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Hi Philipp, the FreedomBox project could use your help improving the manual. Anything added up until the 22nd of Jan can still be included in the offline manual delivered with the project. It is a Debian Pure project, aiming to give non-technical users the possibility to run their own decentralized infrastructure on low-cost SBC's. We will do our own sprint the coming days, and all help would be appreciated :)

The manual can be found here: https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual

After that date we would still be interested in improvements to the online manual, the landing page, and anything else you would want to help out with!

If there are any questions, we are willing to provide all the answers we can on OFTC #freedombox
Just applauding your effort here, not only for being proactive about getting into the field you want, but also for finding ways to contribute to open source without having to submit code. Keep it up!
It sounds like you just didn't out in the work to learn Haskell. The docs are fantastic, but they do assume you are willing to get over the learning curve.

I don't think you are really disagreeing with me - go does nothing new, just lower learning curve.
I really would like to know the absolute numbers for this reduction. It's really questionable if this would hold up with millions of Teslas on the road in the hands of less wealthy(probably better educated) drivers.
Not the parent, but perhaps apps that require a high degree of concurrency, or apps that need to eke out all the performance of the CPU cores?

For me Go is more attractive than Python on the RasPi because there is no GIL limiting concurrency, the notion that compiled code performs significantly better, and that there are less installation dependency headaches to worry about.
Just a note that the article does say that once the WSJ brought this to Google's attention the ad results changed dramatically. So checking now is probably not representative of the state of things when SEMrush did the initial research.
Apiary was (is) a very slick product. Hopefully it doesn't become a licensing fiasco.
That's pretty funny.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2016/11/14/i-have-toyota-corola/
The idea is not to hide from Facebook, the idea is to not unhide for Facebook.
dupe, please check before submitting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13432889
If you had to make a comparison, what would be the pros and cons of using elixir vs node.js?
Great. There is no doubt that driver assists cut down on crashes. But what tesla has on the road is far from a total eyes-closed autopilot. That is an inflection point with this tech that nobody has dared to test on the public road. I remain unconvinced pending those trials.

Also, still havent seen any autodrive handle off-road driving such as boarding a carferry or navigate a construction zone manned by an inattentive flag person.
Word of warning about OOP: it's just a programming paradigm. It's not the best or the only way to do things, but some 1990s era educational material might tell you so.
It doesn't matter the reasons why they don't take education seriously, the fact is that they don't. It would do absolutely nothing for these students to provide them with free college tuition unless you can solve those other problems first. It's not until we have 95-99% high school graduation rates, with a majority of those graduating also have high GPAs, that we need to consider whether we are providing sufficient access to colleges and universities.

([1] According to the very first paragraph of the Wikipedia entry you linked there are studies that suggest the fundamental attribution error doesn't even exist in practice.)
This kind of backwards compatibility works against network effects for the new protocol though.
I agree that Uber is trying to replace private car ownership, and I expect ride-sharing services like Uber/Lyft to succeed at this. But given those assumptions, is there any reason to expect them to be massively profitable? The current market seems to involve Uber & Lyft (& other competitors in different locations) competing on price, do you expect that to stop?
Introducing the Instapaper Firefox Extension
Well, you could always shift to "find the erroneous step in this person's attempt to show their work."
Before I click, is this worth reading?.. or is it going to be another one of those:

1: Sell things you don't need on eBay
2: Write a really popular blog and sell advertising
3: Create a really popular Youtube channel and sell advertising
4: Design a popular app and sell it
5: Do odd jobs for people for money
...etc.

lists

Which is what these articles usually amount to and which are about as much use as advising folks to "Win the lottery!"
Oh, hey, will you look at that.

The imperfect, incomplete, beta, level 2 self driving cars that were supposed to be the "dangerous" area of self driving are ALREADY better than human drivers.

Can we stop the politics and deploy all the real self driving cars to the road immediately, since the government has proven that even the shitty variety is safer than humans?
There's a wide spectrum of personal preference for internet privacy, and if you're the type that doesn't trust your ISP you could potentially use TOR to add an additional layer of anonymity. If you trust your ISP there isn't much point.
I like to call myself a science enthusiast and like to know the answers to questions as much as my time and cognitive abilities allow me.

Being an average engineering graduate, I confess to taking published research seriously and spending energy thinking about it, assuming it to be true (even if counterintuitive obviously) all along.

Would be cool to read about some personal stories/experiences anyone on HN might have seen on data dredging (p hacking) by a scientist for advancement in their career.
This and the respondents' experiences below have been my experience too. If they can't get the basic UX right, I doubt they got the security right (they didn't: http://lifehacker.com/lastpass-hacked-time-to-change-your-ma...) and I'm not sticking around to find out. I switched to Enpass instead.
I don't find a problem with GPA's lower than 3.0 out of a 4.0 scale: If a C is supposed to be average - which is slightly lower than a 3.0 - this should really be around what the average student earns. Those that get a 3.0 or 3.5 actually have to have put in extra effort to earn those and it makes it much easier to see who takes it seriously.

Instead, person A can waft through making A's and B's while person 2 has to work their butts off, when a C should really be acceptable.
There are plenty of ways to scam such a system. For example, you could create a phony investment fund which always collapsed at the end of the year creating a loss which hid your expenditures.
Intersting. Why downvote a true statement? Anything to contribute to the fact that the government is suing a company led by a woman for discriminating against women?

By suing Oracle the government is basically saying that Safra Cats is discriminating against women.
If those are the requirements then Nim would also fit almost perfectly for being native, fast and unbloated.
Sadly it doesn't get the PR it deserves and even on its own forums there doesn't seem to be that interest in using it for embedded systems.
To me that's showing respect because we treat each other like real people and not some fragile beings that are offended all the time.

Agreed, and there's definitely a benefit to discussing with members outside of your ethnic/racial/cultural group their traditions comparatively with yours for mutual understanding and respect for the benefit of coming closer together as people.

It's not however the same as "joking" about the delineations between race and culture or otherwise trivializing them in one way or another; and it should be noted, that I make that distinction as a counter-point because while I definitely hear you on this phenomenon and will even go so far as to concede agreement, your point is very-and uncomfortably-often used as a feigned concession when a member of a certain ethnic group or minority points out how instances of out group or members of an out group x talk about unique aspects of said ethnic group/minority either (A) come up offensively short of lived reality or (B) are just prima face offensive.

Edit: I'm not saying that's what you're doing, by the way. That accusation isn't being lobbied, the behavior is being held to a spotlight however for the sake of discussing this further-for which I'm privileged to be doing with you today.
OBL seems like an odd example for "insurmountable". He was probably the target of more US gov't attention than anyone else who isn't running a country. After more than a decade of active pursuit, he was compromised by a largely non-digital security breakdown.

I agree with the general point about direct attention, but OBL seems closer to the exception than norm.
As the Pi isn't as fast as a typical desktop machine, the performance gain of natively compiled code in Go probably matters a lot.
Wait... are you saying that people that are less wealthy are better educated? If so, I need to see some sources. That sounds preposterous.
They have a new client that doesn't used Adobe Air anymore.

When asked what technologies they use in the new client:

"HTML/JS/CSS for the UI, C++ for the core functionality. We're planning on publishing a deep dive blog on this during alpha, so make sure to keep your eyes out for it!" [1]

edit: "ggregoire" posted a better answer below [2].

[1] http://na.leagueoflegends.com/na/site/2016-season-update/cli... (See the comment posted by Riot employee "CapnBranFlakes")

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13438077
"Most quotes on the Internet are made up" - Abraham Lincoln
Trump turns to H-1B advocates for advice
Interesting that this doesn't tell you how to connect the newest iPhone to the newest Macbook Pro
> Perhaps all of our suffering is necessary for us to realize something akin to what I said, and then we'll all be elevated.

This immediately reminded me of Westworld (HBO). Ever since I saw that show, my view started to shift strongly towards yours.
It matters because now in reality there needs to be an unaffiliated third party to confirm the issue as the current reporter may be an unreliable source.
GC is not easier when you care about how and when memory is allocated/deallocated
Little Bobby – A Sunday Morning Web Comic on Technology and Security
A few days ago my kid asked me if I believe in luck. It was obvious he was thinking of it as some sort of force or an attribute a person/object has or something equally magical. I think a lot of people get stuck on that meaning. We already have "fortunate" as a word to describe what I think "luck" should mean and since "luck" more easily invokes the magical sense of the word in people I try to avoid it.
Your line of reasoning makes zero sense. In a single comment you manage to claim MOBA type games are "Pointless and boring repetitive." but then celebrate RTS-style games which have similar mechanics to MOBAs.

> I prefer real games.

FWIW MOBA's and TD style games are real games.
Quite optimistic thinking, some kids might not have ANY opportunity at all and the 1 shot at college will change their world and ours for the better, or not, but at least there was an opportunity.

I wouldn't call college, or any person educating/bettering themselves, a waste/phony, I think it pays dividends throughout life. Does it immediately help? Not likely, but life is long and a right educated mind (or humbled person) will turn it to good for them and the people around them the best they can in most cases.

An educated populace leads to more opportunity I believe across the board and smarter authorities as people question more. However, we love those short term metrics and calling out single failures that overpower the successes.
You may also be interested in: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436452.
I wouldn't go as far as saying effort is irrelevant - just not the only, possibly not even the dominant factor that contributes to success. I view it as something like 40% effort/motivation, 60% luck
I don't really know why this is surprising. Computers are already better than humans at most tasks that involve a limited set of behaviors and they have infinitely better response time than humans (and continue to get better). How could anyone think that a report like this was going to end up any differently?
> IMHO the goal of "simplify" an algebraic expression is especially flawed

I teach calculus occasionally at a local university, and always make a point to highlight this fact to my class. In their previous algebra courses, the "objective" was more often than not to factor something into the smallest expression possible.

But in calculus, you generally want to expand an expression in to more terms to take advantage of linearity properties of operations like differentiation, integration, etc.

The concept of "simplify this" isn't very well defined, and I tended to not be a stickler for the final form of most things.
no. he needs more parens to make the order of operations clear. also, love the standard internet response to data. "the data in not perfect, or is incomplete, thus I will hold steadfast to my intuition"

love you, internet.
But no additional attack surface either.
> Dictionary-based logging configuration

I believe this already exists: https://docs.python.org/2.7/library/logging.config.html#logg...
> Undesirable for most, harmful for many, and lethal for some.

As I said, there is work to do before we can go fully transparent. It will ultimately be harmful only to those who deserve it.

> Should my medical records be open to anyone? My banking statements? My sexual preferences and fantasies? That's absurd.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do you assume that's absurd? Why do you insist on keeping secrets? The world would be a lot better if all those things were communicated publicly.

> In some less enlightened jurisdictions some of these will get you executed or lynched (ask any gay person in a Muslim country, or anyone critical of their government in a repressive regime).

That's a problem that will only get worse as privacy is maintained. Privacy skews our perception of reality and makes people/government think that some ideas/flaws/actions/crimes are rare when the reality is that most people are able to conceal them. Those who get caught suffer from exaggerated punishment that's only sustained through the ability of others to hide. The democratization of privacy is not the solution to this problem.

> Yet I might want to chat about some topics with like minded individuals (again, assume for the sake of argument that all of it is legal in my jurisdiction) under a pseudonym or anonymity; the internet is a wonderful place where this is possible — partly because I'm not doing everything through one megacorp's 'app'. I'd like to keep it that way.

Anonymity is overrated. It's only good at restricting details that could otherwise become a distraction, as a way to focus on content rather than form. This can be achieved through other means that don't restrict access to information or make a person believe their reputation is immune to bad actions. Again, the only reason you want privacy and anonymity is because it's the norm, not because it's best.

I have never implied that such an "app" would be owned by a mega corporation. It will be fully open (again, transparent), free and distributed.

> We standardise where necessary for mutual benefit and cooperation (e.g., HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; Unicode; or accessibility standards), and often we will imitate or copy what works (e.g., the 'hamburger menu', or sensible typography) but that doesn't mean every site or service or application should look the same and connect to the same set of identity providers.

These standards, while better than nothing, are mediocre at best. They're also very low-level. I don't want my grandmother to program in HTML/CSS/JS.

> You present a very radical viewpoint, and I applaud you for your fervour, but I suspect you are either very young, not a developer, or you haven't experienced the downside of the monopolistic behaviour of the world's Apples, Googles, and Microsofts yet.

I'm 25. I'm a developer. I fully appreciate the limitations of Google/Apple/Microsoft, hence my request to make something different.
Not GP but: bugs in audio processing code will produce some very nasty sounds. Can't use headphones because if you fuck up, you're deaf but can't use speakers because wife and cats complain.

This is why audio programming sucks and my software synthesizer project is on hold until I can get a house with a noise proof basement.
This is a good point, but it doesn't change the prognosis. Uber will run out of runway long before that vision can be realized. And even if by some miracle it doesn't, it will find itself in a low-margin commodity business. Unless it can muscle its way into a monopoly, it can't win. Which explains the company's aggressiveness and anti-competitive nature.
I think a lot of people do not realize that you are lucky if you are born into a middle class or upper class family. Having parents with some savings allows you to take extra career risks because you know that you can likely get help from your parents if none of the risks pay off. It is more difficult to make the decision to work at a startup or buy a house if you are totally on your own when things go south.
As many have mentioned, this is missing some key connectors (USB C, DP, etc). I wanted to launch with an initial subset of connections just to get going. Also I found USB C hard to distinguish in a photo compared to Micro USB. But I will put it in soon, for sure.

Technology wise this app uses two things I really want to recommend. Netlify for the static hosting with automatic SSL provision (and they have awesome GitHub integratiOn). And Preact, which is the front end framework in use here. This is the same API as React but bundles down to 3kb which is really cool.
I put my keepass in a veracrypt container and sync it over dropbox, then you can retrieve it on your phone.
this logo is so tacky
Old people love inuendos too :)
If there's no type hierarchy whatsoever, then you don't get the benefits of polymorphism. Which is the case in some languages - for those, you typically get looser call semantics (no checks, or duck typing or something) or forcing you to use e.g. match statements everywhere to do the same thing in N branches when you have N types in a list.

With functions and a type hierarchy of some kind (or implicit conversions, or whatever) you have the same kind of issues. When you declare the type of your map function (explicitly or implicitly) you're still bounded by the type you're mapping over. If you make a "(float x, returns float) x + 1e10" function, you can't use it to map over a list of doubles, because they can't be safely reduced in precision. The reverse works though, because floats can be promoted to doubles safely. You essentially have "double" as a subclass of "float". Whether it's OO or not has nothing to do with type hierarchies, OO just embraces them with reckless abandon.

Good type inference systems can hide a lot of this from you, allowing you to drop types most of the time and let the compiler specialize it / make sure it's safe to do this particular thing. But they can fail. When they do, how do you ensure safety?
Sure, but the universe is also a place where it rains on your head, and then the sun burns your skin off, and wolves casually stroll in and eat your children. That's what the universe does when left to its own devices, and we don't like that, and we change it.

"It is the way it is because it's natural" is a pretty naive fallacy.
Miami zoo 'euthanizes' Harambe's grandmother, Josephine, 49
I like your integrity man. Even after you fixed it you own the error when other people question the original comment. Good on you. Ownership, transparency and integrity are key to a service of this magnitude.

FYI. I do more front-end work and I'm starting to contribute more to open source. Is your website on a repo? If so, may I contribute some PRs to it that'll improve your website? I'll make really small ones so it's easier to absorb. Let me know if that is doable.

Ps. I'll be checking your product out btw since I like your attitude on HN and I bet on people not products.
Did you or someone affiliated with Bitwarden write the posted article?
Yes. You can import Lambda functions like so:

https://github.com/iron-io/functions/blob/master/docs/lambda...
A concept lost on a lot of people IMHO
Only in the United States.
Oh I agree, but the two things can be done at the same time. Especially for new .gov sites.

It appears a lot of .gov sites already support IPv6 but I was wondering if it's an official policy or just at the discretion of the tech team.
Although, this decreases money supply which makes everyone's savings worth more at the expense of slowing economic growth. Slower growth may be undesirable to many, especially startups, but could have positive environmental effects.
Tesla’s Statement on NHTSA’s Report
A big endowment ($13.5B / class size = 940 => $14M/student) + the will to use it on scholarships. Kudos to them.

I did undergrad at WashU, which in this ranking is the poster child for regressive admissions. WashU is opposite MIT in this respect: a medium-sized endowment ($6B / class size = 1400 => $4M/student) and no will to use it, at least not on scholarships.

It was not that way back when I attended. The only way I can make sense of the graphs of diversity vs. time is that they are aggressively increasing tuition, recruiting among the wealthy, and erecting fancy buildings.
Probably as the technology scales up to millions of people using it, the numbers will actually be even better for safety. There is a network effect that compounds the safety factor - as more self-driving cars are on the road, there are fewer rogue human drivers. So with millions of Teslas driving around there will be that many fewer people causing accidents by human error.
Presumably the (publicly) unacknowledged plan is to severely wound private car ownership and then collude with Lyft to fix prices, similar to how it worked with Didi in China [0].

There will likely be some regulatory capture on the side to discourage other competitors.

[0] http://www.wsj.com/articles/china-opens-antitrust-investigat...
There is also the biggest luck factor of all, that being how/when/where you were born. Most of us were born in the US into a family. We did nothing to deserve that but it already makes us in the top 1% richest people globally. What would our path look like if we had been born in rural Nicaragua instead?

I'm not "woe is me" but I was raised in a super conservative family, taught to avoid risk and that a steady paycheck was the ultimate success. It has taken many many years to break out of that mindset and be willing to take calculated risks.

The really hard questions arise when you start talking about what people deserve. Who is to say? We all have a unique frame of reference and experiences that have shaped us.

In the end, the only middle ground we're likely to reach is the mindset of helping people help themselves. To me, the fairness question is more about the opportunity to improve you and yours. Having no opportunities is unfair and must be fixed. The question is always going to be who decides how much is fair?
> food stamps that stop people from wasting their money on alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, and casinos

Are you certain they are effective at that? It isn't hard to imagine that a secondary market for food stamps could exist wherein they're traded for cash at some reduced rate.
A first look at reproducibility in cancer biology