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> Well web sandboxing for one, and running opengl through your terminal for another.

Sharing OpenGL contexts is about the opposite of sandboxing. It's unsafe.

And you can run OpenGL apps from your terminal just fine?

> Containerization seems like a no-brainer to me since a) sandboxing naturally follows,

But it's a sandboxing that isn't useful on a Desktop machine. A mail app which sees a completely different container filesystem than my word processor does not improve my life.

> b) it's a developer's heaven in terms of deployment, development, and testing

Except it's not, because OS X on servers is dead and gone, so what I'd really need is a container that works on my server, aka a Linux server aka I need a VM locally because it's not like OS X is ever going to be LXC compatible.

A container I can only use on my dev box isn't worth beans.

> c) mac os x is now the only major OS in existence without any containerization capabilities controlable by anyone but apple.

I get that Docker has grabbed a lot of hype by reinventing jails to be venture capital compatible, but honestly, for OS X it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
Canadian prices suck, they're higher than what our terrible exchange rate equates to when compared to USD prices. Also sounds like they're going to be locked to carriers? Nexus phones aren't the easy choice anymore.
Doomsday Vault
This is the world we envisage with gophr.it - Unfortunately, we're only inside London at the minute.
Amazon Prime video doesn't support any TV-connected Apple or Google device. This appears to be a strategic decision Amazon has made.
The Limits of Quantum Computers (2008) [pdf]
> Anecdotes and narratives are valuable.

But when those anecdotes and narratives are ultimately nothing more or less than an appeal to authority ("I'm an ENGINEER/accountant/etc. and can't do/didn't do/don't need to do this -- it must be crap!"), then it's absolutely reasonable to question that authority.

What, exactly, was the problem that your friend had trouble finding the correct answer to?

I'm extremely skeptical claims with the form "I'm an X and can't do CC problems" for a reason. There's no shortage of anti-common-core accountants/engineers/etc. who take the the blogosphere with complaints that "even they" don't know how to work a problem.

But when you look at the problem, it's just performing addition using a non-standard algorithm or setting up and solving for a linear relationship. Not exactly rocket science. And then you look at Calc III classrooms and see students who clearly haven't internalized division. Which leaves only one conclusion -- being an engineer or accountant who made it through a few calc courses doesn't exactly equate to "good problem solver" or "understands anything about mathematics".

> Looking at a lot of these studies, they are just gussied up anecdotes with questionable method and results.

I'm not really sure what you're talking about here.

I don't need empirical evidence that understanding multiple algorithms for a arithmetic procedures is a useful and crucial exercise. Just like I don't need empirical evidence do know that there's a lot less value in memorizing quick sort than there is in seeing multiple different sorting algorithms and comparing them.

> and you don't make the rules

Obviously :-) But it's a good sanity check on what it means to be well-trained in mathematics.

If you've never written a proof of substantial length, you really don't know what mathematics actually is. In particular, the mathematics courses US engineers and accountants take are mostly unsubstantiated symbol pushing (warrant: find me a calculus student in the US outside of Chicago or a few other places who can prove the fundamental theorem), which isn't mathematics.
Please don't worry about this. It really is just like flagging. We only take away flagging rights if someone repeatedly misuses them—never for one random thing.

I wouldn't have even included the bit about taking away vouching rights except I know that the question "What if people just vouch for all the bad comments" was going to come up otherwise.

(Also, I don't think I've been promoted? But thanks—that's particularly meaningful coming from a seasoned veteran of the early Reddit...)
The issue rates aren't as high as the media leads you to believe. For example, Airbnb has a policy with Lloyds for any catastrophic events, but they actually don't have that many issues and so just pay for them themselves when they happen. (Or at least this used to be the case.) The media just sensationalizes it when something goes wrong, so you fall into availability bias.

Plus, your costs are offset by having labor cost be variable instead of fixed, not paying benefits, etc. So if your margin is 10% higher as a result and you have a 5% increase in issues, you still come out better.
Hmmm. I was gonna call BS on poor greeks not having computers, but http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/07/15/one-in-three-gree...

That's fair, a ledger system would be more helpful here. But for BTC it's not a matter of them needing to mine or purchase bitcoin with money. You just need to bring in a couple people who already have bitcoin and then you buy bitcoin for your meat or tires. Once you have bitcoin, it's possible to turn that into USD in accounts that are external greece, or into another hard currency via that BTC-meetup website.
The unreasonable efficacy of unconditional cash transfers [pdf]
Key Metrics Every Cassandra User Should Monitor
7 Security Flaws Your Business Can't Ignore
Yeah, my Nexus 4 has started rebooting by itself pretty often and it also keeps "losing" the SIM card somehow (by checking uptime it seems it doesn't reboot, but it still asks me to enter the SIM PIN as if the phone had restarted). Really annoying. It means it's no longer reliable as a phone because you're unable to receive calls after either of those occurs randomly of course.

I don't really care about Android either, it's just a cheesy delivery platform for Google services which I don't want. But none of the alternatives seem much better either... Still, I started looking at Apple.
The bragged about how it's smaller and easier to hide. Who gives a crap what color it is. They shouldn't have focused on the looks at all but made sure it had the lowest possible profile.
This is reposted word-by-word from a Popular Mechanics post from 2013: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/animals/a9449/the-fi...

I get they're the same publisher, but they could at least change where it says "it was reported today..."
Thanks for the clarification.

(Perhaps the most important difference is that if you're being fined by the SEC, you've probably got lawyers who are ready to defend you. One of the most egregious things about civil forfeiture is the way it preys on poor people.)
'Doomsday Vault' sees its first withdrawal
IO Monad Realized in 1965 (2012)
Right, those are macropayments -- pay once, and you have access to all content covered by the service for the month. That's bundling, and it reduces the friction/cognitive load required to decide if each microtransaction is worth it -- every song/movie/etc. is "free" after the initial payment, so you don't spend time worrying about whether or not this particular song is worth 0.05 cents or whatever, you decide that Spotify as a whole is worth the subscription fee and then you consume as much music as you want without further worry.

(The OTHER common thread to all those examples is that none of those actually make enough money to pay for the absolute cost of the content they offer -- with the exception of some Netflix originals and Spotify-exclusive tracks and what have you, the vast majority of the content on those subscription services is licensed to those platforms at some MARGINAL cost, and the cost of actually making that content has already been paid for by theatrical showings, TV rights fees, album sales, etc. They're not really sustainable models as they exist right now once theaters, TV channels and album sales start to die out, which is where the sort of content that is being talked about here already is at -- content that needs to cover the ABSOLUTE cost of creation through online revenues.)
I use https://www.getharvest.com/. It lets you set up multiple clients, projects and team members, track time and expenses for various project tasks and send out invoices. For invoices, you can track what's been paid and it will send out automatic late reminders. It also has native apps so you can start project timers with a few key presses. There's a free tier that will last you until you get a few clients and the paid tier is cheap.

I originally tracked the above manually using spreadsheets but it's so much nicer having a simple interface to keep track of everything for a modest cost.
Working from Paris – How NodeSource Helped Us Rethink Our Office
Not the OP (although I feel exactly the same), but I'm disappointed because the battery life on my Nexus 5 is going nowhere but down... but I am not going to buy a new phone with exactly the same RAM and storage (and no SD card slot). The features they have added I don't care about (fingerprint scanner, better camera).

I may well buy a new phone, but there is zero chance it will be a 5x.
So, when stocking my bunker, what should I put in there that will have high barter potential?
Common Core is an improvement. But things won't get much better until teaching pays a competitive salary.
IMPORTING LARGE CSV FILES WITH PHP PART 2: VALIDATING CSV FILE STRUCTURE
Thanks for the response, Todd!
Since most projects in Hadoop ecosystem are written in Java/Scala on JVM I was pleasantly surprised about choice of C++ :)
Yes, in fact. USB1 tops out at 2.1A, USB3 here is 3A. (Watts is volts times amps. 15W/5V = 3A)

USB Power Delivery chargers can deliver quite a lot more.
The placement of the fingerprint reader on the back of the phone strikes me as a bit odd. I get that they had to not copy iPhone placement, but this means you have to pickup the phone to unlock it, as opposed to just touch it.

Wonder how phone cases are going to handle that placement.
In my opinion, the "news" / "blog" agencies have already innovated on this by just blending content with advertising with notoriously click-baity articles like "top 12 ways your cat wants you dead" where every single bullet point is a cleverly worded advertising for cat neutering, cat food, or whatever.

I suspect Facebook already does something similar via automating the hundreds of millions of dead accounts in their system. My suspicions were triggered because a decade ago when FB was still fresh, I created a page for my dog (now passed away), and very recently, it shared a "funny" video. So either my dog is using facebook from beyond the grave, or fb has automated his account.
But most of the complaints about that are coming from existing Hacker News users, for whom the experience on mobile is terrible.

If Hacker News was as adamant about stopping the Eternal September effect as some people believe, they would demand references and a CV before letting anyone join, or else be invite-only like lobste.rs. Not having a mobile stylesheet doesn't really seem like it would help in that regard.

Cynicism and incivility are far more corrosive to this community than the Eternal September effect could be, anyway.
PayPal API down
Seems to have something to do with SSL certs, probably/hopefully upgrading. But https://sandbox.paypal.com/ is down with a NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23paypaldown&src=typd
Is Apple Mail in El Capitan playing friendly with Gmail?

In Yosemite, it's OK except for drafts. And that's of course a big 'except' …
> I don't think we will ever stop in finding ways of measuring productivity. In a sense, measurement is fundamental as it helps us determine the truth. Look at how important measurement is in the sciences and in engineering.

Beware of cargo-cult :). I'm not saying it to you personally - but I can imagine some manager or marketer saying those words and meaning that "if measuring is so important in science and engineering then it must be good, therefore let's use measuring!". Measurements are only as good as the questions you want them to answer; ask about wrong things, and even the best data will lead you astray.
There's a little bit more information in Fredrik J's blog post: http://fredrikj.net/blog/2015/09/finding-nemo/
That's a serious disappointment for me. I had my wallet in hand ready to buy, but I don't think I can go back to dealing with a charging cable. Wireless is so much easier... being able to grab my phone off its charge pad and return it again with one quick motion is great. And I can do it with my eyes closed at night.
When I bought my TV supporting Miracast protocol, I thought I would not need to buy a Chromecast. And it (the TV) worked beautifully with my Nexus 5 for some days. But soon, the phone stopped casting the screen on the TV. Another phone (Moto X Play) still works fine though, so pretty sure it is a phone problem.

A conspiracy theorist would suggest Google intentionally breaking Miracast support to boost sales of Chromecast ;)
MSE != EME.

MSE just means they are using DASH to funnel video into the <video> element. Those video chunks are normally unencrypted.
I have no issues. Until I enable my Bluetooth mouse. Easily solved by using the 5ghz band but really. An apple mouse fucks up my connection from my apple laptop to my apple access point. That's really unacceptable.
Buster Keaton’s biggest mistake was signing with a studio
Implementing a random number generator for games
Should add a [2008] tag
You really think you get privacy with Android? Have you ever monitored outbound connections on your device? There's a LOT of activity there. Even with Cyanogenmod's Privacy Guard, which at least improves the Android permissions debacle.

Combine that with GMail. I pay for the business version, yet the privacy policy is still hard to understand and I still get suspicious ads popping up which seem to have come from no where else but my email. Could be wrong, but it's uncanny.

I have a hard time trusting Google.
If I understand your question correctly, then yes, that's why we did it. The vast majority of banned users' comments belong under community review.

I should add that moderators are still going to intervene sometimes—just hopefully not very often. For one thing, some decisions only we have the data to make. For another, some decisions are based on the values of the site and those are not open to change. But the long-term vision for HN is to make it as self-regulating as possible, and it's been obvious for a long time that the bulk of HN moderation should be done by the community. The only question is what the right mechanisms are to get us there, and vouching is a big experiment in that.
Given the number of Yodel parcels that just fail to get delivered, I have to agree that it's not a particularly good experience.

At least Amazon customer support is great.
> I don't think I've been promoted

Editorial independence is a big vote of confidence; they don't toss that set of keys to just any old schmuck.
My Nexus 4 was the best phone I've ever had. I've been suffering with the HTC one since and it is awful. Now I'm stuck because I like the Nexus and vanilla android but I have an upgrade through my provider that would get me a Galaxy s6 for $129 with two year contract.

So far as I can tell these Nexus devices won't be released on a carry and I don't think AT&T gives you any discount for not using your upgrade. It would be nice to save $10 a month if you don't subsidize a phone but since I can't I'm leaning towards the S6 because it's $250 cheaper than the Nexus 5x.

Also, did everyone abandon Qi charging? It wasn't necessary but it was one like that was cool about the N4.
But only during videos and photos. Everything else is rendered at 1080p.
For a long time they didn't support Android at all, just their fork of it on their devices. They seem to be very big on lock-in.
A Response to Jeff Jarvis's Call for Reforming Advertising
YouGov is a reputable polling company. They're regularly used by British newspapers on all sides of politics (it was a British startup, the CEO's daughter was a friend's roommate).

The polls are sent to people registered with YouGov, who get paid a tiny amount. When I was a student it seemed worth my time, but I didn't get many polls -- probably there are lots of people in that demographic. Once I was employed I got more polls, but it wasn't worth my time.

The demographic breakdown is given in the PDF.
I get around this by just casting my phone's screen. It works great out of the box. Just cast your phone's screen, start the Amazon Prime Video app and start your show. The phone will automatically full screen and orient correctly for the TV and all audio on the phone will silence in favor of using the TV's.
Consider your objective of "restoring faith" and the means you (and many in society who seem to agree with you) adopt to bring it about: propagating the idea that miscarriages of justice frequently occur. Even if this isn't a miscarriage. Even if Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Ahmed Mohamed, etc, aren't miscarriages.

You could say: our means of increasing faith in justice is to tell everyone that miscarriages occur all the time, even if they maybe don't, so that good ordinary Americans will become more and more concerned and prevent miscarriages, which will increase faith etc.

This is a very complicated and indirect way of purportedly getting the result you want.

However, if you wanted exactly the opposite result - that is, you wanted to decrease faith in the criminal justice system - what would you do? Answer: give as much publicity as possible to miscarriages of justice, purported or real.

Which is exactly what you're doing, right? Have you ever heard the thing about what to do when you're in a hole?

Also, I'm quite aware that Americans aren't Japanese. On the other hand, I seldom hear that awareness from people who point out how much better urban life is in, say, Reykjavik rather than Detroit. And appear to believe that the problems of Detroit can be solved by adopting the ideology and/or governance structures of Reykjavik. (Which, in fact, has pretty much already happened - if anything, the flow is in the other direction.)

As for throwaways: stay on the reservation, and you'll have nothing to fear. Duck under the barbed wire, and you'll find out...
Something with high utility. Tools are the first thing that come to mind. Storage containers like water jugs and backpacks? Warm clothing? Weapons for sure.
A peek in our computer vision project [fixed]
Can you give a brief summary of this product?
That means the music app needs to support chromecast, right?
What is the categorical difference between an ice cream stain and cigarette smoke? Because I honestly don't understand what distinction you're trying to make.
Google (and other companies) would very much like to sell you some cloud (gawd, I hate that word) storage.
This person has 70 to sell, Buy It Now, New, unlocked, 32 GB, for $420.90 (free shipping offered, from Texas). Well reviewed for selling similar items:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sony-XPERIA-Z3-D6616-32GB-Black-GSM-...
It's an amazon decision, not a google decision. I've complained to Amazon about this multiple times.
http://www.techhive.com/article/2982096/streaming-services/t... blech
I would also consider the NSA meddling with Bitlocker and RSA behind the curtain to be conceptually equivalent.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/can_the_nsa_b...

http://gizmodo.com/nsa-paid-security-firm-10-million-bribe-t...
Yow. Here's a perspective from someone who has only owned two iPhones:

I purchased the first gen on release day (2007) and carried it my pocket every day without a case until the 5 came out in 2012. I still have it, it still works.

I bought my iPhone 5 in 2013 and carry it my pocket every day without a case. It has some cosmetic damage.

Not fanboy-ing; I think it's legitimately interesting that most smartphones are still designed the way early cell phones were: plastic case around components, clipped or screwed on, flimsy from day one.
Laundry detergent might be good to stock.

> Law enforcement officials across the country are puzzled over a crime wave targeting an unlikely item: Tide laundry detergent.

> The obvious question — why? — has a pretty simple answer. Tide is recognizable, easy to steal, hard to track, and can be re-sold for $5 to $10 a bottle.

Besides, its shelf-stable.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2012/03/12/148448368/peopl...
Scaling our periodic batch pipeline for publisher analytics: key skew in Hadoop
Or perhaps this dog in question was using an easily brute-forceable password, and control now rests with one of the many huge botnets in operation.
Sage doesn't really use SymPy a whole lot. Most of the core algebra in Sage is based on C libraries like MPIR, Flint, Singular, Pari...

Nemo uses some of the same libraries under the hood, but there's much less overhead. This is in part due to Julia being faster than Python (although Sage works around that to some extent by using Cython), and in part due to Nemo using tighter algorithms/code.

Note that Nemo is currently more geared towards purely algebraic computation, though. It doesn't currently have S-expressions with support for symbolic integration and the like (Sage mostly uses Pynac and Maxima for this).
They should stick to the contract first off.

Secondly, they should look at the microsite for the listing and see that there was an exact picture of the bed.
IIRC, my Chromecast came with a 5VDC power supply and a USB->Micro USB cable for plugging the PSU into the Chromecast. The documentation for the CC warned against plugging the CC into USB ports on a TV because of exactly what you're complaining about. :)

The marketing copy for the new Chromecast mentions that it, too ships with a 5V power supply (1A this time around) for powering the Chromecast.
But does the Ethernet adapter work with the new Chromecast? I'm also unhappy that Chromecast doesn't use USB-C yet.
"A very good example is Finland and Sweden. The former has problems because of Euro but the latter thrives because they control their currency."

There are several reasons for this - many of which are likely more important than the Euro - such as Finland having relied mainly on the declining paper industry and Nokia for exports while Swedish exports are more diverse.
Miracast turns out to be a terrible protocol in many ways. The way it uses Wifi networks is clunky, and requiring from-device streaming is fine for local content or screen mirroring, but terrible for streaming services (where you end up with Netflix streaming to your phone, then your phone transcoding and streaming to the TV via Miracast, which means two video streams on your Wifi and a lot of drain on your phone; by contrast, with Chromecast, Netflix streams from the internet to your TV with no intervening step).
Precisely - you're not arguing against the article at all here.

Yep, I should have probably made that clear. Was more side commenting through the metaphor. In general, learning English like that works quite well, but then it throws you when you are then asked to conjugate the verb 'to be' in French class and nobody has ever asked you to ever conjugate a verb in English. You end up knowing how to use English, but do not learn the technical terminology required to dissect it.
OpenGL is not improving in El Capitan and it's a problem for cross-platform developers.
Alcohol. Both disinfecting-strength and recreating-strength.
Additionally, how is this going to affect startup school ?
Startup school picks attendees from hacker news.