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I figured we need a summary in here. Open source MS access alternatives (indexed from other comments):

There's MS access of course https://products.office.com/en-au/access

Open Source

LibreOffice Base https://www.libreoffice.org/discover/base/
Kexi https://www.kde.org/applications/office/kexi/
Gnome DB http://www.gnome-db.org/
Lazarus (better for programming, worse for DB) https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

Web based

Oracle Apex https://apex.oracle.com/en/
Google AppMaker https://developers.google.com/appmaker/ ($10/user, only paid users can access app)
Bubble.is https://bubble.is/
Quickbase http://www.quickbase.com/
Caspio https://www.caspio.com/
Airtable https://airtable.com/
Zoho Creator https://www.zoho.com/creator/
Rajic https://www.ragic.com/
Knack https://www.knack.com/

Other desktop apps

FileMaker Pro http://www.filemaker.com/products/filemaker-pro/ (predates everything else in this list, beautiful, if somewhat limited, app)
Embarcadero (Borland) Delphi https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
DataFlex http://www.dataaccess.com

Really more programming frameworks, but sort-of fit the bill

Python Django https://www.djangoproject.com/
Ruby On Rails http://rubyonrails.org/
Only a small percentage of packages go through [testing]. Typically only when problems are expected. [community] and [extra] require no testing, just that the packager says "good enough for me." [core] is held to higher standards.
Well, no, I don't think so. Learning Biology outside of school is also harder than learning CS or programming by yourself.
these are mostly bad advices.
google to vimeo, google to apple. move from one unfree proprietary service to another..

archive.org for video-upload instead of youtube/vimeo is an option. searx instead of google search. for smartphone you have to dig deeper ;)
My claim is that the current price of coffee beans happens by coincidence to be close to the optimum for Starbucks’ profits, and any major change would be a disadvantage.
> I totally agree with her points
FTFY
The important thing here is that illegal isn't the same thing as doing something bad. There's enough regimes out there where you'd want to hide certain spending patterns.
The point is to have a VOIP number that is abstracted from the real world, but to everybody else looks like a normal 10 digit phone number. That way I can answer on my desktop at work, phone on the go, or log in from anywhere and still have that same one point of contact to give out to everybody.

Basically what Apple/iMessages give if you play in their sandbox.

AFAIK, Skype and similar services don't let you port in your number and use that for inbound and outbound calls -- you're locked in to a Skype name or whatever. Or if they do allow a number its some ungodly expensive thing like "Skype for Business": https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Transfer-phone-numb...
Maybe we need a generic HTTPS fileserver. It's just too easy to apt-get install an FTP server.
Hi. I majored in Applied Mathematics with an emphasis in computer science. And, at least from my personal experience, the computer science part felt like a waste of time. Undergrad computer science classes are all rather uninteresting and will not prepare you for the job market you are going to enter. If you really (and I mean really) want to design algorithms then computer science is for you.

What I've learned in my first two years in industry is that computer science and programming are JUST a means to an end.

What is really important is your DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE. You should get out there and learn something about a field besides computer science that interests you. Computers are so fast and powerful now that hardly anymore is asking if something is computable anymore or trying to get matrix multiplication lower than O(n^2.3).

I, for example, really like football. So I've been spending my spare time developing models and gathering statistics for the NFL.
Don't forget that newer ChromeOS devices support running Android Apps, including Termux. It doesn't have an X built in, but you can do a ton of stuff with it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14863580
Ok by this definition I agree. (I would not say that apple was "quick" to handover the data but that is beside the point).
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This story is an example of how rehabilitation is acceptable only in concept, not reality for many, regardless of what they might profess. The student added a personal statement (which wasn't required) about her crime and record. Yet, 2 people's "concerns", which they didn't bother to address with the applicant caused the admission to be rescinded. The school's decision in prioritizing appearances/what others will think above a student's future is repugnant.

Good to see she took it in stride:

“People don’t survive 20 years of incarceration with any kind of grace unless they have the discipline to do their reading and writing in the chaos of that place,” Jones said. “Forget Harvard. I’ve already graduated from the toughest school there is.”
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He defines 'vanilla' to mean 'build from upstream with little distro-specific changes'. So what does this have to do with making Python 3 the default python interpreter? I bet this symlink is not even part of the python source code; it's always a choice made by the distro maintainers.

Arch is known to be always cutting edge even if this sometimes means breaking stuff so this decision is not exactly surprising.
It's a big dip right now, but not a crash.

Even stocks can rise 7% a day. Just some extra bad luck with stock exchanges in china and reaching 5k $

We will see how far it goes this time and when the big traders come back marching in ;)
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Looks like it COULD BE, those first three numbers are in the range of someone from NY and someone from CA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Social_Security_Area_N...
Why Sublime over other text editors or IDEs?

What are the deep conceptual differences, the strongly held opinions?
Humour me here: Wouldn't technical analysis be a good way to analyze something like ETH or BTC?

A normal stock has the underlying company, earnings, performance, forecasts, etc. to sort through and figure out where it is headed, but ETH and BTC have no such thing. So what better way to analyze than TA?
I still think someone within this community could make this into a dramatic short film.
There is no "we" as you mention.

Everyone is an individual with different values and judgments.

How could you expect the entirety of the human race to treat someones actions in a consistent way? It simply is going against reality.
Depends which school you go to. I went to an engineering college. Brutal, in a good way.
> Apple need to create a system where stolen phones can be reported to them, Apple can then contact the owner/verify they are stolen. And then add them to a stolen list and disable calling/apps on those phones. And display an overlay on the screen THIS PHONE IS STOLEN.

Why would I want to give a third party the ability to brick my phone? If Apple has that power, then a disgruntled Apple employee can use that power and a government can compel Apple to use that power.

My computing devices are my computing devices. Only I should have the ability to do anything to them.
You can also keep your configs in git and just pull.
I remember the collective joy when ncftp [1] turned up as an alternative to the default ftp client, suddenly making it possible to resume FTP transfers. An important feature when you've initiated a large (several MB) file with a dialup modem but someone in the house needs to make a phone call.

IIRC FTP clients throughout the '90s were actually more reliable than browsers at resuming downloads.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NcFTP
That’s what it does right now - if Touch ID or face id fails you still have your password to fall back on. I think it may do this automatically if the touch sensor dies but you can always force it with the 5x quick taps on the power button.
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Well, you shouldn't upload it to any cloud system in general
How much thoughts have been put to improve farming beside fertilizers and pesticides ?

I do wish for better food, and better life for farmers. Also I'm quite annoyed by mainstream tech (find it often uselessly improving the wrong parts of life).
What do you refer to apt-hell exactly? I've been using Ubuntu for years, and I can't remember any problem with the package manager.

The apt-related annoyance is that some PPAs don't carry updated packages (for all the recent Ubuntu versions), but has nothing to do with apt itself.

Maybe you refer to distro upgrades? To be fair I have little experience with those, as I never upgrade, only perform fresh installs.
What does this prove though? That no specific real is guaranteed to be left out of every list? Was that ever in dispute?
In my humble opinion, i find the label 'not encrypted' better fitting than 'not secure'.

[ edit after replies ]

Agreed, perhaps i unrightfully assumed people now what 'encrypted' means. Growing up with computers i don't know any better and sometimes forget or can't properly imagine what layman know and don't know.
I think this is very interesting. If you're sitting in class and you find out that the person in your group project murdered a 4 year old at one point, I would understand if they were to be extremely uncomfortable. I would also understand if they accepted them and supported the rehabilitation. I don't know how to feel about it, really
Decentralize the funding; rely on users rather than advertising or VC. Developing Mastodon is now the full-time job of he guy who wrote it, thanks to Patreon. I think he's starting to hire a few people, too.

And a lot of Mastodon servers also have their own Patreons to help out with the hosting costs.
It seems to have slowed some lately, but the whole "Acquihire + Shutdown the Product" model was popular with other SV firms too.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-so-many-startups-are-bein...
Academia is largely political-- and politics has a long-running "tough on crime" stance.
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In fairness, she is a convicted murderer. And just try to imagine the magnitude of the blowback if she ever did anything wrong on campus, particularly to some precious darling of wealthy and connected parents.

I'm not saying the Harvard administration made the right choice here, but they certainly had cause to be cautious.
It's creative approach to content monetization that solves some of the problems associated with ads, such as visual clutter. But mining is a computationally intensive process. So, in a world where this became commonplace, I can't see how you could have more than a few websites running on the client, contending for CPU power, without the end-user experience ending up being severely affected - and the revenue that content makers end up getting out of this as well.
Not really no. You can use the idioms but FP python is not. Guido has declared that there will never be tail call optimization to name one glaring incompatibility.
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How learnable is Sublime?

- Is there a way to lookup documentation while using the editor (contextual help)?

- Is there a way to access most features without key bindings and to learn the key bindings while doing so?
I'm a sysadmin and I hadn't heard this until last year. It explains why only root can do an ifconfig on SLES, but anyone can run 'ip a'
These seem to have been leaked before [1, 2], so that's not very conclusive...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/HydraHackingUnited/posts/9614975439... (November 24, 2015)

[2] http://www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/1-50-138814262-1-0-1-0-qui-s... (June 20, 2013)
In the old days I played with gentoo, linux-from-scratch, redhat, debain,ubuntu,slackware, even *BSDs...you name it. I was young and had time then. Nowadays I settle down on ubuntu for the desktop, Debian for the server. That's it. Good enough for everything I need, so I can focus more on the stuff I need develop instead. It is also easier to coordinate with teams.
I used to love Arch wholeheartedly. The systemd transition left a bad taste in my mouth, and I haven't felt like I've had full control of my system since then, but I periodically try other Linux distributions but I always end up coming back to Arch. My experience with other distributions always goes something like this:

Oh this is nice and easy

Hm, there isn't a package for this thing I love. I guess I'll build it myself...

[Several hours pass]

Ok, looks like I just need to get XYZ working and I'm good, lemme google how to do that for this distro

It looks like this is automatically configured using some Windows-style control panel hidden somewhere. Google suggests seven different places I could look for this option, corresponding to previous versions of the distro...

Wouldn't editing a config in /etc/ be easier than this? I'm reinstalling Arch...
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No company I've ever worked at takes security seriously. As a developer I learned long ago to point out in emails (CYA) what they're doing wrong and how our development should work backward from the risks.

Nah, that costs money and takes time. Just outsource the code.

I wonder how much that has cost all the companies that have been hacked. My guess is it's several orders of magnitude more than it saved.
This is not what happened at all.
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I2 is an interactive development environment for real-time analysis pipelines, which is based on Apache Flink and Apache Zeppelin. The sheer amount of available streaming data frequently makes it impossible to visualize all data points at the same time. I2 coordinates running Flink jobs and corresponding visualizations such that only the currently depicted data points are processed in Flink and transferred towards the front end. We show how Flink jobs can adapt to changed visualization properties at runtime to allow interactive data exploration on high bandwidth data streams.
What do students think of Bloc (coding bootcamp)?
> updates did break something minor fairly frequently due to occasionally incompatible updates, e.g. a missing symbol in a shared object.

That should never happen with official packages and full updates. I've seen it happen maybe twice in 10 years and it was fixed within an hour.

If you shoot your foot off by performing a partial update (pacman -Sy foo bar baz) or forget to rebuild your AUR packages, then it might happen. But that is on you, not the distro.
> If your negotiations rely on the monopoly that the state provides, is it really a negotiation?

Patents, copyright, law enforcement. All provided by the state and used by tech giants in their interactions with others who use tech they've produced.
Research Project Mockingbird.
I find anonymous ftp to still be useful for distributing files to users. But for personal files? No.
Efficient aluminum smelting requires reliable, continuous power for weeks at a time.

Photovoltaics are cheap, but the diurnal variation makes them singularly inappropriate for aluminum smelting.
I think this is a really great idea! I'd rather have sites do this then bombard me with 10000 banners. Sure it increases my CPU load but I'd argue it reduces my cognitive load!
I unfortunately can't find an authoritative source, either, but I recall a /r/SpaceX discussion where it was stated that hurricane prep includes maintaining power because they're (lightly) pressurized at all times.
I really liked this write-up because it focused on the practicality of the various security mechanisms. Most articles I see usually have a blanket statement like "All biometric security mechanisms are bad!". I think this article does a good job comparing the various logins and describing the pros and cons for different people. Specifically, I appreciate the author calling out when people bring up the "What if" edge-cases, where the correct response is you likely have much bigger problems at that point than the security level of your phone.
This really pisses me off. It's only a matter of time before some random person opens up a cellphone, utlity, or bank account... or worse. Completely messed up.

Everyone American should be scared shitless at this incompetence. It's going to cost everyone thousands of dollars over their lives for credit fraud protection. Just another expense to add.
Either you believe in forgiveness or you don't. What she did was horrific. What she had done to her was almost as bad, but not an excuse, never an excuse because we are not animals, for what she did. She ended a child's life in a horrible, cruel manner.

But....

The state decided 20 years was enough. You can argue about the length or if she got out at all, but its problematic not to get the most value out of her when we are supposed to reintegrate her into society[1]. The time to argue she should still be in prison is passed. If you did not journey or send comment to the parole board prior to her release, then you did let your voice be heard.

“But frankly, we knew that anyone could just punch her crime into Google, and Fox News would probably say that P.C. liberal Harvard gave 200 grand of funding to a child murderer, who also happened to be a minority. I mean, c’mon.”

I can understand this attitude in a single person, but you folks are friggin Harvard. Now, some Fox host is going to do a whole segment on how flexible your values are in the face of opposition.

Conservative politicians do this too when talking to the NYT and it is annoying. Stick to your damn guns or admit you don't actually believe in the principals you ran on. The voting booth back home is more important than being invited to the cool dinner parties.

1) can we get an article on how their rehabilitation works at that prison.
Agreed. Median salary would have been way more meaningful.

Although it is interesting to see that despite the US's absurdly low minimum wage, the purchasing power actually stacks up pretty well with other countries, even those with absurdly high minimum wages.
I generally don't need to know math at all. But I'm just a boring developer, I'm not working on AI or big data / data science (ie. cool stuff)

But to expand on my point, I basically never use anything I learned in college. I had one semester of assembly programming where I did a little kernel programming (I don't program in assembly or mess with kernels), one semester of Java programming for data structures (ok, I use data structures but they're pretty simple to understand), one semester of c++ programming just to learn the language, etc. A mish-mash of concepts and languages.

What do I need for work? These days I program in C# in Visual Studio. Great language and IDE but I didn't learn it at the university. Learning WPF, WCF, ASP MVC, etc... you just have to sit down and grind it out, its not really university learning stuff.

In terms of math being hard... I think its more the case that young people are terrible students... Sit in the front of the class, take notes, form a study group!, ask questions online, learn how to learn math...

I for one was not a good student, but I blame myself and my laziness and not the inherent difficulty of undergraduate math.
And it is highly privatized in the sense that the amount of privatization in that sector should probably be zero.

I could only agree more if you removed probably.
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In a way, I buy that. However, the problem with many religious / community "rules of order" is that they too often are based more on tribal patterns and/or irrational logic instead of evidence.

Not only has that sometimes caused harm to harmless people "not in the tribe", but sometimes legitimate sociopaths have actually exploited "the rules and norms" to their end. (A particularly notorious example of the later that I can think of is Ted Bundy.)

Agreed with the idea that religion does foster a sense of community. If you can get that without the nasty tribalism side effects you sometimes see from it, it would work.
> In fairness, she is a convicted murderer.

Who did her time and paid her dues to society. That's the point of rehabilitation.
Dunno why, but just surprised that Kim K's credit score with Equifax is 643. Unrelated, sorry.
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"So, we reverse-engineer the LoRa physical layer using the patents filed by Semtech [27, 57], which is the key LoRa chipset manufacturer. We also use the Semtech 1276 starter kit [10] that provides an interface to transmit LoRa packets with various bitrates and an arbitrary payload. Finally, we analyze the transmissions from the LoRa chipsets on a USRP."

This is some impressive work.
Bitcoin started as a non-profit (obviously not technically but my point is, cryptocurrencies allow you to leverage and trade value created without external money)
I love Arch, personally. Have been using it for quite a few years now as my desktop and love the rolling release paradigm.

That said, when setting up machines for others I pick the current LTS release of Kubuntu and install unattended-upgrades to ensure security updates get maintained. It provides a much better ongoing maintenance story for machines that are less "pets" and more "tools".

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Due to a disk crash, I recently had to reinstall Arch for the first time in quite a few years. IMO the install process has become more opaque. I seem to remember the wiki use to have a newbie install guide which was really helpful and explained a lot of things as you go, or at least what the common practices were or the pros and cons of different options. That seems to be gone and anything that may be an opinion seems to be excised from any install instructions, and you're left to stumble around different pages a lot more, which is a bit of a shame.

I guess that's were arch anywhere and similar ones mentioned may have filled the gap. I will have to try them out.
fun fact: you can run shortest path algorithms on pretty much everything as long as it fulfills the monoid constraints (taking min and combining paths, operating on distances is a monoid)

so basically, for the cost of implementing two operations you can reuse dijkstra or bellman-ford to do crazy stuff like belief propagation etc

http://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00245ED1V01Y2...
So the fact that they've previously been lying about device encryption stands out as supportive of user privacy to you?
Hi, Arch user here, thanks for your work.

I'd love to see VSCode[1] in the official repos, Atom is there and VSCode is arguably becoming even more popular now.

1 - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visual-studio-code
There are stocks, even well to do ones, which are very volatile. You can look up biggest gainers and losers on NASDAQ as an example:
http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/most-active.aspx

Biggest gain and loss only for today has been 17 and 18 percent respectively.
While one can argue on a stable stock vs BTC but that is not a fair comparison.
I think https://anvil.works belongs in your "Web based" category as well.

(Although perhaps with the same note as Lazarus - fundamentally, it's a [Python!] programming environment with a DB attached, rather than a DB with a programming environment attached.)
To the users they’re trying to target here, Not Secure makes a lot more sense than Not Encrypted I think.