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> I had lots of annoyance with a previous Optimus based notebook. How has the situation of bumblebee and primusrun and dualbooting improved in the past two years?

Very slightly, but you're better off getting a notebook that actually has FOSS graphics drivers, for a much more stable and reliable experience.

It's unfortunate that you can't upgrade the XPS15 to the 4K display or a quad-core processor without getting the nVidia graphics along with it. IIRC, some previous models included 4K configurations without that.
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> maintaining all the generated Webpack configurations was like trying to maintain a whole project within my project

That's true to me too. I'm not happy leaving a bunch of generated configuration I hesitate to touch in my project folder. It includes too many of what aren't supposed to be changed, and freedom is not an excuse for this case.
Of course - I'm not at all asserting the right has a monopoly on political violence. There are far left groups that support political violence: ETA, the Provisional IRA, Hamas, Hezbollah, Antifa, and various socialist dictators (Chavez, Castro, Mao, Stalin) would come to mind.
> What's missing from this story is a translation of ahorita in the context of the ice-cream seller that would make sense to English speakers.

That's because it's not a story about meaning if words, it's a story of the transformation of the civilized white guy by immersing himself (as much as he can, given his oh-so-civilized upbringing) in the ways of the Noble Savage. The idea that any of the used in context have a simple meaning that could be explained to anyone not themselves completely steeped in the culture, though true, would undermine the narrative the author was trying to construct.
Yes, I always thought those pictures of above ground hyper-loop looked silly. It's not like you're going to be in a transparent tube (first mass use of VR please B^). But all of these comments are off the original expansive topic, and in fact much more relevant. Thermal expansion simply isn't a problem that needs to get solved, because holding sub-mm tolerances over a km is unrealistic, and if cost was an issue, you'd put the dann thing in the ground.

Don't confuse me with someone who finds hyper-loop realistic... but don't tell me it can't be done because it needs 5 doors and to be painted a particular color of red. I don't particularly care what some ex-paypal guy who runs a car company says about it either. Engineering matters.
You data is routed as phone network data to your U.S. carrier, who has the gateway to the internet. This is because mobile data protocols were originally not designed with the Internet in mind, but as a separate network. The internet gateways were added on later.
You don't need to get access to a lot of machines. Because the chain is long and obscure, there's no way to be verifiable, and even if there was that chain would require specialist infallible programmers to ensure nothing has been tampered with.

I'm not sure how you can argue that obscurity is a strong method of security when one machine in the country could be compromised, or the counting method code could be compromised, or the programmer verifying the code could be compromised, or the distribution system of voting machines could be compromised, or any part inside the voting machines could be compromised (e.g. the touch interface), or the voting machine remains secure during the voting period (i.e. voters are tampering with it on poll day).
> I've had people who couldn't understand the problem no matter how hard I tried

I understand the problem you're describing very well, but I had to read the entire problem statement to understand what you're talking about. Making someone understand is a two way street, and half of it is about you communicating the problem effectively.

That's not to say you did a bad job, but for me the signal to noise ratio of that problem statement was low and made me question whether I understand what you're actually asking. If you said 'draw a height map of a pyramid on a 5x5 grid', that'd be far more clear.
> So .. should only a certain 'class' of 'authority' in society have the ability to say what it wants?

No. Everyone should.

> The answer is that there are no absolutes in this discussion.

There are principles though.

> In the example we are following, Gawker uses its rights of free speech to hurt another human being

That's why we have free speech. Using your logic, every atheist should be jailed because they hurt another human being.

> whose own rights (to privacy) were being impeded.

No they weren't. That's the point.

Anyways, the gawker case has nothing to do with privacy. It has everything to do with a billionaire deciding to take out gawker.

I've never visited gawker. Don't really care about celebrity news. But I do believe in free speech.

And you could say gawker is a terrible sight and still defend their free speech rights.

> What do you think should have happened, which should have more precedence over the other - the right of privacy, or the right of free speech?

Free speech of course - especially when it concerns a PUBLIC figure.

Here's the thing. NOTHING ILLEGAL happened despite the hordes here saying so. Hulk Hogan spoke about the sex tape LONG before gawker released it. FOOTAGE of it already had been released by TMZ and other sites. And the sex tape was acquired LEGALLY.

https://thinkprogress.org/nobody-speak-documentary-eab86b547...

Funny how TMZ and other sites are still around?
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Out of interest: who could be trusted with releasing accurate facts but not withholding any?

The 17 intelligence agencies?

97% of scientists?
This always confused me - people talk about an exponential explosion, but the rate of change of e^x is e^x, so there is no actual 'knee' in the curve with a huge speedup afterwards...
The VPN clients in the US app store have backdoors for Chinese access? This seems unlikely.
Mandiant/FireEye data breach
The alternative is not not buying or paying them 10^-2 cents on the dollar, it's paying them fairly! I understand we have all the leverage at the negotiation table and we can get away with paying them a pittance with which they often can't make ends meet besides working all year and providing the product to make someone else millions of fucking dollars, but that doesn't make it right! It's ethically wrong and we should recognize it and address it, even if it means a couple less grand a month in some fat manager's pocket.

And these people are poor because of several reasons among which is bad government, but not exclusively! The current "world order" (for lack of a better term) in regards to the economy ensures disadvantaged people remain disadvantaged, keeps people who are poor in poverty for the foreseeable future. We can't excuse that just because we like cheap shiny stuff to buy and because the richest among us want a few billions more, as if they don't have enough power on us already. And I'm getting off topic so I'll just stop here.
Good point. But there's no reason for the PWM to be in the 100 Hz range either. Even the crappest possible microcontroller using timer interrupts could handle 1000 Hz. Hardware PWM peripherals (that can switch at 500 KHz) have been trivially cheap additions to microcontrollers for decades.
>If everyone's vote is public then

...people can be coerced to vote a certain way.

Your personal experience doesn't apply at large, as you rightly wondered.
In Spain for example you can't watch House of Cards in Netflix due to licensing to some cable channel (I think it's Canal +).
If the only way to get a VPN license is to have it attached to a business license, then control over entities with a VPN is a lot easier.

What they're presumably trying to prevent is anonymous VPNs (in that the client is unknown).
The real horror-story is, how some parents educate there children to be such authority puppets, that anyone speaking a little louder can hold force and influence over them.
Thats a attack on free society, right there, weak individuals because so much easier to control, to educate and far fewer suprises.
You're completely eliding all the scandals and scummy behavior by various members of Uber under his watch. And while I sympathize with what his family is facing in their personal tragedy, that it occurred at the same time those various scandals came to a head is merely a coincidence in timing, if an unfortunate one for Kalanick.
OKay. Make China North Korea. #MCNK
Even if all you're doing is making yourself unhealthy, you're still harming others by destroying your own ability to contribute what you should be contributing.

Simple non-aggression isn't good enough. We all depend on others contributing to society. The standard cannot be that you simply must not actively cause harm. The standard must be that we each contribute positively.

None of us ever reached adulthood except by the contributions of others - parents, social services, earlier taxpayers, soldiers, etc. You owe those contributions back to the next generation, and to the people who share society with you.

If you're strung out or dead from foolish drug use, you cannot contribute. You cannot pay that back, and you are a wrongdoer for taking without reciprocating.

Any other attitude will create a non-viable society over the long term, and spread great suffering.
Some mathematicians do have a definite over-fondness for handwaving away statements they can't be bothered to prove with the "it follows trivially that ...". It's all well and good when such a proof would be 20 minutes of basic algebra, but that's frequently not the case.

One of our lecturers at university was so renowned for this, everyone taking that module organised to write "the answer to this question is trivial, and is left as an exercise to the marker" for any question they couldn't figure out in the exam.
Eating a battery is not a reasonably foreseeable event that would occur with a high probability. It's something that can happen, sure. But doesn't happen that often even when they are left around. So I don't think anyone should be charged in that case. You can't protect against everything. But it's really easy to protect against leaving your kid in the car. And since that carries an extremely high probability of serious injury or death, people should be mindful about it and try to do whatever they need to in order for it to never happen. It boils down to risk and statistics. There are 100 ways your kid can kill themselves in your house every day. They could stick something metallic into an outlet and electrocute themselves or knock into something and a heavy object falls on them. You can't know that any of those things will happen at the moment they do, but you do know what is likely to happen if you forget your child in the car on a hot day. The cause and effect are proximate and immediate. That's why there should be culpability. It should be no different than how we prosecute the most serious errors on the road such as drunk driving that leads to a serious, possibly fatal accident or whether it's just someone who wasn't paying attention or was very tired and accidentally hit someone. We generally, but not always, charge those individuals. The prosecutors look at the evidence and if a driver made a serious/negligent mistake, they charge them. If the circumstances were one of happenstance and not a clear fault, then charges are usually not levied. Same logic should apply here.

Yeah I said I forget things all the time but the things I forget are NOT part of the system I have in place. That's the point. The habits I have are to make sure I don't forget the things I really care about or absolutely need. So no, it will not be 99.9999% for those items - it will be 100%. In fact, my habits have caught me forgetting the things on the list literally hundreds of times over the past decade. It works and it always catches it.
I disagree.

When you're casting a vote on paper, it's pretty easy to check that your vote is not being observed.

When you're casting an electronic vote, you have no such option. You can claim the vote is secret. The developers of the voting machine can claim the vote is secret. But the voter has no way to verify this.

Secret voting is too important to be left to voting machines.
>"Before it was such a cliche, it was actually a great question. Open ended, allowing you to gauge how a candidate deals with unknown problems ..."

Wait isn't it still an open ended question with answers that can focus on any part of what happens? Why would the fact that it's "cliche" change that?

You can go memorize that post but unless you really understand TCP, HTTP, networking, DNS etc. it's still going to be really apparent to an interviewer who does by simply digging further into just one of those aspects.
> libertarians embrace far-right views here

This is pretty far from being an absolute. You likely mean Libertarians, as in the Libertarian party, not libertarians in general. There are plenty of left leaning American libertarians, myself included. The Libertarian party has some weird ideas, but I would caution against conflating them with the extreme right. Libertarian is a value on a different political axis to left/right, and is counter to authoritarian.
I'm cringing at the crazy comments here defending thiel and hogan here.

Interesting tidbits.

1. Sex tape was obtained LEGALLY.

2. Hogan discussed sex tape openly long before Gawker bought it and released it.

3. Many sites released footage of the sex tape years before gawker.

https://thinkprogress.org/nobody-speak-documentary-eab86b547...

The ONLY story here is that thiel ( who doesn't believe women deserve the right to vote ) decided to use his wealth to take down a news organization. There is a dedicated group here who are pushing a lot of lies and trying to frame the debate one way.

You can't say you are for free speech and defend thiel/hogan.
Appologies. I reposted to an ABC piece. Question though... how does this exclude people who are already well informed from commenting on this forum? And how does a clickbait article rectify this?
Custom settings for history -> Accept third party cookies (Always/Never/From visited).

in case anyone is wondering.
You know that trees are pretty much the definition of a renewable resource, right? As in, I have a large sustainable forestry operation and they are cutting trees down as I type this. I own it, I don't do the work.

That wood builds your house, provides heat, provides jobs, makes dowels, and makes paper - depending on what is harvested. And, it will be able to do so in perpetuity. The process is called TSI and is even able to increase habitats for the animals - they are delicious.

I'm not sure we can have a productive conversation.
Stephen grider's udemy courses on react (all 3-4 of them are great). Totally recommended.
mysql root password: http://www.dulceswilly.com/mysql/BHP_sym/root/root/.my.cnf
$python
Python 2.7.9 (default, Jun 29 2016, 13:08:31)
[GCC 4.9.2] on linux2
>>> True + True
2
>>>

okay...

python3
Python 3.4.2 (default, Oct 8 2014, 10:45:20)
[GCC 4.9.1] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> True + True
2
>>>

I'm going to try this in Rust.
The CFAA, which makes it a crime to access a computer system without proper permission.
As Assange has stated repeatedly, he sees no difference between mainstream party politicians: Obama has continued NSA spying and indiscriminate drone bombings. He sees Trump as a genuine outsider to the dominant Washington polity and an alternative power network. He thinks whatever disrupts mainstream neoliberal/neocon world order is a good thing.

Again, please keep in mind I'm not a WikiLeaks supporter.
2nd paragraph, FTA:

"this scraping violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the controversial 1986 law that makes computer hacking a crime. HiQ sued, asking courts to rule that its activities did not, in fact, violate the CFAA."
In a close election it's potentially feasible to flip an election by hacking the machines in
a few hundred precincts across 2 or 3 states. Still unlikey but potentially feasible given a determined, well funded adversary.

And you wouldn't have to actually flip the election to undermine it's legitimacy.

>In other words. Hacking the election is up there with the us planned 9/11

9/11 happened, so someone planned it. Very few people are worried about the US government hacking voting precincts. They're worried about a foreign government doing it.
Isn't everyone violating the CFAA [1] already? It is not clear whether a child is being prosecuted for this kind of specific tos violation.

[1]http://blog.erratasec.com/2012/11/you-are-committing-crime-r...
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Ironic because LinkedIn scrapes and collects every scrap of contact info they can find. I've got people I sent an email to once in 199? suddenly popping up suggesting we know each other.
I'm following this story with a lot of interest. I've done (and still do!) a lot of data crawling/scraping. In the past I've worked on so-called "alternative data" collection and analysis for financial forecasting.

Without going into too much detail, a lot of hedge funds have teams constantly searching for kernels of data that can contribute some kind of signal for market movements. This data can come in the form of satellite imagery for oil tankers or manufacturing centers, but it can also come from the very creative use of scraped and aggregated data. It's typically very difficult to identify, collect and analyze on a technical level (as 'chollida1 has lamented in the past: normalization, labeling/bucketing and analysis of disparate data across different formats, sources and processing timeframes is a pernicious problem at this scale). From a compliance standpoint there are also generally strict requirements governing legality of use.

Depending on the specific data, you might be capable of predicting earnings or broader market movements with a <5% margin of error each quarter for years at a time (I've personally seen and worked on projects with <1%, but that's the exception, not the norm). That tactic is usually found at discretionary funds; at quantitative funds the uses are much more abstract and cross-pollinated so as not to target single-equities, but rather holistic trends. Regardless, every fund is using data in some way these days; it's just a matter of how sophisticated, creative abstract they get in their analysis of it.

hiQ Labs doesn't collect data for this specific purpose, but it is absolutely related. In the past I have stayed away from crawling LinkedIn and Yelp precisely because they are very litigious (regardless of the eventual outcome and legality). Now that there's another relatively high profile case out in the open like this, I'm interested in seeing how it proceeds and what the ramifications will be for companies that collect data across a wide range of uses. As Grimmelman mentioned in the article, this can impact a lot of types of businesses, not just those in the same space as hiQ. Outside of finance I am familiar with many tech companies which (openly or otherwise), kickstarted what are now widely known enterprises through cleverly crawling or scraping massive amounts of data.
You're absolutely right; there's a moral dimension there, too.

(And not just in China. For instance, Apple banned an app I used to keep rough tabs on how many civilians my democratically elected government was killing with drone strikes.)
It's lacking the biology part and physics part, and chemistry, and ....

Some of the sections are just out of context and become showing offs(like the keyboard part. For a hardware position that is not enough, for a software position that's non-relevant), which doesn't mean more sophisticated, just different interest domains.
Blockchains are cryptographically hashed ledgers, this means that barring a hash collision, each unique input will produce a unique output and that one of the inputs to the hashing algorithm is a representation of all the previous transactions on the ledger.

Independent operation is a premise of distribution, not integrity. Integrity comes from idempotence of the cryptographic hash...the same inputs always produce the same outputs. In terms of integrity the blockchain is no different from Git.

Unlike Bitcoin there are many situations in which the ledger operates in an environment with higher interparty trust. Bitcoin is entirely adversarial in a way that a blockchain operating entirely internal to an organization such as a bank is not. In between are many potential interparty applications where partial trust may be good enough, such as the agreement of 50% or 70% of nodes. One of feature that can make a network good enough is the ability to blacklist nodes that appear untrustworthy.

To put it another way, the trust model for Azure's service is different from the trust model for Bitcoin, etc.
> Apple itself is a long way from being the free speech crusader you are hoping for; in fact, they are clearly quite pro-censorship: just look at the App store. It's ridiculously censored!

This a "two wrongs don't make a right" type situation.

In fact, if the pressure from this could get them to stop doing that, all the better.
Can't find any NPR news on that except this old story that mentioned nothing related to backdoor or approved VPN:

http://www.npr.org/tags/540281875/vpn

Any links?
No, according to the article, “most Spanish speaking countries” (not “standard Spanish”, which isn't a thing) use the diminutive form “ahorita” as more immediate form of “ahora” (“right now” vs. “now”.) Which has nothing to do with (an orthogonal concern to) the imperative, which is used in issuing commands.
We can fix this with Greater than or equal operator (>=):

3 > 2 >= 1 // true

What? No, JavaScript doesn't have chained comparison operators, as the author seems to know but not explain. Overall this list is pretty misleading and uninteresting IMHO.
I remember trying to deliver an urgent parcel in London (I was coming from France) and discovering that the address numbers don't follow each other and are not organized by odd numbers on one side of the road and even numbers on the other side.

So you could have house number 200 between 15 and 42 ... of course I had to go the full length of the street before finding the right address. I remember feeling sympathy for English postmen back then ;-)
> You can't practice treating crimes differently based on who the person is, even if they're cops.

But isn't that common practice? Someone with prior convictions will get a harsher sentence.

By that same logic it's conceivable that someone might receive a harsher sentence based on being held to a higher standard.

> It's really messy.

Agreed.
I get this: ERR_SPDY_INADEQUATE_TRANSPORT_SECURITY
If violating a web sites terms of service is a felony, then the government has delegated authority in defining felonies to every web site operator. That is not appropriate.

This goes back to the old problem of identity. If people were identifiable on the internet then web sites could easily blacklist or whitelist users and no rely on ToS for things like this.
Many programming languages use references to other objects liberally. Wouldn't it be hard to keep it all contained so that you could restore it later?
Previously removed disscussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14890652
Agreed, although some things like:

NaN === NaN // -> false

Are pretty f*&^%$ up, no matter how you look at them

Edit: well, apparently there is a non f&^%$ up way to look at it:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14891810
I've been looking to do part 1, so this is really cool - looking forward to this too! On http://course.fast.ai/part2.html the thumbnail for lesson 8 has specs for building a PC, with advice to use pcpartpicker. For part 1 I liked the idea of using AWS and only paying for a few hours, does part 2 have a hard requirement of a >$100s investment in hardware?
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