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Down further in the thread, BillinghamJ is seeing their iPhone 6S Plus boot in 5 seconds with iOS 10, as opposed to the 25 seconds for my iPhone 6S.

How certain are you that it's only 1 second of processing that's been removed - that's a HUGE increase in speed, that I haven't seen written up anywhere else.

Anybody else with iOS 10 on their phone able to confirm the new 5 second boot time?
They've published multiple RFCs.

https://sites.google.com/site/dtnresgroup/home/docs#TOC-RFCs...
Have you tried powering down (Hold down Lock Button). And then Powering up?
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If that were true, what's the debate about? As far as I can see (Canadian, so not vested in the topic), whatever checks exist are not consistent and not comprehensive.

Comprehensiveness appears to be key. I remember Obama saying only 1 week before Orlando that there was someone that the FBI knew to be an ISIS sympathizer, and yet the law wouldn't let them put his name on a list to prevent guns from being sold to him. What's the use of a background check that doesn't turn up the necessary information?

If background checks exist, they do not appear to be consistent, nor do they appear to be given the teeth necessary to be effective.
There are plenty of arbitrary laws, but technicality or not, they're breaking the law. The same would be true in your scenario if their flight between 2 US states went via the UK.
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There's a lot of human ingenuity applied in deciding when and how to blow things up. Munition can be timed, or use some sort of proximity sensing, etc.

Even artillery grenades, hurled out in great numbers, have such technology (and have had since WWII); for a nuclear torpedo, even a radar-operated fuze or at least a magnetic sensor would make sense.
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by disabling encryption as said?
Sounds like they were arrested for expressing unpopular opinions to me. Unless you're saying their racist opinions are actually not unpopular.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.

Am I really an entitled, spoilt asshole, because I expect some transparency from companies about their products and services?

Edit: just to be clear, I am not saying that Apple makes shit products, nor am I saying they make good products. But the instant I see a company do some PR shit to make their products seem better than they are, I instantly lose any respect for their products. If your product cannot stand on its own merit, then is it really a good product?
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Can't the linux font people add these additions to their fonts? It wouldn't be a huge challenge to fix this, would it?
Perhaps you should look to other western democracies to see how they deal with it?

Seriously, the whole 'guns protect our rights from the government' argument is nonsense. There's been all sorts of assaults on the Bill of Rights in the past couple of decades, and there's been next to zero organised, armed resistance against the government. And those who do engage in armed resistance against the government get nowhere with it. You can keep government agents at bay for a short while with your weapon, but they're going to win.

Imagine if instead of "we need our guns to protect us from the government", there was as much passion in "we need to engage ourselves in our communities, to engage ourselves in politics". You'd have stronger community bonds, less fear, and more traction. The government would stop being seen as "those people over there", and start being seen as "that thing that we are part of".
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Reminds me of this game http://www.thoughtsandprayersthegame.com/
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Yeah, I also had positive experience with nim. I'm not sure why it's so unknown, maybe because it fits in the same niche between rust and go and not backed up by any major company in industry. But I highly recommend trying Nim out!
That's because the US homocide rate is at a 51 year low according to the FBI while gun ownership is dramatically higher.

We've had 2 terrorism incidents and we need to be addressing what could have prevented them. Every time an incident happens that gets on the news we see this song and dance about implementing gun control policies that wouldn't have stopped the incident being used to push them.

That means that Democrats aren't trying to solve a problem. They are simply waiting to use national tragedies to push an agenda.

Solving a problem looks like "here is how this happened and here is a policy that will make sure it doesn't again."

Democrats have not proposed anything along those lines in the last 8 years.
>I supported Apple's stand against the FBI, but believing it's purely altruistic would be simplistic and optimistic thinking at best. When safety and security are your perceived selling point

Only safety and security weren't Apple's "perceived selling points".

They were mostly touted for user friendliness, it just works, being the first to bring some technologies to market in a well-thought way (e.g. as opposed to crude crap for early adopters), style, high-end ("luxury") items, etc.
Hostile may be jumping to conclusions. It's a small number, and it's a self-selected sample. Small change in any of the numbers will result in big ratio change. Unless someone actually claims hostile behaviour, why expect it?

Either way, the trans population is very much overrepresented in the survey. You took one of the sources from the link which claims 0.3%. The next source which I would trust (DSM-5 stats) claims 0.005-0.014% natal male and 0.002-0.003% natal female for gender dysphoria.
> The changes here are as subtle as we've come to expect from Amazon.

Read: "We can't tell what has changed, besides the color, so this review is pretty short."

Don't bother!
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Of course, they might not have expected to survive the blast - a lot of people (e.g. bomber crews) expected their trips to be one way.

Also, from what I recall from One Minute to Midnight the conditions on that sub had been absolutely awful for quite a lot time (in particular, no cooling) so they might not have been thinking particularly rationally.
> There's 250 million cars in the US. If every single one of them was replaced with an electric car, that would mean at least 1 billion new tires.

Huh. I didn't know that gasoline-car-tires are incompatible with electric-car-tires. That's too bad, because if they weren't, you could continue using the tires from your previous car on your new car.
You mean 0x23E9 to 0x23FA, just before these new power symbols? I only noticed them because the unicode power symbol site has an image of what comes before their symbols.
> it is a crime to criticise goverment's immigraiton policy.

Citation? Is there actually a law that says this? Or is it hyperbole?

Even if all you've got are anecdotal court rulings, I would be interested in reading about it.
I think you need to be clear on the nuance of that opinion. Lots of Americans don't think that gun control will decrease "mass shootings" which is an imprecise term but is generally thought of as "multiple people being shot indiscriminately".

Its not even clear how mass shootings inform the firearm death rate as some places that track it include shootings with no deaths and others don't. Generally speaking mass shootings are rare everywhere, they are just less rare in the US.

So it is relatively easy to believe for instance that banning pistols (which the UK did) would have a huge impact on the firearm death rate of the US but no obvious impact on the number of mass shootings.
If you're like me and have no intention of installing flash here is an alternative video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM7fTLLmgbk
It was very, very, easy to turn the ads off -- there was an explicit option for it. Given that you didn't have to go out of your way to do that, (1) is false.
>Not if they were any good at their job.

That's close to the "No true scotchman" fallacy though.

Truth is, most PR persons in real life would not have gone this far against FBI in such a situation. Even if the "standing up" gave them some positive press, there would still be millions of conservative types giving them hell for not helping catch the bad guys.

In fact even progressives is not a given that they'd have applauded. Imagine if the FBI next asks Apple to help them with the phone of a rape/murder suspect, or the guy at Orlando.
> This would have been an incredibly glaring oversight, like forgetting to put doors on an elevator

You mean a paternoster? :)
It may not be considered a backwards incompatible change to rust if it no longer compiles invalid code.

If the code never worked correctly, but silently compiled, one would think a breaking change was welcomed.
I'm honestly not sure what the author's referring to, but if you consider things like a table of contents, page numbers, indices, footnotes, and reference sections to be part of a book's GUI, then we've had GUIs almost as long as we've had books. Though I admit it's a bit of a stretch. :)
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> I'd love to hear more about your experience

I had good experience integrating glade (GTK GUI generator) to Rust, but bad experience with getting auto-complete working in Eclipse, in fact it's still not working ;) It's a pain when I using new technologies (both Rust and GTK are new to me). I want to change its state from `checked` to `unchecked`, and I don't know what's name of the method that does it, it can be setState(bool) setChecked(bool), setEnabled(bool), setActive... you know what I mean, the method is there, but checking docs just to get method name is annoying. I'll try it in vim later today.

My goal is to write (simple) desktop sharing application. Any thoughts how hard can it be? I need OS-integration, ffmpeg to catch screen, integration with decoding video stream without bloating systems...
Actually bought a Vita specifically for Spelunky, plays beautifully the D-pad is probably the best I've ever used (and I've owned most handhelds/consoles)

TxK, Persona 4, Binding of Isaac, etc were the icing on a great cake.
Suppose some little country wants to start working with U and Pu. So, they set up a building, get it some utilities, surround it with some security, and then go shopping for a long list of lab supplies and equipment.

Then, likely, presto, bingo, the intel agencies of the more advanced countries will notice what is going on inside the building just from what is on the purchase orders going outside the building. Then have some drones and/or satellites fly over the building with some neutron or gamma ray detectors or some such. Then have a little chat with the leaders of that little country.

I'm not sure it would be easy to hide such activities now.

And if they do get some fissionable materials, then they would have to test a bomb, and can't hide that.
Would you have been happy to pay $5-$8 per gameboy/gbc title?

Yeah didn't think so, but Nintendo DS owners are.
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For what it's worth, if you click on the "games" button on the featured apps page, then look around for "buy once and play", you can find a collection of games without in-app purchases. I know that doesn't fix the overall issue, but it helps a bit.
I'd also like to see that. I'm in the "temporarily stopped using" camp. I love it, I got to the level where I don't fight the language anymore, but facing reality - I don't have a reason to use it. Everything I do at the moment, I can finish faster in Python and I know it's enough. (sysadmin / deployment / security tools)

The moment I need good performance and safety (new protocol server?), I'll reach for Rust. But I don't have that many real problems where it's worth it.
I'd wish people would stop going off topic about the stupid gun control debate and be adults talked about the article on hand.

"Republicans adjourned the House early on Thursday to try to quash the sit-in, switching off the TV cameras."

"The transmissions via Periscope and Facebook Live were taken up by the C-Span network, which provides continual coverage of Congress."

It's a interesting world we live in.

The fact cameras in many of the world parliaments are turned off in situations (not about national security) seems like a hell of a censorship of democracy we put up with.

Technology seems in part stopping this censorship (There are other examples of rouge cameras in parliaments leaking things that the plebs are deemed not fit to see)
It's all relative. Compared to the Oil fields in say Sirte Libya, a fracking establishment next to an elementary school in California might be considered relatively ethical.
This makes me think about import this:

>>> import this
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Some of these rules should be used by everybody working with peers.
It would be funny if some states required you to carry a gun at all times. Some religions for example require you to carry a blade at all times. Of course we already have contradictory laws and people are breaking rules no matter what they do.
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It's always nice to see some Racket on HN. And it's even better to see some Pascal (o the memories).

Can you elaborate why you chose a mini Pascal and the Readme mentions a Ragg tutorial, do you have a link?
That's a really cool result, thanks for pointing it out!
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That is scary.

Even if the submarine had fired a conventional torpedo, that probably would have escalated very quickly.

In "The Fog Of War", McNamara, who was Secretary of Defense at the time tells a story of a meeting between him, Castro, and the man who was commander of the Warsaw treaty troops at the time (I forgot his name, though, sorry). The US apparently knew there were missiles on Cuba, but thought there were no warheads, yet. At this meeting (~1992-ish, I think), the Russian tells McNamara there were indeed enough warheads on Cuba at the time to destroy all major cities on the east coast of the US. So McNamara asks Castro if he knew of that and if he would have advised the Soviets to use the nuclear weapons on Cuba to retaliate against a US attack. Castro, apparently knew of the warheads and had urged the Soviets to use them in case of an attack, knowing full well that Cuba would have been destroyed completely. (At least that is how I remember McNamara telling the story, and assuming, of course, McNamara remembers the incident correctly and is telling the story accurately.)
> The problem is that because there's no "demo" functionality in the app store, they get labeled as games with IAP which turns many people, me including, away.

This would make no difference, people would just play the demo then move on to the next game. There are 2,000,000 apps in the store.... if your title is any good someone will clone it and put a free version up anyway.
Sony gave it away 'free' as a PS+ title for subscribers as well, I don't know what affect that had on his income.
Three characters in this series John Reese (Jim Caviezel), Root (Amy Acker) and Sameen Shaw (Sarah Shahi) were just unbearably bad characters.

They just monotonically recited smug and and arrogant lines detached from action. I know the intention was to convey "cold professionalism" but this constant 'tough guy' line dropping was over the top.

The general plot was OK, but acting, directing and characters were embarrassingly bad.
For the former - due process? How many times has the majority of HN argued against 'blame the terrorists' and unwarranted surveillance?

And for the latter, the sibling answered it very well - a subclass of people, and where do you draw the line at "enough" mental issues?
As opposed to other browsers made by Microsoft and Google, those paragons of ethical behavior and putting users' interests first...
TCP/IP is "written in such a way that it works on all target systems". This partially worked because it was early, partly because it is small and simple, partly because it doesn't try to define structures on the actual messages, but only minimal ones on the "envelopes". And partly because of the "/" which does not force a single theory.

This -- and the Parc PUP "internet" which preceded it and influenced it -- are examples of trying to organize things so that modules can interact universally with minimal assumptions on both sides.

The next step -- of organizing a minimal basis for inter-meanings -- not just internetworking -- was being thought about heavily in the 70s while the communications systems ideas were being worked on, but was quite to the side, and not mature enough to be made part of the apparatus when "Flag Day" happened in 1983.

What is the minimal "stuff" that could be part of the "TCP/IP" apparatus that could allow "meanings" to be sent, not just bits -- and what assumptions need to be made on the receiving end to guarantee the safety of a transmitted meaning?
What if you ended up with a friendly massacre by a police officer or a military officer ? Would you ban guns in the military ?
Agree with this 100%. No gun control law would have prevented this from happening in America solely because we have quite a few guns here. If not procured legally, he easily could buy a gun illegally. Constitution aside, if there was a way to magically disappear every gun in America and then enact complete gun bans I might be willing to entertain to the notion. Otherwise it's just a bunch of posturing to me.
> a new goddamned computer

I haven't touched a single component in ~4 years and AAA games still work great on medium-high settings. Heck, despite tons of warnings from Oculus, the hardware also adequately drives a DK2 in less intensive apps. Are you referring to laptops?

> not particularly inspiring

I've almost given up on AAA games. I get almost everything off GoG these days because I've found that the price of a game is generally inversely proportional to the quality of the game. Get off the hype train, there are tons of very inspired titles out there (The Witness, Modded Minecraft, Undertale, Factorio, Dungeons 2, etc.).

I only consider AAA tiles after they've lived up to critical and fan scrutiny for a least a month or two, additionally, I have to be specifically looking for a title that offers the "same shit, different day." CoD barely changes year-to-year but yet it sells like hotcakes. That's the market that AAA developers service, don't limit yourself to that market if you are finding that it's inadequate.
> No, for example Crossy Road or Flappy Bird made some good money with a minimal team and minimal investment.

Could describe a lottery ticket win the same way.
It's sad. You don't need to see income metrics to support this, just look at the quality of the games. I'm an avid consumer of iphone games and the quality of them has been getting worse and worse.

Really neat and creative games seems are gone and we're left with 'Qbert' and 'Bejeweled' clones being recommended as 'featured games'. Most of the great iOS shops seems to have left the market or have been drowned out in a sea of 'crapware'.

It seems that to be successful in this market you need to go back to advertising. Apple makes it very very hard to sort crap from quality, so you have to get your brand/name out there.
Sad to see all these [] and () in Nim, which has such a beautiful syntax to start with.
"the renowned German designer whose clean, functional aesthetic made Braun a household name in the 20th century, and paved the way for design-focused companies like Apple and Muji"

Was not familiar with his name either, but I know Braun had a huge impact on industrial design. Should be an interesting film.
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"many visually identical code points"

The emoji code points can be represented differently on different systems given their meaning.

So it makes sense to have different emojis for different 'meanings'.

The 'moon' switch here does no mean 'moon' - it means 'standby' or whatever.

It may look noticeably different on different systems.

Think from a design perspective: you have 5 emojis to represent 'clouds, sky, earth' etc. - and the a different set of 5 to represent 'on, off, sleep, shutdown'. Those icons will be markedly different in terms of representation, groupings, colour coding, underlying functionality if they are integrated into an experience in any meaningful way.

Text your car with the 'shutdown' symbol to tell it to shut down.

Your bot texts your friend with a moon symbol to tell him you're asleep. Or whatever.
I think it's a little more blurrier than that, if you call user interface any interactive panel with some text on it, it goes waaaaaay back.
Ah yes - I actually played it when I had a borrowed iPad for a while.

It's essentially a port though. I'd love to see what Jeff would do with the Robotron format 25 years after his previous attempt.

(This makes me wonder why - given his love of Williams arcade games - Jeff has never tried a take on Defender...)
Have been using this for a while for the exact same reasons as the author gives. It even sort of works on windows though it can be messy as it relies on a HOME environment variable, using forward slashes and unix style paths (i.e. /c/blah instead of c:\blah). I never figured whether that is because of mr, perl or the particular perl version I'm using (the one which comes with git for windows).
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A pointer would let you ask "does a character lie between 0x12 and 0xBC" but would not hold the character itself; it would make possible to implement different "characters" with the same representation.
It boggles my mind that this would appear in a spreadsheet. Even if the result holds, you should head for the hills. I've found it to be (at best) a cheat to mentally understand compounding.
Maybe this is a case of sour grapes, but I shudder at the thought of what kind of females one attracts with a supercar...
The reason I said hostile is that in most discussions on Hacker News and Reddit a lot of people argue that the only reason women are so under-represented in tech is that all the guys are very hostile to women. This survey goes against that. For some reason they refuse to believe that some things are more interesting to women than men and vice versa.
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they had an helpdesk for that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
XNU != BSD.

XNU == MACH + BSD Personality.
As others already said, Swift is opensource and runs on Linux. With Swift 3, also the standard library (Foundation) should be available on Linux too.

However, Swift for Linux is not yet "productized" in the same way, as Swift for Darwin is. You can download a tarball for Ubuntu only, unpack it somewhere and call it a day. It will take a while before you can use 'yum install swift' from EPEL on your shiny Centos/RHEL workstation.
>> "They ended up taking it out in 1998 because systems kept running out of disk space."

Reminds me of Microsoft SQL Server removing support for natural language data queries, only to add it back years later.

It would be interesting to see a list of features from major database management systems that have been removed over the years.
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Why not Jester[1]? Jester has a better API, IMO.

[1]: https://github.com/dom96/jester
Whether unintentionally or not, you've just illustrated why emoji aren't truly essential.

But some characters not in the BMP I would consider very essential, like the various Asian characters that didn't fit into the BMP.
Relax, click on Resources tab under the video, there are links to HD and SD versions you can download. PDF slides are there too.