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I use the RSS feed with Feedly. I only read things about actual technology relevant to me, and skip everything about silicon valley startup nonsense.
Any news on the mail client? They have been "working on it" for a long time now...
Netflix doesn't block me with VPN. Is this also a US thing?
I tend to be listening to at least one audiobook, reading at least one book on Kindle and dipping into a few old favourite physical books.
Nobody talks about software, damn is it HN ?
Most.js: Ultra-high performance reactive programming
Show HN: Minclude, remove unneeded C/C++ include directives
I'm fairly certain cars, like the iPhone, are in large part about signalling status, and this accounts for some weirdness in the market.

It might be worth looking at delivery vans instead though even there I've noticed a weird thing recently where traditional auto makers have outright refused to build hybrid or EV trucks, and large organisations have just built their own instead and managed to do so cheaper and better than dedicated manufacturers just by putting together off-the-shelf parts. That seems odd to me, maybe the automakers are distorted by their consumer market?
Uber to end services in Denmark
nice - but except firebase, how is this different from other pub-sub services?
I plan on adding additional who/context of the mention. It is for my own personal use really. But I find it interesting.
UK triggers the official Brexit process in a letter to EU
Same and I've thought about this a lot. I so often only read the comments without reading the actual article. Surely the fact that so many people do this must mean there's an untapped opportunity somewhere?
Out of curiosity, why should the government force them to change that policy?
The man who dug a coal mine at the bottom of his garden
There is a reason why the things we read in magazines and newspapers are called "stories".
The JVM indeed quickly got me disinterested in Clojure. However, I have similar issues with other (free) Lisps, with probably only Emacs Lisp being the exception.

As a Smalltalker ("the other heroin of the programming world") I'm used to a highly integrated and responsive development environment; from what I heard from other Lispers, the quick feedback and gradual building up of your program is a shared aspect, but the thing that Smalltalkers always bring up and Lispers less so is also that your program and your IDE are basically indistinguishable, which is quite powerful because it makes it trivial to adapt your IDE to your project as you go. In the Lisp environments I've tried - latest being Emacs+SBLC - the split between editor and REPL seems unnatural to me, more so because in the standard case you work with two different dialects of the language. It seems that only ACL and LW have more unification.

Am I wrong and are the $$$$ versions not better in that respect and should I just drop my Smalltalk habits/arguments when learning CL?
This is cool. Great explanation, thanks.
As far as diff performance go concatenating the two large files using the diff replace all syntax is faster, uses o(1) memory, o(n) time and it's only slightly space inefficient.

I'd also say it might beat the OP alghorithm in performances under certain assumption (i.e large writes vs scan read performances)
That is a very fair critique. I don't know how that sentence passed the peer review without someone spilling coffee on their keyboard.
Oh yeah! I'm always reading more than 2, 3, 4 books in parallel. It usually is 2 fiction books, 1-2 non-fiction books, not necessarily programming. And this in a combination of sources: physical books, play books, kindle, safari... Plus random collections of magazine and comics sticking around :))
Yes, please give us the schedule feature, f.lux!
It does publish-subscribe as well, but at its core its a realtime datastore that lets manipulate and observe small JSON objects called records. Any change is immediatly persisted and synchronised across subscribers. It also has some other stuff like request-response or realtime search
https://xkcd.com/977/ has better ones.
Security Orchestration and Incident Response
Forgot the audiobook I listen while driving.
This course also referred M.I Jordan book: http://imagine.enpc.fr/~obozinsg/teaching/mva_gm/fall2016/

One of the best course I have ever taken, F. Bach and G. Obozinski are incredible teachers.
I'd expect someone who went through the trouble of decoding it to share the meaning but maybe that's insane.
Do the keys make a difference to the output that you produce? Or is it just that some people like the feel of full key travel as opposed to laptop keys?

I have got used to using laptop keys after using them for so long that my main keyboard at work is a laptop-sized one, even for a desktop machine (much to the chagrin of my colleagues). Stops them using it though!
Looking at the map:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.9499292,-85.5122947,11.71z

I was initially very impressed at Tennessee's resolve in protecting the water. Just a few miles later, the river flows into Alabama, where I initially thought that Tennessee would cease to care about what happens downstream. But then I looked further and realized it flows back North through central Tennessee.

What's stopping Alabama from selling the water to Georgia?
Who dares to create a new way to tell stories? We do
The other problem is that most peoples' home security is not effective against anything except casual intrusions (i.e. drunk people accidentally entering the wrong house).
I always have an old version of the source code of Solaris' bdiff with me (https://github.com/Arkanosis/Arkonf/blob/master/tools-src/bd...), just in case. It might have changed in the meantime in OpenIndiana / Illumos.

It was a very significant improvement in speed a few years ago — though with time I've gotten more RAM faster than bigger files to run diff on, and I haven't had any difficulty with the regular Linux diff for a long time.
It's a loss in my books. I like Clojure but pretty much the only thing that's been putting me off is how the JVM "shines" through in lots of aspects.
The Tao of Gender: Feminism, feminishism, complementarity, sexism and love
In supported browsers I'm using the Opus codec which in general is quite good quality compared to MP3. It falls back to MP3 in browsers that don't support Opus... Safari and IE I think.

I believe it's using the default encoding settings for Opus and MP3 at the moment (using opusenc and... maybe lame for MP3 I forget). Certainly I'm looking to have great streaming quality so I should confirm that those defaults are reasonable.

I'm using various open source and custom tools for the processing. YMMV. In general they should be solid, but not as fancy as many of the latest VST plugins. This could all evolve depending on feedback and what people are interested in. One thing I considered as an addition is the ability to define custom filters on the webpage... either interpreted or compiled in the backend to edit your files. I think that would be a neat way to experiment with filters, but would have some limitations as well.
You don't need to use an OSI-approved license to be Open Source, but you need to use a license that complies with OSI's Open Source definition. Otherwise, the term would be meaningless.
How to Monitor Host-Based Intrusion Detection Alerts on Amazon EC2 Instances
Yeah, there is no defence against that as far as I know?

Like, even if you don't ever do it a relative will still get a close enough match to put you in the picture.
Most of my reading is off HN/Reddit, whatever catches my eye and looks interesting which can be up to 10 articles in a day, but often enough 0-1.

I use https://bazqux.com as a RSS reader to keep up with the stuff I actually want to follow. Some gaming sites, LWN, EFF's deeplinks and the blogs of various products my company or I use.

(BTW, I highly recommend bazqux. UI very close to Google Reader, very cheap and with a lifetime subscription option)
There is stress and there is stress.

I agree that the human (all animals actually) trend is to conserve energy and minimize risks. So you need some kind of pressure to go out and change.

But I was thinking in how people get trapped by bad conditions, environmental circumstances where they are born and that are going to be with them all their life.

This "problems create character" thing suffer a little from surviving bias, in my opinion.
I read 2 to 5 articles a day. But this reading is not comprehensive instead it's like looking the important points, although skimming is the key of surfing but recently I've discovered that it shortens attention span so it seems theres a big effect to changing other habits too.

That's why I'm in the diet of not skimming through instead if I start one article I finish no matter how boring it is. But it's very hard I'm old surfer and suffering for deep concentration..
I haven't seen that many typos for a long time. Wonder if the website is written with that keyboard :D
"Red type switch with actuating force of 40 g (+/- 20 g) specially designed for fast and quick typing."

The red switch is the one with linear force and no tactile feedback and is usually considered more appropriate for gaming[1], not "specially designed for fast and quick typing".

Wouldn't the brown switch be more appropriate? Blue and brown are the ones that actually have been designed for typing and provide tactile feedback. (The difference between them being that the brown doesn't have the audible click.)

[1] http://deskthority.net/wiki/Cherry_MX_Red
2017 Honda Civic – Everything You Ever Wanted to Know
You cannot start an article like that unless it is your essay and you're a first year student.

You're wasting reader's time on meaningless, unproved statements. Perhaps he should demonstrate why that is the case. Or say "X considers Intelligence ..." and then quote him.
On the order of unlikeliness of hiring someone to brush your teeth, or sing your theme song when you walk into rooms.

But that kind of personal service is something we see less of, now, not more. The middle class in the US is rich compared to lords and ladies of 200 years ago, but have no personal servants. Software developers and medical doctors and middle executives could hire batmen and butlers and maids, but mostly do not, even when the money to do so is just sitting in their bank account and they complain about how little time they have to clean and service their house, cars, etc. Why is that?
Show HN: Shippn - Airbnb of worldwide shopping
you do realize market forces for a $600 consumer device is very different than a durable good that costs 50x more?

Your anecdotal insight into how desirable the tesla is to you means nothing in terms of the market
Uber’s Diversity Report Leaves Out the Most Important Thing
I've found Vivaldi is becoming slower and slower with each update to the point that I'm starting to lose confidence in the browser itself.

https://forum.vivaldi.net/search?term=slow&in=titlesposts&so...

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3052560/browsers/vivaldi-brow...

https://thequo.wordpress.com/2016/04/23/one-glaring-problem-...

etc...
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This is classic -- one of the main reasons I started programming in C.
Mobile game app development in 2017: a note on essential elements
About remembering which letters I type to go to which site, I assumed that's just the latest and greatest with browsers, and loved it without noticing that I do. But now that I know it's a Firefox feature, I'll knowingly love it now.
Using IBM Bluemix Watson APIs to Optimise my CV
All the black folks I know, including myself, did not take it like that. The point, being made in front of an all white audience, as it was, looked a lot more like a reinforcement of the well trodden belief among conservative folks that black people's​ problems are due to Democratic mismanagement, their own rotten culture, and not racism (because racism hasn't been real since the 60's)
In case anyone wondered, "penna" is Swedish for "pen" (or "pencil", we're not picky).

No idea if the people behind the product are from the Nordics, sometimes using words from Swedish seems popular in general.
I read it over and over again 15 years ago, great resource.
I on the contrary find it perfectly reasonable. Academic publishing has its own share of bullshit and I can well understand someone, specially a retired person, wanting to give up on that kind of prestige in order to save time and energy for actual science. For example, as far as I know, Grigori Perelman has not published the work that won him an offer of the Fields Medal in any journal.
During you are thinking about something, you can play it))
It's hard to construct an argument that they should, other than reaching for "common carrier" status or some kind of anti-trust. To the extent that they're acting as a "publisher" they can publish what they like.

But it's still strange that Microsoft is forced to put in browser choice (and in some jurisdictions media player choice, I think), while Apple get to be a platform-monopolist. The usual argument against this is the non-dominance of the iPhone; so long as Android is the most popular OS and allows some choice of stores, I don't think anyone's successfully going to make a case against Apple.
That's provably false. If it were true there would be very little difference between the votes of the major political parties on most important issues except around election time. Yet on most major issues there are significant consistent vote differences between Democrats in general and Republicans in general regardless of the nearness of elections.
After reading digital ocean the 10th time on here. What makes people think that using a american company that complies with american laws and regularly gives out data is a much better option than renting a VPN in a country that still has privacy in place?
Brian: The Sleeping Programmer
Wasn't oauth 1 more a roll-your-own crypto solution? oauth 2 was created precisely to re-use more of what browsers already provide.
A colleague of mine did some very impressive work with Ometa; it seems to be not just a parser but a system for building all sorts of compiler-like things.
Very interesting, good job!
The main problem I have with audiobooks (and to a lesser extent books on the Kindle) is the ease of dipping in and finding a good bit to read again.

I know it should actually be easier - but it never seems to work that way.
It means every type in Pascal is actually a union of itself and null.
> only as good

But ML can improve upon other methods of interpreting that (biased) data. Thus, in some ways better than traditional statistics and non-mathematical human intuition.
deepstream looks very cool, and I'm naturally interested because of the financial trading backgrounds of some of the lead devs, having worked in that area with latency critical pub sub systems. Where can I read more about these points...

1. The pub sub system is C++ wrapped in node.js? Why node & JS? That's an unconventional choice for trading systems. Are there C++ APIs?

2. How does it compare with crossbar.io? I find crossbar appealing as it's Python, and I like to use a mix of Python and C++ depending on performance and time to market requirements.

3. Comparison with Caplin Liberator: does deepstream have the Liberator feature where publishers only publish when there's a subscriber? This was a great enhancement of the traditional pub sub paradigm.

4. Do you have any real trading system customers?

[Disclosure: I'm a former Caplin customer, and have built trading systems at JP & BarCap]
Oh boy, this one brings me back. I can't tell you how many times I read this guide back in the day. Beej was the bomb when it came to network programming. Another great resource for network programming is http://www.madwizard.org/programming/tutorials/netcpp/ which is aimed more at Windows users. Failing that, there's the classic Unix Network Programming Vol 1 and 2 which gives a good outline of what to expect.

As it turns out, there are some really subtle aspects of network programming and these guides tend to cover them well.
Android versions seems untouched with an average rating of 4.7

Would someone flagging the app on the app store cause it to be pulled?
This stuff looks AMAZING, but no code or binaries to try? :(
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Families
Usually for source code, the diff is line-based. I didn't actually have a use case at the time, I just wanted to see if it would work.
No it does not. For a supposed MIT grad with a PhD I would expect excellent reading comprehension and the ability to understand scientific fields even when outside of your main one. Given your comments and misunderstandings here and elsewhere I am inclined to think you are not. Read the IPCC reports, if you don't have time, look at the summary for policy makers, particularly the physical science basis.

Do you understand the difference between average and 15-40%? How about the difference between average and median, non-normal distributions, etc.?

There's no changing of definitions from anyone except yourself in your misleading "quote".

Here's a more accessible article: http://www.nature.com/climate/2008/0812/full/climate.2008.12...
Disapproval of FCC regulations a significant blow against privacy protection
I read most things and it makes me happy but when I read a bunch of whiny white men on Hacker News I feel sad. ;(
Actually many of the VM exploits are related to qemu device emulation or paravirtualization drivers, which are closed by the use of Xen stubdom. Only very few were privilege escalation via another vector, both in kvm and in Xen. I have no idea about other hypervisors.
When and where you can see free movies online?
Oh, no, I did'n use square brackets, sorry. That was just my notation, each of the letters stands on its own line.
I'm with you, but I've found a single use case that I'm running with, and potentially a second that I'm becoming sold on. So far, the most useful thing for me is being able to take a small application I've written, package it as a container, and package it in a manner when I know it will run identically on multiple remote machines that I will not have proximity to manage should something go wrong. I can also make a Big Red Button to blow the whole thing away and redownload the container if need be, since I was (correctly) forced to externalize storage and database. I can also push application updates just by having a second Big Red Button marked "update" which performs a docker pull and redeploy. So now, what was a small, single-purpose Rails app can be pushed to a dozen or so remote Mac minis with a very simple GUI to orchestrate docker commands, and less-than-tech-savvy field workers can manage this app pretty simply.

I'm also becoming more sold on the Kubernetes model, which relies on containers. Build your small service, let the system scale it for you. I don't have as much hands-on here yet, but so far it seems pretty great.

Neither of those are the same problems that VMs or chroot are solving, as I see it, but a completely different problem that gets much less press.
You are missing the psychological element. In general, people:

(a) Feel a strong obligation to be consistent with past behaviour - not just in placing the deposit, but then thinking and reading about the new car design and wanting a Tesla for months or years.

(b) Want to avoid admitting the 'mistake' of giving Tesla a free loan. Not just admitting the mistake to themselves, but also to all their friends they told about their deposit.

(c) Hate giving up something they 'own' - ie. their place in the queue

(d) Value something that's scarce more than something that's easily available

(e) Are more likely to want something that other people love and are queueing up to buy.
I think the motivation for making the sequence of arguments in function/macro definitions vectors instead of lists was primarily syntactic - to make them look different from the body. They're definitely vectors internally though.
Is it safe to turn that on in current kernels?
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Its very much a more usable device with keys now .. I honestly think that NextThing should get behind this community effort and just start making PocketCHIP's with cases based on these designs. Its a very different instrument ...

Anyway, good luck! :)
They aren't, but share some similarities. OpenVZ can be considered an inspiration for LXC. (Which was mostly implemented by RedHat and not Google.)
What are the plans to anonymize the data? Are there any standards in the advertising industry for sharing such information?
The drain in brains goes mainly west in planes.
The product looks nice, the website less so, unfortunately. I had a bad feeling about it when I first loaded the page and saw a black screen with content slowly fading in; often a sign that content is being loaded by javascript and the resulting experience will be sub-par.
Those interested in Ometa can check out the Metacompiler tutorial for background, http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_tutorial.html and experiment with a JS-based demo metacompiler, http://www.bayfronttechnologies.com/mc_workshop.html
TL;DW summary from the video caption:

1. Fast Fourier Transfrom

2. Link Analysis

3. Data Compression

4. Dijkstra's Algorithm

5. RSA Algorithm

6. Proportional Integral Derivativ Algorithm

7. Sorting Algorithms

I guess that makes sense. Skipping any AI or computer graphics algorithms or optimization or database (paxos) or scaling/parallel algorithms.
That makes things really easy. I especially like that they use SVG instead of images. Saves yet another request :)
Yeah, let's have a 2-sided conversation about EVs on HN and see. Tesla is God, Tesla is King, Musk will save our souls.
Very much not worth the cost of reduced security and reliability. You also have vastly more complicated failover due to no easy migration.
> The loss of a handful of technologists might not feel immediately urgent but may signal a larger trend.

...and it may not. More brexit fear-mongering.
Show HN: 3D Bucket Designer, a ThreeJS app for indoor gardeners
EU to propose new rules targeting encrypted apps in June
The Pandora was indeed an incredible device, soaked in drama and intrigue. (Disclaimer: I have two.)

The manufacturing delays, the issues with the case .. the volcano! (Seriously, the project was delayed by the Iceland volcano in 2010 ..) The issues with the original team splitting up, and so on .. well, it still bloody shipped! And its an excellent device!

And the best part is that all those lessons were learned, and applied, to the new Pyra - which is the spiritual successor to the Pandora in many ways. I was lucky enough to have a Pyra prototype to play with a few months back, and its going to be a very special device for a lot of folks - open, accessible, hackable. A truly delightful Linux workstation! :)
Why you should mostly trust what science tells you
tl;dr: buy a globe.
The course formerly known as Statistics 101
Thx for the suggestion, advanced tomato looks great.
Some of the reports on the rt-n16's capacitor issues concern me. But then again I am getting in the habit of replacing the capacitors in my electronics.
Thank you.

A new user introducing his own work in the first comment did seem suspicious, but I tried to make it relevant, and didn't mean to spam around.
I am not limiting new jobs to "thinking labor". Elementary school teachers and teaching assistants need to be good with kids. Being good with technology is a very distant second.

For hands-on, as an example, there is a big unmet need for people to do home improvement projects. Good contractors are fully booked for months out at least where I live. The real problem, IMO, is guarantees: uneven income and no benefits as a home improvement contractor is a major roadblock for many people. It is great as a side project, but not as primary occupation. Providing safety net, at least in health care, can help with this.