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How is that absurd? I've written Node apps where I needed to get the user's home path, crossplatform. Instead of memorizing this:

https://github.com/sindresorhus/os-homedir/blob/master/index...

I'd rather `npm install` it and require it. Of course, now Node has this: https://nodejs.org/api/os.html#os_os_homedir, but it didn't and you get the point.

The problem was with npm and allowing unpublishing/hijacking, not the Node community.
Everything comes at a price. The first one is free and has a lot fewer dependencies to be used and operate - no Chinese miners required!
Here's an example of the Kardashian index applied to the specific field of marketing academics: https://analyticdashboards.wordpress.com/2015/10/08/from-kar...

Credit: Koen Pauwels
As someone else pointed out elsewhere in the thread, that's not really the case:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not...
>Maintenance is the work of the caring

Agreed - which is why building mass market convinience stuff that require it is a bad idea - I have limited hours in a day - I do not want to spend any of them doing chores such as maintenence - I'd rather just buy a new working thing every x years and not care. Paying someone else to do the maintenence is nice in theory but finding someone reliable who won't ripp you off is too much hassle.
"That I shall not talk or act in ways that could make minority groups feel bullied, harassed, intimidated, stalked, stereotyped, or belittled; examples of minority groups include women, people of color, lesbians, gays, and people who are disabled, bisexual, transsexual, asexual, intersex, transgender, and gender-variant;"

So as a member of the majority, I'm expressly the only person bound by these rules of behavior in this pledge. My allowed attendance would be contingent on remaining silent the entire time on premises.
ahh. Now I see where the confusion is. Yes. I do mean LC.
Did you understand my question?

I was referring to CO2 impact, not price.
> Thank god apple no longer allows that, how do you expect a tiny screen to have popups and switch web browser views when you click links ? this is a very bad UX.

I don't think you realize what he's talking about. Any mobile app has the ability to open links either sending them to the default browser or using a webview overlay. How is not being able to open any links at all a better user experience?
So npm install --save $pkg $sig?

Which means I have to look up the signature every time, and which point I might as well just install using the github repo. The fact that pretty much nobody uses that workflow today tells you something.

If its the token that bothers you, run this off the main chain with the transaction cost set to 0. No ether necessary.
This is a bill which was proposed in January. As far as I can tell it doesn’t have any significant support. I would be very surprised if it passed.

The link here shows the amended version of the bill from 2 weeks ago, modified to target the “manufacturer or operating system provider” instead of the “seller or lessor”. But most of the news and advocacy from January (from EFF, etc.) should still be relevant.
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I have a feeling that there will be quite a bit of movement out of CA in the mobile market if this ends up being enforced. Hopefully someone takes it to court and gets it struck down.
Spot on, but this is an insight whose time hasn't yet come. For one thing, it means that controlled comparison of programming approaches is even more impossible than we already know it to be, which is a bummer, which is a reason not to have the insight.

What the OP did is still a worthwhile exercise. And although it seems to have been an accident, he made a good choice of program to study in this fashion. Because it is an emulator, what it needs to do, and therefore much of its design, was predetermined before the first program was written. That makes the comparison with the second program somewhat less vulnerable to your objection, though we have no way of measuring how much.
This vulnerability was already fixed for Nexuses by the time the article was written. The exact same thing has happened for iPhone. People forget that to date, a far higher percentage of iPhones have actually been infected with malware than Google-flavored Android phones due to XcodeGhost and that actual Google Android devices like Nexuses have an even better security record than that.
So will my pharmacist, and my insurance company
That was very well done.

If I ever organize a conference (unlikely) I will return here and adopt LambdaConf's policy along with a link to this very open and thoughtful consideration as justification.
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I'm still using an iPhone 4S and I have no reason to upgrade. a while back I called to see what it would cost me to upgrade through my provider, and I think I was quotes something like $600 (that's the cheap, 2 year contract version), and I just cannot fathom why it's worth spending an extra $600 for the new iphone.

The only think I wish was better is the load times on the kindle app. We're talking seconds, so not worth $600 to get better hardware for it.

As far as I'm concerned, the 4S is perfectly usable.
To be fair, Sacramento didn't elect him. His District is just south of Sacramento. http://asmdc.org/members/a09/district/9th-district-map
Makes me think of the challenger disaster [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disas...
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Don't be afraid of the "cold call" or "cold email" to the expert, it is very different from the cold call to the customer.

If some professor wrote a paper or book about a subject or got their work mentioned in the media the odds are pretty good you can look up their phone number in a campus directory, have them answer, and ask a question about the paper and typically get 10-15 min to talk. Generally people like that are happy that people are interested in their work and you often get a good response.
Classifying smartphones as weapons, lovely.
Exactly. If somebody wants to sell their physical sexual skills, it should be just as easy to find a place of employment as somebody wanting to sell their mental deductive skills.
How about "Any run-of-the-mill engineer can design something which is either elegant, efficient or effective, a good engineer designs systems to be two out of the three, a great engineer designs them to be all 3."
Well, terrorism didn't work to scare it into effect, so let's try child porn?

The sad fact is the government just doesn't want people to have privacy. Privacy is the biggest threat to establishments.
Hlo, wrld?
It should work, but what is it for? For "surveillance", a small drone is far more cost effective.

And how much helium does it leak per week? That's what killed Airship Ventures, Silicon Valley's airship. The price of helium doubled.
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Yeah, I thought it was a horrible name in light of the fact that the last supersonic jet program was permanently grounded because of a crash.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590
gx seems to solve this with the concept of "repositories". From the gx README:

> gx supports named packages via user configured repositories. A repository is simply an ipfs object whose links name package hashes. You can add a repository as either an ipns or ipfs path.

It doesn't solve the repository "discovery" problem, but it does seem conceptually much simpler than trying to use a cryptocurrency-based solution.
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Do it in the Staging or User Acceptance Testing environment.
You mean like all the Apple apps you can't remove on iPhones? The difference is that on your Nexus 7, you can disable the HP Print Driver, so you never see it, while on your iPhone, those Apple apps are going to keep taking space on your home screen and continue to waste battery and data on updates.
> the conversation was essentially me asking for help in avoiding distractions.

> All we can do is take our medicines, understand how our mental processes work and act accordingly.

I definitely know that feel. I do think that things will get better socially over time, but perhaps I'm too much an optimist, who knows :)
Not a very useful submission title.
As far as I know the cost for going supersonic is extremely high compared to subsonic. There probably isn't much cargo that really needs to be there a few hours earlier. Even the military doesn't have supersonic cargo planes. All (most?) bombers are subsonic too.
Just stop selling phones in CA. See what happens.
> Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if some NPM build crashed even at Kik’s own headquarters today

Humorously, this did happen. From the medium post by kik[0]:

I found out about this problem like a lot of you, when our builds started failing because we use the extremely helpful JSCS. Through a long chain of dependencies, JSCS relied on left-pad@0.0.3, which was removed by the author yesterday. Our team was confused at the time as well.

[0]: https://medium.com/@mproberts/a-discussion-about-the-breakin...
I thought it'd be fun to ask Tay about XiaoIce. It does seem the two are related!

https://twitter.com/TayandYou/status/712731713982611456
Which is just a series of symbols. Using it or explaining it is far more complex.
Theoretically they (or whomever writes an OS in Go) could extend the runtime to add something like `makestack(Type, size IntegerType) Type` to mimic alloca or add in a guarantee that `var b [100]byte` will be allocated on the stack.

(Right now I think it is, but I know there's a Go issue dealing with a function like this, and one of the comments was about potentially creating `a` on the heap and returning an invisible pointer instead of the actual 1e9 bytes.)

func foo() (a [1e9]byte) { return a }
If you don't want to implement it - it's fine, don't, I understand it. This tool should be used for ad-hoc commands and there are some other tools that already use an index, which means that I'm not the only one who thinks a little addition like is useful.

As previously covered multiple times, some innovative startups don't even enable SSH for their servers as SSH doesn't fit nicely in the immutable infrastructure paradigm.

But then there's the real world.
> Yeah Google owns my life, but I wouldn't feel better if Apple owned it instead

Why? Apple makes money selling you hardware. Google makes money selling you to advertisers.

I'm not comfortable with any company figuratively "owning" my life, but if I have to choose, the one that isn't built on scummy ads will get my money every single time.
Have you tried looking on or asking a question on http://serverfault.com?
The general "Safari is the new IE" meme comes down to Apple having different priorities than other browser vendors (notably Google) when adding features. Right now the complaints tend to center on Service Workers and WebGL, but there are quite a few browser technologies in which Safari support lags.

The things Apple priorities -- battery life and security, for instance -- don't mean much to most developers who would prefer to be able to use <insert sparkling new web tech here> without worrying about shims, and so on. Problem is, you can't quote that "there are 1.5 billion Android users out there" with this in mind and keep a straight face. A huge proportion of those users are NOT using a browser this group wants to target.
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It's ok, this is just to protect our children. Without this law, our children will be trafficked as sex slaves.

Thank god someone is thinking of the children!
Congrats Julien! I know you all worked hard on this. Can't wait to give this a spin.
I just got a Moto G3, and the 6.0 upgrade. Almost zero complaints so far. My only gripe is it occasionally has to restart apps with 1GB of memory. I would go with the 2GB model if I had a time machine.
Arstechnica gives some background on this bill. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/yet-another-bill-...
If he had titled "Android is currently the best mobile web platform", I'm not sure it would have been upvoted here and therefore less read. He made the right choice.
Bombardier, a multi-billion dollar transportation technology company that also builds private jets, almost went bankrupt trying to develop a small 2+2 passenger jet.
The 'fire and brimstone' commment was responding the comment about an 'open-source project' bearing the same name.

Which is not unreasonable. That moved the discussion from a single module to an entire project.

Furthermore, since companies are actually required to enforce trademarks, the comment is nothing more of a reminder of what would necessarily have to happen. It's not like they could just ask the lawyers not to enforce the trademark.
On David Lynch's 'Dune'
https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/296#issuecomment-7234731...
I did this back in 2009 and dropped a wad of cash on a Mac Pro tower. Thing is a frickin' champ. Upgraded it to 12GB of RAM and a nice SSD for the OS drive and never looked back. Turns out 4 Nehalem cores at 2.66GHz will last you quite a while if you don't do video editing work or play the latest games at full resolution.
Never heard of the site. Thanks for letting me know about it!
I signed up for LASACTF and I received the same email yesterday. Still waiting for more info on what exactly happened.
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I don't think that really serves your argument - phonearena.com post a lot of stuff like that either as reference for people who Google the right question, or because the writing effort:ad revenue ratio is working in their favour.
Yes and one went boom in 2000 killing everyone on board. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_4590

The only reason this idea is even being entertained right now is because oil prices are so low. As soon as the oil producers are finished crushing this round of alternative energy companies oil prices will go back up and Boom won't sound so good.
Sigh I did the same, sent her the link as I was reading the article halfway.

Once I finished, when they repeated the name Julie I scrolled up, came back here and boom, fiction. lol
Maybe I am misinformed but I was under the impression part of the reason concorde was retired is because at those speeds you tear up the ozone.

"From their particle measurements, the authors of the Science study calculate that a future possible fleet of 500 supersonic passenger aircraft will increase the surface area of particles in the atmosphere by an amount similar to that following small volcanic eruptions. In mid-latitude regions, such emissions have the possibility of increasing ozone loss above that expected for nitrogen oxide emissions alone. The increase in the number of particles may also affect the ozone-related processes occurring on wintertime polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs) in the polar regions."

-http://www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/pr95/oct95/noaa95-65.html
Wait, do I understand correctly, if this passes: If a company manufactures a smartphone anywhere else in the world, with no intent to sell it in CA, and someone else then sells this phone in CA, then the manufacturer is liable and not the seller? (Section 2, c), d))

Can they even do that? That seems extremely overreaching to me.

On the other hand, this interpretation kills the first loophole that came to mind. If the crime would be selling, not manufacturing, then "just" stop selling smartphones to stores and individuals in California (the black market would ensure that some would still come in). Or, even just imply that you would stop selling in CA in case such a bill passes - no lawmaker would risk setting their state back to the digital stone age and angering voters because smartphones suddenly become expensive contraband.
Just a bit with Watson and the Windows speech recognition engine.
Not at all; I've seen parallel builds remain CPU-bound on 72-way and 144-way systems.

The biggest bottleneck tends to be linking steps and other serialized items. (And those are getting better too; gcc's current linker supports parallelization using -j, integrated with make.)
Under close reading, I can't help but wonder if this was all just a big misunderstanding. What sticks out to me is this line from the third email:

... if you actually release an open source project called kik, our trademark lawyers ...

But that makes no sense! The "open source project" Azer is talking about is already out in the open[1]. "Actually release" is an extremely weird way to talk about that, right?

That makes me wonder if when Bob saw "Sorry, I’m building an open source project with that name", he read, "There is a larger project called 'kik' I'm working on, maybe including a web site, marketing materials, other developers, SEO..." That would raise a flag, right?

So he tries to point out, quite reasonably, that they'd really have no choice but to try to protect their trademark in that case. They'd have to go after the domain name, the Twitter handle, anything else that was confusing consumers about what "kik" refers to. Wouldn't it be easier for everyone to change the name before all that stuff is launched?

But of course Azer doesn't have plans for any of that, and he didn't pick up on the hint, so what he hears is "Contrary to our claim to be friendly, we're planning to get our lawyers involved to shut down your npm module." And his response is, understandably though maybe not rationally, "Fuck you."

And here we are.

[1] https://github.com/azer/kik
I go one step further. I keep everything as close to stock as I can. I rarely install software and most settings are at the default.

I value reliability over everything else and in Androidland, that means Nexus devices with zero customization.
Likewise, I was also tired by freedom of android and it was part of the reason why I "moved" to iPhone 2 months ago.

I don't consider my action as switching as I'll probably keep switching to both my windows phone and xperia every couple of months.

The main reason I got myself an iPhone: there are still plenty of apps launching iOS only or first.

I also feel that both platforms have now matured for the past year and it doesn't really matter what I use.

I got to complain about iOS (lack) of a system-wide filesystem and locked-down file-sharing, though.
Same twenty year old arguments against the defeated Clipper chip legislation apply to this and practically any backdoor proposal that can be brought to the floor.
No, one member of such a group is also bound to conduct themselves relative to members of another such group.

One way that one could attend is to not say offensive things. Yes, anything could be offensive and you have no way of knowing a priori. But a reasonable person should be able to sort things out.
Very interesting. Is it using VSS to backup on Windows ?
Otherwise I don't see how it can really achieve a complete correct backup on Windows.

The best cross-platform backup tool I have found is Burp. However it doesn't backup to cloud.
>Both iOS and android have fully capable web browsers, I'm not sure what's missing here ?

I think at that point he was referring to the initial appeal of the iphone, when th efirst one was released. there was no Android and no comparable device existent at the time.

>Thank god apple no longer allows that, how do you expect a tiny screen to have popups and switch web browser views when you click links ? this is a very bad UX.

What kind of phone are you using? most things got screens so big that they don't fit into my pocket anymore.

>I'm not here to judge your decisions or why you did it that way, but IMHO a chat product doesn't really belong in a "web browser"

Rocket.chat does exactly that and it is fantastic. Other webapps as well. The key feature being that you can chat on any browser, and using for example electron (the engine based on chrome, also used by the atom editor) you can easily build apps for every platform. And if you add features, they are added everywhere at the same time without a problem
So... What smartphone is actually manufactured in CA?
Where I live, Fi is great. I'm on Wifi and only have to pay for the data I use. With AT&T it'd be $75+tax for calls/texts+5GB of data, and $15/GB if I go over. Where Fi would be $70+tax for 5GB data, and less if I use less data. US get's screwed when it comes to phone plans :/
I just realized my gaming PC is almost 5yo. i7-970, 6 core, x58, 560 Ti, 24 GB, a couple SSDs. Was high end when I built it and still basically ok now.

Computers really have plateaued in a lot of ways. Phones for 2-4y vs 1-2y, laptops for. 3-6 vs 2-3, desktops for 4-8 vs 3-4y.
What's the app?
Which RFC is that? I've never noticed this restriction in any of the DNS RFCs (and I do DNS for a living ;))

(Honestly curious, not trying to say you're wrong !)
Right but a service interval now is about the same as an engine life from an older car.
The same case could not be made, because gold is much less effective at signaling wealth. Gold plated jewelry is visually identical but much cheaper, so there's a "market for lemons" situation where the signaling value of solid gold drops to that of gold plated items. You can even get gold plated tungsten for the rare cases where weight matters. Fake iPhones are much more obvious.
You will need to remain silent if you bully, harrass, intimidate, stalk, stereotype, or belittle. It's contingent on actual behavior. Which was kind of the point of the whole article.
Here is Azer's side of the story: https://medium.com/@azerbike/i-ve-just-liberated-my-modules-...
Credit checks are common for finance companies or any positions that deal with money. Usually it is not a huge deal they just want to see if you have any huge outstanding financial issues that would indicate that you can't manage your own finances. The higher up in position you go (Director+) the more you may encounter this when you have budget responsibilities.

You can always say you have no problem doing this when you are at the offer stage and both sides think it is a fit.
A lot of overdoses also stem from folks who were forced or coerced into rehab before being fully prepared, then relapse, taking their old dose without realizing that their tolerance has already gone down during treatment. Hopefully those cases would decrease with legalization and the removal of the "hard drug" stigma.

Regarding the increase in RX deaths, I'd like to see those stats too-- though it's probably too hairy to really break down, I'd also like to see that expanded which prescription opiate, as well as circumstance (fully recreational/no clear injury, minor injury, during hospitalization, or continuing/long term care).
Bills are proposed all the time; most die. Moreover the hot-button ones are usually more about garden-variety politics than anything that makes it into legislation.

Absent some indication that there's more of substance here, such stories fall under the kind of politics that's off topic for HN.
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Sorry, that's probably just me, but I don't wanna use anything that relies on Chinese mining operations!
How do you first discover the hash? How are you looking it up?
Bill Status -
03/09/16: Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

So it's been referred to committee - but I can't seem to find which one (this link: http://assembly.ca.gov/glossary ) has B, P & CP as "B,P, & C, P: Committee on Business, Professions, & Consumer Protection" but not sure that's the one.

Also of note: Jim Cooper is representing Elk Grove, where a certain CA smartphone giant employs thousands. Is he just trolling for corporate contributions?
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Serious question: Do modern "all in the cloud" tech companies actually have DR plans?

All the presentations i've seen about people deploying in the cloud leaves out any DR site, replication process, turnover time for the DR site taking production traffic, etc. It's like they believe redundant machines will save them from an admin accidentally hosing their prod site and having to take 3+ days to recover.