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> Often I get downvoted on Reddit about VLC, like I don't know what I'm talking about :)

I've noticed this on just about every subject discussed on reddit, though it's particularly bad in tech-related subs. Objectively false information ends up being upvoted to the top, while accurate information coming from people who know what they're talking about ends up being buried in downvotes. It's pretty ridiculous.

/r/Technology would be more accurately named /r/DunningKrugerGoneWild
Probably not a security. But transferable WoW gold has bigger problems -- money transmitter laws. It would make Blizzard a money transmitter like E-gold, [1] or liberty reserve. Any centralized e-money issuer is doomed. That is an important part of why bitcoin exists.

[1] https://www.wired.com/2009/06/e-gold/
I love this story. Just wanted to say that.
True. I use an iPad mini instead, easier for me to communicate with other people, since it has a much larger screen to type on.
Save Your Loved Ones from a Nuclear Attack by Preparing for the Worst Before It
>I wrote that four years ago, but the ads are as bad today as they were then

But to be fair (and mind you I am not particularly appreciative of Paint.Net nor of this new "procurement model", as the two things I have an allergy for are .Net and the Windows Store ;) ) a large part of the Internet has similar download pages (with deceiving ads), which is not an "excuse" or a "good thing" but surely it is something with which any internet user has by now learned to avoid or workaround.

I would put the blame also (and mainly) on those that allow such deceiving ads to be served to these (or similar) download pages (aka Google).

However I would instead underline how in this blog post there is no mention of/link to www.getpaint.net, while there is (as an example) a clear one in the first line of the blog post for the previous release:

https://blog.getpaint.net/2017/07/20/paint-net-4-0-17-is-now...

So - understandably - the Author attempts to push a little bit the "Windows Store" source, maybe - indirectly or at a subliminal level - hinting that "experts" can have it for free (because they can actually find the download page and link) while "n00bs" will better be paying the "entry ticket" and go to the Windows Store ...
Ask HN: Is this extreme cultural fit selection?
I have interviewed at two dozen companies for a senior developer position and just had a weird experience at an Austrian company.

Two HR reps spent the first 12min talking about why they liked working there, their hobbies, friend and family, sports, etc, before I had a chance to introduce myself.

When I started talking, they didn't want to know about professional experiences ("it's all in your CV, tell us about YOU"). I was super uncomfortable with a giant looking glass looking into my soul. It was awkward.

Company was 100-200 employees.

Is this what being screened for cultural fit looks like?
No mention of the Fulton should go without mentioning its being heavily featured in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Gear_Solid_V:_The_Phanto..., which is also a fantastic game.
Picture What You Want in Your Mind
Nobody's really mentioning it, but taxes are a huge consideration.

For US companies, acquiring an overseas company provides an easy way to repatriate cash without having to pay the higher levels of tax on it. Note that a number of successful Swedish startups were acquired either by US companies or by international conglomerates with a strong US presence. That's not a coincidence.
It just a google search away, but here is the top google search for "okcupid blog wealth"

https://theblog.okcupid.com/the-big-lies-people-tell-in-onli...

or if you just want data:

https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/0*N0OGjZ9WDff4gOrf.p...
>we generally know that we are being subject to an illusion,

Is this an inherent power or a result of those methodological and institutional systems that reduce our cognitive brittleness? The fata morgana is an illusion, but even today people see it and think it's a ghost ship, something that logically is completely and literally impossible. I'm not suggesting AI is on equal footing with humanity yet, but I think the comparison of these limitations is valid.
Meanwhile Florida Man follows the way of the Samurai: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/07/27/florida-man-wields-samu...
CIA was pretty out there in general between the end of World War II and the end of Vietnam. This is actually pretty prosaic for them in that period - the sort of nonsense they got up to, you'd think the whole research directorate was dipping into the Ultra program's LSD supply.
While it's certainly true that we don't have a complete understanding of nature, I think we can safely assert that dead things don't feel, and I'm completely unaware of any evidence to the contrary (and I would think its existence would be quite noteworthy).

I don't think we need to call it a "belief" anymore than we need to say Russel's Teapot not existing is a "belief." We certainly could go down that route, but then virtually everything becomes a belief and we're left with a much less meaningful term.

I kinda feel like this argument is similar to an nihilist telling a logician that nothing is true.
> No, there's no shortage of countries that have good media freedom:
https://rsf.org/en/ranking#

Cute list, Sweden at #2, I suppose Assange should go to Sweden as well?

What you say is completely and utterly irrelevant in the context where the United States of America would use extradition agreements to get Snowden back on US soil, for example by basing themselves on this ridiculous law [1]. Notwithstanding that Snowden did a service to the countries in your list.

Germany did not pardon Snowden, so he didn't go there.

Bottomline is, such a list is secondary to Snowden's personal freedom, his primary interest (don't confuse that with your lack of care about his personal freedom). His personal freedom is [somewhat] protected in Russia, but not in Sweden, Germany, or The Netherlands because the claw of the US government reaches that far. TL;DR he'd have been an utter idiot if he went to the EU.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Espionage_Act_of_1917
Peace Walker and Portable Ops, too, as I recall.
I can’t know that, which is why I wrote “Of course a free (RYF-certified) phone would have much better features (including inspectable privacy guarantees), which is why I’m considering such a thing.”
>iWatch

1. It should be Apple Watch.
2. I thought the newest Apple Watch uses Apple's own W2 Chip instead of Broadcom.
The NFC protocols implements by Yubico are dynamic, not static, derived from a secret key held in hardware on the device. Those dynamic methods are not vulnerable to the NFC Tag issues described above.

An attacker could use NFC to sniff the exchange between your phone and your Yubikey, so you're still vulnerable to eavesdropping. But the point of the challenge-response protocols is to make eavesdropping irrelevant.

The practical vulnerability would be if an attacker eavesdropped on a one-time password going over NFC, blocked your phone's outbound signals so that it can't send it, and then somehow used the one-time password for their own nefarious purposes.

You'll have to make your own judgement call on whether that's a level of compromise you can accept for your use case.
It's a common practice for gov to shutdown internet totally or partially, especially social networks, in events relate to politics.
The grand parent made it sound as if they changed the MariaDB server license, so I wanted to make a clarification that this is not the case.
Thanks. This is the one I was thinking of, unchanged decades later:

https://github.com/joyent/illumos-joyent/blob/master/usr/src...

200 pages before the pager starts running maybe made sense back then, needs to be rethought now. I'm reading the code to see if anyone other that UFS uses it. Something called UDFS does but that looks like DVDs, not that interesting.
They're transitioning way too quickly. There is going to be scorched earth if they stick to the plan to stop supporting legacy extensions in version 57. Over 10 basic extensions I use no longer work and have no replacement that works with the new webextensions... there's not even the ability to export all cookies for wget -- they need to reevaluate their timeline.
I agree. Thank you for taking the time to write this. I would likely have agreed with OP too, if I could be sure what they thought :(
For a while, wasn't it quite difficult to install Flash without it also installing Chrome and setting it as your default browser? I seem to recall you had to find a fairly well-hidden link to a different Flash installer from the one the site tried to direct you to.
It was a few years back, but I first learned about this in a documentary that had police officers practicing to flip knives open and teaching each other how to do it with different brands/styles of knives.

Try as I might, I can't come up with an ethical justification for this behavior. They were literally training to make knives do things beyond their design, for the purpose of charging people who had no intent to do anything of the sort with their knives. There's nothing just about that.
> Both are traumatic experiences and will haunt the person for the rest of their life.

The issue here is that with an expanded definition of rape, rape isn't always traumatic. Thousands of women have drunken sex every night, yet the vast majority of them aren't traumatized by it.
so if you don't want to work in C++ you work on something else But you're still a programmer who likes writing code. You only program in C++ on projects where this makes sense if you like it. Do you not see this point. I'm not sure how to articulate it more clearly?
I think that's correct in an academic sense. But in the day-to-day usage, I think Obama's “this administration” lined up pretty well with Cameron's “this government”.
>Lawyers aren’t the ones who propose the laws

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R44762.pdf (page 2 shows 218 lawyers in congress)

http://library.clerk.house.gov/documents/Lawyers.pdf

>or write them

Congress doesn't really write laws. K-street (lawyers) tend to write them in conjuction with congress (lawyers) staff helping.

>vote on them.

See above two links.

Please now clarify how I give techies a bad name?
> Depressed people move more slowly, in a characteristic pattern called “psychomotor retardation”. They display perceptual abnormalities. They’re more likely to get sick. There are lots of results like this.

> Depression has to be about something more than just beliefs; it has to be something fundamental to the nervous system.

Depression is frequently related to metabolic problems: people are exhausted because their mitochondria aren't putting out enough ATP to run their nervous system.

There are various interventions that can help. B-vitamins are important cofactors for burning sugar to make energy. T4 thyroid is activated by the liver to make T3, which is one factor that boosts the metabolism. If the liver is overworked (alcohol, drugs, hormonal imbalance, too much pufa, etc), it can have trouble activating adequate thyroid.

Emotional resiliency is a big factor here too. My friend was really just lonely before she met me. She's doing better now because she now has a 'vision' for her future (she originally 'lost her future' when she was expelled from high school, essentially for being depressed and self-medicating with drugs that are now being investigated for treating depression).
Debris from 2011 tsunami carried invasive species to North America
Safari wait time to me is pretty much non existent already. Even if it is a bit faster, do I want to change browsers for an example 100% speed increase from 100 to 50ms?
And when you switch it off, it should go off. Why is that an unreasonable expectation?

Where in the history of mobile phones has this toggle meant disconnect? Why should that expectation suddenly arise now?

Changing semantics for the same UI, for the same button, without the slightest hint that anything has actually changed... That is simply bad design.
IANAL, but in such an absurd knife case, on the jury, why not just vote to acquit, for innocent?

As I understand the situation, a juror can vote whatever based on whatever, for any reason or no reason, and never give their reason.

So, for a nonsense knife case as in the OP, really just a way for a lot of lawyer politicians to posture before the public and a lot of other lawyers to throw innocent citizens in jail just for the jollies, why not just vote innocent?
> Often I get downvoted on Reddit about VLC, like I don't know what I'm talking about :)

Hilarious, but somewhat typical for Reddit (and other places with voting systems).
Over 40% of Congress are lawyers,

http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyers_no_longer_dom...
There have always been methods to skirt laws on these sorts of things. My personal favorite from a conceptual standpoint was the knife, whose sheath dropped away, rather than the blade coming out. https://www.google.com/patents/US4523379
Also (3) Apple had poured way more resources into this than the khtml developers had available. Since Apple kept its work secret for business reasons, that meant that, once Apple published their fork, the sheer amount of changes overwhelmed the KHTML developers (WebKit wasn’t just a port of KHTML; it broadened support for html features)
Some of these are really impressive. There have been several surprises where the developer(s) went the extra mile in ways that are surprising. Like in Lossst, when finishing a level, it'll zoom the camera to the next door and back to the worm. It's amazing that someone working within such a tight limit can think, "I know, we'll do this nice zooming thing which has no real relation to game play but will feel nice!"

JS has gotten incredibly concise in recent years. I've noticed it on codefights.com, where a lot of the shortest entries are JavaScript (and very few are Perl, which surprised me, due to Perl's long golfing history). I'm constantly struck by how tightly all the pieces work together these days and how much you can do with so little.
"Flash hider? Banned.. Muzzle Break? ok"

In all fairness, muzzle breaks have practical civilian use as a way to reduce recoil for target shooting, while flash hiders just make it difficult for authorities to spot the location of a shooter. Muzzle breaks actually increase the noise level of a firearm, making more detectable than a stock barrel.
It isn't at all ideal; it is a hack around the problem of terrible software support in the embedded computer industry. Once you got LineageOS on your phone, you can use OTA updates.
> The issue here is that with an expanded definition of rape, rape isn't always traumatic.

facepalm Say that sentence out loud until what you just said kicks in.

Consensual sex, even when alcohol is involved, is still consensual sex. Rape is rape.
The article mentions that most of the knives would have been law-abiding when sold, but due to wear, the blade hinge loosens enough that an officer can flick it open.
That would be "incorrectly".... be careful with criticism.
Doesn’t address the problem by shifting externalities elsewhere and reinforces prejudices. Maybe instead of arrogant “quick fixes” it’s worth considering, lower TCO permanent solutions like micro apartments, real and integrated drug, health and mental healthcare coverage coordinated with social workers would address the major sources of costs (ie social services, emergency rooms and justice system).
Raise yourself before you raise your kids
Microsoft explains why Edge has so few extensions a year down the line
Ask HN What Would Be the Killer ARKIT App?
Hello HN,
We recently just completed our AR Drone Simulator and are working hard to innovate upon it. We all know that without depth sensors and a better viewing device, AR is somewhat limited to mobile. Would love to hear some ideas generated for all of us to innovate the AR space.
- if you fail you are pretty much guaranteed a new job in no-time thanks to the job market for skilled workers
Are they going to start telling you when they're wearing makeup or not?
According to the article, flicks are the requirement. It's a long article and they don't get into it until quite a ways down.

One handed would be okay, so long as it can't be flicked open by officers who practice flicking knives open on a regular basis and have pretty much perfected the art.

But, yes, the flicking is a requirement - according to the article.
Huh, why'd this get flagged? It's a fairly reasonable article, all-told.
mmm? you think I didn't put down my bloody resume?
So, we have a combination of lawyer politicians pushing total nonsense laws and posturing before the public, some cops looking to make arrests as sadists to attack innocent people, and a lot of lawyers -- judges and prosecutors -- out to be with the sadistic cops to throw as many innocent citizens in jail as possible.

So, with this situation: (1) Stay the heck out of NYC. (2) Try to stay the hack out of NYS. (3) Stay the heck away from cops. (4) Look the part of the powerful, upstanding, responsible, politically influential citizen. E.g., don't drive an old car. Etc.

Ah, a lot like what a lot of wild animals in the jungle have to do -- stay out of areas with potential attackers, stay away from potential attackers and generally out of sight and to any potential attacker look strong.

So, right, NYC is a jungle with vicious wild animals; cops, lawyers, and lawyer politicians are among the most dangerous wild animals in that jungle.
It’s sexual assault, not rape, and „1 in 5” studies like these have consistently failed to stand up to scrutiny, mainly due to unclear definition of what constitutes sexual assault. This whole article was written from the perspective of an „ally”, so it’s hardly a surprise to see things like that cited.
If it helps you at all, I just wrote this up for a guy I work with who hasn't done kernel programming. I started learning how to wack on the kernel about 30 years ago but I still remember the horror of being stuck at an adb prompt and having absolutely no clue what to do next :)

I'm reading through the zfs code and I can see why the kernel is intimidating, all this state you have to gather up to make sense of it. One thing that helps is there are patterns. Just like device drivers, file systems all lock mostly the same way, have a certain pattern. You can blindly follow that and get stuff done. Eventually you have to understand what you are doing but you'd be amazed at how far you can go faking it. That's what I did while I was learning and I did tons of useful work sort of "blind". Eventually stuff comes into focus, the architecture comes first, then the arcane details (usually). And even though I was working in the file system code, there was some stuff (the whole hat_ layer) that I never bothered to learn/memorize, it just worked, I wasn't changing it, shrug. I have a pretty good idea what it was doing at the general level but would have to go learn the details if I wanted to change it.

Kernel hacking is fun and apparently isn't that common a skill any more, people like the comfort of userland. I'm no rocket scientist and I got pretty comfortable in SunOS, IRIX, Sys III, Sys V, etc. Unless you are trying to rewrite the whole thing in a clean room, it's really not that hard. It's hard to know all the details about everything but it is rare that you need to (and even more rare to find someone who knows all that stuff).

If this sort of thing seems interesting, you should grab a kernel and figure out how to build and install it, make a new syscall called im_a_stud() that does some random thing, add it, call it. Off you go :)
> exercise, acupuncture, aromatherapy, drugs, meditation, float tanks, social interaction, music, intensely flavored foods, cold therapy, saunas, electroshock therapy, etc.

None of those are guaranteed to work though, a significant number of depressed people never gets over it and it wouldn't be that way if we knew effective treatment methods.
Op doing the most
Suppressing ideas perceived to be intolerant by those in power is intolerant itself, though. Who is to decide what is and is not intolerant?

A good example of this is immigration reform in the US. Many people consider deporting illegal immigrants to be intolerant despite the fact that they would just be enforcing existing US law. Should everyone who wants mass illegal immigrant deportation be suppressed and attacked in the name of tolerance?
Screw all gun and knife laws. Wholly unconstitutional.

In my state, I can carry a concealed gun and switchblade, no license necessary. That’s the way it should be nationally.
Depression to take a few weeks to reverse if you just get enough stimulation? Gee, nice to hear. Maybe I'll just try that.
Sorry, but this is not fully true. Catalonia has had a long story as merchants and as a prosperous land for most of its story. Specially Barcelona. It was not Franco who promoted businesses there. It would be utterly unfair to say so.

Further, the current investment of Spain's government is far beyond expected. Key infrastructures like railway, airports and ports. If Catalonia represents 19% of the GDP and 16% of population is nowadays receiving in a sustained manner 8% of the country investment.

Said that, I don't have anything to argue against the terrible situations other regions suffered from. But this should not diminish the dynamic economy in Catalonia, which would be unfair to relate to Franco.
You can tell this is the case most of the time

With PS, it's impossible to say when viewing it on print/low-res media if the job was done correctly
> The 80% maxes out at 18 700 SEK / month ($2300) before tax.

Many unions will offer you cheap insurances covering up to 3 times that amount. And you can actually be in the union and get many benefits even as an entrepreneur.
HN comments: Not LaTeX, must be invalid.
Exploit Programming: From Buffer Overflows to “Weird Machines” (2011) [pdf]
Curious, do you know of anyone using chelsio in production? Their cards look awesome and have tons of features to put them on par with mellanox, but I haven't really heard of anyone using them.
> Consensual sex, even when alcohol is involved, is still consensual sex. Rape is rape.

The issue is that drunk consensual sex is no longer considered consensual. The definition of rape has changed and expanded over the years to include activities that are pretty common in our society.
One of the best things about email is that, with the right client, you can view discussions as hierarchical trees. That means you can have multiple simultaneous discussions about a topic asynchronously and not lose track of anything.

GitHub and the like only work that well when there's maybe one or two things being discussed at once, because there's just a single linear stream of comments.
I suppose that if cryptocurrency/ICOs have democratized investing, they have also democratized morally (and legally) ambivalent greed.
Not really, turkey is much further down the road towards an illiberal police state.
Why are Nazis so afraid of clowns?
Ask HN: HN: Mark All Read for Firefox 57?
Hi,
I don't use HN without this extention anymore. Any webextention that would work?

legacy add-on for FF: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hacker-news-mark-all-read/

chrome version: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-mark-all-read/fghfahcbhpdeeaaofcefaoodmfejieok?hl=en

Maybe chrome store foxified will return to safe the day...
What you're saying is not in any way in conflict with the predictive processing model, as far as I can see.

You might want to read the article he posted earlier where he reviews Surfing Uncertainty[0]. It discusses this model in more detail.

[0] http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-unc...
Reminds of the Fast Food ads here in the US. Looks Gourmet on TV while the real thing is not even close.
I just started loving ruby! So it's exciting to see performance is being worked on..
>A lot of behaviors considered creepy are centered around concealing sexual intentions.

And a lot of behaviors considered creepy are centered around expressing sexual intentions as well.