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I'm one of those.

If it makes you happier to know, it does not exactly make my day to go through blindingly obvious alternatives with people that clearly are capable of inferring them all.

But sure, I see your point, and experience it too with some people that probably would be better working with something else.
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I hope they can add a higher contrast mode. It is quite hard to see some things.
"This is a specific case where the government is asking for access to information. They are not asking for some general thing, they are asking for a particular case" --Bill Gates

Have something to say, Bill?
By default the gcc packages in the mingw-w64-... groups don't link against that library.

You can explicitly include it if you need the POSIX compatibility parts missing from Windows, but most software doesn't.
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Hehehe well yeah maybe I had naive hopes. I honestly had not thought a lot about how this would turn out in the US. The US is following such a different trajectory from what I am used to in politics in Norway where I am from. Pot isn't legal in Norway either but I found the laws extremely draconian in the US. The war on drugs really turned me off prohibiting drug sales. But what I find odd is that America seems to be moving from one extreme to another so quickly.

Here in Norway pot is not legal, but there is a gradual sort of decriminalization with respect to drugs. They are still keen to point out it is illegal but police reactions to abuse is quite mild. It is mainly the big sellers they are going after.

I guess naively I had expected the US to first change their laws to be milder long before any full legalization happens. But I think a major difference is that in Norway a lot of the liberalization is driven by the legal profession and actors rather than by some popular opinion in the population. Citizens aren't really favoring legalization the way Americans are, but nor are they really favoring a harsh response either. It is people working close to the issue that typically push for some form of legalization.

I think the unique aspect in the US is legalization happening in the context of a very polarized population. Where many are like, just let people do whatever they dam please and others are very moralistic and want to keep going with a sort of war on drugs. This seems like an explosive combination.

You might ask why do I care at all. Well American has tremendous influence on the rest of the world. I fear that a failed legalization experiment in the US would set back legalization everywhere else. People will point to the US as a horror example. The US is already used like that as a way to scare people away from any sort of privatized hospitals or clinics.
I enjoy Literate CoffeeScript and that's where I picked up the concept of Literate coding.

I believe that literate style of code writing has many benefits in any language.

Basically mix markdown with the codebase and export the documentation from the same file.

For a very well executed and interactive example check out

http://dave.kinkead.com.au/modelling-the-boundary-problem/
I haven't read it, but from a quick glimpse on Amazon, it looks to be a book on game theory. Wouldn't a theory on strategy imply rational decision making? Could you expound on what you are referring to?
> some notable language implementations do use Bison (like Ruby, PHP, and Go)

Note that Go is also moving away from yacc:

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/46bd5h/ama_we_are_t...
I use the ObjC ReactiveCocoa in a big project and, albeit the idea behind it is very nice the lack of debug integration is hard. No the framework issue - but lldb is not good at this kind of tracing... Even, if, to be honest the way RAC is integrated into the app is maybe the issue.
The story is a bit better on Swift, because some part of the reactive ideas are "built in"(mapping, filtering), but it still can be hard to understand the flow of the app.
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The author didn't say this, but I definitely associate "non-trivial" with the more mathematically inclined among my friends and acquaintances.
No need to brute force Facebook or most other hosted services, because very few of them store user data encrypted at rest.

Passwords control access to features of the web application, but employees of the company can just go around that and get the data off the server directly.

iPhones running iOS 8 or higher are different--they do encrypt data at rest, and create the key by combining device-specific info with the passcode that the user creates. So without that passcode, no chance to decrypt without brute forcing.
Superman vs. Batman, they are making a new movie about that.

Superman caused a lot of damage in The Man of Steel movie and many people died as a result of his fight with Zod that ended up with him breaking Zod's neck and killing him. The movie could have gone a different way if he asked his Father's hologram about Zod, and any weaknesses he might have during the 24 hours he had to think over. Then use the craft he came to Earth with to destroy Zod's ship engines, defeating him without any property damage or killing innocent people.

But anyway Batman always has a plan in taking down any super powered being in case they go rouge or mind controlled. He stores them on his computer and makes technology or finds items that can weaken them or take away their powers.

For Superman he has a battlesuit and kryptonite. The battlesuit gives him strength and power to fight Superman and the kryptonite weakens Superman so Batman can fight him.

Yet in The Dark Knight, Batman used a program to use everyone's cell phone to create a spying device that gave hi the location of the criminals Joker employed and where the victims are. Sort of abusing his own powers for domestic spying and making cell phones insecure by infecting them with an exploit that installs his own backdoor to get access to the cameras etc to scan for things.
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Ask HN: Why don't default camera apps scan QR Codes by default?
I am working on a product which requires people to scan QR codes to access features. It would have been better if any Phone out there could scan QR codes without installing any other scanner app.

Why isn't this the case?
"but the day-to-day workflow was tedious and torturous". I guess what you describe is something every oldtimer in every discipline recognizes.

How do you think a dentist feels after 30 years of 'could you open your mouth a bit further, tnx, yeah, well let me see, sir do you floss at a daily basis? Especially the back teeth need some more attention...'

Saying you are a 'C' guy makes no sense, sounds like you have forgotten about all the shit you had to take care of in the old days :)

There were tens (or even hundreds?) of C variants with there own compilers, frameworks, platforms, non-compatability, dll-hell.

I have had a great time working in a simple application management team, and a horrible time working in a startup with advanced search technology.

My experience is nice coworkers make or break the day. A boring team is killing, even if the project is great.
> scratches some itches that gitk doesn't quite. Tree visualization of multiple branches...

Just a quick PSA that gitk does support multiple branch tree visualization when started with the 'all' flag i.e 'gitk --all'.

This roughly mirrors the CLI's 'git log --graph --all'.

(not to say that either of these commands have a better UI/UX than SourceTree)
That's the migration plan when I get the time to move the data over.
The recent SourceTree release was dire, aside from the UI changes, it was just broken in too many places. This happens, but what really got my goat was the original tweet in this thread, https://twitter.com/cody_watkins/status/700023288085372928.

It wasn't a beta version, it was a main release and the quality was too poor for them to admit it. This is just sleazy PR.
horses have had a pretty rough run

http://www.humanesociety.org/assets/pdfs/hsp/soaiv_07_ch10.p...
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Absolutely, I am not denying that these things are difficult - very difficult in fact.

Learning to navigate your emotions and finding people and places/routines that work for you is one of the bigger challenges a person faces in his/her lifetime.

The next step is learning to manage other people's emotions and helping them blossom, bringing them out of their shell.

I try to do that to a small extent :)
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"Seems" is not the same as "is". In the US at least, I see not corruption so much as deeply entrenched dysfunctional incentives.

It's not malice or conspiracy or even stupidity. It's simply the way the US's political, economic, and industrial systems (alternately known as THE MAN) co-evolved.
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Link must have moved here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_%26_Trust_Co....

But yeah I see now that US patent office used to be like India, but now it accepts any patent.
Although a great incremental update, is the new Atlas any better than Asimo?
The new update requires you to login to an Atlassian account and you will be locked out from using Sourcetree if you refuse to login.

Avoid if you don't have an Atlassian account, don't want to create one or don't want to be logged in.

http://imgur.com/lsI2M9o
> Anyway, here we are having the "public debate about security vs. privacy on computers"

What I think we're having is a debate about access vs. security.

The government wants access to be more important than information security.

Apple, and I guess people educated on the topic who aren't the government, want information security to be more important than access.

If one actor has a magic key to a system, n actors have that key because logic and the faliability of human systems. The government has proven too often that information security is not its chief concern, and we should expect they'll not perfectly protect the capability they're asking for as well.

Do we care to keep information safe, or "safe"? I think that's what the legislature is going to have to decide.
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First will come the dystopia, the utopia might be later. In the early years the best positioned companies will reap the huge benefits of this new field. In time, the benefits will trickle down to ordinary people. The same was with cars and computers.

Even when ordinary people will reap benefits from robotization, the big bucks will go to the Google or Apple of the day. We might have our daily needs met by the future economy, but big companies will dominate the finances. We'll get to play with the new toys, though.
Out of curiosity, is that a real example from some language?
Wow, that's terrible. Thanks for pointing it out.
You can contact most airlines and do what is called a "status match." Basically, you say that you have top status on some other airline and would like to switch to United, would they match you? If you haven't done it before, they'll typically offer a challenge (we'll give you gold and if you fly X amount over Y period you get platinum).
Not true, it's riddled with bugs. Here's just the ones I've noticed today:

- Install and start it on Windows 10 and the initial Atlassian login screen doesn't work (it pops a browser window over the top that doesn't go anywhere). It eventually works after 3 or 4 tries.

- Upgrade from an older version on a machine where some of the repos in the left hand pane have been removed and it crashes instantly on first run with null reference exceptions.

- Space as a shortcut to add a file to staging is gone.

- Right click on the menu heading "Branches" in the middle panel and it will let you try to check out a branch named "Branches"

- If you had the setting on to show full console output (I like to see the output of the post-receive hook) it now shows the dialog for every file you add to staging.
You mean, GitUp (not GirUp) and 1.0.3 (not 3)?
I am convinced that 'smart' is something else entirely.

There is an awful lot of brainpower dedicated to skills like walking into a party where you know noone, meeting with annoyed customers, or even polite conversation, etc.
and then they will put a weapon on it
There's a per-invocation cost that, at ridiculous volumes, becomes non-trivial ($0.20 per million). We get very high throughput (my back of the envelope math says about 3 writes per millisecond per Lambda, that's to a Cassandra cluster) for I/O intensive operations. You can have up to 100 simultaneous invocations, and you can ask for more (we did). Without knowing more about your situation, I would suggest that you use a library that lets you fire off a bunch of async requests and block on them all. Play around with RAM/CPU (one knob for both)--a higher setting may result in quicker processing at a lower cost (!). If you're highly cost sensitive, consider batching your SNS messages--remember that it supports 64K payloads. (We use SNS to do batchloading, actually--it's a cheap, managed alternative to Kinesis.)

Should you choose the fanout route, Tim Wagner from AWS told me that it's pretty fast: https://twitter.com/timallenwagner/status/658025794900365312
My Moto X (2015) camera app automatically scans not only QR and bar codes but also scans and OCR's business cards. This might also be true on recent Nexus devices though I don't have one so can't say for sure.
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I was surprised by how little domain-specific info this post has for its title. It's pretty much the same as every other 'using R' post.

At any rate, for those looking to do distance sampling/other ecological work, check out this book: https://github.com/dill/RDistanceBook and this site: http://distancesampling.org/
Might criminals, paranoids and privacy extremists wishing for their phones never to be cracked, just choose an 11 digit passcode? I hear this would take too long for a computer to crack.

Everyone else can choose a 4 digit code, and still enjoy very good security up until the point they are wanted by the FBI.

People are confusing the fight for unbreakable encryption with this new fight to keep manufacturer-specific passcode retry attempts nice and secure.

The very fact we have this dependency between the encryption and the retry system, is a weakness probably deserving of attention.
you should try moblyapp.com, a fabric client. It has answers & custom events too. check it out. #mobly
One of the appendices is risks of differrent generating methods. Should show up in the table of contents.

And yeah, I know it's long....
This guy talks of 'latencies' when he really means 'durations'.

The latency is the time between stimulation and response, not the overall duration.

In this case the latency of a syscall would be the time between a user program performing a syscall and it starting to operate, not the entire time taken.
It is 2016 and ok to run JavaScript, the Internet works much better with it. I promise not to hack your flip phone. =)
I still like BGs argument (and do consider myself a hacker haha)

"It is no different than [the question of] should anybody ever have been able to tell the phone company to get information, should anybody be able to get at bank records. Let’s say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said ‘don’t make me cut this ribbon because you’ll make me cut it many times’.“

(https://www.yahoo.com/tech/bill-gates-says-apple-unlock-0451...)
In my opinion it require lot of learnings to put Docker Data Center into production and it is still in the early stage. It is a good alternative for companies following everything DIY approach even for creating, deploying and managing containers. But for enterprises who really care about applications and looking for simple, steady and mature option for container based platform cloud foundry is a good alternative. It is more structured and matured platform compared to Docker+Kubernetes as well as Docker+Docker Data Center+UCP combination.
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Maybe if normals care enough about privacy to make a big deal out of any attempt to breach privacy it would be different.

but as it is they just shrug and say "i got nothing to hide"

smh
I use SourceTree for a couple of my projects, but thanks for the heads up on Tortoise.

I'm not a power user, I think I just needed something free with a private repository.
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Does this require your Python app to run on a user in the docker group, thus giving your app Sudo privilege?
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I don't think it has anything to do with LSD. I've never tried LSD, but I also see moving LEDs (especially white ones) strobing that happens very fast and it's more like they are vibrating. It's hard to explain this feeling, but it's very distinct and distracting.
I agree it would be great if smartphones had a QR code scanner built-in. It would save lots of code duplication for basic tasks.
On the other hand, you would have to trust that native app being the 'man in the middle' for the data scanned.
Algorithms have existed in the world of mathematics thousand years before computers were invented. From this point of view, computers are just a way to speed-up things.

If the Euler algorithm was discovered today, should it be patentable? What about the FFT? Is there any substantial difference with any "modern" algorithm, like the DCT or arithmetic encoding?
What precisely was not true from my post?

Alcohol has a huge industry behind it in the USA.

And who bought Budweiser-creator Anheiser-Busch, one of the USA's largest beer companies? InBev, based in Belgium.

Alcohol consumption per capita is higher in plenty of countries in Europe compared to the USA:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol...

Although I can't find numbers on international marketing expenditures for alcohol, personal experience informs me that most pubs in Germany, and plenty in Ireland and Austria, have a sign from a beer company hanging outside the front. That's actually something the USA doesn't have; neon signs are in some pubs' windows, but not every single one like I'd see in Germany. That sign outside the bar is most definitely marketing, even if it's less glitzy than American alcohol TV ads.

I then asked a question about why, and you answered - thank you! I didn't know alcohol ads (do you mean on tv, in print, on the radio, online...?) were banned in the Netherlands.

I also must ask for clarification: because I can't sense the tone with which yore typing these words, it seems like you're using the word naive in a way that suggests you are simply disappointed that the USA is not behaving like your country. Am I interpreting that correctly?

Americans do think big when it comes to business... as do many other countries. The Forbes international 500 [1] has companies from all over, and the USA does not dominate. In fact, the Netherlands shares the number 3 slot with the UK. I hope you don't naively think businesses want less success outside the USA; they may want less growth, though, but the Forbes top 10 global would seem to say otherwise.

Ambition for business is everywhere in the world, although the USA does indeed have its share of large companies.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_Global_500
> The more important question is "Should the government be able to access citizen's digital data with a court order? And if so, how can that be enabled without compromising the general security of the device?

The government already does have access to these citizens' data. That data simply has the quality of having been encrypted.

If I have printed encrypted text and lock it in my home safe, when the government gets a court order to search my house, they'll have complete access to those documents. They can't compel me to decipher those documents though, it's on them to break the encryption.

It's the same situation here. Here, Apple may be able to perform that decription service for the government.

The question to me is, should the government be legally able to press a person or firm into service?
I'm starting a segment of STEM hardware to allow middle-school kids to learn digital logic design in an interactive, visual-tactile way, in order to build a basis for learning software.

My official product crowdfunding is still in preparation - meanwhile I committed to teach a class on March 12 so I've designed a smaller, crude version that will work for the purpose.

The device is a reverse-engineered version of the first programmable logic chips with the fuse matrices replaced by a diode matrix. Users express logic equations by placing diodes at matrix junction points - this provides a tactile experience and visual feedback.

The logic and-or trees thus created control latches whose outputs go back to the matrix. The user can create state machines this way - it's microprogramming since the underlayment is hardware only. And it allows users to grasp how symbols can control physical structure.

My Patreon fundraising page for the temporary stopgap device is www.patreon.com/lfelsenstein . The larger project webite is www.andorbit.com .

This will be an open project - I'm counting on others to develop courseware, peripherals and a web-based structure for mentoring support.
it seems that it might be close to doing what a low-skill laborer would do in a factory setting. remember that it should be able to work for longer hours, and not require benefits etc. i suspect that companies would start to purchase such a device at $100k. that price seems achievable, probably within a few years. as quantities increase, i suspect that the price will fall dramatically thereafter.
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So? Curve25519 provides secure parameters for ECC, why not use it everywhere? How's that not secure? Is RSA secure? Is it because there were 3 people involved?
Most programmer friendly editors for those languages supported formatting as you type, gofmt isn't the first of its kind.

Also it makes very easy to recognize reserved keywords.
Starting at p. 993: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Annex_II.pdf

And p. 745: http://srren.ipcc-wg3.de/report/IPCC_SRREN_Ch10.pdf
I think the paper disagrees w/ you: "Computing principal components can be an expensive task..."
I don't know anything about shipping IT systems but my guess is that it's not just a software in the cloud. You have a lot of hardware involved. Sorting facilities, delivery guys, etc. If that environment is heterogeneous and you need to replace all the hardware or adapt to lots of different hardware, I can easily see how things can go wrong.

The other thing is how can a business person tell the difference between a star programmer and some random mediocre coder? It's not like if it is a profession with reliable minimum standards. It's a bit like psychanalysts, anyone can declare himself a developer.
I also use mintty. It's not great, but I haven't seen anything better (it seems that ConEmu is optimized for cmd.exe, not bash).

I'm really using `tmux` inside `mintty` so I have an emulation of tabs inside one terminal. It's not super-convinient, requires the user to setup his/her own .tmux.rc, but it gets the job done (still orders of magnitude better than cmd.exe or "even" powershell).
Replacing the firmware (Secure Enclave or not) with a version that doesn't include rate-limits and auto-wipe isn't the same as having a crypto backdoor. Right now, your data is still protected by the complexity of your passphrase. This is not true for your scenario.
Doesn't matter. Courts can arbitrarily change what is Patent Office's interpretation. Unless it has passed through SC I wont even bother.