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So, in Golang there is no concept of package version?

For them different location (to import from) for an incompatible version is good-enough.
I stopped reading at "Agile had a great run in it’s youth by taking on some obviously bad practices such as 'Waterfall' software development."

Nothing about waterfall is obviously bad. It's how most engineering projects are done. Heck, it's how most projects generally in the world are done.

There's a reason it took a long time to move away from waterfall. It solves obvious problems and meshes with how the rest of corporations typically operate. In fact, with software delivery methods which were dominant back then, agile probably would have completely failed.

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In the end, I ended up reading the full piece. One doesn't get much more oblivious and buzzwordy than this:

> We are now more squarely in the age of Microservices, Mobile first, Polyglot, post-Java JVM languages, GitHub, Docker and the emergence of a world being eaten by Software.

How is this piece on the top of Hacker News? This piece reads like it was written by a marketing consultant with no idea what these terms actually mean or how software is actually built.
No, you are misrepresenting what he was saying. If god created the universe, but did not interact with it after it's creation then you can't claim him to be one of the many mythical figures people make him to be. Second, if god does interact with our universe he is than testable to some degree.
Windows 7 is almost 7 years old though. Just the other day I noticed that my Windows 10 machine updated its video driver without having to restart. Things have definitely improved since Windows 7.
I solved that by turning updates of. Not secure, technically, but neither is high blood pressure.
> "The Big Bang" is just as hand-wavy as "God."

No, it isn't. The Big Bang theory doesn't say anything about a prime mover. The Big Bang theory is simply: once, in the past, the universe was very dense and extremely hot. Ever since then, it's been getting less dense and less hot.

Further back, there's a singularity, which we can't reason well about because our math stops giving answers that seem physical (what does infinite density even mean?).

The Big Bang says nothing about why or how the universe got to be so hot and dense a finite time ago. Was there a previous "Big Crunch"? Was there a quantum soupy bulk? Eternal inflation? The Big Bang theory doesn't care. It just describes what we think the early universe looked like.
I would invite said models, but it will not be a shoot for candy.
The United Arab Emirates Needs More Rain, So It's Building a Mountain
"Just please stop making up stupid shit."

Lol. I was going to reply, then I came to that.
There's nothing immoral about what two consenting adults do in the bedroom.
No reason for it not to. And certainly I could find some fun uses of changing information for visitors to a .gov site.
I haven't come across that before. Thanks. That's really good nonetheless.
If you visit any non-https site, then you leave a vector wide open for a MITM to perform numerous types of attacks. Not just against the unencrypted site you're visiting. They can launch phishing attacks or CSRF attacks or inject malware.

If every site were https, then that would provide a huge boost to peoples privacy and security.
Drawbridge Raises $25M to compete against Google and Facebook
Aye! Well aware. I actually think you added that for us specifically! Anyways, it's worth noting for anyone interested that they'll need to be able to handle spikey reconnects.

In our case, we keep a buffer of the last N websocket messages sent to the client, and when the client reconnects, it sends the last sequence id that the client saw, and the server catches it up.

https://discordapp.com/developers/docs/topics/gateway#resumi...
First, I wouldn't call observing the red light shift, figuring out how supernovas created heavier elements and so on quite as hand-wavy as "I read it in this book I found".

Second, and most important, I'm fine with people using the label "God" if that makes sense to them. It's when people claim to know the mind of this god and tell me how to live that I draw the line.

In other words, most religious people will argue against atheists as if they where deists, when in fact most are theists.
By people buying their creations, as usual? It is not like piracy went rampant when itunes removed drm from their files. I am also not sure how it would be solved when it comes to streaming services.
Well, I would say most religions have been forced then to become more and more "Deistic", since the influence of god in the world has become less and less easy to sustain.

Current religions still claim that god takes part in the daily works of men and nature, but have taken a less outspoken attitude, since making open and concrete claims open them to ridicule.
You could do a MITM attack and change a Senator's email address to spy@russia.com. Ok it's a long shot, but not being able to serve your site over https is also a flag that your technical configuration has problems.
Linux does support livepatching: https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
Mach is what you interact with when doing stuff in Servo, but all the build-* sub-commands end up calling Cargo, which is what does the heavy lifting.

The typical `./mach build` command will download known-good versions of Rust Nightly and Cargo (unless that’s already done), call `cargo build` with some flags, then show a system notification when it’s done. That’s it.
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I wonder if any significant proportion of the religious community these days actually seriously identifies as a deist.

(I've always found deism weird -- at least outside the historical context -- if a god doesn't influence the world in any way whatsoever... what would be the point? At that point it seems to just be a placeholder for "I don't know".)
Theoretical, but:

1. MITM to return fraudulent data ("click here to input your personal data to collect your government cheque from this new federal grant!")

2. Recording browsing activity ("gee Mr. Smith, you sure do spend a lot of time looking up laws about X. Seems like a good thing to blackmail you about")

Working those into actual problems is an exercise for the reader, but they're mostly what https is for

There is also the benefit that HTTPS is harder to mass-surveil, and harder for your ISP to play shenanigans like injecting their adverts and tracking headers into the page (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/verizon-x-uidh)
I think one's assessment of the manifesto is largely dependent on how generously you read it.

> Individuals and interactions over processes and tools

needs to be read in conjunction with:

> while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more

Which means I can interpret it a way that is true, but not that interesting.

That is, I believe that a great developer with crappy tools will produce better software than a crappy developer with great tools

But I'm not sure what that really tells me other than "hire great people".

I guess, to some extent, it means "if the process says I should do X, but the team thinks it's a bad idea, then I should listen to them", but even that's is not a necessary conclusion from the statement.
In the non-software world, you only need to spend a little bit of time looking at workplace deaths to see that many of them are caused by teams that decided to ignore safety protocols.

Ultimately the only thing I really take from the agile manifesto is that doing the exact opposite is bad, but so what?

I don't want to ever work in development team that:

- Thinks that "following a process" trumps "investing in good people"

- Prioritizes writing documentation for software rather than making it work

- Has watertight contracts but ultimately disappoints the customer

- Sticks to "the plan" even when it's obvious that the circumstances have changed.

But I didn't need a manifesto to tell me that.
The official recommendations for native apps are here: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-native-apps-01

They suggest using PKCE (challenge-repsonse) https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7636 to authenticate clients that can't be trusted with a client secret.
I currently have the Lenovo Yoga 900. It is not better than a Macbook, but with around 9 hours, there is no reason anymore to go for a Macbook. So better battery life of competing deviced might be a factor, it was for me.
I wondered if there were any senator contact forms etc but I couldn't find any. However, you can use the 'find your senator' drop-down top-right to find a senator's private website contact form. Those I looked at were all unencrypted too.
No, the problem is the 140+ people who apparently thought this buzzword-filled fluff was worth upvoting.
Android N for Xiaomi Devices for MIUI Global and China
This reminds me of the mandatory updates for the cheapest windows 10 version.

In the era of bloated/invasive OSes and arbitrary pricing according to the customer's profile rather than according to the value of the product, you don't pay more for more features.

You pay more for the right to deactivate the unwanted features.

Some day you will have to pay for disabling all the "telemetry" and "unique advertiser ID" stuff. Or maybe that's already the case, I didn't bother checking.
One of the most intriguing uses of a parallel port i have seen was back in the early days of digital sat coding.

It was a crude PCB, some wires, and a old IBM PC.

The PCB was shaped such that it fit the receivers card reader, along it was 4 lanes going from the contact pads to the other end that protruded from the reader, from there went 4 wires that was poked into specific holes in the parallel port, and then a program was fired up on the PC that did the decoding.
>But the aim of all religion is to be outside rational discussion

That's pretty revisionist. Religion certainly was not like that in the past. People 100% truly believed things were literal fact. Religion was an actual thing that "happened" in day-to-day life. It's only in more modern times, with more investigatory powers that people claim that all of religion is out of reach, and that if you try to claim it to be literal, then you're interpreting it wrong.
The Big Bang scientific theory is how it happened. God, Hawking's quantum fluctuations in the metaverse, etc. is what caused it. They are completely unrelated.

Also, science has nothing to say (no falsifiable theory) about what caused the Big Bang, unless we find some way of observing outside the universe. The argument by Judaism/Christianity/Islam is that an entity exists outside of the universe (God) and has communicated with us, and said entity asserts to having made the universe. Presumably via the Big Bang. The stories might be made up, but then again, it is possible that some of them might be true. However, unless God acts consistently over repeated observations (unlikely), you will have to use a different way of evaluating truth than science.
Portugal, no probs, are you confusing 'blocked' with the stupid message redirecting to http?

Which country are you in? now i'm curious? China?!
That depends. Flight crew (pilots and cabin crew) do receive significant radiation. They are a great set to study as they are generally much younger and healthier than the average medical imaging and/or oncology patient.

http://aircrewhealth.com/Topics/hazards/radiation.htm
nope, "ACCESS DENIED"

and also I accessed the site from the US (tunnel ;-) and it was unblocked, and then I saw the redirect to http.
So only about 4Gs? I somehow though it would be more and unsurvivable for humans.
Webcast - https://youtu.be/L0bMeDj76ig

First stage landing is just after 38 minutes - https://youtu.be/L0bMeDj76ig?t=38m
You should phone up CERN and tell them to call off the search for the higgs boson.

Karl Popper may have prescriptively described science as working in one particular fashion, but in the real world it doesn't work that way at all, when you look at what scientists actually do.
Sorry, most likely I edited my comment after u replied.
Which country are u in?
The Big Bang is a scientific theory which follows (explains) what we know about the world. It is a testable and falsifiable theory.

Science does not claim to know what happened before the Big Bang, and does not even claim that the Big Bang is the only explanation: it is just a plausible enough theory that deserves consideration.

And most importantly: the second that some experiment or observation contradicts the Big Bang theory, science will happily (literally) drop it.

Which is not even remotely the same for religion: the second that a certain religious fact will be contradicted by experiments, religion will change its message to claim the same basic ideas, with a new discourse.

EDIT:

Regarding my last paragraph, I was suggesting that religion will adapt its discourse as soon as new knowledge is acquired by the race, but this obviously not the case. They more accurately follow the "fight, embrace and extend" principle, so it really takes them some time to accept new knowledge and adapt their discourse.
Weta Digital is hiring. We have developers working on many different projects ranging from webapps to simulations to renderers and more.

https://www.wetafx.co.nz/jobs
I didn't write anthropomorphic... I wrote anthropologise (which I'm sure is not a word) but I wrote that to state that it would then be impossible to include this deity into human culture. I mean, what are we including?
Just out of curiosity, which statistical test should be used in this case?
That's odd. I'm on Softbank for both broadband and mobile.
OTR has issues in instant messaging (if the messages arrive out-of-order you have to restart the session). Also, OTR's security is session based while Axolotl's is message based (Axolotl is an improvement on OTR that Signal uses).
The difference is that God has the power to interfere with the universe after the moment of creation. The big bang can not.
All crypto is open sourced.

https://app.wire.com offers full functionality on Linux.

That tweet you link to is over a year old. Wire is E2EE since March 2016. https://wire.com/privacy has security and privacy whitepapers.

PS. I work at Wire.
I swear, Startech sells just about anything ports related.
I have always found it to be extremely annoying when I hear people talk of senior citizens being "On fixed incomes", like I'm only making this much money because I choose not to be rich.

There are enough Baby Boomers to dominate politics, compared to so called Gen-X and the Millennials will one day soon be the dominant demographic so for people like me, when we were young, the older people stomped on us and when we're old, the younger people will stomp on us.
I like the concept though I kind of wish I could zoom out and see more than the top 5
It certainly could be, but I think most mistakes are made because of how the process is 'designed'; sometimes an incorrect molecule jiggles (literaly) into a place where it is improbable that it should.
I wonder how humanity will handle the decline of religion.

I identify as an atheist (I think), so I've always greeted stories like this as good news. The sooner we all move past the medieval stuff and start thinking rationally the better, right?

However there's a part of me that's envious of religious people. I still struggle with the idea that life is inherently pointless, that there is no fundamental morality in the universe.

How amazing it would be to believe in an omnipotent being who loves me and wants me to be ok. I'd love to believe this so much, my rational brain just won't let me.

Something I've noticed about non-religious people: when pushed on the issue, very few will admit to being 100% Dawkins-style atheists. People will often say something hand-wavy like "I believe there's something out there".
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Maybe if it was teenage girls all the way around. If a 25+ year old male had that laying around, I guarantee you all the women I know would non-judgmentally classify him as 'probably hentai'.
Does anyone know if this is patent-encumbered?
Boomers: a problem that solves itself, if you wait long enough.
It's hard to take you seriously when your evidence is, "just look at all the people around you using real e-cigs not that cheap 7-11 crap."
Everything Good Has Already Been Invented: How to Compete
I can save about 30% of traffic by optimizing content via HTTP. Can't do that with HTTPS without MITM or similar questionable practices breaking the purpose of HTTPS. While you're sitting on a 100+ Mbps DSL, somebody in the middle of Africa is struggling on an ISDN-like link.
It creates an easy vector for MITM attacks - could be done by nefarious parties on US citizens traveling in other countries for example.
No.

In scientific discourse a "theory" is a framework of ideas that aligns with existing known facts, and can be used to make future predictions.

To the extent that additional facts fit a theory, that theory becomes stronger or more established. This is because the additional evidence makes the theory more likely to be true. The most powerful evidence in favor of a theory is when it accurately and precisely predicts future events.

The Big Bang is a very strongly established scientific theory. For example, the cosmic microwave background radiation is exactly where the theory says it should be.

As for your remarks about religion... Religion is a serious topic. It involves dimensions of human interaction, discussion, and philosophy. It is far more complex than your reductionist comment. Belief in a creator God is far more than binary, and many great scientists and theologians have struggled with these very issues, and no one yet has an entirely satisfactory answer.

I can, however, confidently say that, unless God has a very very strange sense of humor, the Big Bang occurred, the Earth slowly formed over billions of years, life arose from the primordial chemical environment, first as a single celled organisms, and eventually leading to animals, mammals, primates, and us.
You cannot focus the radiation field perfectly. The whole body will be subjected to (non uniformly distributed) dose of maybe a permille of the reference dose in the irradiation center: there is both leakage from the treatment machine and scattered radiation from within the patients body.

Given that a typical treatment will be about 50Gy (distributed over many fractions), my estimate is for a few ten mGy (mSv) in total to almost every part of the body outside of the direct beam.

(I'm building dosimeters in my day job and work on medical accelerators all the time.)
How strange, I changed it to http as asked. For me it then asked for my social security number to login and then I needed to confirm some of my banking information for the IRS. I'd expect that to be information you'd want to protect!! I actually double checked to make sure I wasn't on a phising site but I was safe: "senate.gov" why did they need my banking information? Oh well.

The above is fiction, but an easy scenario under HTTP. Any AP (wifi access point, like at a cafe) can do it...
I find it a lot more plausible that someone can adapt their style to their audience. Satoshi wasn't selling an academic idea, but a practical implementation which he hoped people would use. It's a lot more natural to include source in such a thing.

But that part would be amazing from just about anyone.

Thing is, you don't have to assume it if you posit that Nick Szabo, Wei Dai, or Hal Finney - or some combination of them - wrote it. They were working on a very closely related concept, Bit gold. Szabo's Bit gold paper may be the academic counterpart to Satoshi's technical white paper directed at the crypto mailing list community.

It's also plausible, but more farfetched, that a senior cryptographer like David Chaum could have done it. This would still be impressive, since they would have had to have done the groundwork in secret (unlike if it's Szabo and friends, in which case it would be in public in the form of the Bit Gold stuff). But someone like Kleiman - no.
> I have always found it to be extremely annoying when I hear people talk of senior citizens being "On fixed incomes"

It's such a ludicrous statement.

Are the rest of us on variable incomes which we can scale up and down at will?
And fairly close to LAX too. Another stop for star tour buses!
I remember a friend of mine's company bought a $78k storage server around 1998, and one of the drives failed 4 months in, he called just to replace the drive and it took a call from the upstream vendor to get them to not try to sell them another >$70k storage server.
It is. But their choice impacts other people when the malware on their computer starts sending spam, takes part in a DDoS etc.
nothing issue malaysia for http
if https

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You're 100% right. I will never understand why ad spend is as high as it is when the customer never proves ROI. It made sense when ads were cultural background noise, in magazines and other media that had no way of providing feedback on conversions, etc. But we've crossed the rubicon, and yet ad channels still suck at ROI for the perverse reasons that you correctly mention.

At least some channels, like App Stores for example, offer something like end-to-end metrics for placements.
There is no open space to park a 160ft long object horizontally anywhere near spacex HQ.
> having it on a PC with an operating system that can interrupt the fast timing loops

I wonder if this is also the case for old lab equipment that keep running one some dusty DOS box because replacing the equipment is expensive and time consuming.
40 m/s is a velocity, not an acceleration (deceleration). I guess that you mean 40 m/s^2
Coffee in the morning, tea in the morning, tea in the afternoon, tea in the evening. Coffee for work, tea with friends.
They're proposing lossy compression. That'd be a neat feature though, during the negotiation (once your comms are encrypted) you could ask the server to perform lossy compression on certain resources, would save battery life on the mobile client as well!
Can you elaborate on 3? That sounds interesting and I believe time-consuming for specific generations.
That's probably the point.
Microsoft demos hover gestures for Windows phones
One consideration is the user experience is not connectable to a purchase.

If I went to a friends house and saw this, I would never remember the name. If you could combine "making the purchaser look cool" with timing-relevancy, I think your packaging improvement would pay dividends.

Put another way, I believe your A/B ratio test is actually X*Y/Z where X/Z and Y/Z are both < 1. Synergy.

Terrible idea, (possibly) useful for analogy: Instead of optimizing the unboxing experience alone, if you also included cards with QR codes, where every QR code immediately triggers a free candy bar (with user data entry on a mobile app). It should also provide social value to the host in realtime; maybe they also receive an immediate notification that their guest scanned their card plus some other bonus I can't think of.

The point is to get closer to the conversion/churn decision, or provide more value to your consumer.
> benefit immensely from content optimization techniques. And most of them are cost-sensitive because they live in developing countries
You can't optimise the size of encrypted content until you've downloaded it. It could go through a third party on your behalf but then they argue, what's the point in the encryption at all.
What was the event that led the singularity to begin to expand?