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>> (for example, hard-of-hearing passengers can't hear announcements at the airport or on the plane)
> You don't have to be hard-of-hearing to struggle with that.

That's the thing about accessibility improvements. They often improve the lives of everyone, or at least many more people than the improvements are meant to improve life for. For example: if you have to push a stroller, or are carrying a lot of things, through a heavy door, you can use the button meant to open the door for wheelchair users. You can probably even hit it with your hip if your hands are full.
It's good to hear that at least some others have not had any issues :) It is certainly possible that the ISP modem may have been doing something special, but I've now been through at least 4 different routers of various grades over the years and sadly Omnia was the only one to ever exhibit that issue here. Or it may have had something to do with IPv6 or PPPoE. Hardwiring DNS to 8.8.8.8 did not help either. In the end I deemed it not worth it to waste any more time attempting to fix it.
I find the opposite: most quotes are incredibly insightful and powerful, but wasted on people who can't act on them, and insist on vague and pointless lives.
Next time, just paste in an editor and lowercase it yourself instead of putting this disclaimer...
Just a note on wording - I think saying "I'm Californian"
sounds weird even to someone from the US. Saying "I'm from California" or "I'm from Los Angeles" is more common / expected.
2-3 hours a week on Chavah Messianic Radio[0], a non-commercial Pandora-like radio station for my religious community.

It's been going for several years now, and enjoys a nice user base. It started out in Silverlight, then KnockoutJS, and now AngularJS [1].

[0]: https://messianicradio.com

[1]: http://github.com/judahgabriel/chavah
Can we have private airports, cooperatively owned and operated, and ban governments from them???
Keep in mind Surface Books don't have global support - I bought mind in at a Microsoft Store in the US and Microsoft UK just won't look at it.
Cloudflare says that it is willing to spend up to $50,000 to award people who dig up prior art that invalidates Blackbird's patents ($20,000 for prior art related to the lawsuit and $30,000 for prior art related to Blackbird's other patents).

BUT (and it's a big but, Sir Mix-a-Lot) ...

> These opportunities remain open as long as Blackbird's case against Cloudflare is still active.

So, what will likely happen is that as soon as Blackbird spots this blog post and realize that Cloudflare has no intention of settling, they withdraw their suit, and that means Cloudflare doesn't have to pay anybody a prior-art bounty.

That would actually be in keeping with a patent troll's M.O. They don't want to waste their time actually pursuing lawsuits against companies that are willing to push back. Instead, it's much more lucrative for them to shake down easy targets and reach a quick settlement.
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I would say HOCON isn't JSON for humans, it's config file for humans. The features are all about building up a config in a DRY way and merging overrides with defaults and overriding with env vars and stuff like that. It's specifically for the config use case.

JSON superset is a bonus feature which is useful if you don't want to learn new syntax or want to machine-generate part of your config.
It's just not a critique of the programmer as a person -- but it very much is a critique of a programmer as a programmer.
I am possibly not the only one who prints out code and reads them?
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Though I agree with your points for the most part, let's not forget that the president does have real power to directly affect policy in this country, as well as shape key parts of government, as we are all being constantly reminded of lately.

But let's also step back and recognize that "the president" has always been at least the president himself and his adminstration. Of course the network expands from there and the key employees that you mention in important companies include individuals capable of weilding considerable 'asymmetric' power.

Lately, I can't help but think of Cigarette Smoking Man.
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> When you make someone manually scan 150 people they stop paying attention

Bingo. This is not really a job that people, in general, are any good at. If there was an automated turnstile that didn't suck, that'd be a great place for one, so they could focus on the exceptional cases instead of being lulled to sleep by the happy path.
It's because people view the AI as an infallible machine that records everything, which is much more intimidating than the gut instincts of a salesperson.
Running GuixSD system services in containers
In the end, is it truly that much different than the prevailing economic structure disproportionately forcing the poor into high-risk or hard-labor occupations that result in significantly degraded lifespan and/or quality of life?

Putting organs on the market might make certain ethical dilemmas about economic inequality more obvious to the casual bystander, but the same sort of ethical quandaries are already structurally woven into the global economic system.
Manipulating people on a mass scale without their informed consent has always been considered unethical; its on you if you're trying to argue that its not.

And you're 'but what if a person does it' arguments are irrelevant - there's a clear difference of scale between the massively automated systems we're discussing and a single person with a pencil and paper.
https://cushionapp.com/ is a favorite of mine. Mainly a scheduling/forecasting app but has some great, newer features around invoicing/payments and time tracking.
Microsoft Announces Windows 10 Fall Creators Update
I think Windows actually has a built in "Backup Computer" feature, which AFAIK is a complete image backup. Alot of the cloud backup products do entire computer too (like Time Machine does for OSX). The convenience factor of a system backup for a non-technical user (someone who struggles with explorer.exe) is pretty great.

That being said, keylogging is just plain horrible and inexcusable. Passwords, searches, private messages, etc. There's no way we should be cutting them slack on this.

The worst part is, it's crapware like this that steers us towards the walled app store model for PCs... and the loss of freedom that accompanies that.

Every time I hear of stuff like this I gain more respect for Stallman.
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Wow, first value wins seems like a really horrible idea, any insight into why that choice got made?
Just want to provide a contrarian view here: patent assertion and 'trolling' is not necessarily a bad thing in theory. It can create a secondary monetization route for inventors, instead of asserting it themselves. Now, that's all predicated on the validity of the patent and the degree of infringement, but it's not always a bad thing.
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Does sparring include striking someone when they're down? I think that's the crux of the matter here.

There are a dozen better ways to subdue someone who's in a prone position. As a Jiujitsu student that part made me feel ashamed.
I have value in life, why can't I have value in death? While I'm living, I am free to give the results of my value to anyone I choose. Why not in death?
So I presume you are doing fine living in today's dystopia.
I believe the spectrums of IR absorbed by CO2 are already fully saturated, so that there is very little effect, if any, of increased CO2 levels in the atmosphere.
In my experience, mostly no. But that could have been painted by the fact that I, too, was the fat kid for most of my youth. Despite that, I found that I could sometimes buddy up with a more attractive guy with either a better physique or social skills. I was a loser, but I could do that because I naturally treat everyone the same. Anyway, even attractive young men seem to view themselves as lesser creatures whose esteem would be improved by obtaining an attractive female. True, that often boosts one's esteem, but there's little self-love in that picture. Of course some guys do have a level of independent self esteem, but it is surprising how many attractive men don't think highly of themselves.

As far as stability, I think it has to do a lot with your physical and mental health. I noticed that most of the guys I knew who were out of shape and had basement dweller habits tended to stick with self-hating tendencies. And some people who didn't have key periods in their life, like having a mate or living on their own, have stayed that way after about age 26.
Too bad he talks about unity for half the article, which I never liked much and rarely used. It had a lot of promise but snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. Didn't support the windows key or hot corner for opening the menu. Oh and hid menus by default.

More generally I'm not a fan of the war on menus across desktops, which are useful as a table of contents. Let them and title bars take less room on widescreen monitors, but don't cripple them.

Using MATE on 4k screens and happy. Still can't give up the clock/calendar with day/night map and timezones from gnome2. Could someone port that forward?, it's awesome. Advanced menu supports win key and type to filter.

He mentions the kernel with one sentence about kaby lake support, which was helpful to know, just got a new laptop. How are systemd and wayland coming along? Any other improvements under the hood?

Was very happy Python 3.6 was made easily available, when will it be the default 3.x? Cheers.
wow, great advice for where I am right now, trying to launch a service. Lots of emotional ups/downs, opportunity for failure - which can, in the right light, be seen as an opportunity to grow. Asking for help from others... definitely something I am working on, and have gotten better about.

I find a lot of my hesitations disappear when it comes to my project. Shyness just isn't an option. You have to keep pushing it no matter what if you want it to be something. This has had some interesting side effects for me - seeing another, much stronger and resilient side of me come out to make my project a reality.

But yeah, baby steps are everything. Otherwise I just get overwhelmed or discouraged - but small wins can turn into bigger ones, and failure is certainly an option!

Thanks for the comment.
That is supposed to be true, but it's difficult to grant this level of trust when they don't trust the public. There is no transparency in this process, and there's no agreement on whether it's even legal. It's normal for people to reduce their level of trust in others who initiate a trust reduction arbitrarily. Of course the individual alone knows whether they are trust worthy, so the instance they're treated with suspicion, they know whether it's misplaced, and it goes directly to competency and motive, and the mere questioning of why the searches are happening means trust has been reduced.
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Neural Network-Generated Illustrations in Allo
Honest question: What makes this super?
Meh, other rulesets like Pride, Strikeforce, Bellator let similar skillsets rise to the top as well - as do other similar full-contact low-rule MAs like combat sambo.

Yes, if you forbid chokes and joint manipulation, you get kickboxing or muaythai, but that is not the point of MMA which tries to get rid of arbitrary rules.
Maybe, but it is hard to do this. The are not a lot of airplanes made every year the global market is less than 10,000 per year and most of that isn't commercial airplanes. (Quick google says that General Aviation accounts for 5000 airplanes, while AirBus is about 600 and Boeing is about 700 - I know there are a few more makes not counted in the above numbers but this is enough to say less than 10,000). With production numbers that small you cannot get many scale benefits from producing airplanes.

If airplanes were as common as cars you would see little KIA two seat airplanes selling for $15,000. Honda and Ford would be a little more. But we need to ship a lot more airplanes for that to work.
Ethereum can help financially excluded farmers in Africa in insurance market
What part of this article makes you think the planes are the problem?
Sure I get that. But how far do you take that justification? Would you be willing to kill someone who is laying on the ground defenseless because the referee is inept. Fighters need to have some self control. And it in this specific situation it seemed pretty cut and dry that the Tai Chi master was not able to fight back.
Plenty of large successful businesses run on razor thin margins, however the airline industry is not lean. The internal waste is immense.

Source: Had an airline for a client, saw how sausage gets made
Right. Monetizing death. Ugh. I'm also not certain that you can donate organs if you've been on pain (and other) medications.
No matter what we're replying to, it's not OK to post like this.
You ever heard about Datomic?
TSA would be the part to disrupt, and it's not like that was ever rational to begin with—people aren't likely to realize or admit it's mostly a scare tactic to fill jobs.
The airport in Doha, Qatar is a silent airport. There were no announcements over the PA. It was an amazing experience!

I find the PA systems to be an assault on my ears and I often wear ear plugs in airports and on planes. I'd prefer silent airports. I suppose that'd be great for the deaf but not so good for the blind.
The trick is to skip season 1.

Season 2 and 3 was where the real meat of the show was found.

Fun Fact: My wife wouldn't let me name our son Stringfellow
Which fighting sport doesn't have spatial constraints ?
> Many people comment here without reading the article, based solely on the title, so discussing the fact that it's inaccurate seems to be pretty pertinent.

Indeed. Go a step further: don't just discuss it; get it fixed. The mods are very responsive in my experience. Help make HN better. Each of us plays a role in curating HN.
Hedge Funds Employ A.I. To Redefine the Trading Business
Is the beep notifying "correct pass for this flight" or is it just notifying "code read successfully" and the agents job is to check that the ticket matches their flight?
I use irony-mode (with its flycheck and company support) on OSX, and I think it works really well. It uses libclang as the backend, so for completion it's about as precise as a compiler can be.
Unity3D. There are tons of amazing resources on the web and on YouTube.
You're underestimating the google, my friend. This response also misses the point, just because this specific example may not be relevant to you (what about private practice doctors?), there are hundreds of others that are.
There's only one place I'm aware of on earth where organs can be sold: Iran. Here's an interview with an economist who helped set up that market, which does seem to function fairly efficiently and has some safeguards in place to prevent coersion.

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2015/09/tina_rosenberg.html

Edit: specifically, this is about kidney donation from living donors, not after-death donation.
Depends on an airline and maybe even airport, I guess.

Anecdotally, last time I was flying on a business to Germany with Lufthansa, my cow-orker did the Internet check-in for me without me knowing, and printed out the boarding passes. I later did the check-in for myself again, and picked a different seat. At the airport, the friend gave me the boarding pass he printed (with the old seat number), and so I thought, let's check if it still works on the scanners. I scanned it when boarding, and the scanner threw up an error that the seat on the pass does not agree with the one that's actually booked. I pulled the up-to-date boardin pass on my phone and continued on my way - but it seems that there is some actual checking being done, not just CRC.
The greatest brute-force attack successes that we know of are generally reversing password hashes, because the input spaces and/or effective input spaces under some model of a password's structure are so small. People have achieved very effective results with that, often using special hardware.

The most common attack model for this is "get ahold of a hashed password list, try to reverse as many as possible, then try to see if any has re-used those passwords on other systems". Spy agencies might be doing that too. By contrast, as Bunnie says, modern algorithms have a very large safety margin so brute-force against a random key is very implausible without some significant new algorithmic insight.

So one question is, are there significant security-sensitive deployments that are still out there of obsolete stuff with too short a keylength? 1024-bit RSA, 1024-bit DH, DES, export ciphers?

If, on the other hand, it's really mostly about password hashes, where brute force has been known to be so effective, are there any other attack contexts where the ability to reverse a password hash would be useful?
I've never seen that particular bug before, but the whole thing sounds totally plausible. Since it only manifests in Fermi, it's likely an arch issue. I'm guessing the workaround in the driver was deemed to messy/expensive compared to the one in the application.

I'll take a cursory glance at the issue, but if you've seen NV devs discuss it externally, it's probably well known internally, like closed as WNF.

I totally see where all sides are coming from, though:

* NV: Why spend resources fixing old architectures when it's easy to workaround at application level.

* Devs: Why spend resources supporting some obscure old HW that doesn't work right.

* Users: Why spend money replacing perfectly good HW, because NV/devs are lazy?

The more time passes, the less likely the first two are to do anything about it; and in time the number of users with those cards drops below epsilon. The easiest option is to just get HW that works with the SW you need - like you did.
Mother’s Day marketing is getting weirdly sexual
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Well, demonizing them doesn't help. Most people are willing to talk solutions, not a lot of people like being insulted. For example, I've had lots of discussions with climate skeptics about nuclear power and I can usually get them on board by the end of the conversation.
I suspect you're right; I've noticed we also like the 'news' media again. I guess it's only a problem when it's not "your side" invading people's privacy, spreading false propaganda, destroying liberal democracy etc. etc.
The principal at my kid's high school called it "Self Advocacy". Kids need to have the mentality that they are in control of their lives, they are expected to stand up for themselves, and they need to seek help or speak out when they need something or see a problem.

She was pretty harsh on helicopter parenting, and she did a good job setting expectations with parents, teachers and staff that the students really are becoming young adults in high school and they need to be given respect and responsibility.

Her speech was pretty impressive, and I doubt my explanation is doing it justice, but it was the first I'd heard the term and it really struck a chord with me.
Or here's another way to look at it: What's the whole point of having a solar power incentive? To get more solar power. Now suppose we changed the law governing solar power incentives to exclude rich people (or tall people, or right-handed people, or any group of people). What would happen? Less solar power.

That might be a desirable outcome, if you are more opposed to rich people getting tax breaks than you are to fossil fuels. But in that case, why not just raise taxes on rich people, and leave the solar incentive out of this?
2 Years of BucharestJS. HN can we break it?
Nothing in particular - this is an announcement of two server nodes revised to support the latest (but still Pascal) GPUs (8 or 10 if lower power is ok). You can pile them up and connect them with Infiniband or OmniPath if you want to build a cluster, the same as with other comparable servers.
While Obama is no saint there has been a very strong ramp-up this year alone.

What used to be miserable is now terrifying for some.
I disable CapsLock by remapping it to Ctrl. Makes for a better workflow when working with tmux.
There is an unpacking step on first run, but after that loading isn't noticeable on my several year old tablet.
Usually about 12 hours. I try to get 2 to 3 hours in on weekdays as soon as I get home from the office. I take weekends off unless I'm feeling particularly motivated/inspired, but with the MLB, NASCAR, F1, and Indycar seasons in full swing right now, my weekend schedule is pretty packed...
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This is cool, but there are companies which do prior art bounties out there, I wonder why they didn't use on of them? Also, they must be extremely serious about this. A $50k prior art budget is high - like very high - for this kind of thing. You can get a search firm to do a decent job for $1-2k and a bang up job for $10k-ish. So by throwing $50k into the pot, they're showing that they're out for blood.
A perfect example of a mild antisocial behaviour.

Makes me wonder if those are curable in humans, or are we doomed to forever not having nice things because of people acting this way?
I don't think that's what that article is about. The intercepted images from Lybian internet traffic and by some method akin to steganography he encoded Gaddafi's book, 'The Green Book', into the images.
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Some hours... 3-6, max 10 if it's really interesting...
Not here, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Some weeks a few hours, but usually none, honestly. I have lots of things I'd like to do and most of them I don't already spend 40 hours a week doing.
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"...success is simply a continual failure to crash"

My programming methodology has been validated at last!
the only real tractable solution is for society to have a larger conversation on the ethics so the law can catch up with it

The department of commerce tried to facilitate talks about establishing a voluntary standard. The surveillance industry was so terrified of the idea that they should be held to a principled position that they wouldn't even budge on one of the weakest possible protections: A voluntary-participation standard that said people must opt-in to be identified by name through facial recognition when they are on public property.

https://www.eff.org/document/privacy-advocates-statement-nti... (and previous HN discussion on negotiations falling apart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9729696 )
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