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I haven't really noticed any one demographic using it more than others, most people tend to "get it" pretty quickly. Unless you are perfect, most of us need somewhere to jot down notes, or reminders to do things. Hell, there are times where my wife and I will be laying in bed and she will ask "did i forget to close the garage door?", and I can just ask the echo to close the garage door and lock the front door just to make sure.

>it's essentially black boxes with deceiving trade-offs, also almost no one reads TOS.

See, people keep telling me that they are "deceiving", but I just fail to see how. Nobody is saying that these work without your personal information. Nobody is saying that they aren't using your history to "teach" the service. Nobody is hiding the fact that they learn your preferences over time to get better. Why do you think they are deceiving?

To me it's quite the opposite (as this article shows). People are asking for more learning, more automation, more "AI", and the companies are putting out headlines like "Our AI can learn about you and your wants and needs FASTER than our competitors can!"

That's not hiding or deceiving...
Orkut was always part of Google, it was created by a Google employee (Orkut Büyükkökten) as his 20% project.
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The markers on a map are clickable by the way
If you get rid of all the shite people like to stuff in them, even sysv-style init scripts can be short and readable.
They're making it work in practice. That's quite different from "doubling down on a cockup". There's various bits which do not work in the current design, so they have to change things until it does. This effort is being driven not by a systemd developer, but someone working for Canonical.

These user sessions have existed for various years. Now they're ensuring it'll work for graphical sessions. How is this fast?
6MB installer free .exe, oldschool. Makes me wanna contribute a lot.
I don't think there's any correlation between power users and income. Some of the most popular Twitter users are not wealthy.
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Once upon a time, we did: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_System
They had a combination of non-working technology, and semi-working labs. They were using the labs partly to hide that their tech didn't work, and to tide them over until they could make it work.
> Do you think this is fair?

For a young child? It'd be criminal not to do this.

There's a BIG difference between protecting a young (say <13?) child from the evils and perversions that we all know exist in the world and invading the privacy rights of an adolescent. I'd say the natural tipping point for the switch is when the child decides to create their own email address.
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I don't know if this is even possible but people think that it is because LinkedIn has become the Internet boogeyman after years of scummy business practices.
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I'm not a security expert, but if this is true, doesn't that imply Gmail has an XSRF exploit?
It's the smartphone app that does this. Not the browser app. If you use Chrome, it is theoretically impossible for one tab to get data from another tab.
The problem is not unfollowing (and muting/blocking) accounts you don't like. The problem is following accounts that you might do.
Twitter started to ban and/or shadowban (hellban) accounts for political reasons, sometimes for short periods of time, sometimes forever, and also just made your own account unfollow accounts they deemed "offensive", whatever this means.
I'm not just talking about true or perceived troll/harasser accounts here, but people like Scott Adams of Dilbert fame who did not harass anybody as far as I have seen, just had the "wrong" opinions regarding Hillary/Donald recently (I follow him since forever and could verify his tweets stopped showing up in my timeline when the shadowban happened)[0]

And not just accounts are affected, entire hashtags are hidden from trending and auto complete as a means to limit their spread.

At the same time, other accounts who are truly harassing and even trying to incite violence are left alone, e.g. because the target is Trump or a Trump supporter and those are apparently fair game. (No, I am not a Trump supporter, but telling people to self harm or commit suicide because they tweeted #MAGA once is not only against twitter rules, it's against basic human decency)

Sure, they are a private company and entitled to censor or not censor as they please. But twitter users are also noticing that the self proclaimed free speech zone of the web and beacon of democracy fails to deliver on their free speech promises.

[0] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151301555066/the-week-i-became-...
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No I didn't form an opinion solely based on this blog. But it made me reconsider my opinion based on my own experience of systemd and the fact that it seems to be very much against the UNIX philosophy (I want a UNIX like system, in particular usecases at least).

Did anyone actually think this was a remote exploit that could be triggered via twitter? I certainly was never under that impression.
I keep forgetting about binaries.

Even if your ISP dropped NNTP, there were still free NNTP servers around, so I'm less than agreed about that expectation. And the Eternal September was in 1993. Usenet was "viable" well past ten years past that.

I think the best explanation is "new shiny Web" although about... half of the folks I used to read on Usenet are now on Other Fora and it's nowhere near the same - it's not a substitute.
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Thanks gtsteve.

It's a company that delivers applications for clients.
When the children are little this makes sense. As they get older this can be the perfect teaching tool to introduce them to end-to-end encryption.
Youtube had massive free promotion too but according to the book 'In the Plex' by Steven Levy, Youtube's founders and VC backers knew the only viable path forward was an acquisition. In that case Youtube's massive fees for sending data and lack of advertising system were going to result in continued massive losses unless someone who had a structural advantage in reducing those costs acquired it. Google did: (at the time of the acquisition the book says Google with its fibre and agreements could ship Youtube's data for $83m a year vs c. half a billion for anyone else). Google could also leverage its advertising infrastructure to increase revenues. Given how other commenters are highlighting the massive employee bloat at Twitter, especially in the advertising department, I can see this being the case here too (and am somewhat surprised at the report based on anonymous sources that Google are out of the bidding).
A article about programming to systemd and how it helped the various distributions turned into HN emotional responses to bash systemd.

I like systemd and it has helped Linux advance. init was a mess and no one still has come with a golden response that shows the world how anything would be better then systemd.

systemd answered a difficult question and hopefully we willsee more similar advancements shortly for Linux.
If anything, I wish more parents acted like you (I know some that do but nearly not enough). Most have no idea what their kids are up to on email or various chat apps.
Just curious -- why is it not possible to use both?
> In systemd, services are described in a simple file with a few keywords, and systemd tries to do all the magic itself

So rather than building the necessary complexity out of simple, understandable instructions which can be presented on-screen in full, it hides its complexity under a very few complex, frequently badly-named instructions which are certain to be poorly documented even for Linux's standards.

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Let me plug qcad, a free and open source cad system that allows you to work parametrically as well using plain javascript.

I've done some pretty complex stuff in it and it hasn't let me down yet.

I'll give solvespace a shot to see how it compares, for me the reason to use parametric CAD is that I'm far more comfortable programming something than editing it in a GUI, and besides it makes changing stuff so much easier.
Is the article implying that Atlanta is special? I feel like if you intend to start a (non-localized) business, anywhere is better than SF, and the lower the cost of living the better.
"Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new "features"."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy
You mean you managed with assembly, right? We were able to Vastly reduce the assembler footprint when using 'C'.
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They are hot garbage, too. It's really ridiculous, you get a new Samsung phone and it has the default google/android apps, a copycat set of Samsung apps, and often a third set of carrier-specific apps that are even more of a dumpster fire.
>I don't think what Rajiv wanted is really relevant here, he supported Hillary and was rewarded for it in a very inappropriate manner, that's corruption.

For better or worse (probably worse), or current definition of corruption necessitates a quid pro quo.

Using your Thai cop analogy, its possible that said cop could attempt to extort a powerful Thai politician who could have them prosecuted. However, that doesn't make their prosecution any less corrupt, nor does it address the incentives that make extortion so commonplace to begin with. Will the police force be any less corrupt after they are gone? It is simply swapping out one corrupt individual with another, and life goes on. I'm saying if I have a problem with the practice, I'm going to try and change the process - not simply charge the last person holding the hot potato.
Cross-origin window.opener objects are not full window objects. You can test this out on any browser - the most they can do is what the articles you linked to says - redirect the parent window, which can be used for phishing, but is otherwise relatively harmless.
She's owns it all. They can't fire her. She has controlling shares of everything.
> because people always choose the default

Tell me about how everyone uses IE on windows.
Nicely said.

I love this sentence:

I do not believe everything happens for a reason (a platitude, in my opinion, too easily offered to those struck inexplicably and unfairly by life’s cruelties) — but I believe we can find meaning in the things that happen.

I hope HN can indulge Elana's use of a psychic's guidance and a little mystical thinking, and see the beauty in the whole story.
Have you been to a nursing home lately? I see a lot of nurses that are fresh in the country. Not sure if h1b or work visa or what. There is definitely some shady things going on around foreign nurses in nursing homes.
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Did that offer include the AliBaba stake?
As a script, "start the service" is extremely readable and simple on the surface.

Exactly what I'd need to do to be able to put a #! on the line before is slightly more complex and you won't be able to reason about it yourself except by guesswork but that's alright because I've got it right. You can trust me.
Yah so you trade Google garden for amazon garden. Not sure what that helped.
I love how they show the whole page as it was on the day.
- set yourself a goal (simple todo app in node.js + react)

- read about technologies: first google match on tutorials (javascript language fundamentals, node.js, react)

- build it: it will be very bad.
- build it again: it will be bad
- build it again: it will be not that bad

during build google for the problems you have, look for solutions, other options and patterns.

repeat 10-15 times. you are done.
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Patience young padawan.
Yes. PVS-Studio confesses its love for Linux: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0415/
>Twitter's progressive-supremacist slant is disgusting, I hope they go under.

This is so distant from reality that screams partizan. I mean, as a notion, it's not even wrong.
It's not really - it's more akin to closing someone's bank account and saying "we're closing your account for misconduct" which does happen.
Is it also pro-Apple bias by the dozens of airlines which have singled out the Note?
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The documentation for nfs for non-expert users reads thus:

Become an expert user.
Absolutely fair. Demanding privacy is fine and justified for adults who know the ropes and the risks, but I'll personally ensure the online safety of my children.
> That model still needs users, then. "It's self-hosting" does not provide any kind of user story for, say, me. I have Twitter.

So lets speak enthusiastically about it then! It costs you nothing and it helps to level the playing field against incumbents like twitter etc.

Personally I find the whole microblogging concept overhyped and really just want open social networks with adjustable privacy (along the lines of google+, just open source or at least multi-vendor) + chat, group chat, channels, bots etc along the lines of Telegram.

Actually that social network could just be an improved version of Wordpress/Blogger etc where I can straightforwardly choose what is visible to anyone, to colleagues, family etc etc.
Actually both team are not split into technology stacks, but rather interdisciplinary teams like one for Marketing and the other one for Sales. Each of them building some different functionality in Ruby and .NET. In each team there is like 1 .NET developer and Ruby dev, and this causes an issue when someone wants to go on holiday, as the team practically stops development.

Unifying technology eliminates or reduces that risk.
Don't laugh -- there's now a thing called MERN, which is basically MEAN with Angular replaced by React.

The entire sell of MongoDB in the Node community seems to be "it speaks JavaScript and you can store objects in it". Which of course fails to take into account any of the strengths and weaknesses of MongoDB (in the latter case especially the lack of cross-collection transactions or fast joins -- which in my experience account for 90% of the problems Node developers face with MongoDB).

The main reason MongoDB is popular in the Node community is that both reached peak hype around the same time. So it made perfect sense to bundle both of the "hottest" technologies together. Except by the point Angular 1 reached peak hype MongoDB was already facing criticism, so MEAN mostly seems to bask in its afterglow.

If you had asked me last month, my prediction would have been a RethinkDB+Node+React (or RethinkDB+Node+Angular2) stack popping up to challenge MEAN, though the RethinkDB+Node bit seems to have already been addressed by Rethink's own Horizon.
That's brilliant, and I wouldn't expect anything less from the BBC. They are technically competent and innovated in the broadcasting space, like a few other networks did/do. It surely helped that the BBC have (had?) an R&D department.
My laptop boots to a text console. I use a wpa_supplicant script to connect to wifi. What kind of complex init system do you think I need?

Honestly, what kind of complex init system do most /servers/ need?

But the issue is actually that systemd is not just an init system it's steadily increasing in scope to incorporate more and more services.
Self reply- it appears that Sam Altman made this assertion in a recent New Yorker article as well as a blog post. I think the observation of low growth is good, but the assertion that democracy does t work without a economic growth is less persuasive. All forms of progress need not be measured by GDP. In fact, many issues indicative of social progress have difficult to measure economic impact or even potentially negative economic impact with good social benefits.
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if this one doesn't turn itself on when its in my pocket, and doesn't start phoning random people without any speech like noises happening, i can see this being slightly less of a gimmick than siri... :P

kudos to these guys though, i never followed their story after apple took them on, and just assumed they would still be there. selling something then going back to doing the same thing, and doing it better... i find that admirable.

also despite my opinion on siri being "doesn't even work, not even close" i do look forward to more and better developments in that direction. although a part of me wonders if we won't just be wiring ourselves directly into our devices by the time this sort of tech becomes truly useful. :)
As a scientific programmer do you have any recommendations (books/advices from others) how to manage media bias and how to immune our thinking from fallacy after reading news.
You trade that loss of control for the convenience of not having to distribute/host/manage money or returns/etc.
>They're also shadowbanning many accounts of those who support Trump.

How about: they just have some BS department/AI that shadowbans based on user complaints etc, and they do a lousy job at it?

Here's the same result, without the conspiracy part.
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Who really knows how that happened? I doubt it was a conscious decision by Twitter. Maybe an automatic shadowban occurs after a certain number of reports while awaiting staff review, and people figured out how to abuse that feature.
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A lot of people will get turned off by the idea of having to or wanting to study so much just for a job at a company. The way I see it though, this is a great list of resources to learn about a lot of programming-related things.
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Being a Dutchman the name alone made me upvote this.
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I use an Intel RealSense R200 Camera.

https://software.intel.com/en-us/realsense/r200camera

It's not as smooth a MS Kinect but the form factor is considerably smaller.
The queries are fluent if you are used to libraries like lodash. I've been writing SQL for 20+ years. Not only did ReQL feel very natural to write, but it integrated beautifully with my node projects. The trouble I had was with indexing for performance, since I was more used to RDBMS index and query dualities.

I have much love for the Rethink team. I am glad to see they are doing their best to support the community during this difficult time.
Lol, metafilter banned Scott Adams for creating sock puppets to talk about what a genius Scott adams is. The guy is a toolbag.
Did you use the same Wi-Fi network as those people at some point? Maybe it's something like that.

My throwaway account at work is always being recommended someone that once visited my home and used the Wi-Fi, and to whom I have no other connection.
You can tell Windows you want to use a different browser, and that choice will typically be respected (when opening links from other apps, etc).

On iOS, you cannot do that for maps. If an app implements a "View this on a map" feature, I don't believe you have any way of changing which app that link opens in.

Sure, you have the freedom to install whatever app you want. And that freedom begins and ends with manually launching the app; third-party links will still open with Apple Maps.
Progressive people have the same complaints about twitter for failing to moderate the swarms of white supremacists that are out harassing Jews and people of color.

Last celeb to make a stink about moderation was Milo Yianniopoulos, who got booted for orchestrating a long campaign of harassment against the black woman from Ghostbusters because she was the black woman in Ghostbusters.

Somebody pointed to Scott Adams as an example of their left-wing moderation.

I used to be a fan of Scott Adams, and following him you can see him going further off the deep end, posting some sadly misogynistic stuff. I wouldn't be surprised if he crossed the line in some less-public ways.

We're talking about a middle-aged man who posts pictures of his abs to try to win arguments. He's losing it.
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There's a kernel of truth there, but I find myself regularly using languages which I hate much less.

If your best defense of a language is "well, at least people use it", that's a bad sign.
He may be working for Canonical, but he is basically Systemd's insider at the company (and Debian, btw).

As for the last line: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTHsOSGJHN0
I don't know. I think they're useful if you consider them as a "I want to do X in languages A and B" showcase rather than a literal translation guide. It can certainly help getting a feel for "how much more difficult/easier is this in A vs B?".

We have a similar page at ArangoDB to help developers used to SQL to understand the general differences in AQL: https://www.arangodb.com/why-arangodb/sql-aql-comparison/
You left off your sarcasm tag. Now look what you've done!
You could almost believe that if he weren't the 5th or 6th famous vocal Trump supporter to get banned.

Milo Yiannopoulos, Scott Adams, @Ricky_Vaughn99, the list goes on and on.

Many of the large tech companies here in the USA are in the tank for Hillary, presumably because they want a president that is very easily influenced by special interest dollar. Who can blame them? They don't want their gravy train cut off.

Google rather famously censors things on her behalf almost daily now, it seems. If you dare to check out news.google.com during this election cycle, the political section is full of discredited partisan sources like WashPo, HuffPo, and CNN that are nothing but hit pieces about Trump. It's disgustingly biased.
Could you explain how this works?
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Which is why Facebook replaced MySpace and Google replaced Yahoo and Altavista and so on.

The idea that economies of scale make it impossible for a company to never face competition is ridiculous. The only thing that can do that is govenment protectionism.

Along with economies of scale is the opposite effect: the inefficiency of bureaucracy and having competing interests between business units.

Being large isn't the magical unicorn you think.
Easier said than done.
Separate clusters (not just databases) also gives you the ability to create read only replicas/hot standby on a per customer/application basis.
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NVMe over fabrics is getting a lot of press at the moment.

Question is, how much performance do you lose by running NVMe devices over Ethernet or InfiniBand compared to running them natively?

We've done the tests.

http://www.zeta.systems/blog/2016/10/06/NVMe-Native-vs-NVMe-Over-Fabrics/