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I'd consider external links more important than internal links. After all, the policy of no original research means you rely on the information you are given to be backed via verifiable sources.
> Like any federated protocol, extensions don't mean much unless everyone applies them, and that's an almost impossible task in a truly federated landscape. What we have instead is a complicated morass of XEPs that aren't consistently applied anywhere.

The problem is, without actual numbers - how many clients support what - this statement is just a personal opinion, not a rule.

We can say exactly the same about the web. It's also federated, it also has fractured client support (although, sadly, core engines can be counted on fingers) and it's also full of extensions. While I won't praise the web, and I'll surely admit that the trends for siloing are strong (for many, a single big social network site of their choice is the "web"), it still manages to provide somehow decent user experience.
Everything has a runtime, except perhaps hand-rolled assembly. Rust today has a C-like runtime, which is bare minimum and makes it possible to FFI easily. For the most part you can pretend it doesn't exist; it doesn't affect programs.

In the past, Rust did have a bulkier runtime with a green thread scheduler and libuv; a runtime that "mattered".
It seems you're correct. Specifically, disabling this rule from the inspector instantly fixes the performance issue.

.widewrapper.main {
box-shadow: inset 1px 3px 1px -2px #ababab;
}
"the sony z3 and now my current galaxy s5 have the ability to add any # to a built-in Auto Reject list."

My z3 doesn't. I'm running marshmallow. Where are you finding the option? On previous phones long pressing the contact gives you an ignore option but not this one.

Edit: I just discovered the option to send all calls from a contact to voicemail which is great but then I'll have to dial in and delete the voicemail otherwise there will be an icon there forever. Ideally there would be a button to dump the call and silently reject all further calls from that number. I suppose I could attach all numbers to the same contact.
No. Please no. It would be like screening 70 year old women for stripper roles. Yeah, maybe one of them is attractive to mass public, but still it doesn't make any sense, because the costs of screening all candidates is much higher than preselection. And if you have a problem with that then capitalism is your enemy, not "ageism".
A friend works on deciphering an old script based on very few samples. When he inquired about a piece he learned that more of those with similar inscriptions, presumably from illegal excavations, are stored in Geneva. Luckily he was granted access to have a look at them, I assume that the owners like researchers to validate their stuff, because they are suspected forgeries.

We don't really know how many more samples of that script are tucked away in vaults. In that context in don't care about a 1000 Picasso paintings. I would love for people to go crazy about the paintings, so long as they leave the truly old pieces to the researchers and in the ground until they can be excavated properly.
I want them to cache atleast pdf version of the page, just in case. ( I think legality might be involve, but still, wish is a wish. )
Because it was designed assuming that the array would not go out of bounds. If an array did go out of bounds, clearly something has gone horribly wrong.

This is a question of how the software was designed and what assumptions were made.

In a case where the programmer feels that out of bounds may happen (or wishes to program defensively), of course the usual monadic error APIs can be used instead of indexing directly.
The analysis is fine, but "escape analysis" is often conflated with stack allocation, and at this hotspot is actually really terrible. The constraints on allocating to the stack mean it happens very infrequently, even if the literal escape analysis would permit it otherwise.
Nazis happened ~70 years ago, it's minuscule now and the world changed. I'd suggest you put your attention to more contemporary issues.

- e.g. the, lamentable sub par state of most muslim countries. Many of those countries have so much (oil) money but look what stupid things their regimes are doing with it. Certainly not building a modern society. It's oppression almost everywhere
- stop the population explosion would be another subject. Contrary to 50 years ago we have now the medical means to stop it. No wonder everybody gets poorer 'when a small farm has to be shared between 10 children'...

(But of course you (all) know this - and a cure is difficult)
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It's either disingenuous or just plain ignorant to set the bar at objectively wrong

'...set the bar' for what?

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The rest of your comment is filled with insults, empty psychoanalysis, guesses and other attacks, so I'm not going to reply to that.
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The art world is plagued with forgeries, some so good that nobody can prove or disprove authenticity. After all, with prices so high, there's every incentive to create very good forgeries.

Which raises the question - if one cannot discern a difference, is there a difference? And if there is no difference, why pay those fantastic prices? I wonder when the modern "tulip" madness will come crashing down.

I wouldn't mind decorating my house with cheap forgeries that are so good one cannot tell with the unaided eye.
Project to use caniuse.com in the command line
WebRTC + Web Cryptography API Chat Experiment
The claim may be as old as Wikipedia itself, but it is true nonetheless. A study [1] performed using Wikipedia's own numbers showed that the Wikipedia community is in serious trouble. To quote the paper, "However, recent research has shown that the number of active contributors in Wikipedia has been declining steadily for years and suggests that a sharp decline in the retention of newcomers is the cause." To wit, there may be 10,000 active editors now, but there were 56,000 active editors in 2007. That's a nearly 80% decline in the number of active editors. That's not exactly what I would call a sign of a healthy community.

The paper goes on to suggest that the reason for the active editors leaving is exactly what zyxley proposed. The amount of work needed to make an edit stick has grown to be an impossibly large burden for all but the most dedicated of volunteers. Even the terminology used by Wikipedians is opaque. Wikipedia has evolved its own legalese-like jargon to describe the actions that new editors can or cannot take. While that may be a fine shorthand for administrators to discuss policies amongst themselves, it is a problem when a new contributor is told that their edit doesn't meet "WP:V" or their new article was rejected because it didn't meet "WP:N".

[1] http://abs.sagepub.com/content/57/5/664
Aren't you concerned that your lack of texts to people is going to cost you trade or goodwill? I appreciate your problem but at the end of the day it is your problem, and if it can be avoided by you simply texting people for free when their stuff is ready then think we have an obvious solution. But perhaps I'm missing something.
I had a summer job writing an app for an early VR headset back in the late 90s; an early i-Glasses model, IIRC.

It was awful. Terrible, terrible, terrible. The twin 320x240 LCDs were okay, if you like a graininess and a tiny field of view, but the true horror was the head-tracking: like these arcade headsets it used electronic compasses to determine the headset's orientation, and in a steel frame building, in a university, in an office above the Physics Department's NMR lab, it basically didn't work at all.

The 9600 baud serial link which it used to send position information back to the PC (in ASCII!) added an exciting few hundred milliseconds of latency, but nausea wasn't a problem as the random jitter, slow sideways tilt and occasional random spins as someone downstairs powered up the NMR had already rendered the view incomprehensible...
> inflation and time value of money can considerably erode your multi million dollar sales tax bill

No, when importing the piece of art to its destination, VAT tax apply on its current value at the current VAT rate. So the opposite happens. Instead of eroding over time, the tax bill gets larger as tax rates are likely to climb and the value increase.

However, a good reason to do so is if your liquidity is limited. For example, if you e.g. as a German inherited a 100 million EUR piece of art stored in a free port today, bringing it to Germany would cost you 19 million in VAT. Assuming that you don't have that much cash laying around, you would face the choice of selling it or just keeping it there for a few more years.
US only. If you're not in the US, use a proxy/VPN to access the video.

Basically it shows Snowden taking the cameras and microphones out of an iPhone.
This is based on the serverless-WebRTC project. I am working on a QR-code based solution for simpler sharing of "offer" and "answer".

If you have any idea on how to exchange that data (without a server) I'm all ears.
I am for gun control. I don't lobby any politician for it, and I don't raise the topic anywhere, neither do I give my vote based on the issue. I do engage in conversation about it when it's raised by someone else.

Tell me, how am I bothering someone who is minding their own business on the topic?
How Social Media Fuels Relationship Anxiety
I am referring to games. I only tried two though.
Guide to Computing (photography of historic computers)
I wonder how difficult would it be to infer the actual sizes of deadzones of this particular controller from inputs during gameplay.
Yes, they might. So what?
Sure, but it's also a competitive market, because cheap human labour is extremely proficient at washing, cleaning, cooking and dog walking.

c.f. military use where soldiers lives are very politically costly, and machines can be much more proficient killers.
English Sound VS Vietnam Sound
Same goes for Bangkok.
I have to agree with you here. I usually don't use an archive link or other shenanigans to circumvent anti-ad-blocking measures, if a site would rather lose a reader than allow ads to be blocked then I'll just not read the article.

This one, with ads, was unreadable anyway so it's a moot point really.
Breaking the law and losing a lot of lawsuits costs way more money and time.
7616 KMS Roadtrip Coimbatore – Manali – Jaisalmer – Rann of Kutch
Yeah, I think your criticism is appropriate and hardly "off-topic" when it's a direct reply to a comment. The replies to your post did degenerate into a bit of a shit show, but that's not your fault.
Yes, this is my greatest regret and problem with Slack: Someone could have made amazing IRC clients (and servers), and kept it open to the world. It's a shame that a solved problem with open-source tools has been turned into a billion-dollar proprietary company.
> Outside the US, WhatsApp is winning because of network effects.

In which country? Because I have tons of messengers installed and so do most people I know outside the US.
Google stopped supporting XMPP in the sense that they stopped trying to change XMPP to fit their needs. They also started killing off support for arbitrary XMPP servers, e.g. you cannot run your own and expect it to work with Google Chat. (This was the most up to date link I could find.)[https://xmpp.org/2015/03/no-its-not-the-end-of-xmpp-for-goog...]
That may be the case in certain part of the world (or even of the US) but if you think of London or New York, a typical household can certainly not afford to have someone full time taking care of these things. Western economies have been converging toward rather egalitarian societies where domesticity pretty much disappeared (and who would be the domestic to the domestics?).
Most of the calls I get are people doing surveys, or lying about how I was in an accident and could make money from a legal claim. Neither pay any attention to the UK TPS (no call list); the former because that type of call isn't covered, and the latter because criminals don't tend to obey the law.

I get a lot of calls from Indians. Any solution has to take into account the international nature of the annoyance. I'm perfectly happy with a whitelist system, or where anyone who has not called me before needs to sign up with my phone company using verifiable credentials.
recent talk at google
https://youtu.be/Ag9OLc7I_YM
We haven't had a chance to write a formal response yet; too busy getting Matrix out of beta. I responded at the time at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11669681 though.

A quick specific answer w.r.t. XMPP is that Matrix aims for a very coarser granularity of modularity, published as a single consistent spec, and mandates feature profiles to determine which modules should get used where. In other words, there is only one official set of endpoints specified for Matrix for a given use case (e.g. mobile IM+VoIP). So it ends up being under tighter control (whilst still very much taking proposals and PRs from the overall community), and is easier to swap out the higher level layers to rapidly evolve functionality - rather than suffering the proliferation of XEPs which is XMPP's double-edged sword.

This is always going to move slower than a centralised service, but we think the freedom of being able to select your clients/servers/services is well worth that cost in agility - and does not have to compromise privacy if engineered correctly.
Core Fusion has been around since 2007: http://www.cs.rochester.edu/~ipek/isca07.pdf
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I don't think I need to tell anyone that running any pump dry, unless it's sold to do so, is a bad idea.

Why didn't they pump the water from the tank to the plants? Why did they rely on pressure? That puts a whole lot of strain on the pump.
I love my dog, but I work and It would be nice to have someone come to my house in the middle of the day to interact with her. Take her for a walk and make sure she didn't accidentally flip over her water bowl, etc. It would be peace of mind for me and entertainment for her.
Just plain sonar is bad enough, and that's been public knowledge for a while:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/does-military-sona...
The Guardian article leaves it sounding like the only thing they considered was books, but the abstract mentions some of the controls:

"We estimate the effect of education on lifetime earnings by distinguishing between individuals who lived in rural or urban areas during childhood and between individuals with access to many or few books at home at age 10. We instrument years of education using compulsory school reforms and find that, whereas individuals in rural areas were most affected by the reforms, those with many books enjoyed substantially higher returns to their additional education. We show that books retain explanatory power even when we select relatively homogeneous groups in terms of the economic position of the household."
Yes, it is possible. Ultimately, a homeserver is just a program that implements the client-server, and optionally the federation, APIs. The only feature-complete homeserver right now is Synapse, which is written in Python, and as of this moment has performance issues even running on a server, so it's not realistic that it could be modified to run on a phone. My homeserver Ruma is written in Rust, which is a systems language that actually is suited for mobile and embedded systems development, although I am currently not targeting that use case, nor is Ruma mature enough to be practically useful yet. If you're interested in the possibility of developing your own homeserver implementation specifically targeting your use case, you should take a look through the Matrix specification documents: https://matrix.org/docs/spec/
> […] in a world where clients are all free and the identifier of choice is the phone number […]

To me this translates to:

“Please run our proprietary software to participate and use a high-value nearly unique identifier to identify yourself — we really like to know that john.doe@gmail.com is the same person as feetfetish33 so we can better quantify you for targeted advertising.”

I am willing to entertain the notion that federation is not a solution, but seeing how you now either place yourself in this panopticon or you don't and 'miss out' on things makes me feel that we should at least attempt to figure out a way to put communication back in the hands of the people.

For all its warts and issues, email is still effectively federated, and will stay like that for quite a while due to the needs of many (not all, I certainly grant you that) businesses and local, regional, and national governments to control their own email infrastructure (mainly due to legislation and control).
Funny, his complaint about Ruby completely owning your app and the creators wanting it that way are the same that James Shore gives for Ember (also made by the Rails people) on TDJS.
Indeed, thanks for the hint. I actually wanted to note, that electromagnetic guns is an old idea. (Even I came to it once, but of different design; and was surprised when discovered it to be already studied - in that article though they said this idea turned out to be impractical).
This is just an example of welfare policy issues in general, when edge cases creep up that cause all kinds of problems. It's not a German example however, never lived there.

I did receive cheap student loans by the way, but I don't want rack up lots of debt so I liked to work part-time where I could. And even with loans covering tuition fees, for the two of us to live on 950 euros a month (or even 3 when my brother lived with us) is not a great deal even if I didn't have any college costs, or had all of them covered by a state program.
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Utterly bizarre to think that Google is worried that videos of humanoid robots behaving like big dumb pets present the image of a company developing technology "ready to take humans' jobs" when they've invested so heavily in self driving cars with the stated aim of altogether eliminating a large employment sector.
In the timeframe you're talking of, Gmail was a distant third in webmail and even further down the list if you considered all email clients. I don't know where the threshold of "dominance" is, but I refuse to believe it's at 5% market share.
I've certainly seen edit-war victims post links to their dispute, and most of the time they are just bitter that their poor quality contribution got called out.
not necessarily. there are software emulation -- examples would be W^X on OpenBSD[1] and Grsecurity/PaX on linux[2]. Ubuntu[3] and RedHat[4] also has (partial) NX-emulation thanks to ExecShield.

As for OpenBSD and Linux without grsec/pax, one can bypass NX (whether the CPU has the NX-bit or not) by marking the region with the shellcode as executable, eg:

mprotect(shellcode & -pagesize, len, PROT_EXEC);

((void()()) shellcode)();

in an exploit this could be accomplished by ROPing

1: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=105056000801065

2: https://pax.grsecurity.net/docs/mprotect.txt

3: https://outflux.net/blog/archives/2009/05/14/nx-emulation-in...

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exec_Shield
How big an issue is the nausea problem for VR products?
> People on MSN could chat with people on GChat, but people on GChat couldn't chat with people on MSN.

How this had worked?

I mean, in XMPP both parties need a JID, so MSN users must have had theirs.

Had MSN had generated random non-discoverable JIDs for their users, blocked any incoming messages unless there were prior outgoing communications, made GChat interop opt-in or what?
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Sounds like a good initiative, be sure to post on HN when you reach significant milestones.

What I worry about with OpenID Connect on the open internet (as opposed to OpenID Connect used in a corporate setting, or to provide single sign-on solutions for specific partnered services) is how it almost always results in a service asking you to use Google or Facebook to authenticate, with huge coloured buttons, followed by a tiny de-emphasized grey link where you can sign up using email and a password.

Is this something we can prevent?
Besides this "regular" use-case there was recently a case when some former adult performer was doxxed using face recognition: http://fusion.net/story/295539/ntechlab-findface-facial-reco...

Now, most of you probably don't care enough, only some are doing adult stuff. But let's imagine such a complete image/id database comes into hands of a bad regime.

Most countries already collect and save biometric photos not even for general passport and driver's license documents but also for health insurance issues (like in Germany). Do you trust the health insurance company to store the photos in a way, that no employee nor external attacker is able to "collect" them?

CCTV cameras in public and private places are all over the country, placed in public transportation but also in places like gas stations, restaurants, even in the entries of restroom facilities and of course all over in airports. If you connect all those image sources, which is not a technical problem anymore, you can easily track people, like shown in the fictional "person of interest" tv-series.

You can turn of or throw away your mobile phone/SIM card. But you can't change your face.
It seems that way to me. It seems there's simply no way to know who is calling, from where etc. It would be great if you could just see there caller's number but it seems just about anyone is able to spoof calls from anywhere. So how are these calls getting paid for? I guess the mail problem is that if all these phone calls are stopped, the phone companies stand to lose millions.
I haven't started learning it yet so I don't know what is current state of tutorials. I'm coming from web development and mostly dynamic languages (js, python, php, ruby) with most recent experience of elaborate type systems from typescript and C#. I have some past experience with C++ (modern looks awesome) and Java. What excites me most are clever useful constructs I haven't seen anywhere else, evolvability of the code and terse syntax and naming.
You can get offline authentication apps which work around the world, unlike services which require cell phone coverage.
Jabber doesn't do offline messaging well at all, nor push particularly well (not out of the box, so to speak).

The "standard library" of messaging has expanded a lot lately.
The policy seems to discourage that kind of abuse[1][2]. Unfortunately, the actual moderation system often fails to comply with stated policy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Crying_"BLP!"

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BLP_zealot
If agreeing what ever being said, is there an alternative way things can be improved ?
In my experience, actively working in a field gives decent insight into direction. Then again I was still in school during dot com so not sure what happened there. If you're investing yeah timing's tricky for sure

And perhaps that's true for starting a business as well. I'm simply speaking as a lowly employee who drifts where my nose takes me
An advanced household robot would not even have to take charging breaks because it would be well up to the task of plugging itself in wherever it would work (except for the dog walking part, obviously)

In a similar line of thinking, I am actually kind of surprised that there are no wired quadrocopter swarms yet, that would form a bucket line of short cables to trade range for the power and infinite endurance of a grid connection. I am quite sure that there must be applications where this deal would be worthwhile.