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bingo. i read about 5 paragraphs before i started scrolling rapidly, until I realized that this entire page was a litany of wrong-ness, an ode to fuck-ups, a waste of my time.

please please for the love of anything decent and good in this world: TEACH US ABOUT ELECTRICITY!

it's ok if it's only based upon the "current understanding" of it... just give us an update as to the canonical way to describe "electrical phenomena" (er how should we refer to this subject?)
Go to justgetflux.com and CTRL+F for the word "patent".
The first water fountain I've seen anywhere here in Mexico was just installed last year. It's in Chapultepec Park on the walk up to the Castle. The water comes out very cold. Outside that one, even airports and public offices don't have any.

It's quite a contrast to the USA. Bottled water, on the other hand, is very cheap in Mexico compared to El Norte.

So some modern nations have never adopted the water fountain fad. It's too bad -- they're pretty nice.
Statistical outliers of no importance. Their whiteness will eventually solve all of their problems.
It was not driving on a freeway. It was going 25 in a 35 zone, taking one whole lane out of 3 in that direction. Shocking, SHOCKING! ;o) https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3955848,-122.1017317,3a,75y,...
Love these extensions. I use News Feed Eradicator: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/news-feed-eradicat....

Does the same thing at Kill News Feed but replaces it with a quote (e.g. on getting started or how time is the most precious resource).
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some other weapons of choice:

WordPress - https://wordpress.org/ - because "WordPress is the Kalashnikov of the web." (https://t.co/QgsYYUFTbo)

Syncthing - https://syncthing.net/ - for distributed file syncing

Baikal - http://baikal-server.com/ - for contact & calendar syncing

rss2email - https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rss2email - because email is stable, solid, and not going anywhere

Tox - https://tox.chat/ - p2p, encrypted instant messaging w/ video & audio
> The greatest irony is how many walked into this with open arms, and how many continue to praise this.

Show me an alternative that allows me the same level of Just Works as an iPhone. Because Android ain't it. I don't need a reason to spend hours every week having to tweak, poke at, marshal and police the various apps on my phone to make sure normal behavior isn't messing something up. I put up with that for 4 years and never felt like I had a digital partner in my pocket. It was always a consciously present "thing" I had to be wary of eating a battery, crashing a workflow, failing to connect to something or transfer something or save something.

I love the linux "always be tinkering" idea but I don't need that to be something I spend part of my decision points on each day.

So if Google tightens up implementations of Android to a point where I can trust a device to get out of my way like I can this most recent iPhone, I'm all for giving it another go. But my money's not on that at the moment.
I would be more than a little concerned if Facebook, Youtube and Wikipedia is where you gain most of your knowledge.

Wikipedia is slightly understandable but it should not be any more thnan a quick reference guide on a given topic, but taken with a grain of salt. It certainly shouldn't be taken as gospel truth.
DDoS attacks increased by 30%
According to DDoS-GUARD research, a 30% attacks growth was registered in the 3rd quarter of the current year as compared to the previous period.

On the average, the filtration system faced 130 attacks daily, i.e., 5 attacks every hour. Moreover, the number of massive DDoS attacks (over 100 Gbps) significantly increased – by 29%. 7 super-strong attacks (over 200 Gbps) were registered.

DDoS-Guard experts notice that attacks become more sophisticated and powerful, because the attackers use dedicated servers in order to conduct an attack. On the other hand, a dedicated server is not able to provide an uninterrupted traffic flow onto the attacked resource for long.

This fact decreases average attack duration.
In Q3 2015 the most extreme attack exceeded 220 Gbps, but lasted only 15 minutes. As compared to the 2nd quarter, average attack duration decreased by 16%, however its average power increased by 8%.

Based on the statistic information DDoS-Guard predicts the following: the attack power will grow, while its duration will decrease. A peak of DDoS attacks is likely to happen on Christmas holidays. BitTorrent trackers and hosting providers are in a high-risk area.

Full report is available at ddos-guard.net/report03.pdf

DDoS-Guard is a large provider of protection against DDoS attacks. Based on its own developed infrastructure and own geographically distributed network DDoS-Guard has 1.5TB of available network capacity to absorb and filter any type of attack.
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What put me off academic research was essentially the utter lack of "genuine" teamwork - when a lot of interactions with a colleague become negotiations about whether your name goes on their paper and if so in what place it all becomes a bit tedious.

That might have been the lab I was in - while everyone was nice there was a distinct weird cutthroat element to it that I haven't encountered anywhere else.

Edit: I should correct that - this was in the UK so everyone appeared nice, I know there was a bit of back stabbing from on high directed at anyone who looked likely to be too successful.
> System.Threading.Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentCulture = new CultureInfo("da-DK");

Doesn't reading this line just make you feel so /organized/? I've never been so reassured that what I'm setting really is an official thread-local static in the official system threads library.
I just have to post this:

http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2999

So it seems SQL does not give access to the secret robot Internet...
Another choice for distributed file syncing: bittorrent sync. https://getsync.com/
For further mappings of big multidimensional datasets (datacubes) to heatmaps: http://vis.stanford.edu/projects/immens/ , http://www.nanocubes.net/, and http://www.mapd.com/ . I'm not as familiar with the GIS space, but suspect a bunch there too.
You're right. Growing up with PCs I took for granted the fact I could download any OS and install it easily. It's so incredibly different to the closed off world of tablets and phones, where getting any non-OEM code to run is a huge undertaking. A few years ago this seemed OK, because the phones and tablets were low powered utilities. Today they're rapidly becoming our PCs and so we're quickly moving towards a world in which our primary PCs are completely closed devices.

It's remarkable that I could easily dust off my 2002 era desktop and boot a modern Linux distro, but that trying to get my 2013 era tablet to boot anything other than the Android 4.4 that it shipped with would be a huge struggle. It's such a shame things are going this way.
I can't say I know most countries real estate bubbles but I've lived in 3 and none had the exact same problem.

I see a relation to how prices might behave as now the economy is flooded with free money while most people are still working and generating their own income.

And I don't agree that we have the biggest "guaranteed income" ours is a very badly designed system (aimed at buying the poorest votes and deeply exploited) based on bad assumptions on the population and how to distribute wealth, that is why so much money is stolen from it.

Without health and education investment, it's a short sighted project instead of a long run one which would aim to take those people out of misery.

BI is for countries that have solved at least the basic educational and infrastructural problems otherwise it's just a waste of man power to build those.
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Easy: a walled garden is much more valuable to its operator, and sharing the data would reduce (potential) profits. In other words, only Google can use the data it gets from its Waze, which gives it a competitive advantage.

Oh, you mean downsides to users? Never mind ;)
It says right there in the article. The 787 numbers are for avionics and flight systems. The number for the car probably includes the entertainment system, nav system, backup camera, etc all of which runs on some open source OS with hundreds of packages installed. 787's don't run on large numbers of open source packages for avionics and flight control.
A lot of drivers in the US are hostile towards anything that's not a vehicle. Heck, they're often hostile towards anything that's not a car or a truck like motorcycles. I see more hate for those riding bicycles but pedestrians get a fair amount too.
Why Clojure's a Great Next Language for Rubyists
Apparently that doesn't work. On current androids, you can't have proper "f.lux" without root.
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This table does not show which languages have support for Decimal numbers, which does the calculation exactly.
This is the only really important comment here.

Drop all the apps.
Use the web interface.
I stopped paying attention when the development stood still for a while, hence my question.

Thanks for the feedback.
It's integrated in CM. Not flux, but something that works very well (as opposed to twilight for example). Too bad I had to switch to 11. Anyone know of a solution that would work for me?
Incredible how developers are always ever so gosh darn polite when complaining about Apple, who in turn tend to respond/not respond in a blatantly passive-aggressive manner.

And on and on it goes.
There doesn't seem to be a way to pass. How do you end the game?

As a very bad Go player, the bot managed to be even worse than me in several key engagements, giving me territory I had no right to capture. It still beat me by a little bit, though (I think -- the game never actually ended!) I wonder if complementing the NN with a more traditional tree search would help it play better tactically.

EDIT: Also, your paper link is broken for me: replacing https:// with http:// makes it work.
The title is misleading, since all the Baltic countries have basic income for like 20 years. If anyone's interested - in Lithuania it's 305euros, in Latvia 350, in Estonia, if i'm not mistaken it's something about 400
>LoC is no measure of complexity of a system

Agreed but I've often been curious about the complexity myself. I saved a similar discussion on reddit a few years ago. One commenter worked for a company that makes Stability Control Systems for major car manufacturers and this comment really stood out for me:

Like, for instance, BMW wants us to follow this architecture standard that (very simply) requires all function calls between sets of "subsystems" to route through one file. It is currently at around 120,000 lines. That's one file out of the thousands of files we have. We have many "database" files that are thousands to tens of thousands of lines long as well.
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I have faith we'll eventually be able to restore all those important processes. It's really hard to destroy information. We just need a way to read it back.
"Computers can only natively store integers, so they need some way of representing decimal numbers"

Technically, [digital] computers only natively "store" high and low voltages. The interpretation of a sequence of those signals as "integers" is entirely up to you.

In all seriousness, representing integers is not a given either (e.g. two's complement vs one's complement, BCD, bignum, sparse integers, etc.). If you are going down in abstraction levels to describe floating point representation, you should not just call integers "native" blindly.

Furthermore, floating point is not the only way to represent computation involving real values. It is indeed possible to represent computation on real values symbolically in many cases and lazily compute arbitrary precision results for output-printing purposes.
Let's start another round of DEC64 discussion? ;-)

http://www.dec64.com/
Very strange. I too have owned multiple Android devices but never faced so much issues on branded mobiles. Never seen dialler crash even on cheap mobile. Experienced random crash on a very early very cheap tablet. I did lose touch sensitively(not fully but a narrow strip) on N4. Which resulted in me purchasing One Plus X. The mid range mobiles are now very good. iPhone was always out of question for me prices are too high here.
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FWIW, tried this with two less common languages:

Tcl: + 0.1 0.2
0.30000000000000004

Chicken Scheme: (+ 0.1 0.2)
0.3

Same results under Windows 8.1 and FreeBSD 10.2. I suppose one is as "right" as the other, at least both answers equally popular among languages.
Flux uses private API, it will not be allowed on the App Store.
I use Tinfoil for Facebook personally.

It's an that is a wrapper for the website and allows better control over things like location and access to phone data.
> RocketChat I don't know and I should look into but I do feel that XMPP should be the chat replacement for all

Agreed. Given that there are multiple, open source servers, several good open source Web clients and literally hundreds of native libraries/clients, XMPP seems like the obvious choice here.

What irks me even more - Rocket Chats homepage:
> Native client applications available for download on Linux, Windows and OSX.

Rocket Chat's GitHub Repo for the "Native" desktop Apps: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron

Call it a desktop app, sure. I won't use it, but I won't begrudge you the term desktop app. If you're bundling NodeJS and using a webview, your app isn't native.
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Also that one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mobi.pruss.Gal...

And Cyanogenmod has a built-in color temperature changer anyway.
Malthus was wrong, extraordinarily so.

His mistake at its root was: humans as a creative, efficient, effective problem solving species.

There isn't an example yet where humans have failed to think their way out of a massive, species sized problem. And as a whole sum we're getting better at solving problems, faster, rather than worse.

There will always be human created solutions to stave off every big disaster. There isn't a realistic example of an inbound disaster that we can't obviously take care of with our brains, or for which there aren't already solutions.

We long since have invented multiple cheap energy sources that will continue to stave off 'disaster.' Nuclear, solar, wind - those alone will take care of the future, even if we don't figure out more advanced energy production. In 50 years, solar will be extraordinarily cheap; it already is cost effective.

The US could spend a trillion dollars and put another 500 nuclear reactors into place and guarantee our energy security for another hundred years (or perpetually if the plants continued to be used). We've already solved the mess of nuclear waste, now it's merely a matter of time to deploy the technology - less than 20 years. And yes, even with $7 billion plants, nuclear is still cheap energy, and it's going to get even cheaper.
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We are all interested but some references would be handy. Are you sure that you have not confused this with a CONDITIONAL minimum income? That is one that is only available to people who don't have an income, a means tested payment.

Also even in the Baltic states EU400 is surely not much for a month.
What are the differences in implementation of the languages that cause some to show a rounding error and others not?
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Pedestrian safety is improved very very dramatically by cutting speed limits on urban streets to 25 or even 20 mph.

A pedestrian hit at 20 mph is likely to sustain minor injuries. A pedestrian hit at 40 mph almost always dies.

Drivers also have much better road awareness and much more time to react at 20 mph, and pedestrians likewise have a better chance of jumping out of the way of a slower-moving car.

One good street design idea is narrowing traffic lanes. This makes drivers slower and more careful, but doesn’t cause any increase in accidents, and doesn’t substantially reduce car throughput. It also provides extra space that can be used for bike lanes, sidewalks, and better designed intersections.
There's nothing at all wrong with wealth inequality if those at the bottom are having all of their needs met.
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Thank you anon for updating us in the state of your growing family, that your niece does ballet and that your nephew goes to kindergarten. You may want to rejoin and put this on FB, where someone might be interested :)
Exactly. We as a society really do not need businesses whose sole competitive advantage consists of paying lower wages than existing companies.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, the only thing that convinced me to use a Mac (for a while) was the BSD base on some nice hardware. Without it it would be like trying to develop on iOS: slow, locked down and flashy.
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Sorry, we're working on a website redesign that will fix that.

(Note of course that self-hosting is free...)
Isn't violating the spirit or actual terms of a license "doing something wrong?"
Ask HN: What happens when a major company does nothing with a major purchase?
A friend of mine reminded me Skype Qik exists. Skype purchased Qik, a short video messaging app (think along the lines of Snapchat), for $150 million in January 2011.

Before the purchase, Andreessen Horowitz were major investors, so was a bunch of other people who get mentioned here on HN periodically.

Skype was then bought by Microsoft for $8.5 billion in May 2011, only several months later. In April 2014, they announced they were shutting Qik down, and did so.

Yet, in October 2014, they announced they relaunched it as a new version.

No one uses Qik, that I'm aware of, and the original shutdown notification in April 2014 said they were shutting it down and refunding users (people had to pay for this?!) because they folded the entire feature set into the normal Skype client.

Yet, 12 months ago they released (possibly the final version of) Qik clients for iOS, Android, and Windows Phone.

So, what happens when a company just... forgets they bought something, and doesn't properly discontinue it? Does this not harm the brand? Does anyone at Microsoft or Skype know this still exists?

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_Qik

http://www.skype.com/en/qik/

Edit:

I might be wrong about Qik being dead. Android's newest version was released in June 2015 according to the Play Store, and the latest iOS version last month. Wikipedia's article was out of date, and I just updated it.

Who is actually using this thing, if according to Microsoft/Skype, the main Skype client inherited all the features?
Python's print method is actually fairly clever picking the "nicest" representation that's still correct.

https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/floatingpoint.html#tut-fp...

Quote:

"In current versions, Python displays a value based on the shortest decimal fraction that rounds correctly back to the true binary value, resulting simply in ‘0.1’."
When I was reviewing alternatives, syncany's web page claimed that seafile has a poor security record: https://github.com/syncany/syncany/wiki/Comparison:-Syncany-...

I'm not sure how seriously to take this.
Now, I'm not saying a car's length is an appropriate distance. Generally speaking it should be 2-3 seconds. But I see this idea a lot on the internet, particularly on reddit: I should be unsafe because other people will get mad at me for being safe which will make them do wildly unsafe things.

I'm sorry, but I can't accept that. Police need to start focusing on safety instead of revenue generation. I don't care what some idiot is doing, if you're tailgating them at highway speeds in the lane next to me you're putting us all at risk just so you can get somewhere 3 minutes faster. I don't care if you're upset about the length between the car ahead of you and the one ahead of it. Cutting them off in the lane next to me and nearly causing a reck is insane. We have to stop just accepting that being an asshole is okay and start holding people accountable.
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For its supporters, it's a strong point of basic income: people, especially unqualified, won't have to accept pretty much any job just to get a roof over their head and some food in their plate. So this gives back some power to say "no" to the worst jobs.

Opponents to basic income argue, among other things, that this is too much power and some workers would become exceedingly picky, without the fear of not being able to pay for rent and food. There definitely is a moral aspect to the question, with "anti-cheater" emotions/reactions.
I mean when I click the link in a post, or click a link post. If there's a hidden option somewhere that's something, I guess. But I'm going to bet most folks aren't going to go hunting for the hidden option...
While visiting London today, I stopped by the location of the pump from Snow's Cholera map:

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@51.5133626,-0.1366315,3a,75y,...

There's a pub there named after John Snow, but the area seems otherwise unremarkable.

His contributions are discussed in the first episode of How We Got to Now, which is a pretty good documentary available on Netflix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_We_Got_to_Now
My Android phone just works™. No tinkering required. It's not even rooted anymore. I don't have to think about it at all.

Maybe you just had a bad device?
Additionally, for exact calculations you might want to use the decimal module. https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/decimal.html#module-deci...
That's a fundamental premise where we disagree. Particularly in a society where most wealth inequality is due to inherited wealth, inequality - for me - should be the primary target of politics.
Yeah, the debate is on the forcing functions these companies and apps are deploying, I think. Though it's good that that's an option.
> Android security lags behind, because Google doesn't want to force OEMs and providers to provide updates.

What do OEM updates have to do with a security hole in Chrome? Despite all the merger chatter, Chrome isn't an OS-level part Android the way it is with ChromeOS.

The exploit sounds serious, but once the Chrome team understands it and comes up with a fix, all Google needs to do to deploy it is publish a new version of Chrome on the Play Store. I suppose they could add a nudge or two via Play Services (or otherwise) if people aren't installing the new version, but, in any case, that's nowhere near the effort required to get an OS update out (and neither OEMs nor carriers can block the fix).
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Weird. I distinctly remember installing and using it on my Linux boxes. https://justgetflux.com/linux.html
Gret service, I use their Android app
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Whatsapp is huge in India. Most of the daily communication has moved from Facebook to whatsapp.