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Have any developers regretted switching from OS X to Linux?
For the last ~12 years I've been on OS X. Before that I was primarily Slackware user. I switched to OS X when I started doing a lot of A/V work (at the time working with SDL dependencies was kind of a mess).

My Air is dying and I'm considering purchasing one of the newer Skylake-based 4K laptops to run Arch, rather than shell out $3k for a $1200 notebook. (It's a value thing, not a cost thing. I'll happily pay $3k for $3k worth of laptop)

I dev primarily in C, JS/Node, Golang, Python, Ruby, and have started working with Elxir and Swift recently (I'm fine using a hosting CI server to build Swift projects). I also do a lot of audio production, consume most of my media through my laptop, and need to be able to interface with CNC/Laser Cutters/3D printers.

Has anyone who does some or all of these things switched to a modern release of Linux? If so, what was your experience?
Europe and Russia mission to assess Moon settlement
> I wonder what the turning point was when people stopped thinking of electricity as magic and instead thought of it as science

Once they could make predictions and those predictions were verified by reality. "When I flip this switch the light will turn on.....When I move this magnet past this wire I can shock my lab assistant...."

I don't know much about D&D but I would venture the guess that electrons are far stranger than mana. I mean, not only do they have a wavelength[0], you can do the Double Slit experiment with them[1], but they also have an intrinsic angular momentum and there are rules of which electron can be where based on this "spin"[2]. That's just for starters.

Calling them "mana" (whatever that is) might not be any more wrong than calling them particles.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_wave
1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment
2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_%28physics%29
> what is good for big business

I'd rephrase it. To certain legacy business which can't compete and instead wants to use various combination of corrupted laws and lock-in to preserve their control over the market. There as well can be big business which is hurt by TPP and the like.
Puhleeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaase.
Tentatively interested, but how do you propose we contact you?
I'll qualify my comment: "the very slowest people" are the majority _in the developed world_ where the median age is 35+ (Wikipedia). It's also where people are the most likely to use hoverboards.

In any case, you can dispute the numbers and it makes no difference. People are not born with wheels. We need space to walk about. By convention and by law, the pavement is not for vehicles.

Despite that, I'm prepared to share the pavement with people on wheels but it has to be absolutely clear that it's not my responsibility to avoid them. It's theirs. They are the ones choosing to put me at risk, they should take full responsibility for it. And watch where the bloody heck they go.
The only reasonable assumption I can come up with for not cracking the stock primes would be expense and inability to execute on a plan. Otherwise, it makes perfect sense to crack them. And, talk about fun and interesting work!
What kind of guillotine paper cutter did you purchase? How many page books can it cut through?
FSFE convinces 1125 public administrations to remove proprietary software advert
Not clear if you think you're being clever but you're just coming across as annoying
It is most definitely organized crime. It's just a new model that people are not quite up to speed on, yet.
Textbook authors hate them!
This was a great article OP. But I think the author misses two critical points.

Privacy and secrecy, in my mind, are questions of agency. In this context we're talking about information. You can, broadly speaking, only do three things with information: create it, retain it, and share it. If you're to have agency -- that is, the ability to independently control your own existence -- in a digital sense, that implies that you must be able to control those three things. And if you think about it in terms of actual physical speech, it seems so intuitive: it would be an extraordinary day indeed if there were widespread physical manipulation of the very words coming out of our mouths, if somehow some third party could magically eavesdrop at will over anything we speak. But we've acclimated ourselves to thinking of digital spaces as somehow separate, as if the perceived triviality of, say, instagramming food pics might also imply that there is any less of a violation of our personal agency. That, for me, is why "private-by-default" is and always has been so vital: without it, you're incapable of exercising any meaningful control over the digital world around you. I'm always sad to see this framing left out, because I think it's a very important perspective to have.

The second, and likely more appropriate point (given that this is HN), is that this isn't just economics and geopolitics. It is a technical failure that allowed third parties to have any control over it in the first place. HTTP doesn't even protect security, much less privacy. HTTPS is a step forward, but if you think it's sufficient in protecting privacy, I would offer Facebook as a counterexample. Protection of data in transit is an insufficient condition for privacy, and therefore an insufficient condition for agency. It's perfectly possible to create a protocol to address this, to afford not just security but agency, and I am absolutely positive that there are people out there working on this (I know, because I'm one of them: https://github.com/Muterra/doc-muse). But the hard part is overcoming the inertia we already have, and on that front, we are indeed back to economics and politics.
Yeah, I understand that some series are perpetual because they're basically cultural institutions. We shouldn't expend extra effort to revive them if there's no current interest (such as, say, Star Trek as a TV show), but we shouldn't feel too bad if people want to keep watching them.
The Python Interview
Having web UI test creation and execution handled by Ghost Inspector makes life so much better. The blog post makes things look very "code"-y. Just FYI, to create a Ghost Inspector test you just use the Chrome recorder extension and the test is created for you.
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I'll have to echo aidenn0 here with respect to the sound. I have pretty good headphones (Beyerdynamic T90s) and love them, but when it comes to a movie experience I want a good five-channel speaker setup with proper level calibration and an amplifier that has a home theater EQ profile built in. To me, that's more important than the screen -- I only have a 42" 720p TV, but I'd rather watch movies on it than on 55" 1080p screens with more anemic sound systems. (Granted, my TV is a Pioneer plasma model, so for a 720p screen it's really good.)

I still like going to theaters occasionally, though. For all of the flaws -- including the snack prices, definitely -- sitting closer to a 60" screen at home is not going to truly replicate the effect of sitting twenty feet away from a 720" one.
Show HN: Quickly schedule on/off times for your idle AWS instances
I too was thinking on this thread that I remembered you from the arc forum :)
Strippers Go Undercover on Snapchat
I'm glad they rolled it back, but getting an unintended system upgrade is such a big deal that I find myself wanting a bigger act of contrition.

This is a really big mistake to make with your flagship product.
What Do We Really Know About Osama Bin Laden’s Death?
It's been a while, but if it helps, I divided my research into different categories, like the signs that you'd expect from an organization using brainwashing techniques, the objective signs that you'd expect in a leader or leadership team using brainwashing, and the objective signs of someone affected by brainwashing.

Using #2 as an example, some people assume that because an organization has a publicly-visible leader, that person calls the shots (edit for clarity: when in fact the organization may rely most on local councils, etc. and not so much on the figurehead). That's why it's important to be clear on one's own status--outsider or insider. This was a huge research boon for me. That clarification results in a better idea of your own biases, and also gives you an idea of the way your opposites (outsiders if you're an insider) may be getting their information or education.

It is extremely easy to get one's own subjective thinking caught up in this, no matter what your position. For example, some frequently-listed signs of brainwashing are "emotional attachment" and "dependency." Not very helpful in some hopefully obvious ways; these terms are practically plug-n-play with confirmation bias. On the other hand, it _could_ be helpful information if you developed a set of criteria. Some have tried, as I recall. Nothing scientific because you essentially end up typologizing.

The other rather frightening thing was learning about government-sponsored anti-cult movements, like the fairly recent movement in Russia. TBH, the whole thing was pretty jacked up, and I cut it short when I started reading about possibly innocent people getting locked up in psych wards. Another surprising "anti-cult" force commonly listed is the media, and this seems like it could hold true at least to the degree that a news outlet is willing to sensationalize vs. provide solid reporting (then you get into what is solid reporting, etc.). After researching that, IMO if you're getting cult information from the media, it's a good idea to remind yourself that it's not the same as doing your own research, no matter what the facts are about the organization in question.
Oh this is very relevant. You need to see things that are happening here in Shenzhen. Western companies may bankroll some interesting designs, but they are not innovative wrt. applying technology to life. Not compared to "the Chinese slave labor".

And honestly, who "matters" is a matter of a point of view. Big tech companies try to lock you in to maximize their profits out of devices they sell. Meanwhile in Shenzhen, nobody gives a fuck and you can get any permutation of electronics you can imagine for fraction of the western price, and it's often user-servicable. This is the place where actual innovation happens - selling overpriced gadgets that do 5% of features everyone saw in Star Trek 30 years ago is not innovation. I want to live in the world with more gongkai[0] and less attempts at locking people in unneccessary, wasteful, idiotic cloud platforms.

I want the Western tech giants to lose the war on general-purpose computing.

[0] - Check out the links at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10397138; you'll see where the innovation really happens.
The E3 has basically the same requirements as the H1B (regular work visa), the main difference is that there is no cap (whereas H1Bs are capped and it's basically a lottery whether you get one or not).

IIRC there is some way to avoid the degree requirement if you have a skilled job and an equivalent # of years work experience.
Lockheed Martin tests pilotless helicopter in Idaho
Status of App Store review process
They say it was a mistake. Do you believe them? Was anyone at Microsoft fired? Did Microsoft offer a way to undo an unwanted install of Windows 10?
The same for me on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, Chrome 46.0.2490.71 m
Theranos Is Made-For-Hollywood Silicon Valley Scandal
Poorly-named 'League of Legends' players get psychology surveys
On Tinder, Off Sex
I suppose it at least partly depends on how much time per day you spend writing. Presumably you can go through the entire manuscript in under 8 hours, so you can make progress every 8 hour day you put into it.

[edit] Reading more closely he starts out with 7 hour days and ends up at about 12 hour days, so if the final manuscript can be read and revised in 5 hours it's a fairly constant amount of writing per day.
I'd advise tempering your sense of humor on this topic, since attempts to do more-or-less what you're talking about above tend to culminate in long prison sentences for both operators and customers of such a service, unless it's based in a jurisdiction that doesn't have an extradition treaty with the US. since 'securing the border' is one of those fundamentally unattainable political goals prosecutors tend to throw the book at anyone they find engaged in this kind of activity because it plays well at oversight hearings. If you want to make money by disrupting the immigration system, set up a fake law firm to scam immigrants with paperwork problems - you can run that one for ages because your erstwhile customers are afraid of the police and you won't get too heavy of a sentence if you do get caught since the lives you ruined don't belong to registered voters.

Read a lot of immigration law news and you too can develop a jaundiced attitude! Seriously, it seems like things may be improving somewhat under Loretta Lynch's administration of the DoJ but it's a bit early to tell. http://trac.syr.edu is probably the best resource that doesn't require some sort of professional or academic subscription.
Is Indie PC Gaming the Next Mobile?
I agree with your point about ad's being "shoved in someone's face" and that it is a problem when services are beholden to specific advertisers. But I do think ad's can be done tastefully and in a way that benefits all involved.

Imagine if HN had a link at the top for advertisements, and they had a policy that anyone with > x amount of karma could pay $y to have a listing for z days. It would be reminiscent of the ad's in the back of old computer magazines, with people selling home made software, tools, and services.

Another example, would be if a music venue paid local record shops to have a prominent display of upcoming shows in their store, and on their website. How could that be anything but useful?

Honestly, I'm not selling anything, and I avoid ad's as much as possible. I even signed up for the ad free Hulu just to put my money where my mouth was, after ranting to friends about how I would never pay for something that came with commercials. I just think that a wholesale attack against the idea of advertising is shortsighted.
Until they get an NSL compelling them to shut their pieholes about any 'requests', successfully resisted or not.
What Are Human Mastery and Authorship Worth?
Google Play Is Getting a Makeover
Quipper: A Scalable High Level Functional Language for Quantum Computing
Since no one has pointed it out yet, I'll also mention the Diversity Visa (a.k.a. Green Card lottery). This allows you to gain permanent residence in the US (if you are eligible).

It opens every year in October, and is free to apply. There are lots of scam sites that will offer to enter you in the lottery for payment, but you can do it free here: https://www.dvlottery.state.gov/

If you get accepted, it takes around 18 months from entering the lottery to actually entering the US, so you have to not be in a hurry.

The allocation of visas is quite odd, a bunch of countries are not eligible to enter (including UK, Canada, Mexico). Other countries have different quotas based on their region. As a result, those applying from Australia/NZ have a much higher chance of winning than those applying from Europe or Africa.
No, because as agwa pointed out, howsmyssl checks client security. There's nothing wrong with a DHE cipher suite and it can be used in a secure manner quite easily. Since this is wholly on the server, and howsmyssl has no way of testing a server you're connecting to, then there's no possible way for it to know if your specific connections are okay or not. Based solely on the client suites tested, DHE would still be considered secure. It's only the interaction with an insecure server that makes it insecure.
Fedora is my choice.
I had not switched to win10, but was told by others who did saying that win7 > win10 > win8, i.e. win7 is the best, is it true? I have a dual-boot win7 for tax-filing that I had not booted into since April, using linux daily. This news made me feel relieved a bit that it's good I did not have win7 running and got automatically "upgraded".
It would be a real challenge to actually photograph the entire underwater part of an iceberg. It's probably never been done. If you could find one in clear water, and set off some enormous set of flashes underwater, it just might be possible. That would be a good project for National Geographic.
The hero culture
Just half-read, half-skimmed through the article. The TL;DR is simply that almost all humans have a limit of mental breakdown, and torture tactics have proven to destroy the mental barrier.

What was more interesting was the author's analysis of human behavior and notions of fear, courage, and conformity.
Cryptography based on limitations of computing power has to make the assumption that if the computing power required is even potentially within reach of any existing organization, or within orders of magnitude of being within reach, it's long past time to migrate away. It doesn't matter if the capability has in fact been developed; if it seems even remotely feasible, time to migrate to better crypto.

Moving to 2048 or 4096, or to ECC, thus seems like a prudent step whether you believe such intercept capabilities actually exist or not.
Everything goes downhill once you see the magic smoke come out of an IC.
Target stores attacked by pornographic pranksters
Showing the world that you pay constant attention to the safety and well being of women and children is a good way to assert how much of a good, real, honest, straight man you are to society. Along with loudly proclaiming "they should all be shot" whenever the word paedophile is mentioned.
> 2. Twitter Moments is trying to be everything but Twitter.

This is true, and I think it speaks to a deeper problem: nobody at Twitter really seems to understand exactly why the core product was successful, so they're afraid to evolve it out of fear that they'll somehow break the magic spell. When ancillary products like Moments are developed, though, the designers and developers feel freer to be bold, because there's no spell there to break. So when those products get bolted on to the side of the main product, they feel exactly like that -- bolted on.

Facebook has been much more fearless about changing their core product as their userbase has grown and changed -- remember when the News Feed was a controversial new thing? -- and as a result they can give their products a unified feeling that Twitter can't.
I'm not referring to specific instances of good or bad intelligence, but how in general anything thrown up by the NSA/GCHQ now is as likely to be met with scorn as praise.

The average man or woman doesn't trust them to be the "good guys" any more. A lone wolf on YouTube is apparently more trustworthy now.
Be very careful before patronizing such a service: http://www.law360.com/articles/710485/eb-5-investors-plead-t...

Incidentally I heard the court just ruled for the investors on that one but the only link I have so far is Lexis-Nexis paywalled.
You probably don't care (neither do I), but the reason the snack prices are so high is because the theater makes almost no money from the movie, in the first few weeks.

My beef is with the quality of the snacks, not the prices themselves.
And they get all Godwin on you when you tell them that IBM hoarded and then processed census data for the Third Reich in exactly the scenario of:

Hand over information to someone you trust (in that case the Govt. of your country who proclaim that they welcome Jews); someone who wants to use it against not you gains control of it via takeover (in that case a bunch of psychotics who will murder you because in 1933 your grandma ticked "Jewish" on the census form).

It isn't far fetched nonsense, it is tried and tested.

Http://ibmandtheholocaust.com/
This is a good example of premature optimization at work.
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A lot of legal reasoning w.r.t. DNA has been too quick to equate DNA with fingerprints. Obviously, DNA contains far more information than fingerprints, to the point where it literally contains an entire copy of you. I cannot believe how blatant the violations of our rights are these days, and how passive people are in the face of this new dimension of intrusion.

http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_27566601/californ...

This shit really pisses me off. The state supreme court found California's collection of DNA samples for people _arrested_ but never charged or convicted to be unconstitutional. Apparently, that ruling has now been overturned.

Please fight law enforcement's new encroaching on our rights. We are now safer than we ever have been and yet the government STILL wants more power.
why did this get changed? the article is sufficiently different that it makes the submission title a non-sequitur
This definitely does not resonate with my experience and what helped me get better. I can tackle big challenges now, but even small failures during severe clinical depression can actually worsen depression.
Liberty Bridge could be the ultimate car-free span
Do you have some examples? Not doubting you, I'd genuinely like to take a look at them.
Shameless plug, I released a simple GUI for youtube-dl written in the ancient language of Flex - https://github.com/jasonhinkle/Tube-DL/releases/tag/0.1.0

If anybody want's to make a build for Windows, I'll add it to the release.
Last week at Amazon re:Invent, the HN community was also mentioned in one of the keynote speeches.
Great job and congratulations!
> Was anyone at Microsoft fired?

As a tech worker, I don't want to live in a world where tech workers are fired because they make a small, fixable mistake.

> Did Microsoft offer a way to undo an unwanted install of Windows 10?

Yes. You can downgrade Windows 10 to whatever you installed it on top of. I think this has been possible since the Vista -> 7 upgrade.
Yes, I found that my burnout is not directly related to the amount of work, but more so my interest in the work. When I begin to lose interest and/or focus in the work, I no longer relish going to work. This results in a "burnout" type effect for me and I need to get away from everything.
Thanks for your response :).
Could I ask what those bad-habbits were that you became aware of? And what positive actions you took to destress? :)
I am an avid headphone user, but even the highest quality drivers are simply too small to replicate the whole-body bass thump of a good speaker system.
Fans of both franchises have been making this comparison for years, and one of the more famous fan theories is that Bond is a Time Lord (which is usually tongue-in-cheek... well, a little bit at least).

I always like it when someone new notices the similarities :)