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> questions is mind boggling

Becomes less mind boggling when you take this hint that Apple genuinely doesn't care about their machines being used in scenarios that require this anymore.
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And, generally speaking, how you ended up with Trump.
Noticed his comments in every thread, which I was interested in.
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"De-emphasizing user freedom" makes it sound like there's an actively freedom-hating agenda at work. That's the connotation it carries. And that's the problem. I could just as easily find ways to imply sinister motives in "free software" -- actively de-emphasizing the ability of programmers to make a living, for example -- but I prefer not to argue that way, y'know?

"Open source", as a term, is about emphasizing a different set of benefits that come from license terms that let anyone run, modify and distribute code for any purpose they choose. The careful way you word your comments to highlight negatives and avoid positives makes it seem obvious that you don't like that and want to make it sound sinister when it isn't. My advice to you would be, if you're going to lie, at least be honest about it!
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Either they have a much smaller user base to begin with or they're offering something really enticing in exchange for the pain. The problem isn't that migrating from python2 to python3 is super hard, it's that people don't see any immediate benefits for doing so. Had python3 come with something really enticing (like a significant performance increase or a better parallelism story), a lot more people would have not only accepted a lot more breakages, but also switched years ago.
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Yea, use Python2, don't use Unicode, but please add information to a registration form like:
"due to our programmers' limitations please don't enter your first name or last name as your write it, use only ASCII characters, otherwise our servers may blow up".

PS) This is what I had to work on last year. Happy US programmers who know nothing except English. And suddenly the software blew up, just because a client wanted to enter his name.
That was eight zeroes, not six. Two more bits of entropy!
Which is why you use 90th percentile.
Terry Tao (Field Medalist) has a lot of great writing on this subject: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/
Also people like to ignore that the body will keep the amount of potassium in it constant. So you have always the same amount of potassium radionuclides in you.

This leads to some people underestimating the effects of radionuclide intake.
It reads like that "you'll never guess how this single mom earns a fortune working from home" spam.

Fascinating article, though I dislike the specious critique of socialism that's been shoehorned in there, though I suppose it is reason.com...
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You actually knew that you survived the fall at age 3 or someone much older told you the story of how you survived a 4-storey fall when you were much older?
I said I cannot invoice the customer "convert perfectly good codebase to python3", and I said I'm not working for free.

The only other option I can see you might be suggesting is to defraud my customer by converting that codebase to python3 but say I was doing something else.

I don't want the reputation of being one of those people.
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Author here. Long time reader, first time writer. Just wanted to say thanks to HN community for such an enlightening discussion here. Helped me to grow and learn especially at times when there were no mentors around.
Yes, we used Microsoft's solution for our master's thesis.

<rant>
We had to constantly clear cookies, restart the computer, delete our local OneDrive copies and do other quirky work-arounds to be able to do anything. Not to mention the constant crashing and general bugs that plagued the process.

As an example: during the final reading of the paper (a three hour session), I had restarted my computer 8 times and created about 15 local copies of the word document "just in case".

I have heard similar horror stories from other students as well.

It is genuinely shocking to me that Microsoft is getting away with this horrendous performance.
</rant>
Oh yes, vim + latex + git is better than any google docs when you know how to use it. When you need to collaborate with non-technical people, it's a different story - I've been in that situation and even successfully taught basic git to few people, it's not worth it in the long run.
you'd either have it in a bunker with a remote terminal, or you'd get in the bunker after security clearance. making up weird scenario to prove a point is a fool errand, security needs compromise and threat modeling, it's not a blanket meant to protect for every type of attack ever.
The title of this HN post has been edited and does not reflect the article.

The correct title is:

"Apple’s new OS “activation” for Touch Bar MacBook Pros"
How would a C14 slab would go kaboom? Its only role is to give radiation which is transformed into heat or electricity.

I don't expect any explosive parts here.
Because the OP who posted this link was trying to be provocative and made up the link title.
Wow, that's pretty neat. I've always wondered how a person who's completely new to the language would go about learning it if he's given only the dictionary. He literally has all the information he needs, but can't actually do it.

>take just 26 KB?

That's really impressive. Node should really cut down on things.
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What age are you referring to? A 10 year old needs something different than a 15 year old or a 3 year old.

For young kids, blocks and just letting kids play and build stuff from whatever they find outside is great.

For older kids, Scratch and Coderz (http://gocoderz.com/) are great.
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Thanks a bunch for the link.
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Reading this reminded me of polywater.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polywater
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Yeah, not really, that's what I'm saying in all my parentheses...
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I've had one of these for a few weeks now, it's a lot of fun to play with! I really enjoy programming for such a simple nostalgic platform. My main side project for it [0] has been porting a little homebrew tunnel game I originally wrote for the Wii several years back. Other devs have been putting out much more impressive software [1] and coming up with some great hardware hacks [2] as well.

It's indeed targeted at hobbyists more than consumers (like the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc) though I feel it has a greater potential for inspiring folks of all ages to tinker with programming. There's no ugly/scary hardware to deal with, and the form factor seems to attract adoration from everyone I show it to.

[0] https://github.com/BHSPitMonkey/Helii-Arduboy/blob/master/RE...

[1] http://www.team-arg.com/games.html

[2] https://youtu.be/bGMHTI9e55Y
I was wondering the same thing, seeing how the article stresses that this is an old variety. So weird that they wouldn't go on to mention this.
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This is a great step forward to regain control over our devices!

I hope this kind of hack won't lead to laws making this kind of tampering with your own devices illegal. (If this seems absurd to you, think about copyright laws which make similar tampering on software-side illegal by forbidding circumvention of copy-protection.)
> (although i did write a Gopher client some time ago - http://runtimeterror.com/tools/gopher/)

I keep meaning to finish up my Gopher Client and release it upon the world...

https://www.weegeeks.com/upload/Jar-Gopher-Browser-Full-Scre...
I was talking about a high capacity battery that can power a laptop for a week, not the nuclear battery from the article.
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> In fact, diamond is the hardest substance known to man, there is literally nothing we could use that could offer more protection.

With such nonsense it is hard to believe the rest of the article. Heat a diamond and it will burn releasing CO2 into the air, smash it with a hammer and it will burst in million parts.
Small particles and gasses are very easy to ingest.
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There's certainly nothing wrong in principal with the interested parties "sorting it out amongst themselves" - it happens with minor accidents every day in probably every country in the world. I'm even pretty much OK with paying off the media to remove the reports or not report it in the first place. They're only interested because of who he is, and it's not related to his job, so I don't see a big problem here.

As you suggest, the problem is when the authorities are also susceptible to being paid off. As the innocent party, my choice should be "accept your offer to settle, or contact the police and my insurer." When the choice is "accept your offer to settle, or get nothing because the police are already paid off", then I don't have any negotiating power. We have no idea whether the settlement was remotely adequate for the damage that was done, or whether the victims felt like they had to take a token payment because the alternative was nothing at all.
I can't remember where I saw it, but here's how you teach your kids to start scripting:

Step 1: put a note on the fridge saying "The new WiFi password is one of the 10 random keys in the text file on this USB drive [taped to note]".

Step 2: wait a few days, repeat Step 1 with 10 replaced by 10 000 and also leave them an intro to Python (or $favorite_lang) book. Bonus points if you make the USB drive boot Linux straight to a Python REPL.
There are a number of articles about that, for example in the TeX User's Group's magazine and on the TeX StackExchange. And the developers have been aware of, and taken steps about it, many years ago.

For example, TeX Live ships with write18 disabled.
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~100% renewable is a dangerous half-truth, just 9% of the energy Norwegian consumers use is in reality renewable.

It's true that Norway produces more renewable energy than it uses energy, but since it sells its green power to other countries who pays more for "green power", Norwegian customers actually buy most of the power they consume from non-renewable sources elsewhere.

However, since Norwegian consumers "know" how green Norwegian power production is they don't care/know about paying extra for the EU goo (Guarantee of origin).

It's a dumb situation where two groups of customers (the ones who pay extra for green Norwegian GoOs and the Norwegians who rationally presume that the power they buy is "local" Norwegian green power) both believe they're buying the same green energy.
I always thought that Metabase ( http://www.metabase.com/ ) looks promising.
Yes, but the experience isn't great IMO.
I haven't read the legislation but I would fully expect that it would need a warrant to know the details. This sounds like they are formalising the collection of metadata rather than blanket access.
Wouldn't using a sparse bit-array be equivalent to using Bucketsort in space-complexity, but more efficient in time-complexity, or am I missing something here.
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I think the Linux equivalent would be more like interrupting the boot process at the GRUB menu, then adding "init=/bin/sh" onto the kernel command line, so Linux boots into a root shell.
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It's super weird that anyone exposed to a Unix system can't write a bash script!
Do you have any links, more information about the 'lasso effect' ?
Actually, I think the strictness of python3 with regards to bytes/strings is particularly useful for people who speak English as their first language. python3 will force them into writing software that can work with international strings whereas python2 code written by an English speaking person would in many cases just be broken for the international users.

And believe me, as an "international" person, this is profoundly annoying and has trained me in avoiding using the non-ASCII letters of my language which of course "castrates" the written language somewhat (i.e. When people use non-ASCII letters for folder names I think they are just asking for trouble - how normal is that?)

I love how upfront python3 is with the difference between raw bytes and strings. I work a lot with python and in particular I do a lot of work with serializing and deserializing stuff from/to binary blobs. Due to platform issues that I hope will change in the next year or so I can't use python3 currently but I keep all my code compatible with both and all tests should run with python2 and python3. Yes, I am firmly in the python3 camp :)

pycharm inspection definitely helps with keeping code compatible with 2 and 3.
I think we should continue to resist accepting this as normal, especially when it's not true for iPhones. We should get used to at-rest encryption. (It seems that part of the current exploit under discussion bypasses Bitlocker?)
I HATE python 2

"hello how are you {}'.format(name)

UnicodeDecodeError ARRRRGGGGH
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>which work out great in C#.

They're greatly ignored in the real world.
Can you name an industry that doesn't have a fondness for acronyms?
On the other hand, isn't pwning coworkers the basis of sound security awareness training?
Try Etherpad.
Seriously, from your initial sentence I was expecting something way worse. Those problems seem very trivial to me compared to most normal jobs where you don't get offered anything at all, ever. Not to mention the many jobs where you get abused for real.
Don't you ship to Europe? :(
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Proxima Centauri is so far away that's depressing...
As a non-physicist I was thinking the molecules become jammed, immobilised upon expansion; for want of a better analogy a swollen foot in a shoe, no more wiggle room. But the article says that the solid water does melt at even higher temperatures.
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene is a must read for understanding this dynamic and others. In the case of spreading rumors the 39th of 48 'Laws of Power' applies:

Stir up waters to catch fish

Anger and emotion are strategically counterproductive. You must always stay calm and objective. But if you can make your enemies angry while staying calm yourself, you gain a decided advantage. Put your enemies off-balance, find the chink in their vanity through which you can rattle them and you hold the strings.
There are diamond LEDs so this is solved problem, I think by adding very specific impurities.
https://www.sharelatex.com changed my life in that regard. All the convenience of Google docs, with the determinism of having one single system compiling your LaTeX documents.
Wow, I just asked this very question this morning here on ASK HN, and you basically answered it!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13061993
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I love how they decided to embrace the fact it is a "fan work" and diverge from established 1&2 canon when the story calls for it (ya know unlike a certain company who has the rights to the name and think cramming references to older games will make Oblivion with guns a Fallout game). Not to mention the passion and work to make such a thorough game/mod with a two decade old engine.
FWIW, MetaPost draws technical graphics. For instance, it is what Knuth uses for the graphics in his books. (Most LaTeX users these days seem to me to instead use TikZ, or sometimes Asymptote.)

The purpose of its --tex option is to allow you to format the labels to fit the document, using whatever TeX engine you use for your document. For instance, if you use XeTeX so you can access system fonts then you probably want the graphics to have labels using those fonts also, so you want MetaPost to use XeTeX also.

There has been a lot of work lately on MetaPost; I don't know whether this is a recently-introduced bug, but I suspect it is. Anyway, such reports are useful, as for any software project. So if someone here has a similar one please forward it to the developers list. If you go to TUG's page http://www.tug.org and click on "mailing lists" you'll see a great number of options. In a pinch you could start with the "tex-live" one and you will for sure get some attention.
Not if you're still on Win7, like most corporations still mostly are:

https://github.com/carmaa/inception/blob/master/README.md
If they have such cheap power (nearly free minus maintenance and capital) from hydrothermal - why can't they convert it to electricity to power lamps?

It's economic for Marijuana producers even in countries with high energy costs. I know bananas are not so high value - but then the energy is cheaper?
Everybody visits a wide variety of websites. This data is likely to reveal:

- if you are suffering from any illnesses (HIV, cancer)
- your sexual orientation
- your religion

Within months, ISPs or govt agencies will be hacked and 3rd parties will have access to this information. The implications are horrifying.

EDIT: Also, I suspect the data will be URLs, rather than just domain names, so they will be able to tell a lot from facebook etc.

EDIT2: Actually, apparently it will be just IP addresses and domain names (not full URLs): https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...
Growing up, I probably saw cool toys advertised and was like "muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum I reaaaaalllly neeeeeed this enormous lego pirate castles it's got hidden doors and cannons everywhere and a TREASURE CHEST. pleeeeeeeaaaaaasssssse".

I didn't get it though. Poor Deprived Child.

Anyway, I always wonder about the brand advertising thing. Do I buy stupidly expensive razor doodads? Sure. Why? Well, I use the same brand my dad did. He bought me the first one and I don't really go in for change, so I've stuck with it. I can logically acknowledge that it's dumb, but here I am yearly spending £30 on razors with more blades than can possibly be necessary.

Coke? I guess I had it somewhere for the first time, I like the taste. I don't think I buy it because of the advertising, I buy it because I like it. Why don't I buy own brand stuff? It tastes different. Would I prefer the own brand stuff if I'd started on that and was used to it? I suspect that is true, so for me it feels like the massive win is in being the first product that I use.

Surely when I go to the shops and pick something off the shelf that I have zero context for: What did family buy? What do friends buy? Is there a brand that somehow jumps out as attractive (advertising works!). But if a first mover gets my social circle to use and approve then that's going to be way more powerful than a shit ton of facebook ads down the line

Just my thoughts.
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Why? Do you think it weird that most Windows user couldn't write a .bat script? I've worked support at a large university that used Unix as its main desktop OS for staff and students in most departments. I'd bet that most people there couldn't write bash script. 90+% of peoples interaction with the OS was click browser icon, click e-mail icon, click text editor icon and click icon/type in name at command prompt of whatever programs they needed to get work done. Writing bash scripts is simply not something that ever came up for the vast majority of users.
If somebody here had played it, I'd love to hear opinions before risking to lose few weeks of my life as it was with the original game.
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I am not sure you wanted to use 'crafty' :)

> clever at achieving one's aims by indirect or deceitful methods
Thanks for your feedback, and for confirming that, unfortunately, there's some professional fallout to be expected from quitting Facebook.

I'm so excited that another post on HN actually had some great advice on this very problem. Here it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13062063

I'm planning on exploring this more and write something on a way to "softly quit" Facebook, maybe over the next weekend.
This is a very handy tool - very full in terms of features as well. I really like that you can drag and drop components and configure them in order to create a transform. Very nice!

Here is my attempt to make something similar although less featureful: https://encoder.secapps.com/

I will try to incorporate some of these features.
>> targets Professionals

> All we know, there's a word "pro" in marketing materials (includes product names). Who they actually target with that is Apple's internal affairs, and everyone should judge for himself, whether it matches one's requirements.

So nowadays Apple's "pro" is more like the "pro" in Playstation Pro.
When I was learning C, I loved Plauger's book on the standard library for just that reason; it's very informative to be guided through the implementation of the whole thing, not only to see how it works, but it's also a good way just to be introduced to everything in it without any magic. It's an excellent 2nd book on C, I think.
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Previous discussion on original source (17 hours ago):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13056997
That's what HPACK (which is described in the article) and it's dynamic header table is for. However as soon as you exceed a certain amount of headers (the size which you can store in the dynamic table - typically 4kB) the header table might no longer work as good as possible. That's because the newer headers will always lead to the eviction of older headers in the table, and therefore headers will no longer be cached for the duration of the connection.
Ex Amazon here. PIP are used to covertly apply stack ranking. A lot of managers seem to always have at least one employee in PIP in their team.
That qoute is not probably marketing, it is marketing. It is more about being geniue or not.
I must say I didn't quite :-) I figured it was an uphill battle, but I did figure we were in with a chance. That even with a big fat Netscaped Mozilla, it was not hopeless.
I think the point of having an Internet browser preinstalled when you bought a computer had some merits. I can't think of many consumer computing devices that don't come with a pre installed browser these days.

In retrospect the whole DoJ trial seems rather quaint to be honest.

Plus it wasn't as if you couldn't install Netscape and decide through personal choice to use that over IE.

Compare that with iOS where not only does it come with Safari pre installed, but if you install any other browser it HAS to run WebKit and cannot provide functionality Apple doesn't allow.

Objectively that seems to be a lot more protectionist and subject to anti-trust laws than anything Microsoft ever did.
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They do. They have lots of geothermal power plants all over the country.
Been in that situation before, I can relate in how horrendous it feels. I hope you can find a way out.
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