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Surprised at the amount of love for Arch (incl derivatives) on this thread. Let me add my vote to it as well. I converted to Arch more than a year ago from Ubuntu for the same reason as many others here - the need for PPAs to get up to date versions of software and the dist-upgrade pains that come with PPAs.

One thing when using Arch, you won't get an out of the box experience and you will need to tweak almost every aspect of the system manually.

- Missing even a trivial step during installation (such as setting locale) can lead to quirky repercussions. The plus side is that getting your hands dirty during setup really familiarzes you with the system.

- Pacman (and Yaourt) is simply great and make updating, removing and filtering packages a breeze

- AUR (arch user repos) contain nearly every popular FOSS and non-FOSS software not provided officially. Installation and removal is painless with Yaourt. No more PPAs.

- Packages occasionally break. E.g. When libx265 is upgraded but VLC is not compiled against the latest version, resulting in the latter unable to play any media. These are usually fixed pretty quickly in the repos, or you can workaround with a bit of searching.

- Archwiki and the forums are some of the best resources to turn to when you eventually run into problems, and trust me you will
Sorry, what do you mean by motion and expanding numbers?

There are only 4 actions in this puzzle: expand to left, expand to right, expand up and expand bottom (and U for undo)

Here is version where you can also use W-A-S-D instead.
http://jsfiddle.net/h2yJn/2966/embedded/result/

Also, if you manage to solve this puzzle, don't hesitate to post back on how you did it :) (e.g. pastebin the list of actions that is below the grid)

Direct link to the source if anyone wants to modify it somehow: http://jsfiddle.net/h2yJn/2966/
While I get your point, most traditional landline networks do encryption at the premises. Look at, for example, the Secure Terminal Equipment ISDN phone used by defense agencies. To state the obvious, the alternative of provider enabled encryption would be a bad option anyway; the track record of most telcos doesn't inspire a lot of faith in their ability to keep anything a secret.

It wouldn't be hard, and certainly not a capacity strain, to get some old modems and haul encrypted PCM in realtime across them. Or even to roll your own PSK/FSK standard to transport said PCM over. There's no packet format or anything you're necessarily limited to.

As for cell phones themselves, I can certainly see the threat. Even without going into Batman-esque theories of someone putting malicious software on your phone that activates the mic when it's idle, it's well known that the cellular networks make extensive use of GPS capabilities. With access to an operator's network, it would probably be relatively trivial to build a very detailed history of someone's whereabouts.
"what's the best X" is why most programmers waste their time shasing a myth. There is no best thing for all, it all depends on the individual. A better question would be "what's a good enough X" And then go from there to best suit your needs. A generic best X simply does not exist out of a context, and the contex is usually personal.
Don't devalue yourself.

What you perceive as 'cosmetic' might be some really minor thing ... but it may be absolutely critical to your customers operational needs. Remember if you have zero IT ability than the smallest process change can be a huge pain.

Example: Customer Service may be a great chance for customers to give a heads up about things that are broken or needed features. CS Reps might hear about it all the time. But they have no way to log that information, or for it to be refined. Product leaders therefore are screwed: there most important feedback is lost.

With a small change to CSR, staffers can make note of things, put priorities, now if there is a 'blow up' in a release, product can know about it right away.

Very small change can mean big impact.
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No, the value is not in the app, it's in the data, the network effects, and the ability to connect drivers and riders.

Unfortunately, none of that matters if you live in Siberia because that's also not where the "value" is.

This is a great little application that solves a specific problem that a company like Uber never will. Critiquing it because "it's not that hard" and "that's not where the value is" really misses the point, and illustrates something of the rottenness in the Silicon Valley / VC approach.
Stay tuned regarding that.
I'd also like to suggest the Fedora route.

I've tried most(and then some) popular distros and the last 6 years I've settle on it.
Pretty sure your driver supports that (glxinfo |grep ARB_copy_image). Maybe you don't have GLEW >= 2.0?
Having read that, the Guardian's summary and the original interview, I find the Guardian's summary to be, by far, the more honest description of the interview (albeit not a perfect one). Greenwald's different personal interpretation (which he seems to believe invalidates the Guardian's interpretation as a complete fabrication) is merely the belief that when reporting the news (even while linking to the full account!), one must not explain or put into context, but merely repeat what was said, even if doing so distorts the event by taking it out of context. That is a valid opinion, but one which is very much rejected by most good journalists. Reporting news that way simply puts a rubber stamp of approval on propaganda unless most readers are well informed in the background of the story, an assumption that journalists must not make.

Also, Assange said those things in the actual interview (which the Guardian linked to):

> In Russia, there are many vibrant publications, online blogs, and Kremlin critics such as [Alexey] Navalny are part of that spectrum. There are also newspapers like "Novaya Gazeta", in which different parts of society in Moscow are permitted to critique each other and it is tolerated, generally, because it isn't a big TV channel that might have a mass popular effect, its audience is educated people in Moscow.

So, given that the reality is that in Russia journalism is oppressed to levels that are rather extreme, that the media in the West is much more vibrant and critical of government than in Russia, and given that Assange obviously knows that, the Guardian's summary is not only valid, but pretty much the most reasonable one.
I'm sorry, but I don't find him dishonest at all. In the other hand, reading the full script of what Assange said, I find YOU dishonest.
Are any of these positions actually remote? There is no mention of remote in the job description links.
Modern Android/iOS devices have hardware-backed certificate storage, which (if used by an app) would prevent an attacker from getting access to private keys.
Once you are past the initial installation (give it a few hours) you can get things done with Arch quite easily as well.
Ah, you're absolutely right. Thank you!
Glenn Greenwald is known for taking quotes out of context in order to deliberately misrepresent people such as Sam Harris.
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Photons reach it all the time. Therefore, time does not exist for photons.
They all lie constantly, and have been proven to lie constantly. Snowden lied about pretty much every part of his story. He didn't have the access he claimed, he didn't have the knowledge he claimed, he lied about the timeline of his defection, he lied about reading or screening the documents he stole, he lied about the actual behaviours he exposed, he lied about the safeguards in place... the list goes on.

Snowden, Assange, and Greenwald are all of the same mould: they're anti-American western leftists who believe the United States' foreign policy is the biggest source of evil in the world, and that any lie told in service of taking it down is therefore justifiable.
"A nonfree program denies users freedom, which is unjust in itself. "

This is the worst reason to not use Skype.

The remaining reasons about surveillance etc. are reasonable reasons to not use Skype.
Signal has voice calling as well. The bitrate is a bit low for my taste but it's pretty damned reliable, long distance as well.
If this was ever a productive conversation, it is no longer.
As a side note, I love how this question would be begging for a distro war anywhere but HN. Here everyone says things in the way of "There's no best distro" or really humbly say what they are using and why. This is the best way IMHO that HN shows how it is the opposite of any random internet website; In HN we can have civilized conversations about some topics that are not possible almost anywhere else on the internet and that is awesome.
But did you _actually_ try the alternatives?

I've been using mumble for more than a decade now, and I've pushing it into 3 working places as a substitute to skype, asterix and lync (the microsoft voip solution).

It's not really oriented for 1-1 conversation, which is odd to use at first, but once people start to use channels and the built-in chat you hardly go back.

The latency and voice quality is stunning, even across lousy links. There's simply no match. The built-in mic wizard is also well designed. If people follow the setup correctly, you can have hour-long conversations across the globe with 10 people and it's absolutely fantastic. I work in research, and I've aggressively pushed to do long phone conferences over mumble for exactly this reason.

With some colleagues we even setup some channels that broadcast with PTT, and it's genuinely fun if you're spread across offices. You can decide if you want to participate by joining or not the right hierarchy. This is something is often done for lan parties, but turns out you can find other uses too ;)

Like I said, the main shortcoming is that mumble was never designed for 1-1 conversations as you would expect in skype. We hack it around by creating temporary channels. I've always meant to improve the UI in this regard, but we found that the temporary channel approach has advantages as well [you can invite other people in a call - for one].

With outdated hardware we still manage to hold >100 of conversations over a single server, as basically it's only network bound.

You have a point that mumble does only audio, but fortunately this is what I care the most. We (unfortunately) still have to use other software for desktop sharing, but generally still use mumble for audio.
No, it was introduced in Go 1.4, when the runtime was rewritten in Go.
Yeah... "barely any need" to report on the Russian land of freedom where people are arrested for things like twerking.
IIRC he wasn't a big fan of the phase out. We had to force him. Also natural gas is mostly used for heating in Germany. Something the German nuclear power plants never could provide.
And run with superuser privileges all the time.
Can you elaborate why the string theory could be considered dogma?
I guess it's somehow related to the way it ways discovered/proposed, but I don't know much about it.
"Verbatim copying and redistribution of this entire page are permitted provided this notice is preserved." - Stallman's blog is not giving me the freedom to distribute the blog as please. It is infringing on my freedom.

Anyone else find this ironic / hilarious?
Apple does it with the USB-C cable which needs to be purchased separately from the 87w power adapter for the 15" tbMBP. The cable is only USB 2, but since it's meant for power only, you'd probably never notice. It's quite annoying though that it's a separate accessory, and won't function as a "normal" TB3 cable or even a USB 3 cable, and likewise most normal USB-C or TB3 cables won't work with the 87w power adapter at full power delivery rates.

Such a mess.
I see a lot of folks here recommending Arch. I got the impression that it might not be as stable or secure as say, Debian or Ubuntu. But I've found it hard to find reliable up-to-date info on this -- so I'm not sure whether it's just FUD.

Can anyone comment on the current situation? Can you set Arch to automatically update with security patches only? Or is it an "updates include patches plus new bugs too" type situation?
Ultimately all RMS's issues come down to "who do you trust?"

If you enable all your Google account privacy options - can you be sure that they do what they say they are doing? How do you know that? Can you be sure your information isn't being intercepted along the way?

If you trust Google then fine.

But if there is even the slightest amount of doubt then someone you trust (preferably you yourself) needs to audit the code and every pathway the data travels along before you can be absolutely sure.
My programming skills are not advanced enough, to talk about the technical aspect of libvterm. But neovim uses it, and damn, it runs fast and smooth and feels native like any other terminal emulator INSIDE of neovim. Simply great. Hope someone will port it also over to emacs.
I've found http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/ to be the best resource to drill the "code as data" mindset necessary for Lisp programming. And I would recommend going through as many exercises in http://sarabander.github.io/sicp/ as possible using the Racket IDE: https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/index.html
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Open Source Minisip (discontinued?) offered encryption over VOIP calls:
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/minisip

It is amazing that Skype still has not been re-engineered and and open source lone released.
http://www.oklabs.net/skype-reverse-engineering-the-long-jou...
Usb 3.1 Gen 2 over USB-C can do DisplayPort1.2 as an alt-mode in some cases (if everything supports it). Kinda the solution, not HDMI. Fun times we live in.
Any plans to get it into official repos?

(I'm not super excited about compiling my own stuff. It's so very, very nice to get automatic updates.)
I would go with Gentoo. I reckon that compiling might be a PITA but I'm rather accustomed with the workflow, using flags to handle specific requirements, OpenRC and other gentoo-specific intricacies that might scare off new-comers.

On the other hand, gentoo makes a great linux experience for those who would like to get more intimate knowledge of Linux internals, networking, etc. It's a great experience if you have time and will to get your hands dirty. The documentation is excellent IMHO and the community (forums) very helpful.
i was thinking about creating a alternative but hardly anyone is willing to pay for that now.

slack probably should be able to create a full replacement for lync, (skype for businnes).
As a conventional conversation starter, maybe. But I found questions like these to spawn interesting discussions on platforms like HN - which is in the end, what we're here for, right? :)

Also, anyone commenting here about their personal favorite will most likely comment on why that distro is their favorite, which should at least be enough for OP to inform himself further.
Why would that be ironic ? It's ensuring others receive the same freedom for the copy you make of the page, which is also the essence of the GPL license, and the whole philosophy of the FSF.
Eh, we need the idealists in the world. If not it'd be a much more boring and fractured place.
Likely the reason for the error is your removal of that part of line 78 of setup.py. If it's unable to find the libraries it's trying to add, making it not link with them at all isn't the answer; you need to figure out why it can't find them, and fix that.
I've been running Fedora Rawhide on my two systems for the past two years. It's surprisingly stable.
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I read this stuff, read there is a shift in the details of daily living... and for the life of me, I don't understand why this is a bad thing. It isn't like we've not had grand shifts before.

The automobile. Indoor plumbing. Electricity. Stoves and vacuum cleaners. Television, radio. The wheel - but more importantly, the axle. Heck, hand washing shifted some details of life.

It seems very natural for us to move forward and change this stuff. Is some of it necessary? No, but that's just what humans do to an extent.
Your freedom to do what exactly? Misrepresenting Stallman's views? Preventing your readers to copy and distribute the page you gave them?
This was a frequently asked question, answered by Adora Cheung in a Q&A with all partners of YC. According to her, domain expertise is not something that should hold you back. You should, however, become an expert within 1-2 years.

But I have to wonder, if she had proper domain knowledge of the cleaning industry, maybe she would've known that her idea will not work at all. Same would be applicable to all the founders jumping into the food industry. If they were aware of the terrifying economics, maybe they'd be able to avoid burning VC dollars on poor ideas.
Wow. I just installed this on macOS, and the difference in speed compared to iTerm 3 is huge!

I always assumed that it was my bloated vim and tmux configs that made it feel a bit sluggish sometimes, but it turns out i was the terminal. Now everything feels instantaneous.

After some color bugs have been ironed out I'll switch full-time.
you can allow inline script and style tags with nonce, which you would set per request.

This makes it much easier to integrate some stuff.
> the result of this government action is that startups and crowd funded projects are less viable

If those projects are being run by people who are incompetent and unable to consider the importance of protecting user privacy through competent security, maybe that isn't such a bad thing. If FAA rules stop people from crowdfunding new passenger aircraft and leave it to the companies who actually have the skills, expertise and responsibility to build a plane with the relevant safety measures, as an airline passenger, I'm okay with that.
Are you kidding? How is `go doc` anything like Javadoc aside from being automatically generated by machine from your sources. Might as well compare it to Jekyll.
I think it's really too harsh to criticise him like that—He's obviously autistic, so people who deal with him should be more forgiving of this kind of behaviour.
I enjoyed "A Beginner's Guide to Reality" by Jim Baggott.
Stallman is an advocate of copyleft, which that condition falls in line with. It's similar to the GPL license that has to be shipped verbatim with GPL code and places restrictions on how the project can be distributed (eg source must be available upon request).

What you're asking to do is akin to copyfree (eg BSD) which is a different type of "free".
This articles seems to date back to 2012, most likely before the Snowden revelations. He probably have changed his mind since.
I solve this with food. For years I've made christmas cookies. General mix for work and folks I don't know well. If I know someone's tastes and they are close, I customize.

It isn't always cookies, but generally food. The weirdest thing I found is that folks wound up looking forward to my gift, even though they know what I give them. The main downside is that it takes some work, a bit of freezer space, and some planning.
The most mainstream of the "biologically-inspired" Artificial Neural Network variants is the Spiking Neural Network model, which IBM has been implementing in their TrueNorth chip architecture[0], and APT implements in their SpiNNaker[1] design.

That said, this is only from the perspective of constructing ANN's for computational purposes. There are, of course, many detailed models of various processes in the brain, but this is generally under the heading of Computational Neuroscience[2] (though the field boundaries are blurry). The main software for simulating biologically accurate neural networks is "Neuron"[3], which is used in the Blue Brain Project[4].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNorth

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_neuroscience

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron_(software)

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain_Project
I wonder if it'll get backported to at least Go 1.7?
> And please don't use the 'tight deadline' excuse. It was your first story, yes? So you either leave yourself some wiggle room or be extra extra careful to represent your subject accurately. While your feelings and emotions have been hurt by Pieter haunting you on the net, how much worse do you think he felt to see an inaccurate portrayal of himself in a prestigious nationally read magazine, which readers default to taking at face value?

Great point, among many. If I'm reading both the rebuttal and rebuttal-rebuttal correctly, there didn't seem to be a need to skew the narrative in the way that Pieter alleges. It was an interesting story already, and Pieter himself says he was open to talking about the complexities of his own life and career. It was already compelling that he could admit that there were struggles and tradeoffs; knowing that he quit doesn't add much, nevermind that it appears to not be the truth.
I can say the same argument about commercial software. They do not want you to modify their software for you to inject say malware in them. Just cos they don't want you to do that, it doesn't make their software not free.
I quit during the first dot-com bomb. I was a UNIX sysadmin for a large company. I had been interested in geodesy and GPS/GIS for a long time, so I became a land surveyor and GPS/GIS technician. I also did a lot of hydrography and even LiDAR work.

In 2008, when the subprime mortgage crisis hit, everyone thought that the crash would only affect residential real estate, but that turned out to be false—it also took commercial property down, since nobody was buying and selling. The civil engineering firm I worked for laid off all 12 staff surveyors, including me, on the same day. We all ended up down the road at a pub, and the senior surveyors were buying the drinks and we reminisced for a while. But that was effectively the end of two-man survey crews and traditional total station/transit instrument tech. Now it's all robotics and scanning which means one man operations.

I then travelled for a while. I went to Israel and a few other countries in the Middle East, met a new girlfriend there, and got married. Before getting married, I decided to go back into technology and become a web developer and slowly move back into DevOps. Unlike some of the people in this thread, I enjoy working in tech a lot more now than I did when I started. I find that working conditions (remote, &c) and pay have improved a lot, and public understanding of what developers do has increased dramatically.
From what I see, copyleft strictly allows for modification too, as long as the derived work also is licensed under the same terms. His clause prevents any modification.
Nah, 1000baseT will work over bog-standard Cat5 (no need for Cat5E even) up to 100m: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabit_Ethernet

1000BaseT requires 4 pairs though (all 8 wires) whereas you could run two 100BaseT runs on a single Cat5 cable (great for adding a second drop without snaking a new wire through walls). 1000BaseTX runs on 2 pairs but requires Cat6 or better, but it doesn't matter because nothing you'd ever run into supports 1000BaseTX.

10gig on copper is likely different and I don't know enough about it to comment aside from how it's really uncommon in consumer-level gear right now. I believe a 4gig over Ethernet standard is coming soon which should be a good middle-ground.
Large mass -> Time dilation.

What now smarty pants.
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Surely you still have freedom to distribute it as you wish. He just wants it to make sure you attribute the source, which ethically you should anyway.

If the post were GNU Public Licensed, which additionally forces you to release any text that quotes his text under the same license, then I'd be inclined to agree with you.