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I'll be honest with you... Chicago is very much a place where you take your chances.

You can live in Streeterville for example, as rayiner alluded to in another post... but what happens when you go out with friends??? What if they want to go someplace in say... Wrigleyville... some night??? You're walking back to your car, or trying to get a taxi back to the loop, and you cross too close in front of a police officer, or his vehicle. (Basically, the same thing that bbarn was talking about in his post.) Even though it's completely inadvertent, and done with no ill intent, I've seen this very thing go decidedly bad for people in the past. It seems that it didn't go too well for bbarn either.

So if you're asking for guarantees... I think that reasonable people will concede that there are none.

The best advice is to be aware of your surroundings, and be aware that police are extremely dangerous and best avoided. Just do the common sense kind of things... allow police the path if you see them walking on the sidewalk. Don't look directly at an officer. When approached by a police officer, be extremely deferential. And for goodness sake, if you see police abusing power don't try to intercede. Don't let them see you recording or videoing the incident. When you have an opportunity later... just write an anonymous letter to a newspaper with the video or something. Etc etc etc.

Also... not trying to be even more of a dark cloud here, but I think a word of warning is appropriate on this particular point... if you are black and male, and assuming you are professional as you are a hacker news reader... I'm not entirely certain any of this will work for you in any case.
Don't do it!

I want Let's Encrypt to do what it is supposed to: free automated certificates. Let third party tools (like Qualys SSL Labs) rate how good it is.
OP here. The Amazon hookup was one of the big projects but was a huge undertaking with high visibility and I was left to deliver it on my own.

It was an intense time with me cutting holidays short and very long days. I wasn't expecting a "cut" of the profits but it was very much about being recognised for the hard work I put in and that it was a good piece of work.

I felt I had gone above and beyond for 3-4months. I wasn't bitter. I just realised that after the derisory pay-rise, that it was time to leave.

I still miss that place. It was full of good people (some are close friends) and I did some really cool stuff that made a massive difference to the operation of the company. Would I go back? Yes as a consultant/contractor but not as a permie. I know my worth.

After that I joined an immensely challenging start-up which unfortunately failed and am now consulting and looking to bootstrap an idea in the summer ;)
"Also, not to attack the GP, but there is a Chicago cyclist personality I see frequently. They do dick moves with their bikes, cause accidents, never obey any traffic law, scream at pedestrians, and constantly pretend to be innocent and are often incredibly confrontational when criticized. I can't imagine cops being nice to these people and the GP sounds like one of these people, which may explain many of his experiences."

No, I'm the mild mannered, just let me get home without dying type. Stopping at lights, yielding at stop signs, pedestrian in crosswalks. Not in a particular hurry to get anywhere usually, overweight, calm demeanor. What makes me "sound like" one of these people to you? You'll note I mention this is the total sum of my interactions over 20 years in this city. I have yet to have a positive one, but still, there aren't many to speak of. Also, only the one experience there had anything to do with being on a bicycle.
I think it's naive to assume that prosecutors will ever prosecute cops without massive public outcry, that police departments are at all capable of policing themselves (including documenting broken bodycams), or even that politicians are going to have enough teeth to stand up to the police unions.

It's so naive it borders on stupidity. Do you really think "documentation" would change anything? It'd just lead to "Oops, didn't know that was broken sarge, I'll get a spare." "Oops, looks like all the spares are gone. Sarge, can you order some more?" "Oops, forgot to order some spares. Maybe I'll get to it tomorrow."

Chicago is especially corrupt (as far as I know it's the only metropolitan police force with its own CIA-esque black site), but it's absolutely naive to think this can work anywhere. This is just the tip of the spear.
You are right, I had forgot that GCC broke the libstdc++ ABI between 3.3 and 3.4 (not 3.x to 4.x though). That was 12 years ago, though, the ABI has been stable ever since [1].

I still would characterize it a fairly stable ABI, not something that "can always break", especially compared with other vendors that break the library ABI every release.

[1] A new libstdc++ C++11 ABI was added in GCC 5.x but it is optional even in C++11 mode.
> It is simply a great automatic tool that really clean up a lot of problem.

And introduce just as many new problems...
Chicks dig it though.

One guy I knew used to post the most ambiguous crap on Facebook. It literally had no meaning - or it could have meant almost anything - when I read it, but he got a ton of likes from girls. (Or maybe they just did that because he was good looking).
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I think a lot of people like me would pay for it if there was some sensible micro-payment system. I'm hardly ever inclined to sign up and pay ~$10 a month to read an article on a site. If I saw the article in a newspaper at a stand or machine, I used to spend 50 cents buy it and get an entire newspaper for my money. A single article would seem to be worth at most 25 cents, most of the time a dime, and I would gladly pay that amount to read a good article. I don't understand what the problem is and why this isn't implemented yet.
I've played about four hours so far and I'm captivated by it.

Slowly as you explore the the island and solve puzzles they become more and more intrinsically linked to the context you find the puzzles in - soon the puzzles demand that you become aware of the environment around you and look at things in new and surprising ways.

for myself i was never really expecting a deeply interactive landscape; i was slightly worried that the puzzles were just silly little doodads like a curio you picked up and soon forgot about, but as i've moved through the game solving them i've marveled at their cleverness and how they have encourage me to think.

perhaps the island is too static, but then again, back in the day so was Myst. the movement and interactions it encourages are up here taps head.
> can hardly be called soft on crime

Anything anti-police will be called soft on crime by the police union; politics doesn't care about reality, only about perception.
Frank Ryan, quarterback for an NFL champion Cleveland Browns team, had a Ph.D. in math from Rice.
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But the data itself is not new software. It is just data.
Functionality should not change because of new data.

Well, ideally, yes. But software breaks all the time when you give it data the programmer didn't expect, which happens especially often with time.

DST, for example. What if a state stops observing DST? Arizona observed DST in 1967, but hasn't since then. A couple other states are considering abolishing it, too. You can easily imagine software doing something dumb when it can't find its DST entry in tzdata.
Rust has extremely good FFI to C as well, if you were using that as a differentiation. No memory layout issues, etc like Go's issues.

(Nothing against Nim, I haven't worked with it yet)
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The thing about ADHD is that you really don't get to pick what you hyperfocus on. Some days you may be focused on getting that beast, other days you may find an interesting termite mound that grabs your attention while on the hunt.
Not sure if folks here have had a chance to look at this : http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1454466 ? Would be very interested to get your thoughts on this.
There was a relevant article in 2010 about the concept of eradicating ALL mosquitoes. The author of the study surmised you could do so with minimal ecological impact.

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721/full/466432a.html
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This is so true. What a visionary. Paris would be a totally different beast if it was not for him. This makes you regret that there were no such visionary (on a similar scale) in the twentieth century.
Is there a story behind its development?
The brain and nervous system is a mixture of excitatory and inhibitory subsystems. One hypothesis is for certain mental behaviors or dsyfunctions they can be out of balance.
What causes the imbalance- genetic, geometery, chemistry, development- is the 64 billion dollar question.
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Thank you for the kind words! I'm happy that you can see the positives in Nim even though you dislike one of its most prominent features.

Personally I love significant whitespace and have started using Nim because of this feature, basically back in the day I just wanted a Python alternative that was compiled. If you really dislike it that much, you may be able to convince Araq to bring back his old time idea of allowing different syntaxes in Nim. As for a gofmt tool: `nim pretty` exists but may need to mature a bit.

I believe that a focus on web development is good. One of the reasons why the book has such a strong focus on it is because I have spent most of my time implementing stuff which is necessary for web dev in Nim, and I want to show it off. The fact that I have a lot of experience with it helps too.

I would love to show off as many things as I can, and I might look into including some examples of SDL, SFML, and more as well as ways to utilise Nim's real-time GC for games. But I must be careful, the book is already becoming rather large :)

As for systems, there is a whole chapter dedicated to Direct Hardware Control in the book. But I will make a note of maybe including something for native desktop developers.

In terms of the GC, I don't have as much experience using Nim with no GC as I would like. So I can't really comment as to the current situation.

In terms of a comparison to D, I've already received feedback to add D to the language comparison table in Chapter 1. To compare these properly I will need to do some research first.

Nim is very close to 1.0 now. We are planning on looking at the standard library and ensuring that it is in tip top shape before 1.0 is finally released. There is also work currently happening to make asynchronous IO multithreaded.

Thanks for the feedback and hope this answers your questions!
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One of the most promissing projects :

* it keeps CPython as is.
* hence retains compat with extensions.
* but still has the potential to improve performance like pypy.
* and yet can be shipped just as an additional compiled lib inside the Python dist.

If it ever works, it will be wonderful.
You know those complicated policies that big enterprises have, the ones startups love to mock? This is why they have them. :(

You have two classes of tools... carrot and stick. His stick is much bigger than yours. He can destroy your company, you can sue him for it with whatever you have left after the company is destroyed. So stick is a problem.

Carrots may work better... ongoing stock options, contingent on destruction of the data, certified by an expert and an oath? Basically bribe him.

Yet another alternative - do you have to fire him? Why? Maybe do a Peter Principle thing, and "promote" him to a less responsible position, maybe something where he has no reason to touch production data anymore? Or start a new project, and put him in charge of it?
Super happy that the OpenSSL team decided to be proactive and just enable `SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE` for all users, as well as bump the minimum DH key size. Better defaults for everyone!
It seems that this is the purpose that Steam's Early Access program fulfills. Players know well that the game is unfinished, but there is still enough there to explore. Users even pay for this early access and then they provide valuable feedback to the developers. Sounds like an MVP to me!
For a limited few things, maybe. But the vast majority of things don't need that. I'm dealing right now with someone who wrote their own autocomplete text view, which doesn't work properly now that I've fixed their mess with auto layout.
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An imperfect solution might be to buy his laptop for enough money to allow him get a new laptop and the licensed software on the laptop that he purchased. Doing this at the time of dismissal would make it more likely to regain control of the data. [Edit add] Also, give him opportunity to copy his data off the hard drive. This would have to be supervised, obviously.

Addresses:

* A delete may not delete the PII because it could be in multiple places and deletes don't really delete unless you do a secure delete that truly overwrites the deleted data.

* Gives him a monetary incentive to cooperate.

Does not address:

* Any backups that he might have that are out of your control.
what differentiator?
No, but he does need to know that his company processes your health claims. The existence of many intel programs is a secret.
Obama has finally given me hope.

Hope that of Trump gets elected he will be as ineffective as Obama in keeping his pre-election promises.
Send to Kindle plugin works great for me. I usually wait till bedtime, then read most articles that I had sent to Kindle during day. If anything is interesting enough, I will save the article otherwise I just delete it.
Jon Blow's probably the most famous indie developer, next to notch. Maybe more-so, among game developers. He was at the first indie game jam in 2002, I think he may have written for Game Developer magazine during the nineties, but not sure about that. I keep thinking the nineties were only a decade a away :/
The hype machine around this is strange - tons of superficially positive reviews but without a whole lot of passion behind them.

Does anyone else smell something off about the response to the game so far? Have people convinced themselves that this is a great game before they started enjoying it?
I think we're all familiar with the guy who acts like his University of Phoenix degree has launched him into the academic elite, and certain programs that are notoriously bad are and perhaps should remain a large negative signal.

But to that end I've heard multiple people in hiring positions whose opinion of Georgia Tech's CS program has diminished greatly because they now view them as "that school with the online Master's." I'm hope the net effect is negligible but I've heard too many people say that or agree with the sentiment to dismiss it entirely.
Ops teams need a clear "should I do emergency patching? yes/no" message when any vulnerability gets published. In this instance, it looks like this doesn't require emergency patching unless you're using something unusual to terminate SSL.

That said, it's a serious issue, no doubt about that.
> Newegg Chief Legal Officer Lee Cheng says the move is necessary since Minero dismissed its Texas lawsuit without prejudice, meaning it can refile the case at a time of its choosing.

To me this sounds like self justification by the legal staff at Newegg. Most likely the troll is away for good. If they come back at that point engage legally with them. There is a cost to any litigation and this could also backfire. A troll who comes after them and knows that they sue even when a case is backed away from (regardless of prejudice) will be less likely to drop the case at that point.

The other side to this of course is the hope that the troll won't defend the suit so they have bought themselves some insurance. However it's unclear exactly why that matters if the probability of the troll returning is low. Why would they return? Why not just go after an easier target? Newegg has already proven their point.
If something exceptional happens, yes, a subordinate needs to be able to raise the issue up the chain and say, "What do I do?"
So one, you completely missed the part about her suggesting a hosted solution, and two, you're being a snob about stuff for no other reason than to be a snob. I don't think anyone can take your assessments about this stuff seriously.
I'd hesitate to call Jon Blow an indie dev anymore, expect in the "not a AAA studio" sense. With the success of Braid and including in Indie Games the movies, he is probably one of the most well recognized game developers. The Witness has a massive budget, multiple developers, and high-end voice actors.
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This make a good "Show HN". Guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Is there a story behind it's development?
Nothing but bad reviews on the link provided. Wow.
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Nice of you to answer but:

* What if 600 people each invite 3 friends - how is that consistent with your promises?

* It's not that you explain it here, but the landing page is still opaque as to it's purpose, or why I should bother.
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The result would be a catastrophe (1985)
The safest neighborhood in Chicago wrt police if you ask me is Hyde Park. This is of course if you are affiliated with the university. You get a free pass there because the police are paid extra to pamper.
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The common thing I see on /r/adhd is that medication can be useful as a crutch while you develop good habits. Going off of medication does bring you back to the old norm, but you've got some good coping methods built up by that point.
This game is the perfect tool for testing your problem solving skills. It puts you in a new framework and tests your cognition.

Portal, The Talos Principle, all have the same goal.

I wonder if people could become excellent problem solver by playing these games instead of honing the skills in the mathematics, physics or similar frameworks.
Funnily enough, in the late 1980's at the UMD HCIL, we developed a hypermedia browser that supported embedded interactive "applets" scripted in PostScript [1], using James Gosling's previous window framework called NeWS [2], with a hypermedia authoring tool, using James Gosling's other previous window framework called Emacs [3]. ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZi4gUjaGAM&list=PLX66BqHq0q...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuC_DDgQmsM&index=34&list=PL...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhmU2B79EDU&list=PLX66BqHq0q...
> A troll who comes after them and knows that they sue even when a case is backed away from (regardless of prejudice) will be less likely to drop the case at that point.

Perhaps, but it also serves to deter future trolls from engaging Newegg in court over patents. Newegg is making it clear that if you sue them over a patent, that suit is going to be taken to a verdict, whether you like it or not.
Can everyone please stop downvoting this guy because he said a bad word? He appears to have a mental condition, but lots of people do. I found his posts interesting.
Group dynamics can result in some awful things. It's expressed anywhere from kindergarten, highschool to politics, online bullying, conspiracy theories, etc. So, yeah, they have things in common, but as you say, the outcome in China was grievous and devastating.

Thankfully accounts still survive and if I recall correctly, there have been a couple of Chinese movies which broach the subject, although not certain if done in Hong Kong.
This looks like an advertising plug.

All of this information is out there for free for those willing to take the time to track it down. I can suggest
the following sites:

workplacefairness.org
privacyrights.org
lambdalegal.org
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1230245...

No need to buy the book.
I wouldn't say so. I have lived mostly north, and sometimes west, and found it to be generally the same.

Pick your neighborhood based on other factors.. closeness to the CTA trains, quality of food options, and general cleanliness. I've found these to be pretty good indicators of overall safety/quality of life in a neighborhood. (I won't get into the cause/effect argument, just saying that as a newcomer they are good measuring points)
This did not happen overnight. The big computer companies have been building AI labs for years, decades in case of MicroSoft. They've been revisiting Go for the past few years too. One of Marvin's early students advises Googles R&D. These companies have raided every major university. If Marvin was still alert in his final years, he would have known some about this.
Marginalized people can still vote. The problem is they tend to vote for the people who are causing the problem, or at least not solving the problem.
Rust FFI is not nearly as simple as Nim's interface to C where you pretty much just call C functions.
I don't think it is a good idea to shield bad software at the expensive of having incorrect out-of-date data. Developers should be aware that tzdata changes all the time, and create software that can deal with it.
> Have people convinced themselves that this is a great game before they started enjoying it?

Quite possibly. While it is an excellent game, the hype train has been rolling for so long that by this point it can't be seen as anything less than excellent.

See also the review cycle around the similarly hyped and long-awaited "That Dragon, Cancer".
I love it and I will use it. I wanted to do something similar, App store for SaaS products. You have done it really beautiful and meaningful.
How far along is he with implementing his game dev language, Jai? I haven't kept up, but I was interested in his early demonstrations.
I think that is normal - Jon Blow has a big online presence, lots of fans due to Braid...
I upvote edw519 before I finish reading his comments all the time...
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> And before pcwalton drops in with his endless spamming
about Nim not being safe, Nim being undefined

Well, it is, isn't it? Is he wrong about Nim not being safe when not using Boehm GC? Does it not segfault when sending GC pointers between threads?

He only jumps in, when someone claims Nim is safe or the sweet spot, or something equally wrong. Nim's pretty syntax comes with a price, just like Rust's safety comes with a different kind of price.
Game development from scratch is a bit like inventing the universe from the atoms up.
> OpenSSL provides the option SSL_OP_SINGLE_DH_USE for ephemeral DH (DHE) in TLS.
It is not on by default. If the option is not set then the server reuses the
same private DH exponent for the life of the server process and would be
vulnerable to this attack. It is believed that many popular applications do set
this option and would therefore not be at risk.

Shouldn't that be "... do NOT ..."?

Edit: Nevermind the double negative got me. Setting the option (which is not on by default) mitigates the issue and they're saying many apps do set it.
That's a good point. The emergence of Chrome certainly lit a fire under Firefox's ass. Being "just" better than IE6 was no longer good enough.
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How big is React gzipped? How much are you saving with this library?
Yeah, and it looks like BoringSSL did that about a year ago :)

https://boringssl.googlesource.com/boringssl/+/9f226a5f5183e...
Do you have any experience in trying to make and sell games? Have you ever been compensated for a self-developed game project?

You appear to be completely unaware of the economics of game development. That coupled with the arrogant tone of your comments really makes you sound foolish.