skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And dissidents have been attacked through holes in iOS too.

I generally accept Moxie's / OWS's argument that upstream, patched Android with Google services and spyware/backdoor and all, is in general more secure than running a hodgepodge of FOSS software on a rooted phone - especially for less technical minded users (ie: almost everyone if your target market is everyone).

I don't think it follows that a transparent platform running fully open and user-controlled software, perhaps backed by some form of web-of-trust cacert-like CA system can't ever work - and might not be a good idea to have available as a fallback if it turns out that the anti-democratic paramilitary organization you have to fight is one backed by the NSA.

I'm a little surprised how polarized these discussions tend to get - as if two ideas have to be mutually exclusive.

I think I understand OWS reasoning with locking down their network and forcing phone number IDs - I don't really agree - but I understand the reasoning behind it.

It's really on all of us that care about open federated protocols to set up an alternative network, and OWS have even graciously provided source code and a protocol as a starting point - but it's a shame that rather than some email-like model where all systems could federate in a predictable way, we are forced to have three different networks (a hypothetical open-signal, signal and whatsapp).

I guess there's a lot of people that are still sore about Facebook and Google discarding XMPP, and breaking the unification trend that we saw a glimmer of a few years back. Even without federation, I could have one sane XMPP client, with OTR support, and chat both to my non-technical friends on gtalk and facebook - and have encrypted chats over those same servers, or through the federated XMPP network.

Now I have some people in Facebook's silo, some in Google's Hangouts silo, still quite a few on SMS/regular phone service, and a handful on Signal. That's not really the fault of OWS - I actually have a few non-technical contacts I can reach via Signal thanks to their focus on a simple SMS-replacing app. I just still wish I could cut back on the number of clients and have some sane federation.
ohh i am actually sorry. I will change it just for you :D
For old SNES-era RPGs, if you haven't already played them, I'd also suggest Earthbound and Seiken Densetsu 3. (And, in a completely different style, Super Mario RPG; it's Nintendo/Square, and it feels very Square-ish.)

> The SNES era really stands out to me as the high-water mark for JRPGs

Agreed.
The satisfaction of proving someone wrong is not worth the effort.
> Actually dumping into real estate, gold etc. is not bad because your govt will get taxes out of the transaction at the least.

No. Most likely money on paper << money changed hands.
Singularity: Docker without root privileges
Ada and Spark are a possibility.

You might still try to use FreePascal.

If targeting embedded development, there are a few Basic, Pascal and Oberon compiler vendors to choose from.

And there is also Rust and Swift if you are happy to stay just on Apple OSes (Open source Swift is still a bit of WIP).
> If the thing is built underground

That would make it the longest subway in the world by a factor of 3. Not going to happen.
Indeed. It's not like the answers are unknowable.
A Realistic Look at the Death of a Standard
Half a dozen commands will get you 90% of the way there. After you've run tmux:

ctrl+b followed by...
% - split pane vertically
" - split pane horizontally
arrow keys - change pane you're typing in
:new-window
2 - switch to window 2
x - kill pane
d - detach

Command line arguments:

tmux list-sessions
tmux attach #will attach to last session by default
tmux attach -t0 #will attach to session 0
Scoop: apt-get / homebrew for Windows
It is far from clear that the thermal expansion problem can be solved at all. AFAICT no one has ever proposed a solution that is even remotely close to being viable.
Er, you're eschewing Kotlin despite it's being open source because of your perception that it's controlled by a corporate entity, but in the same post you want it supported in another open source product (VS Code) backed by another corporate entity (Microsoft)?
A fine grained list of thousands of items can have summaries. These summaries can reflect actual models, or be new ways of visualizing and digging into the data.

Existing models can be depicted in a wide variety of ways. They could either be the results of previous decisions (description through action), they could be expressed as is should the model be more human-readable (e.g. text clusters), they could be visualized somewhat directly [1], or they could visualized indirectly [2].

"My activity" seems like a nice idea, but the execution ends up providing little value to few people. If the idea is transparency over Google's personal data on you (how they framed it in an email to me), it does a poor job. If the idea is a better understanding of yourself (quantified life), it does a poor job. If the idea is finding some youtube video you watched recently, then it's mediocre depending on how long ago it was. In what scenario is it some spectacular & useful product?

[1] http://static.azinman.com/pdfs/dataportraiture.pdf

[2] http://yosinski.com/deepvis
The electoral college is the way it is because the smaller states would never have joined the union at all without some protection from being ignored in the political process, something that still happens to a large extent.

And you don't really understand the 3/5ths compromise.
I'm interested in sales, particularly enterprise software sales. As a software engineer, I find it alluring: generally a higher income potential than programming combined with the social aspect.

Like the the other commenter, I'd be interested in hearing from those who work in sales.
It means that WayneBro conclusion up there is nonsense. You can't claim there are so few users of other OSes that it's impossible that most developers are on them.

It does certainly not mean that there are no Windows developer. That would just be repeating the same flawed argument, but twisted on the direction where it's the most flawed.
If only there were a way to make a short cable longer when needed. If they ever invent it I'll be able to mow my whole lawn.
The Official Ballot
Maybe arch with variable width pointer types like some embedded platforms?
I used http://test-ipv6.com/ to run the test.

Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to be SCRR-10796 - Time Warner Cable Internet LLC, US

I'm in Ohio.
When writing SQL you are describing the result you want, not the way to achieve it.

It helped me understand functional programming too.
Umberto Veronesi has died
The hyperloop's thermal problems are not the result of day-to-day swings, they are the result of overall swings. This is because the entire track has to be a single length of welded steel tubing. The thermal expansion at the ends is just ridiculous -- hundreds of meters. It doesn't matter if this happens over the course of a day or over the course of a year, it's still going to be a show-stopper.
Walgreen Sues Theranos, Seeks $140 Million in Damages
Ah, you're right.

> If the value of the right operand is negative
> or is greater than or equal to the width of
> the promoted left operand, the behavior is
> undefined"

(http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/WG14/www/docs/n1570.pdf - ISO/IEC 9899:201x (C11 Working Draft N1570): 6.5.7 Bitwise shift operators)
Maybe replace his pc with an android powered device like http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=101695486
You can compile Signal yourself, and install it on a rooted phone, running presumably a Linux kernel and some Android/ASOP sub-system. In that case, excepting base-band backdoors and a few other details, Google won't have access to your phone at all (assuming no Google services etc here).

OWS doesn't then allow you to use their servers for routing/discovery etc - so you need to run your own servers, and set up a different network that cannot federate with the one users of the Google Play Appstore version of Signal use.

If you do that, and install eg. the F-Droid store, you've now given another actor (the F-Droid store) access to your phone. OWS argues that in general you're less likely to manage to run a safe, patched system this way.
They must be in (bad) management because they think lines of code are all there is to say.
There is so much to tell. I don't think you would believe me. I will say this. Do your own research. Don't just sit in front the of the major news networks and let them spoon feed you. Use common sense. Close your ears to what people say and look at the evidence. Follow the money. Follow the connections.
Yeah, and keep in mind that the developers who even attend CppCon 2015 are probably in the top 10% (at least) in terms of interest in these types of things.

Very sad.
Benchmarking Malloc
Node v7.1.0
Unfortunately Android has its own malware :( and plenty of sites redirect to the Play Store.

I've seen Android phones constantly opening popups.
Show HN: I wrote a Donald Trump text to speech app in Rust (warning: audio)
It's not about going cashless at all. New notes for 500 Rs and 2000 Rs are coming soon.

Read: http://capitalmind.in/2016/11/black-money-is-dead-long-live-...
To be fair most of my paid work is DE or UK or NL enterprise. Those all pay well in my experience.
I think this is a pointless survey. People are going to claim to be honest and will encourage you to be honest, even if they aren't actually honest themselves. You are basically asking people to publicly admit to wrongdoing and out themselves as frauds in a forum that can potentially make or break their career.

I would not lie on my resume. But I also seem incapable of getting anywhere professionally -- for a variety of reasons. So, I wouldn't extrapolate anything from that about what works or doesn't work.
Ubuntu Budgie new official Ubuntu flavor
I'd be interested in Metal Gear Solid and Symphony of the Night but little else.

It's funny how some consoles or eras of gaming have aged better than others. I think the best Dreamcast and N64 games hold up pretty well despite being from roughly the same early 3D era. Maybe it's just the old '95% of everything is crap' rule.
Maybe they assume that it's not worth reading anyways.

Aside, wonder how much real estate is reserved for ads. I see text only on the left half of the screen; right half being empty.
"The SNES era really stands out to me as the high-water mark for JRPGs"

I'd have to put the high-water mark at the PS2. The PS1 era was confused, but they mostly figured things out again for the PS2.

That said, the genre remains alive and well anyhow. Once everybody but Square accepted that you don't need to try to make every single one a graphical extravaganza, they picked back up again. (I don't know what I'd call the flagship series nowadays but I can tell you it is not Final Fantasy anymore.)
I want to build up a community of open source projects. Lots of companys provide open source project with a mentoring program. That means if you contribute to a project you get connected to a mentor, who knows about the project and can help you instantly. Besides that you always know exactly what you have to do. Every Project should have well defined goals for the contributor. It is a win win situation for both partys. The mentors get code done for free and the beginners get job experience.
Let's hope so, I'd love to have what Australia has. And no, I don't miss payments via QR codes at all.
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Jon Stokes: MacOS Alternatives: What about SteamOS?
Tracking personal consumption behavior to take action against evil brands
Hello,

We buy a lot of daily products like food, clothes etc. from brands that have a bad reputation in terms of their ecological footprint. I think that most of us do this for two reasons:

- We don't know the origin of most of the things we buy. We usually don't know much about the company backgrounds, how the product was produced etc., so we are often not aware, that we are supporting an "evil brand" when be buy things.

- Even if we know that a brand has a bad reputation, we often don't know alternatives.

Do you think it would make sense to build an app that supports a number of the following use cases:

- At the end of the day, list all products that I bought. Highlight those products that come from brands which have a bad reputation. Maybe give some details about the background of these companies, the people behind then, etc.

- Show me alternatives. For the bad products that I bought, tell me which "better brands" would be a good alternative, where can I shop next time, etc.

- Maybe give accumulated statistics about the change of consumer behavior that was caused through the use of the app, so that people will be motivated to use it.

I would be interested to hear other peoples opinion about this!

Best,

Marten
if I looked at it as a general-purpose language like C++/C#/Java, then, yes, it sucks really hard.

Plenty of people get by swinging a hammer all day and not a Swiss army knife. COBOL is one person's hammer. For me, at one point, it was RPG. You think COBOL is "domain specific"? RPG has the DSL right in the name: "Report Program Generator". Yuppers, RPG is a report writer. And when you're writing banking software or the like, which is just inputs munged into outputs, RPG did the job. Why use a language with shitty, dangerous string handling, no syntactic sugar for the task at hand, whose output keyword consists of "printf", dragging along a runtime with crap I'll never use, and other "general purpose" language problems when you can use a language crafted specifically for what you're trying to do?

I made plenty of money back in the day writing FoxPro. FoxPro sucks for embedded systems and writing an operating system. But ya know what it doesn't suck at? Taking some data, transforming it, do a little munging, and print some output. Which was precisely what customers were paying me to do at the time, and not writing a Windows competitor.
I think turnover is pretty high there. People dont want to get locked into BB's proprietary (or in some cases antiquated) technologies. However, there are tons of departments, many of them are modernized, and you can really learn a lot for your first few years out of school. If you stay and are faithful you can go up the ranks.

I am doing fine. I went contractor, and currently in healthcare / imaging. I dont even sweat interviews anymore :)
Which issues did you experience?
>Your comment has been downvoted, probably because of the hyperbolic "the Internet has been weaponized", but you bring up a good point.

"the Internet has been weaponized" is nowhere near hyperbolic.
His comment was downvoted because many Americans even highly educated and enlightened ones hate to consider the actions of their government and its implications.
>"Er..."

VS Code is miles ahead of Jetbrains offerings and has no yearly subscription fee.

MS was indeed one of my least favorite companies half a lifetime ago, but they've changed business models and are now pursuing a growth strategy (particularly wrt services) and have abandoned the fight to capture consumer surplus at all costs.
> Maybe in an alternate reality Visicalc built their own OS to run their spreasheet on a large screen

Well, we did have Richard M. Stallman, Emacs author, not only create an OS (GNU), but also extend Emacs to the point that it might as well be an OS. More pointedly, Miguel De Icaza created Gnumeric (a fantastic Excel clone) before he started the GNU Network Object Model Environment (GNOME).

Corel attempted something similar to what you were saying, as well; Their Wordperfect/Office/Draw empire was leveraged against Microsoft's Embrace/Extend/Extinguish in order to promote their (debian-based) linux distribution.
I meant it for remote. Which is also hard in it's own way.
Long time tmux user.

Thanks for posting the .tmux.conf link. Modified the window decorator line as sometimes you can't always tell which pane you are in:

set-option -g set-titles-string '#(whoami)@#H session: #S window: #I-#W pane: #P'

Also noticed that the status right only updates the time if you perform a tmux op.
> inflation without commensurate change in infrastructure.

Inflation isn't tied to infrastructure growth, so not sure why you would expect this In fact, if the government pulls this kind of stuff, one should expect to see inflation without any benefit attached. As I said, messing with money's fungibility makes it less valuable.

> The problem is serious enough for the government

Yes, for the government; it hurts their tax revenue. That doesn't mean it's bad for the economy. I'll read those links when I get home.

>the net cost of the black economy is estimated to be ~12-20% of the GDP,

Black markets almost always increase production. People use them because they're more efficient than government-controlled markets. When they say "costs" they probably mean "the government loses access to".
This is horribly choppy.
A UDP-bsaed streaming protocol for video would produce some crazy artifacts if packets are dropped or reordered, unless you put I-frames in very frequently (which would significantly increase the bandwidth requirement).
You are right.
Obama raised the bar to a level where the old politicians cease to exist, making Hillary last year's stew.
But you sound more like the muslims in israel who vote to the right wing party.. and if you ask them, i'm not saying it in a good way.
Leaked NASA paper points to potentially working EmDrive
> PS Integer wrapping is undefined as well, so "good" C code should work around it.

Signed integer overflow is undefined. Unsigned integer overflow is defined.
Use Linux. If he only uses his computer for browsing the Internet and editing photos linux mint (mate or cinnamon) will do fine. Show him how to use darktable instead of lightroom and that's it. No more problems.
I didn't participate in the downvoting of your post.

> We don't know what happens to the rest of the population, especially politically-involved people, and especially people who investigate on Hillary Clinton.

We do have a pretty good account of entire news and political organizations being extremely vocal about their opposition to one or more dominant political parties. Anyone can purchase a subscription to many magazines that take an overtly anti-government stance.

I find it strange that you point out Hillary Clinton as an "off limits" public figure; the amount of articles critical of her is in the tens of thousands. The initial email server scandal was broken by Gawker, and further investigated by reporters at the New York Times. Nearly every hour of Fox News I watched this year had something critical to say about Hillary Clinton. 60% of my Facebook feed is anti-Hillary posts. She is perhaps the safest public figure to criticize without expectation of negative consequences.
In case you missed MMO version http://bombermine.com/.
I can't bring a big European tech company to mind for any purpose not just this topic... there just hasn't been many influential consumer tech companies coming out of Europe recently that would have a big interest here. And as the article points out it's largely the consumer ones complaining here as the industry/government tech companies have already been under this level of regulatory scrutiny in the past, it's only new to consumer products.

So your argument seems to be built on a faulty premise that the two geographic industries are comparable yet one is silent... one is largely silent for another reason.
Few years ago, I started getting a package almost everyday from my recently deceased Uncle's 82 year old wife. It was anything from small things like old photos and key chains, to larger items like a traditional India "Thali" meal plate made of silver, an Ivory (from a real elephant :( and more.

Turns out she was clearing out the late Uncle's garage and stuff all around the house, and returning gifts from my family back to us, and doing the same with others (friends and relatives who had sent my uncle stuff). Mind you, he wasn't a hoarder. It was just things people gave him over the (many) years and he kept them because of the emotional element (friend, family) attached to such things.

Old and frail herself, I remember my Aunty spent a good few months -- almost a year -- shedding the baggage. The postage alone must've cost her a few 1000 $s. Not to mention packing, taking stuff to Good Will etc. It reminded me of the quote from Fight Club - "The things that you own end up owning you.".

On that day, a young 16 year old me decided to never store or keep anything with me and become a minimalist, even if it was an "emotional" thing. Because I don't want me or my surviving family to have to go through something like this ever! I also don't buy any gifts for anyone, and instead give cash whenever I am obligated to give a present or gift (think weddings, birthdays etc)
Robot Tutors Can Tell Whether You’re Distracted
or if they use MS Windows make them switch browsers to Google's Chrome
I do not appreciate your tone. You have been a member of this community for years, you should know better.
I was just trying to get a async/await working in react-native and I kept running up against various errors. Maybe I should wait until Typescript 2.1 is released and just use that.
The Dreamcast is significantly more powerful than a PS1. It's much closer to the PS2. IIRC it's actually better than a PS2 on a couple of specific specs, though the PS2 is generally more powerful.

At the risk of insulting some people's nostalgia, I never thought the PS1 looked good. I was in my late teens at the time and didn't have any consoles, but I remember seeing the commercials on TV. Problem is, the PS1 could theoretically do 3D, but it didn't really do it very well, so a lot of games would do 15fps in order to put more graphics on the screen. But they still didn't look very good, and even back then I could tell that 15fps wasn't really enough to play a game.

It is true that it looked better at the time than it does now, but even at the time a lot of us were underwhelmed.
There is one. Time to mow the lawn before the rest of the leaves fall.

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give them a desktop that is basically xubuntu amd64 (xfce4 desktop on xorg) + firefox + chrome, and then install all of the best adblock extensions in both browsers. Even the most clueless parents can't successfully download and run windows binary malware/ransomeware/viruses on that.

the xfce4 GUI is close enough to traditional windows98/windows2000/winXP models that most older non technical users have no problem with it.

the best thing for non technical users/older users/ignorant users is to give them the closest approximation to a thin terminal web browser, whether it is a linux desktop or a chromebook type thing.
> It is never about protecting their citizens' information! Instead it is about controlling communication among their citizens. They don't care about their citizen's privacy.

I think you might be missing the point though: Every overbearing government wants that information for themselves. Giving FB access = giving USA access to that info. It gives the US a lot of political power. Locking out FB isn't about protecting their citizens, you are correct. It's about blocking out US intelligence gathering.
There's Tutorial D but it probably doesn't qualify as "serious".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D_(data_language_specification...
Experimental NASA Microwave Thruster 'EmDrive' Works- Leaked Docs Say
For reference (assuming 1 US Dollar = 66.205 Indian Rupee):

Rs. 1000 = $15.10

Rs. 500 = $7.55
I'm older but N64 and GC are my first consoles because my parents could never afford a console for us (we had pong though!) so N64 was my first when I was working.