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Malmsteen plays mostly a single pattern of triplets that he moves around the fretboard. It's a very well-rehearsed parlour trick, that he can use for good effect in real tunes (in combination with his good tone and confident presentation), but that's all it is in the end. It doesn't compare to the labyrinthine gymnastics demanded by actual classical pieces, many of which have passages with unique fingering challenges: no one-size-fits-all fits all shred pattern.

Malmsteen himself is better when he slows down; he really should keep the triplet cheese grating to a minimum. Its effectiveness is inversely proportional to the size. A good example is the "I'm a Viking" guitar solo; there is heap of shred notes at the beginning as an intro, but then it goes slow, with just some connecting speedy bits here and there.
The article clearly paints SpaceX as the newcomer and underdog who is trying to compete with the big monopolists. I wonder if there is another side to the story, though. Is anyone involved in the industry who can tell more, or point to good sources?
I think this could be a great complement to Scala-native. Right now, the project contributors have to spend effort translating the essential Java libraries that would allow Scala-native to be successful. This could really ease that job for them. It could potentially make all the Java code ever written available to Scala-native.

The other thing it adds is the backing of a giant, like Oracle, which can bring stability and peace of mind to some people, when deciding whether to adopt the technology or not.
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The lifetime of exploits/defenses (in an ever-evolving threat landscape) is likely to be shorter than the lifetime of widely adopted application software.
EU wants Google to stop anti-competitive Android practices, fine expected
Does anyone recall why they rejected the GPL3?
Only if there was any reasonable basis to believe that infringement had taken place. Most countries have some sort of pre-trial hearing before a civil suit to determine if there's merit to the accusation. You're generally not allowed to go on fishing expeditions without a reasonable basis for your claim(s).
I'm very curious about the part where prospective employees wanted options, implying you need a liquidity event anyway. Aren't there other models for that? For instance, a partnership track setup, or paying dividends on shares, or some other sort of revenue sharing? Equity in profitable privately owned bootstrapped companies must be valuable, or there would be no incentive for the founders of such companies, so why not offer a share in that value?
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LLVM wants to switch from a BSD-style license to Apache 2.0, with a few exceptions, one allowing use with GPLv2 code, another allowing the bits of compiler-rt and other components that get built into binaries to be redistributed without restriction.

The main benefit of Apache 2.0 is that it includes a patent grant as well. Right now, LLVM relies on a custom "developer agreement" for anyone who contributes code that includes a grant of patent rights, but it's kind of vague and fuzzy and so makes it hard for some people to contribute, and the license itself doesn't actually mention patents at all:

http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2015-October/091536...

Theo objects to any license that applies more restrictions than the original BSD license. OpenBSD makes an exception for GPLv2 licensed utilities that have been traditionally shipped with BSDs that there's not a good replacement for, but has stopped upgrading things that have moved to GPLv3 and apparently objects to the Apache license as well.
One fucking annoying design in win10 is that, if my computer never connects to network after a restart, the Cortana search function will never work, even I just want to search my local files.
I personally hope that the Saudi dictatorship gets thrown out sooner than later. Saudi-Arabia is the funding source both financially and ideologically for lots of terrorist groups, including Al-Quaeda and the so-called Islamic State.

I don't have any fears about the oil prices - while it's true that Saudi oil is by far the cheapest worldwide, Iran has a lot of growth potential, and the Russians would also like to sell more oil, given their disastruous financial situation.

The real risk after a Saudi collapse, though, is: who is going to take over after a coup, and which regime is set to fall next? And I'm not sure I like the options available...
It's not very clear to me either, this seem to be it: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/263232/12944
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> It's the only platform where simply installing something has rendered the system non-booting, there are hundreds or more of config files and often changing one will break another system.

Me and some people close to me use desktop linux for years and we've NEVER encountered such problems - despite the fact that I test distros and desktops on a weekly base. Would you describe what you've done to your system?
Just eyeballing it, it's about 600-700 ft from the center of the pad to the tree line, so perfectly doable -- would cameras have been watching the tree line? If someone had shot from the top of a roof or something, I'd think cameras would have caught him leaving/hiding. It would be very, very obvious they shouldn't be there.

Leaving before anyone could notice you would be a bit more of a problem.
They aren't equivalent fallacies. When everything is fine people are far less likely to report it than when something is broken.
> I’m sure there’s some historical reason for valuing short variable names. ... Maybe in the past our ancestors had to pay by the letter

Yes that's it.
Seems like a sensible response. I do wonder how they will know what certificates are currently signed by WoSign, as they stated that individual certificates will still be trusted somehow.
Probably just by name. But I could see them wanting to track by the customer's phone emissions (Bluetooth ID, etc) to make that simpler and less annoying (like not asking Leonardo DiCaprio "who are you again?")
A very good question! The opposite of it is also important, can we follow some heuristics while creating tilesets to minimize contradiction rates, but not making tilesets easy? I don't know. If someone knows please tell me.
"You'll also notice that 3.5 > 2.6"

And originally phones came with a 2.5mm plug for audio.

Not a convincing argument you're making, here.

"After moving audio to USB-C, you only need one jack for charging and audio."

Okay, so I'm back to a splitter for audio and power at the same time (which is very often when you're on the road using the GPS on your phone and avoiding local FM stations.)

"USB-C also grips the jack on the inside, likely making the connector inside the phone smaller."

Guess how a TRS jack works?
Curious if it is still under active development because copyright is 2015 and so are the last blog posts.
And was kicked out of the NetBSD project. This is the rest of the origin story for OpenBSD.
I'd say: fork the old UI and use it instead of the new one. But that's something you'd do on Linux, not on Windows I guess...
Which board did you buy? Most of them (Zedboard, Zybo, MicroZed) come with a Linux kernel already burned in QSPI flash. Make sure the jumpers are set for QSPI boot (not SD card). Plug in to the USB serial CDC port to see the prints. The system should boot to a login, password is usually root.

Now, download and install the Xilinx SDK. Write a hello world program. Run the settings64.sh script that was installed to get the toolchain in your path. Compile the code with arm-xilinx-linux-gnueabi-gcc. Put the output ELF file on a SD card. Insert the SD card to your board, mount it, chmod +x your exe, then execute it.

If your board didn't come with Linux, find a prebuilt kernel and put it on a SD card. There are usually just two files you need, BOOT.BIN and image.ub.

Try reading the Xilinx Petalinux documentation. It's quite good. Also try Sven's Zynq tutorials.

Finally, the Zynq has a complex bootloader architecture. If you want to run bare metal, your bare metal app can run in place of the SSBL (U-Boot). And you don't need to load the FPGA at first, the Zynq works fine if the PL is not configured
Here's one summary that's rather bland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_legal_cases

And here's one that's more... opinionated: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm
In my experience security is often not as good as people think it is in general, especially when large orgs are involved. Look into all the cases of anti nuke activists sneaking into nuke plants for example, or the endless cyber security compromises of large companies and governments.

A place like the Cape is tough because you have many, many contractors and commercial users along with multiple civilian and military fed personnel and even academics. It's likely full of people trying to get their work done, not playing "if you see something say something."

How secure is the Cape? Anyone got any experience?
Living in Canada allowed him to avoid the USA's onerous export restrictions on strong encryption; at a time when good, consumer-accessable encryption was expensive and patent-encumbered. The 'net is secure in no small part to his efforts and that of the rest of the OpenBSD team.
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Context is a fair point. Interestingly enough, they are all beating the "terrorist" drums at your local regime.

> I'd personally want the cops to look like that if there was a nutter on the loose with a machine gun.

Here is the point: Physical protection of police personnel does not invariably require 'psychological intimidation' aesthetics.

Your "lone nutter" is by your description already nuts and has already crossed the line, so what's the point of dressing up in storm trooper outfits?
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I encountered this in real life in a completely different field.

As a schoolboy I studied the trumpet. My teacher was an excellent trumpeter. He gave me exercises every week and said "Just play these for an hour a day and you'll have no problems".

I would go away and put in my hour a day practice and get no where. I wanted to play the high notes like those jazz bands but I would get no where.

I'd go back to my teacher and he'd give me another set of exercises. Diligently I go away and repeat the same process.

Other students of his seemed to do well, but not everyone. It seemed really rather random.

He was a great player but I believe he had very little introspection and didn't really know what made him great in a pedagogical sense. He was likely making minute movements with the muscles of his mouth that he had no idea about but he just stumbled across with his hours of practice.

After this experience I realised how skill in a topic and teaching ability are quite different. Sometimes a person has both at a high level and is really an excellent teacher, but often there are times where someone is a player, not a teacher.
LLVM is considering switching to the Apache 2.0 License.

As a matter of policy, OpenBSD does not ship software that uses the Apache 2.0 License.

It's not entirely clear why that is their policy, but it seems to come down to some combination of the patent clause and the additional complexity of the license.
That is why I use mate desktop on debian now, for I also don't like the gnome3 UI.
then again, we don't pat people on the back for holding on to their odd views, we congratulate them for coming to new realizations and acting on those. So... no, not really. It's not even hypocritical. It's just someone who is currently raising a perfectly valid argument, and his arguments in previous debates have literally nothing to do with the current, legally constrained, discussion around events that appear to have been put in place and moved forward without buying from all parties involved.
Sorry in the README I meant 48 hours of total time, and about 24-28 hours of total work. However now it's already more, but looking at the commit history says it all.

Also note that nn.c was just modified, it's code I wrote before (years ago). The code I wrote in 2 days is the neuralredis.c file for a total of 1200 lines of code (including comments) plus most of the README.
I smell media sensationalism and click bait.

I'm sure the possibility of sabotage or terrorism is being looked at as part of a larger failure tree, but I see no evidence it's a leading contender.
It seems you know a lot about the Chinese.Maybe it's smear.
This seems to be something that happened a while ago, before they traced it to the upper stage helium tank.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2016/09/23/falcon-9-rocket-explos...

So yes it's something they considered but there wasn't any actual sabotage - it was just a tangent in the investigation.
Military vets are vastly better trained than the kind of police discussed in this article and most importantly have an understanding that a. This is not a game b. The relative level of danger in these drug raid situations is usually vastly smaller than what warrants a militarized approach and c. American citizens are supposed to be the "good guys" in any case
I came across this: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204132 earlier today.
With any software, some people are bound to have problems. I have had issues in the past with OS X installations. But because the number of people who do not have issues outweighs that of those who do, it's diluted easily in the general case. For Microsoft it seems different. I am pretty sure the number of those with a problem is minuscule compared to those who don't, but because it is Microsoft, the voices of that minority is overly magnified every single time by both the media and those who simply just have a bone to chew with Microsoft. Deservedly or not, you have to admit, their flaws are magnified way more than those of other companies.
>Have you recently done any of the following on HN:

Probably. I engage commenters -- and because of the handles (which I don't even check before commenting) I seldom know whether they are men or women (or LGBT), and basically I don't even care whether they are X or Y sex or not, as long as they have something interesting to say, or say something that I disagree with and want to comment on.

I'm an equal opportunity "somebody is wrong on the internet" commenter.

>These things happen routinely for men on HN. I think they are far less common for women.

Maybe because woman are much fewer than men on HN? I engage with both men and women on somewhat equal frequency on other forums and media, e.g. Facebook.
But what if you just want to turn it off.
> Do people really use stash for things they value longer than a few minutes?

You'd be surprised. ;) Even a few minutes can get you into trouble though. The very last person I helped out of a stash crisis two days ago did exactly what you outlined, fully intending to stash pop immediately, and couldn't find his change and panicked.

What actually happened was he'd unknowingly stashed again during his branch switch, and his first stash was there, but not on the top of the stack. GitHub desktop was auto-stashing or something. (GitHub desktop has made several very strange choices...) Anyway when my friend applied an empty stash, he thought he'd lost his changes. He called for help on a Saturday, and I tried to point him in the right direction over email, but by the time I got to a terminal to see what happened, he'd already rewritten most of his change, having decided it was a loss.

OK, FWIW here are some safer alternatives to switching branches without stash:

- First thing to know is that you can switch branches with uncommitted changes in your working tree. You don't have to do anything else, git will protect against conflicts, so why not always try this first? It's less work most of the time.

If git complains, you can:

git commit -am "WIP for the_correct_branch"
git checkout the_correct_branch
git cherry-pick my_old_branch
git reset --soft HEAD^ # Optional, if you want to unstage
... Later ...
git checkout my_old_branch
git log
... Notice the leftover commit ...
git reset --hard HEAD^

Or here's an alternative that doesn't leave the dangling commit for later:

git commit -am "WIP"
git branch work # you can always do this with uncommitted changes
git reset --hard HEAD^ # still on my_old_branch here
git checkout the_correct_branch
git cherry-pick work
git branch -d work

If anything goes wrong with these workflows, my changes have been dropped in two branches, they'll be easy to find in the reflog, and the gc timer doesn't even start yet because they're still referenced. It's really hard to lose the changes this way.

The only option with the stash flow if the stash gets lost while switching branches is to use fsck, and the gc timer starts immediately because the stash is not referenced.

I mention the gc timer because some of the accidents I've seen are people popping stashes and only realizing later that they popped a different change than they thought they did.

They way this happens is people who are beginners to git. Once you know git, it's hard to imagine popping the wrong stash and not knowing it, but I've seen it happen multiple times. This is why I advise everyone to avoid stash - for beginners, it looks deceptively and attractively simple, but is easy to get in hot water. It's also another git subsystem to learn, as if git wasn't hard enough to learn. For git experts, it's so easy to avoid using stash, there are always safer alternatives.
Might as well go with an F-35 then, it can carry more stuff.

The A-10 can't be replaced by effectively a trainer with a light ground attack option.

The A-10 is a flying tank, it's main gun is very useful for CAS and it can carry a lot of armaments and more importantly take a lot of punishment.

The A-10 is simply not sexy, the air force doesn't want it, it might not even want to provide CAS roles in general.

The USAF offered the US army to take the A-10 fleet in house the Army doesn't want it since logistically it can't really support fixed wing aircraft at this point, maybe the marines would take it in.

The A-10 isn't expensive, it's probably the most cost efficient aircraft the US has produced since WW2, it's simply not a sexy Gen 5 FBW doodad.
Couple notes for people less familiar with the Internet PKI/CA industry:

1. WoSign (who also owns StartCom) violated all sorts of industry standards. The worst of them was circumventing the SHA-1 deprecation by backdating an SSL certificate.

2. Now all the root programs (Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, and Google) need to decide how they will react to this.

3. Mozilla proposed dis-trusting all new WoSign/StartCom certificates and giving them a chance to re-apply as a trusted CA in a year. This is only their proposed action, and they have not totally committed to it.

4. Apple has now said they will take similar action to Mozilla. Apple will block a specific intermediate certificate: "WoSign CA Free SSL Certificate G2"

But they will continue to "trust individual existing certificates" if they had been published to Certificate Transparency logs by September 19th.

While I have not personally confirmed this, my understanding is that there are other Wosign certificates that are trusted on Apple via cross-signing. So this seems like an incomplete solution - in the sense that some WoSign certificates (mainly the commercial certificates they sell, vs the ones they give away for free) will remain unaffected in anyway.

(Someone more familiar with the specifics of the Apple root store may be able to provide more clarity here)

5. Google and Microsoft have not yet committed to any action yet. Google will certainly make a detailed public announcement when they are ready.

6. Mozilla is meeting with QiHoo (a chinese tech company which owns a majority stake in WoSign). It is expected that Mozilla will make a final decision following this meeting.
Not all p2p distributes while you are downloading. Sure BitTorrent does but there are many other older protocols and networks still alive out there.
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> Bluetooth audio quality is lossy and poor

Bluetooth audio can be lossy and poor.

The default minimum standard SBC codec is pretty terrible, no doubt, but every device worth using supports many other codecs which are sufficiently high quality for car use. AAC and MP3 are commonly supported, which also happen to be the formats your audio probably is already in. A player focused on quality could, in theory, pass the raw input data over the Bluetooth link for it to be decoded on the car/headphone side. In that case there would be no quality loss, though you'd lose the ability to mix in other audio such as notifications, so I doubt this mode is used by default on smartphones. Dedicated music players may support it.

Since there's arbitrary codec support technically with support from both sides you could also send a lossless stream up to the bandwidth limits. I don't believe there's widespread support for any lossless codecs, but the technology definitely allows it.

Even if you're just using one of the high-quality lossy codecs like aptX you still have to keep in mind the environment. Unless you have an uber-luxury car the noises of normal driving will have more of an effect on the audio quality than the Bluetooth stream. Sure, you might be able to tell the difference when parked, but unless you spend a lot of time sitting around waiting in your car that's not very relevant.
Every one of the cases I have had to debug in which someone had deleted the localhost entry was someone who had entries for blocking Adobe's licensing servers.
I updated to Win10 on my little Bay Trail convertible thingy, which I use mainly as a tablet for web surfing. It's been fine, but an annoying feature is that the update apparently loaded Win10 into the recovery partition in addition to installing it as the main OS. So, when I did a "factory restore" after (admittedly) horribly screwing things up myself, it restored to Win10.

Of course I had been very sloppy with not creating a recovery drive, etc., so I'm stuck with Win10, but it's just a thing to be aware of.

That's why Linux is for people like me. I get as many chances as I want to screw things up, and recovery is just a matter of downloading an .iso and trying again.
> But having both as failed stats woudl be something worse

Iran, in contrast to Saudi-Arabia, has industry: tourism, textiles, cement and steel. Also, due to the long international sanctions, they're used to not depend on their oil exports.

Saudi-Arabia has nothing to offer except Mecca - which would likely be battle ground after a regime overthrow, because of the importance of Mecca. Yes, the SA regime has truckloads of money, but I'd guess it's all locked in foreign countries under control of members of the currently ruling family - so if the regime were to fall, vast loads of Saudi-Arabian money would not be available in the country any more.
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This has nothing to do with SteamOS, X11 or Wayland. Game performance on Linux has everything to do with the quality of the port and/or game engine and hardware drivers. For example, Rocket League performance on Linux is on par with Windows while Tomb Raider has 20-30% less. In any case, there is no perceivable difference if you have a modern $200 GPU.

BTW, X11 with DRI3 has the same performance as Wayland.
I think they're only trusting certificates that were published in transparency logs before 2016-09-19.

You can check that log at https://crt.sh