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Well, your 3 games in town are serialization formats. They're great choices if you want tools to manipulate the build scripts.

However, in my opinion, from your list only s-expressions make a reasonable syntax that a human would write an maintain.

And, if you want that, well :) https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Guile-Int...
Oracle killed OpenSolaris. They literally moved Solaris back to being closed-source. With no justification, even, beyond Oracle not liking open-source. Undoing the massive amount of work the Solaris team made in order to open-source it in the first place. There's no more source code releases for Solaris now.

Unsurprisingly, almost all the core Solaris team walked.

This talk is informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=33m
There's a lot of city owned land in the Bay Area, that would effectively cost the government nothing. Not to mention abandoned lots that should face stiff liens, and eventual seizure if nothing is done about it. Then they contract with the same builders that the private sector uses. But instead of building apartments with granite countertops and bathtubs with water jets, they use simple finishings (or just don't finish things at all, like in my apartment, the floor is polished concrete and the ceilings reveal the structural elements).
Bluetooth/Handsfree aux question
My car has hands free blue tooth calling, but does not have Bluetooth capability for music. Apparently this has happened with other cars or stereos. I have heard that there are different options that I've got that don't include ripping up the middle console and installing after factory parts. Right now I'm using an aux cord connected to my phone, which is a pain. But the hands free calling connects automatically via Bluetooth.
I am looking into a blur tooth adapter that plugs into my aux port, but am not sure on which way to go. I'm assuming that I won't be able to continue to use the hands free calling that is connected through my car and steering wheel, but I wanted to ask 2 questions.
1. Are there any products that would allow me connect via Bluetooth and use both hands free calling and Bluetooth radio for Pandora or another music provider?
2. Are there any options that would allowe to play music from my cellphone via Bluetooth and not lose the hands free capabilities through my car?
3. What products would you suggest most for this?
I definitely do appreciate the advice and help.

Best Regards,
Mark
The logo and the host portion of the URL are ensuring that my credentials are going to Google, and not anyone else. The rest of the URL is telling me I shouldn't trust where I'm going. ;-)
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Where does that infrared heat orginate? Fission?
Yes, the issue is that build scripts are typically written and maintained by humans (as opposed to programs). A more pleasant syntax is one that would be easier to read and maintain.

I think if you want a simple serialization format to replace Make's syntax, s-expressions would be a better fit.
Software Evaluation, Part One: Basic Suitability
Don't forget that like BitTorrent, IPFS uses a DHT to route requests. This makes it vulnerable to DHT routing attacks, where an attacker can Sybil the system and censor all of the routes to a block.
What I mean, is that on occasions when editing .odt documents I create frames to organize for example some mono spaced text in a box. With OO if I move the mouse near the border of the box I am reliably able to click and select to grab onto the frame itself, for example to resize it. With LO this is hit and miss for me, for some reason. From my user perspective, LO is happy enough to show me the frame but refuses to let me manipulate the frame. Not always, and not for all frames, but often enough to be (very) annoying.
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The Open Office eco-system is larger, by far, than LO and AOO. Maybe LO may not benefit at all from a permissive licensed core (although it certainly has benefited from it, as noted elsewhere), but certainly other OO implementations might.

We have seen, and even the FSF admits it, that open standards do best with permissive licensed implementations. So if you want wide adoption of open standards, a permissive license is likely better.

The world is not just LO or AOO. After all, the enemy, so-to-speak, is this proprietary s/w called MSO...
It's a true statement, not a false one. If someone was able to release an intentionally vulnerable version of OpenSSH/1Password, people who updated would be "instantly* (your word) vulnerable.
Haha yes as I am a circus person but that is a topic for another day
> is this supposed to be it?

It is equal parts of:

1. Trying to make a universal OS. If you look at most of the "spying" bits, they're things that already exist and are taken for granted on Android/iOS phones all over the planet. Windows isn't doing anything new here. They're making an OS that is equally meant to run on desktops and phones. As a side effect people are suddenly seeing all the things that any other phone does direct and naked.

2. Recognizing the fact that the average user is a horrible idiot and giving up. Customer grade Windows is aimed at "users". And what average users have done in the past is never update their windows. Most not even because of any decision against it, but because they don't even understand what's going on and ignore it. The result being hordes upon hordes of machines are out in the wild, unpatched, with open security holes, for which MS gets the blame. So they made automatic updates the default and did not provide a way to disable it in the standard user interfaces.

Doesn't mean they force it though. If you truly wish to take control over it, they allow you to. All they require is that either you hire an administrator, or learn how to handle Group Policy Editing yourself.

For example, on Win10Pro, changing the setting of "Configure automatic updating" is sufficient to switch scheduling of updates off.
Do the French no longer believe that raising the cost of something will lower demand for it?
Ninja is a fast Make-like build system with a format designed to be generated by higher-level build tools.

It was originally written for Chrome, but has been adopted as an output format for CMake and is used for many other projects as well.
Well, less ignore mass panic and such. It's always been US government policy not to talk about these things. Canadian and UK, too, apparently. So, it being classified mighg make it a no go.

However, I found this Quora answer to give pretty good justification on national security grounds for military scenarios:

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-government-afraid-of-reveal...
It's still MySQL
I only use linux over SSH. By choice.

Ubuntu is most polished desktop distro, and it's absolutely horrible, so I don't use linux on a desktop.
Thanks for sharing this. This is so cool for kitesurfing and sailing. I didn't know any of these services and windyty looks really nice. Specially I like that you can zoom-in much more than in OP's globe....
The go toolchain leaves a lot of metadata in a compiled binary, even if you supply `ldflags="-s -w"` - including full paths to source files. Although i appreciate struct member names are needed for reflection (e.g. json.Marshal if you're not using ffjson/equivalent).

In this case, it helped to reverse engineer a malicious binary, but in $DAYJOB we have some concerns about more technical end users using this extra metadata to help patch out our license check code, to the point where we're considering commercial exe packers.
What about displaying a warning for domains where a successful HTTPS session with a trusted certificate took place before?

Or about displaying a warning for websites using HSTS -- which Gmail does.
There were times/places when/where programmers in the boonies of the US had funny ideas about pre-optimization and dynamic languages. (Specifically, Ohio!) Basically meetup hecklers who had the weird idea that you should write super-hacky-optimized code 100% of the time, or it would never be fast enough. So then I asked the room to raise their hand if they had ever used a profiler on a real production system. Then I asked them to leave their hand up if they'd never ever been surprised by what the profiler told them!
Please, stop guessing and stick to the facts. The EC ruled that Ireland's government favoured a company over others (I.e. Unfairly subsidised Apple over the competition), hence why Apple has to give back those subsidies.

This is not a tax issue. The EC and the EU in general are cool with Ireland's taxes. Hell, Ireland could effectively lower the company tax to 1% and that'll be perfectly fine.
I search online for literally every name on the ballot. I take notes and base my decision off what they write about themselves. I would say 80% of candidates have a website. Sometimes there are local-level debates you can watch on Youtube between candidates. Sometimes there will be news stories about a candidate, either good or bad. The bad ones help weed our the crappy ones, but I take them with a grain of salt.
My disability means that I have to read through every single option, verbalizing it. Changing the layout that I know so well has meant that MS Office is no longer on the list of applications I bother with.

I know where everything is in Libre Office, it's quicker and less stressful to use. A number of people have told me that it's too bad, I'll just have to learn the new system. Honestly? I really don't care what those Microsoft fanboys think. The "new" system is just far too much work for me to be bothered re-learning. Libre Office/Open Office is more than good enough.
> we don't use the antibacterials in soaps as therapeutic agents to treat infections

Why would you think that changes anything? The bacteria don't care about our intentions. Artificial selection works the same regardless. From the link you were replying to:

[...] exposure to triclosan was associated with a high risk of
developing resistance and cross-resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
and Escherichia coli.

> if a bacteria becomes resistant to triclosan, it has no impact on the effectiveness of antibiotics.

Do you think the bacteria magically lose their resistance to an antibiotic (or cross-resistance to a similar antibiotic biochemical mechanism)? Evolution doesn't care why a bacteria developed a mutation that produced a resistance to a particular chemical. All that matters is that they, as survivors, will pass on that mutation to future generations. Any resistant strain will have an advantage in the future, which includes resistance to any antibiotics that work similarly.

By the way, heredity isn't the only way a resistant trait can spread to future bacteria. Horizontal gene transfer[1] is a thing. Bacteria can spread the resistance gene among the current-generation.

[1] http://amrls.cvm.msu.edu/microbiology/molecular-basis-for-an... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer
PVS-Studio (or more specifically Andrey) used to do a really nice program called "CppHints", where they would email a little tip each day (and later each week I think).

Anyway, I guess I just wanted to say, Andrey, I appreciated your work and enjoyed reading those tips! Thanks!
If SpaceX wants experienced people, they should try the whole stick of decent hours and decent pay.
Emojillate: Pixellate an image into emoji
Do you want to OCR several human languages, or do you want bindings/libraries in several programming languages? The question as written is a little ambiguous.
How often do you check your binaries to find out if they've got suspicious strings in them? :)

I think if you're at the point of running strings on it, you're probably already pretty sure the binary is not above-board.
Aiohttpweb.. anyone using it?
Anyone using aiohttpweb in production? If so, how is are libs, how does it perform? anyone using aiopg? Currently testing with decent results (but this could be meaningless)
Saturn's hexagon
That doesn't gain you much besides a definite order and a way to check integrity. Useful things to be sure, but nothing a traditional database can't do.
As someone who's cancelled lots of subscriptions - I couldn't agree more, it's a right pain in the ass and the Apple website where you do unsubscribe is painfully slow (at least in Australia)
This has been my go-to for passwords for awhile. Top 100, 500, 1000, etc all the way to millions. https://github.com/danielmiessler/SecLists/tree/master/Passw...
My position is that the FDA's role should be strictly limited to testing products for labeling fraud (i.e., that ingredients are as they appear on the labeling) and maybe doing tests and releasing those results to the public so consumers can make informed decisions. They should have no regulatory authority beyond those things.

I don't buy antibacterial soaps, but I'm concerned about this decision because it seems overreaching. I get the tragedy of the commons aspect, though, so am a bit unsure of that.

However, I agree with original position taken by one of the parent posters: there's a very politically dangerous position implicitly being supported in the US now, which is the default is that citizens are not competent to do anything, and that they have to show that they are, as opposed to the alternative, which is to assume that they are competent, and that the burden of proof should be to show that they aren't. What people are implicitly buying into, without meaning to seem hyperbolic, is a totalitarian state, where the default is lack of rights that you have to earn, rather than a default of rights that the state has to take away.

Sure, along time ago medicine was full of quack remedies, etc. But what do we have now? A corrupt system run by monopolies in all corners, and unaffordable by most citizens.

If people take nutritional supplements, that's their decision and their responsibility. If a supplement manufacturer adulterates their products, the problem is fraud, not the ability of the consumer to make the decision.

People do all sorts of stupid things. Preventing them from doing so is not the responsibility of the government.

I keep going back to the example of taxes, which is a good parallel. Imagine that the government, a year from now, mandates that no one can do their own taxes anymore, and that only individuals with a specific degree and license, requiring hundreds of thousands of dollars, and years of training, can do any taxes. What would people think of that? There would be an outcry, and legitimate concerns about corruption and collusion. But we are completely fine with the government telling us what to eat, and how to wash our hands, and what drugs we should be putting into our bodies, and what not.

The same government that classifies cannabis as a Schedule I substance, so dangerous that no one should possess it. Absolutely no problem with government regulation of health decisions. Totally trustworthy. (btw, I've never used cannabis either, so that's not my skin in the game)
Samsung Galaxy Note S7 Recall
I had a similar idea but with lower and lower ceilings, you could have 100s of apartments at one address with 1cm ceilings, but great sq footage.

Virtualisation probably makes more sense though.
Project ARA founder now working for Nexpaq, designing modular phone
> In this case, it helped to reverse engineer a malicious binary, but in $DAYJOB we have some concerns about more technical end users using this extra metadata to help patch out our license check code, to the point where we're considering commercial exe packers.

Considering that that’s a second semester excercise for students, I’m not sure anything can help with that.

I mean, literally, the "bomblab", aka "Dr. Evil's Insidious Bomb, Version 1.1" is standard at every university’s computer science course, and teaches how to reverse engineer and bypass such checks in binaries.
For example, on Win10Pro, changing the setting of "Configure automatic updating" is sufficient to switch scheduling of updates off.

How is this different from the way it works in older versions of Windows? My understanding is that it's much harder than this to defer forced reboots farther than 12 hours, and becoming (deliberately) more difficult update by update.
Simplicity Is Complicated (talk about Golang by Rob Pike)
"I'm not sure you can say the living standards of the Chinese people are improving when they can no longer go for strolls at night."

That depends on what's your base comparison. Like comparing with Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Chinese probably have a better living; but of cuz, Chinese cannot go for strolls at night while DPRK people probably can.
SJWs are invading everything. How can anyone fight this wrong think?
No because HN is an SJW echo chamber.
Commuting into London is already easy, huge amounts of people do it every day.

It is expensive though.
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Obligatory post on SCM security that these people still haven't learned from:

http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/scm-security.html

Since then, researchers have also made compilers for memory-safe C, many forms of append-only storage, parser generators for secure configs, secure web interfaces, etc. Mainstream proprietary and FOSS havent adopted or tried to build on about any of it outside one or two outliers. And random people can still achieve compromises like this with ease.

Hard to make fun of the Russians for bringing typewritters back given the situation. I also know people moving stuff through high-assurance guards consisting of real-time FSM's on 8-bit CPU's a few bytes at a time specifically because an exploit couldn't fit in the RAM or overwrite the ROM. Muphy's Law says if it's stupid and works then it aint stupid. I'll spare you what Murphy's Law says about Linux kernel or SCM security. Murphy's too profane sometimes.
Why go back to Mandrill? Why not go to SES?
Who said anything about doing it to change their behaviour? Do it because you aren't getting value for money! If there are better alternatives, then use them.
Hs2 is not gonna be cheap...
It isn't different.

You can tell it to wait with downloading until you click go, or to auto-download and wait with installing until you click.

This worked on WinXP, Win7 and Win8. It does not work on Home editions, since the Group Policy Editor isn't available there, but enterprising individuals have worked around that as well.
We're talking a finger stick here. And a devastating illness that is poised to become a worldwide epidemic.
Hi Patrick-- I work at Nylas and thought I'd drop a comment here too.

We did get your emails and queued your account for deletion but our logs indicate you kept signing-in again and again, which removes your account from the deletion queue.

Depending on your account provider, you can also revoke the Google Apps oAuth token or change your provider's mail password.

We also deactive inactive accounts about ever 3 months, though that is on a slower rolling basis.

Going forward the best option is to use the new deletion tool at https://billing.nylas.com/login

Sorry for this frustrating. Because a mail system inherently deals with a lot of data (often millions of objects) deleting them all safely is not a synchronous operation.

If you'd like to read a bit more about the security of your system, you can check out https://nylas.com/security

And of course, if you want to keep using Nylas N1 without our managed cloud sync, you can always run the open source sync engine yourself. More on that here: https://github.com/nylas/N1/blob/master/CONFIGURATION.md
Why AWS Is Still the Safest Bet for Cloud Infrastructure Services
Who can estimate the cost of building this same structure today?
ouch! I could actually feel your pain.
I bought ABBYY FineReader for Mac for abut $99. I find it to be pretty amazing. My new scanner also came with it and I generally expect it to do a reasonable text translation of whatever I throw it, whether it be newsprint articles or crumpled receipts.

If you need to do OCR that also preserves table structure -- which is what I bought FineReader for in the first place, I don't think there's any open source alternative, and FineReader does a very capable job.

Here's an example of FineReader in action: OCRing the docs released by the FBI on Clinton's email system. I've also included the pdftotext output showing how FineReader's text conversion also attempts to preserve the physical layout of the text characters:

https://github.com/dannguyen/clinton-hillary-email-fbi-inves...
Or rather, DPRK people probably have a rotation of night-strolling that is monitored and rated.
Another definition of unique is "particularly remarkable, special, or unusual" [1].

Makes sense with how the original quote also said "We have 36 more flybys to study just how unique it really is."

www.merriam-webster.com has one definition which says it's a synonym of "unusual" [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/#q=unique (in the top info box)

[2] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/unique (#3 in the full definition, all-caps meaning that it's a synonym for the word in caps)
And yet their build system is still the same as it pretty much has always been. There is no easy way to sustain any sort of development energy with a developer unfriendly system like that one.

LibreOffice realised this early on and did the hard yards to fix fundamental issues like the crappy build system, and to put into place developer friendly infrastructure like gerrit. The OpenOffice team didn't see this as important or even necessary, and now they are withering on the vine, but complaining about it quite a lot.

That Symphony code can only take you so far. That was integrated several years ago. What have they done since then?
There is no way that would get planning permission in central London.

It would have to be underground.
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1) if you're doing a certificate just for yourself, you can import it into your browser.

2) I'm pretty sure all the browsers work just like ssh -- where you can accept it once and then it doesn't bother you again.
I'd call the appraisal justified. At least from where I sit, I'd say that the equivalent to eBay or Uber would be listing stock from startups that also have VC funding, and selling actual shares in the company.
Safe from the POV of malware is like debt from the POV of a bank. Your debt is their asset. Your asset is their liability. Or as Amazon says, your margins are their opportunity.
They also have a Linux CLI for servers, it seems to be licensed by annual page volume, https://www.abbyy.com/ocr-sdk-linux & http://www.ocr4linux.com/en:pricing
It does matter that it's Johnson over Stein. Johnson and his running mate were both two-term governors. If they make it to the debate stage, they are real candidates and nobody can dismiss them.