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Already it's getting difficult to find dummy versions of consumer appliances such as televisions. They all have Craproid or CrapOS now and all the bugs and problems, security breaches and vulnerabilities that come with it.

A fridge has a 10-20 year expected life span as it is. Anyone think that any manufacturer is seriously commited to maintaining software for that duration of time? In fact I'm going to speculate that having the software become unmaintained would be used as a marketing incentive to have people renew their fridges every couple of years.
Hardly. This attitude is very rare among FOSS devs, the more common one being "I don't care if it works on Windows or not, as I don't use it; if you are willing to make it work on Windows with in way that does not make codebase suck too much for the rest of the world, go ahead, I accept patches".
The act of one making a point, and one understanding the point one has made, are two very different events.

IMO it seemed a bit like name-calling that inadvertently asked a deeper question.
About the duckduckhack platform, I was writing a client for it so that I could make searches without opening a browser[0]. But their api is limited. The searches supported by that platform are limited to short and common keywords, and their main site is not open source at all. Kind of disappointing to me that the only way to get all the search results is with a web scraper right now. I still prefer it over Google for at least trying...

0: https://github.com/wlib/duckgo
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/List.htm...

https://golang.org/pkg/container/list/#List.Len
What an amazingly childish attitude. It's hard to have any respect for extremists like this - and that's exactly what they are. Extremists.
What about OS X?
> i.e. How did Snowden get on an Aerofloat flight out of HK almost a week after the manhunt started?

Because Hong Kong let him go, as he wasn't officially wanted at the time:

> as the US had revoked his passport (and issued an arrest warrant) and notified Hong Kong of the revocation a day before the plane took off. However, as numerous news reports of the time reported, the US information [in the arrest warrant] was contradictory and incomplete, and thus Hong Kong did nothing to stop Snowden from leaving [0]. The Guardian [1] quotes a Hong Kong official as saying Snowden left "through a lawful and normal channel".

The rest of that blog post is worth a read:

http://blog.erratasec.com/2016/12/your-absurd-story-doesnt-m...

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130822210647/http://www.thesta...

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden...
I like to envision her as Zoey from Left 4 Dead.
I think the implication is "wet/soapy hands"
please stop opening the wounds
> without an intent to shame or embarrass you

the entire point of language and thought policing is to shame and embarrass people.

you are doublespeaking to an intelligent audience and it comes off creepy as hell. you sound brainwashed.

also, this is basically lefty version of "i'm not a racist but..." nevermind you assumed gender, assumed it in the context of STEM (doubleplus ungood, comrade), assumed helplessness based on that gender, and assumed incorrectly that females do not have wet dreams/noctural emissions, all of which is pretty much the textbook definition of sexism, you sexist.

most people call it whiteknighting because it's offensive, but just think it's normal because you live in a world where sexism is normalized.
Docu: quantum physicist Hugh Everett and his son musician Mark Everett (EELS)
> Quantum physics looks a lot like lazy evaluation (State doesn't exist until "observed").

This is a common misconception (¿among programmers?).

Let's think about the double slit experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

In a classical word, you must simulate only one path. In a quantum word, you must simulate both. You don´t need some magical conscious observer to force the collapse of the wave function. A CCD detector of a camera or a simple wall is enough to force that the "wave" collapse into a "particle" and the detector or wall gets a small spot where the "particle" hits it.

A similar experiment is possible with spin, and you can use that to get a qbit. In a classical word, a qbit is simply a bit and you only have to chose between the 0 or 1 state and simulate it. In a quantum word, you must simulate both.

But it's worst with many qbits. Let's say you have a 10 qbits computer. In a classical word you pick a value for each of them and simulate each one, so the total computation is ~10. In a quantum word, you can combine any of the states of the 10 qbits and you must simulate the 1024 states.

So the idea that a quantum computers is better than the classical computer is opposed to the idea that quantum physics is some hack to reduce computational resources.

I think that the main problem is the quantum mechanics is weird, use a lot of linear algebra, but the calculations are somewhat straightforward and well defined. But the popularization explanations try to avoid the algebra and make some simplifications, so the explanation only keeps the weird part.
I'd be interested in an example of this if you have one, because I read all the source materials in this story and found his arguments compelling (after initially buying into the narrative)
Why not make a GNU distribution of Linux (sic) and call that GNU/Linux?

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-linux-faq.html#gnudist

All the “Linux” distributions are actually versions of the GNU system with Linux as the kernel. The purpose of the term “GNU/Linux” is to communicate this point. To develop one new distribution and call that alone “GNU/Linux” would obscure the point we want to make.

As for developing a distribution of GNU/Linux, we already did this once, when we funded the early development of Debian GNU/Linux. To do it again now does not seem useful; it would be a lot of work, and unless the new distribution had substantial practical advantages over other distributions, it would serve no purpose.

Instead we help the developers of 100% free GNU/Linux distributions, such as gNewSense and Ututo.
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more info here:
http://www.eelstheband.com/parallel_worlds.php
Viral purchasing?
I'm on a very wide screen monitor so I don't know how much of an issue this is for other people but there is so much wasted space on this website. I'd say the text makes up for less then 1/3 of the entire page.

254 vertical pixels are taken up just by the title + author + date + social media. I really wish there was a news site that would give unbiased facts in a clean and unbloated fasion.
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Not sure how skeptical we should be.

First they said it was plastic rice, and then the company proved that it was actually plastic, but not for consumption but for for display only, like you see all over Asia.

Now, after that fake news was brought to light, they come up with another one saying it's actually contaminated?
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Food and water are already largely covered as a basic need in modern countries. Electricity and pubic transport have nothing directly humiliating or existential about them, but people are also negotiating to introduce a basic right for these commodities. Payed toilets in some sense do occupy a special spot in this space because they are such a basic and often very immediate and unpredictable need. This is different from e.g. the need for water, because you can typically suppress it for several hours or even days in an emergency situation.
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I sure hope they also plan to provide security updates for the lifetime of these fridges (10-20 years?) and make them update without any need for user interaction.
Well, I prefer to store the password files on Dropbox because Dropbox guys are unlikely to know how the files are encrypted. That actually makes brute-forcing a little bit more difficult.
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A large part of privacy is fundamentally about obscurity. If you have sex in a public park and someone tapes it, it can be put up on YouTube. If you have sex in your fenced backyard pool and someone holds their camera up over your fence to film it, you have a very good invasion of privacy lawsuit, even though your privacy had been "broken".

Similarly, the burden of legal proof for libel or defamation are different for public vs private figures. An obscure YouTube vidmaker has a substantially different burden of proof than does a popular Youtuber when it comes to certain scopes of libel/defamation.

Yes, there is a kind of privacy you can expect in your own home. But some right to privacy is preserved even if you go out the in public
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A couple years later the author was involved in a security audit for Windows Vista: https://blog.fefe.de/?ts=a81a5919
I'm doubtful something like very good VR or even good VR can even exist. You'd need to simulate physical forces interacting on the human body and movement to make that happen.

Unless we achieve the ability to essentially run a MITM attack on the brain, to intercept commands from the brain and to provide it with sensory input, VR won't come close to being something genuinely deserving the name virtual reality.
The author (Fefe) is a well-known member of the Chaos Computer Club (CCC). He has a well-known blog (in German) about hacker news that is widely read.

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

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fefes_Blog
An operating system is a different concept from a kernel. What you are describing is a kernel, not an operating system.
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It's fun to think about how it is possible :)

Edit: popular holiday destinations like Mexico are reasonably dangerous, maybe Westworld is on the other side of the border ;)
"I can't believe you're making an argument against public toilets."

Err, where exactly did I do that? Seriously, point out where - I certainly didn't mean to. (Unless by public toilets you are specifically referring to free public toilets).

I was only discussing the question of how to pay for public toilets, a direct response to parent's statement about how to use tax resources. I was in no way saying anything against public toilets, only saying that there are reasonable disagreements about how to tax things, with costs and benefits associated with them, and there's no one-size-fits-all solution, especially not a one-size-is-more-moral solution.

"I find it hard to think how the poor would use public restrooms less often than people who are more well off, considering the work environment, public transport dependency, and other factors."

So do I. But I also don't think a lack of access to public toilets is a big problem among poor people in e.g. the US. I could totally be wrong about this though - I'd be happy to learn something new. But just relying on emotion to make me imagine a problem doesn't persuade me.

"Access to public toilet in a civilized society is a matter of dignity and should not be only afford to those who can pay for it. Period."

I agree, but emphatically wanting something to be available to everyone doesn't change the basic economic reality - there are different ways to pay for things, different ways of distributing things, different ways to collet taxes, each with costs and benefits, and it's worthwhile trying to find the right solution.

And don't get me wrong - in places like the US, there is certainly enough money to make sure everyone gets access to public toilets. That still doesn't mean there is only one possible moral way to do things! And it still doesn't absolve anyone making an argument against a certain way of doing things from at least demonstrating there is a problem, instead of simply attacking the current way with emotional appeals.

Note: Just to be clear, I hate pay restrooms too, and try to avoid using them if I can. I just don't think that my beliefs about things are necessarily morally superior, and I certainly don't think it's in general morally correct to force others how to do things. And I think it's worth looking at all sides of an issue and understanding cause and effect - this is the essence of science.
That makes sense, yes. However, since we're talking about a dev-machine here, that doesn't necessarily apply.

Of course, this is much a matter of taste, but "stable" environments can work to the detriment of a developer's productivity (especially since many developer tools improve quite fast these days). It might be a mistake to discard a tool/distro just because it didn't do what you expected for an unrelated use case.

Edit: Also note that "server" != "production code". I run a couple of servers (OpenVPN, Backups, mopidy) using Arch (on Raspberry Pis) at home, that doesn't mean I'd use it for a public facing web server.
> Even though the React community seems to favor ES6, at least give Typescript a serious try.

What's the story with dipping your toe into TypeScript on existing projects? I'm using Webpack and babel-loader, so I'm not interested in using the TypeScript compiler itself, having to renaming files to .ts, or using a different extension for files which contain JSX, but I'd still like to try TypeScript on a few modules. Is that possible?

Flow seems much easier to dip into, but I haven't tried either in anger yet.
"companies like Microsoft try to limit people's freedoms."

According to the author this is bad. I agree with this point for the purpose of this discussion.

The author tries to limit people's freedoms.

The author tells me I should try to limit people's freedoms.

For the sake of their freedoms.

P.s. I'm not familiar with the author or their software.

P.p.s. Luckily there's less need to port Linux software to Windows these days since Microsoft has partnered with Ubuntu to create a Windows Subsystem for Linux which is capable of running an Ubuntu user space and bash shell directly on Windows.

See https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/about

and https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
I really like your stuff. I've also discovered a new film that I can watch: "Capture The Flag". Seems like a good film. I'm surprised that I knew nothing about it, even though I'm an avid film consumer. I guess marketing really is important.

It would be great if you could write a blog post of how you create one of your pieces from scratch. It doesn't have to go into every single detail. At least enough so that those of us that would like to imitate you can learn from you. Something like this would be useful [1]. It doesn't have to be a film tutorial, just a blog post would be enough. Thanks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb4Jd_x3_jg

PS. If you know of any resources that you think would be very helpful to a beginner like me I would be very grateful if you shared them with us.
In fact, like java it tries to install malware and other browser toolbars when you install it. Microsoft reached the bottom and is still digging.
Looking through their site the cheapest home applicances that LG sells are microwaves.

They cost on the order of 100USD for the cheapest models. The cheapest Wifi "IoT" microcontrollers are on the order of 1USD.

Seems like it might be a reasonable business move, even if it's just a box ticking exercise.

I'll be surprised if they do put them in their lowest end products though. Perhaps those product lines are stable and won't be updated in 2017?
I agree, but I think adding to my basket/list/saved-for-later would be good - I don't have to remember it, and I can check exactly which version I'm buying before I do.
Chemistry nobel Ilya Prigogine has defended the idea beautifully in his books embedding the hard science in a wider humanistic context, including biology, ecology, urbanism, societal, entomology and other examples. He kindled my interest in dynamics and makes a huge effort to be understandable.
If you're talking about a VR-type simulation where observable reality is simulated, but our consciousness resides in a 'higher' level, then yes, something like what you describe could be an example of falsifiable evidence of simulated reality.

But in the case where we, ourselves reside entirely within a simulation (or whatever) then we're tied, lock-step, with the universe's time, and any jitters or pauses (even outright simulation termination) would be completely unobservable to observers within: the ants in SimAnt don't recognise when I pause the process in Task Manager.
in germany you're required to have a toiled as well, but it doesnt have to be truly public. they're almost always limited to customers.
I think you are right (metamath):

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I have a BFA in Illustration. I worked as a graphic designer out of school and did the freelance thing for a while before settling into a full-time design job doing ads for porn sites. I picked up jQuery and taught myself programming fundamentals. Now I'm a senior full-stack engineer (no longer in porn).

My design background informs a lot of what I do now especially in the UI/UX realm. I feel that it's an asset and sets me apart from other devs who might have taken a more traditional path.
No, currently they seem to be really bad at this, judging from cases like "Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator"[1].

But, isn't this exactly how big names get replaced by more modern and technologically savvy alternatives? or at least, the big names gets forced to adopt?

[1]. https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/calendar/Uhfp...
The first computer I bought was a FLEX 6809 kit with a basic and a pascal compiler. My favorite game was the pascal compiler. Yeah, back in that time, if you wanted a game, you had to program it yourself!
I really like this idea. However, i've had lots of conscious experiences with a quiet mind
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That's upto distro maintainers. kitty is dead simple to build so creating distro packages should be easy.
The way I see it, school is like Ruby on Rails while learning yourself is like PHP. The first one gives you the current best practices while the latter is open for you to explore and most likely mess up in the beginning, especially when it comes to architecture.

Having a solid computer science base is not impossible to achieve without a degree, but it is pretty easy to tell when a system has been architected by somebody with masters or PhD in computer science as opposed to a self taught guy.

Disclaimer: I'm a mix of both, but no PhD here. I had to work with some and they were amazing for architecture, probably not so much for the practical side of things of doing commercial software.
That Google is losing out to Amazon on this is to me largely attributable to Google always struggling with marketing. I constantly hear about Alexa. I didn't even know till now that Google has a new personal assistant your thing that's not Google Now. If I as someone who works as a programmer and reads HN every day don't know, how many regular consumers do?

It seems to me that Google mainly is able to get attention for their outlandish projects like car and Glass that go nowhere. That's probably because those products get tons of PR for free.
Not really, I think people are more riled up about a perceived about-face regarding it's founding principles, and to seemingly target certain orgs rather than stick to what many feel it was founded to do which is impartially publicly disclose confidential government & NGO information which is in the public interest.

If you purport to be holier than thou, you'd better make damn sure you at least stick to your story.
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As a suckless terminal user I would say it is not the goal of the terminal emulator to provide scrollback, gnu screen or tmux are far better tools for that purpose.
No, the author doesn't try to limit anyone's freedom, he only asks people to understand him and to work against proprietary platforms, not prohibits them to do anything.
>coverage of ai amazingly not stupid as opposed to most other sci-fi shows

If they were capable of that level of AI they would have reached exponential growth shortly - to suggest someone would use it to build theme parks is downright retarded.

Like you said - AI is a plot device in that show, just another form of "magic" that lets them ramble on about consciousness while pretending to be sciency.
Dash seems limited by being tied to one item. I don't get the appeal of Dash either because items I know I need a reoccurring supply of, I get a subscription to.
The CCC however hosts many productive, far less hostile members and positions!

Not that you implied different, but I think that this text isn't a great example for the many cool things the CCC does.

https://www.ccc.de/en/
i'm from california and have lived in the bay. i'm not a podunk who doesn't know what a california salary looks like. we live in a wealth bubble, meaning even your 'lowly' six figure manager is still a rich guy to most people.

my point stands, and i'm doubling down on it. go check out the rest of america and the world, and you might see what i mean.
Yes, you are right. Thank you.

> glxinfo |grep ARB_copy_image
GL_ARB_copy_buffer, GL_ARB_copy_image, GL_ARB_cull_distance,
GL_ARB_conservative_depth, GL_ARB_copy_buffer, GL_ARB_copy_image,

> rpm -qa | grep -i glew
libGLEW-1.13.0-2.fc24.x86_64
glew-devel-1.13.0-2.fc24.x86_64
Freeloading seems to be ok for you, but if the free software comes with any kind of sentiment or vision, you call the authors bigots? Thanks. Noted.
I recently graduated from Hack Reactor Remote and actually landed a job even before my program ended. I would say the only two bootcamps that are worth doing are App Academy in New York and one of Hack Reactor's many campuses.

Things I can vouch for:

* The curriculum is fantastic: you definitely get your money's worth in terms of learning things that you can't just pick off the web or even from paid courses

* A bunch of my cohort mates already have jobs and we've been out for less than a month. All their salaries are definitely in line with the Hack Reactor statistics listed on their site. They are pretty transparent about their salary numbers.

* You have to bust your butt off for 3 months. I was coding a good 10-12 hours each day and really burnt out near the end of the bootcamp.

* Don't let people tell you you can't do it. I came in with ZERO programming experience before 2016, but self-taught myself Javascript in order to get into Hack Reactor and pass their technical interviews. None of my friends thought I would be able to do it and I had some major doubts and imposter syndrome every day of bootcamp. But, I not only graduated Hack Reactor, but got a freaking awesome job as a fullstack dev at a super legit company.

* If a bootcamp doesn't have a rigorous admissions process, probably not worth doing (ahem General Assembly, Iron Yard, etc.) unless you're restricted by geographic constraints.

* Trust their career advice process. They are very rigorous with resume work (they help minimize the bootcamp footprint on your resume and help you spin it well on interviews). Their alumni network is fantastic and also I was very prepared for algorithm based tech interviews.

Let me know if you have any other questions!