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> they could have been merged into cURL three years ago (after starting four years ago)

> If this was implemented with libcurl and bundled with cURL

> httpie gains a wealth of advantages

> along with greater support, developer base, test coverage, user base, and lower tco

> and cURL gets syntax highlighting
As far as the Rockies are concerned, Verizon seems to have the best coverage by far. I've had a cell phone since '96, and ~99% of the resort towns have the big 4, but VZ is in the most remote places I've seen.

Edit: Here is an interesting chart of wireless providers in the US [0]; lots more providers w/ 10K-1M subcribers than I realized.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_wireless...
I used to work in one of the cloud/virt groups there. The management (from the first line to the top) lack vision both technically and otherwise. You have many teams, many directors, managers, and about 200 engineers working on some product, and this product has become so bloated. The engineers don't know what this product is meant for, except doing their part. This lead to resume enhancing technologies, which end up bloating the whole product. I can't provide more details here.

There is no way you can provide honest feedback.
> If you can prove can prove that you have a legitimate reason to have that money it will be given back to you.

I am dumbfounded by this statement.
There is a surge of interest in learning control policies end-to-end. Many of Sergey Levine's recent papers are relevant: http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~svlevine/ (there are also some talks linked there).
I love the idea. Not sure if it is the best visual. What does a strong line mean versus a thin line? Does it mean you are thinking real hard about that route? I know it would be much more effort but it would be interesting to read what it is thinking. Which piece is it trying to get in the short term. What is the long-term rational.
CloudFlare has a detailed explanation of the various options[1].

[1] https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170416-W...
What is the magic pixie dust in Go which makes returned error values not tedious?

(Besides, of course, what I mentioned in the original posting: panic and recover.)
Apart from the legal issues that others have pointed out, I would strongly discourage my students from working for free. Canada seems to have a lot of this crap going on - maybe because the labour market in CS isn't that great. Just say no.
Nice. I'd love to learn more about your process.

Also, what made you felt like you had to do this?
Not RainyScope's fault: Chrome thinks your graphics card can't handle WebGL.
"If everything you try works, then you are not trying hard enough."

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel
Interesting idea, I'll give it a try tomorrow! Did you have any particular reason not to use GDB and its Python interface?

I guess that the trick is to set a breakpoint on *alloc/free, and inc/decrement a counter on breakpoint hit? I'll try to implement it in my own tool, but in Python!
Dwarf Fortress is truly an inspiring project, not only because of how amazingly fun and engrossing the game is if you can get into it (granted, it's not for everyone), but also because of the sheer amount of dedication and love that is put into it by Tarn and Zach Adams.
Yes should be 400 million. 100 million from our last order plus 300 million in this new order.
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it's like 3 clicks to find your entire list of subscriptions and once you're there it's 2 clicks to turn off automatic renewal. Plus TFA said they're making it even easier, so what exactly is your complaint?
The constitution also gives you the right to a presumption of innocence based on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffin_v._United_States but the authorities dont seem to care much about that either
It comes down to the business decision of going all in with cloud or bare metal. Day to day management of each is pretty different.
I love the easter egg at 3:13. ("ALL PROPRIETARY AND NO OPEN SOURCE MAKES INNOVATION A SLOW PROCESS") The text is upside down in the video, so it's easy to miss.

But on that note of open source vs proprietary, I'm building a business on open source hardware, yet I have a hard time proving to others (especially other startup founders) that open hardware is the way to go. They fear that their designs will get cloned and they'll get blown out of the water (implicitly at a lower cost by someone in Shenzhen). They want to ensure they can recoup their R&D costs. My point is that if you make a successful product, you're going to get cloned anyway. The counter-point is usually "But why make it any easier for them to clone you?"
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PID is a generalized control algorithm that performs poorly unless your system is entirely linear. It is overwhelmingly used in industry, however, because it is simple, and anyone can drop in a PID block and adjust three constants to get semi-OK response without understanding anything about the dynamics of the system they are controlling.

For serious control systems you can look up state feedback control, model predictive control, and nonlinear systems control (to name a few very broad categories out of many possible options).
The wife posts on her personal facebook page periodically, but nothing generally public :(
>It shows the state is paying ERAD Group Inc., $5,000 for the software and scanners, then 7.7 percent of all the cash the highway patrol seizes.

If your cash is seized the police will go ahead and keep the full amount less the 7.7% fee. So what happens if the person is proven innocent? Does the police dept have to use its own funding to repay the 7.7% fee?

This seems unlikely to me (but that is based on no facts). Or does the company have to repay the money? It would seem like they could legally say they preformed a service and should not be required to refund the money.

Sadly it looks like if you are seen as "potential guilty" and your assets are seized, even if you are proven innocent you still lost 7.7% of your money. Then tack on legal fees associated with proving your innocent.....
There is single large window displaying text, with lots of space between the lines. At the top, there are tabs with the names of different books. It looks like you can scroll in the large window displaying text to read a book. Also at the top, there are dropdown menus with what I assume are different application options. At the bottom, there is a sliding position indicator labeled "Document position".

It looks the way I would expect an older e-book reader application to look. It seems totally usable and intuitive. I know exactly where to click and what I might expect to happen.

There could definitely be some aesthetic improvements, but as far as "UI functionality" is concerned, this is great.
I do prefer the classic graphics for the same reason. I cannot, however, play without things like Dwarf Therapist anymore though.
> These problems are not a creation of police. These are created by good people like us who do not empathize with criminals, minorities and other groups which by default consider "less human".

I agree that the problem is considering others as "less human" but I wouldn't exclude the police from that!
I tried the bullet journal and it didn't fit me.

What instead fit my needs was some simple printable agenda.

I used the ones at http://philofaxy.blogspot.it/p/diary-inserts.html

The good thing is that it costed me as extremely little.
I've used ferm <http://ferm.foo-projects.org/> to have iptables behave more like pf
The QRead application window is maximized taking up the whole screenshot.

On the upper left there are the main menus, Document, Navigation, Speech, Window, and Help.

Directly below that are three tabs each containing a document.

Pattern-Oriented architecture, A system of patterns: Volume 1 (Wiley Software Patterns series)
The Architecture of Open Source Applications (which is the currently active tab)
Surveillance (A Chris Bruen Novel Book 3)

On the same line flush right are small left/right arrow controls that presumably cycle the tabs.

Directly below the tabs is the text of the selected tab, in this case its a chapter listing. There are 4 carriage returns between each of the Chapter listings.

At the bottom of the window is a Document Position slider, that presumably can be moved to scroll quickly through the text.

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Seems fairly functional to me, there is also a right scroll bar on the text field that I think serves a similiar purpose to the Document position control although less explicitly.
What bugs me the most is that it doesn't use anything even resembling standard iconography for the pieces.
Agreed, that policy is utterly nuts.

The incentives for me to comply with those terms are nonexistent, which is never a sign of a good contract.
Ah great, that makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the quick reply!

How do you compare Gen9 and Twist? Do you use each for a specific type of synthesis?
They can use dogescript. In dogescript it's a much loop.

https://github.com/dogescript/dogescript/blob/master/LANGUAG...
Basically, some rules were established that allowed patent cases to be heard lightning fast in Texas' Eastern District and generally in favor of the plaintiff because the patent trolls knew these different rules for presenting arguments better than defendants did and abused the system.

"Ward’s rules unleashed what became known as the 'rocket docket.' In his first year on the bench, Ward heard 5 patent cases. In 2006 his docket had 87. 'I did not anticipate that there would be an explosion of lawsuits,' says the now-retired judge."

"Yet Marshall soon gained a reputation the judges may not have welcomed: it became known as a plaintiff’s playground, a place that frequently handed out tens, or even hundreds, of millions of dollars in damage awards. In 2006 the New York Times reported that of the patent cases that went to trial in Marshall, jurors ruled for plaintiffs 78 percent of the time, far more than the national average of 59 percent. From 2001 to 2006, plaintiffs prevailed in eighteen straight verdicts in Marshall."

http://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/patently-unfair/
Cleaner/simpler isn't always better. It's better to be a little more cluttered, if it's a lot more informative.
Good point, and that's when good monitoring comes into play.
Simple contract language. There's no compulsion for a legitimate Insurance Team to undewrite a fraudulent risk, and that language will be included in the contract/agreement. I do think it of akin to Auto Insurance Companies in the US being able to deny a claim if the Claimant was doing something against the policy, e.g. "You were street racing and therefore we are not covering your liability" is a seemingly proven out.
just saw the video, I saw nothing disparaging in his remarks, he just explained the fact, moreover, according to his statement, that particular church setups these sort of contraptions time to time, clearly to attract fools, it's very evident what is the incentive behind such schemes.

the thing is that everyone knows these churches, mazars, and temples are lucrative business institutions, especially in south asia, and they've been going on like hundreds of years.

he just stated a simple and plain truth, all blasphemy laws must be outlawed.
I believe the input state is the past 4 frames stacked or concatenated.
I used to spend majority of my Summer each year (when I was a pre-teen) in a very poor South Indian village where my extended family lived. Our family owned a large flock of chicken. I enjoyed feeding the chicken, feed like rice, maize, wheat, etc., though for the most part, the chicken did not expect to be fed anything. They would just graze on whatever they found. Now that I look back, interestingly, every family (even the poorest) in that village owned a flock of chicken. It was as though the flock of chicken was one common thread that ran through every household in the village. At the time though I didn't have the sagacity to realize the economic incentives of owning a flock of chicken.
Oh, US Cellular... Somehow I can be near line-of-sight to one of their towers, and barely get two bars of service.

At least its cheap, although I am still grandfathered into my parents' family plan for around $20/month. I think an equivalent individual plan from ATT or Verizon in this area would run over $100, which would be ridiculous for the 3-4 phone calls a month I make.
A lot of Microsoft APIs and subsystems are similarly bloated. There are probably tons of factors at play, but I believe being closed-source and having to support many individual use cases is one fundamental reason. (See for example CreateProcess vs. fork...)
Just glancing at the design I can see that the whitespace is all messed up. The previous design was more compact, one could easily view most or all of the necessary information in a smaller space. But that is just glancing at it. The newer design seems to be following the newer web motif of flat design, generous space, etc.

Back in the 2007-2010 era of websites, somebody mentioned that "ugly" websites work. Not that fancy or flat design is bad. But the sheer simplicity of ugly websites forces people to focus on the content, context and functionality. The ugly websites pointed out were MySpace and Craigslist mainly, but you could probably add a few others like Drudge Report and Plenty of Fish. Even Hacker News is pretty "ugly" but it obviously works great.
> but what part of the constitution allows you to ban a private citizen from speaking about their ideas?

Perhaps no part. The article states the government has been careful to back down when challenged in order to avoid that question being decided in court.
Fastly does support https so I'm assuming it's a configuration problem.
> This guy doesn't live in East Texas. However, the dad lets these stupid cases into the town to bring business to his son. Really shady.

How is this not legally considered a conflict of interest in cases where the judge had relation to one side of the case? I don't know much about the law system but I would assume their are provisions in place to prevent these types of conflicts.
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Sure. But that cost isn't proportional to the revenue generated of every app sold and every in-app purchase done on Android.
Picking up a million or two in legal costs is the least they should do. If this lawsuit succeeds and this would make 1% of of app developers shy away from the Play store then the lost revenue would easily outweigh any legal costs.
Well I've personally seen Microsoft employees themselves complaining about the state of NT while saying it's "fallen behind Linux".

An old HN commenter once wrote (mrb)

> There is not much discussion about Windows internals, not only because they are not shared, but also because quite frankly the Windows kernel evolves slower than the Linux kernel in terms of new algorithms implemented. For example it is almost certain that Microsoft never tested I/O schedulers, process schedulers, filesystem optimizations, TCP/IP stack tweaks for wireless networks, etc, as much as the Linux community did. One can tell just by seeing the sheer amount of intense competition and interest amongst Linux kernel developers to research all these areas.

>The net result of that is a generally acknowledged fact that Windows is slower than Linux when running complex workloads that push network/disk/cpu scheduling to its limit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3368771 A really concrete and technical example is the network throughput in Windows Vista which is degraded when playing audio! https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/markrussinovich/2007/08/...

>Note: my post may sound I am freely bashing Windows, but I am not. This is the cold hard truth. Countless of multi-platform developers will attest to this, me included. I can't even remember the number of times I have written a multi-platform program in C or Java that always runs slower on Windows than on Linux, across dozens of different versions of Windows and Linux. The last time I troubleshooted a Windows performance issue, I found out it was the MFT of an NTFS filesystem was being fragmented; this to say I am generally regarded as the one guy in the company who can troubleshoot any issue, yet I acknowledge I can almost never get Windows to perform as good as, or better than Linux, when there is a performance discrepancy in the first place.
Trees in the forest are social beings
Hey there, I'll do my best.

QRead looks like a minimal ebook reader application. There is a tab bar at the top to select an open book/document and the book/document is displayed in a large text field in the centre, looking not unlike notepad. At the bottom of the window there is a slider control to navigate the document.
Aren't patent applications public?
I must say Project FI has worked out really nice for me. I'm usually in Wifi range, so my data usage is very low. Works out to around $27 each month. And the service is really good.

BUT, I live in the constant fear of Google shutting down the service. In fact I'm slowly finding myself skeptical of adopting new Google products because I'm worried it will go away.
>It'll be good for truly last mile users

Who isn't a last mile user?
I'm not very familiar with Swift. If I'm understanding right, the `prefix` function being defined is equivalent to LINQ's `TakeWhile` [0]. If so, the C# version seems much easier to read to me:

public static IEnumerable<T> TakeWhile<T>(
this IEnumerable<T> source,
Func<T, bool> predicate) {

foreach(T value in source) {
if (predicate(value))
yield return value;
else
yield break;
}
}

Of course, there's a bunch of compiler magic going on here that's basically creating a state machine, which seems to be explicit in the Swift version. Are there any similar features in Swift to C#'s `yield`? If not, are any on the road map?

[0] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb534804%28v=vs.110...
Looking for a english speaking contact in Shenzen, contact info is in my profile, hit me up.
> `mklink` [0] has existed since Windows Vista for NTFS file system. No settings toggling required.

There are several limitations in the Windows/NTFS implementation, however:

1. You have to specify the target type (file or directory) at link creation time.

2. Creating symbolic links requires either being an Administrator user, or having the "Create symbolic links" group policy enabled for your account.

3. No real directory hard links. (EDIT: For some reason, I forgot that Linux doesn't have these, either. Maybe I was thinking of bind mounts.)
They took a whole Christian band? Are they going to be shackled and forced to play county fairs and police fund raisers for the rest of their lives?
This is a recurring pattern in Windows development. Unix devs look at the Windows API and go "This syscall takes 11 parameters? GROAN." But the NT kernel is much more sophisticated and powerful than Linux, so its system calls are going to be necessarily more complicated.
For very good reason. For every "my grandfather" story, there are probably 5 more whom were simply taken advantage of, with the hiring person having absolutely no intention of hiring them.
Sure, but there's mature ways of voicing your complaints that involve tact and common sense.
People fear that the subscription model is an easy grab for continued revenue.

I do think that Zombies, Run! is an example of an app that justifiably fits the subscription model. The continued added content makes that make sense. (I am a fan!)

I just hope subscription doesn't become the norm - I'd hate to see a calculator on a subscription model.
So police departments are largely participating in highway robbery because it's the only way they can get by? They're not spending it on margarita machines [1] or trips to Hawaii?

[1]: http://www.forbes.com/sites/instituteforjustice/2014/06/05/c...
> If your build hasn't changed very significantly...

Change one character in one file that gets linked at the end of the build, the syntax check would go from 7 minutes to 3.5 on average - still too slow. You're also overlooking conditional compilation, your change might break the build on another platform - the syntax won't be checked until it hits the buildbot that flips the right flags.

> Non-trivial projects in better-designed languages...

Ah, the lets redo-everything-in-x school of thought - good luck with that.
A lot changed after 9/11. The US Government took the public's irrational fear of Terrorism and used that to usher in sweeping reforms against personal liberty, under the guise "War on Terror."
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You're right — users shouldn't expect their apps to get major updates for free. But this is a PR problem, solvable by other means. As a user, I'm OK with it. I've been using Adobe CS 5 for the past 3 years and it's still working great. Were there an upgrade path where I could pay some cash and get the latest version, I would probably do so. Unfortunately, Adobe has decided that they're not the company for me, and so I've been happily moving on to alternatives like Pixelmator and Affinity Designer. From what I've seen in the response to Text Expander's subscription pricing and other similar business model changes, I think many others feel the same as I do: that above all else, the software running on their local machine must continue to work without having to pay a bloody tax.

A text expander is not a "service", nor is a password manager, nor is an audio looper or a to-do lister. To suggest otherwise would be disingenuous. Of course, we don't know what's going to happen in response to this change yet, but statements like Gruber's "win-win-win"[1] and Brent Simmons' request for clarification[2] indicate to me that indie developers will be more than happy to adopt this model with their decidedly non-service software.

[1]: http://daringfireball.net/2016/06/the_new_app_store

[2]: http://inessential.com/2016/06/08/seeking_clarification
Much like Eve, I prefer to read about others exploits than try and have my own.
You make a very important point. There was a time when the community pushed back against the idea of a web that was subscription based, similar to the cable company model.
It seems to be more palatable if we replace web pages with apps in this scenario.
On the other hand... if a subscription model will dial back the reliance on advertisement income, and by extension the privacy invasion that comes along with the advertisement model, maybe it will be a net positive.
If we continue to have excessive privacy invasions to support ad revenue and have to pay a subscription on top of that, then it will be extremely unfortunate.
EDIT: a word
Anyone old enough to remember movie.edu and the grasshopper O'Reilly 1st Edition DNS&Bind book?
As a Norwegian/Australian, I'm just shaking my head reading this. Sorry, I have nothing but reactionary drivel to add - but I wouldn't be surprised if this was to further (if that's even possible) increase US gun violence. For personal protection against robbery. This now appears as a marginally valid reason for your gun ownership; if they're going to take all your assets on a whim, leaving you with nothing to fend for, what have you got to lose? I mean, how do you survive in the "no handout" US with no money anyway?

This is the rich looking after the rich in the most corrupt and reprehensible way possible, see how this is going to work out for you as resentment grows in the population roots.
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The React community uses it for all their discussions (ranging from React core to the various libraries in the ecosystem) and it works great and is very fast. Even their Electron desktop app performs very well!
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When it comes to system call interfaces, it's because Dave Cutler has forgotten more than many modern "kernel hackers" will ever know about how to design an OS.
Combining versions 2 and 3 of the GPL makes it larger than MIT, at 30%.
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