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What do you think of this technique for increasing concentration? Should I use my 'time' in this?
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If you're using solder paste the trick is to get a stencil along with your PCB. It has holes where solder should be applied which you place over the PCB, smear the whole lot with solder paste, and then drop the components into place. You've now got solder exactly where you need it and nowhere else.
Then it will probably be not that cheap. I was trying to use RPi as kiosk inside of a warehouse. Even good filtered power supply was not preventing resets. So you cannot drive big electric motor close to RPi.
Kudos to both Krebs and Google for their courage. I have profound admiration for Brian's work and Google's technology.

I didn't know about Project Shield and I think it's an interesting initiative. However, for some reason it leaves me a bit unease (not as much as the idea of being taken down by a 650Gbps DDoS at will!) - not sure what it is, but we might be moving towards an Internet where only the "approved" would have "free" speech.

I really hope ISP naming and shaming takes over, so we can make DDoS a little bit more difficult.
Bash is a clone of sh, but it has its own problems.
This was exactly my first thought, it wouldn't be as strong to protect it from breaking but it's still better than nothing.
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Typer is a simple spreadsheet with Scheme-like syntax (e.g. "=(+ 1 1)" evaluates to 2). What's different is that cells can contain: numbers, operators, sliders, checkboxes, files, images, URLs, colors, YouTube videos.

Examples (read only): gettyper.com/w/3uw1/?autoplay , gettyper.com/w/paht , gettyper.com/w/2ivlx
I was not aware of any voluntary cooperation with the NSA on the part of Google - indeed, the NSA rather famously hacked Google's internal fiber links. If Google was handing them data, why would they need to do that?
Do you mean the ALGOL macros, which transform C into the so-called “BourneGOL”? They're there because Mr. Bourne liked ALGOL a lot.
Yup, we're seeing that at Toughbyte as well, see my other comment. In fact we even have some candidates commuting to Helsinki from St Pete.
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To be honest, I don't even think E2E is as important in a distributed system. If you're worried about who can see your messages, you can just set up your own server and force server-to-server and client-to-server encryption.
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The CyberSmith Cafe in Harvard Square was pretty epic! VR rigs, specially designed ceiling mounted downward firing speaker setups so you could hear full stereo for your game while your neighbor heard his and not yours, ordering food/drink from the computer, and so on.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/07/03/business/waiter-oh-waiter-...
Stagnation like Chromecast?

Google has market incentive to improve on the browser's capabilities that Microsoft did not.
Great, now the political status quo are even more under Google protection. What is the selection criteria? To receive money from some of americans NGOs? Hold yourselves, more Arab Springs are coming.
Seems totally correct to me -- and is also what I had in the first "Edit:", except the details. :-)

The taxes were lowered substantially for ~ the first 18K SEK of monthly income by the previous government. (This boon for low income employees is denounced as a rightwing extreme design by the present lefty government, so it might be solved.)

I ignored the details since I didn't really need it for my argument to explain why the total costs make service industry almost impossible.
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Firefox violates user privacy since years by allowing long term tracking cookies to be saved by default without asking the user.

Millions of Firefox users lost their privacy without ever being asked about that with the help of Firefox default settings.

This long term collaboration with privacy-destroying ad tracking companies disqualifies Firefox as a privacy tool.

BTW, yes, this post carries an unusual view of things, but no illegal content - do you believe unusual views should be censored?
Thanks for the feedback - noted. In the meantime, can you send me an email (ben@founderspledge.com) and I'll email you the document as a pdf?
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China and Russia don't generally censor via DDOS.

A reverse proxy that connects from the internet to the internet does not need to be neutral. Free hosting does not need to be neutral. Net neutrality is about packets getting between an end user and the core of the internet fairly. This service is in a different area entirely.
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> Even 30 years ago most people didn't know how to fix those machines.

True, people would use washing machine repair shops. Today you can't do that because the machines have been designed to not be repairable. They come with sealed tubs. People can replace the tubs, but that's a lot more expensive than replacing just the bearings.
Friends of mine (so I am biased) shoot this fully 360 degrees TV series for a Polish TV station. If you get the past TV ads it is basically a couple/comedy sitcom in a shorter format. Each episode is shot in one scene and they used their own camera for it. I wonder will there be more 360 degrees content on mainstream TV, because it seems, for now, people are just talking about it. Personally, I can't wait for Netflix 360 production
Sounds like they had a restaurant-grade ice maker already, so it may not have been any further sunk cost to get the ice. Probably lost some of that in electricity and water bills!
E-Mail predates the commercialisation of the net. When the first companies came everybody already had a mail address, thus everybody depends on it (I.e. for registration, password lost, ...) Thus everybody still needs a mail address even though (in my observation) actual communication moves to WhatsApp and FB messenger.
It's possible. But 3D data (3D models, videos) are much more difficult to model via a deep neural net. While most of the researchers focus on modeling 2d images in recent years, there are a few work on 3D. For example, here is a project on modeling 3D objects like chairs and tables. https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.5928
Stackoverflow works great for me, and I don't know why more people don't appear to use it like I do.

1) When you've got a problem, Google it. 98% of the time the answer will be in top 5 links to stackoverflow or documentation. You upvote the answer and question.

2) 1.5% of the time, stackoverflow will have a related question, but either it doesn't have an answer, or the answer has issues.

You figure it out yourself, so you post a comment or answer or just the crappy workaround you used because you ran out of time to figure it out completely.

3) The remaining 0.5% of the time, you get nothing. You post a question, but of course nobody answers because it's an esoteric, hard question. 24 hours later you post an answer to your own question, or more likely a crappy workaround.

And eventually somebody posts a great answer to your question. (Once this happened to me >3 years after I posted it!) It's way too late for you, but it will help the next person with the same problem.

You don't get a lot of karma quickly this way since you're posting esoteric stuff, but you do tend to pick up some badges that are designed to reward this sort of behaviour, like "Populist" and "Necromancer". You do pick up karma slowly and steadily, though. What's satisfying is seeing an answer tick over from zero to one ~12 months after you posted it, realising that you saved somebody hours of frustration.

If you answer an easy question, you've saved somebody a few minutes. When you answer a hard one, you've saved hours or days.
Is it normal in industrial contexts to run the controlling computers off the same power rail/ring/circuit/whatever as the machines themselves?
Try shielding it, put it in a small metal enclosure. Might not be noise on the power supply - just strong EMI so close to it will cause problems.
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you can’t easily ask a question without having it downvoted,
marked as duplicate, or commented on in a negative way

I wouldn't really agree. If the question is clear and even if it is a FAQ, then you'd not receive answers but also upvotes (for posting a FAQ) especially in popular tags such as python, regex, java.

That said, there are several other problems with SO:

- too many poor quality questions

- too many poor quality accepted and highly upvoted answers

- activity in a limited number of tags

- the reputation (apparently virtual bitcoins) cause the overall answer quality to decline (search for "Fastest gun in the west problem" on meta SE)
For Firefox, that's really not sufficient. I've reported FF bugs in the past that sit unfixed in the queue for 13 years. It has disincentivized me from bothering to continue reporting them.

Yes, it's open-source and I could in theory pop it out and fix it myself (ha, because I have a spare weekend to burn on setting up a Mozilla dev environment and dependency stack). No, there's no incentive to do so when Chrome simply doesn't have the bug.

Chrome has bugs that languish too, but so far I can't name any that I've tripped over. I'm sure when I do, it'll be incentive to consider switching to Firefox.
A version with SATA or USB3 would be nice. That would extend potential use cases a lot since we could use faster storage.
I'd price that up before suggesting it.
ALGOL would make sense too. Thank you for the explanation.
Would Google protects the webapp they created (and gave to Al Jazeera) to support the creation of Islamic State?
An example is http://sqlite.org/src/timeline

A complete log of the 200+ SQL statements used in generating the page above can be seen at http://sqlite.org/tmp/timeline-sql-log.html

The list of check-ins is computed by a single query. But that query then tosses the list over the wall to another subsystem which generates content for each check-in. And several queries are required for each check-in to extract the relevant information needed for display.

The timeline example above is an information-rich page. Perhaps it could be generated using fewer than 200 SQL statements. But SQL against an SQLite database is so cheap that it has never really been a factor. You can see at the bottom of the page that it was generated in about 25 milliseconds. Profiling indicates that very few of those 25 milliseconds were spent inside the database engine.
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Thanks for all the work, love Plasma on openSUSE Tumbleweed so far, keep going!
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I actually think SQLite could probably be used from beginning to advanced level, depending on what you're teaching (relational theory for example), but perhaps I'm not aware of its' limitations in that regard.

That being said have you considered using docker (or other popular container tech) for making installation of MySQL easier?
You can get round this by 'smarthosting' your outgoing mail. Typically this is your ISPs SMTP relay server. For example, I host my own Mail environment (MS Exchange, not that it's relevant) and all my outgoing mail is sent directly via SMTP to my ISPs smarthost. That smarthost then directs it where it needs to go based on the recipients domain. This way you are not sending mail directly from your 'untrusted' mail server, into say, Google or Yahoo.

I know from experience that I have to smarthost, as Gmail and Hotmail/Outlook.com reject silently any mail that come direct from my mail server. It's a pain, but there are solutions out there.
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Heat shrink tube might be an option. Although I don't know how durable it would be over the long haul.
Ah, I don't know if DirtyPCBs have solder resist, but soldering pins that are too close together has been problematic for me.
A better comparison is the Yubico Fido U2F key, which just does U2F. https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-hardware/fido-u2f-se...
The link to the paper seems to be dead, but I'm interested in reading more.

Personally, I have a poor memory and have made use of what the post calls "transactive memory" (great to have such a perfect name for it) to compensate for years. I've never felt like I was more reliant on Google than on, say, my mother or my friends.

But if you talk about the acquisition of knowledge rather than retention, Google is definitely a primary tool I'm very reliant on. There aren't many topics anymore that I started learning about by asking a friend or co-worker rather than gathering sources from Google first.
>horribly buggy firmware that would unload apps prematurely

Offtopic, but I'm uncomfortable with the trend of calling a perfectly normal Linux OS, running on perfectly normal read-write solid-state storage, "firmware" just because the device manufacturer chose not to give you root. It encourages you to regard it as a static device that happens to need some software (like a CD-ROM drive), rather than an internet-connected fully general purpose computer "owned" by someone else. Ubuntu doesn't become "firmware" because I padlocked the case and locked the root account, and neither should Android.
What sandbox are you referring to?
Not my experience. For two years, I received my salary in EUR and lived in the US. I tried to transfer money using Bitcoin instead of wiring it the traditional way but the Bitcoin exchange fees were actually only slightly smaller than the wiring fees. The additional hassle wasn't worth it.
Well since sqlite is also single file, would it really decrease file system cache efficiency ?
Concur. I remember the days prior to Stackoverflow (where the average search for a programming question landed me on expertsexchange).

They were not good days.
I use a subdomain and run it in the form of dev.<myactualdomain>.com . I add a record to my /etc/hosts file to redirect it to 127.0.0.1. This also means for https stuff I have a valid certificate to use as well. One more note. I almost never run anything on any port other than port 80/443. Any application I work on generally has nginx sitting in front of it with a simple proxy_pass rule.
Ah, thanks for the info!
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And I should also add - what about cheap cloud SQL instances/services as well? Perhaps the students could learn a bit about how simple it is to use some cloud resources too without the management overhead?
It'll be location. I'm guessing these are just in one fulfilment center, so if you're on the other coast you won't get 2 day.
Stackoverflow is a little more boring for contributors now than
it was before (which is why I gradually stopped answering),
simply because most of the general questions have already been
answered.

This sums it up. I'd not find it fun to answer the same questions over and over. Doesn't imply that no-one should answer those; just that it leads one to wonder the value being added.
Great, that's what happened and now FF is in worst shape than ever. Anecdotally, I used to love FF but for the first time since the first released version of FF it is not my default browser anymore. Too much issues, I could not handle my frustration anymore. The silver lining may be Servo, I don't know, but at least I don't see a bright future with this current code base.
You mean trustless as in Mt Gox?
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better the Java you know

Ha ha! :-)
Sorry but you have just proved my point. What % of your team is FINNISH ? I mean you know...real Finns and not russians living in / commuting to Finland ?
I do not make such differences in personal life but this is something that's important for the country. It's a matter of survival.
> Instead we rely on the input of civil society organizations like the EFF, CDT, ACLU, Access, etc.

You still decided implicitly what's politically or artistically important, by hand-picking these groups as authorities. Even more so if you just rely on their input and have the final word yourselves. Not that I personally have anything against these organizations, but ceding power isn't as easy as that.
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I have yet to find a restaurant where the ticket would be over ¥1500 per person that does not take cards. Acceptance signs are not everywhere, but nearly everywhere takes cards.

Yes, tourist attractions do not, but in many cases you can use an IC card for those. The "Japan is only a cash society" canard should die - do you need cash? Yes, but there is a thriving credit card (and basically ubiquitous IC card) payment ecosystem.
Nice, introducing an RCE in a security update XD
Is there a browser build or plugin extension that has a separate cookie jar for each tab that follows the tab?

My ideal browser has zero persistence and each tab maintains its own cookies. Links opened as new tabs would share the parent's cookie jar, but separate tabs loaded to the same page could both be logged in at the same time.
What I find useful about Hangouts is SMS history backups. Android should backup SMSes when moving to a new phone.
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Anyone can reuse old fully workable products in their every day life, it really is super easy and in many cases can be cheaper. While I do go occasionally go into thrift or antique stores, I also hit up garage sales, but my main source is ebay.

Besides the good feeling from putting something back into service that would other wise be junked there can be some serious nostalgia involved. Examples, I have a Toastmaster 1b16 fully automatic toaster like my grandparents had in the 50s, works perfect regardless how many slices pass through it. Old glass plates (morgantown, crinkle, etc) that we use every day for eating. Milk glass spice dispensers, salt & pepper, and old glass water containers in the fridge for ice tea. You can even buy old tupperware or ceramic and glass storage for the refrigerator. My favorite has to be a the vintage fans, a six bladed brass Emerson (blades look like ship propeller) is flawless in use and over a hundred years old.

About the only things I won't use are higher tech electronics, efficiency aside the older items may not even be usable because of software or serviceability
> Estonia, the southern neighbour of Finland, is much more nimble. In the baltic country employees can be hired for a trial period without bureaucracy. Official arrangements are required only after the decision to hire permanent employees is made

Isn't this the case for all companies in the EU? You just hire someone (or in reality their company) as a 'freelancer' or 'contractor'.
The devil is in the details. For example the "chemical tax" is on the weight of the products, so when you buy consumer electronics you are supposed to be paying 120 kr/kg up to a maximum of 320 kr before VAT. This is blamed on environmnentally hazardous flame retardants on circuit boards. So the very design of this tax incentives less weighty electronic products, but I've learned that some electronic products longevity is correlated to its cooling, so you end up paying for the heat sink instead of the circuitboard. So it can even become a perverse incentive where you buy the cheapest possible product that might last a shorter compared to a heavier version that lasts longer.
In greece I'd say the majority still uses the "papaki" which means little duck: Papia is duck, -aki is the little one, papaki.
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Top 2% here - I have used Stackoverflow this way for years. It has saved me hundreds of hours of searching over the years and still does.
One thing I'd add is I try to leave a thank you comment in addition to an upvote when I find an answer to a hard question.
Getting comments years later thanking you for a quick answer you jotted down at some point is so satisfying.
For me the biggest problem with SO is that it's hard to get answers to advanced questions in some areas. Not a lot of people could answer the question in the first place, because it's about some obscure and rarely encountered problem, and these experts are constantly spammed with basic questions from inexperienced programmers. Though it depends on the area you're interested in - I've got almost no answers to advanced Rails-related questions and got pretty good responses to Scala-related stuff I'm interested in (but maybe it's because Scala questions were about more basic stuff)
I try to remind myself of that whenever I am anxious. Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. Meditation has also had some positive effect, as has CBT.

But man does it feel weird that my brain is aware of its own misbehavior and yet can't master it.
It can be easier too. I have a U2F key that lives in my USB hub, which means it's totally seamless and much easier than pulling out my phone and fiddling with authenticator apps. I also have a Yubikey on my keychain, which gives me U2F when I'm not at my desk (you can register more than one key) as well as TOTP for things that don't support U2F.
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You can't miss it - it's riding #1 on HN right, and has been for a few hours now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12577787
Seconded. "Super-powered individuals" are the opposite of democracy, whether they are in that position because of jockeying and electioneering, or by buying malware services.
This is a mature community so downvotes often mean:

1) Your comment is meta. Meta comments - however useful - should be below all comments discussing article content. In some cases we downvote if it happened to bubble up.

2) When a point is no longer relevant, it makes sense to push it to the bottom of the stack. That is not a judgment on its merits.

> I will never complain about HN titles again because people just can't understand that both HN titles

Have a little more self-confidence about your contributions. If they're useful, just walk away knowing you did the right thing. You don't need to defend yourself as the veracity of it will make itself known given time.
Why would you care? You'd be dead.
Can you see our point now?

Because this is exactly the kind of rubber-stamping that we are talking about: to busy defending the system to actually read what the user tries to ask about/point out.
This is a bad idea. What you want from text logs is the possibility to start anywhere in the file, look for a nearby newline and know it is the start of a record.

This is a very important property. It's also what makes UTF-8 resilient.
Half a question, so I'll provide half an answer. $93,917 for 2015. But it ain't "trading" it is "holding".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10880869
It was a suggestion for the end user, not for the manufacturer, and as such it makes perfect sense.