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I've had good service from the Dell XPS 15z I am typing this on. It is now over 3 years old.

I set it up to dual boot Win 7 and Kubuntu. I kept Win7 originally for gaming. I think I booted to Win 7 1 in the past year. There is even less need now with many Steam games working on Linux.

The Optimus(?) graphics system split between Intel and Nvidia was an issue initially. I played around with Bumblebee a bit but mainly have just used the Intel GPU as it provided better battery life and I haven't been doing anything graphically intensive.

The only unresolved issue is that the external HDMI port will only work if plugged in a boot and exclusive to the laptop screen. There may be driver fixes for this now but I haven't had the need so haven't checked.

I have also successfully run Ubuntu variants on Thinkpads (T series) and a couple of Asus Atom netbooks.
These exploits give the attacker the ability to inconvenience, harm or kill their intended victim with limited accountability. That's valuable.
Aol as a singular silo only lasted so long. Really, there were a few back then too, AIM(and icq)/MSN/Yahoo were probably the biggest and each had a good chunk of users that refused to switch to the others, and each one fell.

I also don't think we've hit AOL 2.0 quite yet, so we still have some time to see how it all works out.
The Cloud Disrupted HP, Is Cisco Next?
It means there should be roughly equal ability to access it among people. Someone should not be able to benefit from using the spectrum in a way that actively degrades other people's ability to use it.
See a doctor, you may be having a seizure.
I agree with this article. We bought a Oculus DK2 for work[1]. It functions. It's cool for an hour or two. But no one's touched the DK2 since I wrote that article. There's simply nothing to do with it, and what you can do is better done with a monitor screen. The DK2 is incredibly low resolution. You can easily see the pixels. I was able to get a sense of presence once or twice, when driving down a straight in iRacing, otherwise it was always just a cool 3D effect strapped to my face.

[1] https://www.codeweavers.com/about/blogs/aeikum/2015/5/29/cod...
On the bright side, these cars can now be used as an open platform for developing open source driverless car software. You can even use the stereo to run the control software. (I'm only being slightly flippant)
We can nitpick over who pulled the trigger or who gave the direct order, but the larger issue is that Churchill was waging a dirty civil war. We can discuss how violent and Stalinist the goals of the revolutionary forces may have been, but meanwhile we know about torture and concentration camps that actually happened, which seems more pertinent.
This FONA thing is pretty cool, I've been wondering how you could (simply) create an SMS-based service.
The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core I7-6700K and I5-6600K Tested
Very cool stuff, thanks for the tip. Will find a copy and buy it.
The key (IMO) to a distributed and decentralised Internet is a net-equality for upload:download speeds. There used to be an argument that we download more than we upload. To phrase it another way: we used to consume more content than we published. The fact is, we individually produce more content now than we consume, much more than the traditional media companies of the previous generation, as evidenced by the content on Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, WordPress, et cetera. But the Internet in 2015 is an AOL-2.0-like one and we need to nudge it in the direction of a distributed one again.

The solutions are within our grasp because they exist already. The software and the communication protocols exist, and are open and tested. A small change at the root, like Net-Equality, would result in an avalanche effect change in how we communicate and store information. The Internet of 5 years from now could be vastly different (and better in my opinion) than the one we have today. It could fulfil the 1990's predictions of people like Bill Gates and Mark Andreesen, who now sing a different tune, but used to preach the power of a distributed Internet.
TypeScript vs. Haxe
Another question you should ask is How difficult is it to disable OnStar? The answer: Quite difficult.

OnStar's module is in deeply embedded inside the car and in different locations in different models. OnStar is tied into the vehicle diagnostics and electrical system. If you manage to find it, and pull its cables out or something straightforward like that, your car will probably report an engine error and not start. (This issue has been reported and discussed extensively in car hacking forums.)

I asked my local GM dealer--a very large dealer, by the way--about disabling OnStar permanently (at the hardware level). They told me (a) they don't know how to do it, (b) I'm the first person to ever ask about it, (c) they think it might void the warranty (I don't know if they are right or wrong), and (d) they're unwilling to do it.
There is no money in swatting either, but yet it's becoming a growing problem for popular streamers (and police departments).
That's your opinion.

I do demos with a Alienware R18 laptop with a DK2 with demos different depts have made. I bring this oversized desktop in a laptop format to demos, and show them off.

I perhaps have 1 or 2 people out of 50+ each time that aren't wowed. And given that I've went through a 1000 people at semi-random, that I think its fair to say that this guy is in the ~3% minority who isn't impressed.

All I can say is to give it a shot. Try a roller coaster demo, or play different games in the Rift. It really is crazy awesome. The only bad thing is keyboard input is hard, and still an unsolved problem. I figure when haptic gloves get good, this will be the final answer.

Edit: Seriously? -1's over a valid comments from someone who has 4 DK2's and 2 DK1's ? So bashing VR on HN is in vogue now. Got it.
I like it, but one thing stood out to me. Sharp corners in the path of a non-moulded seal can cause leakage and premature failure. I recommend that each of the four walls not terminate in a sharp corner with the round, but a small radius. Then the seal could make more gentle bends in front of the holes, instead of wrapping around them, taking an octagonal path around the part. Also, those deep corners are not readily CNC machinable, if you ever wanted to go that route.
Do you know of places where I can get no-name Telecom Engineering degrees online? I would not even care about the rep.

I had friends in Egypt actually majoring in that, and stupidly it was long before I cared. OR I definitely would have gone to make copies of books at local copy shops like we did for the rest of our classes.
What makes the wikipedia not readable? the blue links?
Something tells me it's going to be a long, slow process stamping out sexism in tech. But this is a good step forward.

Edit: I know remarking on downvotes is frowned-upon here, but I just can't help it. Good to see HNs resident mysogynists are keeping on top of their game!
Where do you see this? I seem to be missing it.

Also, no CDN server is on the DO network, just the main website.
What I'd really appreciate (as one of those people who's read LYAH and is struggling to get going with real code) is a Haskell equivalent of Effective Java or Effective C++.
I've noticed numerous technical issues with HBO Now while watching on Apple TV.

There's the occasional frame rate drops from poor encoding, the frame rate should be constant, usually around 24fps for film. The audio levels are encoded ridiculously low compared to other services like Netflix.

The CDN itself seems to be over-saturated most of the time resulting in drops in bit rate or occasional interruptions. This is especially true on Sunday nights and doesn't matter how fast your connection is.

The highest quality (when you can get it) is 1080p but it doesn't matter because the bit rate must be no more than 5Mbps, maybe even 4.5Mbps.

There are numerous bugs in the UI, just the other day I selected the Series menu and it kept loading movies below it instead. The UX is horrible, it doesn't track what you've watched and there's no way to view recently watched. You can add an episode to your watch list but not a series so when you go back via the watch list you have to way of navigating to the rest of the episodes.

I also think the price is too high, $15 a month is just a little hard to justify based on the amount of content available. I see it more as a service I would just subscribe to a few months out of the year.

Considering the amount of devices you have to write streaming clients for these days (iOS, Android, Chromecast, Roku, PlayStation, Xbox, SmartTVs, etc, etc.), why not just partner with Netflix and offer it as a Netflix add-on using their device clients and CDN?

Realistically it's worth about $5-6 a month and if one could just add that to their Netflix bill easily then I'm sure they would get a ton of subscribers.
We don't particularly need a more complex infrastructure, we already have a complex infrastructure to deal with the fact that energy demand is highest during the day and much lower at night. So some plants only operate during the day, pumped storage goes into pump mode at night to release at peak times the next day, people get offered lower rates to use the baseline nuclear power for storage heaters and so on.

With widespread solar that just gets flipped, as the peak solar production maps better to peak usage in most places, so a pumped hydro system might pump water at midday using cheap solar energy, and release the energy in the evening or nightime and "peaker" gas plants would fill in what night-time wind production, nuclear and hydro (depending on the local resource base) can't cover.

This is already starting to happen, you see news stories every so often about prices going negative at peak solar times in various countries. Once it happens often enough that it's no longer headline grabbing, then people can build business cases around using (and/or time-shifting) that cheap energy, just like people did with cheap nuclear power at night.
Who the is against OOP like that? Grow up programming in VB?
More like, there is this acceleration module and there is this pedal that must hook into it, and there is this handy bus going through the car that you can connect the two systems to in order to make them talk with each other.

And then you add a radio, and a knob under the steering wheel to control it, and think - hey, I have this handy bus I can reuse so that they talk with each other. And suddenly, your radio talks to your brakes.

I don't think it's malicious design. More likely stupid one, or just a result of people being used to treating car hardware as trusted environment - where obsessing over security is just a waste of resources. It's just that when you introduce an Internet-connected device to that environment, it's not trusted anymore.
(Aside:

> Current generation consoles such as the Xbox 360 and PS4 may be fine with (most) games running at 1080p, on the PS4 at least,

Ouch, that's gotta burn the XBone team.)
> I'll be over here riding out the inevitable with my own file sync, git server, chat server, web server, and making my internet how I want it to be

To me, this is exactly why we're not headed for an internet-solely-comprised-of-walled-gardens scenario. There will be plenty for sure, but the pathways will still be open and we netizens can connect whatever we like with them. This is why I am still excited about it, even after 20 years.
Because people cry communism or incompetency every time the government tries to write forward-looking rules in matters affecting commercial interests. So politicians can only act retrospectively, once shit has hit the fan.
Our Netzpolitik Statement
> changes layouts based on screen size

Why can't the designer specify that? Because the current tools suck for designers (i.e. they were made for programmers).

> provides information to disabled users

Ditto.

> allows commenting and moderation of comments

There should be ready made solutions for that, usable by non-programmers. If you wanna buy a toaster, you don't go "oh, it's an Electrical Device and we need an Electrical Engineer". A toaster is complicated inside, but it was made with good engineering so users don't have to care.

The web is not like that. The needs of most websites are well understood by now, but somehow we still need programmers to make layouts and comment systems. My only explanation is that the whole system of HTTP/HTML/CSS/JS is poorly designed, in a way that's very hard to fix. Name me one other medium where positioning elements on the screen/page/whatever isn't a completely solved problem. Show me a single game developer who just can't seem to get the crosshair centered vertically on the screen.
Causality, Feedback and Relations
The league minimum salary (per player) translates into $6,400 per regular season game, I guess spending $10,000 or $20,000 a night on pucks would merely be irritating.

(teh Googles suggests they actually use less than 50 pucks, so $10,000 would be highish)
And then what? You can't actually do anything with the car without the keys. Steal the goods in it? Well most thieves just smash a window rather than relying upon social engineering, presuming that even worked.

OnStar started as a data connection for diagnostics and emergency services -- it reports back various diagnostic details, and gives your location and accident details in a serious event. Once they had the cellular data connection they added utility for things like lock out assistance and remote start, and locating your car (e.g. in a big parking lot).
As a counterpoint, I used a DK1 and I thought it was brilliant. Can't wait to use a production model.

I also showed it to an architect friend of mine and he loved it and wants to use it to walk his clients around unrealized house designs.
Off the top of my head I don't know of any one country that has a huge disparity (though I'm sure examples exist), but the EU is a good case study.

Legal Economic migration within the EU is definitely an issue, however it hasn't resulted in "destabilizing and draining the cities of resources".

E.g. Estonia's GDP is 99.07% smaller than the UK's[1], and Estonia is not empty. Edit - as pointed out below a per-capita comparison makes much more sense... oops

[1] http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=estonia+gdp+vs+uk+

Edit: I know that GDP is not a measure of standard of living, but they are correlated and it servers as a reasonable proxy
I think this is where the adult industry can act as the "bridge" and can make use of VR as it is today until it is mature enough for gaming. The lack of input/feedback isn't that big of a deal since for adult entertainment your hands need to be free for a more fulfilling experience.
> Engineers are pressed to get it done anyway possible and as fast a possible. The ones that push back get fired or moved to another project.

This. Also incompetent engineering teams could be a major factor.
This is not about censoring Kurds, this is about censoring Anti-Turkish and anti-Ataturk insultments.

In Turkey, it is a crime to insult Ataturk; you may like it or not, but this is the case. If this happens, Turkish government will probably ban Facebook, as I recall this was done before.

Facebook here is protecting an investment here, because it has really lots of people connecting from Turkey.

On top of it all, I am against "any" insult, on "any" people, on "any" grounds.
> There is no money in exploiting these bugs

There's such an obvious way to make money on them I'm surprised it isn't happening yet - if you have a zero-day for a car, just make a deal with your lawyer friend, that you'll crash some poor schmuck's car and your friend will help the victim sue car manufacturer for $shitton, which you'll split between the two of you.
If you read the correcting article, it makes it clear that confusion on the part of those present is understandable: the British did apparently fire tracers over the heads of the demonstrators; the Greek police were firing from concealed positions; the Greek forces were dressed similarly to the British Army; and there were British soldiers present on the rooftops.

As I read it, the major claim of the article is that the British supported elements of the Greek state who had been collaborating with the Nazi occupiers in purging the EAM resistance. This does not seem to have been disputed.
If you check the caption you'll see that it's an infrared color image (except for the blue channel, which is in red 600um). Therefore the picture is probably more sensitive to the surface temperature variations, and, consecutively, North Africa might look dryer indeed.
Yes, exactly. Apparently I did not make that clear enough.
Yeah, I was wondering about that as well (hence "if possible at all"[1]) since I intend to buy a GM vehicle this year (maybe, money is hard), but I guess OnStar isn't very relevant in Europe.

[1] Edit: Which is something I wanted to use in the sentence, but now I see I didn't. This is not a good day for me.
This is cool.... Would be nice to be able to use more processing algorithms such as SIFT[1]. Or would the SIFT patent get in the way of this?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-invariant_feature_transf...
"These changes in the mouth are happening under our noses."

:)

Great line!
I use the notmuch extension for Emacs (with mbsync for actually fetching the mail and msmtp for sending) and have been very happy with it.
> There is no money in exploiting these bugs and even so-called script kiddies will probably not want to risk killing anyone.

I'm sure plenty of international "agencies" would pay very good money to be able to exploit these bugs. Gotta take out somebody driving a GM car? No sweat!
They're not nitpicks; they're major factual concerns with what is ostensibly a piece of journalism.

For that matter, the use of the term "concentration camp", while accurate, is not provided the context to differentiate it from the modern connotations associated with Nazi death camps.

This isn't journalism, but historical propaganda.
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As if companies never hire attractive models to feature in their campaigns
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Always a delight to see how much fixes are made to LO.

Btw ReleaseNotes : https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.0
Q: what has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?
If you aren't a gamer or technology person, it's way more impressive then if you already live in that world. Spending hours on the thing vs a demo is a very different experience as well.
Well, I guess I would prefer GitHub and license it GPL3, then you can use it any way you want. It would be flattering if it was integrated into the main build.
New evidence of Japan's effort to build atom bomb at the end of WWII
You do that, and basically you end up treating everything as tainted.

Also: yes, you are missing something. Namely that you don't need concurrency for this sort of timing attack. Even something as simple as "X does work or doesn't" and "Y measures execution time" leaks timing info.

For another example: X either reflows the page, or doesn't. Y keeps track of the refresh rate of the page. Or does a timing attack to determine if the page was reflowed or not. Or injects JS into the page to ping website Z when a reflow happens. (Note that it can inject this JS before it grabs the sensitive data.)

For another example: Depending on sensitive data, I either allocate a large array or don't. And then detect how much is allocated before a GC happens.

Note that this can be part JS / part "trusted" extension. It can also even take advantage of parts of existing pages.

The more I consider this scheme, the more I think it's an elegant scheme against accidental leaks, but is fundamentally flawed against malicious leaks. Unfortunately, since the entire point of it is to protect against malicious leaks...
We are a cheap and short-sighted people.
This is totally feasible, ImagePlay allows to add your own Plug-Ins. Like this you can also add algorithms which are patented (which I don't know if and how and where SIFT is.)

https://github.com/cpvrlab/ImagePlay/wiki/Plugins:-01-Tutori...
China to Set Up ‘Security Offices’ Inside Internet Companies
What is the argument for going completely static? Static as in not using React on the client, not as in static files.

It seems (to me), that it would be useful--in addition to the static html--load React on the client and from that point navigate with push state and small static (JSON?) files. It might perform better if your blog has a lot more interactivity. Although, here I can definitely see that as being fluff.
Battling credit card theft – the secret to unhackable payments (PocketKey)
It's quite fast and it seems to scale well to large (though not necessarily to ridiculously large) repositories. The largest one I've used it with had a 1TB head revision - I don't know how large the history was - and a zillion files. Performance was still fine. (This is probably its main advantage, really: you can just put all your files in it. Then it's easy for everybody to get them, and you didn't have to think too hard about it.)

It uses the check in/check out model, so there's no problem with unmergeable binary files. There are per-user access permissions. Branches are folder copies. There's a GUI tool, but you can do everything from the command line as well (I believe that is exactly how the GUI tool does everything).

(UX is a bit hit or miss though. There's no git-style index, and the command line tool's output isn't as convenient to parse as you might like. On the other hand the diff/merge tool is alright and the UI for keeping your branches in sync is fine.)

I've never minded using it.
The Communist Party in Germany took a serious beating from the SD-headed government immediately following WW I. They were a relatively minor factor in the troubles of the 1920s and 1930s. While everyone was quite rightly concerned about the influence of the Soviet Union, its sphere of influence was extremely limited until the end of WW II. It lost a great deal of population, but so far from being contained by WW II, it moved its control as far west as the Elbe.

You are of course correct that the French and Italian Communist parties had no real prospects of successful insurrection with American troops stationed there.
An Education in Startups
If the cars are what you wanted in the picture, it is a shortcoming. However, they are not part of the background (i.e. static imagery).
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Inbound Marketing Is About Much More Than Getting Found Online
Enhance.
Enhance.
Enhance.
Just print the damn thing![0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiqkclCJsZs
It's easy to be impressed with a 10 minute demo, but once you start trying to actually play games with it, it falls apart pretty quickly. The article is spot on: the display and rendering tech isn't there yet, and the input devices need figuring out.

Edit: I upvoted you. I also don't know why your comment is < 0.
Linked but not linked to the internet by default :)
52Kards on YouTube has many free tutorials at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels:

https://www.youtube.com/user/DecksAndContests/featured

Although I just dabble I think they're mostly very good. They're definitely easier to grasp than the books I remember as a kid.

Recently he's moved to doing non-free material:

http://52kards.com/

In my limited experience YouTube has almost everything. Search for, I don't know, "table faro shuffle", and you'll find a few meh results and one gem. (Table faro shuffles are arguably what Ricky Jay is doing at the start of this classic, if you don't believe it's just a camera edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWvRorX0KhQ )
KIM KARDASHIAN’S SELFIE BOOK WAS a FLOP
Jeff compares the DK2 to Quake resolution (640x480), but I think that's quite misleading. Quake looks terrible, to modern eyes, but that has little to do with the resolution, and much more with the low polygon count, low quality textures and the lack of lighting effects.

Run Far Cry 4 at 640x480, and it'll look much better.