skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It highly depends on the laptop you're talking about specifically. Some will just work, others will steal your soul with frustration. I've had very few issues on my thinkpad x240 with Kubuntu. It's an older model, but back when it was less than a year old I still had very few issues with it. Mostly with the touchpad, but that particular model is horrible even with good drivers, so I don't use it in general. I had to fiddle with some bearded parts when I wanted my battery to only charge to 70%, rather than keep a full charge while plugged in as the lenovo bits are windows only(I vaguely remember having to set up shell scripts of some sort). Bluetooth didn't work in the beginning, but upgrading to a newer Kubuntu fixed that, and I don't use that very often either, so I didn't mind. Also generally battery life is slightly worse than windows but this also varies. And although Windows 10 is a fairly snappy, it spins my fans much more than Kubuntu does.

The last computer I had significant hardware problems with on linux had a Pentium 4, but I've been vary careful with hardware choice in the last decade. Do your research and you'll be fine.
Playing with it in VirtualBox.

First impressions, it's very very pretty, the design out the box is nice though it's completely the antithesis of how I work (3 screens, panel on each, window buttons only for windows on that screen).

The level of integration is nice, it feels cohesive.

That said XFCE4 with some tweaking is pretty much perfect for me, it exactly works the way I want things to work.
> Thats simply not true. WhatsApp does not support gifs, for example. Signal also has some features that others don't.

Those are the most minor features. Most competitors have the exact same set of features.

> Telegram is less secure by miles. Threema is less secure by yards. WhatApp is less secure by inches.

With Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, and Threema I have to trust their servers, but can verify the client is secure by reading source or reversing it.

In neither case can I fork the client to make it more secure, and distribute that fork, while keeping the ability to communicate with users of the official client.

> Signal has never claimed that you can "federate" the server.

They claimed it would be possible in the future, and I – and many others – only switched to it because of that promise. Because we saw it as something with as much security and customisability as XMPP with OMEMO, but a nicer client.

What niche does Signal fill that isn’t already filled by others? It has only minor feature advantages over competitors, and no trust or security advantages.

EDIT: Using a second account because otherwise I wouldn’t be able to answer within of a few hours ("You are submitting too fast"...), and by then this discussion would be over.
HTTPS Certificates Show Where Their Key Comes From
> Just, hard lessons.

This is rather bad grammar. :(

Perhaps you might mean "Just hard lessons."

Good luck with the conference!
Thanks, right, if there is a PT_INTERP header in the binary that specifies ELF then load_elf_binary() will be called.

Its easy to sometimes conceptually think or talk about "a loader" as if its some standalone entity. However this can be misleading(at least to me anyway.) Because in reality its linked into every dynamically-linked binary, along with crt0.o which as the other poster mentioned takes care of some ABI requirements and the setting up of the stack.

For anyone else who might be interested this also an illuminating source code file to read, libc-start. Which would be part of crt0.o

http://repo.or.cz/glibc.git/blob/HEAD:/csu/libc-start.c#l105

I don't have to think this low level on any kind of regular basis but its a great thought exercise to do so from time to time.
I must agree with you. I bought from this company a while back and during this time their site said free shipping but deep within FAQ it said they don't include duty taxes.

So, when it crossed the border into Canada the laptop went up another $150. They weren't helpful at all and eventually I told them I was going to refuse the shipment.

They told me I was going to incur a 20% restocking fee, even if it was never received.

Looking back I shouldn't have said anything to them, allowed the shipment to go back and simply did a chargeback on failure of receiving the good.
>Say you want to be able to sell prints of your great photos //

This opens the printer up to potentially massive copyright infringement issues. Sharing images online is one thing, being directly paid to actualise then on offline products is a big step with a lot of potential liability.

There's already lots of competition in that space, the sites I've used for Tshirt & mug printing (in Europe) have been very hot on trademark and copyright issues, stiflingly so IMO.

There's probably much more to be made selling pictured goods over good with pictures on.
I've never worked for a company where the majority of people there didn't know who the CEO was and what he looked like (by chance the CEOs at the companies I've worked for have all been male). This ranges from the $4MM/year place with a dozen employees to the mid-ten figure public healthcare company.
Also http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37847647
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This might be a well-paid opportunity. EU-citizens or people with Swiss work-permit only.

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Conversations is one of the highest-quality apps I've ever used. Buy it!

It's XMPP with everything you'd expect. Inline image, videos, presence, everything.

(if you cannot buy it, you can get it for free from FDroid but really, buy it!)
"What issues still exist with using Linux on laptops?"

It depends on laptop model, some are worse than others. Just google "<latop_name> linux problem" and see what others encounter. Personally, I don't have any problems with my 5 years old Dell laptop running Kubuntu.
> It's kind of difficult to do that when you are talking about the OS, isn't it?

Not necessarily. It's not like you expect the buyer to do a careful analysis of what it's worth before they pay. You can usually decide this sort of thing based on very quick impressions. Also, there's the aspect of it just seeming nicer to ask after the download has happened. Then it's clear that you already have the product, now it's up to you to decide what to pay for it, if anything at all. Here people have been tricked into thinking they had to pay and begrudge the author.
There are some forks of Ethereum that use the same virtual machine but different consensus mechanisms like Byzantine Paxos. I don't have links handy but maybe that's what their actually talking about, since they say it's a private Ethereum-based chain.
My bad, I forgot to include that I meant a bug that leaks the password.

Basically my problem is with having one password for everything. Set up a package index with LDAP auth, and people will just carelessly save their credentials in plain text so that `pip` or whatever can pick it up.
I agree with other posts.

It's the increasing prevalence of short-termism.

Most companies in the world now are going through a big consolidation process on a scale unheard of in the past, in preparation for when things go very bad in the near future due to several accumulating factors.

This means is that companies are increasingly designing themselves to be sold; to be valued higher, so that when they get bought by the biggies, the 'Boys Club' (Seniors, Chiefs, etc.) get more money in the end.

This means companies are acting more for the quick sell rather than having any kind of long-term plan for the future, and this means that a C.E.O.'s world view and opinion and plan for the company quickly become outdated and left behind, in favour for short-term company valuation increases.

Also, one way of increasing your company's value is changing C.E.O.'s more often, since it shows your company is "pro-active" and "progressive", and gets you in the news a lot.
no. perl5 can deal natively only with finite lists, not general iterators over infinite (lazy) lists.
of course you can design an iterator over lazy lists, but you got no language support as with __iter__, other than using tie callbacks.

only perl6 supports lazy lists and coroutines and yield.

but iteration is only a trivial part of a design pattern.
as the name says, a pattern is matching certain conditions, like number of arguments, types of arguments, context, ... and applies a specific solution to this pattern.
perl5 and perl6 are not functional enough to provide this kind of pattern matching and functional dispatch.
python and ruby neither. perl6 has multi-methods, but no proper matcher.

Norvig explains a bit in http://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf, but in essence any strongly typed FP deals with that.
I'm naturally scatterbrained I swear. I'll be reading HN about half the time I'm working. I'm not sure why I need to switch between it and my other tasks at work. It's just something I do I guess. I can focus when I have to but honestly nothing keeps me focused for long unless I'm really interested in it. Like I can read the Wikipedia for hours on history of the Reconquista but God help me I can't focus on a boring lecture of the same subject.
Probably, but we should exterminate them in the most human and democratic manner.
Doesn't change the fact that Mac marketshare is around 7%. Just because they're targeting the coffee shop crowd doesn't mean everyone's using Macs.
Unity Hires VRML Co-Creator Tony Parisi in Bid for VR Dominance
Cruncher is Chrome extension allowing users to compare brand prices globally
Global brands charge end customers ridiculously different prices on identical products, depending on country. Multiplied by constant FX fluctuations around the world the price differences reach magnitudes of 10 times !!! We have created a tool to tack and analyze global retail prices in real-time.
www.joincruncher.com
short YouTube intro (3:40): https://youtu.be/jvihy7xhFsM
Any suggestion or feedback would be greatly appreciated please.
Thank you in advance.
I feel like I have this problem to an extreme degree, and I still don't know how change it, even a little bit, anyone have any ideas?
Decisions for themselves? Hah. It's not in the article, but Schäuble and the other EU finance ministers have set out to make an example out of Greece, or the apparatchiks just don't like the radical lefties that got into power. Paul Krugman has mused, before, EUcrats could tell government officials what to do, and when they follow them, even if the country fails and they get voted out, they'd get cushy EU jobs. But the current Greek government don't want cushy EU jobs, they want to save the population. That and other things (domino effect, if Greece gets forgiveness, the other countries would want it too) mean it is in the EUcrats' best interest to see Greece fail.

Meanwhile, Schäuble's policy of Austerity über Alles mean the Greek government has been forced to abandon policies that might've rebooted the economy, and be forced to cut spending in hopes that the "confidence fairy" shows up. Even the IMF has said this policy is stupid...
Well Geary (and the elementary fork Pantheon Mail) are quite good for basic use. There are still a few bugs and their codebases are quite hell to work with (see [1] for my review of them). This document motivates my little side project, but, lately, it hasn't seen much direct attention as I've been working on some stuff upstream, in elementary and Evolution, for this project.

[1] https://github.com/matzipan/envoyer/blob/master/README.md#re...
Your company probably paid for the commercial license ("GNAT Pro"). It's very expensive.
My pet peeve with Linux: Wifi.

I have a HP laptop for work running Ubuntu that appears on their Certified hardware list. Wifi is buggy, using an external monitor is buggy, there are always "Internal Errors", sleep simply does not work, it crashes regularly.
They probably do. My apartment was made in 1963, 63sqm (670sqft). "Zone price" (i.e. what the government considers the price of 1 sqm of development in a certain region) is 1100 euros, building age multiplier for that is 0.60 so we end with a 660 euro/sqm pric, for a total assessment of 41580 euros.

I'd be lucky if I got half of that If I actually tried to sell it at the moment.
I think over the past 15 years, lots of Linux users migrated to macOS because it was a pretty, usable Unix. Those users might not be terribly loyal to Apple and will move to back to Linux if it's better for them.

If you use macOS because you need to run Mac software, then you probably aren't going anywhere.
So it's a paid service, but it won't tell me the price (or the limits on free accounts) until I give it my email... No thanks.
Projected Impact of Mexico’s Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Tax Policy on Diabetes
Well, I think it is.

If I pay nothing, I don't pay.

I don't say "I paid zero." or "I paid nothing" unless someone asks the specific question "How much did you pay for that?"

It's obviously a way to nudge people into paying something.

edit: I made an aside about the use of the word 'donation' by cannabis collectives in the U.S. to denote 'payment' (as a way to operate as non-profits and avoid federal problems) as a reference to similarly weak wording used in a nefarious way, but I thought the relationship to the pattern here was weak, so I removed it.
The Oblivion of Adam: What if you could remember every poem in the next life?
Someone else made that media. They're the one expressing something. You, the consumer of that media, are just a distributor of their work.
Apart from inheritance, the parents can also set up a form of "parental donation" of their property to their children, but continue to make full use of the property (live on the property or keep all the rent) as long as they are alive.

And the difference between "inheritance" and "parental donation", is that the latter was set up decades ago when it was cheap to do so.

What you are reading in this article is cases where they did not plan for the future.

In addition, the article does not provide information about the condition of the property. In many cases, the property would be an old house at a village that may not habitable or small olive groves that have little value.
I know exactly what you mean. Are the technical issues because of X or because of design decisions? I have to think it's because of X because I haven't seen an OS GUI that was as stable and as predictable as Windows/OSX. Edit: Or put another way, I always run into weird graphical/display issues using Linux desktop flavors, whether they've been on a desktop PC or in a VM.
Yep, We really need to get rid of FPTP but that requires the turkeys voting for Christmas and the last campaign was foul.

https://dailyelection.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/no-to-av-s...

https://dailyelection.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/no-to-av-m...

How the fuck do we let them get away with shit like that.
FilmStruck Streaming Service Places a Big Bet on Cinephiles
Massive hack exposes dark side of the Internet of Things
Or a generic adapter to hold you over until Type C replaces the old standard
Check my comment above (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854312)
>different hardware which is not Linux compatible (WiFi).

link? I heard they had crappy broadcom chipsets but would be good to get some specific info.

TBH the sites i looked at last night seemed to say the current hardware that ships with windows is well supported...
“Free” shipping is not actually free
Wish I could help with the studies, but if you're interested in more anecdotes, I can help there.

Your #1 and #3 definitely work, especially in harmony, but I have found that I do well with songs in langauages that I don't know at all but I like the general style. For example, when I need enegry and work, I listen to Rammstein or The Pillows (Japanese). If I need to relax a bit and work, Seeed (german reggae) or something french are my go to. There's a lot more and sometimes I just put on a Spotify international playlist. The randomness and lack of understandable lyrics helps me, as long as I don't try to learn what they are saying.
That transition to software is what makes this so approachable. Also exciting that cars are starting have radar where volume will bring down price to something accessible to people outside of aerospace.
This is a superficial comment. How does downvoting work here?

edit: (requires karma level > 500)
> while it's not worked out for the Palestinians, it worked out OK for Israel

Why do you say it hasn't worked out for the Palestinians? If it wasn't for the PLO there would be no Palestinian state [1] and the PLO became prominent through terrorist acts [2].

There's a good number of organizations in history that have started with terrorist acts (i.e. atacks against civilians) and ended up in control of a relatively stable territorial state. They include the FLN in Algeria [3], Hezbollah in South Lebanon [4] and the armed wing of the ANC in South Africa [5]. Sure, most if not all have now renounced their terrorist beginnings - so maybe terrorism is not a strategy for the long run. But it's repeatedly provided the initial stepping stone to forming a government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Liberation_Organizat...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War#Battle_of_Algiers

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Hezbollah#Suicide_a...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umkhonto_we_Sizwe#Bombings
Emacs standing alone on a Linux Kernel (2004)
You can volunteer that you are a college graduate to get a discount.
Does anyone have an abbreviated explanation of what the security vulnerabilities that were addressed here? I recall there was a very ominous post to look out for this release because of some nasty stuff they found.
Austerity (deep cuts to government services) and tax rises were the conditions imposed on Greece as part of a series of financial bailouts from various national banks around the EU. The Greek people had riots over them, and a change of government in September 2015, before there was a consensus that there was absolutely no other option but to go along with the steps required in order to get the bailout money.
immediately vs 3 months waiting period as far as I recall
> [...] and made sure that the side lobes weren't cooking people if they happened to be standing around the radar

But what if your neighbors build a reflector dish specifically aimed at cooking any see-through-wall-radar-operators?
I don't have experience using websockets with React, but right now I handle absolutely everything that comes from the server by putting it into app state. Is there a reason for changing that paradigm in the chat example?
I was fired from Wickr.com a few months after their layoffs.

I was fired from Wickr a few months ago. The given reason was they considered me not a Senior Android Developer and that was my title - I asked too many questions apparently. My manager indicated that if my title had been Android Developer there probably would not have been a problem. I don't care about titles really. I was hired in 2014 as a contractor for 3 months, and then they converted me to a salaried employee. I'm currently searching for a job. I'm finding it challenging to find my next job I think due to disclosing that I was fired from Wickr after a performance review and me being there 2 years doesn't help. The interesting thing is the performance review was held in December 2015, a few months after some layoffs where I was not affected but coworkers were. Another interesting thing is Wickr HR person told us that during the performance review to not expect any surprises. However, this underperformance was a complete surprise to me. I had never been notified. Personally, I would prefer to be laid off vs fired, even if it means a few months less of salary. It was very easy for me to obtain the job at Wickr. I wasn't asked hardly any technical questions and just did a phone screen, never met in person. One thing is I liked being a contractor at Wickr because I was paid for hours worked. The CTO was very insistent about us working overtime, meaning nights and weekends. I complained to him about this overtime requirement without getting paid in an email about a month before my performance review. The reason I emailed was because we were just in a scrum meeting where management was asking us for feedback on how the sprint went.
Nope. Desktop application development in Linux is indeed pretty terrible. I was honestly just curious as to your background.
It won't stop any one occurence from happening, but it likely will mitigate the damage on that occurence. It's hard to argue it's not at least a step in the right direction. But I agree it won't solve the problem at heart.
Ah? Which of the claims is untrue then?

Moxie originally said federation and forked clients would be possible in the future.

Also, Signal does allow you the same rights for the client that WhatsApp does – you can take it apart, modify it for yourself, but you can’t distribute the modification while still having it connect to the same servers as the official one.

Please tell me which of my claims is wrong.

EDIT: Can the "you are submitting too fast" at least not apply to answering children of own comments? Otherwise it ends up with attacks and claims that one can’t respond to.
How many more posts are you going to plug this app on? How about you make this the last one...