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People have this idea of scientists in general and NASA in particular as being purely objective and data-driven and let the science speak for itself, but articles like this illustrate that they are at least as political and irrational as any commercial entity.
The level of bureaucracy varies greatly across companies.
That company that allowed me to use my own hardware was a very small and privately held.

And even for larger companies with more bureaucracy, developers who do native code development often need to be local administrators on their PCs. To do my job, very often I need the permissions to install and upgrade software, debug stuff, install system services…
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Kind of.

Google Now has QR code reading built in, if you have a QR code on the screen (e.g through a camera app) you can have google now scan the screen by holding the home button.

I don't remember having to enable it, but if it isn't enabled for android users you can go into Google Now settings and enable "Screen Search".
It is kind of indirect, Google Now Screen Search supports QR Codes, so if you have a way to get the code onto your screen (via the camera app viewfinder for example) you can read it.
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I thin you should fix the HN title, in case it's not too late. The video also have English subtitles. Reading the title, I expected a video in French with French subtitles, and I can't understand French (well, just a little).

What about "The hypersphere: the four-dimensional sphere [with English subs]" (youtube.com)
... and this is supposed to be good, why ? Because the WASPs brainwash us into thinking so ? Because it pays good money ?

The systems we live under are barely different from feudal systems from Europe. Now we just get blamed for all the shit, because you know.. "democracy".

Give someone a toothpick to fight against those wielding guns, and call it even - that is democracy.
Judging by the post here, 512kb buffers seems like a good bet?
I'm sorry if I prematurely judged your effort, but you shouldn't expect people to read between the lines in a wall of text
Alternatively, what if you do have such accounts and don't know the passwords? I keep all my passwords in a password manager, and if I'm crossing a border, I'm probably going to make sure I can't access it until after I'm across.

I'll guessing the right thing to do, if you know about this requirement, is to set up a Facebook account specifically for this purpose, then right before you cross a border, change its password to something easy to remember.
I remember riding in this vehicle and feeling the number of things that went wrong in their construction. Honestly its hard to extricate such a POS car from my memories in India.
I think a reasonable assumption should be made regarding home ownership, "Assume to pay (yearly) 3% of the current purchase price in maintenance or deferred work."
Again, no, you are wrong. You can do continuous deployment and quality control. All of the tests necessary to qualify a particular build for release can be automated and included in the delivery pipeline. If you disagree then please provide a specific example of a test which can't be automated that way.

Quality assurance (defect prevention) activities are performed before code ever gets to the master branch.
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> You know, you can dd to a file to avoid destroying a drive.

Then you're at the whim of more or less obscure caching layers in the Linux kernel. At least there's a filesystem cache plus something in the block-device layer that reads ahead in order to speed up fread calls with low buffer sizes.

Also, due to filesystem fragmentation the file will be distributed across locations on the disk - that doesn't matter much for SSDs, but on "spinning rust" the head seeks distort the performance. A dd on a raw disk, however, will not cause any seeks except those for background processes' file operations.
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Well I also do some native code development.

That's why I have been given a tool that grants me limited time local SU privileges, given I enter at least 3 words in the field for "reason", and a valid cost center ID. I kid you not: It seems that executing a piece of code that grants me time limited local SU privileges leads to some company-internal financial flow to the IT department!

Edit: Installing s/w, btw, is usually done by opening a ticket with IT. If the required s/w is approved by IT, it will be queued for installation in the company's own s/w and configuration management tool chain in a few hours.
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It's just another job. What's so creepy about it?
The civility and commitment to keeping discussion rational on HN is kept alive by the goodwill of its contributors rather than enforced by rules. When a power user shows up to nip incivility in the bud, they rarely have to employ more force than to remind the poster of the above ethos.

Rules and moderators alone cannot enforce civility. A common ethos such as the one which miraculously survives here on HN is also a prerequisite.

Rules can easily be subverted. They are a two-edged blade which can be forced to operate in an opposite manner to their original purpose. For example, the abusive users on Wikipedia often know all the rules, no matter how obscure, and they silence and confound their targets with such legalisms.

I have participated in forums where the first demand of hostile invaders was for a set of rules against abuse. Those forums where rules were provided quickly became toxic. Those forums where the moderators did not provide a rule-book to be subverted, but simply addressed abuse whenever it arose thrived.
I do not. However, I've heard it anecdotally many times. You can definitely find similar stories on reddit.

I'm guessing Facebook is doing some pretty complicated work to find that interest and serve the ad, but as evil as Facebook is I doubt they're straight up lying about using the microphone to listen and serve ads.
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> There's also just the creeps who really enjoy being served by other humans, but can't really afford to own a full time servant class anywhere but SE Asia so that's where they live.

Hi, I've been doing the digital nomad thing (I don't like this term either) for about a year and a half with two close friends. I'm not the way you describe, and neither are my friends.

Could you give more information about where your perspective comes from? Is this something you've seen while working as a nomad? Or something you imagine happening?
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Having to rewrite any macros for any reason is a no go. You may as well have just stopped there.
> I had a colleague at a previous job who was living in a boat.

Sounds like fun! Do you know what kind of boat (e.g. motor boat, sail boat, yacht) and how much he paid for the boat?

Looking at sail boats, they're surprisingly expensive for a reasonably sized one (e.g. seafaring).
Hey everyone. Apologies for the blatant plug but seeing as we are talking about security precautions for non-profits and journalists, it's probably relevant...

We build a tool specifically to help non-profits and journalists learn about and manage their digital and physical security on the move. It's called Umbrella App. It's free, open source, on Android and contains tons of lessons on privacy related issues like digital and physical security. Umbrella has everything from how to do basic stuff like communicate with basic tools like Signal to sending a secure email with PGP. However, the unique bit is we also have stuff on the physical side, like how to plan travel, cross borders, set-up a secure physical meeting, deal with detecting surveillance, covering a protest, respond to a kidnapping etc. Basically we have tried to make it a bit of a one-stop-shop for security for regular people, activists, refugees and journalists. We also pull security feeds from places like the UN, Centres for Disease Control etc - which is obviously very important to folks in places like Syria or affected by Zika/Ebola.

There’s tons of really relevant stuff in it, especially for those now mobilising for the first time on some issues. Loads of people are writing guides that solve small parts of the puzzle but we have tried to provide the whole picture in the one place.

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The OP was on VK, a Russian platform where full downloads of copyrighted movies and songs were available until very recently (much as was the case in China with Baidu and Youku/Tudou). Actually I think Baidu still offers copyrighted MP3s and PDFs and charges for it.

It's true that FB (and previously YouTube) played fast and loose with US copyright laws, but it doesn't even come close to what is standard in Russia or China.

I don't think it's any fairer to pile on and attack a person playing within the rules of their local culture that it would be to attack westerners for how most of their meat is produced or how many cars they own. So many things in the world beg for moral outrage—I'd rather save mine for actual suffering rather than Russian social media marketing getting scraped.
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Very true.

Running this SaaS lead me to the idea of launching a service where authors can sell their content for social networks. It's going to be super hard doing this in Russia but it's worth the try.

But some people simply can't understand the incremental evolution. They demand turning a desert into a garden at once.
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If Facebook indeed does this, it should be fairly easy to trigger by repeatedly mentioning some kind of product in front of a running Facebook app. If not, it's a "can't reproduce" for me.
" I did not check on other operating systems, but my guess is that the results would be similar."

Actually, no. Irrespective of mkfile being mostly MacOSX specific, most sycalls on MacOSX are just plain slow as compared to Linux (or FreeBSD). I think this is partially an artifact of performance not being a major metric for most system calls on MacOSX. The systems calls where performance is a critical metric (like timekeeping) use a kernel / user shared page interface to avoid the syscall entirely in the vast majority of the cases.

I recall doing benchmarking roughly 10 years ago to find the best interface to communicate with a mostly in an OS-bypass HPC driver. MacOSX ioctls were some multipler more expensive than Linux, but the native IOKit Mach IPC was even more expensive than that. Sigh. There was a similar story for sockets in non-OS bypass mode, where simply writing on a socket was far more expensive than Linux.

Somebody needs to resurrect lmbench & do a comparison of the various x86 kernels available these days. Maybe that would shame Apple into focusing on performance.

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That's not how many people see it today. A video of a chicken being killed and de-feathered by any means causes a very harsh reaction in a large percentage of the population.

The use of the organic label is to distance people from this imagery by constantly repeating the propaganda that everything is being done 'nicely'. However, actually showing any kind of killing, no matter how nice, destroys that propaganda. The key trick is to use the correct words to make sure people do not conflate what they are eating with anything negative, and the organic label is part of that.

When you go deeper and attempt to explain how the killing is better, you simply open the audience to the fact that there is still killing being done. This is the wrong approach for the target market. It's better to distance the brand from the actual realities as much as possible.
Instead of rebuilding it I think it would be better to run the original client through a C64 emulator, and run this emulator in the browser, with some sort of 'modem over websocket' tunnel.
I currently don't see the similarity to SQLite, that is implied in the readme.

SQLite stores all its data (every table and all entries in tables) in one single file. JSONlite does store every JSON entry in one particular file, as much I saw. So, JSONlite uses the file system (one directory) as data storage -- in contrast to SQLite!
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The military are playing tricks on the population hacking your minds more than you realise. They are running so many sock puppets to manipulate people, they even released the Pizzagate story just to keep Clinton out of office. These politicians don't even know they are being manipulated. How anyone can not arrive at the logical conclusion the military want to know and understand anything that might prove to be a risk, is beyond me.
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I've had a number of ads pop up for things my wife and I have discussed verbally without searching. Even if Facebook themselves do not monitor the mic, nothing prevents someone else (Apple, Google, etc) from doing so and feeding that information to FB. It's certainly occurring but it's not clear that FB is directly responsible.
If you are going to invoke the sacred name of 'sqlite', then I expect to see rock-solid code and quality testing.

Instead, there are two tiny tests, and I found a couple of issues in 30 seconds of looking at the code.

EDIT: I should prove my point.

1) Race condition on calculating uuid (obviously won't be too serious for a good uuid implementation)

2) No check that file is written successfully.

3) No check when json is invalid, just silently swallowed, or filesystem full.

4) Makes one file a json file, will scale terribly past a few thousand json files.
That's good advice. It's necessary and worth it to harden any server that you deploy bash recipes on. The amount of tutorials online that leave out the IPV6 advice in that Linode article is astonishing.
Because that's all just one of the reasons they're doing it. There are huge strategic advantages to adapting the modern third world citizen to Facebook being their only point of access for the internet, like enticing them to use the full product.
Are these positions remote? if yes: for which location should I apply?
I talked to my friend about my tooth pain couple of days ago and I saw an ad for dentist yesterday. Can't have it appear again for the screenshot. Keep in mind I newer saw dentist ads before..
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I find it highly unlikely and am inclined to believe Facebook on this one.

I'd say it's much more likely that your wife had seen that ad before your conversation but wasn't particularly conscious of seeing it.

You're basically describing how advertising works - making people feel they want to buy something without them even realising.
> Apparently farmers do this too? Are large segments of French society just a bunch of thugs who will engage in violence against society if they are not given tribute?

Hehe, I'll cautiously take out the qualification of 'thugs' if you don't mind, but basically yes, French protesting culture is a little bit more inclined to engage in violence. Not all social groups do tho, classically, public transportation workers usually leave it to simply freezing their infrastructure. Farmers don't always engage in violence, they sometimes opt for allegories such as dumping truckloads of cattle feces in front of administrative buildings. The legend says that the most hardcore ones are the 'Syndicat du livre'.

Empirical evidence seems to suggest that protests with a little bit of action get better media coverage than polite marchs with signs.
You can add `direct` to dd if you're concerned about the caches. And if you want to avoid seeks, just use `fallocate`. It'll do the Right Thing(tm) on CoW and non-CoW filesystems - either just creating a hole or reserving extent space, without having to write all the blocks in either case.
Interesting... why 5 ?
Create some issues and pull requests and help out. :-)
That's just an ad.
And radiation readings were massive (even compared to something like Chernobyl) the last months.

Funny how the pro-nuclear trolls took whatever official BS was out about Fukushima ("nothing to worry about") line, hook and sinker.

As if doubting technology (the application of science by humans, including incompetent bureaucracies, greedy corporations and non-perfect designers) is the same as doubting science.
Hey, what font did you use? One notable feature is that the @ is very circular which is quite rare with fixed fonts.
You may need to look up the definition of "certain."
That actually does sound about right, but do you know how to derive that? I'm curious how to figure it out.
Moral slogans are good per se, indeed. But I have zero patience for black and white conclusions without understanding the context, irrespective of the topic. Especially when the topic is about making a SaaS, not the moral grounds.
>So, what's the long game with Fukushima? This has been going on for so long and it's concerning that seemingly very little progress has been made.

Long? They are still, to this day, trying to bury and isolate Chernobyl's reactors.
I'm wondering, can't they use the radiation as an alternative to light (photons), in that environment? I'm guessing the radiation would scatter in a way comparable to light, so you would be able to get a similar kind of "imaging". Not sure how one would implement a radiation detector in silicon, but at least you could shield it by some layer of metal to get out of the range of overload and into the range of sensitivity.
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Apparently, this message board gives commenters a couple of minutes to correct their comment. That’s why the “Reply” link only appears after some time.

About your administrator tool, yeah, that sucks.

I once worked in a company where the managers were paranoid about us leaking the source code of the game we developed. We all had 2 PCs, one for development, another one for the Internet, two physically-separate local networks, a one-way network share to copy stuff (read-write from the online LAN, read-only from the offline LAN), and a KVM switches so we only needed a single display + keyboard.

It was very inconvenient, e.g. unable to copy-paste stuff from stackoverflow.
ACID means you have transactions. And transactions are a fantastic feature. It's like a save point in a video game.

Use case for yesterday:

- create a user and it works, create a default access right for this user for one of our most important service;

- if this doesn't work, cancel everything.

Now I had the creation of user working, but the creation of the access right had some problems unrelated to the code.

Without a transaction, this bugs led to 100 of user accounts created without a default right access, and we had to clean it up after ward.

With a transaction, this bug would have not affected us in any way.

Transaction are safety net for data corruption. When you are using mongo, you have to manually do that logic again, and again and again.

In my experience, most mongo coders don't do it, and their DB is riddle with duplicates, incomplete inserts and such. Transactions give it to you, for free.

There are many other wonderful things about transaction:

- free manual rollback. Even when you don't have an error, reverting an operation is one line of code. Even if it affects many tables. Doing that with mongo or redis is terrible.

- free race condition handling. This one is huge because race condition are very, very hard to deal with. E.G: you want to limit the number of comment per day for untrusted users. You just add the comment, THEN check if you have more comments that acceptable, and if yes, roll it back. This way if your system if flooded with comments, you never have one slipping through.

- free ability to split your process in small units. You can create subtransaction inside transactions, and just say you want to rollback one but accept the other part. This give you huge granularity on your error handling.

Basically you get precise, clean, strong and easy reliability for close to nothing.

As soon has you have many untrusted users using your system, it becomes a fantastic asset.
One can arguably find the engineers who created robots used in Chernobyl, which were oblivious to radiation by using pneumatic tubing for control.
This is an absurd urban myth, and it's embarrassing to see such nonsense on this website.
The tagline in the left column says "JSON for the ES5 era". so I assume that's where the 5 comes from (as in, it brings an ES5 level of usability to JSON).
"Linux is more or less a wild garden of different solutions"

Exactly my experience. I use Windows at work (lots of .Net) and Linux on side projects (Python mostly). When I get into a bind on Windows, the solution is typically a Google search and couple clicks away. On Linux, I find the Google search results often return a plethora of similar solutions each branching with every distro and major version change. This means I'm often sorting through similar (but not exact) issues on forums and trying them out one by one and then cleaning up a mess of packages when it doesn't work out.
Considering that this would be pretty easy to prove, but no one has yet, Occam's razor says this most likely was something else entirely. One possible explanation could be that the ad was shown to her before as well but she didn't notice it, yet it subconsciously registered and created a need or idea for such a product (i.e. you're switching around cause and effect). Another is that your wife is quite predictable in her demand of such a product due to other factors that are trackable by Facebook.
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Google "confirmation bias".
If you are using Facebook on a recent phone client, or through a browser, whenever this happens, try this:

- There is a little "chevron" menu popdown in the advert, generally top-right.

- Tap it, and then pull down "Why am I seeing this?"

Then you will find out why you are seeing the advert.

Source: I used to work at Facebook
Realize that the ostensible safety of nuclear energy is based on believing that black swan environmental and political events are impossible. Walk away from it and move heavily/quickly toward renewables.
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>"But yes, syscalls are more expensive on OSX."

Can you elaborate on this?

The XNU implements system calls in the same way a BSD system does. If you are talking about the Mach aspect of OS X, the BSD part can call down to the the Mach directly without using Mach messages. XNU is not a traditional microkernel even though Mach is in there.