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Your criticism is valid, but only temporarily. Lack of the packages in those 2 (in particularly Nix) is because the distro is pretty new in comparison and the community is not nearly as big as the ones of major distros.

On the other end, Nix's way is obviously a future in terms of package-management systems in comparison to the package-managers of the past - to a degree that I haven't seen anyone who read the docs ([1]) saying anything negative about the core ideas - I'd imagine that most people get blown away and become converts.

[1] https://nixos.org/nixos/packages.html
EURGBP: Tumbles, Continues to Retain Its Downside Pressure
why not webassembly? it could be ~10 times speedup.
Pedantic correction:

> Does it have resume capabilities? Nope.

See RFC 959,

> RESTART (REST)

>

> The argument field represents the server marker at which

> file transfer is to be restarted. This command does not

> cause file transfer but skips over the file to the specified

> data checkpoint. This command shall be immediately followed

> by the appropriate FTP service command which shall cause

> file transfer to resume.

And it would seem the definition from the RFC isn't even what's commonly implemented anymore, per https://cr.yp.to/ftp/retr.html (ctrl/cmd+f "The REST verb" no quotes)

Finally, if we're including HTTPS and comparing HTTP v FTP, why not include FTPS? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS (edit: probably because Chrome doesn't support it. Heh.)
I'm not sure I follow you. Do you mean that the routing systems at the lower networking layers can be thought of as proxies in the sense that they copy data in and copy data out? That's technically correct, but they're not conventionally called proxies.
High Time to Regulate Face Recognition A.I
Buying a Chromebook still results in advertisement, money and power for Google.
There still must be another mechanism to access it like a password. What if the camera fails? What if you get punched in the face that day?
> The argument is that consciousness is subjectively experienced, while science is an objective explanation.

Certainly consciousness appears to be subjective experience. That doesn't make it so. See: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00...

> As for closing gaps, do we really expect science to be able to explain everything in terms of some fundamental theory, from quarks to societies?

That certainly seems to be the trend. Every step forward in some field sheds light on other fields, and cross-disciplinary work is becoming ever more relevant.
Ah thanks. I haven't ever seen that.

Curious whether there will be a measurable impact on new credit approvals as a result of this apparent mass freezing. Equifax's breach leading to second order effect of retail credit gumming up would piss off Equifax's actual clients in a big way.
It's not weird or abstract. It's totally concrete -- the markers of ownership (dividend, voting rights) are missing but there is still ownership of the enterprise. If SNAP is sold, they are entitled to their share.
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The article presents ways to code directly on Chrome OS, without Crouton, you just need to read past the first paragraphs.
>Android is a hopeless cause

You've been living in some kind of echo chamber my brother, especially if you think Apple worries about encryption just because they want your privacy. It's only the ubiquitous mobile device OS on the planet. Do you ever want to do something fun with a raspberry pi?
There's a difference between running on the [testing] repos, which do what you say, and the regular default repos, which wait for packages to graduate from [testing] before rolling them out.
could you go into more detail on why the .net core devops is problematic?
My perspective weights towards industry, not academia. That is an important thing to acknowledge up front; note that almost everyone you talk to on a university campus has the opposite perspective and many of them are unaware of it.

It is far more important that you actually write code than the specifics of what you study, from the perspective of a career in industry. This attitude is very not shared by academia.

I would bias towards a course of study which included the opportunity to work on longer-than-a-lab meaty projects. Some schools offer courses where the primary thing that you do is a single semester-long project on a team; that is a useful thing to have done.

University is also a good time to low-consequence graze across a variety of fields to expose you to things you _could_ do in your career without necessarily needing to commit to them. One undergrad course on AI, for example, costs you ~2% of your units of study effort and, while it probably has negligible real-world utility, will give you a feel for whether it is an energizing topic for you.

Does your school have a strong internship program? I would expose myself to opportunities to do an internship, particularly if it were an internship at a company with a strong engineering culture. Bonus points if it is one you'd consider working at after school
> Consequently, do not try to use legal consequences as a way to help people you love, and if possible, bail them out if they get arrested for drug crimes. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t hold them accountable, but do so in ways that are less likely to lead to lifelong problems. Meaningful employment is an important factor in recovery — and few things are more harmful to the chances of getting a good job than having a criminal record.

This is one area that's crying out for some kind of reform.
The most important thing I was told while in college - you get out of college what you put into it. You'll still be a junior developer once you're out of it, and you'll re-learn 90% of what you know.

Classes won't matter much because you won't learn any real world usage of the technology, but you will learn all you need about algorithms, data structures and big o notation (if you want to pass the interviews). Pick classes that force you to think and use what you know to pick a solution. Don't pick classes that shows you the language, but rather how to approach problems, how to think in terms of solving them and how to put it all together in an architectured solution.

And as someone else said - internships. You'll learn 10x more in 3 month program, than you'll learn in your entire college career - guaranteed.
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One aspect of a rule is that it serves as a test to highlight those who can't/won't follow it (a psychopath). But that's not the only function...
I'd also add, that there are a lot of "database as a service" services around now, when coupled with a javascript frontent, essentially fulfill the role of "front end to a database" that Access was essentially.
"Oh it just works, as long as you read the documentation before every update and follow the update news feed, which usually has a bunch of information on packages your either don't use or don't care about. And you may have to fix shit manually. So yeah, it Just Works."

With Mint (or Mac OS or Windows or Ubuntu), it updates automatically. Or if it doesn't, it flashes an icon, I click the icon, it updates for me.

That's what "it just works" means.
This is a really well-written, considered view of the trade-offs for using different options for security. I learned a lot from reading, and the plain language discussion of the topic allows most any reader to better understand the trade-offs present for each option.

Much appreciated to the original author - it takes a good deal of time and effort to write something that lucid. Thanks.
Find My iPhone + iCloud is what you're describing.

Even a DFU restore of the device won't help a thief, as the activation process will simply ask for your iCloud login and will display a "Message From Owner" that you can set at icloud.com indicating the device was stolen, making it much harder for someone to purchase and claim ignorance about the origins.
I think if you'd found that the definition of 'globalist' meant 'a person who likes turnips' you'd have written the same lengthy missive explaining how that dietary preference is equivalent to support for world government, possibly based on the self-evident idea that turnip-fancy is zero sum. This isn't argument, it's just throwing around terms with enough coinciding letters to try to reach a pre-determined conclusion/idée fixe. Let's call it a day before you end up having to connect the turnipists to the globular clusterists and the black helicopterists.
And white politicions supported harsher sentences in the past as well. Do they speak for us today? Did they speak for everyone back then? Last I checked you only needed a simple majority to get elected.
it would be sufficient for me, if there was a firebase replacement, but it seems push messages are only possible via firebase
Or echo instead of ls.
I would also advocate for computer science. Keep in mind that no matter what you choose to study, many people change majors or schools before they graduate. If you feel like you want to learn something else, don't be afraid of taking a different path (after consulting with trusted advisors/mentors, of course).

I think an important function of higher education is exposure to a wide variety of ideas and disciplines. I don't want to preach too much, but there is value in learning things that don't seem immediately interesting or useful- I really regret not working harder on subjects that I thought were boring or easy.

Best of luck in whatever you decide to do.
Apple has all this; if you play in their court. But that's who they are. Everything is set up to "synchronize" with one number.

If my phone rings, my watch also does (when it's on my wrist, no cellular required), so does my iPad. I can answer on these devices. I can also make calls on them from my iPhone number.

I don't have a mac at home (because, why desktop?) but If I did it would also ring and allow me to make calls from it too.

iMessages and text messages work the same way, alerts and ability to reply on the watch, synchronization with my iPad and iPhone, and the Messaging app on OSX.
Yep, but it has changed quite a bit since then.

30 years ago there was only console mode, albeit in different flavors (unix/DOS). Nowadays the main product is Windows oriented and also has a Web offering. You can still buy a console mode linux version, but it hasn't had updates in over a decade. Yes it runs and works on recent Linux versions, no I would not recommend spending any money on that.

Your 30 years old data files however could still be read. You might need to migrate it to a newer format if you want to extend and change things, but it would still work.
Question for the HN crowd: do you think tech-workers will begin to unionize? It seems to me that (in general) they've got such a nice position in the economy there's probably a bit of an "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality. Is that correct?
That's exactly it - the advantage is people don't want to change and it's taken them years to get used to whatever ftp client they've been given or trained on
I totally agree with his points about how terrible the Windows console is.

Scrolling past the current line into blank space makes no sense. Having two identical settings menus (Defaults and Properties) that affect the current terminal vs every terminal makes no sense. Having no color theme support makes no sense.

As far as third party terminals go, ConEmu is pretty good but crashes a lot for me. I don't see why I should even need to get a third party terminal though. Microsoft is a multi billion dollar company. Can't they hire a team of guys to improve the one thing that every single programmer and sysadmin cares about - the god damned terminal?
This bill was passed end of last year.

In the true Orwellian fashion now typifying 2016, a bill to implement the U.S.’ very own de facto Ministry of Truth has been quietly introduced in Congress...
http://www.mintpressnews.com/propaganda-bill-congress-give-a...
Personally, I'd like to see identity tied to my smartwatch, with authentication happening via capacitive coupling + Bluetooth.

The way I'm envisioning it:

1. Physically touch the object you want to authenticate to. (E.g. Computer, payment terminal, smart lock, etc.) Watch uses capacitive coupling to bootstrap a Bluetooth connection to that device.

2. Device requests authentication & authorization from Watch.

3. Watch either authenticates you instantly (for lower security applications), or requests you to confirm the transaction with your fingerprint/face/PIN (higher security applications)

This method would also enable a lot of other neat tricks to further increase security, like checking your heart rate and refusing to authenticate if you're asleep or the watch isn't strapped to your wrist anymore, requiring additional authentication methods to unlock your watch after you take it off, displaying the dollar amount for monetary transactions on your watch when asking for approval, etc.
Physicalists can't yet explain everything because our knowledge is incomplete. We all know this.

Every thought experiment purporting to invalidate physicalism is also either fatally flawed, or simply points to a knowledge gap that we haven't yet explored.

None of the above justifies declaring physicalism "insufficient" or "unsatisfactory". People adopt anti-physicalist philosophies because they don't like the idea of being an automaton, not because the arguments against it are sound.
The closer we get to the economically perfect solutions the better, but even powerplants have lots of weird regulations and "subsidies" around their pricing e.g. paying gas peakers to be on standby because it's not clear exactly how much power will be needed. At some point you have to accept simplicity rather than waste money on perfection. Net-metering is a pretty good solution by any measure.
> Eventually, Facebook says, it OK’d proposed terms of the contract, which hiked drivers’ average pay by half, to $27.50 an hour, and for the first time provided fully paid family health care.

For those people doing the driving that's pretty great news. I hope they also took care of those working conditions issues too. Split shifts etc...
As there is a definite Monty Python feeling to the video, I'd suggest this is appropriate: https://youtu.be/aNaXdLWt17A?t=20s
Same here. I'm trying to figure out how to short ETH. Unfortunately, I'm a noob and don't know my way around.
The systemd transition was literally hell and nearly broke me. Took me nearly a year to go back to Arch. But I came back for how easy I can modify aur packages and still have them versioned by pacman.
Sneakernet baby!!!

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a dude with a backpack full of high density storage media.

The more you try to control human desires, the more it finds cracks elsewhere.

It's like putting water under high pressure. It will come shooting out of even the tightest seals, if you press it hard enough.
Working in a union would be terrible. Can you imagine having to deal with seniority rules?
Well, you did ask...
Just out of curiosity, are you okay with that?
We can have two options for unlock: (Face ID + PIN) OR (Alphanumeric Passphrase). The former for daily use and the latter as backup or for system restart.
The upside of not potentially losing everything you have done since the last time you remembered to save ?

is this a real question ?
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I think that must be a typo? https://syncthing.net
That's an interesting point of view. I'm not sure I'd be able to outlast 3+ years of pure Maths, though... I like Maths, and am moderately good at it (straight As on high-school, not winning any competitions though), but doing it for so long and on such a high level might as well drive me crazy.

Do you find one often needs to know advanced Math when working as a developer? (or do you do something else for a living?)
The JPEG-as-analogy-for-consciousness assumes materialization of consciousness. Insofar as we're using JPEGs as a metaphor for consciousness, the fact that JPEGs can be regarded as an informational abstraction translated across different physical mediums is perfectly compatible with a physicalist story of how consciousness occurs, which was the point of this whole sub-thread.

>A hole is not physical but it's realized in the midst of physicality.

Yet no one seems to think this poses some metaphysical problem requiring us to go "beyond" physics to explain holes.
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For anyone who still wants to use google search, but doesn't want their searches tied to their identity, check out GoogleSharing (originally developed by Moxie)

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/googlesharing...
Related: Cunningham's Law, which states, "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer".
So if you actually try to use the system for more than a handful of things, it tends to break? That's not very reassuring.
For comparison, I checked how CNBC reported the TSLA price fall, to see if it treated it differently. If anything, they were more harsh on Tesla:

"Tesla Sinks 20% From High — Entering Bear Market Territory — As Concerns About 'Bubble Stock' Mount"

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/07/06/tesla-shares-plunge-12-perce...
... or FTPS (which is different from SFTP) !
I honestly think programmers are just demonstrating that they skew politically inept by not unionizing.

Well, not a union as such, but if you look at other professional degrees, almost all of them have powerful trade groups that represent the workers -- doctors, engineers, lawyers, etc.

I think it speaks more to political ineptitude and the newness of the field that programming doesn't even have the same support structures in place that engineers do.
Yeah, fully privatized prisons are just the apotheosis of a broader issue.
It's actually using webassembly if available, otherwise it fallbacks on asm.js

>If true, the miner will always use the asm.js implementation of the hashing algorithm. If false, the miner will use the faster WebAssembly version if supported and otherwise fall back to asm.js. The default is false.

Source : https://coin-hive.com/documentation/miner
So .. where is all that good ol' American-supported living in .. Libya?

Syria?

Iraq?

Afghanistan?

Cambodia?

Pakistan?

Yemen?

Nigeria?
I agree with you, Tesla is a volatile and overvalued stock. My point was that such volatility is not unknown even to the US Stock Markets.
I don't think a blue chip stock can be compared to bitcoin.
It is interesting to see some big movement stock movements that happened in the past.
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/stocks/12/most-shocking...
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Is that more common than HTTPS, simpler, and a standard feature of FTP? I daresay not. In other words, you're making up a convoluted scenario and pretending it's still plain FTP, even though your toolchain got far more esoteric.
Resistance level? It's 2017 and you still believe technical analysis BS?
there is no reason yet to think that. But my point is it could become that hedge. Because there is no fundamental reason for gold to be treated as that hedge. So, my point is, the fact that there is no fundamental reason to use bitcoin is not really a great argument against it. Because there is no fundamental reason to use gold and it is used anyway.
A union is whatever the members want it to be. Just because traditional unions operate a certain way does not mean a union for tech workers has to operate the same way.
Linux Foundation Head Calls 2017 ‘Year of the Linux Desktop’…While Running MacOS
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Regarding the false acceptance rate, they would not specify and compare to the already-known Touch ID FAR just for no reason. Logic behind the number is not that someone would actually try one million times (IIRC - just 5 failures will wipe keying material and force passphrase entry), but rather, they're saying derived data for Touch ID had 50,000 possibilities, and there are 1,000,000 possibilities for the Face ID derived data.
The point of the article is that many people are complaining about FaceID's security in abstract. The alternatives, like the relatively common 'no password' or '123456 pin' are much LESS secure than FaceID.

The other arguments people are making tend to be very fanciful scenarios that don't apply to normal people (state actors, high quality makeup shops with a perfect face mold of your face, etc).

It may not be perfect but like TouchID it's probably way better than the alternative.
I think we can see how you define 'rant'.
Appears to be free and non coercive negotiation until you get to the actual coersion:

"In San Francisco the coalition persuaded the city transit authority to make it easier to deny permits to companies facing labor strife."

If your negotiations rely on the monopoly that the state provides, is it really a negotiation?
What kind of bloat does Manjaro have?
Creating Containers-part-1
For those who don't know, Manjaro is a distro based on arch with a full graphical installer and such. Easy to install Arch.
I don't know that we can say that teenage substance abuse in parties is a symptom of some "void" either.
This was one of the reasons I was really sad to see Ubuntu discontinue their phone. It would be nice to have a phone option that could easily install multiple OSes. While Replicant exists it's nowhere near feature parity. I suppose one could use a custom ROM but there are very few phones that work flawlessly with them in my experience. What about options like the ONEPlus phones?
That's how banks send records to each other, iirc. Instead of changing the protocol, they just wrapped the data.
Don't underestimate the value of distribution/elective courses: philosophy, psychology, linguistics, classics, languages, etc. Expand your horizons and touch on things that may tangentially impact the route you see yourself on as a professional and as a person.
> I wonder if you could implement this in hardware and wind up with a working computer.

Yes you can, bonus points if you can do it without a central clock.
The problem is that you can't really detect which single quotation mark to use unambiguously.

'n'

can either be an abbreviation of "and", or a single-quoted letter "n".

as an abbreviation of "and", it should be rendered as [right single quote]n[right single quote]

’n’

and as a single-quoted letter "n", it should be rendered as [left single quote]n[right single quote]

‘n’
I think the point was that you can have completely free WordPress (hosted on wordpress.com), compared to Ghost, which costs money either for your own hosting or for hosted Ghost.
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>We had a community center near home, with about 10 gaming PCs. Tribes was a huge favorite, especially with all the different mods that were available.

You just reminded me. I had a real slack-off sort of teacher(s) in my 9th and 10th grade communications labs, and Tribes would run on the old Dell boxes they had in there for whatever work. We had a whole system worked out with a watcher and everybody playing over LAN in the lab whenever the teacher stepped out of the room. I'd forgotten all about it.
I've read a few accounts of this mission's end and, not to be dramatic, but I have actually been moved to tears by the thought of this probe using its last energy to point it's antenna toward earth as it melts in the atmosphere. Yes, it's just some hardware but it feels so poetic to me. This sort of accomplishment gives me hope in our species--a true triumph of science that I feel fortunate to have witnessed.

Also, for anyone who hasn't seen it, Cassini's Twitter feed has had a ton of great content over the pat few years (@CassiniSaturn).