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Ask HN: How do you deal with your web articles reading list?
My pocket account has 2000+ items, most will be outdated now, most will never be read, most I don't even remember why are here..... I am struggling to managing (in the more material sense of it (tools/methods) and in the more idealogical sense of it(self discipline)) the ton information that I found every day...

How do you deal with it?
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No, you're not the only one, but this is one of the oldest debates in computer security --- possibly the oldest debate --- and at least as many people as agree with you vigorously disagree and think that delaying information to conform with enterprise patch cycles does harm to organizations with strong security teams who can handle and respond to reports like this; those organizations tend to be the ones with the most users and the most sensitive data to protect.

While I sympathize far more with the full disclosure people than with the patch choreography people, I'm really only pointing this out to demonstrate that you're not going to resolve this debate in the HN comments about an Ansible vulnerability.
If we really care about net neutrality is it viable to create our own ISPs? Are net neutrality rules different between the backbone networks?
I'd tried setting this up recently for a light weight streaming solution, but found it lacking.
Oh yeah, Loon is going to be so much more feasible. Loon makes the spatial economics of providing internet so much worse since it has to cover the 3/4 of the world that is ocean plus all of the places that are deeply uninhabited.

To get fiber into rural places you just have to parallel the electric lines. Except there is something ritually unclean about wires and we can't do it.
Huh, i'd love to see how their doing that - question though - is it from a specific place only? or are they screen scraping?

I've gotten a lot more into this sort of tech lately, after a started getting requests for it :D
Yep we are still using Serviio. We have an old Win XP machine that we just turn on, go to the TV, pick up the remote, browse and select a film for the kids to watch from the Serviio file system.

It Just Works
The ports aren't as good though.
> 'Bullshit' thinking has been largely successful because its an effortless pathway to establishing an opinion on something (queue System 1/System 2 thinking).

And if anything does go wrong you can blame the original bullshitter so you don't have to take responsibility when it turns out you were wrong.
This. This is the reason for parent's complaint - it's legal, not technical. I have exactly the same experience of "30 mins hacking to make a new system play DVDs" - sure, it's a single package install usually, but which package? libdvdread? libdvdcss? Does the package include the library, or does it contain a script that downloads the library because of the legal issue? I know the answers to these questions on Debian because I use it so much (and it has a well updated wiki), but plonk me in front of a distro I've not used before, or with poor documentation for their particular idiosyncratic way of end-running the law, and suddenly it's a minefield.
What I have noticed recently is a rather shameless admission by many in politics that not only have they been lying but ultimately that "truth" doesn't matter.
Agreed.

The only thing Plex does badly is subtitles, which both Kodi (of course) and simple players like BSPlayer does well.
We use bitbucket server for pull requests and merges, and it does this. It's brilliant, since the branch name often describes the solved problem better than the commit messages.
They're also bad platform citizens. Even in minor details - e.g. they don't exclude their browser cache dirs (which of course aren't in the OS cache dir!) from TimeMachine backups, so the incremental backups get clogged by random image caches. Accessibility is limited. Right click doesn't work. And more and more.
For the uninitiated, the bringup of a new processor is very complex - from compiler to libraries to kernel, from emulation to real hardware. The process described here is very similar to the one I was able to observe at SiCortex, though that chip was based on an existing one and so there was no FPGA stage. I'll bet they even use some of the same tools, such as the emulator. Kudos to them for not rushing ahead before their foundation is ready, and I look forward to seeing how this all works out.
We use Jira and bitbucket - most if not all branch names contain an issue number and the name of the issue, while commit messages can be more cryptic. This is often helpful when the branch has been deleted, as it usually is.
Plex is great EXCEPT they don't care about your data. They have refused to provide backup and restore capability for years. Been using Plex for a while and like it so much you want to buy a dedicated device to put Plex on? Say goodbye to your watched shows and movie history.
Is posting to Hacker News part of your work?
Did people not have history lessons in school? Politics is full of shit since the dawn of time. Politics is war by other means; lies and half-truths are the primary arsenal in this conflict.
I don't understand why some developers insists on using semver and not follow the spec, in my opinion that is the only 'problem' with semver.

If you need a version and don't care about following the spec just use a timestamp or datetime, replace it where required with a sed command and move on but please don't claim to use semver if it's just an arbitrary number for you
there is http://getvideostream.com which does playback of local videos on chromecast through a chrome plugin. works brilliantly.
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How does webassembly help with pushing 10bit or rec2020 content to the graphics buffer? or rendering at > 60fps?

Browsers will always lag behind players which address the output devices more directly.

Also webassembly may not be sufficient for some software-decoding on weak devices, it would need GPGPU-acceleration. But as far as I can tell WebCL is dead.
I see what you mean. The URL also reflects this: ...221507/why-we-fight-russia The bookmarklet would use this title as well.
Because there's no such thing as just giving you the option to use your car. Once that option exists people will use cars, more car use requires bigger roads, more spaced out shops due to parking, and eventually gigantic junctions and highways.

Soon enough what used to be a 500 meter walk turns into walking 2 kilometers because of all the car-related infrastructure in the way, which then becomes a self-reinforcing feedback loop as more people own cars, so they're willing to travel longer distances, reducing the business & zoning incentive to make things walkable.
I'm not sure what "memory safety" has to do with skill regarding "language architecture." In fact, I'm not quite sure what you mean by that whole bit.

Memory safety isn't a bad thing. But maybe pushing it as the thing will end up making it harder for newer systems programmers to be comfortable dropping into "unsafe-Rust" when it's necessary out of fear, or harder for them to learn the lessons that C and C++ folks have had to when they do have to use "unsafe-Rust". We just don't know what the impact will be in that regard. It's part of being a young language--it just needs time to develop.
That may just means he's a good debater not that he is well informed.
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I - and I guess many with me - don't trust the encryption at all.

I assume the crypto might be broken, NSA and FSB and aliens might be listening but I don't care.

My reasons to use it:

Desktop support is way better than Whatsapp.

More possibilities (bots, channels mostly).

And because I don't want to support Whatsapp by being part of the network effect that keeps people on that platform.

The reasons I use private chats sometimes is just to use autodelete to protect my conversations with my wife against my kids.
I wonder how much of that is because subtitles themselves are a mess, and it's highly dependent on the environment the player is running in.

Some subtitle formats (notably DVD & Blu-Ray, if you're ripping your own content) are actually image formats with timecodes. There are other text-based subtitle formats. If a player (say, the Apple TV) supports one type but not the other, Plex has no other option but to "burn in" the subtitles on playback.
Plex is based on Kodi (formerly XBMC) which is FOSS:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software)
The encryption is often cited as its primary selling point here, but I don't think that's too representative. Certainly it isn't for me and most other Telegram users I know. I don't care much about that as I don't really trust any messaging app enough to send really confidential information through them.

For me, for example, he selling point is having an interface as slick as Whatsapp's, but not being tied to the phone, not having to necessarily give your phone number, sending whatever attachments you want, and getting a searchable log in the cloud.

Bots are also a popular feature with many users.
When was any public figure called to explain themselves for voting Obama?
In the embedded/SoC/microcontroller space, an open modern easily integrated set of cores seems like a very good thing to have to compete with ARM.

If your chip is complex enough to need programmability (perhaps even only internally, i.e. a network switch or something), perhaps the choice between using an open core makes your final product cost $10, whereas tacking on licensing fees to third-parties would make it $11. More margin, more profit, etc.
Take a look at USB Overdrive. I have been able to map most of my peripherals there, even odd macro keys that random keyboards have. From there you can always combine it with BetterTouchTool (or something similar), to remap the now findable keys, if you want different behavior than the default.
I have no complaints about suspend itself, but I do find lidswitch detection to be faintly unreliable on various laptops. I often find my laptop fully powered up and hot in my backpack. I suspect poor debounce.
FWIW, the Unsafe class is generally much faster than DirectByteBuffer
The stealth determinism of Westworld
You're right: Slackware :)

This ThinkPad T43 turned 10 this year :P

(In all fairness, my T60 is 9 years old now.)
Yeah, there's also open source alternatives in this space too like Emby. I've had major issues with Plex (DLNA server crashing constantly) so I'm looking for an alternative. Currently just running a fork of PS3 Media Server called UMS which seems to work better, does transcoding and everything.
I recently installed Plex on my Synology NAS.

+ awesome web GUI

+ awesome iOS app

+ excellent app for PS4

+ streaming support for TVS e.g. Samsung via DLNA

- synology does not seem to hibernate much now Plex is on (may not be Plex's fault)

- needs premium pass to sync stuff to your mobile app (I paid for a lifetime subscription though, as it's a very good product)

- Plex cannot use the hardware transcoder of my NAS, only the native Synology Apps can

- Does not remember playback position of audio on mobile app (this is a big negative, as I listen to a lot of mixes which are a single audio file)

Given a very good product already exists in the marketplace, which can stream to multiple channels, I am not sure what this project aims to achieve? I am all for people building new stuff, but I would like to see some gap analysis of existing products first so I know what the USP is.
Loved the design and it really looks that it could last a lifetime in any conditions.

Even though I never intend to go rucking (learned what it is just now) and I imagine all this americanism drives the price up, I will keep this on the radar for a time when I have more money :)
so just Matt Might's article.

great. :|
I see what you're saying, but since I really strongly think my being skeptical guards me from missing falsehoods regardless, I'm not going to take this.
In ARMA opponent AI is a parameter. When you have a lot of players on one server, you turn down enemy AI so you don't bog down the entire server with pathfinding calculations.
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Oh dear - I should have read that page more carefully.

Anyway here is one that isn't on their list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_People_Believe_Weird_Thing...
An "apolitical" approach to tech is very much supporting the worst of what people would like to do with said tech, as well as the best. I think people should think a lot more about the bad side of what the tech they're creating enables, and decide whether they're actually comfortable with that, and whether there's a way to achieve their goals which enables less harm.
From a security and privacy perspective, Telegram is substantially worse than its competitors, so this is a little rhetorical sleight of hand you've just pulled here.

If you want to argue that Telegram and Signal are comparable because Telegram has better UX and Signal better security and some people prefer UX to security, that's fine (I could not disagree more strongly, but at least it's a coherent argument). But don't pretend the thread isn't about security to make people believe that there's controversy about whether Signal is more secure. There is no controversy: Signal won the Levchin prize this year for the Signal Protocol and sets the standard for secure chat, and Telegram... well, let's just suffice it to say that it does not meet that standard.
Sure but that does not mean that people don't care about the truth.

There have always been made up stories and lies and propaganda and conspiracy theories it's nothing new it's just become much more obvious now and thus actually allowed us to live in a more truth based world rather than the previous ignorant believe that there are only one way to look at things.

Politics is about choice not about truth.
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Indeed. Sorry for being unclear.
It's not the greatest solution as you have to manually run some commands but https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201154527-Move-Vie... has worked for me the multiple times I've moved Plex installs.
A big problem is that for most people, truth has no direct or measurable value in lives. Information is mostly used as social objects - something to talk about and share with other people. It doesn't matter whether e.g. that GMO-causes-cancer paper is solid or a hoax, what matters is that as the story circulates, you can play the relative status game with your friends by showing who's more into GMO-causes-cancer belief.

In the areas where "getting things right" has a direct impact on someone's life, people turn out to be surprisingly good at catering for their own interests (though not perfect, and the whole advertising industry is based around the desire to screw people in this area).
Is it going to solve the problem of bullshit? Probably not.

Is it going to help the situation, by providing some accessible resources that will help some people? I'd say so. There'll be more people with a better understanding of bullshit.

What more can you really expect from an initiative?
> we are proposing to teach it at the University of Washington in the near future

I call BS.
I noticed something similar. In that there is a lot conspiracy theory being thrown at Trump. In the past the establishment would've kept quiet even if they knew something. This sort of politics is dangerous and polarizing. But it seems as if the elite don't know what else to do. Maybe they are hoping they can impeach him.
>Just checked their channel: 4,316,098,805 views

Where do you see that count?
It's opt-in end-to-end encrypted with Signal Protocol now, so Facebook does in fact give up that data. Having said that, you should prefer protocols that aren't opt-in for security, which is what Signal buys you.
This is old and has been out there for ages. Regardless it's still one of my favorite simple communications of a concept.
Doesn't reinstalling the system when changes are needed mean very slow deploys though?
That wouldn't achieve much, apps already tend to give rationale for those settings, the apps could just say "If you dont choose Always, we're done here" (they already do that for "Never") and people would just be conditioned to accept Always
Uh, no?
https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/201539237-Backing-...
But Plex itself is not.
>It's not like people suddenly decided to disregard truth and not believe in actual truths.

"post-truth" doesn't mean people have decided to disregard truth, it means that factual truth is no longer a relevant factor in in the effectiveness of political arguments for many people. See Karl Rove's quote about the "reality-based" community (which may or may not be apocryphal) versus the American empire which simply creates whatever reality it likes.
Well, the OP is a pro-Rust topic, so yeah.

As I said on the top-level comment that opened this thread, I'm tentatively considering Rust. I'd love for it to take off and become a serious and reliable contender. I have a tendency to be conservative and cautious (generally), so I'm seeing how things pan out.
For completeness, here is the link to the original: http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
Plex does DB backups. You just tell it where to do it, and it'll do backups at some specified interval.

I haven't tried to restore, but I keep the backup in a separate location.
I remember circumventing FlexLM on SGI machines with IRIX and Nokia N810 with libfaketime and LD_PRELOAD.

I believed back then, and still now, that money is to be made with experts & service. Seems to work very well for companies like RedHat and IBM.
True for Fedora, probably Debian, probably not Ubuntu.

For Fedora, it's a matter of adding the RPMFusion-nonfree repository, and installing a couple of packages.
In politics truth doesn't matter as such and never have. Politics is about getting it your way not about being right. It's about interest and choices.

The idea that politics is or should somehow be based on facts is misguided. We have science for facts what we choose to do with those facts is were politics come in.
Facebook's acquired messenger product uses Signal Protocol for end-to-end encryption. From a security perspective, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are materially, categorically more secure than Telegram.
Could your fingerprints be stolen from your peace sign?
You'd also need a much larger number of the solar powered drones to cover the same area as a satellite. They don't make it clear but I'd guess one of the main issues was getting the radio and networking gear light, small, and low power enough to work in their drone design with enough throughput to make the network vaguely acceptable while covering a large enough area to make the number of drones required reasonable.
This looks fairly similar to the psychology course, "Everything is Fucked" [1]. EiF has a stellar syllabus, while this one seems a bit lighter (maybe it's for fewer credits). Seems like a pretty useful course, in any event.

I'm definitely curious about Susan Fiske's article, about how social networks encourage unmoderated academic "trash talk" [2]. Andy Gelman has a pretty negative critique of the article here [3].

[1] https://hardsci.wordpress.com/2016/08/11/everything-is-fucke...

[2] http://callingbullshit.org/readings/fiske2016mob.pdf

[3] http://andrewgelman.com/2016/09/21/what-has-happened-down-he...

edit: why the downvote?
For the sake of argument, I'd like to talk about legal-but-disturbing images to make one narrow point without getting bogged down with all the other contributing factors...

re-examining societal values (the darker side of human behaviour has its roots in more socially accepted forms of human activity)

No matter what societal values are, the minor person-to-person variance will always produce a distribution curve of personal standards clumped around society's "normal".

Which means there will always be a small number of people willing to view and send around content that is two standard deviations more "graphic" than what is acceptable in society at large.

It doesn't matter what the absolute value of 2σ is tomorrow. It will be just as offputting as 2σ content is today.
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No, we can easily know for sure, despite the fact that it's closed source.
That is why I told the reader (anecdotal) evidence which suggests the contrary.

> How wrong of me not to have any experience with your preferred platform, and leave it out of the discussion.

No need to feel so overly offended.
> ...how many ...

Basically anyone who wants. I have a sticker set with friends of mine : )
This use case is filled for me by Gentoo's portage (https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Overlay)

Currently I'm looking into what Guix and Nix can offer me wrt. custom packages.
Celebrating Telegram 1.0 by using it as a network tunnel
I was interested to be an active contributor for open-v but this project turned out to be like a school project. Tried to clone the mriscvcore and created my own testbench for the code then found out to have a simple critical bug on the handshake signals for read and write ports[0]. I don't know what is really happening to the authors but they seem to be inactive for a long time which is so disappointing.

I am still searching for an active RISC-V verilog implementation project for me to contribute through design and verification. For those who are looking for contributors you may want to drop me an email: my username at gmail dot com.

[0] - https://github.com/onchipuis/mriscvcore/issues/3
Next to that, you can create your own sticker packs.
It's never been. Perception have always been reality and politicians have always used that to get things their way. Thats why they study rhetorics not science.

There is no objective transcendence between facts and politics decisions.

You can believe that climate change is created by humans and still decide not to do anything about it because you also believe that technology will solve most of those problem, or that there are bigger problems (astroid hitting earth for instance) etc.
Only the Plex Home Theater was based on Kodi, but it has been discontinued.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plex_(software)#Plex_Home_Thea...

Plex apps are 100% closed source as far as I understand.
Hopefully the SOC will run with a recent kernel.
I find Serviio works well as well.
I think it's quite a clever way of dealing with the problem. Archive.org takes the long view - they don't delete data merely because someone changed a robots.txt, they merely hide it. So the data is only inaccessible as long as someone cares enough to specifically hide it. At the same time this covers their ass, copyright-wise.
Sure, I'm not saying remove version numbers as a whole, more that semver isn't needed for something like a browser.
What you've described doesn't need semver specifically
What you're looking for specifically is a DLNA server, then. That's not necessarily a part of a media server solution.

I suspect it's a bit of a dying tech - it never worked that well, support was limited, and better options are available. Back when I played with it, Kodi née XBMC and Plex were basically the only options, and the UI of the devices tested was awful, and not geared for large collections. Furthermore, it lacks the ability to expose server-specific services, such as transcoding and additional subtitles in case of Plex.

Using specialized clients forego much of these problems. I personally use a raspberry pi with RasPlex, but if I wanted to, my TV itself and my Chromecast can both also run Plex clients (although I shall never do the former - Smart TV platforms suck).
Also worth reading to understand how Async/Await are implemented: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2010/10/21/cont...
Is the dichotomy at the end of the Might's article content accurate? It seems too black-and-white to me, but I didn't go through a CS curriculum. Do MS/CS students not have to do original research or read research papers?