not have such magnification, say, nearly all the software from Microsoft in the tree rooted at Start, so that more pixels per screen could make the text smaller and still more difficult to read.

Net, I'd be happy with just my present 1024 x 768 pixels but displayed on a larger sheet of glass. Or, a larger sheet of glass with, say, 4 times as many pixels, could be more difficult to read instead of easier. Basically all I need is just a magnifying glass none of my computer hard/software knows about.

<comment><USER33> > On my Windows XP SP3 system (yes, I recently got a DVD of Windows 7 > Professional 64 bit, for my next computer when I finally give up on XP), it > appears that nearly all the text from Microsoft's programs, e.g., > essentially everything that comes from the tree rooted at Start > Control > Panel and Start > My Computer, was designed for a screen with diagonal about > my 15.5" but with 640 x 480 pixels.

IIRC -- and its been a while since I used the display settings on XP since all my regularly-used Windows systems are on either 7 or 8.1 now -- you can change this by adjusting the DPI setting for your display in the control panel in WinXP. Win7 brings scaling more to the front and actually makes it the primary setting on the Display control panel.

<comment><USER32> Yes, with the suggestions from you expert guys here, I went to

Start > Control Panel > Display > Settings > Advanced > DPI Setting > Custom

which looks nice. So, converting their 100% to 150% gives characters much easier to read. I don't know just what software would honor such a setting. And to get the setting I got a message that had to install the fonts and reboot Windows. Gee, once my HP laser printer died and I got a Brother printer, the Brother was not fully compatible with the old HP/GL commands so that for one of my favorite DIY printer utilities, e.g., just to do a nice job printing flat ASCII files, I wrote some Windows GPI code -- a real pain. If the font changes from reinstalling fonts would change the spacing in that program, then I'd have to revise that program -- bummer.

It looks like 'scaling' has been work in progress for the industry for a long time. The easy approach to scaling for me is just a larger piece of glass with the same number of pixels, filling the glass, and with my hard/software not knowing about the change.

</comment></comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER34> I have a 2560x1440 27" monitor, with higher resolution than that and a 3" smaller screen wouldn't it be too small pixels?

<comment><USER2> It's chicken and egg. The software is set up for bigger pixels, especially on Windows. Higher DPI can mean higher fidelity font rendering in particular. But someone needs to come out with these monitors so that developers can adjust their rendering. MS should possibly even consider pixel-doubling apps, with perhaps some hacks to keep fonts hi-res.

<comment><USER35> The DPI adjustment in windows has worked since XP, worked well since vista, at least for my purposes, and in 8 its a per monitor setting.

<comment><USER2> The DPI adjustment doesn't affect everything. For example, from what I've read things like Photoshop don't scale well, as the toolbar buttons remain the same size even if the menu etc. scales up.

Edit: here's some screenshots

[https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7re6a9_3U2nOFhZNU1N...](https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B7re6a9_3U2nOFhZNU1NQWFlblU&usp=sharing)

from:

[http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52771357](http://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/52771357)

Download full resolution and view full-screen on a 24" monitor to approximate the experience.

Don't get me wrong, I think this is an awesome monitor, and my current secondary monitor is on the fritz so I've been researching replacements for the past few days. But even though I have the need, and I can easily afford it, I've not yet made the leap to buy.

</comment></comment></comment></comment><comment><USER36> If you're shopping for a 4K display to do professional video editing, I suspect this Sharp 32" might be preferable: [http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321...](http://store.apple.com/us/product/HD971LL/A/sharp-32-pn-k321-4k-ultra- hd-led-monitor?fnode=53)

</comment><comment><USER37> I'm excited to see Dell trying to break new ground in the high-end. The race to the bottom of the pit of cheap plastic crap is tired and boring, and Apple is really starting to kick the crap out of the competition in the mid-range after having thoroughly dominated the high-end.

</comment><comment><USER38> Isn't going to be a 27" 4K from Dell? Rumors were saying so IIRC.

<comment><USER39> [http://www.legitreviews.com/dell-announces- new-32-inch-24-in...](http://www.legitreviews.com/dell-announces- new-32-inch-24-inch-4k-ultra-hd-monitors_129832)

Dell announced the one discussed here ($1399) and a 32" version ($3499). A 28" consumer model for under $1000 is to be available in early 2014. All "Ultra HD", which is 3840 x 2160.

</comment></comment><comment><USER40> 24" with 3840x2160 should work perfect in HiDPI mode.

Although I'm waiting for an OS X Mavericks Update to support 4k at 60Hz via Thunderbolt 2 (i.e. Display Port 1.2).

</comment><comment><USER41> Shame the design looks so cheap and ugly. If I'm paying $1,299.99 for a display I expect more than this.

Why is Apple the only company producing beautiful computers still?

<comment><USER42> It's a Dell, why are you surprised? All the Dell products I've seen have the same amount of design sense as the Windows XP Fisher-Price UI. Dell is a company that assembles computers. If you want fine architecture, you don't get a prefab house.

Sadly, none of the major computer manufacturers besides Apple seem to have any sense of design. The old ThinkPads (when they were still IBM) are the nearest competitor; at least they were solid, square, and black looking. Stylish, not so much, but at least they looked professional. (I guess Microsoft gave it a good try with the surface; the hardware at least looks kind of cool)

<comment><USER43> I disagree. I have an old IBM ThinkPad from the era when IBM still made PCs. Dell is pretty close.

Their laptops are on the shitty Toshiba-ish side of things, granted (although higher quality build). But their monitors and keyboards are top notch. Simple, black, non-glossy bezel. USB ports on the side. Swivel, portrait, _and_ height base adjustments. Their keyboards remain consistent with the 1980s standard PC arrow/home/numpad configuration and not that weird Microsoft/Logitech shit of putting tiny arrow keys in random locations, or F-lock.

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER44> I'm not gonna pay for this but it feels good to know in 2 years my office will sport these sharp monitors

</comment><comment><USER45> Happy and sticking with my 27" LG IPS for 1/5th the price. Honestly my vision is too poor for 4k 24" screens.

</comment><comment><USER46> That's not 4k. It's like sticking HD on phones with 720p.

<comment><USER47> Dell never actually uses the term "4k" on the page, it's just in the title.

<comment><USER48> What are you talking about? It says "Ultra HD" in the description, which is the marketing name for 4K

<comment><USER47> [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_televisio...](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra_high_definition_television)

        "Ultra HD", would be used for displays that have an aspect ratio of at least
        16:9 and at least one digital input capable of carrying and presenting native
        video at a minimum resolution of 3,840 × 2,160 pixels.

This display fits those criteria.</comment></comment></comment></comment>


Newspeak on Squeak (2014) [pdf] - <AUTHOR> http://bracha.org/newspeak-101.pdf <comment><USER2> I have been building the next version of my hobby project in newspeak and have really been enjoying it.

There is no funding, so the platform itself is also a hobby project for everyone involved. But there are a lot of really interesting ideas here.

The goal is to be able to create a modular, secure, distributed platform as a better alternative to the web browser while keeping many of the qualities that made smalltalk great, such as being extremely dynamic and interactive.

In addition the goal is to be more integrated with the outside world, so it supports things like using standard source code controls tools and has a native gui interface for windows.

</comment><comment><AUTHOR> This is newly relevant with the launch of Squeak 5.</comment>


Official Google Research Blog: Exploring Computational Thinking - <AUTHOR> http://googleresearch.blogspot.com/2010/10/exploring-computational-thinking.html <comment><USER2> I applaud this initiative! Years ago I wrote a blog post with a similar idea. [http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/is-calculus-a- dead-...](http://science1.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/is-calculus-a-dead- language/)</comment>


Guy Steele Interviews John McCarthy, Father of Lisp - <AUTHOR> http://www.infoq.com/interviews/Steele-Interviews-John-McCarthy <comment><USER2> Great interview, but I hate how infoq pushes the transcript into that tiny box.

<comment><USER3> Interestingly, the Readability bookmarklet picks out the transcript perfectly. <http://lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability/>

<comment><USER4> Chrome users are highly advised to pick up the Readability Redux extension. It has been consistently faster for me than the bookmarklet - reformatted results are effectively instant now.

[https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamnea...](https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/jggheggpdocamneaacmfoipeehedigia)

</comment></comment></comment><comment><USER5> That read a lot like the recent Bill Watterson interview.

Fans: Blah blah blah invention of lisp 50 years ago?

McCarthy: I don't know, I can't remember that far back in that much detail and it doesn't matter now anyway; can't you move on and ask me something about my recent work and stop objectifying me as some kind of ancient artifact?

Fans: Thanks for the interview, we all appreciate you inventing Lisp!

McCarthy: {smiles through tensed jaw muscles and compressed lips}

* Implied content, they didn't actually say these things.

</comment><comment><USER6> I thought this was great. Newell & Simon are sort of heroes of mine, and I enjoyed hearing McCarthy's view of the relation of Lisp to IPL & Fortran (from Backus). Are there any good biographies of these people? (I know that Simon wrote an autobiography, but I haven't read it.)

The summary of the big ideas/innovations from Lisp was pretty awesome -- programs as data, first-class functions, an expression-oriented language, eval as a Turing-complete function, garbage collection, linked lists, etc.

Guy Steele mentions he is standing in for Alan Kay. I wish whoever arranged that would put together a panel discussion with Alan Kay and Guy Steele talking about programming languages... or pretty much anything...</comment>