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Electron is a good solution if you need to access certain features of a desktop application (e.g. access to files), but still want something that is easily web based.

I'm going to use it to build an iPhoto replacement, what I've got so far is web based but I'll package it up with Electron.
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> You play as a feudal ruler

More specifically, that means that you have other rulers under you who may be providing the bulk of your armies... rulers who may have designs on your throne, and their own allies. And even if they're theoretically loyal to you, your son may be at risk of being stabbed by a brother-in-law with designs on your kingdom - leaving your daughter in a very delicate situation only a few steps away from Game Over. Perhaps that will mean it's time to replace your wife and try for a new heir (good luck with the papal divorce politics, better have some poison ready in case that doesn't work).
What's with the page never completely loads thing?
Why Millennials Are Trending Toward Minimalism
The company that's losing $1bn/year, Uber China, appears to be a separate company just focused on China (valued at $8bn against Uber proper's $60 odd bn and Didi Kuaidi's $16.5bn) and so pretty much has to be in China. If that wasn't the case I could see the argument for just not bothering there.
>Feeenode

Welp.
This is how I play Civ 3, and it works great except that it hangs on exit. Fine by me.
So it's free like those free trips to Hawaii I'm always getting calls about.
From the description, it's a pretty severe revamp of the game. Do you think it is justified? Also, I wonder, how did he go about improving the AI: it's a closed source game, after all.
Three to become first European network to block ads
That's a lot of meditation! I am doing 20 minutes at the moment and I feel similar to you: I still have serious trouble staying focused on anything. Did you keep it up or was there a lasting effect?
Does boredom breed addiction?
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This is illegal under EU law:https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/despite-the-hype-isp-adblocki...

What makes it illegal is Deep Packet Inspection.
> It might be important to note the CEO from the uk, where I hear developers are paid less than America.

I've heard that too, but I also hear they work less hours, have better vacation, and other benefits. You'll have to balance something out if you really want great employees.
Facebook launches tool to offer support to users at risk of suicide
Maybe some of the more classic black markets, but the newer ones that use Bitcoin and are online are the way of the future anyway. I have a feeling many of the larger BM organizations would be fine if cash was eliminated today. I see this mainly hurting consumers and citizens.
I feel the same way, and have been playing Civ since about 92.

One of the reasons (I think) that Civ 5 is not quite as much fun is the fact that the City no longer really has that sense of individuality.

In previous versions, the City was IT. Each one had its own production, trade, corruption, waste, polution, etc. It had personality! If a particular city had trouble, it could shut down or become extremely inefficient at production. The new game doesn't have this, only the aggregate of anything matters.

For me the game lost a bit of its personality, and that's why I like the older ones better.
And one that doesn't use my phone number as a user name.
As far as I know, even the best antivirus products are only like 50% effective.
> But although the company said it plans to roll out the technology internationally, it is not yet clear when Irish customers will feel the benefit. [emphasis added]

Interesting wording on an ad-supported site.
The problem with TouchID against even a moderately sophisticated attacker is that you leave fingerprints everywhere, including, say, on the phone itself.
Siddhartha Guatama (sp?) used to meditate while walking.

I think the idea in the end is, the mind is a tool. If you spend time developing the tool you'll get better results out of it when you're not spending time developing it.

So even if you could use that thirty minutes to do something else, you might, in the end, be able to get more done, with a more sharply honed (clearer) mind.

That being said, is it right for you? I have no idea.
Heck, it might even be more common. Especially when you talk about huge frameworks like Spring for Java. Also, with CMSes like Wordpress I imagine you can't really change the status that easily if it's not returning what you'd expect. I'm not saying a WP 404 page DOESN'T return 404, but if it returned 200, how far would you have to dig to change that? If my CMS wasn't doing it exactly right, I would probably just shrug and move on unless it was critically important to something I was writing against it.
I WANT TO SAY: thanks wired for the new anti-adblock campaign. You just saved me 10 minutes of my life reading about bee beheading hornets. Now back to programming.
> "It is no more abrasive, than to dismiss someone's concerns as "protecting a sacred cow". "

Since that comment is aimed at me I should probably chime in now and say that my comment about "sacred cows" has been misinterpreted. I was stating that I don't have any hidden agendas, I was not trying to imply that the author of the original article had any "sacred cows". In other words, I was emphasizing the fact that I am a reasonably independent outsider.
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There's also a longer term play - no matter what the court rules, if public reaction is strong enough then elected representatives will be under pressure to change the law.
I feel so sad reading this as I feel that my marriage is in the final stages and will end soon - regardless of what I want. I have a 6 and 3 yr old who I will do anything for but carrying on in marriage won't work and I don't have the final say if things are to end. Does anyone know some online groups or forums to talk through these issues? I'm not US-based but still would value the chance to talk to people in the same situation.

thanks.
I like it as competition to Intel in the desktop space for power users. Workstation market used to be fun with interesting machines from SGI, IBM, Sun, HP, Compaq, and so on. SGI's blew people away with graphics & NUMA architectures. DEC/Compaq's Alpha's could be microcoded for concurrency or performance using regular assembly via a scheme called PALcode. HP PA-RISC and SGI's Itanium systems have memory keying scheme for access control, originally in IBM mainframes, that constrains attackers a bit if used well. The RISC systems supported more programming models without the efficiency hit of x86's that assumed stacks and had little registers. Unfortunately, x86 was very good at running C and x86 code becoming more prevalent. Plus the Microsoft partnership. So, everything else pretty much disappeared.

Anyway, it would be cool to have options. Especially with security extensions for code in the CPU and/or open CPU's. Unfortunately, this really ain't it. People are better off licensing or directly using Gaisler's 4-core SPARCs with security extensions a la Cambridge's CHERI, SecureCore, or Hardbound. We'd have fast, open CPU's w/ open firmware w/ open OS's w/ support at CPU level for confidentiality and/or integrity. That is how you begin on a secure workstation. ;)
Don't we? If a kid gets expelled for bringing a butter knife to school and the given excuse is "paranoid about the litigation", then the general result after all the uproar is that the kid is still expelled and the policies stay in place, so de facto we do accept it and do keep doing things because of it.
U.S. Army testing 3D-printed mission-specific drones
Legalistic arguments over the burden of proof aside, I stand by my assertion that you should support an argument with facts. And a statement like "But the women that are there are usually always employed by some small to medium tech company." doesn't sound like an opinion being offered. I'm not saying the author was morally wrong to make his statement, only that it falls far short of something worth being posted on HN. If he'd taken the extra time to verify some of his opinions, I'd feel differently.
It may pass security audit, but Tor hidden services haven't proven to be a highly secure system and the Tor Project itself wants to overhaul it.
When a late payment is $39.99 and a mark on your credit record, even the smallest, lowest-interest debts become high-risk. Reducing the number of risks (and mental energy managing them) easily outweighs the interest differences.

When you have to spend a 1/2 day to refinance a credit-card to an unsecured personal loan, it's not always a clear win: you might not get the loan, or the loan offered might have significantly higher interest rate than advertised, etc.
Same, I've played a lot of 1,2 and 3, but 4 was ridiculously deep and well balanced. Never got past Prince.
You know what I miss? Civilization: Call to Power. Its balance was always a little wobbly, but I liked dragging my civilization into the Diamond Age, building cities in space, bombarding the enemy from orbit and taking out their capitol with nanites.
OK. Thanks.

And what about the risk of parsing file:// and ftp:// and other protocols inside the WebView component What assurances can you give that there is not security flaw on the server that allows replacing XML file?
Unless you go full RMS, you are using pre-owned software. The fact that it is only legal precedent preventing this from happening already shows the software is already pre-owned.
Your link doesn't work.

I didn't down vote, because it looks like WSJ is catching onto the game. Going to Google in the usual way doesn't work either.
Even if JS was not in the back of your mind, you have to admit that the design of "LISP in Cs clothing" (to quote Crockford) turned out nearly identical - certainly much closer than to Scheme, LISP or ML. And JS did it much earlier than Go. My point was that it owed developer comfort with the design to JavaScript, and not necessarily direct design influence.
If the donation is required, in exchange for some services, is it still a donation?
I think there might be enough interest in HPC. A few of the big upcoming supercomputing projects are going to be based on POWER8. I'd guess a decent number of people buying them are HPC types that want to start experimenting with porting and tuning for those upcoming systems.

I'm just speculating, but I hope they already had enough demand to justify what is definitely a niche product.
Something that most people will miss in this article is the acquisition of Trayport by ICE. Trayport is a UK based software company which provides the technological trading backbone for the European OTC Natural Gas and Power markets as well as global Wet/Dry freight, Iron Ore and Coal.

The financial coal market has found great success on Trayport which facilitated increased clearing volume for both CME and ICE. Most volume is traded OTC. This partially explains why ICE bought them. Another reason is likely because ICE wants to get into markets which have been primarily broker led, and historically powered by Trayport's network.
Wow, what a fascinating read!
It's quite a handy thing with Uber having just been in Saigon, Taipei, Manila and similar it was a pleasant surprise to find Uber just worked, avoiding having to research local taxi scams, trying to figure you've got change in local currency when you've just landed and so on.
I get that this is satire but I think it's kinda in poor taste. This is a pretty serious issue regarding the security of all mobile devices (not just iPhones) and the decision that comes from this will effect almost everyone.
"Pravin Lal: As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master."

from Alpha Centauri (the video game)

Funny how this was about the Americans and not the more obvious choice.
If you heard the way I talk to and about my best man, you'd think I actually wanted to kill him. We're going to see Deadpool and have a few drinks tomorrow.

The reason we can say those things is because of how close we are to that person.
Millions of people? I doubt it. A few thousand at best, those with the patience to put up with it (better men than me).

But even assuming what you say is true, how many people use IPython is irrelevant to how qualitatively good it is. Hundreds of millions used Windows 3-95-98, does that make these products good?

The argument could be made that we're worse off for these even existing, they actually set us back. I'm not making a similar claim for IPython because there are too many alternatives for it to have any serious impact these days and Python is pretty much dead in everything but scripting and braindead web development. Those who think it'll amount to anything in statistics/data science are deluding themselves.
> It is like saying, as a coder, that I can do a few $1000 a week so basic income at all is not needed as there are enough programming gigs.

It's also like saying "Let them eat cake!"
Great writing style. Hilarious.
The main factor seems to be the best-fit allocator, which tends to go into action sooner from metaslabs crossing the 94% threshold earlier than the pool itself and still be selected due to LBA weighting, which is a trick to increase throughput on rotational media. This ought to help prevent best-fit allocation from occurring earlier than necessary on SSDs:

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/commit/fb40095f5f0853946f8...

That said, Delphix made changes to consider on fragmentation rather than space usage when the histogram is in use, so the performance before best-fit behavior goes into effect is better than outright selection of metaslabs by free space.
The issue isn’t about making money, it’s about making money with something other people made.

Imagine I’d take Google’s Android Apps, add a new icon and a new theme to them "DARK THEME GMAIL", for example, and then tell everyone what a great app I made and sell it for 5$.

Most of what elementary is is a nice Linux distro – but just a distro, not even special support.

You pay for a product, where most of it was not actually made by the people you pay.

Is that fair? Is that even moral? No.
Ah yes, the infamous photobombing Cowboys of Europa...
Yep, that's the same one. PyScripter, the open-source IDE for Windows, is written in Delphi with the Python4Delphi component: https://sourceforge.net/projects/pyscripter/
This seems like a huge deal. How does this not have 100's of upvotes on HN? Am I missing something?
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The GitHub repo doesn't, but Silvio is working privately on the new 2.0 version. Also there's a Google Plus community https://plus.google.com/communities/101133820055678331036

Anyway, the current version is very stable, I use it since a couple of years without a glitch.
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I'm confident that there will be plenty of AIs built which would like to optimize for that. (Why you would imagine them to be attached to systems capable of doing anything about it is another matter, though...)
That flow may explain his excellent click through rate ;)
"My guess is you could spend a few million dollars and get a capability against Android, spend a little more and get a capability against the iPhone. For under $10 million, you might have capabilities that will work across the board". Go ahead, good luck - Apple
Personally I can't stand html and javascript. In addition, writing Qt style C++ is really fun and productive.
As a bonus, our software works in both Windows and Linux (and probably mac). Personal finance work is not so nice to do on mobile so the app route would not suit us either.

Not saying that other solutions would not be better, but it all comes down to what one prefer to use :)
So I wrote a super geeky meditation timer that predicts your mood and learns how long you should meditate:

Guru:Smart Meditation Timer
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it is actually uMatrix. I can conform that it works.
I hit that rebalancing needs space (and therefore can ENOSPC) issue at work when trying to compile ZFS on CoreOS on Digital Ocean before CoreOS switched from btrfs to ext4 and overlayfs. Getting ENOSPC on btrfs rebalance when you are seeing regular writes return ENOSPC is a really annoying problem.
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Thank you for this! I love MoM but I'm constantly saddened by the crashing bugs, the units with negative hit points, and so on. I'll have to try it out!
If judges were the type to rule solely on provable facts and rigid logic, they probably would have been better off pursuing a degree other than Juris Doctor.

Judges absolutely factor in public opinion to their rulings, especially where they must periodically undergo public votes to retain or dismiss on election day.
I used to think that the medieval western distrust of usury was backwards and foolish.

Then I read about the roman experience with debt, and now I am far less sure of that.
I think it's their prerogative to say "either get served ads, become a paying member, or leave." I imagine they wont mourn the loss of someone who would have likely not brought them revenue in any form, ever.
Yes. Carrying an extra suitcase is inconvenient, makes you more stressed and so more prone to making mistakes (or means you have to pay an extra lackey to carry it). None of this makes crime impossible but it raises the cost, which for some people will shift the balance in favour of legitimate business instead.
"acquisition of an online publishing license"!?

"How do you license media in an age when everyone could become a writer and publisher?" As far as I can imagine - you don't, that's the thing! Maybe they won't do you anything for now, but if they don't like what you're publishing they will have a ready-available "legal" reason for detaining you for publishing without a publishing license (which of course could be claimed to be totally unrelated to your published content)!
Could you be more specific? You seem to just be linking to random posts about ECC vs. non-ECC. I don't see anything specifically there about the root of the file system.

(I'll happily grant that this scenario is so unlikely as to be impossible for all practical purposes, but having skimmed the stuff you linked to I don't see why it couldn't happen theoretically.)
Ditto. What's with the staggered arrangement; it doesn't fit with any of the other letters.

Is there a reason for this?
Classic bureaucracy evasive manuever.

I see it here in the US as well. "We only accept queries by email and will reply within three to five days" or "It will cost $1 per page to print" etc.
>If the shipped source doesn't contain enough information to actually perform a build surely that's a straight-up GPL violation

Why would it be? Build and testing systems for something like a Linux distribution are far more complex systems than a simple script. In any case, there's no requirement in the GPL (or any other OSI-approved license AFAIK) to include components outside of the software itself to simplify building and installing. Of course, there are a variety of things like package managers that do simplify the process but there's no requirement in the GPL that it be straightforward to install from sources.
While scrolling down past this page, I was wondering when they would finally show the final font. Until the end, I thought that these were all design sketches.

The curious design aside, the bigger problem is legibility. For example, in the last example image (reading "a light one with dots and without") the horizontal lines of the H's are practically invisible, making it unnecessarily hard to even make out the word boundaries.

The latter is a nice lesson in how the brain reads text (starting with word recognition, then moving on to deciphering single words and word groups), but the fact that viewing this font makes me realize this process just shows how badly designed the font is. And I'm not referring to "bad design" as in "I don't like the style", I mean it's bad because it does not satisfactorily perform the function that it is designed for (which for text always is to communicate meaning).
It's long established on HN that downvotes are for whatever the downvoter wants them to be. If you have a reference that says something different, I'd appreciate a link.
>If there is a subpoena against that phone, I don't really have an issue with the government gaining full access to it.

Say the year is 2000 and the US government has a subpoena to access the phone because they want to collect evidence to prosecute a homosexual couple for having consensual sex (which back in 2000 was illegal in some states). The reasoning behind the subpoena matters, and 'OMG TERRORIST' has been so abused that I take issue with it by default.
> What are you talking about?

Apparently, how money works in most places but not in the US...
I can't imagine it would be very controversial however, if US authorities announced that "in 10 years, banknotes older than the 1960's will be invalid, you can exchange them for new notes before that". Why would it be controversial? It would be a big change after having so old money being legal tender, but it would be understandable not least because old money without modern features is likely much easier to counterfeit than new.

In any case: banknotes expiring completely or being made invalid/replaced by new editions with the same denomination isn't anything strange, even if it would be news in the US. So in that light, removing some denominations of Euro notes wouldn't be controversial. Remember: all the EU countries already quite recently had ALL their original banknotes made invalid (after period of conversion, which I believe has ended a long time ago in the original EUR-countries).
> What the court is ordering Apple to do, security experts say, does not require the company to crack its own encryption, which the company says it cannot do in any case. Instead, the order requires Apple to create a piece of software that takes advantage of a capability that Apple alone possesses to modify the permanently installed “firmware” on iPhones and iPads, changing it so that investigators can try unlimited guesses at the terror suspect’s PIN code with high-powered computers. Once investigators get the PIN, they get the data.

I don't think there's much difference between a backdoor and that. A backdoor can be "just a vulnerability", and that's what the FBI is asking Apple to create - a vulnerability in its security system.

It's kind of like saying "we don't want Apple to break its AES-GCM encryption, we just want it to replace it with RC4." Or "we only want Apple to support export crypto protocols as well, so we can downgrade to them when we do our attacks".

Whether we call it a "backdoor" or "vulnerability" or "just don't make it that secure" thing, the end result is the same. The FBI wants Apple to weaken its security, and that weaker security can and will be exploited by malicious actors, too (even if you're assuming it won't be abused by the FBI and the police itself, which of course it will be).
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