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> does not run anything

Have you actually tried it in recent years? Wine runs a lot of stuff just fine.

grep --files-with-matches wine ~/opt/win32/*/launch.sh | wc -l
71

The most obvious incompatibility right now is probably DX11-only software. Aside from that kind of known compatibility problem, wine has worked well for several years now.

> far from user-friendly.

While I agree that wine can get nasty if you need to debug anything or if you have unusual requirements, but the standard "just run this win32 binary" case has also been trivial for years. I believe some distros even enable the kernel feature that launches wine automagically when running a .exe file.

> it is not perfect

Of course it isn't. It is, however, worth trying.
Hey duked. I just returned from Hong Kong (on vacation) and used two BLU Advance 5.0 phones as burners for use while in-country. I take precautions whenever I travel overseas.

I've got two phones here that were used during my trip there. I was wondering if you had any tips for figuring out of they were compromised or otherwise owned while I was out there.
I don't really use twitter so I can't picture some of these interactions, but how can people be getting abusive notifications?

To get abusive notifications, doesn't the unfortunate recipient have to follow the abuser first?

Does Twitter really allow anyone to @mention anyone else without the recipients having to confirm it? Or does it in fact notify the recipient with the full text of the comment, so harassers are exploiting the approval mechanism?
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What's considered 'fake news' though.. I mean you could argue breitbart/huffington post which are both very biased are fake... yet they do have some honest articles in there- - but many REAL news services were calling it w/ major odds for Hillary even if they had data that pointed otherwise... MSM also did not report pro-Bernie news that might have led to him beating Clinton, and Trump in the end...

Since we've removed the rule that requires news to show the opposing view point on every piece of news -- it's pretty much all op-ed anymore...
Doesn't twitter require confirmation via sms now to sign up? It's quite a hassle to find a different phone.
They could have commissioned it. How much was this ruling and how much were the licenses they did pay for? We're starting to get to the point where it isn't necessarily cheaper to purchase.

The Navy also has quite a bit of clout; they got this vendor to remove DRM. If the government insisted on F/OSS, there would be vendors waiting to write and support it.
Can anyone more knowledgeable than me comment on whether I'm crazy to think 6500 lines seems amazingly tiny for a full blown hypervisor?!
Facebook has 1.79B MAUs, and users do not inject enough self-generated original content into the system to make Facebook consistently interesting for those 1.79M MAUs. Therefore their links to outside sites – good and bad, and it isn't particularly simple to decide – will continue to be core to Facebook's business.

I always find it funny when I see HNers complaining about The Wall Street Journal's paywall. Pay it, man! And read the news.

Too much emphasis on Facebook's alleged influence. It's a link/aggregation/search application, and the complexion of its output is strongly going to reflect what users input.
I can't believe how people are trying desperately to find a culprit, a reason, an explanation and turning to Facebook for their choice of scapegoat. I mean if half your country is voting for a person whose face could easily illustrate the entries for both demagogue and ignorant in a dictionary, you have bigger problems than Facebook.
This already exists. Of course, you get plenty of disagreement about who should be on the list.
As long as Twitter applies a double standard to abuse against white men, it'll be a useless political echo chamber. Allowing "#killallmen" posters to get away with their drivel while bringing the banhammer on anyone challenging the SJW narrative is itself taking a strong and IMHO obnoxious political stance. Twitter is unbearable
>a much-needed highway sign in the LA area before it was caught over a year later

It's worth pointing out (because, for some reason, the coverage of this dude and his I-5 sign never emphasizes this) that when the sign was 'caught', Caltrans examined it, found it appropriate and to-spec, and left it up.
He could have been hit by a car or slipped on a banana. This is the sort of lazy news article that we all hate in the world, the implication without the actual presentation of the facts.

Ars is a terrible source of news, this isn't their first offence.
There is some precedence for porting Javascript-written editors to Chrome - a port of Brackets as a Chrome application exists, not requiring Crouton. See Quickfire: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quickfire/mobpfffd...

I played with this several months ago, and don't currently use it. Seems like development has stopped, and a recent support comment seems to indicate that ChromeOS updates have rendered it non-working.
Ten years ago everybody used SVN, it's not unreasonable to assume that git will be replaced by something else.
I've mentioned this before in another thread. It does not matter if it was less than 1% of facebook content. The problem is, it's also every where else. Have you guys seen the front page of Yahoo lately? And also, some how this crap crept into my Google Now news feed. Probably because I visited a dumb link on Reddit. I had to manually block them. But that probably means people who regularly read this crap, gets a ton of them.
Now we just need Google to reinstate Reader!
these exist, but because 'annoying account' is a subjective decision, while 'advertisement url' is an objective decision, it is difficult to create a list with a clear brightline between harassment and disagreement
I'm already on some block lists. I'll run into some journalists who have me blocked. Never interacted with them. I hardly interact with anyone, but some block lists just take the entire list of followers from people and add them.
Twitter really brings out the worst in people. While accounts aren't ID verified, this sort of abuse won't be affected. Let's just face it, people really suck behind an anonymity curtain.
You can make that sacrifice is more productive ways. You could give to charity, for example. Or use it for future financial security, like a deposit for your first house, kids' college fund, or something like that.
Yes, for decades I have practiced and preached this. Even more motivating: take a job that requires a deliverable in your language of choice. Swim or be eaten by sharks!
Have you tried disabling any compositor?
So, the issue is that CSS transitions only handle CSS attribute changes. For example, if I apply a CSS attribute like `transform: translateY(100px);`, I can easily animate that using CSS.

When an item's DOM position changes, there's no CSS change to animate. You can throw a `transition: 1s` on it, and nothing'll happen. This is the distinction between moving an item around on-screen, and removing/appending a DOM node from one position in the tree to another.

For Flip Move: I actually do use CSS transitions to accomplish it, but through trickery known as the FLIP technique. You can read all the nitty-gritty details, if it interests you, in a blog post I wrote: https://medium.com/developers-writing/animating-the-unanimat...
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The things I have made that I am most proud of are:

* https://standardresume.co/ - Started because I couldn't find a resume that I liked.

* https://amplitudeapp.com/ - A more advanced artist radio style playlist maker.

* http://rediscover.rile.yt/ - Automatically save Spotify discover weekly playlists.
If Hillary won this wouldn't have been an issue for the NYT. Close to the election I repeatedly saw articles comparing Trump to Hitler and predicting the end of free society of he were to win. The only fake news I saw was satirical "news." I did not vote for Trump, but it's crazy how hysterical and witch-hunty the left is right now.
> you ban things

Except those things arent banned. I can get all those things before sunset.
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I think the problem you describe exists not only in programming, but wherever people do work for other people. And its not only that, also if 'you' get a promise to get paid every time, like in socialism, than 'you' wont have enough incentives to be productive or do quality work again. There are a lot of economics and politics concepts there.

I do little self programming, but the task I want to do is more important. When I finish I dont care much about the code just like I dont think about the inventor of electricity when I use it. Also programming alone is huge area and takes all my time, and I dont understand how employers sometimes ask for so many jobs in a single job title.

I really dont know much about programmers as employees as I have never worked in the same department with them, but I wish to work in a technology company again.
I have a chinese Android phone. Instead of connecting it to the Internet I connected it to my computer over bluetooth and started monitoring the traffic it tried to send. There were attempts to connect to Google servers and chinese manufacturer's servers. The data sent to China was supposed to contain sensitive information like phone number or SIM card identifier.

It also has an auto-update (read: backdoor) feature that cannot be disabled.

I ended up making a linux-based whitelist firewall to access the Internet but it is pretty inconvinient because I have to manually enable every new host. And I can use it only at home.

As a consumer I am very disappointed and feel being deceived by Google. I know about "you are the product" saying but the smartphone is not free. I bought an expensive (two hundred dollars!) device and I had to spend a lot of my time to be able to control its activity. And of course the advertisement never mentioned that a smartphone is going to spy on me.

We need a law against this.
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I wouldn't call it propaganda, but as a foreigner it was amusing to read the NYT front page on election day. There was no attempt at neutrality whatsoever.

(The NYT has no obligation to be neutral and I'm not complaining about their editorial position. They have a right to take sides. It is still useful to keep their previous positions in mind when analyzing what they're saying now.)
That is not the argument in the opinion piece at all. What are you responding to?
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Short answer: advertisement profit. If you get to have news/articles headlines through RSS you wont bother visiting the actual website unless you it really interests you.
> Frankly anyone posting on a tech site that can't get it up and running adequately should be embarassed.

And this is a big reason why so many people still don't want to use linux. The "Why aren't you as smart as I am" attitude isn't as strong as it used to be, but it's still there. It turns off users. Nobody wants to use software when the other users are going to treat them like idiots. There are still many complicated problems to get linux up and running, and being a jerk ignores those problems, rather than helps solve them.
And those are only the ones that can be guessed to be billionaires based on their publicly known assets.

There are probably quite a few more which don't own big stakes in companies and are hidden behind financial webs.
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this is really cool! the lack of explanation and any privacy statements makes me somewhat nervous though. reminders can be somewhat personal.
I'm pretty sure they're using phone verification, although it may differ depending on location and client device.
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> The Macedonian teenagers found this, too. They had experimented with left-leaning or pro-Bernie Sanders content, but gave up when they found it wasn’t as reliable a source of income as pro-Trump content. But even if Mr. Zuckerberg were right and fake news were equally popular on both sides, it would still be a profound problem.

Perhaps because the market was already saturated with pro-Hillary pieces from mainstream media? If they produce only one-sided hit pieces on Trump, are you surprised those on the right will share anything positive they can find?

The left has made it's own bed.
The promise of reproducible builds divides-and-conquers the system, allowing us to validate individual components. From there, we need to be concerned about how well the source code for each component is managed.

Projects have the option to only accept contributions from known entities. If your identity is public knowledge, trying to sneak a backdoor into version control is high-risk.

Openness is viable stratagem for hardening and reducing the attack surface. It does not have to be perfect to make meaningful improvements towards a layered defense.
Please stop it. Seriously.

When the subject "Windows 10 Privacy" comes up, linux folks come running offering linux as a magic pill, it's not.

As mature as linux distro's can be there's always the hardware variable in the equation, specially on laptops using nvidia optimus, the experience still sucks. It's the truth.

I have nothing against linux, i actually tried it very recently (you can see it here:https://calbertoferreira.blogspot.pt/2016/10/moving-from-win...) and got a nice initial impression of it, but i will be moving to Windows again very soon.

Want to know why ?

- Creating a virtual machine on virtualbox freezes my machine (excessive IO ? i have an ssd);

- Battery life sucks even with powertop and such;

- My wired internet connection had the same speed as my wireless connection (i disabled wireless to make sure);

- Hdmi audio simply doesn't work and when i asked for help on askubuntu i was even downvoted (http://askubuntu.com/questions/845996/how-do-i-make-hdmi-sou...)!

I tried, i really did but it's a no go for me.

And i feel sorry for it, because i recognise that there are advantages in linux , but until nvidia fixes the damn optimus issues, linux will be held back.
Looks like they just needed to vent a bit.
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If the lawsuit actually ends up costing billions or hundreds of millions, they could have funded an open VR project on a scale larger than all of Ubuntu instead.
No one is saying that.
Unfortunately, radiation poisoning is an often irreversible process - it involves the destruction of cells, muscle and tissue at a molecular level in a way that our bodies never were designed to be recover from. Majority of medical practices in this space focus on removing ingested or inhaled radioactive particles, to prevent further damage over time and keeping the patient alive and in relative comfort.
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I can't speak for the Bolt, but I bought a Tesla over a Volt for several reasons. For one, it's a much more practical car. The Volt has only four seats. The latest generation has a fifth sort-of seat you can squeeze someone into if you really need it. My Tesla seats five adults and two children. It also has about three times the cargo space in a five-seat configuration.

Long range travel is not an issue. Visit https://supercharge.info and see just where you can reach on Tesla's network alone. OK, places like North Dakota and Arkansas won't work too well, but certainly the places I'd like to visit are covered. I find myself planning a lot more road trips with the Tesla than with previous cars. I didn't like burning all that gas before, but now it's just fun. In the past year, I've driven from my home near DC to south Florida, to Ohio, to Montreal, and I'm planning a trip to Wisconsin next month.

As far as long power outages go, I'm less worried with the Tesla than with previous cars. Every morning, the car has 237 miles of range left. With my gas cars, that figure fluctuated anywhere from 500 miles to 40 miles. Gas pumps require electricity to work, so you have to wait for power to come back (or go somewhere that has it) either way. But I know that I'll always have the canonical "half a tank of gas" that they say you should ensure you have for emergency.

EVs are highly practical these days. What they aren't (yet) is both practical and affordable. The Bolt is helping to change that, although the lack of fast charging infrastructure means it doesn't quite get there.

I totally understand why people would want to stick with gas cars or hybrids, whether it's because you live in or visit places like North Dakota, or can't stand the extra charging time needed for long trips, or can't charge at home, or whatever. But I hope this helps you understand the other side.
I totally agree, when I'm working on my OS project I just assume Linux/GCC. These days you're only about 30 seconds away from having a brand new Linux machine up and running in AWS/Google. Porting across systems is just too time consuming. As this example shows you can't even count on basic POSIX stuff working everywhere.
> I'm weary of the definition of random being 'unable to predict' - because that means randomness is entirely contextual, and not objective.

Tell me more, what do you mean by this? If the context changes the outcome, doesn't that imply some predictive power?

> Though it may difficult to produce - surely, there exists a theoretical random number generator that produces numbers which cannot be predicted in any context

Attach a Geiger counter to a computer, and you have a non-theoretical true random number generator. Is that what you meant, or are you talking about software RNGs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_random_number_generat...

One of the challenges with physical inputs is ensuring the RNG output is uniform over time, e.g., equal chances of numbers between 0 and 0.5 as between 0.5 and 1.
Won't a game like Doom cause motion sickness in the current state of VR technology?
Here is an examples which illustrates it perfectly well:

"After the election, Mr. Zuckerberg claimed that the fake news was a problem on “both sides” of the race. That’s wrong. There are, of course, viral fake anti-Trump memes, but reporters have found that the spread of false news is far more common on the right than it is on the left."
Take a look at his comment history, that is Thom's MO. Trump being elected due to misinformation triggers the crap out of him for some reason.
Considering that American's trust in mainstream media is an all time low [1], I'm sure there is a big demand for alternative news. I'm not surprised people are looking for content that fits their narrative and end up reading fake articles.

As someone observing from Mexico, I noticed almost all of the mainstream US media became an echo chamber for pro-Clinton content. I only realized this after after seeing how Sanders was sabotaged and the media collectively tried to bury it. Here in Mexico it's a similar situation with a few big media outlets protecting the corrupt status quo.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/185927/americans-trust-media-rema...
I don't have time to put together every thought I hav eon the subject. Suffice it to say I believe an armed populace discourages tyrannical government more than an unarmed populace. The same way I don't want to register my IP address and cell phone to be able to post online, I don't want to hand over all forms of self-defense against mass civil unrest or war.

Finally: Whether you believe it or not, the purpose of the US 2nd amendment is self-defense, including from government. If you don't feel that is necessary, be inellectually honest and advocate for its repeal.
> Unless it kills quickly there's almost never a way to tell.

Well, if he was e.g. struck by lightning just before he died, then the odds that cause of death is related to exposure to radiation years ago go way down. The article sadly doesn't even give anything to go on, or even mention the omission of anything about cause of death.
I've had great luck with Go as well. The cross compilation just works and the binary is easy to distribute.
Sure, but there are libraries to identify visual similar words. And yes, you would fight them with being even more obscure, but at some point they'd almost become unreadable.

How about a bayesian approach, like email?

Contains masked content +3

New account +4

No profile pic +5

Follows accounts with low reputation +4

Greater than out imaginary threshold of 10 so maybe hide the mention from whoever's timeline?
It hits every trip need of mine except for that ill-advised 1000 mile road trip. Looking forward to the UK variant.
>"quality" users

There was a Black Mirror episode about this in season 3. Seems it was on point.
This sounds like the kind of thing that will get abused if widely adopted.
Curious, do security researchers typically liaise with the FTC when vulnerabilities are discovered? This and your parent comment seem to imply a 'yes' but this doesn't seem like an obvious connection (to me at least). I would expect the first point of contact at DHS to flag this for other agencies' attention if they felt it was necessary. Should DHS feel territorial about this and be reluctant to contact outside agencies that's on them, not the researcher.

I wonder if many security researchers know to routinely shop their findings to multiple agencies independently. It doesn't seem like this is common knowledge.
Our entire media class is in denial.
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Saying it's vital is not going to help.
the question is : how much time and money do we have to be carbon free. Is nuclear power helping to reach that target or not ?

Saying it's vital is equivalent to saying "do we really really really want it ?" And of course, a lot of uniformed opinions will come up...

let me remind you that 1/ nuclear is bad when it breaks 2/ solar/wind is hyper expensive to build in quantities large enough to cover our needs

So which evil will we choose ?
I think it's less fun to learn than programming. Which can be a deterrent for kids or anyone learning programming at the same time (which is hard enough without adding on git).
You can @ anybody. They don't get to confirm / approve. They do see the full text in notifications.
All you need to do is look at the people twitter invite to their conferences, and associate with at their executive level to know that Twitter will only get worse in these regards.
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Some urls are weird though. You have a trailing / somewhere I guess.

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If you'd like more of the same, keep it up.
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Thanks for the interesting links, but I don't think they support your conclusion that IRV is less practical to count. The Kemeny-Young method can't practically be counted without a computer. IRV can easily be counted by hand or computer.

I think IRV is used as widely as it is not only because of its simplicity, but also because of familiarity; it is a preferential form of the multi-round Exhaustive Ballot system and a special case of Single Transferable Vote (which in other cases is a system of proportional representation).

For your legislative elections, a system of proportional representation would be better than IRV, Kemeny-Young or any other single-winner system.
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