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If any GitHub folks are watching this thread: please sue the government for the right to disclose the number of NSLs you've received, or better yet to have NSLs declared unconstitutional in general.
I think nest doesn't work on non-iOS mobile
IMHO the best TeX tutorials on the internet are written by some Helpdesk guy on his blog:

http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2010/02/15/lets-le...

I'm not affiliated in any way with that site but the pedagogy is very approachable. Also it helps to use a site like WriteLatex.com or ShareLatex.com to do the hard setting up part when you're just starting out.

Edit: I see he is no longer a helpdesk guy, and his blog's tagline is (unfortunately) no longer "I will not fix your computer."
Adobe Illustrator.

Which is probably a teetering pile of kludges on top of hacks on top of "quick fixes". But I've been using it to draw for about fifteen years now, I have a sixth sense that tells me I'm about to do something that may cause a crash and makes me hit "save".

Earlier this month I was playing with running it on a Surface, and ultimately stopped because there is some interaction between Illustrator and the drivers for the stylus MS used in that device that drops the first half-second of every pen stroke I make. And I draw fast.

So one of the things beneath it that's so reliable I never even consider it could be a problem is the tablet drivers I'm used to using with a Wacom tablet on my Mac.

(There was a lot of other yak-shaving in those weeks, in which I tried to turn a Windows system into something that wouldn't drive my Mac-using self crazy, and into a super-portable art tool. Keyboard remappers, Dropbox, tons of Windows settings... the only part that wasn't pretty unpleasant and tedious to wrangle was Dropbox.)
"Some, such as Yorgen Edholm, CEO of cloud company Accellion, insist Clinton's policy proposals — especially on cybersecurity and data privacy — offer "platitudes" that are "thin on specifics.""
That's a very nice tool, but I dislike how it leaks information via the visible directory structure and filenames.
Try Appgyver https://www.appgyver.com/
What's wrong with tmux scrollbar buffers?
Isn't that an example where the market alone could solve that problem, without needing a noncompete? If you were paid 500K to build it, and what you learned makes you worth 1M to a competitor, how are you not worth 1M+ to your current employer?

If all your current employer wanted was to get a head start in the market, they let you walk for the 1M. If you're still providing them great value and/or letting their competitor in on it would be worth more than that to them, they can beat the offer.

Maybe you'd have separate reasons for wanting to leave (though "I want to reimplement the thing I just built again" doesn't seem to be the most common reason to leave a place), but in that case why are the company's reasons more important than your own, to the point that they should be legally protected?
zsh?
> HSR was a great idea for the second half of the 20th century in relatively dense countries… The US is more spread out, tilting in favor of air…

The US shouldn’t be so spread out.

These rail projects are for the long term. In the long term, we should be looking at increasingly dense urbanization, some day decreasing ability to use debt financing to build and maintain infrastructure, and the end of large-scale use of petroleum fuel. We need to make less stuff work for more people.

I don’t see why I would want to be in an isolated cocoon for hours with no room to stand and no bathroom when there is a viable alternative.

However, it’s still possible that the California HSR project is a terrible plan. It’s not that fast for how much it costs, and everybody’s saying it’s going to be even more expensive than the leaders are letting on. We really should be making airports less difficult to use. The terrorists won 9/11.

Driverless cars are a cool tech demo, with the possibility of decreasing the awful death toll of driving private automobiles and the tragic misuse of life in traffic, but it’s not a great long-distance option. The average car trip, with no carpoolers, takes too much space per capita. The normal commute should not involve lots of driving.
Hahaha! Oh, shit. I'd forgotten all about that clip. A masterpiece.
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I suspect that the brothers simply don't want to deal with the huge time sink that is governing an open source project with many contributors.
If this gets implemented in a way that's clearly visible to the user, the effects on the CA are almost indistinguishable from the death sentence. The vast majority of customers would switch to some competitor that's not affected. Even a handful of saved customer support cases due to this warning is going to make up for the cost of switching. Most importantly, if users are confronted with warnings all the time, they become increasingly oblivious to them and might very well click through more important warnings down the line.
Broadly speaking they're unenforceable in the EU as well, anything beyond 3 months restriction in the UK would certainly fall under restraint of trade.

Employers include them in contracts to scare people, and generally it works.
I used to think so as well, but not any more. Any non-trivial service needs persistence, so it must checkpoint its state periodically. Also, the service is distributed to prevent a server from being a single point of failure. In this age of lightweight containers and microservices, restarting the program on an upgrade seems to me a perfectly reasonable alternative.
When I just want a quick peek at a binary file on Linux I use `hexdump -C filename | less`.
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Probably true, but only because the implementation language for them is also C. Some of them also frequently use a mix of the implementation language and grammar specification DSL like yacc.
Yeah, Pony looks very cool. Unfortunately I don't think I could convince work to use it at this early stage, but I'm looking forward to see how it develops. Huge bonus points for being based on soundness proofs from the very start.

Yeah, Dialyzer is better than nothing. I guess I get saddened by the lack of parametric polymorphism due to being spoiled by Rust and Haskell, and have been sceptical due to noticing that type inference sometimes falls back to the top type without me realizing. Kind of hard to trust a type system to have your back after that.
It had nothing to do with expensive phone calls. (Although it is true a lot of hacking has been done purely because someone didn't have the money for a given service)

Phreaking was (and is) just a way for an overly curious person to see what they can do with a big mysterious black box. Much like the first hackers trying to work around the first passwords on the first time-sharing computers, phreakers see what they can work around in the telephone network.

Bypassing voicemail PINs, changing Caller ID, hijacking PBXes, setting up conf lines for free, listening in on others' phone calls, obscuring your real phone number from the phone companies through op-diverting, spoofing IMEI, decrypting GSM to watch texts and calls in real time, free internet through holes in the paywall of data card providers...

And if you're a high school kid who needs to call his mom but the stupid COCOT at school won't let you dial local exchanges, you dial a 1-800 number, reset the trunk, and then dial any number you want. Never know when hacking will come in handy.
> but you're missing out on an incredible body of thoughts and ideas that might expand your vision borders.

Have to disagree here. Yes there is a lot of good stuff especially written in the past but looking at today I see high caliber English writers and books in every category I do not see in that quality and quantity in any other language. Ok I do not know how it's about Chinese but that's my perception regarding other in particular European languages.

Always when I look for something, literature, fiction or non-fiction I switcch after seconds to Amazon.com from my local Amazon and find way better and more stuff. Frankly, the local selection feels like written by amateurs comapred to the US, I know this might sound bold and is probably too generalizing but the general perception is that you do not miss out anything if you stick to English based literate, rather the opposite. Of course therr are exception and genious writes not from the US like Unberto Eco and others but still nothing to the vast majority English based literature offers. Heck, even my Kindle account is US only.

If one country produces excellent media it's the US.
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It's more mobile phones than the Internet. I'm expecting a backlash.
I've had emacs go out to lunch on rare occasions, but I find it to be far more stable than Firefox or Chrome. I have had emacsserver sessions run for months without issue, and I do all my email as well as coding and org-mode task tracking in Emacs.
It is ABSOLUTELY selfish indulgence. And plenty of people love every bit of it. Just because you find these sorts of things devoid of meaning does not mean they are meaningless to others.

Game development, these days, is so focused on hand holding, genre, and accessibility that it is only by truly following ones heart that something unique and new, like Dwarf Fortress, can be created.

Plus, it's still not verion 1.0, so who knows, maybe someday they'll fix the interfaces! But since other things are always in flux, it'd be a premature optimization now, anyway. Those pave the road to Balrogs, or something.
I tried Gnomoria and it simply doesn't compare to DF. You could read multiple reviews on steam to find out lots of stupid bugs, but here's a taste: gnomes don't comprehend levels and path finding across levels fails badly - if you want to build a fence around some tunnel entrance, you'll find them running around confused until they die. (https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=67559...) And it won't be fixed. Gnomoria is "complete" as far as I know and no updates are planned. My next favorite is that gnomes will happily do any work when injured, but if you have a hospital? They'll lay on the bed and die out of hunger just because nobody is assigned to care for them. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=675590...)

And that's ignoring the lack of any story component, complex interactions, any interesting events apart from "something came to attack your area", etc. It's just boring once you play it a few times.
Was about to recommend using ninite to update flash only to find out Adobe demanded they remove it back in 2013.
Snip. It's a screenshot tool that just works. I mapped to CMD+CTRL+A and it saves the image to the clipboard. It just does exactly what I need it to do.
I've seen a few cases. (Not that they were justified, but that it was a very convenient way to program by someone at the time)

The use case here being you fully trust another developer to use the API properly, not realizing a user could also use the API.

Now, code review with a security perspective is usually enough to stop intentionally adding it.
The global consciousness is simultaneously boring and bored because it knows about everything given it is everyone. It's hard to strike up a conversation with someone who's bored and also you.

When people are out of their phones they are in their natural setting as individuals with meaning and purpose. They forget they know everything, so things are interesting again.
You might want to check one vendors explanation on their detection engines: https://labsblog.f-secure.com/2016/05/17/whats-the-deal-with...
It's not enough to like the work for it to be easy: it's also important that your work be appreciated and encouraged. Scholze happens to be interested in a popular/prestigious subfield of mathematics, but my experience suggests there's a substantial number of talented mathematicians who leave academia and mathematics itself for some kind of industry job because their interests are in more obscure/less glamorous subfields of mathematics, meaning that they receive little to no support (or even respect) from their colleagues.

For example, consider William Stein's recent exit from academia that was discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11883987 motivated by essentially the same lack of support; now imagine how many don't even make it to tenure before they have to struggle with their interests and values being misaligned from those of the academic mathematical community.
Don't like the attitude. Pointing fingers doesn't help paying customers trapped by Layer poor design choices.
Some endpoint vpn solutions scans the pc to try to make sure it is secure. Some of these might not recognise or accept all antivirus solutions.

(Source: doing remote support)
> Teachers have every reason to fight for their life to be better too. I

Oh yes, they have. But one shouldn't be confused that their interests are in any way aligned with the interests of the students in getting better (and cheaper) education. It's not an omission, it's by design. And it's not the only example - there are hundreds, if not thousands, regulations and setups that do not help the last those they are supposedly designed to help, and instead help politicians, interest groups and cronies.

> No, that is not the rule, that is a exaggerated simplification.

What you mean "exaggerated"? Read the link, it's the actual demand made by actual regulators, and it's completely within the realm of what is routinely done. I personally know many examples where people coming in US with many years of experience in certain professions, and able to find many job offers, are unable to actually work because they require licenses, which require expensive education, teaching these people what they already know and in many cases can do much better than the license teachers.

It is a rule, at least in the US. Maybe in UK it is not, congratulations if so.
You can do that (of sort) in Firefox by

Preference | Content | Colors

* change the Text & Background colors

* uncheck system colors

* always override
Ok, sure. That lets me strike Google Analytics from the list. And of all the vendors on that list, Google is the one I distrust the least.

The reality is that to compete, we need to measure changes to our product, we need to buy advertising, and we need to track the efficacy of our marketing spend. Each of these tags drives value for someone in the organization. Yes, we could create our own A/B testing tools and get rid of Optimizely or build an in-house ad server to handle conversion tracking. But the truth is, those things cost time, money, and software engineers, all of which are in short supply. As we scale up, we have found opportunities to make things first party but we can't (and shouldn't) attempt to rebuild every third party service on our own.

In aggregate, I have no doubt that these tags negatively impact the end customer experience. But going scorched earth isn't the answer. Implementation of a tag manager, careful monitoring of front-end performance, and diligent review and removal of unneeded tags is the balanced approach.
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Use the Node.JS package on the server, then convert the SVG to PNG.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/d3

One minor caution is to avoid using CSS to style the SVG, because won't convert to PNG properly.

Use ImageMagick or the svg2png (PhantomJS based) package to convert.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/imagemagick-native

https://www.npmjs.com/package/svg2png
On Windows PCs, I use Microsoft Security Essentials/Defender/Whatever-it's-called-this-release. It's already there, and basically can't be turned off, so why not?

I do not use AV on any other platforms.
Typescript doesn't directly, but Angular2 does (or will, this is just coming online) - our offline compiler converts your html templates into TS, and then regular TS typechecking can take over.

See https://github.com/microsoft/typescript/issues/6508 (and the GIF!)
As opposed to actually doing science. This is the root of the problem. By the time I finished grad school I had been cited over 5000 times; that didn't make me a better scientist. Actually implementing clinical trials and supervising junior researchers, that did. (Oddly, so did reviewing others' work)

Traditional journals are an artifact of the past. They interfere with the proper assignment of priority for discovery and their opaque review processes give some truly terrible work the stamp of "peer review". I submit some work to them, as requested by my colleagues, but if it were all my decision I'd never again send a paper to a journal that doesn't allow preprints (or considers it "prior publication") because that process is truly ass backwards.

Fortunately NIH and NSF have started to notice the same. It's only a matter of time now.
They use abbreviations that can be ambiguous. Not really the same.
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Or save yourself the APC and put it on arXiv. Even Eisen (who was one of the founders) suggests this.
Lol, wmv? There's a name I have not heard in ages.
I think it's reasonable to draw the line somewhere between Java and, say, Python in the kind of constraints that a type system can enforce. Java does not have a particularly sophisticated type system, but I wouldn't be surprised if I could get some reasonable help from it (I haven't written any Java in years, much Java in longer...).
For simpler need such as rendering a SVG map from Topojson or GeoJSON data, is there an alternative than D3 that can utilize React.js' rendering of SVG? With no animation, no charts, just map with zoom in and out and drag around, is there a benefit of using D3?
Given the propensity of normal end users to click "OK/Accept" through just about anything, I don't think this is a good idea, as another poster points out. There's a reason why it's a multi-step process/warning in Firefox or Chrome to accept a self-signed or invalid SSL certificate from an httpd. If it's a single click yellow warning banner it could do real harm to widespread use and trust of https.
If you read elsewhere in the comments here, you'll see that it's not a safe assumption at all--"0-249" is the specificity allowed by the law.

Your assumption was also my own until reading here.
> is it really so far-fetched to argue that perhaps climate scientists are as biased as researchers in areas such as medicine and linguistics?

No, it isn't, unless you believe that climate scientists are a definitionally more moral group than others. The incentives remain the same, in all branches of science, so manipulation is likely the same in all branches.
Friends don't let friends do Java
Right. My point is that Big Goverment is a primary driver here. Absent Big Government, big corp will be kept in check by competition and often taken down by the market forces when it gets too big due to its internal inefficiencies and lack of agility and flexibility, that happened multiple times. Even if it's not, even biggest corporation comprises only tiny bit of the enormous US economy, and thus economic power is distributed.

With the Big Government, however, the power is concentrated and it's much easier to capture it. What's easier - to play eternal whack-a-mole with a thousand of competitors or buy a couple of senators and pass a regulation to ensure all these competitors never have a chance?
Especially when they seem to be referencing only a single region. Multi-region deployments is the most basic protection against outages when using IaaS.
I've been saying this for years, but when are people going to realize that running Norton on your PC is actually worse than not running AV software at all?
ClamAV on public facing smtpd/MX that talk to the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam_AntiVirus
Because he could buy a laptop for $60 (and pre-loaded it with socialist drivel). I guess he thought that it was neat. I'm not sure how this makes it to the top of HN. I have been noticing that submitted content on this site is getting worse.
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So cool you've met him! I believe he also authored SuperDuper on the Mac, another excellent piece of software I've used in the past.

And yes, the speed and the quality of Brief. Especially the fact it didn't try to malloc the whole size of the file, rare nowadays. Opening a 40MB file on my Win98 PC with 8MB of RAM was, essentially, an instantaneous op. Fast forward to last week and one of the IDE's praised elsewhere in this thread, running on my corporate Lenovo with 12GB of RAM, warned me against trying to open an 8MB XML file. Well, at least it warned me, rather than just crashing...
It may sound more glamorous than it is. May be just somebody coming couple of times a month to clean up the place, it is not uncommon thing in many places and not that expensive.
Yep. vim, git, and spacemacs are among some of the major tools I use and generally enjoy using them.
Peer review is boosting with three weak learners. If you think that has much credibility (after STAP, arsenic life, LaCour, etc) you clearly haven't been paying attention.

Nb. I review for various journals, but the process is far from foolproof. I do the best I can, but editors are free to override us in the interest of "impact". At least with preprints and PubMedCommons anyone with a cogent rebuttal can present it. Cell Press must hate that...
The thing that kills me is, AV software for Linux is just looking for Windiws viruses. Tripwire seems more appropriate for Linux.

I've had that debate and it was decided that we had to have something. FWIW we use TrendMicro deep security.
I live in northern Indiana and have visited Chicago many times in my life, downtown, near UChicago, and both airports. I've never experienced late taxis beyond a very normal 5min sort of thing.
I've never run AV software on any of my Mac computers or any of my Linux PCs. There's no need. I will never get a Mac or Linux virus.

I'm vehemently against running AV software on Linux at the enterprise level, too. The best I've been able to do there, though, is to ensure that on-access scanning (aka "slow the system down to 10 percent of its usual speed for no reason at all") is completely disabled.

Edit: any explanation for the downvotes?
On Ubuntu you have Apparmor, and mandatory access control (in practice, any sandboxing mechanism) is vastly superior to antivirus, at least in default-deny mode (which, sadly, Ubuntu does not use by default).

If arbitrary software needs administrator level policy set to access the filesystem or devices, rogue software cannot harm your system. If trusted packages also need policy, then exploits in that software cannot do any more damage than the minimum amount of capabilities allocated to the application, which is quite frequently just the apps config file.
Of course they are. Every dollar wasted on building high speed rail on, eg, merced to bakersfield could be used to build public transport lots of people will regularly use, in population centers of California.
Is there anything as good for Windows or Linux out there?
Thanks, will definitely look into Slickedit. Back in the day, I was really impressed by Codewright's Brief emulation. I'd been trying to convince my boss to buy a team license when Borland bought the product and did it the same thing they did to Brief...
The explanation for the latter is probably that people identify with the subject and want to discuss it anyway.

I am sure many jumped straight to the comments, as I did. I just want to hear what this community thinks about the topic.
> A lot of people like dynamic typing, and can be productive in it.

"A lot of people can be productive in it" does not establish that nothing else could be better. I can be productive in bash, but I think we all agree "stringly typed" is not as good as most other approaches to programming language design.

Even "a lot of people find themselves to be most productive in it" doesn't tell us much, as other factors could very well dominate (most significantly familiarity of language and/or paradigm, but I'm sure we can both think of plenty of other candidates).