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Very happy user here. I'm thrilled that rsync.net supports git, and the service has been absolutely rock solid.
Perhaps a Google Form would be safer way to submit an email address.

> Since SharkLasers doesn't require account registration, anyone who knows the Inbox ID may have access to that inbox. So it's best to use a random address. To add protection, you can use the Alias Address feature. An Alias Address can only be know if the Inbox ID is known and you cannot use an Alias as an Inbox Id. The more hard-to-guess your Inbox ID is, the better your Alias will protect you.
I remember it being quite frustrating to play, you had to line up the character exactly with a ledge to jump up onto it, etc. It could be very clumsy. But that continues to this day in games like the GTA games; you'll be right next to a ladder but can't climb it because the character is rotated 1º farther than they should be to grab it or whatever.
It didn't really flip back to neutral. Go read the recent top poss.
Perhaps this is related to Post-coital tristesse? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-coital_tristesse
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How about the story that Russian hackers were in talks with Trump? Even the evidence came down to an IP address from a Russian VPN.

Anyone with the basics of technology knows that this doesn't mean that the person resides in Russia (or is even Russian at all).

But, it didn't stop the story from circulating around Facebook...and it was all based on false assumptions and a misunderstanding of technology.

The problem is that I see more stories like this coming from mainstream media than not. They get clicks, even if they are based on a false premise.

Most mainstream media will get their stories blocked if it's all about the truth in reporting. There is no more truth in reporting, only bias. This is what Trump meant when he said that the system is 'rigged'.
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> I tend to speculate that OpenStreetView was started by people inside Telenav because they thought it would be cool to work on it.

A rising tide lifts all boats. I'd just like to see the entire geospatial stack all the way up to street view open sourced. I'd hate for the world to start to rely on Mapillary, their funding run out, and then ArchiveTeam has to go grab all 300TB of data and put it in cold storage until a new interface is built. Yuck. Let's just do it right from the start.
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I've been looking around my Mac Mini and my friend's Mac Pro for hours now.

I couldn't find the hires display.
Day 1 Vive owner here. This sounds pretty uncharacteristic of the experience and I guess this person has some psychological issues or is overplaying the VR experience for ad impressions. I read /r/vive religiously and no one seems to have this issue. Yes there's sometimes a "I wish I was playing now" but I've had that all my life and frankly it was 100x worse when I was playing MMOs or competitive shooters. This feeling isn't any different than the classic "I wish I was fishing" sentiment. We simply crave relaxing and rewarding experiences.

The only legitimate symptom I've heard of is some people, myself included, get VR dreams in the beginning, but they quickly go away. This has led me to the idea of making a VR lucid dreamer trainer considering dreams and VR environments have so much in common, but thus far not a lot of traction on my part especially in regards what game mechanics would help you achieve lucid dreams.

That said, I find most of the experiences fairly milquetoast with rare "Wow" moments which cannot be relived again. Unlike a typical skinner-box game, you really can't get wow'd over and over, but man, those initial wow's are incredible. I just flew in Freedom 7 in Alan Shepard's shoes last night in the beta for 'Go For Launch.' This had the real controls and the real audio in the mission. I didn't exactly weep, but it did affect me strongly on am emotional level, especially when I thought someone should ask Shepard to try this and tell us how realistic it is only to remember he passed away a while ago. I've been at work all day and haven't wished to be back in the capsule and I know if I do it again, it'll lose 90% of the magic. I may not ever play that mission again to be honest.

Savor the moments, guys. Don't pine to be constantly re-living the same stuff over and over in VR. It'll disappoint you in the end. VR is special in a way, but its not magical. It follows the same rules all other entertainment does. If you're finding yourself addicted then you've got a personal addiction issue. Its not the medium, its you. You probably need help at this point. Ask any ex-WoW addict how bad it can be and how it ruins lives. Seek out that help.
The logic is basically like so:

1) Is the site requesting a "no-referrer" policy? Then send no referer.

2) Is network.http.sendRefererHeader set to a value that would prevent sending of referrer in this situation (e.g. 0 in all situations)? Then send no referrer.

3) All the other logic (but generally aiming to follow the most restrictive directive we have).

The "network.http.sendSecureXSiteReferrer" still exists in 50, but is gone in 52; see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308725
I do sales and development so it is highly variable. I might be making calls 6 hours a day some weeks, and not make any for another week.
Sometimes I wonder if VR is building Plato's Cave or revealing more of the way out of it.

The more we learn about humans the more its clear our narratives and "real world" are at least partial figments of our imagination. We remember narratives that we choose to and ignore evidence to the contrary.

VR could help reveal this for people (somewhat the same as is claimed for hallucinogens). It could also allow us to increasingly choose to build fully artificial realities. Who wouldn't choose to be a god?

Interestingly, I find this somewhat similar to looking at landscape photography that people enjoy - especially from vacation destinations. Almost every picture now has more dynamic range, edge contrast, contrast, and saturation than the human eye experiences. This means people get to amazing places but are disappointed when reality doesn't match the photo. Then they use various apps on their smartphone to try to take a picture that matches the fantasy (often by erasing any of the local context or culture).
https://github.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl

Scientific plotting in the terminal. I didn't come up with the idea of abusing unicode characters in such a way, just fyi.

Example: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Evizero/UnicodePlots.jl/ma...
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You have to look at it in terms of a barrier. It's not impossible to break it, but it requires a lot of "oompf". The greater the violation, the greater the "oompf" required.

So, because this thing would change basically all Physics books, there's a huge burden on them to prove it beyond any shade of doubt. Forget about flirting with detection error; it should be as clear as the sun rising in the morning.

Please note that relativity, big as is was, was only at a low-to-medium level of "oompf". It didn't change quite everything, far from it.
Voting for someone other than your favorite first can change the order in which candidates other than your favorite are eliminated. This can cause your favorite to win instead of losing.

http://www.rangevoting.org/ClayIrv2.html
The only selling point for Xamarin for me is Xaramin.Forms, but so far neither this has a good reputation.
lol yeah dude, playing with an HTC Vive is exactly the same as fucking. exactly. there's no difference.
Light has effective mass. It's well known that you can shoot light in one direction for a tiny amount of thrust the other way.

The device under consideration is special because if it works it is a reactionless drive. Nothing is coming out of it.
This is great! I put together a page of before/after comparisons with some photos I tested with:

http://www.jongales.com/timeshift/primitive/
There's a huge push for this story recently. Been seeing it across aggregators and outlets.

It falls into the same pattern: "Something must be done! This is something! Let's do it!"

The crisis over free speech, and questioning whether we still want it, is a pattern that has been experienced across self-censoring emerging authoratarian nations around the world and throughout history.

In the US, it's followed the pattern put together eloquently by the highly influential American legal scholar Cass Sunstein, whose highly distinguished book "Democracy and the problem of free speech" he stated that in "light of astonishing economic and technological changes, we must doubt whether, as interpreted, the constitutional guarantee of free speech is adequately serving democratic goals."

Sunstein here represents much of the Washington establishment: if free speech doesn't achieve the goals that the center of the state has for society (stability and the acceptance of Washington narration), maybe we need something else.

Right now the State is hoping continued joint stewardship and curation of free speech by partnerships with information and media companies can prevent the free speech it doesn't like and magnify the speech it does. We should have mixed feelings about that, because if it doesn't work the state is likely to intervene more directly to achieve the goals that it wants.

A sad place to see America experimenting. With its credibility destroyed from decades of duplicitous doublespeak, illegal wars bolstered with ham fisted propaganda, and excruciating and embarrassing revelations in recent torture and surveillance programes - the US has been seeking not to bolster it's own reputation but to control and silence sources of information that threaten it's newfound weaker credibility position.
I've given the following advice to people who want to learn python, which overlaps with people who want to learn programming:

Go through the python tutorial at python.org, until you start to get bored and start having ideas. Then write something simple that occurs to you. Then write something a little more interesting, and start treating the tutorial and other resource as resource, and your creative efforts as the main thing you're doing.
That makes it a photon rocket, which is nothing new. It's a logical consequence of the fact that light carries momentum, which is part of Maxwell's electromagnetic theory from 150 years ago. It's not very practical unless you have an extremely dense power source (nuclear fission won't cut it, you need fusion or antimatter) so it's more of a theoretical toy at this point.

What's interesting about the EmDrive's claims is that it supposedly produces far more thrust for the power that goes into it than would be possible from a photon rocket.

(The Pioneer anomaly wasn't because nobody realized that thermal radiation would act as a photon rocket, but rather that the effect wasn't correctly calculated. The theory is pretty simple, but it gets complex when you apply it to a real spacecraft with complex shapes, non-blackbody materials, and temperature gradients.)
Do what make sense to you. Period
The simple tool I'm most proud of is spiped. If you have two systems which need to be able to talk over TCP without worrying about evilness on the network between them, spiped is the answer.

The simple tool which has probably had the largest impact is bsdiff -- now found used in hundreds of millions of devices -- but I'm not particularly proud of it because it was a quick hack and horrible code written by a C novice.

The non-simple product which I'm most proud of is Tarsnap, of course; I've spent a decade of my life on it, and don't expect to stop any time soon.
They probably just wanted to show off the 6-display config for that photo. Stock traders are much more likely to use that particular display arrangement than engineers.
Good idea, I'll see what that would take to integrate with Photos.
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I was hoping that the new tab spinner problems would be addressed in 50. Oh well.
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Ah, they've updated the page, now it's a "Download" button.
Makes me really happy to see how earnest y'all are being about these issues and how you're approaching them.

FWIW, we had very similar issues at Neo4j a few years back; I kind of wish we'd have blogged about it, but like you insinuate, I guess there's a strong social pressure to keep your dirty laundry in the hamper.

One of the interesting things we learned was that testing "worst case" was often not very useful - the first time we shipped a GA that'd gone through months-long soak testing in the worst possible load we could imagine, it took less than a few weeks for a customer with a seemingly benign load to come back with an unstable cluster.

Today, stability testing is done both on the "max out write throughput, then pull the power cord, then pull the powercord again while it recovers, and do that a million times"-level and "run these four customer use cases, including their devops setup, for two months and fail if uptime is not 100%"-level.

I'm not at Neo anymore, but I do wish someone who is would blog about the stability testing regimen, because at this point, it is brutal.
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+1 on the security issue. I won't give an "unknown" company access to our private github repo. Besides that: love the idea!
Barnes Wallace had previously designed the R100 [1] airship for Vickers - the one that didn't crash. The one that did crash was an RAF project. The govt. was having a competition to see which design would be best.

The R100 flew to Canada and back without incident, setting various records on the way.

The fatal R101 flight to India was insisted on by the Air Ministry in response. A deadly effect of "ship it when we say" rather than "ship it when it's ready"

One interesting fact from the R100 story : the stress calculations of their airframe were obviously done by hand and took 3 months to complete, something one could do in Excel nowadays, even without CAD.

The figures are almost unimaginable :

Wallis finally settled on the use of six reconditioned Rolls-Royce Condor petrol engines for propulsion. [2] Each of which generated 500 hp (373 Kw) and weighed 1,504 lbs (682 kg).

From wikipedia :

Nevil Shute later suggested in Slide Rule: Autobiography of an Engineer that the success of R100's Canadian flight indirectly led to the R101 disaster. Prior to the transatlantic flight, the Cardington team could suggest that neither airship was ready for a performance of such duration. However, when R100 returned in triumph they had to either make the flight to India or admit defeat – which would have meant discredit with the consequent danger of losing their jobs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R100

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolls-Royce_Condor
Actually, no. Google is bound to have its own favorite frameworks (perhaps even in house), its own coding style, and in general its own way of doing things. Most large companies do. Google would end up creating APIs that are most suitable for their use cases and their frameworks. These need not be the best APIs for all.
> WHATWG always just standardizes "whatever Chrome does".

It really ... doesn't. When the situation has arisen that Chrome has implemented an API for long enough for it to become entrenched in the web, it then discusses standardizing it (see also: https://compat.spec.whatwg.org/). But it's not blindly following Chrome, it's only in these special cases.

I've recently been involved in a couple of issues where browsers disagree with each other and/or the spec. Each time there's a discussion, and the best version of the behavior is chosen and worked into the spec. This best version is not always the Chrome version.
Used JIRA in a medium team (~50-100 people) and it also works well. Integration is super, great UI.

Whatever you do, don't use anything by Rational/IBM. I know people who've left because of Rational Team Concert, it's that frustrating day to day.
If it's another physical action within known physical laws, then nothing interesting is happening and it's a failure of the experimental setup. Yes, many experiments have been done, and none have conclusively disprove it, but at the same time none of them have conclusively shown that something is going on either. The detected effect remains well within the realm of potential error, so until that uncertainty is resolved, "error" remains a much better bet than "new physics."
Artworks are valuable, but a curated group is better.

Information is useful, but nuance and contradiction allow compromises and truths to emerge.

A news article is ok, but an analysis of a dozen sources reveals the conditions under which the perspectives apply.
>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

If you feel that I'm being "inellectually" dishonest, have the courage to stand up to me and tell me directly, instead of implying that I am (assuming, as you have, that my point is actually another point entirely, of course, which itself seems a bit intellectually dishonest).

>The same way I don't want to register my IP address and cell phone to be able to post online

I see what you're going for here, but to pretend that this isn't functionally what is required in order to "post online" is unrealistic. I assume that you're posting from behind seven proxies and a few Tor jumps? Otherwise, I don't really see how you haven't created a link between the things you post and the devices you post from, which the government can then exploit.

If you feel that commercially available guns would equip the US civillian populace to repel the US military, that's your opinion. But I strongly disagree that this presents any realistic impediment.
It was not intentional, I just forgot those, more or less, I could not comment if these are correctly classified or not, but these countries are quite authoritarian, so possibly they are.

I believe that it is important to understand that in most cases news =/ objective truth. There is always some bias and it is very important to know this bias for every source.
Yeah, I've used it at times. It's great when it works, but getting remote desktop working is always a bigger pain than just trying to explain the problem over the phone. The individual issues aren't that big, but it means a 20 minute phone call turns in to a 1 hour phone call because we spend 20 minutes trying to get screen sharing working.

For one thing, I'm generally away from my computer when they call me, and all I have is my phone. If that isn't an issue, then port forwarding is an issue, or the desktop sharing they have on their computer is out of date, or they only have RDC, and I can't find a Windows computer. Sharing the desktop via chrome works pretty well, it still can be an exercise in frustration. For instance, my dad is a trader, and has 8 monitors. Getting him to share the correct screens takes forever. (I don't know how Windows decides where to open a window, but it seems like it tries to find a monitor my dad isn't looking at and opening it behind a window marked stay-on-top.)

I might use it if the problem was extremely urgent and extremely complicated, but I live about 30 minutes from them, so I'd just head over to their house if it was that bad. Screen sharing software was just one more thing to go wrong on their computers. This way, I don't have to worry about whether they have a version with a critical vulnerability, or if they'll fall for a social engineering attack and click on a teamviewer invite.

This software solves my concern about not being able to see what the hell my parents are doing when I'm telling them shell commands. This makes it really easy. They'd already be using Linux if I knew I'd always be able to use desktop sharing to look at their computer, and port forwarding/security/etc wasn't a concern, because connecting to a remote X server is incredibly easy. I already fix internet issues by SSHing in to the router (with key-based authentication) and then connecting to whatever piece of hardware needs to be tinkered with. I could probably do the same thing for an actual desktop, but I've fixed misbehaving servers via ssh on my phone before, and typing commands on a phone keyboard is an exercise in frustration.

In any case, I sat down with my dad and created a clean image of his desktop a while back. When he really messes something up he just reimages his computer. He likes the fact that I gave him the ability to bring his computer back from the dead himself. All his files are installed on a separate disk, which is constantly backed up, so he never loses more than about 20 minutes of work.
Any chance that we can get the core for other OSs? Sounds like it's where all the magic happens and others could quickly work on UIs for it on other platforms.
Custom options on small-run hardware is invariably quite high because of the cost to manufacture and the small end-market.

Compared to options on other machines out there it actually feels quite cheap to me (even in current GBP terms).

I'd not fault them for this.
Isn't it a common thing to do in a war scenario to cut out the enemy's supplies? IIRC the brits did this a lot to the germans in WW2 with air bombing runs. If most power in the world switches to being nuclear eventually, doesn't that seem like a likely target?

If you mean that people wouldn't escalate that far, that's a fickle thing to depend on! Saddam used nerve gas, even though there's treaties against that stuff. I guess it's a good thing that a lot of us live in a part of the world where the thought of war on the homeland is inconceivable, but I don't think it's that remote an idea. I'm from Turkey, which is a semi-developed country where conflict and bombings happen with some regularity, and nuclear power plants are being seriously discussed. So I hope that gives a bit more context to my concerns.
This might be a cool tool for people who make art quilts, to help visualize different ways of assembling geometric shapes to create a picture.
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Someone else mentioned this and I agreed, so I already replaced it before seeing this comment. The Lenna image did make a good demo, but so do other images.
I don't understand why the author references the "mega Project List." The author cites the github list as an inspirational tool, which seems quite contradictory as the author also pitches using programs to solve problems that you personally care about. So what does the author actually recommend?
http://hnlive.tk

I made this because every time I decide to post something on HN, I hang on for a moment making my mind up on whether it's the right time to post on HN.

So, I made this live visualization, showing activity levels on HN. Now there's this data driven decision instead of a vague hope.
Or not ;) https://1.f.ix.de/scale/geometry/696x500/q75/imgs/71/2/0/1/7...

As I intended to say, the PRO model does have 4 displayports. The base model only 3. That's what I read on other articles, like

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/hp-z2-mini-g3-workstatio...

Can't find the english source again.
I was thinking of a Frankendrive with 5 actuators, which can do 5 parallel reads/writes, as long as they don't overlap. But the new dimensions would probably be the roadblock.
Though I totally understand your point.

I would argue relativity was a tectonic shift in how we understand physics. These ideas existed before Einstein in mathematics/ geometry (Grassmann & Reimann). But they were just ideas and not a full-fledged theory.
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I used to get that feeling to an extreme when exiting a movie theater. It had much more to do with being deeply unhappy than it had to do with movie theaters.
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