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Exemplator a search engine for Java code
The case for Haitian reparations
Does it matter? It was an interesting read full of neat debugging war stories.
250k is way too low a threshold. I'd put it at at least a million, if not more. But hey, it'll all be repealed shortly anyway, so who cares.
No. That's wrong on both counts. Please re-read my comment.
You can set :make to execute your own build script instead of make, and you can also tell vim how to interpret the output. See e.g.:

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/6679/terminal-setup-w...
This article is about one woman's experiences with EDSAC.

There's some more information about EDSAC here: http://ledr.luon.net/documents/2R930/edsac/the-edsac.pdf

The WWG is more formally known as The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer. (I think.) Here's an Archive link: https://archive.org/details/programsforelect00wilk
Except Florida, New York, and California have already ruled in several cases drivers due meet the employee classification.
A self-centeredness that is unconcerned with other perspectives. Such as considering the views of others incorrect, and discarding.

In comparison with ego-based narcissism that places the perspective of self higher than others.
response: https://tobi.rocks/2017/01/there-is-a-whatsapp-backdoor/
I'd love to see a study done on this.

I have a feeling that a "phrase" password has significantly more entropy than a "character" password of double or even triple the length (comparing a word equal to a character length wise).

Even taking into account that a real sentence would need to follow a lot of rules, there are still a LOT of adjectives , a LOT of nouns, etc... I'm sure your "meat based" generator is more open to targeted attacks if someone knows your interests or something, but I have a feeling that it's still such a large pool that it's safe.

And if you start to include somewhat nonsensical phrases like "correct horse battery staple" that even opens things up more.

Include other things like spacing, capitalization, misspellings, made up words, or even prepending or appending a "traditional" password gets you even more still.
Interesting, I'm really poking forward to this maturing. This is exciting news for Ruby to be sure.
Ask HN: What do you do with outdated smartphones/mp4s?
The problem is that 'security' often comes at a direct cost to 'usability'. Now of course I know that something can't be all that usable if the users are being hacked all the time, but on the simplest level it remains true.

Take MFA for example - absolute 'usability' nightmare! Makes your product many many times harder to use and fails horrible under fairly common use cases (like that time I had to mail in a certified copy of my ID overseas to AWS to regain access to our root account).
In SQL, 'NULL <> NULL' is true as well, you have to use 'NULL IS NULL' instead, so the concept has a long and somewhat respectable pedigree...
Yeah, I think that there's a political type that is just a zealot scared of anything that will challenge his/her worldview and feels a need to flag/downvote/hide.

The reform surrounding pre-existing conditions for people that let their health coverage lapse is the only good thing that came out of the ACA, and it was very expensive for the taxpayers and continues to be. This should have just been a piece of legislature and not a terrible government shakedown of the American public; a simple reform was needed, not another way to subsidize the non-working while compelling the public to give money to private corporations.
This was almost my own reaction. I don't know how time and time again, blame goes everywhere but the providers and the system in place that ensures their almost sole authority.

It's puzzling to me how drug regulation persists in the face of examples like we have. The argument goes "oh, we need gatekeepers to protect citizen safety." But then these gatekeepers proceed to prohibit marijuana as a dangerous substance unsafe for any use, which is absurd, before turning around to recklessly prescribe oxycontin. How is the current prescribing monopoly / regulation regime really keeping people safe? To me, it's only resulted in lack of competition in health care provision, a militaristic police force, a lack of hemp, and an epidemic of narcotic addiction that benefits doctors and hospitals. A physician-police-industrial complex.

If anything, it increases the dangers, because it creates the illusion of safety and shifts responsibility onto a concentrated authority, who has their own agenda and interests that do not necessarily align with the long-term best interests of the citizen in need.
They overcharge you if your license is from two simultaneous states.
I'm using Wayland on Arch with and AMD card. It seems pretty stable. Most issues I run into are XWayland issues when trying to run X11 applications.
Lady Liberty to be black woman on new US $100 coin
At a glance it probably wouldn't be too hard to actually procedurally generate them from a PRNG-based algorithm (which then lets you seed the exact icon.) These vaguely resemble the oldschool demoscene flame effects.
that is bonkers.
How Aryabhata got the earth's circumference right
>I'm ok with FTL information transfer

Which will lead to the conclusion that Special Relativity (which was extensively validated) is either wrong or incomplete.

I have seen a revival of Pilot-wave theory here on HN, but the real conclusion (a real particle pushed around by the enigmatic pilot wave or quantum potential or whatever) is as bizarre or as satisfying as saying particle is in a superposition. Also, I haven't seen anyone satisfyingly explain, in a classical-deterministic sense, the Delayed Choice Quantum Eraser Experiment (also, see the the Wheeler Thought Experiment)
> If we accept these conditions as the norm

What conditions are you referring to? The ability to work when you want for as long as you want? The ability to take an otherwise idle asset like your car or your house and make extra money with it?

Anecdotally, I've taken dozens of Uber rides and never once heard the driver complain about Uber. I have, however, heard many drivers complain about proposed legislation that will harm Uber.
Excellent news, and I like all the focus on security fixes in the system.

I do have to say though, it roughly looks like 25% of those issues wouldn't exist in memory safe languages. It's one reason why I'm so excited for Rust in the systems arena.
I am a native speaker so I don't really care about the number of tones, I was just citing the link. You can speak to me in monotone and I will figure it out from context just like how you can learn to understand someone with a strong accent.

My theory above is that a fixed number of tones is a linguist madeup concept from data that happens to fit the clustering of the tone graphs. The real tone is a distribution on a per word basis that you learn from natural variations from the other speakers around you. Do the 6 or 9 or 4 tones sometimes fit these distributions? Yes, but it's still just an approximation of the real variations that natives use and shouldn't be treated as an authoritative pronunciation.
One thing others haven't mentioned is that the Falcon 9 is probably something like 10x the empty mass (or more) than the vehicle Blue Origin has demonstrated. As others have said, it's also going higher and much faster, and accomplishing the landing in addition to (and secondary to) launching a real commercial payload into orbit, which AFAIK Blue Origin has never done.

Blue Origin's accomplishments (especially their engine designs) are nothing to sneeze at, but SpaceX is currently in a completely different league. The fact that they have to land on a barge is a result of how scaled and practical their technology is; that they succeed in doing so is an unprecedented achievement in launch vehicle technology.
Y Combinator: Opcija označavanja
Interesting, but there are some things you can't take back, although recent events may suggest otherwise.
> Next, we’ll just start saying bipolar people have a side personality.

…is this drawing an analogy between periods of mania and depression being like a change of personality, or is the author confusing bipolar disorder for dissociative identity disorder?

It seems like a cheap joke in either case.
> This is called insurance. Historically some deeply religious groups were opposed to insurance, because they felt it was gambling.

No. I'm saying it's a subsidy NOT because randomly you roll the dice of risk and you get lucky; but because the expected value or utility of health risks is less than the cost of insurance (for example, you wouldn't buy health insurance for 1 billion dollars a month).

I'm not saying it's a subsidy because some people don't end up "using" their insurance plan; I'm saying if you repeat the scenario a billion time healthy people will be on average worse off so it's a subsidy. They wouldn't take the insurance unless government forces them.

> I'm not sure i understand what you're advocating. Perhaps you mean each person should set aside some portion of their cash for whatever expenses they might have, and the odd 20 year old with leukemia should take on a few hundred thousand dollars of debt. of course if you're unlucky enough to have one of those 10% survival variations, the cost will of course be multiplied out by 10.

I didn't advocate anything; I'm just saying the issue is a normative question; it doesn't have an absolutely objective answer.

Sidenote: maybe the 20 year old should be in debt. If we want to save as many lives as possible, it's cheaper to put money into clean water, stopping open defecation, vaccines, etc (depends on whether you value someone outside your country as much as someone inside).

The leukemia case is convenient for your viewpoint but what about nonsmokers subsidizing smokers? Should I have to pay for the treatment of the cancer of a smoker or the AIDS of someone who injected drugs or the measles of someone didn't take vaccines?

It's a normative question on altruism.
Fine, but a sentence would suffice, something akin to, 'Interesting older copy.' because this site is generally tech oriented, I often click a link and start reading assuming it will wrap around but after a few minutes it doesn't and I question the purpose of the link on hacker news...
Well, I live in a major metropolitan area so I have access to things like Walmart, but I can (and do) buy 20lb of rice for around $8, 20lb of potatoes for around $8, and 5 dozen eggs for $6.50. That's an awful lot of calories (7k from potatoes, 12k from the rice, 4.7k from the eggs), with good carbohydrate, fat, and protein availability - about 4 days worth for a family of 3 eating at 2k calories/day/each - for around $22-$23, and it's going to leave you a lot more full than $23 worth of soda and juice.

If you want to go for straight caloric juicing then you just replace some potatoes with vegetable oil in the budget and cook extensively with it. A gallon costs ~$6 and contains a whopping 31,000 calories, and fattier foods tend to leave you feeling more full.

I've spent a significant portion of my adult life stretching my grocery budget, and while I'm fortunate enough to not have to do so by necessity right now, I've learned that it's very possible to eat well for a fraction of what most people expect.

You're very right that $23.80 isn't a whole lot for a family of 3, which rather reinforces the accusation that always underlies this kind of article - that that $23.80, which is so meager, represents a significant chunk of the low-income family's already-meager grocery spending power, which already isn't enough, and is being spent on liquid sugar rather than more nutritious alternatives. To suggest that it doesn't matter in the budgeting because it's a small number just handwaves away the fact that these families are already struggling to buy enough food.

For the record: I'm of the opinion that we should let people buy whatever they please with their SNAP benefits and seek to offer education to those on SNAP about how to spend their entitlements in the most cost- and nutrition-effective ways. Nobody likes feeling hungry. Some people are going to make poor decisions about how they spend those funds, but it's a fool's errand to try to police that.
I'm not trying to be rude, but I think if you cannot see how closed-source software uses the model of security through obscurity, you may have a cognitive deficit of some kind. Again, I'm not trying to talk shit or be rude.
Here Are All the Risks of Climate Change in a Single Graph
Science fiction: Seven Eves

It's what happens with the human race if the moon crashes into the Earth.
Let’s Stop Ascribing Meaning to Code Points
Does anyone know how the process is supposed to work once one gets the Parole? Would the Parole allow one to travel freely in and out of the States, like a Green Card holder, during the its valid period?

E-2 visa for some nationals requires the person to reapply for the visa if one travels outside the US and wants to get back in, which is a major pain point. (There is a period, for example 6 months or 1 year, when the re-entry is permitted without re-application. This varies with the country.)
You must not have worked in VR because most developers I work with are using these legacy windows machines to build stuff with Unity and Unreal.
A different view on his corruption statement.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/01/bor...

' If you would like a “left wing example,” had the fiscal stimulus been twice as large, corruption in government probably would have been higher too (pointing out “the stimulus wasn’t very corrupt” is missing the point and in fact is a sign that you are a rampant mood affiliator, determined to restore the mood you feel is just, rather than tracing the analytic point at hand). In other words, Peter’s point is entirely defensible and probably correct. He’s not saying that “corruption is good.”'
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I don't think the material you're referring to qualifies as criticizing competitors at all.

- The comparison table is part if an independent study, not authored or commissioned by Docker.

- The table shows the strengths and weaknesses of different container runtimes; weaknesses are highlighted for all of them, including Docker

- The table is used in Docker material to illustrate the point that independent security researchers consider Docker secure. Nowhere do we make the point that other products are insecure. I encourage you to read the whole material and decide for yourself.

- The context for this material was to respond to a massive communication campaign painting Docker as insecure.
Turning an IBM Selectric into a Printer (2012)
Rents are set by wages, prices by credit.

http://i.imgur.com/oWxV1po.jpg

People live in one home, whether we work 3 or 7 days. You are confusing cheaper products garnering more demand with a flat need. This is why we should tax land: the supply is constant.

Demand is up due to financialization of housing by the banks and greedy landlords are their foot soldiers.

Edit can submit no more due to the usual HN censorship so this last edit for the guy below:

You are just talking across me with no regard to my point at all. The graph is from the ft and the y axis is linear, it's from 2012 with no cutoff due to a change in trend.

I'm not saying don't compete, my earlier post stated that when we all work more or smarter in aggregate the banks take the gains and we all end up running to stand still. That was my point.
But that was $20 back when the Constitution was written. Adjusted for inflation [1] and you could be looking at anywhere from $390 (CPI) to $941,000 (relative share of GDP). I have no idea how that is applied today.

[1] https://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/result.php?year_sou...
This is an unproductive analogy, because it may be trotted out any time people complain about any unfairness they've suffered. "They're not really complaining about being boiled to death; they're really just jealous of the superior crabs who have been talented and hardworking enough to crawl out of the pot. Jealousy is bad so don't listen to these bad crabs bitching about being boiled."
Regardless how the comment tries to work around it, cognitive deficit is in fact rude.
If VR goggles reduce eye strain, I can't wait to start using them them for work, side benefit is during breaks you can browse reddit in complete privacy.
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> Or if that sounds too drastic, just sit at home for the holidays, take the subway, cook your own meals, and clean your own house.

The problem is that many people are doing all of that and still hustling frantically just to afford meals to cook and a house to clean.

They more I look at your post, the more it seems like you're genuinely unaware that poor people exist.
So… the Raspberry Pi, made out of smartphone parts, is used to make a smartphone?

We've come full circle.
Just use diceware.
about the E-2 thing you said, it's only true if you applied within the US. if you applied and got an E-2 outside of US, you can freely leave and enter on it anytime.
Not what most people think of as telephoto. 24-70/24-105 are standard full-frame kit lengths.

I returned a 70-200 after trying to lug it around for 4 hours. It's just too tiring and too silly for general use, and it's certainly not inconspicuous if you're going to be in public.

I have a 24-105 f/4L that I use for day time and a 35 f/1.4L that I like to use at night. I do own a few other lenses but the two mentioned make up 99% of my usage.
>> Is there something on the horizon for graphics and GPU?

There is the MIAOW open source GPU but it is based on an AMD instruction set, so it's probably not viable for general use.

I believe in the short term the solution will be simply running LLVM-Pipe on a bunch of RISC-V cores for software rendering. The SoCs will just have frame buffer graphics. Another option is to have PCIe support (which HiFive is going to) so you could at least recompile an open source driver for a proprietary video card. I suspect that once RISC-V SoCs are running a full linux distribution with one of these inferior graphics solutions then people will jump in to make better open graphics hardware.
Using zx2c4 pass with a Yubikey 4. Passwords are GPG encrypted. The private key is on the Yubikey and cannot be read out. The Yubikey 4 is set to require a touch per password unlock. The only passwords at risk are the ones unlocked. At that point, the trojan could install a keylogger and have the same amount of success.

Losing the password store isn't a problem either. It has a git remote on a USB stick. There's a backup if it's ever lost.
Thanks for sharing that infographic. I was literally just wishing I had some way to visualize the trajectory when I read your comment.
Ask HN: Which CSS Framework Are You Rolling with in 2017?
I'm starting a new side project and am trying to pick a CSS framework, because I'm not particularly good with CSS, and I want the project to come out looking good. Any recommendations? What are you guys using here in 2017?
And yet I bet they're more addicted or fueled in their rage. The most vile gaming communities are also huge. It may not be a causal link, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Health insurance is not a government benefit, unless you're on Medicare or Medicaid. Your health insurance premium is not a tax. It doesn't go to the government.

Being required to pay for a service doesn't make that service a tax. The only thing about the ACA that has been characterized as a tax is the penalty you pay if you don't buy insurance.
Replying to an old thread of yours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13188673

That item handles mains voltage. Do not modify it. If you really need to modify it find a competent person to cut off the 3 prong mains plug, shorten the cable, and fit a new plug. The new plug will be ugly. A competent person is anyone who repairs electrical items - washing machine repair people for example. But, mostly, don't modify it.
I hope Gimp will switch to GTK3 at last. It's one of those projects that's still stuck with GTK2. Or even better - Qt ;)
Fun fact: export of very low bitrate (<2400 bps) codecs has been restricted under the same munitions restrictions as crypto (And also when open source presumably subject to the same court outcomes in the US).
> However, the US does not recognize any other country's preferred retirement saving.

This is not completely true: Canadian RRSPs are recognized by the IRS at the federal level due to a tax treaty, though may not be recognized by all states. (For example, I had to figure the interest on the investments for my California return, until I decided to sell the RRSPs to simplify my life.) Other countries may get special treatment for their tax-deferred retirement accounts via a tax treaty too, though it can be tricky to ascertain -- you may end up actually having to read the treaty!
What a joke...
File for unemployment, use the safety cushion to work on your own startup! When I was laid off years ago I believe you could get 99 weeks which is totally absurd!
That might be a good reason to not write programs in shell, but it sounds like mastering the interactive features might still be worth the time.
Hmm, I guess I will file it away with words like "literal" that people use in contradiciton with the original meaning.
Ask HN: Am I not making enough or everyone else is out spending?
I work for a tech company and make average salary (lower 100k) a software developer would make. I am single so job is only source of my income.

Wherever I go, I see thousands of people present e.g. parks,hotels,nightclubs,restaurants etc.

No single vacation spot has remained uncrowded in my opinion. Trying to book a flight, well its almost full always. Traffic? Always bad.
Gym? Always crowded.

I live minimalist lifestyle. While growing up poor, i became habitual money saver. I don't watch tv (don't have) or play games. I have never done outrageous shopping. I don't smoke and rarely drink beer.

So what's the truth and your experience? Do I make less and everyone else is making more than me? Or is everyone out spending me and I have become penny pincher?

Edit - I live in Seattle and have 10 yrs of software dev experience out of which 7 yrs is from working US and 3 yrs from Singapore.
Well science kind of has evidence pointing in the direction of the stressed hypothesis.
Ask HN: What happened to IBM?
The history of IBM has long interested me because, for a tech company, it is truly ancient.

It seems like for the last 20 years or so IBM has degenerated from a source of innovation and forward thinking into a second rate consulting shop dependant on underpaid foreign labor.

When I was in the job market a while back I was completely shocked by the transformation and current perception of IBM as a spin factory that produces uninteresting and low quality work.

What the hell happened?
If anyone would care to share I would be interested in understanding the negative interpretation of this comment.
The "shi shi shi shi shi" poem caught my attention, so I looked for a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jtiw721RAg
The author of this piece seems to be blaming tech companies for things that have existed for far longer than the Internet has.

>Mommy used to pick me up from soccer practice. A: Uber.

>Mommy used to do my laundry. A: Flycleaners.

>Mommy used to clean my room. A: Handy.

>Mommy used to buy me groceries. A: Blue Apron.

>Mommy used to cook me food. A: Seamless.

Uber did not invent taxis. Seamless did not invent food delivery.

Laundry service has been available for centuries. Cleaning services likewise. Grocery stores have offered delivery service for ages. Restaurant delivery service has probably existed since shortly after the restaurant itself was created.

I don't even understand the argument that we should hate "brogrammers" who create apps to do "what mommy used to do". I use Uber because I don't have a car. I use Seamless because I'm not much of a cook. I drop my laundry off at the local laundromat because it's convenient. Should I buy a car, a washer/dryer, and culinary classes instead?