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Good points. I think bullshit weak sauce is busllshit weak sauce regardless of context. If you don't trust it on a server, why should you on your phone?

The comparison between Android and iOS is especially curious, in part because it's such a competitive space, and also because rdl's opinions varied so extremely.

Both OS X and iOS are based on Darwin, which also suggests vulnerabilities in kernel calls are not what rdl had in mind. When his latest startup was acquired, the blog post [1] described a part of it as:

> Beyond the company’s work in VPNs, CryptoSeal applied Trusted Computing technology to commodity servers, protecting them from compromise by outsider attackers or insider subversion, and guaranteeing the integrity of server-side applications to remote end users.

Perhaps something about the hardware iOS runs on is what impressed him so?

1. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-acquires-cryptoseal/
If they are really as stealthy as you say, the last thing they will do is be aggressive toward humans.

From an evolutionary perspective, I can't imagine a worse strategy than hunting and eating humans.
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Do you really think this is a feasible solution?
I fear, looking around me, that this might not be that much of an antidote in other European countries.

Even here in Germany the historic lessons somehow seem to be at least partly forgotten.

We have a lot of outspoken people against right winged extremists, but there are regions here, where the right populists patrol the streets in the name of securing against raiders from eastern countries (south eastern Saxonia for example). There the police is not able to protect people against car theft and such, so that they flock to these who promise protection. And with overwhelming majority they oftentimes get voted into local governments.

I really hope such tendencies do not spread further. But clearly historic lessons seem to be forgotten in these regions.
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According to http://store.economist.com/FAQ.aspx
> The Economist is published weekly, 51 times a year, with the Christmas double issue remaining on sale for two weeks. The issue is dated Saturday and goes on sale each Friday.

I know from reading it semi-regularly that it comments on significant economic/political developments from around the globe. It does this by breaking the world in regions (Europe, Asia, Africa, Americas) and then choosing to the stories from that region. Elections, power struggles, wars, economic fortunes, social/political movements, biographical sketches. The Economist also has special features on a weekly basis that cover global topics in depth, could be Bitcoin one week, renewable energy the next, the €zone crisis another week, also scientific topics.

By necessity (because it is published weekly and because its scope is global) the regular news stories are not in depth but I wouldn't therefore call them shallow. They are condensed is the word I'd use. Maybe they lose a bit of nuance but that's understandable.

When they do scientific and technical articles I find that their fact-checking and research seems to frequently attain a very high quality. People have commented on this feature of The Economist here on HN. Only The New Yorker seems to be more fastidious. What you call opinion or conjecture is actually their editorial stance§. The Economist is unashamedly biased. They believe in the free markets and I would say have a very liberal (in the British/European sense of the word liberal) philosophical outlook. They often defend their values. To have values is to be biased. What's worse I think are publications that report the news and pretend they're unbiased, when you can tell they're not either by sins of omission or misreporting whether deliberate or not and slanted recounting.

§ I personally don't share their worldview, I am more socialist than they but I recognise that disagreement on values isn't the same as that "well, that's just, like, your _opinion_ man"
Of course those are business applications as well.

Do you intend to refer to a product done in those areas Fortran in modern days, maybe with Fortran 2008?

Outside scientific computing and heavy number crushing algorithms and libraries, I don't see a use for it.
So, I nearly said something mildly snarky about the US having at least not stooped this low. But, then I remembered that Glenn Greenwald's partner's laptop was stolen from their home immediately after Greenwald mentioned on the phone he would be sending copies of encrypted communications from Snowden. The obvious candidate for that theft would be the US government. And, that would probably be even more despicable than doing it out in the open like this.

Nonetheless, I find it hard to believe people exist who want to live in a world like this, where privacy and free speech mean nothing. And, yet, when given the chance to build a world like this, so many weaselly little tyrants in bureaucratic roles take every opportunity to push people around, making the world sadder and more bleak for everyone.
Well in Australia, death by horse (including falls) accounts for about 20 people a year and death by bee accounts for around 10 .. I don't think there's much to worry about from this hybrid.
"Once we become the hunted what then?"

Then they will be wiped out like every other large animal in the history of the world that has significantly threatened humans. Next question?
I would be interested in a blog post how they store graph data in MySQL (star schema?), so that it scales. (an overview article, no technical details)
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I love the increase in bio topics making it onto the front page. The subject matter is basic but the quality of the comments is always getting better. Go bio!
As someone mentioned below, there is self-hosted solutions to analytics tools like the free software project piwik. Nothing the app development process require that you send your customer data to a third-party for collection and processing.
he means, why use a FPGA instead of an ARM cpu. Not ARM on the FPGA.
Sharks kill humans annually. So do big cats. And snakes. What are we going to do? Shoot all these on sight? Predate to extinction (and not even for their nutritional value) those species that harm us in even the slightest way? I oppose that. No thanks. That's not the type of world I want to live in. I want to co-exist with these amazing creatures, not drive them to extinction, or only have them alive in captivity.
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Nice. Someone previously ported Doom to Rust, but they kept the general form of the C data structures and had to use lots of unsafe code.
I kind of agree with you on the sociopathic comment, but your anti-American quip is just wrong. Sports are neither work, nor country and they aren't belittled. Music isn't belittled and mental illness isn't taboo any more than anything else. People where their anxiety, ADHD and depression almost as a point of pride. Talk to any middle class New Yorker and inevitably the conversation veers to.. "My therapist told me.."
Their stock ticker symbol was a rather odd one, wasn't it? At least I found it so. I still don't understand it.

"HELP!" I think it was.
Corporations don't make you use Facebook. Your grandmother does.
The BBC article has some more on this [0]:

> "It did not resist Thames Valley's application for an order under the Terrorism Act in court because the act does not afford grounds under which it could be opposed.

> "It is troubling that this legislation does not provide the opportunity for the media to mount a freedom of speech defence."

[0] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34666281
Nothing that both parties would be content with.
When you get a chance, look up the OODA loop.

It's much similar to what you have written. When I first learnt about OODA, I was fascinated by how many areas I could suddenly see similar patterns.

BTW the fellow behind OODA (Colonel Boyd) has a fascinating biography that's well worth a read.
Unacceptable to you. I'm OK with it -- at least when (like Atom) the code that does the data collecting is open source.

In fact, I'd go so far as to say that using the internet to collect data on usage patterns is a sufficiently powerful technique that if web apps were the only apps able to do it, web apps would probably eventually drive out native apps (and I don't think I would like that).
Interesting, I never heard of instantbird before. This is great news!
In the title, change "UK" to "Chinese State" and you might not bat an eyelid.

The democracy we have is a Frankenstein version of the democracy many think we have. And in the same way you would hesitate at calling Frankenstein human, I would hesitate at calling what we have a democracy.

I'll still have it over the alternatives but what a mediocre state we've ended up in.

Needs to be fixed.
Completely agree. I wish it was easier to support GMOs in the US, but because of Monsanto, everyone just equates GMOs with Monsanto's business practices. And now it seems like the whole idea of GMOs is ruined in the US because of it.
I'm not sure what you mean by "little money" but for less than $100 per location, you could have a 100+ Mbps link using Ubiquiti NanoStations. You can use Wi-Fi or their proprietary protocol and the radios are available on 2.4, 3.65, and 5 GHz. These little things will cover your 500m link with ease but might very well be extreme overkill if all you really want is <= 1 Kbps throughput.
Yes. please! voltagex_, do you and webmasters a favor and stop using a computer!
Please tell me more about all these historical "too big to fail" "forums" where across the globe, all of my non-technical friends and their entire families, including grandma, were signed up and active.
This puzzled me as well. Do we not have a word for this? Is _subspecies_ really the word? In linguistics mutually intelligible but distinct `languages' are called dialects. Similarly is there a term for mutually interbreedable but distinct `species'?
Depends what you mean with "best". As suggested, piwik is good. There is also snowplow.
It's still democracy and it still protects against extreme runaway government power. Ultimately the issue is that people want this. People are scared of terrorists. People do want the government to bend the rules to track them down. That's exactly what democracy is supposed to be.

What it's not supposed to be is what everyone wants, fair, right or ensuring people's information is kept secret from the government.

In short, politicians do what their voters demand.
You don't really need open source firmware to figure out that sector 5 is remapped. You just need a clock.
It makes it particularly interesting when the titles contain words that are homonymous with the usual computers/tech subjects; at first I glossed over the word "human" and thought this would be about mobile phones.
I would love to fully switch from Mac to Android if Google releases a solid, fast, secure and full of software OS. Sketch, Adobe, Sublime for Android along with Material Design UI looks promising.
> At least when you are using C++:

This is a very important caveat! It probably doesn't mean much for the pragmatic programmer today, and probably tomorrow, but there are research languages and compilers that try to tackle some of these issues. I myself am working on a compiler for a functional language, that already solves (a) and (b) in some cases, and (c) is doable by using an inherently parallel language. Issues (d)-(f) are about deeper algorithmic changes, and beyond even the frontiers of current research (although you can probably do (d) with a supercompiler if you have enough time).
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For me it makes much more sense to switch from Sublime / TextMate to something like emacs / vi(m).
Surely the farmer needs clothing. So he will trade with the sole cloth maker. Surely the club maker needs threads and dyes, so she will trade with the due maker and the thread spinner... And ad infinitum.
Have you ever sent a letter from Shanghai to Houston? By the time it arrives, the grandkids are already grown. You also neglect the cost: going to the photo lab, having film developed and printed. Buying a stamp, putting things in the envelope. Writing the address. Because since we're talking about not using digital tools, we might as well go back to using darkrooms.

Then you also have the scalability of physical mail: must you now send photos to all concerned participants? You have to make copies of everything and send letters to everyone? Technology improves social relationships; despite the whining about Facebook. In the old days, families living across the world actually communicated less. I live a continent away from my Dad, but each day we are still able to interact via digital means, including seeing each other via video. Facebook is just an implantation detail (that you may not like,) but the overall power of the Internet makes life better, regardless of Luddite complaints to the contrary. It's supremely ironic that some in the HN community have gone from being digital pioneers to being less technologically enthusiastic than our grandmothers.

I really think it comes down to snobbery -- the same attitude that leads people to proudly proclaim "I don't even own a TV,) despite working for a company that has an "-ly" at the end of the name. "Kill your Television" has been replaced with "Kill Facebook." Ned's Atomic Dustbin ought to update their lyrics.
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Storing the timezone name does not work when the boundaries between timezones change. Best to store local time and location. http://fanf.livejournal.com/104586.html
I had this same exact problem. If I remember correctly a full delete and reinstall fixed the issue and it's been smooth as butter since.
Yes, but I believe in a society where almost all of the major news outlets are owned by supporters of the current government, the politicians also have a strong ability to control what their voters are demanding.
That's cool, but having you on the service increases the network effect, thus you really are helping them make more money.
I'm fairly certain you don't actually know anything like enough people who work for any of the security services in the UK to make this an informed opinion. Because you couldn't be more wrong. A populist viewpoint with no basis whatsoever in reality.

Not surprising, but disappointing.

For the avoidance of doubt, no, I don't support what's happened here. It's ill-judged (no pun intended) to say the least.
Wow, I had no idea the Tor Project was working on something like this. There really hasn't been a good solution for secure, multi-platform instant messaging. My contacts are fragmented across different services, most of which do not have (let alone enforce) clients with end-to-end encryption. I'm really hoping for some sort of platform that can gain widespread adoption and that isn't restricted to any particular device or OS.
Well, I don't think its complicated. I just took an IELTS exam, got my education and experience assessed by ACS and then made an EoI (Expression of Interest) application and got 60 points (which is the minimum one should have) and then after 2 months I had the invite.
Fearing GMOs because you don't like Monsanto'spractices is like fearing computers in the 1990s because you don't like Microsoft's practices.

Not to mention, Monsanto is the biggest GMO -- or, really, seed, regardless of GMO status -- company everywhere, they aren't restricted to the US.

And there are plenty of non-Monsanto US companies doing GM and non-GM crop work, including companies working on the same kind of environmental tolerance traits that the Argentine firm, Bioceres, was discussed in the article as working on (one of those US companies, Arcadia Biosciences, actually has a joint venture, Verdeca, with Bioceres.)
The pando article says 150,000
The US does not use Imperial measures, they use Queen Anne measures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units
And of course , the dev didn't port to Android, so someone made a knockoff for the Play Store.
Can anyone tell how performant this code is vs original C code? How much do we lose (if anything) by using Rust in comparison to C?
> People are scared of terrorists.

Are they? If they are it's irrational, you're far more likely to be killed by a falling fridge or alcohol induced liver damage. Attacking a bogyman in an attempt to take eyes off what your government is really doing is quite sickening.

Everyone would be significantly better off if we stopped parading around with 'defense' funding and put it to something with a perceivable impact like public healthcare. It's ridiculous that people are justifying this sort of enormous waste of time and resources as worthwhile.
Song of the South seems to be available on youtube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtjW7PW2z0
Isn't there also a difference between voting stock, non voting and privileged? Just asking since it might be different than my country and seems you rolled them all togheter.
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> From an evolutionary perspective, I can't imagine a worse strategy than hunting and eating humans.

Being an aphrodisiac according to traditional Chinese medicine probably tops that.
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It already happened. I cannot seriously buy a laptop under € 1000 for work.

The screen, keyboard, case and battery quality are a joke in most offerings, not to mention most lack dedicated GPUs or specific BIOS features.
> A populist viewpoint with no basis whatsoever in reality.

What you just said serves no purpose. Can you please provide sources and alternative viewpoints people can actually discuss, rather than belittle someone for commenting on a story?
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Looks like LoRa is star topology. Is there another comparable tech that supports mesh networking?
A predictable response from a supporter of the military-industrial complex. Those who use secrecy to rule deserve the right to neither.
It isn't illegal to target based on a medical condition. I am not making any value judgement about it, just providing factual clarification. Unless HIPAA rules were violated, there's no problem. For example, at iCouch, if they were to take diagnostic information stored on their server by their practitioner and then send out emails to the patient based on the Protected Health Information, that would be illegal. But someone visiting a depression website and then targeting depression treatment ads based on that -- that would not be illegal. Don't would depend on where the information came from that was used to do the targeting. The targeting itself wouldn't be illegal, but the use of the data to do targeting could be illegal if that data were Protected Health Information covered by HIPAA or the Hi Tech Act. Of course, I am only speaking in a US context here..
I know a guy who worked for years at an IBM research lab near Zurich on Lorawan. I posted his thing a couple of weeks ago on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10344956).
So this is compatible with XMPP? I've been toying the idea of setting up an xmpp server and this may push me over the edge...
That is an US phenomenon. The only place I saw them in Europe was garage/discount sales trying to get rid of them.
Maybe future superresolution techniques will let us restore some of the old SD video, although CGI that was never rendered at high resolution probably won't gain anything.
The description of these films and their value reads like a word for word explanation of why we have the public domain. The author described Warner Bros as the "Gold standard" - making re-releases on protected media one at a time, just in time to extend their copyright.

No, the gold standard is the Library of Congress, digitizing thousands of Edison wax cylinders and putting them online for researchers, artists and curious people to use for free. The gold standard is allowing people to see and hear and reuse what these great artists created, because it's undeniably a part of our cultural heritage.

Almost a hundred years later, and the third party inheritor of the rights is drip feeding paid access to the world. "Gold standard" indeed.
Sadly the Guardian did a study on it recently, and the UK public's number one fear was of a terrorist attack. The propoganda is working.
> A modern browser is the most full-featured application platform that has ever existed in terms of what comes "in the box".

Nope, it was called Smalltalk.
Is Apple really that much more expensive?

Typically not in the segment where they compete (high-end laptops). However, the cheapest MacBook (in Germany) is 999 Euro. A large chunk of the market cannot afford or does not want to spend 999 Euro on a laptop. If you only want to e-mail, upload/view some photos, make a spreadsheet, a 999 Euro MacBook is expensive compared to a 200 Euro Chromebook or 300 Euro Windows laptop.
Nice doublespeak. What you really mean is that its the one country in the world you would expect fascism to rise as it has been, since the UK has always had a classist bent to its politics and requires the underclass to serve at the behest of the elite. Those who have seen the other side of the Imperial table at which the UK dines know full well that the 'slide into fascism' is really just an unveiling.
> you're far more likely to be killed by alcohol induced liver damage

Try telling that to someone who doesn't drink.
Note that this is an openGL renderer, not a software renderer implemented in Rust. Makes it hard to compare.
The New York Stock Exchange, back when it had a Board of Governors, did not allow companies with more than one class of stock to trade on the NYSE.[1] That rule was in effect from 1928 to 1988. The NYSE gave it up because companies were listing on the NASDAQ instead, which allowed multiple classes of stock.

Ford was grandfathered in. Berkshire Hathaway only created a second class of stock in 1996, and that was just because Buffett refused to split the stock, and the current price of $215,000 per share (up from $290 in 1980) was inconvenient for small investors.

The Google and Facebook founder-for-life arrangements are unusual, and they're going to lead to trouble for companies whose stock drops and whose management can't be replaced.

[1] http://articles.latimes.com/1986-07-04/business/fi-648_1_vot...