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I'm holding on to some optimism re: Paris summit. It's too early to say that nothing was done, as we haven't hit the first checkpoint. In the U.S., the most troubling thing to happen since Paris is the Supreme Court's decision to temporarily block Obama's clean power plan. Given the vacancy on the court, it's unclear how this will play out once the case makes its way up.

In terms of the 'we don't seem to think about it' – it's behavioral economics 101. We're very optimistic about our futures, and very obsessed with the present. It's why people need to be opted-in to 401k plans. We imagine 'tomorrow' to be this wonderful place where everything will get done and work out ok.

My optimism on Paris? It's a cautious one...
The 'excuse' that there are better or equally qualified candidates out there.

Many companies hire to fill in expertise, so the person who you are interviewed by may be less experienced than you in a particular technology.
Thanks guys. Enabled!
The issue is that advertising companies do not lie about why they track me - it's about them getting more revenue and that is ok with me. But I'm not so sure about the governmental espionage protection thingy.
You jest, but I agree. I might accept a GNU/Windows machine as a working computer, but I would be a lot more weary of accepting just a Windows machine.
This article sort of says that (Blackrock is expected to end the year having hired more than the 400 let go).
No worries. Me and many others might buy it. I wouldn't regret though. Keep in mind that even /dev/random will not work on Windows 10
> "I am not a great believer in man-made climate change. I’m not a great believer. There is certainly a change in weather that goes – if you look, they had global cooling in the 1920s and now they have global warming, although now they don’t know if they have global warming. They call it all sorts of different things; now they’re using “extreme weather” I guess more than any other phrase."

> -- Donald Trump, https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/0...

There's a considerable chance that this man will be your next president.
I don't see an issue, I don't watch netflix on my browser anymore. IMHO we can live without EME and we can get Netflix proprietary apps natively doing whatever they want to decode DRM on their own. We don't need to break the web for that.
First of all, the interviewer might not be doing it consciously. Code just looks better in an IDE, the same way a guy in a suit makes a better first impression than a guy with sneakers and ripped jeans who smells like pee.

But that said, if you were interviewing someone and they did all of their algorithmic boxes and lines on the whiteboard but switched to the laptop to write the code, would you ding them for that?
I don't know about you, but I just assume that the government is a client of the ad companies and is buying data about me from them.
>The bomb works through physics

So I can take a box of physics and make a bomb? No. Bombs require chemicals and they can be regulated.

>The crypto works through math.

Yes, as in you don't need the computer hardware to actually do the encryption. You could do it on paper if you wanted (and had an unlimited amount of time). The encryption is agnostic of the actual hardware it runs on.
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So I've been on the flip side of this. I've worked at a company (multiple) which had no F-ing clue how to hire. They'd constantly hire terrible people who couldn't do the most basic things.

I think one of the most important aspects of hiring is getting potential candidates in front of the team and letting them talk to the team, to see how they handle questions from other developers (and yes there is always that guy who tries to make the candidate look dumb for some reason).

The most telling question I typically ask when interviewing is what have you worked on recently, why is it cool, and how have you added to the project. This gives the candidate a great opportunity to dive into their own experience. This way if they didn't answer my questions well it will give me some idea of their background. Oh hey this guy didn't know basic Javascript stuff off the top of his head because he's been working on the back end for 3 years. That's cool.

I'd personally take someone who can talk to me about practical design decisions they've made on a project rather than knowing how to solve basic algorithms. If you graduated 8 years ago and you STILL know exactly how to implement a Binary Search Tree without needing a 10 min refresher then you are a better man than I am. I forgot that about 3 years ago.

I don't mind that we expect developers to study for a tech screen but how much does that really tell us about them? They can study and know the basics, but have the ever worked on a large scale project where you have to make something work now vs, having time to do a perfect implementation? Where is their ability to tell their manager no, or their ability to weight COTS vs Custom Build?

Sorry this touched a nerve, I just had a bad interview with a company. The tech screen was outside my IDE, couldn't copy paste (which sucks when you want to move a line or do some refactoring) and it was on topics I haven't looked at in 4 years. Luckily I'd spent 15+ hours studying so one of the questions was a gimme.
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Linux ABI support was introduced in FreeBSD 2.1 released in 1995, 20 years ago.
So are 1.2 trillion sandbags.

All the power in my camper is provided by solar energy. I paid maybe $500 for the system, including a lithium ion battery. It will provide power for the next 25 years for two people, using computers all day long and plenty of bright lights at night.

Solar power is hella cheap. People need to stop whining.
I thought the common stereotype is that most 'hipsters' are from the midwest? Go to any gentrifying neighborhood on the east or west coast and a common refrain is 'go back to Ohio!'.
what constitutes "meaningfully achieve that result"?
If the license allows you to freely read, modify, and distribute the source, it's open source. If we add "upstream welcomes your contributions" as another criterion, that would disqualify a lot of open source projects including all of the abandoned projects out there.
ACH flow is basically a set of batches executed by the parties involved in a sequential manner, taking about a day each with cutoff times sometimes as early as 2PM EST to boot. This system dates to the 70s.

Mexican SPEI system for example is almost real time (they too have a cut off time I think it's 5 PM EST).
It's explained in the article.

On the other hand, anonymity is also something that provides value to online attackers. Based on data across the CloudFlare network, 94% of requests that we see across the Tor network are per se malicious. That doesn’t mean they are visiting controversial content, but instead that they are automated requests designed to harm our customers. A large percentage of the comment spam, vulnerability scanning, ad click fraud, content scraping, and login scanning comes via the Tor network. To give you some sense, based on data from Project Honey Pot, 18% of global email spam, or approximately 6.5 trillion unwanted messages per year, begin with an automated bot harvesting email addresses via the Tor network.

Rate limiting would block legitimate users, and pow doesn't impede the malicious uses of tor.
I'm not sure, but I have had web sites I need to use like my bank (a large well-known multi-national bank) complain when I browse in private mode. It seems to work anyway, but it tells me several times that things might not work unless I turn off private mode. I don't know if I'm lucky, or if they're just lying to get me to accept trackers.
Of Macros and Washing Machines
There is a link to a full demo someone posted here [1].

They don't run the linux kernel at all. That /proc/cpuinfo is a part of a limited subset from what procfs usually offers. They enter their linux compatible "subsystem" via a bash binary, which could probably be any linux elf binary, since they run them unmodified. So, it looks like they actually implemented most of the syscalls with some of them emulating necessary parts of linux environment, like procfs.

[1] https://sec.ch9.ms/ch9/5db6/8ee786b7-9fc5-45bf-94d0-16ea9176...
This is a challenging viewpoint. It could theoretically be correct, but what if it wasn't? What if there truly is an imminent threat to the stability of our civilization, and we are still debating its existence when we should be acting?

This is where examining the evidence and arguments is important. If this whole thing were a conspiracy propping up unnecessary research, then the arguments would be weak and the evidence would be inconclusive. Unfortunately for humanity, this is not the case.
Off grid, single household. Provide power for lamps, fan, radio, tv and best of all: usb socket for charging.

Often a direct replacement for kerosene solutions.
Our project can help out here too... With Metiix Blockade (free as in beer) we can see every request that is blocked, what url caused the blocked request as well as protect each device in the network from tracking, ads, and malware related websites.
It's a valid point, but due to accessing notes from various browsers, desktop operating systems, android phones and iPads, OneNote just makes it easier for me and how I take notes in my current computing environment compared to emacs. I tried syncing Org-Mode notes to my phone with https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.matburt.mobi... for a while, but that still didn't fix all my use cases.
I don't think it's that simple. I believe people do care if they're getting tracked, for what reason, and for the possible repercussions.

We can compare the issues between a marketing on Facebook re-targeting you and the government recording your text messages. In one scenario, your preferences are exposed and used to present you with an advertisment to buy a good. In the other scenario, you can be analyzed for whether or not you've committed a crime or are about to commit a crime.

The two scenarios have vastly different consequences with varying levels of mindshare for thr general public.
Private mode allows cookies, but deletes them when the session ends.
Relevant, and explains "business" and "casual" mode quite well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11366373
As a guy who has recently started to come out of debt and starting to prepare for pension and savings, the more I learn about the financial industry the more it scares me. It seems like a zero sum game and nothing more than sophisticated gambling.
"Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!"
Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown
so...imgur?
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Gave this a long look and I couldn't possibly do anything on a Windows Machine in its' current state. Linux isn't just about running apps - there's a philosophy behind the system. Users first!

As long as Microsoft continues to disrespect the rights of users in regard to privacy, data-collection, data-sharing with unnamed sources, tracking, uncontrollable OS operations (updates, etc) - I will never go near it.

I expect some flack for my position... don't care. I find it especially offensive that ex-open source and ex-Linux users (working for Microsoft) have the audacity to come on here and try to sell this as a 'Linux on Windows' system when most of what makes Linux special (respect for the user) has been stripped away.

It's like giving a man who is dying of thirst sea water.

Most comments here appear to be positive and that's fine... whatever. Please don't sell your souls and the future of software technology for ease of use and abusive business practices. /rant
Can you file a bug with a specific example or two? http://bugs.webkit.org/
iCloud Data can be obtained with just a search warrant. The power of the All Writs Act is in making a company do work to assist in decrypting or accessing data, rather than just handing it over.

From Apple's Legal Process Guidelines [0]:

"It is further ordered that, to the extent that data on the Device is encrypted, Apple may provide a copy of the encrypted data to law enforcement but Apple is not required to attempt to decrypt, or otherwise enable law enforcement's attempts to access any encrypted data."

[0] http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/law-enforcement-guideline...
Would this be possible? How far could anyone (outside of Microsoft) strip down Windows to leave behind just a kernel with a functioning GNU environment (let's say, a shell and file access) ?
> Here's what I think. ... Nature goes it cycles, on the order of maybe hundreds or thousands (or more) years. It's been way colder in the past than it is now, and it's also been way warmer in the past than it is now

People think all sorts of interesting and plausible thoughts and hypotheses; that doesn't make them correct. People once thought the Sun revolved around the Earth, which seems plausible when you look outside. How do we distinguish between true and false hypotheses? Science!

The hypothesis you describe is interesting but not a new one. It has been carefully considered and ruled out by almost all scientists involved - based not on an idea in someone's mind but on extensive evidence, it's almost certain that global warming is caused by humans. A good place to read about the evidence would be the IPCC[1]; their summary reports are succinct, and written clearly for non-scientists.

We'll never be absolutely certain, but we'll never be absolutely certain of anything and would never take any action if we waited to meet that standard. What will you say to the millions who die, starve, lose their homes and wealth: 'I didn't know?' We could not have more or clearer warnings. I feel we have a great responsbility and need to act immediately or blood will be on our hands, just like the people who refused to act in the face of catastrophes in the past.

[1] http://www.ipcc.ch/
Obviously, if the offer is better that what you already have, you seriously consider accepting it.

Otherwise, you tell them that their offer is not competitive, and maybe the next monkey to come along chasing their peanut can benefit from your feedback.
I've done so in the past, but it becomes cumbersome to manage shared folders. The ability to have everything shared and your driver naturally working under /mnt/ - essentially replacing cmd with bash and its tools - is a big deal for me. Using editing/managing/design tools in Windows build with a build/deploy system in bash, and no middle man... that'd be the day.
Wouldn't the EU also rank if considered collectively?
And you can also use forward slashes. I've used them in applications (Java apps, NodeJS apps, etc) and in the command line since at least Windows 7.
The post you originally replied to was about Scala - if you're suggesting people use Go instead, we should compare Go to Scala.
> You being extremely lucky doesn't change statistics.

There's nothing lucky about being prudent.
And unless we stop thinking about this as a countries issue rather than a issue for humanity then we are all doomed.
> For devs that do heavy Linux work (but have stuck with a Mac OS for GUI/app reasons), is it time to move (back) to Windows?

Why not just use Linux? It has a GUI. It has apps. It does everything a modern desktop or laptop needs to do. It really is great.
Is the UX of Asana really that bad? ...worse than Jira?
Reading Bitcointalk.org it seems there are the "shills" who support Ethereum and everyone else who sees it as just another alt-coin. Between the zealots and haters it is hard for me to decide if there is some validity to the price of ETH. Reading the Ethereum website they don't see themselves as a currency.

I think the Distributed Apps (dApps) are a good innovation and I can see where they would be useful beyond smart contracts. For example the Horse stud program someone came up with. Typically proprietary information sold at a high price, open sourced and distributed with the blockchain. It remains to be seen though if Bitcoin can implement distributed apps using a side chain or some tech.

Microsoft is behind Ethereum so, maybe it will actually take off and be the next big thing. First as I understand they implemented the blockchain in Azure cloud and now the language in Visual Studio.

I'm really curious if anyone has any real insight into whether Ethereum will take off or be pushed aside by Bitcoin. I personally have found it impossible to wade through the information out there to get a feeling one way or the other.
You're mostly correct but the beauty of talking in absolutes is that I just need to give one counter example. Y Combinator's darling (and still a source of confusion for me because I don't understand how it managed to be so successful against all odds) is Dropbox.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2813324

So to reiterate, I'm not saying you're wrong. HN and by extension most news reporting and aggregation seems to be negative. People think it is a work of public relations machinery when we hear positive news (and sadly they are also usually correct).

Don't quote me on this but I think in the original Matrix movie they talk about how they created perfect world for people but they kept rejecting it because they could tell it was not the real world or something. I think I'd feel cynical when I hear mostly positive news most of the time. Sorry, I can't help it. Even in this piece about dropbox five years ago… I was still suspicious about whether they'd continue to exist today. I mean they were paying Amazon for all that storage. I knew a lot of my college friends had drop box accounts but I didn't know anyone who paid for it. I still don't know more than three people who have paid for dropbox.
Another problem is you cannot vote Sanders without voting to keep the current abortion laws.

Many totally different questio ns meaning different things to different people.

To many people I guess voting is choosing the lesser evil.
Also, your talking about students from the state that graduated from state high schools. It would be a failure of the state educational system if they weren't qualified for college.

Dealing with reality, most state colleges have a program to bootstrap students or it is heavily hinted they should attend community college for the first year or two to get their skills up.
All these discussions are quite well spoken & well said, from both sides!

Tay should read this page.
Super cool to see something I worked on hit the front page :)

We had a film crew document the development of the app, you can check out the videos here http://aka.ms/syivideos and you can read some technical posts here https://microsoftstudios.com/hololens/editors-notes/

Download the code and run it in Unity, the emulator, or a real device!
Compare these scenarios:
1 a cop is passing by your house and sees you commit a murder.
2 government finds out from your phone's GPS data + public camera face recognition that you committed a murder
3 you admit to a murder on phone with an accomplice

Why is one way of collecting evidence any better than the other. If you commit a crime, you should be convicted. Just because you are able to hide certain types of evidence today does not make the crime justified.
Someone's going to try to sell me something I'm susceptible to buying? So what.

Authorities don't collect data on you to protect you, they are ostensibly doing it to protect other citizens from you.

One of the reasons that "smart" people object to this, is that it could also limit their ability to play a leadership role in civic life, if there are people in positions of authority with different political philosophies or, even worse, who are outright corrupt or dishonest.

Besides the obvious examples of abuse like the Nixon administration, I suspect there are very few counties in the country that don't have at least one case of someone in a sheriff department, school board, city council, etc that has been caught using their rather limited access to information about local citizens for the purpose of staying in power or for some form of personal gain.
Which Generation Is Most Distracted by Their Phones?
"Haven't had malware in years. Vista and Windows 8? Advertisements? Future shit and other awfulness you can't remember? Yeah those really sound like valid points."

So do you have a counterargument(s) or was this just meaningless whining?
Square launches new APIs for offline and online payments
I'm interested in raised weight hydraulic accumulators and their potential for smoothing out peaks and troughs in the production of renewable energy. German Prof.Dr. Eduard Heindl of Heidl Energy is developing the concept of a "rock piston" where the lifting of a large rock mass will be done hydraulically to store energy and then reversed to release it. Personally I believe this is a much more scalable approach as compared to pumped hydro.

http://www.heindl-energy.com/hydraulic-rock-storage/overview...
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Slightly more nuanced point: US emissions are actually down from their peak by quite a bit [1]. The problem is that developing countries like China are rapidly increasing their emissions to US per capita levels [2] while the rest of the world's emissions aren't dropping fast enough to compensate. At this point it's pretty inevitable that world CO2 levels are going to continue rising for many years.

[1] https://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.ht...
[2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC/countries...
The Oculus Rift CV1 Teardown Review [video]
Mostly because firm don't hire 400 people at once, but they do let go of people en masse.
For my current job I interviewed with no less than 12 people, some of them twice. This was face-to-face interviews over two visits, and does not include the initial phone screen by the recruiter or the company itself. It's awful, and as far as I know I'm the only one who went through that.
You should be. My cousin works on these models. He says they are written in Fortran and are really great big balls of mud.

Also, feedback loops are something they have only very recently considered.
I like this, but the glaring omission of auth and handling auth information is striking.
Same. At some point managing permissions and sharing and VMs just becomes a pain. If I can just drop to bash and access my file system... that's all I need/want.
Everything can be said to be "sophisticated gambling." Nothing is certain, and only those who don't understand finance believe that any financial instrument whatsoever is a certainty. And even outside finance: the job you took isn't certain, nor is the car you bought or the marriage you entered into. Finance has its problems but the gambling aspect isn't the root of it.
Thank you for mentioning this! Really bothered by all the positive comments, especially coming from savvy HN users.

Gave this a long look and my main beef is that I couldn't possibly do anything on a Windows Machine in its' current state. Linux isn't just about running apps - there's a philosophy behind the system. Users first!

As long as Microsoft continues to disrespect the rights of users in regard to privacy, data-collection, data-sharing with unnamed sources, tracking, uncontrollable OS operations (updates, etc) - I will never go near it.

I find it especially offensive that ex-open source and ex-Linux users (working for Microsoft) have the audacity to come on here and try to sell this as a 'Linux on Windows' system when most of what makes Linux special (respect for the user) has been stripped away.

It's like giving a man who is dying of thirst sea water.

Most comments here appear to be positive and that's fine... whatever. To anyone reading this... please don't sell your souls and the future of software technology for ease of use and abusive business practices. /rant
Solid argument in regards to why Russian is probably not going to train the dolphins to kill. I still think it's very cool that military dolphins exist. Our K-9 units in the sea.