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Before 1 January 2020. Company will be a recent entrant into the fortune 1000. By recent, I mean not in the Fortune 1000 as of 1 January 2010. $1 says it happens. If 100 people bet against me, I pay out 1 cent to each. If more than 100 bet against me and win, I pay a cent to first 100.

I'm not sure how other lines of betting work, but interested in proposals.
This almost sounds like Comey sees this as some sort of turf war, with Apple infringing on his responsibilities.

He is saying the FBI should have veto power over computer security features.
Yea, I was pretty shocked when I learned about this when I was young.

"So you're telling me there's literally cables under the sea that connects continents together?"

http://i.imgur.com/f6V2jab.gifv
Since the developers have been working on the app for three years, I'm sure that they've built in safeguards. One simple fix that comes to mind is to store all data locally, except for the database of abusive employers. If people want to contact lawyers to recover lost wages, all of the information in the app is kept private since attorney-client confidentiality kicks in. With something like that, there is no additional risk to using the app.

P.S. This is not a criticism of you or your comment, danielvf (I think that the point you brought up is valid). One thing that does bother me about Hacker News, though, is that the top comment is almost always a rejection of the innovation at hand. The hacker part of Hacker News should be about improving imperfect systems, not instinctively criticizing and rejecting them. I feel like HN would be a much more interesting site and much truer to its culture if every critical comment had to include a potential fix for the criticism. If someone can't come up with a potential fix to add, then they haven't done enough research to justify making the comment in the first place.
Fair enough. Looking into Relaxation-Induced Anxiety :).
Woah! Had I RTFM'd this would've saved SO. MUCH. AGGRAVATION. in recent months! Cheers!
I use "HN Special"[1] with the visual theme turned off (it irritates me). It also offers infinite scrolling, although it makes accessing the search box a little tedious.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-special-an-addi...
Awesome... eager to try out the gifs.com API
Reverse debugging has been around for several years, but hasn't seemed to be widely adopted. Which seems kind of unfortunate, as the concept of it looked really useful.

Does rr make reverse debugging much easier than it's previously been in gdb or something? :)
>> Wget can be typed in using only the left hand on a qwerty keyboard!

Great!
The input boxes run a validation check whenever the user presses enter or focuses out of them; if this check determines the input value to be invalid, the stylesheet will shake.

In your case, you were probably typing some input before you clicked the hint box, thus focusing out of the input and invoking the validation check.
Arch Linux has pacman, which is a single program that does all of the things you need from a package manager. OpenSUSE systems have zypper, which also has one command for everything (and has a much more reliable format -- rpm).
Yeah it's just not that easy with the advent of coherent optical communications in subsea networks. You need to be able to do some very complex DSP in real-time at 50Gb/s. You also need to know the exact FEC encoding scheme, grey map, actual modulation format etc... It is very non-trivial. For OOK signals I think it's somewhat doable for coherent, very, very hard. Not totally impossible but I highly doubt even CIA has this expertise.
I just recently read an article about this...

"Around 150 to 200 fiber-optic cable breaks are recorded each year. Between 65% and 75% occur in water depths of < 200 m and result mainly from fishing and shipping activities. In contrast, breaks attributed to geohazards comprise < 10% of the world average. However, seaward of the busy continental shelf and upper continental slope, geohazards account for at least one-third of breaks."

-- "Insights into Submarine Geohazards from Breaks in Subsea Telecommunication Cables"

PDF: https://www.iscpc.org/documents/?id=1794
> It's very brittle

So? Things break and then I uninstall them.
Oil, natural gas and coal also transport these costs into the future. Why does this stop nuclear and not them?
Wow. This is so incredibly useful to me.

The general workflow I have followed was, "Download PDF if present. If documentation can be shown in single HTML page, download it, change all the anchors to point to my own filesystem". This changes everything in such a simple, useful, way.
Some old crusty Linksys from the early 2000's. I really should upgrade but I'm too lazy and locked into a great grandfathered deal from my ISP. They keep trying to offer me new routers and cable boxes just to break the deal but I'm smarter than that. I pay $25 a month for a 20 mbit connection.
Didn't the early cosmonauts also carry handguns in case they landed I Siberia and had to defend themselves against a bear or wolves?
The thing is that overbuilding solar/wind to the point that the minimal output overcomes peak requirements is insanely expensive. Nuclear is expensive, but not as expensive as overbuilt or offshore (consistent) wind or solar.
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Maybe for a few, krebsonsecurity, probably, Comics Curmudgeon and Washington Post, possibly. Very few others. I'd have to see. I don't think very many web sites have anything like content worth even $20/year. And no, I didn't subscribe to many magazines in the past, but I did subscribe to a newspaper, until it folded, leaving the other newspaper in town to take a very conservative editorial swerve.

As it stands, I just don't click on wired.com, forbes.com, wsj.com and nytimes.com URLs.
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You're wrong about that; mingw doesn't require dependency on the dll, msys does.
They may hurt you, not will.

Because sometimes it takes time to be able to face your demons.

Life doesn't stop when bad shit happens. You still have to go to the grocery store and do laundry. You still stub your toe on a curb. People still fart on the subway. Sometimes you can let life happen for awhile, let your body heal and your emotions level and your mind strengthen before diving into the reality of what happened. There's no timeframe for this. Days, weeks, months, years. Depends on the person.
Information that would have been more useful YESTERDAY!!
Thanks for answering! I'll have to check it out. Fortunately I don't spend much time on windows these days, and I had switched to babun from msys because of so many deficiencies in their old cygwin fork.
TLDR: curl rocks.
"I will set up any network I'm in charge of with a DNS that has doubleclick.com as 127.0.0.1, and also many others."

You mean doubleclick.net? Alas, that's a typo that would let the ads in.

Like you I redirect doubleclick and "many others". But not to localhost. I like to log all the requests either via pflog or a socket logger. Useful for examining what apps are trying to do from my device over the network. Sometimes I redirect certain domains to my own httpd and serve my own "fake" resources (placeholders for in-app ads, etc.).

You say "any network I'm in charge of".

What if there were a DNS caching server reachable from anywhere that blocked these ad servers for you? That is, what if there was a "public DNS" like 8.8.8.8 or 208.67.222.222 except not run by a company that sells ads or "security services"?

What if there was a turnkey ad-blocking DNS caching server solution that one could run on any suitable hosting provider virtual machine instance?

Would anyone be interested in such a thing? I have had this personal DNS idea for many years, ad blocking is becoming much more popular only recently.

I think users controlling their own DNS is a key step toward taking back the www from the "corporate dreck". Maybe blocking ads is the stimulus for such a change.
Heh, fish shell contributors had a long discussion of failed wildcard expansions at https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2394 . We all pretty much agreed that bash's passglob behavior is really bad.

zsh's default is much better. Though to be fair, bash-style passglob behavior can be enabled in zsh by setting NO_NOMATCH. zsh is still zsh, after all.

There's still plenty more wildcard nuttiness. A favorite is to execute a bare *: zsh will try to execute the first file, passing the other files as arguments!
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Oh that's worrisome; have their firmware updates gone down in quality recently?
wget was the first one I learned how to use by trying to recursively download a professor's course website for offline use, and then learning that they hosted the solutions to the assignments there as well..

I did well in that course, granted it was an easy intro to programming one. ;)
I feel like you can't have really scratched the surface on what you can do in a real Unix shell. I doubt that Windows has support for things I use all the time (like command substitution <(some command) where the output of a command appears to be a file to a program).
It was actually a triple-barreled weapon. Two shotgun/flare barrels, one rifled barrel.

It could be configured in either pistol or carbine mode.

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2007/10/13/tp-82-russian-...
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I don't know about msys2, but pacman supports gpg signatures, so all they would need to do (and perhaps have done already) would be to configure it for master keys.

The initial download that includes the master public keys ought to be done over https, of coures.
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Relevant GitHub Issue:
https://github.com/jkbrzt/httpie/issues/58
I presume you get data from GTFS feeds. If so, it'd be more feasible to build a service that converts a 'poorly mapped' route into something better almost automatically. Manual involvement would be necessary to only correct defects from the process.

Although we manually map, we reuse most route segments, especially trains where 2 similar lines could travel 80-90% on the same tracks. We just chop and screw where necessary. The whole thing takes a few minutes to draw a new route based on existing ones.
That skews the numbers even more towards huge losses for employees with stock grants.
I don't think there will be perfect answer for this, but i will give it a try.

A senior dev is someone who should have good (hands-on) experience and can give hints/inputs on the way junior/new developer should write the code. you can even become senior by staying in 1 company for long time without learning anything new in terms of tech, so sometimes junior/new dev knows more than senior person. good environment should have mix of talented and average developers that way they all will learn.

or sometimes its just a title (in some orgs. a fresher right out of college is given sr. analyst title :) )
Have you considered a VPN to a Singapore provider. e.g. PureVPN or alternatively PPTP on a DigitalOcean, Linode (maybe not in this case), Softlayer etc.. Generally VPS provider will have better international transit than your local ISP, however your local ISP will peer in Singapore so that part is usually congestion free.
Is there any way to summon dang to fix a title? This project uses the Arch Linux package manager, but is otherwise completely unrelated to Arch.
I'll have to check gtk3 on windows out. gtk2 was sad looking on windows compared to Qt and Tk
Let me check.

$ bofh
user to computer ratio too high.
> The web was better in the early days, when it wasn't full of corporate dreck.

You mean it was better when it was full of corporations which weren't trying to sell things to you.

The Web, and the Internet as a whole, were founded on a cooperation between governments, non-profit or not-for-profit or not-explicitly-profit-maximizing corporations (universities and research institutions, mainly), and, yes, profit-seeking corporations (BBN being an early one, as was Symbolics) from day one.

It was more genteel, perhaps, and there were AUPs in the early days which cut down on some of the more blatant advertising, but it was also narrow, niche, and nonthreatening. Nobody feared that their misdeeds would be exposed by something posted on the Internet. It was a pet project to allow researchers to share mainframes with a minimum of friction.

You're idealizing precisely the kind of Internet the propagandists want, one that's too small to challenge any of the established groups.
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I learn by conversing and hands on experience much more efficiently than I do by listening to a (usually boring) lecture. School was not much fun for me.
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You can have junior developers with 10 years experience, you can also have senior developers with only 18 months experience. I wouldn't lend too much to a title, it is particularly annoying when one hears people pigeon hole themselves with these titles. That's not to underrate years of experience and mistakes a long the way, but call a spade a spade 'developer with several years of experience'
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I was in the Soviet Union for a couple of weeks at the end of the 60's. Our Intourist guide took us to see an exhibition having to do with the Soviet space effort. One of the exhibits was a spherical module which, given the date, I imagine was part of a Soyuz-A. The thing that struck me, and that I would be interested in having confirmed (or not) by someone knowledgeable, was that part of the thing (a porthole surround?) was made of/trimmed with wood. Could this be the case or is my memory playing tricks on me?
It seems like earnings less cost of goods sold per employee would be a much better way of looking at the value added by employees. I think this would account for things like the AWS example below.
So does the New York Times, and Fox News, and any number of legitimate news sources.
Huh?

No. Cygwin depends on a DLL. Mingw does not.

Msys is just a user-land set of tools.
It's more of a "marketplace" than "p2p," but OK.
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Come on be serious, who actually wants to work with someone who's job it is to determine your direction? Ok ok, I'll go easy on PMs BUT I'd love to hear what the PM do's and don'ts are from the perspective of those actually responsible for the brick laying that turns vision into reality.
The free one provided by my ISP some months ago, I suspect/hope that such recent models have better firmware to handle buffer-bloat etc.. but I haven't had enough reason to investigate. I would definitely upgrade anything older than 3 years though given the buffer-bloat lessons during that period.
ABP conducted some sort of ad hoc survey about this [2011]; they write about the results at the bottom of the FAQ list: https://adblockplus.org/acceptable-ads under the question "Do Adblock Plus users really want this feature?"

Supposedly 25% of ABP users were found to be strictly against all ads; 75% are okay with some ads to support websites.

Therefore, arguably, the whitelist feature serves the users who are in this 75% who don't want a blocker to block everything, making the browser extension useful/acceptable to more people.
I can't seem to find it at the moment but ISTR watching a video (can't recall if it was actually a "documentary" or just some PR thing they put together) that Hibernia Atlantic put out. That may give you a starting point for finding one.
wow what the heck libcurl supports a ridiculous number of protocols (https://curl.haxx.se/libcurl/)
Pretty cool. Buggy when changing tabs and I wish there were a speedup button (I don't like tower defence games).
Sure, there's lots of speculation -- and we can speculate too, but it's pointless.

I'll go with solar flares.
If we ignore waste for a minute, this article highlights a key issue for why nuclear in the USA will never be as cheap as France or South Korea. Those countries can impose a single builder, single supplier requirement and enforce it the whole way through. That'd never happen here, everyone would have to get involved. Blame cronyism and the US lobbyist political system, but every nuclear company would freak out if they weren't the chosen provider, and then they'd sue.... and then it'd be as expensive as it is now.
Neat idea... Why does it prompt to join mailing list when clicking 'Order one now' and if I close that annoying pop-up nothing happens (still on main page)... Clicking the button again does work though. Latest Chromium if it helps
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Their owners want safe and steady profit. They aren't interesting in taking risks.
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I remember there was a similar system for CAVE st argonne national laboratory I think it was helped by crayons.
that not currently planned, thanks for asking! But once things are a little bit more mature (with the design a bit more visibly articulated, contributions / collaborations over at https://github.com/hopper-lang/hopper will be more than welcome :)

I'm hoping to end up with a very nice tool that I hope will be used in a surprising diversity of situations, but such discussions will be more intelligible once its not just a compiler ir core and runtime :)
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For any context look at the video of the astronaut (almost said spaceman ;a;) that landed the other day.
But some do save for retirement, children's education, etc, etc. Even though the present value of all that is ~0. So there's something missing from the accounting perspective.
This topic is the subject of Kazuo Ishiguro's book "The Buried Giant" where a long-married couple explore medieval England to understand why everyone has forgotten their history, and discover that it was probably for the best.

Never thought that would be on-topic at HN.
Dumb question- why not launch it into the sun?

Do the (projected) costs of storing it for 10k+ years exceed the costs of leaving Earths orbit?
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Well, it'd be foolish to assume that someone doesn't have multiple reasons for making a dramatic change in their life.

It'd also be foolish to assume that most of those reasons are any of our business.

Robert is an amazing guy, and we're all lucky to have benefited from his work over the years. Now, he's set off on a new adventure, for reasons of his own... And has hinted that he'll continue sharing some of the fruits of his labor.

That's more than enough ;)
> Why does any amount of personal wealth degrade the value of this act?

It shows how much of his own lifestyle he is potentially sacrificing.
To take it to the extreme:
if he was giving up all his wealth to his employees, you would treat it differently to if he was giving 0.01%.

Edit: I think this is the most controversial comment I've ever made on HN. It keeps going up and down between -2 and +8..... I wonder why it's so polarising?
Cool project!

Are you using dependent linear types? Or are you using dependent types some places, and non-dependent linear types for the ownership semantics?
We've got a Vive Pre so I've had the pleasure of being able to use this a bit. It's as fun and amazing as it looks in the promo video there. I'm not an artist so I can hardly put the features to any real use, but I'm always amazed to see what people are capable of creating.

I think this is truly a new form of artistic expression - and I think it has the potential to become very popular in the future. I'm imagining having holograms on display of works done by famous modern artists... being able to walk around them and see them from different perspectives - I'd love that.
Can't remember where, but I once read about research that clearly showed that having to explain why you like something (like a piece of art you selected) reduces the amount you like it.
As a giant hive mind, the latency really just shows up as inconsistency in different parts. Segment the workload so that spatial separation correlates to workload separation and the effects of latency induced inconsistency are minimized.

Same basic problem as distributed vr.
Ever since I was a kid I've thought of "umm" and other such noises as disk drive thrashing noises. Loading something off an old 5.25" disk sounds a lot like the computer's saying "ummmmm um um um ummmmmm um here's your game!"
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Additionally, both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store have clauses against using apps that are intended to enable illegal activity. Their best hope to ensure it doesn't get taken down is to make it a web app.
We're talking about a massive amount of mass. Sending mass to space costs tens of thousands per kilogram. Storing mass costs far less in the short term, and the long term isn't perceived as the problem of the person paying the bill for the short term.

For that matter, with the number of launches required, at least one of them would fail badly enough to spread radioactive material.
There is a proposal[1] to upgrade the current EVM to a WebAssembly based VM. Since webAssembly has a llvm backend, any language with a llvm compiler (which is most of them) could be used to write contract code.

1. https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/issues/48
An interesting, if improbable, theory.

My own thought is that the FBI's efforts are just what they seem to be: an attempt to use an emotional event to push a legislative agenda (mandated access to all data, even encrypted data, which means backdoors, or key escrow or some such dumbness) that otherwise wouldn't pass the laugh test.

I don't see why Apple is being so vehement in this, since such backdoors or key escrow or whatever is definitely a good thing for them and other big corporations. First, the burden of security is off them: they can always blame the backdoors, instead of the current situation, where they have to use intelligence, and deal with pesky hackers I mean researchers. Second, some form of immunity from liability will undoubtedly go to companies that use the mandated lame-ass key escrow encryption, or incorporate "golden key" backdoors. Third, mandated backdoors especially will do in open source operating systems, if not most open source software. If it's only legal to sell an OS that does the mandatory key escrow or contains a backdoor, then it's illegal to sell or provide or even encourage an OS that doesn't have the mandatory features. Buh bye Linux, FreeBSD and Temple OS.