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Well I disagree, it did work amazingly well for almost a thousand years when Muslim pirates and raiders constantly attacked ships and cities in the Mediterranean sea which effectively suppressed most sea based trade and economic development in Europe for a very long time.

There were even cases where English and Irish cities were plundered and all inhabitants forcefully taken as slaves.

People from this culture always used these kind of guerrilla tactics to slowly bring their enemies down.

As far as I see it still works today just as well as it did back in the old days.
RE 'prospective', did you mean 'perspective'?
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These considerations are irrelevant from a usage perspective.
I'd actually find an Avalon post mortem more interesting. I remember it being the big new thing to replace all things and then it just vanished into obscurity.
Ask HN: What bank would you recommend as an individual?
I'm looking to leave my current bank, and I'm trying to decide where I should go. Lots of large corporate banks seem pretty much the same from the outside looking in. I'm curious what banks people here use and why?

I'm especially eager to use a bank that emphasizes web and mobile banking experience. I suspect many here also hold that as a high priority.
Also discriminates against dyslexics.
The other day a buddy of mine said he started playing guitar again after 15 years without playing, and that it felt somewaht akin to meditation (which he had been practicing), since he had to be so present and focused in one thing while playing.
I've downvoted you for now, since your comment doesn't tell us anything about the project and appears to be a lazy effort to piggyback off the resource that (I presume) a competitor has offered.
Plus you usually have to pay the old manager for his full contract.
Seems a bit, um, over-engineered.

I made one of these 6 years ago for one of my clients using aws, on my todd and it's really not that complicated. Sure ours is a bit duct-tape and string, but seriously, it's not complicated programming. Probably took me a whole day.

At one point we switched from one encoding service to another and it took me less than half a day of chargeable time to change the code, so not sure why they need it to be so "flexible".

They've probably wasted more dev time on over-engineering it than they'd ever have saved manually adding a new encoding provider.

How it takes 4 of them to write it too I'm a bit mind-boggled. Reliable processing queues are a solved problem, encoding services are a solved problem, this whole thing was a solved problem 5 years ago, which is aeons in programming times.
I can see the same problem that you describe in the last paragraph. My team is really "full-stack", dealing with bare-metal compute/network/storage equipment at the bottom end and going up to fancy Rails web apps on the top. The infrastructure parts are relatively understaffed while everyone is working on the applications on top of it, because this is where customer value is perceived. We manage to get by because developers feel the impact of problems in the lower parts of the stack, and start to take greater care of these lower parts, but it's a hard journey.
Id be more worried by misuse of personal data by insurance companies who have no oversight at all.
How is this the same? Canonical proxied every search term you've ever typed to Amazon. In Signal, you have to explicitly click on a button for anything to happen.
Is there a federated and/or self-hosted alternative to Signal with similar privacy and security properties? Even if it supports fewer platforms?

I've been getting more and more interested in running my own (and perhaps my friends') infrastructure, but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat.
Which you carry everywhere with you?
Must be out of time to edit :( don't see the option any longer (perhaps I don't have enough karma?)
Everyone and everything is manipulative. Life is all about perception.

Packaging is designed to make you want to buy one thing more than another. Would as many people buy Red Bull if it was in a standard stubby can instead of the slimline can? No they wouldn't. Is it therefore unethical for Red Bull to sell their beverage in a slimline can?

Is it unethical for a salesperson to talk to you? For a shop to have a sign? For me to suggest eating a kebab for lunch? What if when I finish talking to you I tell you to have a nice day?
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Third party mainboards are either used (and you don't know whether and for how long they'll work) or not initialized (throwing errors during boot). Factory replacements via Lenovo's spare parts service cost you $400+ for simple models and $800+ for dedicated graphics models.
I think there might be something wrong with that website. I went there and saw no screenshots nor any real information on what Solus is. There was a learn more link but it took me to something called Budgie.
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Wordpress.com is more available, more stable and more dependable than a hacky setup on AWS you made yourself.

Not to mention that guys who can do that kind of custom setup are going for $150-300k a year nowadays. And it's gonna take man*months of work and maintenance.
You can argue that TV stations are no longer civilian targets if the information they are broadcasting is being used by the military.
Which country are you in?
That's why it is considered a best practice to implement multitenancy via VMs: Every customer gets their own set of VMs where their containers are scheduled. If an application breaks out of the container isolation, at least it can only see other stuff from the same customer because the VM offers an additional isolation layer that's more battle-tested.
Modern warfare makes the distinction tricky. Suppose you have a person sitting in a computer center in California controlling drones dropping bombs in Afghanistan. Is he a civilian or soldier? If not, does he become one when he goes home from his shift for the day? What about all the computer programmers writing drone software making his job possible?
.. on room-sized computers. VLSI hadn't been achieved yet, so Apollo flew with a suitcase-sized computer made from discrete gates and core memory programmed in assembler by Margaret Hamilton and others. https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11

I doubt the satellite bothered with a processor.
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Comic related to the ladder poster:

http://scarygoround.com/?date=20120902
I tried running it this week since I have a lot of friends who use Macs. I figured I could help them out if they had questions, etc. But after a few minutes I went back to KDE as Elementary was horribly broken coming from Kububtu.

It probably assumes you'll be installing from fresh.
Why do both of these hide the fact that they're Linux distros? Only nerds are going to be installing a new OS. That's not a small detail; it means you can run thousands of useful programs.
> ETA in Spain only disbanded when the government stopped banning political parties linked to ETA.

The Basque country is not independent. This was the goal of ETA in the first place, and it was not accomplished. After the success of the parlamentary catalan independence movement, the violent ways of the ETA had just no justification anymore.

> IRA in Ireland managed to give the Irish people their independence.

The 1920s IRA was a complete different organisation than the 1970ies provisional IRA. You can hardly call them terrorist by todays standards.

> FARC in Colombia pushed the government to allow a vote on a truce, a truce so bad the people voted against it.

The FARC did not accomplish to install a communist regime in Columbia, so their goal was also not accomplished.
See downthread for some comparisons :)
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The thing I've used the most while I used elementary is the option to direct perform actions of the apps. I find it so easy to just press the keyboard shortcut and do something like "2+2" and get "4" as a result. I absolutely loved that!
Only some of the tracks have this. It's by design.
Good

They know that for a bigger adoption they need those usability improvements, at the same time, they make sure additional features don't compromise the security expected from their app
As luck would have it I'm Russian.

Do you think it would take off if I would do it for real?

Should we poll the community in an "Ask HN" thread to see if people want this?
What do you think of learning these things by watching films ?

We have hundreds of thousands of hours of programming right from the Kindergarten level.
Every pyhsics problem with a uniform sphere reaches the escape velocity necessary to escape the complex calculus problem well.
Those looking from a "reimplement it in Rust" angle may like:

* https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/

* https://github.com/lukaszwawrzyk/rust-wget

* https://github.com/tokio-rs/tokio-curl
It absolutely did work in the case of 9/11. It forced Muslims to take sides, that's why Muslims follow their religion in a stricter fashion today,especially in the west, in time of war there can be no moderation and Muslims feel they are at war against non Muslims,whether they admit it or not.

And it had an effect of humiliating USA in front of the whole world, but one has to be a non US citizen to understand that fact. Suddenly USA stopped being that all powerful nation, suddenly US looked like it could be beaten. It sent a strong message to all the people and groups that despise USA around the world.

Bin Laden absolutely won this battle, he lost however his battle against the Saudis as he thought 9/11 would provoke a revolution in his own country. That never happened.
I run a Synapse server (http://matrix.org/) which is federated and works very well. There are many clients but the nicest at the moment is Riot. Full encryption is now available in the Riot webclient and it's coming to the app soon.
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Because they're not trying to appeal to the "nerd market", they're trying to appeal to the general users with their design. As someone who has used elementary quite a bit, I can guarantee you that the elementary OS is way simpler to use to Average Joe than both Windows and macOS.
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Writing drone software = workers in a munitions factory? Valid military targets, at least to me. Same with the drone operator, which afaik is usually in the military, with military training.
The software is there, but what about the hardware to go with it?

The only laptops comparable to Macbook Pro hardware quality and battery life are the Dell XPS series and the Thinkpad X1.

I feel there is a serious shortage of good laptops with linux pre-installed that the non-technical user can pickup and start using.
Is a gun manufacturer or designer a soldier? He makes rifleman's job possible.
Awesome advertisement opportunity :)
I see a disturbing trend with tech blogs having binary images instead of html tables and graphs.
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My first reaction was to be distracted by fact that the headline doesn't use an Oxford comma. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma

I'm not sure what this says about me.
"...by non-state actors." Otherwise, it's a war crime. I can't understand why so few make that distinction.
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Appdynamics is laying off people, sometimes by the dozen.
The last of your questions is really good. A lot of research labs do hire developers as staff on various projects. Those roles tend to be a little lower paid than industry, but you get to work on interesting things.

Sometimes academic employers will support you in a relevant degree while you study. Depending on the country and university, this might be fee free, you might be released for a day a week or something to work on it, and you might enter the program differently to regular applicants (i.e. you get put on the program rather than needing to 'deserve' it).

If you want to do this, apply for jobs you'd want to take anyway at labs you'd want to study at, and ask this question at the same time as you'd normally negotiate compensation.

Don't forget to look at gov labs as well as universities, and also to look at other countries if you like because universities sometimes get a bit of a free pass in terms of staff immigration.
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Sounds like we have a CEO shortage. We should H1B some over here ASAP.
Wow. I interned at athenahealth Summer 2015 in SF. Hope things work out for you. Did you work on Epocrates?
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Check the Razer blade series
The only reason I am still using a Mac is because I need to be able to compile iPhone apps and unlike android I can only do this in OSX. All my other tools are already available in Linux or even Windows.
Sleep/wake is completely rock solid. Battery life is only okay - about 5 hours - on my model (latest 7-series with smallest battery), but from what I understand, it isn't that great on Windows, either.
> "but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat"

If IRC was your best bet so far, you might want to have a look at good ol' XMPP aka Jabber. If you're into Android, with Conversations [0] there's a suitable client which supports end-to-end encryption. For other OS there are many other choices with different encryption options. While OTR (Off-The-Record Messaging) might be the most popular one, it unfortunately makes multi-device-support kind of a bumpy experience.

[0] https://conversations.im/
A language-level match feature replaces many use cases of the visitor pattern.

Typeclasses often remove the need for facades.

First-class constructors (e.g. static virtual methods) remove the need for factories.
It seems likely that this was a post hoc justification by Bin Laden.
Is this is the future of online interaction?
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I think it's not the Atlas that is obscure/dark, but rather an Atlas of darkness.
Yes, the Elementary team has been doing great work for years. Sad that it's all parallel to the efforts of the larger GNOME Desktop project. I don't know how much code gets shared between the two, but I cringe to think that Elementary is dragging along a suitcase full of patches! Some of their apps are forks, while others are written from scratch to fit their design (UI/UX/simplicity) goals. I think their decision to use what amounts to a random, third-party web browser (Midori) as the default is laughable (this day and age, would any security-conscious person NOT recommend Chrome?).

Nonetheless, bravo to the Elementary team for taking the time to even write up this blog post (which is apparently the first in a series).

Edit: replies pointed out that Epiphany is the default web browser. Point still stands that Chrome implements the most security mitigations out of ALL browsers on the market.
> For example, their review of brain-imaging studies found that when the brain was focused on a task at hand, its prefrontal “executive” network, which governs planning and impulse control, among other functions, constrains other brain activity.

That is the reason why dopamine-raising stimulants actually have a calming function on people with ADHD: they fuel this "suppressing" function of the brain, thus enabling it to calm itself.

My theory about ADHD is that there's a genetic disposition, where people need to move physically in order to have their dopaminergic systems functioning properly. Probably a bad adaption to our rather stationary lifestyle.

On top of that I think that if children are frequently interrupted and confronted with bad emotions they don't learn to focus.
elementary is indeed not meant to be 'just a desktop environment like gnome / kde'. Installing it that way is not supported. It's a full operating system including default apps, etc. all sorts of things you probably didn't install.

You should indeed install it fresh. I hope you didn't give your friends a bad expression.
One thing I have wondered about is keyboard shortcuts. Does Elementary follow the Mac conventions?
Well, when I was at university it was considered bad form to cite sources you hadn't actually consulted yourself.
I wouldn't recommend Ada for game development. First of all, the added safety is overkill for games. Second, you need to create bindings to libraries, and as we all know, C++ does not have a well-defined library interface to the outside world. You'll end up writing tons of fragile glue code, and still get all the crashes. ;) Third, mobile support and general portability is abysmal.
Actually an open circuit.
How are their touchpads?
They are really annoying on Linux.
I'm gonna need a source on that.

The first actual formalised and widely used programming language was FORTRAN in the 50's.
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It's not cheating if that's how the game is played.
The other problem is that laptops are being built like mobile phones, with everything soldered to the board and the whole thing either sealed shut or taped down. Upgradeable & portable laptops just dont seem to exist at the price points they used to.
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OK- so basically: async/await, when used with generators and promises, allows monads.
Wow, same for my website (using Cloudflare for DNS-only). How do we get these revoked?

Edit: If you're using Heroku, the zerigo_dns addon makes it easy to switch to Zerigo.
The new MacBooks are so lackluster that for the first time in 11 years I'm actually considering Windows options, and I also arrived at Razer as the best option out there. They look amazing and performance and connectivity wise blow the new macs out of the water.

In the end, its macOS that's still holding me back. Haven't decided yet tough.
To have done [a bit] of both. I doubt that.
Try climbing. It's a physical and mental workout that is matched by few other activities.
Unfortunately, no Photoshop, no go
The vulnerabilities in IP cameras and routers were publicly known long before the latest massive DDOS. But the manufacturers and users of those devices did not care, and they still don't.
Or Lightroom. And please do not say Darktable is a replacement. Maybe one day, but not yet.
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Weddings and schools are definitely civilian targets.
As far as Yugoslavia is concerned, it was NATO, not the US directly. The ECHR judged that the bombing was justified, going so far as to imprison the head of the TV station for deliberately exposing civilian employees.
How does this compare to Ubuntu Desktop? Why would I use one over the other? I ask as somebody who used to use Ubuntu a few years ago, and wants to switch back to Linux in the next few months.
> I think their decision to use what amounts to a random, third-party web browser (Midori) as the default is laughable

They switched to the default GNOME browser "Epiphany" in the latest release of elementary OS. But I agree, the first thing i did was install a different browser. In my case Firefox.
I wonder if this has anything to do with reddit implementing their own image hosting service.
It's very hard to make sure that the signal extends exactly to the perimeter of the prison. If your jamming signal is weaker, some corners of the prison will have reception. If it's stronger, you are illegally blocking the signal outside your prison.

Add to that that signal strength changes with weather, and you have two solutions: either lots of expensive equipment or lots of buffer land owned by the prison. Both are expensive.
But you can determine that nobody at signal has used or even seen an android phone.
Modern-day terrorism is a recruitment scheme. Any attack has the effect of increasing hostilities between groups. Imagine being a teenager with an identity crisis who happens to be part of a minority that the less intelligent half of your home country hates and despises. What group are you most likely to join? And what caused said hate and despise to grow? Right, terrorism.

More generally put: Virtually any organization has as its own survival as a high priority goal. Organizations on the extreme ends of ideology, any ideology anywhere, will benefit from increased hostilities in a population. It pushes more people to the fringes.

Terrorism is a time-honoured way to increase hostilities. The moderates lose, the the extreme ends on all sides win (whether you're Trump or ISIS).

Look at recent history and see how well it worked. American bombs on funerals, ISIS bombs on French crowds, it's all terrorism and it works wonders to keep the perpetrators powerful.

When Anders Breivik killed an island full of people, then-prime minister of Norway responded to like this:

"The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation"

This is the correct response to terrorism and we need a lot more of it. Once you see terrorism for what it is, a recruiting scheme, then it is obvious that "powerful language", "bias to action" and all that shit that politicians usually do, is very counter-effective.
I have repeatedly explained it. And given many examples. And asked questions which you have repeatedly dodged. You haven't asked me a single question about what I mean. So if you are trying to understand, rather than just quibbling, you can see why I wouldn't be able to tell.
> This assumes that these groups believe their actions will lead to a direct outcome.

Daesh believes the ends of times are coming and the final battle against "evil" is near so they are just doing Allah's bidding, they believe nothing has changed since the 8th century and they are fighting "the armies of Rome". Do you really think it is rational thinking ? do you really think their can be some kind of political solution in that case ? Daesh is forcing no change upon the enemy, they want to exterminate them like Nazis wanted to exterminate the Jews.
Elementary is quite nice on HiDPI until you use apps which need other graphics toolkits...
This seems the most practical, though I imagine the consumer is likely going change their ISP until they find one that won't. So ISPs have no incentive to do this unless they're regulated.

If customers or ISPs had tools to find out which devices were at fault then it may be more feasible.
There was not only Muslim pirates, there was a lot of people from different too. Should we continue to blame Vikings? fore these action? Or can we just live the present? I agree that figthing terrorism only increase more violance. We need to find a way to teach only present and not past, for stopping the wheel of deadlock.
interesting project, would like to check it out. I recently upgraded from MacOS to Yosemite and have been quite happy. That said it would be nice to see other options.
Midori is not the default browser, it's Epiphany, as stated in the blog post. Besides, Chromium is available in the software store, and official Chrome is installable directly from Google.

Also, how is this any different than macOS shipping with Safari only, or Windows shipping with Edge only? You're holding an open source project to a higher standard than two highly successful commercial offerings.
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> would any security-conscious person NOT recommend Chrome?

Would any security-conscious person DO recommend a browser made by an advertising company for datamining purposes?

Firefox is a much better choice for the privacy/security-aware individual.
I think the parent was referring to Yugoslavia