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This is nice, thanks a bunch!
While I don't disagree that he sounds, in general, like a bit of a douche, you can hardly say that this rider makes him an asshole.

He lays out, reasonably, the conditions under which he will speak. He asks for tea, and Pepsi, not Coke.

Seems utterly reasonable to me.
I prefer Arch or derivates on Laptops because of the better default battery management. I easily get 2-3 hours more on a default Arch installation vs. Ubuntu.

Arch however can be a pain if something does not work, if you want it easy just use a Ubuntu derivat (or Ubuntu if you like that fugly Desktop)
Why, what's "begets“?

I don't get the joke :-/
Not a fan of Skype, but in one of Stallman's other articles he says:

"Public agencies exist for the people, not for themselves. When they do computing, they do it for the people. They have a duty to maintain full control over that computing so that they can assure it is done properly for the people. They must never allow control over the state's computing to fall into private hands."

This guy has a lot of faith in government and his treatise actually sounds rather Marxist. History is littered with public agencies that obstensiby exist for the "people," but in fact exist for no other reason than to enforce the power of the state. I don't trust government -- I endure it. Government is necessary in a way not dissimilar to the necessity of colonoscopies.
I think that in LAMP environments (common shared hostings) it's in general more convenient to set it in .htacess but... OK if you need it for some reason in php, you can have it.
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Well there is AntergOS and Manjara, but it takes a bit of the fun and brings some new unique bugs.
The default is a graph coloring algorithm. Well actually a "recoloring" algorithm due to its SSA-based nature.

There is also an ILP one, which is only useful for comparison.
Oh come on.

When used this way it's a minor extension of a shopping list that gets automatically fulfilled.

Are you really gonna argue that it's a "sad reflection on the evolution of cognitive thinking" to re-order something right when you realize you need it rather than making a mental note, possibly forgetting it next time you are at the store, the store maybe being out, and then having to lug this shit around yourself?

It's a convince. I personally use it for cat litter all the time. I get it from Amazon anyway cause they have the best price for it, and when I realize it's running low I tell the Alexa to order more of it. And that sure as hell beats the alternative of driving 20 minutes to the grocery store that has this cat litter at some point in the future before I run out (not everyone lives 400m away from a store that sells everything)

It's not the end of the world.
Signal is available for desktop browser, although I don't know how well works.
That's a really helpful blog post, actually. I thin the general pain points are the same as in your twitter discussion - the reducers quickly start feeling clunky with explicit casts or using two lines to export a constant for the switch statement.
It's obviously a possibility to just forego type-safety in that part, but it'd be a shame.

Another general pain point (apart from the fact that a lot of the guides you find seem reasonably outdated) is the general build setup. Your guide seems really good, but generally setting up react redux and typescript is a bit of a jungle.

If you do end up writing a post, please let me know!
Yay! This is cool.

I wrote something like this myself a while back: http://41j.com/hterm/

I recommend checking out libvterm (http://www.leonerd.org.uk/code/libvterm/). It abstracts out of lot of the v220/xterm terminal rendering code and is very neat. I'd love to see it get more support.

Also nice to see Sixel support (graphical terminal are fun!).
Arch, NixOS, Void, Debian. Try and see yourself.
Correct I could not find docs for the Curie to provide any insight into how everything worked, technically. I found some docs which contained a block diagram and saw the bluetooth module is a Nordic NRF51822. That package is a full Bluetooth stack as well as an arm cortex processor. I could not however determine how it was connected to the rest of the system, nor figure out if there was a way to get direct access to that arm cortex.
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Science is by definition incomplete. It only provides a means for proposing theories to test observed phenomenon, test them, and use them to extrapolate and make future predictions, which can invalidate or strengthen the theory.

e.g. we don't even know if the physics we have is universal or local to our observable corner, the only evidence we have is we haven't seen any evidence to disprove it, but that's not proof.

String theory could be considered dogma. But it at least provides means to test its predictions, its just that we are very very far off from ever getting close to that capability.

If we live in an illusion, its entirely possible and in fact likely that it is beyond our ability to even detect that. In fact that would be one of the first requirements of such a 'program'. You can should 'computer, end program!' all you like but the holodeck will just ignore you :)

There really is no point to wondering about the reality of time if it doesn't lead to anything we can test/influence or use to advance our understanding and so far there is none.

You could just say the entire universe is but one of infinite multiverses which are being continuously spawned in the cosmic sea, but that doesn't change anything.
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The why of the simulation is an interesting question. One hypothesis:

+ NIs and AIs will always try to find ways to break through glass ceilings of intelligence. They are driven by a never fulfilled thirst for knowledge and engrained with a curiosity instinct.

+ An AI will immediately run simulations and set breakpoints on processes that undergo complexity transformations.

In other words, we might almost have been spotted. As soon as we build silicon AI the simulation will stop.

It explains why we have not been contacted by aliens too. :-)
I'm going on 9 successful years of fedora. I spent 4 years switching distributions ever couple months until then. I think its probably different for everyone.
You're right, but I think name-pinning has some important benefits:

It allows the AI to hyper-specialize to recognizing that particular name, increasing reliability, and

use generic voice recognition, with the associated costs and privacy issues, only after activated.

Not 100% sure, but I think that activation recognition is even local. They only send your voice to mothership after activation.
So if I forget to get more laundry detergent when I notice it's out that means I didn't need it anyway?

If I forget to put cat food on the grocery list, I guess they didn't need to eat that much...
The problem is that finding those resources takes skill. Curated lists are useful.
Do you think women don't enjoy and talk about sex?
It has an option to lock ordering behind a voice pin
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My team has been using appear.in for about two years now (I introduced it to them smug).

http://appear.in/some_words_doesnt_matter <- share with whoever, instant video call
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Very superficial article. Also not actually about what to consider on side projects but only some thoughts about if you put it on your resume.
You mean the Windows Preview program? No, it's in the anniversary update. But it's still a "beta" product.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
I'm a CS student and I had this exact question a year earlier. I tried ubuntu as everyone suggests for a begginer, then switched to deepin and then over to elementaryOS. Sure I'm never going back to windows but ubuntu never seems to work out of the box.

The next station in this Linux journey is to dual boot Mint and Arch. Mint for when I wanna get things done and Arch for learning and customising linux.
Required: voice identification.

Or facial recognition if that's too hard for now.
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Amazon has same day delivery for plenty of large cities now.
I'd go for Mint. The only system that never disappointed me and always just worked. Second place would go to Debian "stable", old (== problems with Wifi) but rock solid.
So if Coca Cola is the only thing available, he will just refuse. I personally prefer Coke, but I'm not going to walk off stage if I am offered Pepsi. A bit rock-starish if you ask me.
You can put voice ordering behind a voice pin number to prevent this which I like more as it keeps the whole interaction on the Alexa.
Thankfully, nothing in programming is anywhere near as technical as fluid dynamics. Most of it can be found on github, blogs, and medium posts.
Right, I'm only suggesting that no one might have ever become concerned that WikiLeaks lost control of their Twitter account had the same people who held that belief known Julian Assange was alive and well and not under duress. I also find it hard to believe that Julian Assange wouldn't inform everyone that such is the case. Judging by the amount of time JA spends talking about WikiLeaks' perfect track record and referencing their reliability when it comes to accuracy and trustworthiness, I would say it is one of, if not his most valuable asset; the foundation of his safety, leverage, and sustained relevance/coverage. I can't imagine he would neglect transparency there, as it would undermine his entire lifes work, discredit him, and make him irrelevant - undermining his safety, which is largely due to the public eye on him.
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I wouldn't want to be the guy who arranges a Torvalds-Stallman meeting. These two are quite passionate and disagree about something that Stallman spent his life preaching. It wouldn't go well.
I don't understand why people are blaming the news report for this instead of Alexa.
Ubuntu, Arc and may be Fedora. No need to look past these 3 unless you feel a bit adventurous.
As soon as I start configuring things, I break them :)

(Check scrollbar on the right side..)
So I go back to whatever...

http://imgur.com/a/2ptLl
Good points.

Check out as a possible alternative:

1) riot.im
2) matrix.org
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heh just fyi, my F-secure reports:

"Harmful web site blocked. blog.jwilm.io

This web site has been reported as harmful. We recommend that you do not visit this web site."
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I'd recommend fedora as well. It's cutting edge yet stable.

The only caveat is, use it if all hardware works right off the box (Eg: you don't need proprietary drivers for your display and suspend/resume works without twiddling etc...). If that's not the case, don't bother with fedora because you'll just end up fighting the hardware with every update.

fwiw, fedora has been my default OS for 10+ years now. My dev usually happens on the system (since I don't want to keep replicating my dev environment) and testing happens in containers and/or VMs. It's easier to spin up docker/lxc instances than VMs imho.
Got a link with specifics?

I've never seen breakpoints & source maps working properly; just a series of blog posts by various people who've tried and failed to get it working.
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Thank you.

Is there a way to command the terminal to enter/exit full screen mode (like iTerm2 has)?
We could make the same argument against cars and airplanes. Before those were invented exactly zero people died in auto or airplane accidents. The cloud as a concept isn't bad -- some implementations of it are.
There are reasons for avoiding Google, but I found Stallman's list a bit odd. Why do I care if the javascript I use to sign up on Google+ is not free?

Now if you don't like being tracked at all time 1: enable privacy options for your Google account 2: avoid using Google Play and 3: start using duckduckgo
> sixel (experimental)

Well hello there. Makes a guy wonder if it would be possible to run a web browser without X.
IIRC isn't he against most JavaScript due to the fact that you can't easily dynamically replace a JS module with another?
Polifact: http://www.politifact.com

Seems to be doing a pretty good job.
> To “dox” a person is to release documents related to his or her personal life in a way that potentially endangers that person's safety.

No. It means to release publicly available documents (docs -> dox) about the subject of a journalistic investigation - usually by amateur journalists. When professional journalists do it, it's just called "journalism".
Archlinux (https://archlinux.org) is a great rolling release distribution, and the Archlinux wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/) is an invaluable ressource.
I've recently moved to Manjaro (Arch) after trying to upgrade from Kubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 16.04 and finding out (you don't wanna know how much time I wasted) that Kubuntu is practically unsupported atm.
So I tried Neon (the "new" Kubuntu) ... but they don't even have a working installer. I didn't want to go to Ubuntu directly for the obvious reasons.

Now to me stability is everything. I have shit to do and don't have time to fuck around with the system every two days (that's why I was on 14.04 in late 2016). But a friend of mine convinced me to invest some time, install Manjaro and learn the slightly different ecosystem. And I can say, it's been worth it. Fantastically stable, things work, and in the 3 months of usage I have yet to find a bug.
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Good point, I changed the title to make it clear.
Which by definition is impossible to reach.
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It's a matter of tools. All distro's are basically very similar but come with different desktops and package managers.

I spent many years jumping around Debian and its derivatives but then I found Arch and it just felt right. I love the package manager and the fact I can control what I have installed. With a 9 cell Thinkpad battery and some cleaver settings I can last all day.

I have to admit that these days I tend to run from Antergos which is a great Arch derivative but that is mainly because of a lack of time and a need to get stuff done. Also from years of installing and running standard Arch I can tweak things very quickly from Pacman.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

This seemed like a far-fetched dystopia when I first read it. Now, Kindle et al. are not far away from this.

I also remember reading some piece from Stallman on software patents, from the eighties or early nineties. Well before software patent trolls, etc.
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"I don't think systemd is doing anything wrong here, and we really shouldn't change anything." -- Lennart Poettering, 2016-09-18, https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/4167#issuecomment-...

The bug report also explains what systemd is doing here.

"systemd starts allocating those hashtables very very early on, before any process is forked off... It's par tof the initialization scheme of systemd really. Hence there's basically nothing else going on in the system, execept what is done by the kernel itself", -- Lennart Poettering, 2016-05-05, https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-Ma...

"moving that blocking behavior to /dev/urandom simply does not work. The system does not boot. The reason to this issue is actually quite simple. The init process of systemd reads /dev/urandom for whatever purpose. Now, when /dev/urandom blocks during boot, systemd will be blocked too." -- Stephan Mueller, 2016-10-22, https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/10/21/982
> There really is no point to wondering about the reality of time if it doesn't lead to anything we can test/influence or use to advance our understanding and so far there is none.

I think this is wrong. There are some (possibly many) such apparently pointless questions that eventually lead to actual experiments. I remember that Einstein's book's about relativity theory starts with such questions. Off the top of my head, questions such as "how could you prove that two events in different places have happened at the same time."

I'd also argue that the whole concept of science came from the Philosophers from ancient Greece trying to answer such unanswerable questions. But this may require a longer dissertation :).
Something only a nerd can be excited about.
Love the project! Completely agree with minimalistic philosophy. I can see why some people feel like scrollback would be needed, I personally myself always work in tmux sessions, but still.
It's possible without X. Links (http://links.twibright.com/) did it via framebuffer for years.

Unless you mean in actual text/sixel mode. Then I haven't heard of one.
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Check out w3m (which has some graphics support).

There's also Netsurf, I've not used it but it. Looks awesome: http://www.netsurf-browser.org
Following the free-market analogy (for better or for worse), there needs to be an options market, where drivers can lock-in a price for the year, say $5 for that ($2 to $30) route. That way commuters can make better planning decisions. Then during periods when drivers don't exercise their right to take the express lane toll, Transurban (or the option-holders) can sell off their unused passes on-site.

As it stands now all of the volatility in transit times is externalized to the commuter.
Same here,

I found the concepts in Clojure attractive and elegant but the implementation to be lacking.

The toolchain is extremely heavyweight and any promised performance, scalability and development improvements just don't materialise.

Like you, I've only tried toy projects, but Clojures weight and lack of real (as opposed to promised) improvement never occurred for me.

Also, there seems to be constant discussions on the Clojure forums about the lack of performance.... and they all get resolved by admitting that you need to fallback to non-idiomatic Clojure (i.e. just doing it the Java way).
Wsl in this case is chicken and egg: you'd want to run wsl in this terminal. Not that big of a deal, but bad UX.
Much better, nothing to complain now :)
Or they're just a front for Russian intelligence, as has been suggested for years, as evidenced by the fact that Assange says there's no need to report on Russia because of the "free and open media" they have, as evidenced by his show on RT, as evidenced by their facilitating Snowden's defection, as evidenced by...

It seems like there are a few die-hards left who thought Assange and Manning were the greatest thing ever exposes the big bad USG, and are refusing to acknowledge the obvious: wikileaks exists so the FSB can run agitprop against its geopolitical foes.

Edit: I'd just like to point out the fact that all of these downvotes are flooding in at 3:00 am PST on a Friday night. Can anyone think of a timezone that might coincide with?
WikiLeaks decided to leak documents that damaged Hillary's reputation.

That means that in the tech world they have been shunned and marginalised, like everybody who didn't bitch too much about the existence of Trump.

Now it doesn't matter whatever they say or do, they'll get negative press. They are blacklisted.
While I agree that Anna Kendrick might not need a biography at 31, she definitely isn't Q list. Probably A list, maybe B if we're being picky.
Sadly neither of those can properly handle the kind of JS a modern site throws at a browser...
Mind giving the source where Assange said that?
That, and most of it has no clear licensing. Thus i suspect he consider them potential judicial tar pits...
It's the most obvious counter-interpretation. I think it's become remarkably successful, but also suffers in its embrace of causality. While the Copenhagen interpretation can skirt the issue completely, Bohm's must wrangle with the implications of both relativity and non-locality and no one has been completely successful as such. Also, if it were the leading view, I don't think discussions of a simulated universe would be as popular.
No, this is true.

I wonder how hard that would be.
While its only text, the odd layout and design makes it hard to read on mobile.
if you can tell us more about your pain points, i think we can help you give clojure another try but for this time going forward and not falling back to previous tools.
The solution would be for Transurban (or another party) needs to sell options to allow drivers to lock-in fares ahead of time, and if they decide not to use them, allow them to sell off the options to drivers on the spot the same-day. Of course managing this options market would be a headache.
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> Who is saying that?

Very few are arguing that we're almost certainly in one. Philosphers like Nicholas Bostrom are arguing that either something will prevent most simulations from reaching a stage where we can or will simulate the past, or we most likely live in a simulation, but you'll note it's very possible that the answer is that we can't or won't too.

The problem is that we don't have the faintest clue what the probabilities of each of the propositions are.
Nice tools to have in Jekyll, 0.6 released
The idea is nice, but the controls rather limiting. Is there a way to improve keyboard shortcuts?

(I.e., WASD for motion and arrows to expand numbers?)
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Well, some Hacker News readers would certainly have a financial stake in preserving the VC model by any means necessary.

There are risks indeed to crowdfunding, but not wholly unique ones. All one has to do is browse penny stock boards, or perhaps Bitcoin boards, these days, to find scams currently in progress and bagholders left with nothing but broken hope. Equivalently, a lot of VC-funded companies are in it to build up an impressive but fragile organization quickly and then hand it over to someone else before it explodes.

The change here is merely that we are removing gatekeepers to participating in the action at all, and the illusory veneer of stability that affords. Every company is built on some degree of faith, and that makes early investment a largely irrational proposition. The question to focus on is not "how much abuse will ensue" but "how do we mitigate damage", a question not really asked at the high levels because it is dangerously close to revealing how power works.