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As in the Logitech mouse/keyboard company? If so, that makes them more awesome haha.

It's great that you used it to (rescue?) a distributed OS project. Thanks for the paper, too, as some of us collect these for any wisdom that might be lost to time. I'll read it when I have more time.
Seems like a pretty decent technical summary, but I'm not qualified to really evaluate the specific merits of their new nano-mag.

I think the big advancement is in the technique used to evenly distribute the nanoparticles? It sounds substantial especially if the technique works across a broad range of metals and particles.

Infusing custom particles into metal seems like a big "next step" in metalurgy (even call it alchemy). Someone will probably say 'they have been doing this for years, this is nothing new' but it's nice to imagine we will soon be getting to play with better metals.

I bet a lot of this science happens behind closed doors in labs funded by Apple and such? A metal improvement for them is worth so much they would have to invest in it.
Yes, I meant ram usage. Specifically Working Set jumping above 46MB at the start of calc, and Private bytes hovering around 30MB, all for small one window app.
Kudos to our holy savior.

Can we rename Christmas to Christmusk and change the date to the 21st?
I am downloading it now, but it is really slow.

It appears to be an ISO file. I guess I can run it in a virtual machine to test it out?

I wonder if it is like the old CommodoreOS that used emulators and ROMs and disk images to run the old Commodore stuff but this one with Amiga only. CommodoreOS was a GNU/Linux distribution and went out of business when the owner who was doing it had died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_OS

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

According to Wikipedia it is an emulator and needs ROMs and Disk images for classic Amiga emulation.
In the case of SheepShaver at least, there’s a Mac ROM that can be extracted from a freely available Mac OS update that works just fine. Not sure of the legality of that, but it’s got to be better than downloading ROMs of Macs you don’t own.
I don't know why the author's tone is so mean and snarky. Yes, the web won (inevitable and thank goodness), but it's not like many 19-year-old web pages are still around and serving working links either.

And for all its fundamental closed-ecosystem walled-garden flaws, AOL brought the first taste of the Internet to millions. We should celebrate the accomplishments and learn from the failings, not dance on the graves of the vanquished.
this is not correct. please be more careful not to assert opinions as facts.
Heroic efforts to deliver last-minute presents; I just hope the delivery guy wanted to work on Christmas and was well paid for it. Or maybe this is just business as usual for them?

When stores over-sell next-day delivery, or disastrous weather strikes, not everything will arrive on time. But for those getting their present literally on Christmas day, that's unusual right?
I find that surprising. Do you have benchmarks?
This list is kinda terrible. I know horrible engineers that can't get a single line in production code who match every one of these traits
1) This is just HN clickbait.

2) The symptoms are largely hipster BS. ThinkGeek, Referal links to specific books, really?

3) A destructive pursuit of perfection is the sign of incompetence and is frequently career ending when combined with this symptom: "Contempt for delivery dates". The mere fact this was put to paper is proof the OP is completely worthless. If a developer can't produce an acceptable, working product on a reasonable deadline they get fired.
You can also selectively disable the dtrace restrictions, while leaving the other SIP restrictions intact, with "csrutil enable --without dtrace" (in Recovery mode).
Allot of the planned exosuits are semi-powered they allow you to carry more weight buy actually distributing it to the ground through the boots rather than it having to hang on your shoulders and lower back.

This is effectively lowering the waist suspension belt which is built into every high weight backpack.
Effective weight distribution is just as important as core strength, a good backpack system with 60kg in it can feel lighter than a crappy duffle bag across your shoulder.

The system it self can be recharged using the wearer motion to give the additional speed and strength when needed.

Most combat engagements aren't long the actually power output of the suit will be concentrated into a few short bursts rather than long active periods (one of the reasons many prototypes us a capacitor bank rather than a battery).

A suit designed like some of the supercap hybrids (Mazda 6 for example) isn't that far away and while there are quite a few engineering challenges current power density isn't a deal breaker.
So there's a good chance that the first deployed suits will be very video game like and will have a cooldown, you need to jump over a 10ft wall? no problem.. you need to break a door in? easy.. just need to wait a bit before one stunt to another, that's doable, and not a deal breaker at one any level.
Merry Christmas, and best wishes for a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year!
Blackbox is much the same, although I much preferred the Mac version. The language is basically Oberon-2, with a few refinements (final declaration and a few others IIRC).
It looks like a 68K replacement CPU that plugs into the Amiga CPU socket and needs some soldiering work.

It increases the speed of the classic 68K Amiga systems and emulates the 68000, 68010, and 68020 CPUs.

Other companies have gone the FPGA route before and failed, let's hope this one succeeds.
> Despite being pre-installed on Galaxy phones, Samsung's ChatON messaging service gained few adherents and closed without fanfare in March, while the Milk Video app, a high profile project run by newly hired U.S. executives, lasted a year, closing in November.

I'm not sure any of that would increase my likelihood of buying a Samsung phone, even if they were excellently implemented. Everyone wants to be the lord of their platform with the benefits that come from taxing their locked-in serfs, but I don't know if there's room for more.
Ask HN: When to not use Tor?
Tor is being recommended as the primary browser for normal internet users. When should normal users not use Tor? Should it always be used with a VPN? Should normal users use a different browser when accessing personal accounts (banks, email, shopping)? What are the problems with using Tor as my only browser?
SIP shouldn't interfere with DYLD variables for normal (non-"restricted") executables. Unless you're using something like Java, which normally runs via a restricted launcher; but in that case you can bypass the launcher (see https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8139288).
> What white middle-class parents do not always understand, she said, is how much pressure recent immigrants feel to boost their children into the middle class.

The professions are not middle class. A very large proportion of the parents of these pressured kids would be disappointed if their children only reached the middle class.

> “They don’t have the same chances to get their children internships or jobs at law firms,” Professor Lee said. “So what they believe is that their children must excel beyond their white peers in academic settings so they have the same chances to excel later.”

The parents of these kids are also well aware that they need to be better than an equivalent white kid to get into an equivalent college, or into an equivalent professional programme.
>Valve has issued a statement regarding today's issues.

>"Steam is back up and running without any known issues," a Valve spokesperson told GameSpot. "As a result of a configuration change earlier today, a caching issue allowed some users to randomly see pages generated for other users for a period of less than an hour. This issue has since been resolved. We believe no unauthorized actions were allowed on accounts beyond the viewing of cached page information and no additional action is required by users."

http://www.gamespot.com/articles/steam-issue-allowing-access...
A lot of these have a good amount of overlap with: "Signs That You're a Sociopath"
Eager to fix what isn't broken should be more like getting better at your job over a period of time. Sitting around and rewriting apps that work perfectly to make cleaner/optimized code is not usually a good use of time. But taking lessons learned from one project to do better on the next is expected.

No matter who writes an app, the next person in charge of it thinks it was written terribley and wants to rewrite it. This is a vicious circle and I have seen lots of development teams never achieve anything that really helps the business or users because of this. Be careful of ever being eager to fix what truly isn't broken.
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The camo and leather fashion section is interesting as the second US Gulf War was just getting underway. Makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up in a Oceania is at war with Eastasia. kind of way.
Valve puts more resources into Steam than all their games combined.
Steam is their main platform, I had a chance to speak about several people who I know for a fact interned there (one stayed on as an employee) it's really not as chaotic and arbitrary as people think, you do not get to do just what ever the fuck you want regardless of what the scuttlebutt says.
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As a side note, the blog poster, and the blog post he references, characterizing the movie as terrible annoys me and shows that they both absolutely missed the point of the movie.

The movie depicts all sorts of different types of "love". Lust is characterized by the man who cheats on his wife; Sex is characterized by the guy who goes to the US; Platonic Love is the love between the rock star and his manager; First Love is the story of the young boy; Unrequited Love or Unattainable Love is the man who is in love with his best friend's wife, and so forth.

It's not a terrible movie at all, it's freaking brilliant.
There was once an Apple Development CD that was given out with all sorts of Mac ROMs and System install files and other things. I used to have a copy of it but lost it.

I think it was given out before Steve Jobs came back to Apple. It was at a developer conference. They wanted developers to support the Macintosh at a time when Apple was struggling financially. The files on the CD could be used with emulators so they could get more Mac developers that way.

I remember people well selling copies of that CD online for a while. Then it ended up on The Pirate Bay before it was taken down or lost seeders.
Good to hear that engineering is less dependent on institutional prestige. As someone who doesn't attend a name-brand university, I hope to be evaluated more for my skills than for the school I went to.
Yup! Thats precisely what I wanted to see.

Thanks for trying.
I think you are not hearing the point. Given that Facebook is a greedy company (and not a charity), its not going to give away free full internet. So our choice is about allowing, or not allowing, a billion poor people free Facebook access.

Its easy for us to say this is no good and it should be stopped because Facebook access is not as good as the full internet. But who are we to deny poor people what little they can get?
I love GOG but GOG galaxy is a clusterfuck and their library is made up of mostly (very) old games (go figure) ;)
I bought The Witcher 3 on steam just because it's better with updates (GOG had so many TW3 updates issues, I got a GOG key from NVIDIA as a Titan X owner and it was just fubar).
Steam is also a social platform, most of my friends are on steam which is their biggest competitive advantage which makes most other platforms kinda pointless as a platform DRM free or not.
I didn't read it as 'mean and snarky'. Author sounds genuinely in awe and the quantity of material on there. It's an archiver's dream I imagine.
I think this classic Onion piece from 2000 is always worth referencing in these situations - back then, using the internet for movie times and recipes was the subject for humor http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-consults-internet-w...

We've come a long way in a short time, but AOL (etc) deserve to be remembered for inspiring what was possible, even if they ultimately failed in the execution.
No, the probability of getting a health issue due to the vaccine has now become much higher then the probability of getting polio. Your comment rather suggests you don't know much about polio: I suggest looking it up.

But that only applies to diseases which lack a natural harbor like polio does, where eradication is practical. Stop vaccinating for measles and oh surprise there is now an outbreak of measles. We haven't needed to seriously vaccinate for polio for over a decade.

But that itself is all sorts of iffy because there are two quite different polio vaccines of different effectiveness.
Didn't Facebook had a similar bug? shit happens, at least all of their other processes are good enough to compensate for this so while there is some (substantial) information leakage it's not exploitable which is more than you can say about Facebook's many API bugs over the years.
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AOL -> geocities -> friendster -> myspace -> facebook, the next AOL.
Agreed. There is a lot of history here, and it's still working! I call "amazing" on all of that. Wonder if there is still some revenue, or contracts keeping it alive, or just nobody cares, or too much trouble to kill it off...

Another AOL legacy is retention. You can't really say no without them just leaving AOL on the table. A coworker years ago used to get on for free just stringing them on...

He used to laugh about it, until that tactic worked! He ended up paying them for a while when he ran into hard times. Never without his AOL.

That experience turned him into a strange sort of fan. Disliked AOL, but loyal just the same.
Nicely done. Playing up stereotypes based on a couple of anecdotes. Do you have any solid evidence about this? Are you accusing a mass of 1.3 billion people, 1/5th of humanity, and their representative agents and agencies of being, what, dishonorable?

Let me google it for you,

"china renege on deal" https://www.google.com/search?q=china+reneges+on+deal&oq=chi...

"russia renege on deal" https://www.google.com/search?q=china+reneges+on+deal&oq=chi...
I'm surprised to see unanimus hate for the steam client on here. I've never had any problems with steam. Downloads are fast, the client is easy to use and not "slow and clunky" the voice chat works well, the new community features for games are great. Actually my only complaint is that there's no 'unsubscribe all' button on steam workshop.

Is my experience entirely unique or is everyone remembering the old crappy steam client from 2004 (which was before I used steam)?

Edit: Or, more likely, some third option in which case I'd like to hear your thoughts.
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Is someone whose wireless Internet budget tops at $0 better off with access to 1 communication tool or 0?

(I realize that "unlimited communication tools" is the best answer here, but no one provides it at the budget specified, at least yet).
This is deception. Pure and simple. There are many different and ethical ways of providing connectivity to the poor but not at the cost of losing net neutrality.
It's not too dissimilar from standard MRA talking points.
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Exactly. AOL was the face of the Internet (ISP, chat, email, web) for years.
In relative terms, AOL was arguably the most successful Internet company of all time. And that didn't happen by accident; there are good lessons to be learned.

The same goes for Yahoo! when someone writes a blog post about them in eight years.
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I mean, it's nice that these things are moving online, are cheap or free & all that but it's not quite the same as using a dedicated tool like Solidworks. The average hobbyist who plays with a 3D printing program like this is thinking small: only for 3D printing. I've dealt with files that people want to be made on a mill or designed by a shop & the file ends up having to be re-created along with being imprecise.
Their current "default" installation is pretty much a compressed clone of a disk image so the destination has to be the same size as their source this requires no skill to install what so ever.

They also have a normal Linux installation mode which you can use but it requires about the same technical skills as installing any OS.

Please note that Valve has a pretty damn good picture of how much storage people have, 1TB isn't that big even for an SSD (you can get a sub 200$ 1TB SSD these days).

SteamOS is still in Beta I don't see the size requirement (which isn't a real requirement to begin with) to be a real issue considering current gaming hardware.
My steam library is over 11TB (not installed ofc) and I've seen bigger, most new AAA game releases are 30-50GB in size.
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First off, Tor is not the Tor Browser. Tor is the onion network through which the Tor Browser (and any other client, for that matter) connect through.

> When should normal users not use Tor?

Since Tor has drawbacks such as speed, it may prove impossible or at least difficult to use Tor all the time. If you really want the extra anonymity, go for it.
Personally, I don't care if Google keeps a tally of all my searches and piles cookies on me, I enjoy personalized search results. Anonymity is useful sometimes though.
You could definitely use it 100% of the time though.

> Should it always be used with a VPN?

Tor provides an onion network, I don't see a need to ever use a VPN.

> Should normal users use a different browser when accessing personal accounts (banks, email, shopping)?

The Tor Browser doesn't keep cookies and other identifying information, so it's as if you're using a fresh browser each time you access these services. Security-wise, SSL will encrypt banks and email (most likely). So accessing those services in a normal browser doesn't inherently put your privacy at risk.

> What are the problems with using Tor as my only browser?

Speed issues, as the network is pretty slow at times.
Otherwise I can't think of anything really.

NOTE: I'm not an expert on Tor, I'm just speaking from personal experience.
I thought the config error was debunked by his attorney. I think the question many people have is if parallel construction was at play and if TOR is compromised.
Huh. Turns out I'm wrong. I ran benchmarking on a 1.8M row dataset of SF crime data w/ 100 replications.

Running grepl() via:

benchmark(df %>% sample_frac() %>% filter(grepl("ARREST", Resolution)))

completed in 257.58 seconds.

Running str_detect() via:

benchmark(df %>% sample_frac() %>% filter(str_detect(Resolution, "ARREST")))

completed in 248.917 seconds.

Overall, str_detect() is faster by 3%. The stringr packages has more surprises than I thought!
AAA at at least 20GB in size these days some are 50 or even larger.
1TB requirement (which can be easily circumvented if you use their installer instead of the disk image clone) isn't that big.
I also think that SteamOS will end up being used as some sort of P2P cache in the long run those 50GB COD installs can't come cheap.
You have to start with the top-tier talent that delivers enterprise apps in Visual Basic 6. They need to know VBA language inside and out. They should implement templates for what every primitive does in terms of stacks, registers, and/or control flow (esp jumps). This includes common representations, type system rules, binary interfaces... you name it. Everything one needs to know to parse and implement VBA files along with reference implementations in VBA.

Then, you pay a LISP consultancy to implement that as a DSL in Racket or Common LISP that runs during development and outputs portable C for production w/ frameworks like WxWidgets and/or NPRS runtime. They should be able to throw the whole thing together in under a year. :)
You can't really load games from USB storage it takes ages and many actually fail.
Also steam library can't be set to removable or network storage so if you want to use USB/NAS you'll have to hack it with some softlinks and even that might not work.
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Classy of him to refrain from pointing out that he probably had trouble getting people to take his ideas seriously at least partly because he was black.
Solutions that work when everyone is following their self-interest are better than solutions that require altruism. The most successful anti-poverty program in the history of the world is capitalism.
And that decision almost never happened:

While it seems a given that the iPod was to be made compatible with Windows, Jobs was very resistant to the idea. At one point he said that Windows users would get to use the iPod "over my dead body". After continued convincing, Jobs gave up:

"Screw it," he said at one meeting where they showed him the analysis. "I'm sick of listening to you assholes. Go do whatever the hell you want."

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/10/25/steve-jobs-biography-wha...

Think about what iPod sales would have been if iTunes never made it to the PC platform. Would there have been enough profit to fund the development of the iPhone? Would we be where we are today?
The key to a good messaging app is all your contacts have to use it as well. New messaging apps and proprietary ones are sure to struggle for traction.
It's ridiculous that if I'm dying, I'm not free to use whatever experimental, theoretical, long-shot treatment that I damn well want.
Many, if not most homeless do have cellphones.
I know, it's terrible. AOL took control of the internet, closed it off to all but the highest bidders, and is holding back progress.

Oh wait...
I am not quite sure what you are making a parody of?
I would love autopilot when driving in snow and ice. I don't trust my human self to do the right thing if I start skidding, or to react as fast as a computer could if another car on the road starts sliding into my lane.
Imagine a member of general public not knowing much about polio. Imagine them reading the fact that medical establishment knowingly injected people with problematic substances, and then apologetically backed down from its position later on and reverted its recommendations. Scanning the health news seems to imply similar retractions in other areas of medical research (saturated fats were bad, and now they're not; coffee was dangerous, and now it's good for you). There's also the news that flu vaccines are basically useless as they fight last year's flu.

Now try to convince the aforementioned member of general public to treat the current corpus of medical research as a gospel.

I dont't defend those decisions, but I can see how a rational person might develop somewhat of a sceptical view.
It's worth comparing this account with Joshuah Bearman's reporting in Wired in May: http://www.wired.com/2015/05/silk-road-2/. The NYT article describes a frustrated IRS agent (Alford) who strongly suspects Ulbricht is DPR and struggles in vain to get anybody on the investigation to listen.

In Wired's version of events, however, Alford's sleuthing had turned up the email address "rossulbricht@gmailcom", but "[t]he IRS didn’t know what any of this meant, so that’s where it ended. The info sat in a case file until dumb luck put Alford in Tarbell’s lab ..."

The NYT's and Wired's depiction of Alford's role in the case seem at odds.
So the proper way to address racist workplace discrimination is to not say anything?