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> I can honestly say without any exaggeration that this screenshot shows what is, by far, the most amazing thing ever done with a computer in history. If you look carefully, you will see that this is a Windows XP SP2 machine on which I am using Sun's Java Runtime Environment 5.0 to run the TINY client bytecode and connect over the network through a Linksys WRTP54 router back to a virtual machine running on the same XP computer using Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 to boot up MS-DOS 6.22 to load the TINY host and execute an old EGA version of Tetris that was compiled with TASM 2.0. Through this arrangement I am able to achieve performance comparable to a 16Mhz IBM PC-AT using my 2.8Ghz Intel Core2. Wow. If you are not impressed, then you probably do not fully understand what is going on here.

Why is this so impressive?
Let's have what I'd like to call double blind Gerrymandering:

- States package demographic maps WITHOUT party affiliation and send to an "independent commission" (whatever that means...) who does NOT open the maps (preferably is not able to for technical reasons). These maps only include only location of voters geographically. All geographic names have been stripped from this record. Maybe we even have a method to obfuscate the geometry of the maps but maintain the relationship between location and vote. Idea is: anyone who is not very familiar with the maps and American politics would not be able to tell what map they are looking at.

- Send this package of information to some independent contractors chosen by the commission. It would work best if these are people found living under a rock who had no knowledge of American politics but were magically also well educated in mathematics. These contractors would draw up the maps in some 'locality' based system and return them to the commission, who would forward them on to the states.

- The states have no way of knowing which state's information went to which contractor as this information is 'lost' at the 'independent commission'. The independent commission doesn't know which contract worked with which map so they have no way of influencing the process.

- We could also do plenty of more sensible things like Mixed Member proportional or any number of other reasonable ideas. I like this one because of how crazy it sounds...
This is pretty clear cut and I hope it gets decided the right way. The 4th amendment doesn't apply to private actors acting of their own accord, but does apply to private actors acting as agents of the government. The payments make this a slam dunk--the Best Buy employees were working as agents of the FBI and any searches they did require a warrant.
Regarding your edit, that seems even worse. They recognized the potential for trouble, put in the effort to make it configurable, and then left it on by default?
I think it died twice this week already, it may even be up to its monthly quota.
If there's one dental treatment I'd gladly pay for, it's enamel restoration to get rid of tooth sensitivity.
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Yeah. That one's a bit more understandable though. Illuminate is a direct subtree split of Laravel, so it's what I would think they'd actually measure =/
> Prosecutors said that the Geek Squad technician who searched the unallocated space was merely trying to recover all the data Rettenmaier had asked to be restored

Depends on what was asked to be recovered, but I'm guessing it's just a brute-force 'undelete' type program that was run, which usually lists all scourable/recoverable nodes from the "free" space.

In this scenario, there is no difference between what was asked to be restored, and was found.. since the undelete types of programs always list all found files, and ask you to pick which to restore. So if some file-names there were suspicious, that's not different from the "I saw a CP wallpaper".

Conjecture, of course. We do not know the exact communication.
Author here. Google and AWS are anycasted services. We were not interested in running our own anycasted DNS due to the management overhead of doing so, and because the cost of anycasting our own services would be orders of magnitude more expensive than outsourcing that to an established DNS provider.
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I think this works only if your process is standardized across your company. Which I think is generally a terrible mistake in software, because a) team needs can differ, and b) you can't improve process unless the whole company changes at once.
I suspect sarcasm.

> performance comparable to a 16Mhz IBM PC-AT using my 2.8Ghz Intel Core2
Yeah but if my team has lots of inactive users that starts to add up.
Paul Sharpe has been in the news for these kinds of announcements before.

His company, Odontis, failed to bring any new thing to market, and that was 10 years ago. Perhaps now there is a more mature product.
He sent his hard drive in to recover data, it's entirely plausible that they ran a scan of unallocated space, got a bunch of files, then looked at them to check if they were corrupted (very often recovered files only have a tiny bit of the original file), and found they were corrupted in a very different way.
Yeah you're correct on both accounts. However the prosecutor in the case still wanted to charge him and it wasn't their decision to make.
A correction: Perhaps culturally Mexico belongs more to South America, but officially it is located in North America.
>BTW, have you noticed that people saying that do not get downvoted as much?

No? My impression is that people saying it get down-voted more.

Indeed I've occasionally down-voted people just for saying it, because it usually reads to me like "I know HN most readers are too stupid to understand my opinions, but..."
> I can't think of any reason to go back.

IMO this just means you're somehow a "simple" user ("just" console tools, etc)
Weren't you just complaining that you'd rather not have the touch bar and would rather have the default keys? It sounds like you're looking for a scenario that's not possible. Either you have fully dynamic keys or you have the option to customize the entire row. I don't really see a way you could have both.
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Ah, I'm terribly sorry. I couldn't find a delete link anywhere anymore but feel free to delete this.
What's your point? You really want to recompile code twice just to run it?
I'm less concerned with the regression from 2015 to 2016 models, and more with the fact that the Touch Bar model does so much worse than the Function Key model.
"If it’s true that algorithms are statistically better than drivers then we shouldn’t let people to drive. But there are still a lot of people that love to drive. This can be a fun recreational activity but we just don’t need those people on the road."

I don't know who "we" is in that sentence, but thanks for making the decision for everyone. "we" as a society also absolutely don't need smokers, drinkers and people who engage in extreme sports - but fortunately, we are not robots, and we allow activities which do not have any utility for the "we" of society.
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Yeah, I've had this same complaint trying to get through it. Digging through Laravel internals can be rough.

Here's a small example where things are pretty segregated:

https://github.com/illuminate/support/blob/master/Traits/Cap...

https://github.com/illuminate/queue/blob/master/Capsule/Mana...

And then the queue capsule manager is not to be confused with the database capsule manager:

https://github.com/laravel/framework/blob/master/src/Illumin...

When you're looking through a bunch of things similar to that, it can be a bit confusing to take it all in and remember what is what.
Excellent overview and opinion of future outcomes.

Is good for people like me whose gut says this is not desireable or workable as it gives simple language lawmakers can read.
I've looked at it, and they include a pretty useless NVIDIA Quadro instead of a video cart you could use for occasional gaming.

Granted, the last 3D game I've ran on my XPS 15 was Half-Life 2, and it's pretty fast even on the integrated Intel video card.
Yep, and this made "My other car is a Porsche" stickers flourish. ;)

A good question would be if the OP would have the guts to put a sticker on the Mac like "My other laptop is a DELL".
> reason his parents could give him these advantages is because the were white and not affected by racism

The things mentioned are things not affected by racism. There are no racists encouraging blacks not to marry.
This still sounds like stumbling upon to me. Have you ever used that kind of recovery software? Typically it ignores filesystem indexes and searches the whole disk for content. If the customer was asking for data to be restored the tech was inherently having to search the while disk.
Can visual studio do the graphical representation of a C# codebase? A javascript file?

Looking at Coati.io it can't do those languages yet, but the graphical flow chart looks really amazing to me and I'de love to try it out on my own code.
Perhaps only test pages:

http://ipv6.google.com/
More hardware support, more software, better software, more users...

What's your point?
In the long run there's likely not much difference. Except there are usually rules and procedures involving a CI. As long as they are following the same rules then I would imagine the practice would be allowed.

It'll just as likely kill the business model if it becomes common knowledge that they search for stuff through your hard drive you thought you deleted and possibly make it public.

After all, there are personal security problems with all this. Identity theft being a simple one, having your personal stuff made public is another.

Never mind the fact that there have been CIs that just made stuff up to get paid.
Currently at $900, so near record high.
This genuinely pissed me off. It's a blatant clickbait!
Y Combinator doesn't like adding features to Hacker News. It took everything just to have collapsible threads. I can assure you that this won't happen.

This problem exists everywhere. I am not aware of any discussion platform that solved this problem, other than maybe StackExchange, which shows similar questions as you type.

The real solution is a better language which computers can understand semantically, as well as the ability to refactor discussions (merge, split, edit).
Stone soup. I'm not saying the flavor all comes from the stone...
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The author doesn't mention guilt. For some reason, every time someone says "privilege," there are people who hear "YOU SHOULD FEEL GUILTY!" even when that's not remotely what's being said. Acknowledging privilege doesn't mean feeling bad about it, it means that when trying to understand why something happened (in this case, why a startup was successful) it's important to remember that not everyone started on even footing.

You can feel guilty about other people having less than you if you really want to, but the author isn't suggesting that.
There's a USB condom that blocks data lines for safer charging, though it's USB 2: http://int3.cc/products/usbcondoms
I totally agree. It sounds like their price points @ $1,200 have come down as well.

Did Intel just never get 25/100G card to market?
Linux can replace Windows except printing or printing-related features. For example, Firefox in Linux has very little printing options and it doesn't print correctly on a letter-sized pdf file.
What do you consider to be "physical access," though? Usually that line of thinking is for when you have a motivated, intelligent attacker sitting in front of your computer. For this, "physical access" just means you plug something into your computer. It could be something you got straight from a store, and which is malicious from the manufacturer, so it seems like the only choice with that attitude is to never plug anything into your computer, or just always assume you're compromised.
> When we tell our own narrative it is easy to be blind to environmental success factors

and environmental failure factors too.
I know. I just think we ought to care about our own conspecifics more than about pre-Oxygenation bacteria.
I recall thinking that I NEEDED a mentor at one point in my life.

Eventually, I started learning from people online by reading their stuff and then learning from people I met offline. I never formally asked anyone to be my mentor.

My guess is that you're looking for someone who you can formally ask to be your mentor. I don't think that happens as much as you might think. It also probably sounds weird to someone when they are asked to "be someone's mentor".

Take a listen to this podcast episode - it helped me form some thoughts on the subject: https://seekingwisdom.io/04-you-need-more-role-models-a1fd02...

>>You are the average of the people you surround yourself with. But everyone is always on a mission to find a mentor. Why spend so much time and effort finding someone that you’ll only learn from once a month or once a quarter?

>>Role models are the people that open up the possibilities in your life and your career. We talk about why you need more role models on this episode of Seeking Wisdom.
Bulleted lists are a terrible format for this. This is exactly what tables were made for. It's hard to do a comparison if it's not side-by-side.
I'm not sure it is as clear cut. If those payments were upon conviction or something then they would be similar to rewards, if they were paid a monthly stipend then it is very clear they are government agents.
This is largely an unsolved problem. I'd re-searched on this problem a month ago, and best-case was to hang out at a niche forum for your domain, and reach out to active/helpful members.

This is a good project idea.
I guess. But if I make my own framework by pulling in an existing one via composer and subclassing, I can make a pretty low "method complexity" and LOC count. I guess I'm just not clear on the actual purpose of this exercise.
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Author here. I agree. There are built-in mechanisms for doing this - AXFR and IXFR. However, these mechanisms were not really designed with this sort of scale in mind. You have to keep an up to date whitelist of all the servers that can talk to each other, and they would need to talk to each other on a non-anycasted address (otherwise the notify packet would go to just a single anycasted node).

Managing whitelists between multiple 3rd party DNS providers is likely to break frequently as servers move around, are added, removed, etc.

Interestingly, Hurricane Electric would have been one of our top choices if they had a first class API and a commercial SLA. Their ability to support zone transfers is admirable and did not go un-noticed. DNS Made Easy also supports zone transfers.
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But where does that put 'mandatory reporters'? Many folks in a position to observe children are required to report signs of abuse. Are they 'agents of the government'? I imagine this complicates their job e.g. health care where they ask very personal questions.

Also, no warrant would be required to perform a search when requested by the citizen, right? "Please, officer, look in my trunk!"
I use the function keys for operations available anywhere (backlight brightness, keyboard brightness, media control). (Isn’t that the default on macOS?)
It's still the country Great Britain even if it's called the British Government.
PSA: this is largely a summary of a video, and that's mentioned at the top of the article but the link isn't provided until the end. It's here: http://a16z.com/2017/01/06/selfdriving-cars-frank-chen/
It also taints the evidence- how can the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the files weren't planted their by the technician in order to collect the bounty?
Windows 10 got very good, and Mac OS gets worse and worse. No developer uses Macs anymore at my company.
You're rewriting history.

The thing I like most about Aaron's writing is that he was relentlessly introspective. But this definitely rubbed some people the wrong way. There were many who dismissed his articles as navel-gazing when they were originally posted.
The Macbook has been a very popular tool for a long time now. What's new isn't the ability to take it back, it's that people are actually doing it with this generation. I personally find this article useful, as the author actually tried the machine and didn't like it, rather than not buying it.
Damn, don't you think "we" as a society should eliminate the negative effects/activities? since aside of not having any utility it may bring negative outcomes..
Variety is the spice of life. Even if 6 people answer a question with roughly the same answer, they will all be a little bit different. Sometimes, it takes something worded slightly different to click for someone.

I would consider this a feature - not a bug.
Nikon lenses have only had autofocus motors since about ~2000 (which is not a long time ago in terms of lenses).

Nikon's compatibility with old lenses is quite stunning. They did one major change to their mount in the 70s but every mid-range or highrr camera since then has had 100% compatibility with any lens. Metering, aperture control, everything. The AF system still works too. You just have to use your hand as the AF motor and the camera will give you an indication when it thinks focus is correct.
> we will be retiring the Google+ Hangouts API that enables developers to build apps for the older version of Hangouts video calls.

There's a lot of confusion (because Hangouts != Hangouts) about this closure, but this line from their FAQ sums it up pretty well.
> Reference frames are local constructs, they cannot be used to (uniquely) define simultaneity over large distances.

Large distances? Please, we are talking about a couple thousand years: what's that compared to the age of the universe?
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It's a scarce asset. Some say it's value can only rise in the long run. HODL.
It has died 119 times as of today. Still alive though. https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/
Firing sixth wheel that stopped producing anything of value a savage move? The best thing Romero was involved in after Doom(and 10 quake maps?) was founding Ion Storm and only screwing up Dallas office(Did you "suck him down"? "became his bitch"?[1]) leaving Austin alone to create Deus Ex.

My fav is Brenda(wife) telling everyone a story of young brilliant Romero hacking computers at a military ICBM facility, basically a script to wargames ....

[1] http://kotaku.com/5541406/john-romero-is-so-sorry-about-tryi...
Hmm, kind of the opposite here, I've never found anything supporting the contrary view!

Here's a quote from the forum discussion linked below:

> Yes, diffraction does depend on the absolute diameter of the aperture, at least that is what determines the angle of the diffracted rays. But with a longer focal length, the rays diverge farther before they hit the film, so the Airy disc (the fuzzy blob created by diffraction) becomes larger with longer lenses. When you get done crunching the numbers you find that the final result -- the physical manifestation of diffraction on the film -- is dependent only on the f/stop, and the focal length and absolute diameter of the aperture make no difference. A 20mm lens at f/22 will create the same size Airy disc as will a 200mm lens at f/22. In short, all lenses will produce the same amount of diffraction when set at the same f/stop.

http://photo.net/large-format-photography-forum/00JsZ7

So of this is correct, it's in a sense true that diffraction depends only on the absolute diameter, but the effect of diffraction on resolution is dependent only on the f stop.
Are you talking about race?

> They aren't going to make all the good choices if there's nobody home in the poor single-parent household to guide them.

Good point. How do you fix this?
Apologies, I let my dislike of the man get out of hand, won't happen again.
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> This conclusion seems implausible.

It's plausible under the assumptions that Democrats tend to field a moderate candidate in their primary and Republicans don't. That seems pretty reasonable to say right now, but might be less true in a few years as die-hard progressives mount our own "Tea Party"-style insurgency within the Democratic Party.
This podcast goes through some of the highlights of the book, https://changelog.com/gotime/28

I'm reading this now. Less dense than other interpreter/compiler books & All about the code.
Doesn't he explain why the 12" MacBoook doesn't fit him at the start of the article?
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We are a small team and have come up with a something niche and are currently in stealth.
Our idea's birth was during a 'harmless-beer-session'. Idea has magically evolved into 'something really niche' since we started to code. We feel big 5 (Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft) will be interested.

What we are currently lacking is confidence and contacts (experience in startups or big companies or no Ivy leaguers) ?

Approach venture wings of these companies or startup way ?
What would be your advise on how we should approach from here ?
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Nah, evolution will take a while to produce killer octopodes. I figure I'm good for a few million years, until after humanity has already gone full star-robot.
I had the same issue with Spotify, so I switched the Touch Bar to only showing my customized layout at all times, regardless of which app is backgrounded.

This effectively makes the touch bar a useless feature, but at least I can customize the button mapping and always know the buttons will be where I expect them to be.
It looks like your recollection is indeed correct. See the entry for CVE-2011-3215 here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202348
I'd be all for it. I would also like to see the up-the-chain posts on the reply page. I regularly have to open up another tab so I can double-check the context of the discussion as I'm writing. If I just depend on my memory of what was said, it's too easy for me to miss or misremember some detail.

Basically, the reply page subtracts all context, even those the response will immediately appear in that context. We'd get more contextually appropriate responses if the context were visible on the reply page.
For me when I hit number keys, I don't hit them with the tips of my fingers, instead I hit them with the pad, which naturally leads to some finger sticking out past the numbers. 3 and 4 are especially problematic since I hit them almost with the first knuckle of my middle finger).
Presumably that instead of writing a language that targets a slow language and pays a multiplicative slowdown on top of that, you could write something that targets a relatively fast language that Python is able to run in also, and pay the multiplicative price against that instead. Go is not the fastest language and I expect it to have roughly a 2x slowdown over C indefinitely, but that still puts it in the "compiled language" camp rather than the "interpreted language" camp, which tends to run 10x-40x slowdown.
They did throw >100,000,000 CPU-hours at it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11550922 , but they still got extremely lucky to find such a good address. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8538390 It's not usually that easy.
I can understand why they might want to project an image, even an outdated image if, for example, their customers are older.

But who are they projecting that image to? There's no customers around and I don't think that projected image holds the same meaning to the millenials in the picture. To them, it sends the message that they work at a company like Initech.