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If you want the JustWorks(SM), you have to get hardware which is on the Joyent engineering bill of materials' list, or research and buy hardware which illumos has drivers for.

http://eng.joyent.com/manufacturing/bom.html

SmartOS being descended from Solaris has detailed manual pages built into the operating system, because when one runs a real UNIX, one is entitled to comprehensive documentation with lots of examples.

A lot of the Oracle Solaris documentation, which is also very comprehensive, applies to and can be used on illumos derivatives. The SmartOS wiki and the smartos-discuss mailing list are good sources of SmartOS specific enhancements. Did I mention the built-in man pages yet?
As far as Steam is concerned I used Entropay for virtual pre-paid debit cards. I live in the middle east and it happily validated any US address. Entropay does take a 5% commission if you top-up with a credit/debit card however.
I see now. The parenthesis don't feel like a convenient syntax.
The article presents a biased history.

Form the article:

> And anonymous Wikipedia editors maintain a stranglehold on selected topics. Kohs demonstrates with the case of Morgellons. The Mayo Clinic calls it "an unexplained skin disorder characterized by sores." But the Wikipedia page dismisses Morgellons as a "delusional belief."

From Mayo Clinic: http://www.mayoclinic.org/morgellons-disease/art-20044996?pg...

> Morgellons disease is an uncommon, unexplained skin disorder characterized by sores, crawling sensations on and under the skin, and fiber-like filaments emerging from the sores. [...]

> Researchers with the Centers for Disease Control note that the signs and symptoms of Morgellons disease are very similar to those of a mental illness involving false beliefs about infestation by parasites (delusional parasitosis).

From the CDC: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

> Results: We identified 115 case-patients. [...] Solar elastosis was the most common histopathologic abnormality (51% of biopsies); skin lesions were most consistent with arthropod bites or chronic excoriations. No parasites or mycobacteria were detected. Most materials collected from participants' skin were composed of cellulose, likely of cotton origin.

> Conclusions: This unexplained dermopathy was rare among this population of Northern California residents, but associated with significantly reduced health-related quality of life. No common underlying medical condition or infectious source was identified, similar to more commonly recognized conditions such as delusional infestation.

I think the most relevant paragraph from the article is:

> Kohs sees himself as an equalizer. His business helps clients, including supposed victims of unfair edits, navigate Wikipedia's unbridled landscape. Wikipedia banned him for violating the policy against paid editing and when Kohs criticized the policy and continued under a borrowed account, Wikipedia editors targeted him.
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Loved the gradient example!
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"If you're not paying for the product..."
I made it, let me know if you have any questions.

It's only for single pages right now. Adding a crawler next.
(upvoted) It's hard to predict the alternate present from a notional past. I agree that the things we did were necessary stepping stones on the path to technology that likely could not have been avoided. We might have done it more slowly and with more limited scale and still made it to where we are now (over a longer time span), and I have no idea if that would have had better results or not. The real question for me is, now that we do have this perspective, can we make our future decisions better than our past decisions? We're now at a point where the global system has far less excess capacity to absorb our blunders. In resilience speak[1], it seems to me like we're in the late conservation phase, which typically precedes rapid release (collapse) and reorganization. We have evidence of this in the critical slowing down[2] of adaptive responses from a variety of present-day systems ranging from corals to economies. From my perspective, provoking a system in that condition feels a lot like playing with a doomsday footgun.

I don't think that killing off mosquitoes will be the final insult that causes cataclysmic ecosystem collapse; that seems pretty far-fetched. However, I don't know that, and I do think we should strive to have strong evidence for the costs and benefits of any irreversible change we make to our world at this point.

1. http://www.resalliance.org/adaptive-cycle

2. https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151117-natures-critical-war...
If I'm remembering the conversation correctly, the most expensive component was the kill laser (it uses a lower-power laser to track flying things & match the mosquito size / wing frequency and then fired up one strong enough to fry an insect) but that hopefully has been going down since those figures were calculated years ago.
>But this is two anecdotal reports.

Uh, what? Read the Consumer Reports article. The Model S is also suffering from quality issues. Many of them.
ZFS is only enabled for their new containers (X<something I can't remember>) for now.
Three more years: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
Yes, there was a reason: Having to support other distros.

The big deal now is that all the major distributions support the same mechanism.
Both are great, Xubuntu is excellent and still my goto since it has pretty much exactly the features I want from a DE.

It's nice to have good choices that use the old paradigms.

XFCE 4.12 pretty much feels exactly like Gnome 2 towards the end.
Yes please, where can I sign up?

Seriously though, I live in Berkshire, and am looking for decent places to move to. The grass is definitely always greener! :)

I have even begun to look at some roles in SF.
>What you say is true, though it would be a sad day when the future of what Canadians want Canada to be is limited by the financial pressure of another country.

That day happened like 50 years ago and has been that way ever since. As much as Canadians define themselves by being "not Americans", we're very heavily influenced by the US.
They haven't explicitly come out against capitalism yet. Though, their youth caucus has drafted a proposal to change their platform to come out as explicitly anti-capitalist. Richard Wolff[1], Democracy@Work cofounder helped draft it.

[1] http://www.democracyatwork.info/richard_wolff
Thanks - I can see your halo of extraordinariness from here! :) Seriously, I looked at your stuff and I can see why you qualified.

Can I ask how many categories you had? And also, how did you approach explaining "what you do" and why it's cool, in language the examiner could understand? Thanks so much.
Human behaviour is complex, but that doesn't mean there aren't some basic universal truths that will always help. Things like "Don't treat every attractive person you meet as a potential sexual partner. Use behaviour appropriate to the context you're meeting them in. An engineering class is not a social gathering."
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Let's celebrate the achievement of these -people-

Not these "men" or "women." These people. Stop tokenising gender for your own agenda.
Ubuntu Mate is also great on the Raspberry Pi. all the GPIO stuff just works as in Raspbian but you get a more modern desktop (using the classical gnome2 layout) and Ubuntu as the base (which to mee means easier setup of things like a mail server.)

I'm hoping Owncloud starts to use Snaps.
Roaming in the EU is cheap. On pay-as-you-go (prepaid), it's cheaper for me to send a text or make a call from Germany than it is back home here in the UK.
That's great.

Potential founders should consider the costs of providing tech support for a tunnel that crosses two NATboxes, both controlled by strangers.
There's a difference between "most" and "big parts".
Why am I not surprised. I guessed this months ago and told people to stay away from it.

It was a closed-source blob masquerading as open source hardware (under the Arduino name).

Good thing the people at my hackerspace understood what I was saying, and bought none.
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Your parent poster is from a 3 hour old account with no other contribution to HN.

Safe to assume troll.
I think his point is that when you watch anyone long enough, they become criminals. So if you watch everyone, everyone becomes a criminal.
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Well, here's a statement from the female leader that organized this panel:

https://www.facebook.com/nolwenn.godard/posts/10154708242404...
This site's down, 80/443 both closed.
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I simply can say: THANKS !!!

A nice idea and execution. Bookmarked!

Does versions of Bootstrap 2 and 3 exists or are planned?
... Tragic?
I've been using Beta 2 on my laptop. Seems to be a solid release.
Some terms from the SurfEasy, Inc company, which is the VPN provider for this service[0]:

SurfEasy does not store users originating IP address when connected to our service and therefore cannot identify users when provided IP addresses of our servers. Additionally, SurfEasy cannot disclose information about the applications, services or websites our users consume while connected to our services; as SurfEasy does not store this information.

However, further down, you have this:

SurfEasy is required to comply with law enforcement where subpoenas, warrants or other legal documents have been provided. We may collect and disclose personal information, including your usage data, to governmental authorities or agencies, including law enforcement agencies, at their request or pursuant to a court order, subpoena or other legal process, if there is a good faith belief that such collection or disclosure is required by law.

At this point I'm not quite sure what to make of the above two combined together.

[0]: https://www.surfeasy.com/privacy_policy/
It would!

The Curie is a wonderful little SoC. The built in BLE, Gyro and Power management make it perfect for much more than a beefy UNO clone.

After seeing so much press from Lady Gaga to the X Games, I got a few 101s and started deving. Got to the point I wanted to get a few boards made with it. Turns out the only way a private individual can buy a Curie chip is attached to the 101 board.

Perplexed, I asked a representative a few days ago at a trade show why they were so scarce. It appears Intel, or rather the division responsible, isn't making the individual module available for purchase. That is unless, and I quote, "Your name is Oakley or similar".

Which makes me a little sad as their brand messaging calls for a "Makers Movement" but doesn't give us the products they have developed for it.

One thing I find particularly amusing is the 101's step counter tutorial featured on their Maker page[1]. A 7cm x 5cm pedometer with a battery management circuit that isn't mapped out on the board.

Either way, I hope they release this wonderful little package they have developed.

[1] https://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/Genuino101CurieIMUStepCou...
My experience of Windows 10 is limited to having a look at it in local computer shops (I've been trying to find a decent cheap laptop to stick Linux on for a friend).

I clicked the Start Menu. Fully half of it was made up of flashing animated crap - things moving about, very colourful adverts, the actual things I wanted to do were obscured by it.

I tried a few machines. They did the same thing. Maybe it's a manufacturer default.

Hey, maybe it's customizable. I don't know. It just struck me as being so far from what I think of a computer as being - not a tool to be used, but a flashy, childish entertainment box, like a children's rainbow cake.

My ego betrays me at this point, I suppose. I don't understand how the engineers at Microsoft got to this point.

It reminds me a lot of the Xbox 360 dashboard. That was the point I left 'mainstream' video gaming - it felt like my hackery, fun world had turned into a world of consuming advertising, of subscribing, of being someone else's plaything. Perhaps it was always like that, and I was too young to see?
17.10 might switch to flowers and "Apologetic Anemone" is a proposed name :-)
It would have been if it wasn't mobile-only :b
There's https://www.blinkist.com that condenses popular books into 15-minute reads
I encourage you and others to open issues or make a pull request with updated README
This looks nice, I'm looking forwards to Bootstrap 4 though it seems to be running really late, iirc it was intended to be released Nov-2015 originally.

I really want the flexbox support.
Australia is particularly bad at the Internet because of state meddling. But Australians like a large amount of state meddling, so don't expect this to change any time soon.
A thousand times this. The concepts in the article are great, and the examples helpful/interesting. But it seems foolish to use these principles to try and 'call the top' of some technology.

Technology improves over time. New technology obsoletes old technology. Once a technology is obsoleted, of course it's 'the best'.
While I generally support private sector solutions, I don't agree that, self-evidently or absolutely, private business is the only way to do these things. It's a great tool, but not the solution to all of life's problems.

Also, whether or not private business is the ultimate solution, the intellectual property still can be free and open. In the IT industry we probably can name a few examples of free, open IP that facilitated a little bit of business, such as the Internet, the Web, Email, the IBM PC design, Unix ... maybe a couple of others ...
As a person who doesn't understand a single thing about front-end, I really appreciate the existence of bootstrap, especially when I need to just put an OK looking dashboard together...

PS: for the sake of sharing http://bootswatch.com/
> I have yet to see a GUI that lets you express something like `grep '^127' /etc/hosts | awk '{print $2}'` in any sane fashion.

I think we are in a very interesting time in computer science history where he have a huge slew of technology that solves a large set of problems that no one wants to exploit.

I could easily see an "assistant" type window being created in a desktop UI. Since we don't need a "windows" key in the linux world, I'd assume that would be used.

My ideal system would allow me to go into a text document, click the windows key, and say "grab me every line from /etc/hosts that starts with 127"

When the job would be completed, I'd see a check mark or something and the result would either be pasted to my cursor or, if my cursor wasn't in a text box, copied into my clipboard or something.

While this might sound like magical science fiction, it isn't. Neural networks, NLP, and HCI fields are doing some amazing things. The only problem is these are harder to implement then a simple terminal and pipe.

That is a sane way of interacting with a system that is user friendly.

In the same way, it could also handle other complex things. IE: "open my browser", "open the Internet", "list all the things connecting to the Internet", "open the last document I was editing in my text editor"

This is doable, albeit extremely difficult to implement well, but doable.
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Does it work for you? For me VirtualBox gets stuck into the 'gurumeditation' state when booting.
Yes, Sumeria and Mesopotamia is basically the oldest recorded history we have, but this way predates what we know about that. The author is talking about what we know from archaeological evidence, not recorded history.
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For example the case of the social scientist Andrej Holm
(https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Andrej_Holm&oldid... - in German) who researched in the internet using some keywords ("Gentrification" and "Prekarisierung" (casualization)) that were also used by the terror group mg (militante gruppe ("militant group")) and thus got into the crossfire of the surveillance state.
I'm on xubuntu 15.10.
Apply HN: EdXengine-Online Education Driven by Community,Competition and Ranking
What we do
At EdXengine we are building an online competition platform where engineers can showcase their skill level on a particular skill set (software or area), (Mechanical, Manufacturing, Civil, Electrical and Industrial-initial target group)

How this works
If you are a Mechanical engineer concentrating on Computational Fluid Dynamics, there will be a challenge ladder for you which starts from basic level and increases in difficulty as you progress through each level. Depending on the software (ex: Matlab or ANSYS), your skill level for that particular software and area will be ranked. Leaderboard will showcase how you rank amongst other users for the same skill set.

Where we are:
We started as an online educational platform (https://edxengine.com/) providing courses for the engineering categories I mentioned above. We have reached 856 users in 3.5 months, 163 of them are paid.

We tried out our Challenge ladder and leaderboard amongst 120 users in one of our popular course and noticed a unique trend. With this introduction we have had higher engagement in our coursework. Completion ratio for challenges has grown up to 60% ( https://edxengine.com/course/4a1c5c71/)

Going ahead:
Presently each student pays and enrolls in the course (60$avg) which has the challenge ladder as a part of the curriculum.

Moving forward we want to make the Challenge ladder a free tool, any user can compete.
We want to bring a skill based ranking system through our Challenge ladder.

How do we make money?
We have had initial conversations with few manufacturing companies who have been interested in top ranked candidates (3 interviewed by FLSmidth). The ranking parameters will help companies to find quality talent.
Users can pay and enroll for the courses to learn and compete.

Co Founders: Surya, Sarang and Lakshman. We all are Mechanical Engineering alums from UW-Madison

Questions and Thoughts please.
That's an anti-competitive position for an IaaS to take. "We already compete with your kind of software here, so we won't sell you the hardware"?

I work on some analytics software that includes GPU ML algorithms & non-ML GPU algorithms, neither of which Google makes. Our peers do a lot of visual computing in AWS. Really weird thing to hear from a Google rep.
If you want to be sociable, it's your responsibility to socialise where your friends socialise.

It's not the bar's fault, or the sports club's fault, or Facebook's fault, if your friends choose to go there but you don't.

The situation is only "involuntary" in that the choices of your friends aren't under your own control.

But thanks to Facebook the situation -is- free of charge.

True genius might lie in protocols. But it's up to your friends if they prefer communicating you via protocols or via a friendly website with a good mobile app.
I'm not sure as there's no description, so I'll ask.
That's the desktop version, not the server one ?
I used it on desktop and it looks nice there too.

I wish I can customize the theme a bit, the color and fonts etc, otherwise I read HN more efficiently there than the default site.
"The problem was that the OTA was reality-based and reality has a well-known liberal bias."

That's cute.

No, actually, it's bureaucrats that have a liberal bias. Meanwhile, in the absence of the OTA, we've been busy building laser weapons and missile interceptors.
I don't understand this. Every company I've worked with has struggled with the problem of making it easy for new people to learn the answers to the sort of detailed questions that Quora excels at. Since 2007, I've wished I could pay them money to deploy quora.internal.piedpiper.com, but no.

Why?

https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Quora-sell-its-product-to-o...
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Not really, it only fills a tiny portion of my screen. I'll stick to http://hckrnews.com
You get ~1/2 the speed of light propagating though copper or ~150million meters per second. It's around two feet from CPU to edge of last chip if you trace the wires. So, round trip adds ~1nanosecond to latency. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAS_latency
Shows latency's in the 6.3ns to 13 ns range for DDR3. Thous ~10% of latency is from distance.

PS: I could get more accurate numbers, but with such a wide range of latency number that's pointless.
Again, you miss the point.

The certainty with which you make these statements is the exact same certainty that scientists 50 or 100 years ago used to justify doing all kinds of shit we now know caused unforeseen harm.

Don't focus on the one example I gave, focus on that fact that we continually mess with stuff we don't understand, with consequences we can't comprehend. Then 50 years later we just say "we know better now" and proceed to mess it all up in different ways. Repeat.
I made this! Thanks for sharing it. I'll be watching this thread for comments and feedback.

(Moderators: Could you remove the #dropdown part from the URL please?)

Edit: The two post seem to have been merged by the moderators. Thanks!
> I wonder whether it will be sustainable now that finance is, once again, able to recruit the best and brightest who want to work in NYC.

Banks are still cutting jobs, and many hedge funds have had a rough patch for the last few years. What finance companies are recruiting the best and brightest?
I used Amarok 2 for a while, but I was outraged by its ridiculously high memory usage (nearly 100 MiB for a library of ~3000 songs at the time). I moved to MPD shortly after.
You could buy those "Sets" at ALDI for example. You would still have to register it somehow. I did it once on a public phone stating fake information. Phone stopped working after few weeks.
Supporting self-signed certs is typically done by ignoring cert chain and trust issues which is a major component of TLS.

A better option is for you to explicitly trust the authority that signed the cert.
Being a "digital nomad"? :)
NodeJS was first throw-away implementation. Then Lisp. Now it's in C and looks like it will stay this way.
As a person who works in manufacturing, and only develops internal and B2B applications to automate processes, I'm right there with you.
What did you switch to? Fedora is switching to xdg-app, which basically does the same thing. Now that those two are using such an approach, I imagine that app developers are increasingly going to drop support for distros that don't use snap, xdg-app or docker. Snap/xdg-app/docker are a lot more convenient for those app developers.

Edit: forgot appc. Thank goodness they're all planning on supporting the Open Container Initiative.
I have been developing code for 20 years using C/C++ - it sounds like you have been doing this even longer.

I think it is completely unfair that you simply dismiss and blame the libraries "because the developers did not care and wrote it without portability in mind".

I am not sure what your own personal definition of "first class citizen" is, but as such, IMHO it doesnt even make sense to argue it.

All I can tell you is that I can take all these projects and create a Windows 7 build that works - so the work to make it "portable" is there (even with all the nonsense of making sure they are compiled against the exact multithreaded vc runtime version and other windows quirks). MS has specifically chosen to not support other subsystems (e.g. OpenGL) that make portability easy/realistically feasible. To me, having a "hello world" work doesnt make a platform a "first class" system - bringing complex well known libraries and make them work does. That makes a first class citizen. I know we disagree - so we'll just have to agree to disagree :)
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What aren't you surprised with?
I was wondering if you could get one of those old embedded i386 chips and make a minimal single-board retro PC.
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Hi, thanks so much for the reply and sharing your experience. Totally agree about the lawyer.