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There is an episode of The X-Files where Mulder teleconferences with the lone gunman and they make a whole huge deal about the amazing high-tech capabilities they are using to project their voice/image in to the specially set up conference room.

The way the writers even notice the technology compared to it's transparency/ubiquity today is quaint.
> don't know how effective they are though

They’re basically useless – they run them on actual devices, and if you use network access you are run through a VPN to ensure you don’t notice you’re running on Google devices from the IP, but it’s still easy to change the functionality depending on if you run on their servers or not.

It’s the old sandbox issue – they can’t statically analyze everything the program might do, and you can always find out if you’re in a sandbox one way or another.

Android antivirus scanners are even worse, though – AVG actually runs them in an emulator that reports itself as Nexus 4 on Marshmallow running on armv7 but is only able to load x86_64 libraries, and they allow network access without any proxying, so you see some AVG IP connect to your servers repeatedly.

(I had a bug in one of my apps that only manifested itself when running in such a sandbox, and which would be reported to my crash reporting service, which gave me a lot of insight into this)
Mine is quite different: http://rafael.pt
Same goes for other ranking sites like HN.
Django + React is an awesome combination that I recommend taking a look at. This repo is a good starting point but you can probably get rid of half of the dependencies if you aren't working on a team of developers.

I am currently using Django + React on a personal project and took a slightly different route, no pun intended. Rather than using react router, as I never really liked client side routing, I use Django views to hydrate all the necessary props for the page and have a base template that loads the React component with the props. Since each page / component is fairly self-contained I also decided against using any Redux / Flux implementations. Furthermore, it only takes a few hours of work to get server side rendering up and running thanks to react + node.
I felt the same way for years - I was a Slashdotter, used to run a Linux desktop for about a decade and talk about 'MS' and occasionally use a dollar sign. Hey, I was 20, everyone was doing it.

I recently had a conversation about how much I like powershell on HN. Someone called me a 'microshill' and I smiled a smile that comes with age.
This is a terrible idea.

I know I will take a lot of heat for saying this on hacker news.

Advertising is something that has existed for at least 100 plus years. TV is supported by it, radio is supported by it and it is no coincidence that the internet is also supported by it. Fact is we as users may not love advertising but it exists because companies want to reach us, it provides revenue to companies that would otherwise need to charge a ton of money for those services.

As more and more media and content including TV Shows and Movies move to the internet do you really truly believe they will remain AdFree? Where would companies that want to reach an audience advertise? Where would that 100 billion dollar show, movie, article get its money from? Purely from the user? Do you think we can go back to the ways of charging 300 dollars for a word/google docs app?

Fact is things cost money to make and people need to make money to keep making things. Advertising whether you like it or not is here to stay.

Edit: I also think adblockers are a terrible idea. All we have done with ad blockers is started an arms race where the ads now come in the form of sponsored content so you have no idea what's an ad and what isn't. We need to just accept that advertising will exist and the premium for non advertising content is just too high to afford by the vast majority of users.
The site clearly says: A simple and language-independent SQL schema migration tool and that it has first-party drivers for SQLite, MySQL and Postgres. I'm guessing it uses the lowest common denominator (the ANSI SQL standard), so any crazy FFI C extensions you wrote might be left in the lurch.
Technically, yes, but considering you can now root Android devices only with DRAMMER, it might even be possible to do the same with Rowhammer.js in the future.
You have taken the first step towards mastering your 10K analysis abilities. Report back once you've mastered the concept of how assets, liabilities, and equity balance out [1]. Then we can move on to the principles of revenue and expense recognition so we can begin to read income statements :)

[1] http://www.principlesofaccounting.com/chapter-1/accounting-e...
Are they actually serious about doing anything at all about abuse?

There's a lot of low-hanging fruit, and it is completely unclear Twitter has attempted to do anything at all about it.

If they are serious, then great - you should join. It's a pretty important platform, and it would be great to see it improved.
It's an excellent point. My theory here, like
hyperpape, is that recent events have shown Twitter the user growth and stock valuation impacts of abuse, so the connection to metrics they care about will have been learned well enough to avoid the bias that traditional accounting introduces here. (I say that in contrast to things like the Lean Manufacturing or Beyond Budgeting approaches to business accounting, which are not as vulnerable to this error.)

But yeah, it's still definitely a risk. As a long-time startup person, I'm more practiced than most at dealing with financial risk, but I appreciate you mentioning it.
> Steam claims

> Microsoft also claimed

One of these groups is honest and has publicly checkable sources.

I can confirm just by opening steam that there are more than 1,000 games that support Linux. Most of them are indie games released for the the 3 PC platforms, there are a fewer larger titles, but the biggest names are avoiding Linux and sometimes even Mac OS now.

So while Guacamelee, Braid, Dustforce and Kerbal Space program work on all three, Doom and GTA 5 don't.
The problem I faced - and still am, to an extent - was that during my PhD I was given no support or really any information at all about the possibility of a life and career outside of academia. I was fortunate enough to be offered a postdoc position in the same group that I did my PhD (particle physics) before I’d actually submitted my thesis. However 6 months later I desperately needed a change and managed to find another postdoc as a research scientist in the Medical Physics department of a cancer hospital.

Medical physics research has felt more fulfilling than particle physics, but I’m now in a position where my current contract expires in around 9 months, and with a mortgage to pay and a family to support I have to decide between: looking for yet another short-term postdoc position (in a hopefully related field of physics) - ending up in exactly the same position in 2-3 years; starting to apply for grants and funding with my current research group - a very stressful process with no guarantees of anything; moving into industry / private sector - assuming that it’d be possible to find a company that had a need for the very specific knowledge base and skills that developed over the past 7 years.

Or all of the above, at the same time, while trying to continue working my current research projects.

As someone that has always had an interest in computing, data analysis and software, but has ended up approaching them from a physics-based direction, I don’t feel qualified to compete with computer science/statistics grads for most of the software development or data science jobs that I see advertised.

I'm sure that there are other fields out there that would suit me, but having never had a non-academic-research job, I'm struggling to know where and what to look for.
Does anyone have any practical advice for moving away from an academic career path?
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No, I completely agree with you, and happen to have a fond spot for Arch myself.

Just wanted to point out that Arch does indeed intimidate most linux newbies. Most "regular" folks expect to install an OS and have everything "just work". They get this from Ubuntu, Fedora, etc... but with Arch, they get a terminal screen and a mounds of documentation.

Once setup with a windowing environment, most folks will settle in just fine. It's getting to that point that's the challenge.
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I was about to comment that this is just YikYak again, and the primary use of YikYak is for kids to anonymously harass one another.
I don't believe gp was talking about security by obscurity[1] and it would be wrong to frame it that way.

Instead, it's ranking and weighting by obscurity and it's a valid position to prevent gaming by bad actors. Statistical weighting is not the same topic as security such as closed-source cryptography.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity
I understand, but there's still a whole lot of value Qualcomm could capture going after Intel's much more profitable businesses, like the server market. Going "up-market" as Clayton Christensen put it. If everything goes well with IoT and this acquisition, Qualcomm may still do that, but not expecting it to happen for another 10+ years now.
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Why not just web payments? Chrome can access Google Wallet, Safari can access Apple payments, all from JS. I haven't played with the tech much but I understand it's pretty a solid way for a website to ask you to pay for something and then get a token they can use to see if you have or not.
I will try it out on Windows10 in the next days! Seems interesting for processing photos instead of having to use Prisma on Android.
Mirror grinding
So do you have any specific criticism of what he says? Noam Chomsky is an activist and intellectual, he has made many suggestions as to how to move forward in various situations and has been arrested several times for his his views and actions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Noam_Ch...
> I'd bet it's inversely proportional to the number of things we have available to worry about.

When I was financially free I almost went crazy from lack of stress.
The Romans called it decimation.

Though, Twitter would need to make the layoffs random, force co-workers to escort the laid off off premises, and take away perks for a few weeks... If that's what they were angling for.
I'm reminded of the argument in 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' that the predominant medium shapes the culture. It presents the argument as a juxtaposition between a pre-telegraph textual culture and a modern-day visual one: The textual culture encourages slow reasoning, contemplation and logic, the visual culture encourages sound bytes and de-emphasizes contemplation and reasoning; a TV show simply won't give you enough time for thought before it moves to the next idea.

I think the point I'm trying to make is that all media has a "selection algorithm" that distorts reality - TV and the news are great examples of this.
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Now I'm just curious how this works. Isn't there shared infrastructure that somebody must take care of? That there could be a dispute over?
How so? They've been releasing a lot of projects as open source over the past few years, and they've been building some pretty cool hardware (Surface, etc). The new CEO does seem like he is pulling things in a better direction than before.
Why would someone purposefully make navigation of their site significantly worse than the default?
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http://www.jon.gold/txt/ - his text site is also fantastic.
Quite funny when hearing yourself think "Yeah this is confirming my own thoughts" and then you stop and think about what you just read.
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Clickable: https://github.com/Dataman-Cloud/crane

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The system is completely abused currently. Far better would be a small fee, or even a mostly manual hoop to jump through for demonstrating ownership & infringement. This scales properly, so the small producers aren't hurt much by it and the bit content owners can't run roughshod over everyone with a few scripts.
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Now may we please have Namecoin .bit domains? Thanks.
It's almost surprising that any company would say no. A decent monitor can be had for under $300. If it improves someone's productivity by 0.5%, it's probably worth the investment.
Google Brain's neural-net AI dreams up its own encryption strategy
But they do all seem to have $500+ phones already. I don't think it's a stretch to assume that they could afford the glasses if they deem it worth it.
New York has the highest union rate amount states[1].

[1] http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/union2.pdf
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A long time ago (20-30 years ago) there was a somewhat analogous situation with Microsoft (Apple) and IBM (Google).

IBM was the "diversified" company particularly after it acquired Lotus which was suppose to make IBM compete with Microsoft directly on the office front.

I'm not saying the same thing will happen but I bet Apple will have another revolution in the next 20 years much like Microsoft did.
dupe : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12805481
>The term, coined by activist Eli Pariser, refers to the algorithms on social media sites and search engines that show users information based on things they have previously liked or searched for. As a result, many people who follow news in social media are exposed to a world view similar to their own, without being shown opposing views.

People happily segment themselves by only watching newsertainment they agree with. A lecture series on search algorithms won't change a thing.
Latest xpac is a good'un :P
> The idea of savoring experiences is a good start.

Sort of. But real Buddhist mindfulness would call that 'savoring' craving. Nirvana lies in lack of attachment to the rise and fall of phenomena, not savoring the rise.
It isn't standardized yet, but yes Chrome and Safari have made huge steps towards making web payments a reality.

Luckily, both Google and Apple have expressed strong interest in standardizing web payments making their implementations compatible.
Well, I'm going to cheat.

Be somewhere between "mediocre and good" at many things, and be really good at one or two things. If you can be great at one or two things, that is nice, but not strictly necessary.

There's a lot to be said for generalists, or "T-shaped" people. Every single project requires a large breadth of skills all up and down the stack... and a lot of moving pieces (client, server, markup, JS, CSS, blah blah blah) that work together.

There is a place for specialists, too. In fact, we need them to make the world go 'round. But... there aren't as many of those places.

Here's a real-world example. I literally just finished troubleshooting this issue. Finding the bug and developing a fix involved (1) our iOS client (2) our React web client (3) our server-side auth, implemented in Rails (4) a messaging library with both client and server components (5) some other bullshit I can't even remember at this point.

I'm not the best at any of those things. I'm barely even good at them. Honestly, I don't even fully understand the auth fix that our brilliant (and I don't mean that sarcastically) programmer implemented. But I understood enough of those moving pieces to isolate the problem and get things into his hands.

It'd be really fucking great if I was the world's leading iOS developer or whatever, but if that's all I knew, this issue wouldn't have been fixed.
Can you image going to a BMW dealership and having the salesguy tell you "You shouldn't buy this car, we have new ones coming out in two weeks"?
The non-technical users are oblivious on Sony's rootkit fiasco and other DRM-related insults against customers (remember OtherOS for PS3?).

On the other hand, Samsung's Note brand is pretty much ruined and Samsung phone/tablet division will have hard time recovering from this.

The other day I was on a flight and we were warned to report any Samsung Note 7 device on board as they pose danger for airplane safety. This was after we went through security control where such device would be detected and dealt with. This isn't going away anytime soon.
It's worth noting that Asimov acquired AIDS from a blood transfusion during that bypass surgery; he hid it per his doctors' recommendation, so it wasn't revealed until ten years after his death. I'd expect that secret probably didn't help his mood, either.
The partners used to just recycle underperforming minions into cafeteria slurry. What you're seeing is them going soft.

('sa joke.)
"Tim Sweeney claims that Microsoft will remove Win32, destroy Steam"

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/07/now-ti...
Fast, "simple" and minimalist are hard things to do right.

People spend their lives studying things like typography and design. There's a lot of value there and its NOT entirely a matter of taste. Tossing out a framework means you're wading out into hit or miss territory and creating a lot more work for yourself.

Knuth/Norvig/Kernigan can easily get away with naked HTML (although I see that Knuth has really gone bonkers and added a short stanza of css).

Normal folks who dare create a website will fare better if they stand on some shoulders for their visual styling.
So, I made a Django site with a VanillaJS single-page app framework (no React/Redux) and that includes Django server-rendered fastboot, in about 10KB Javascript code. I made it/use it for our fashion site - https://www.futureclaw.com

Page load times are about .5 seconds for me, with lots of graphics. Also, I'm pretty sure it's faster than React.

Is this something people want to use that I should package up into its own product? It's a little bit of code but mostly methodology discipline.
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Well 3DTVs looked really good, they just also hurt your eyes and you had to wear glasses, so people weren't willing to make that tradeoff. Those concerns are pretty consistent with VR's current iteration.
I think he mis-phrased "before you've got your own life figured out". I think he wanted to say that before you tell other people how to deal with problems you should have gone through some challenges yourself. For example: somebody who has joined google early (which I attribute mainly to luck) and made a lot of money should be careful telling people who are getting laid off how to be happy.
"I smiled a smile that comes with age"

That smile that says "You'll understand eventually. It's best to leave your computing to the pros, they'll make sure it's done right and you don't hurt yourself."
Google included a complete example of how to (de)serialize data with them, as well as generating the accessor functions for JS. See https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/flatbuffers_guide_use_j...

No, I don't try to decode them directly if I can avoid it. We handrolled a C-based byte packer for our honeybadger project only because function access is relatively slow on the interpreter we have on low end TVs, but reading blocks through a Uint8Array is pretty fast. Writeup is here: http://alifetodo.blogspot.com/2016/05/project-honeybadger-pi... . I can push the C packer to github if there's interest, but since you mention NodeJS, you might have better luck with Paulson's benchmark NodeJS example: https://github.com/michaelbpaulson/flatbuffers-benchmarks
http://natwelch.com is mine, I use it more as a cover letter to try and get people to contact me. It works somewhat well.

I love looking at people's personal sites though. I've got a small index of them from over the years at http://pinboard.in/u:icco/t:personal.
No rush; I'll bookmark this thread to check two weeks from now.
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I'd like to get push-back to the idea of everyone earning the same salary. Why wouldn't it work from some people who seem to have some experience like you have?
Maybe block the user or don't use the app if someone's bullying you?
I don't get this type of structure or fear of being "judged" when addressing articles. When you say this:

> What's with the judgement?

How does one feel judged by the writer of an article who doesn't know the reader.

It's a writing device addressing the reader as if they were physically there, but of course they are not. It feels like eminently sensible advice to "save money", I don't see how anyone can disagree with that, but of course there are a legion of specific circumstances that would prevent someone from being able to do so - none of which the writer can know, which consequently means they are not "judging" the reader.

How has it become a thing to feel that some sort of judgement over preferred patterns of behaviour is negative. If everything is written in just plain "of course all choices are good choices" then conversation/writing is inherently uninteresting. Of course, one does not have to agree with the point of view of the article. Ultimately, it's not as if any individual reader is going to be deeply emotionally damaged by the random "judgements" of a writer on the Internet surely?
What do you think of zeromq?
On topic of "new Microsoft", has anyone spent decent time with the Linux Subsystem for Windows 10?

I've been slowly putting it through its paces for my (admittedly simple) dev workflows, which mostly involves web development tools like PHP, Ruby, git and node-based toolchains, but so far it has been a pretty good experience..
Sure. For instance, I had a buddy that was sure Bernie would win the NY democratic primary since Bernie had such huge rallies and people were excited. I trusted the polls. We both made small bets on PredictIt - I even bet Clinton would win by at least a 15 point margin, since that's where the polls were. I won, and he now trusts poll aggregates more.
I have found that having a good video chat system is super important. At first, my company used Google Hangouts, but we weren't happy with the video quality. A few systems later, we ended up with Zoom, which has been pretty good. They also integrate nicely with Slack, so that you can set it up such that the command "/zoom" in slack will start a new video chat room that people can click to join. A seamless video chatting experience is crucial for remote workers.
Yeah the accidental swastika needs to go. Even though everyone knows it's not a swastika, the emotional reference is formed before logic takes over.
Wish there was a project that setup Django along with create-react-app so that the webpack code could stay up to date with some kind of standard (avoiding eject if possible).
Out of curiosity, where do you consume your insightful anonymous content?
I used to always "wince" when I had to use Windows or other Microsoft software. Now, Windows 10 is an absolute dream over previous versions, Office is pretty much second to none, and Microsoft's initiatives into hardware (Halolens) are pretty damn awesome. I'd say the company has made me into a non-hater again.
Tesla is a play on artificial intelligence