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Interesting that you find \r\n to be "right" and the others "screwed up". I'm curious about the reasons for that.

The biggest problem is that each OS went its own way (Mac started with \r but of course uses \n now). If they all had the same line ending all along, whatever it was, no one would think much about it.

\r\n has the obvious disadvantage of being twice the size, along with making it possible to land in the middle of a line ending instead of before or after one.

Of course one advantage would be if you're controlling physical equipment where carriage return and line feed are independent of each other. I learned to program in 1968 on a Teletype ASR33 where CR and LF were literal commands to return the carriage to column 1 and advance the paper. You had to use both because they did two different things. Or on occasion you might use CR by itself to overprint a line. LF by itself was pretty rare, but would do what you expect if you used it: advance the paper without moving the print carriage.

CR LF was fine if you were typing interactively - in fact you just had to hit the CR key and the remote system would provide the LF. But usually we would punch our programs on paper tape, dial in, run the tape through and get the printout, and hang up right away. At $30/hour in 1968 dollars, this saved a lot of money. And of course you would run your tape through locally to print out and proofread your program before testing it online.

To be able to print a tape locally, you needed both CR and LF, but even that wasn't quite adequate. You really wanted to allow a little extra time for the machinery to settle, so the standard line ending we punched on a tape was CR LF RUBOUT.

RUBOUT was a character that punched out all the holes in a row of the paper tape. It was ignored by convention, so you could erase a typing error when punching a tape by pushing the backspace button on the tape punch and hitting the RUBOUT key.

Because it was ignored, RUBOUT was also useful as a "delay" character in the newline sequence. So I guess I'll never get over the feeling that the One True Line Ending is: \r\n\x7F

(Nah, I'm happy with \n, but it makes a good story.)
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Meanwhile, Trump went ahead and finished his 18 holes of golf while 1.5 million Americans were told a ballistic missile was headed their way.
Hmm. All the various Ubuntu derivatives (eg, Hanna Montana Edition or Christian Edition, or even Kubuntu and MATE Editions) that change some defaults without rebuilding packages... don't count as distributions?

This is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, but it's actually a question I don't have a solid yes or no answer to. I can see it both ways.
This was not a planned drill. It was a mistake by an operator during shift change.
To add to this, I've read more then a few stories already of people mass texting and calling their loved ones because they thought they might never see them again. This is a tragic human toll that needs to be acknowledged and appreciated for what it really is. It wasn't just a smoke alarm going of accidentally.
Wouldn't it just be cheaper to give them healthier food? At least it is the common sense medical advice: "you don't need vitamins, just a healthy diet".
More people are getting arrested and going to jail for more trivial things than ever before. Last time I did jury duty it was not a stabbing or drug addict it was a woman who's home had an overhang on the roof that was 3 inches past the legal limit based on the zoning code. She was facing up to 5 years in state prison over something that 20 years ago would have gotten her maybe a $1000 fine.
> The main reason why our understanding of the nuclear risk is so lopsided is because for decades, many nuclear disarmament activists (including many prominent screenwriters, celebrities, and pundits) had a vested interested in portraying the already-awful outcomes of a potential nuclear war as far less survivable and far more hopeless than in reality;

Why did you need to add this? It was a great post otherwise.
Then we would ALL be unemployed, at least those of us who write software.
Yup. For the benefit of anyone who didn't hear of the original quote yet: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway" (Andrew Tannenbaum)
Nice going fools. Next time people will just ignore it. Hope somebody gets fired for this.
It can be done with a bit of work using QEMU/libvirt. The Arch Linux wiki has a good guide for doing it. Not that it’s a pretty solution always…
The Tandy 2000 was one. It was a PC-ish, DOS-running machine that was more powerful than anything put out by IBM at the time, but not PC compatible. The 186 had additional on-chip hardware like timers, etc. that the 8086 (and 286 and subsequent chips) did not, and some of these were mapped to I/O address space that corresponded to different PC hardware, so building a fully PC compatible machine with a 186 was near impossible.

Forgoing PC compatibility was not without its advantages. The Tandy 2000 could have up to 768k of RAM -- and used all of it, the 640k limit being nonexistent. This made a huge difference in applications such as Lotus 1-2-3. The Tandy 2000 also featured a 640x400 color display option -- extremely high resolution for the time -- at an affordable price, making it attractive as a graphical workstation. Tandy 2000s were used in the design of Stars and Stripes 87, an America's Cup winning yacht, and were also used to prototype color display in Windows 1.0. So it was an important machine, despite fading into obscurity due to its lack of PC compatibility.

Sorry, I just frickin' love this machine and wish it were more remembered.
What's a good ad-blocking VPN?
We should also celebrate people's flaws. There's no such thing as an entirely good person.

Aaron had mental issues. But those same issues were what gave him strength, because they were a part of him. If you took them away, Aaron wouldn't be Aaron.

If we celebrate people's flaws, maybe people won't feel like they're not allowed to have flaws. And maybe that might help people who feel like ending it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16089930

The response to that was overwhelmingly positive. Over 20 people reached out.

It feels time to help people who are concealing problems. The internet gives us recourse. I don't know Aaron's motivations toward the end, but it feels true that if he had just kept talking, things might have turned out differently.
I think it was done manually.
There is nowhere else to go with the sanctions against North Korea. What the situation needs is de-escalation.
Moving the goal posts entirely away from the current discussion of food in no way justifies your initial comment. Stating it in a manner that kind of implies I hold certain unpalatable views and would advocate for putting people in prison as a form of housing doesn't make me sympathetic.

There are lots and lots of things wrong in the world. That fact is absolutely not justification for pissing on an idea that is simple, cheap, effective and has real merit as just one piece of the solution to the large puzzle of deeper problems in the US.

Nutrition has played a very, very large role in my ability to solve my personal problems, raise my income and get off the street. It also has played a very large role in gradually making me more psychologically stable. I didn't say that in my initial comment elsewhere in this discussion because I get tired of being told I talk too much about myself, I am just an attention monger, it is merely anecdotal, etc etc etc. But that is why I had the thought that nutrition in prison could play a very serious role in actual rehabilitation.

If you posit that most people in prison are from generally marginalized and poor populations, you can assume many of them never had proper nutrition at all in their lives. Feeding them well so they can grow both stronger and mentally better could be a small means to make prison a way to break the cycle of poverty and desperation, a small means for society to try to make real amends instead of merely heaping more abuse on such people.

Ideally, I would like to see more non-prison programs that are civilized, civilizing, caring and all that. But those are quite hard to create. It is hard to make good programs.

These people are some of the most ill, most destitute, most crapped on by society. None of your points here in any way whatsoever justifies advocating that they should merely be grateful for their chicken and Fritos and otherwise fuck 'em, they can quit their bitching.
Finished his 18 holes when the US military had issued no warning of missile attack, and the proper bureaucratic processes were dealing with the situation.

I don't like the guy, but it's not on him to immediately and personally react to this kind of situation. Maybe a nice reassuring speech after the fact (which I doubt will be forthcoming or satisfying).
I hope they throw the book at him.
Regarding Lavoisier, "alleged" is correct. There seems to be no historical evidence that Lavoisier was the subject of this experiment, though it does make for a good story and was probably tried by someone at some point. See http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_to...
They would probably send multiple warheads to increase the odds...
Not if the sound driver is doing its job properly -- it's generally bad form to add harmonics above the Nyquist frequency[1] of the input file. If you do have to deal with a buggy sound driver, you can use any small multiple of the tone frequency as your sampling rate and still have efficient LZW compression.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist%E2%80%93Shannon_sampli...
Not a terrible thing to have happened, tbh

Now we get to see & analyze the "real life" reaction to this dress rehearsal. I'm sure everyone knew without this that a real alert would be full of SNAFUs, but you don't usually get a chance to see what they would really be if everyone actually believed the alert was real.

Hopefully (and I think they will ) they'll be smart enough to use this rare opportunity.
>pour encourager les autres

If someone really, as you suggest, recklessly disregarded some procedures because they just couldn't be bothered. Say there's a checklist and they just winged it instead. But maybe there isn't a checklist and they made a mistake.

In general though, firing people to send a message or to throw a sacrifice to the crowd isn't particularly admirable practice.
Why is health care so damn expensive?
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Then there's the person I know in Hawaii who posted on Facebook that people were getting alerts and went on with her spin class :-) I don't dispute it was a serious error. On the other hand, I'm not sure the consequences of the mistake should factor too much into whether they need to sacrifice someone because of optics. It does of course but that doesn't mean it should.
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They own the enterprise market for phone and tablet, despite being one of the most obnoxious vendors to deal with. Big enterprises that found that unacceptable (like NYPD, who went all in with Microsoft), came crawling back.

They own the universe of mobile users who actually spend money on mobile.

I think they’ve established that they can virtually print money without the intrusive and risky data gathering that their competitors engage in. Fundamentally, they operate an honest business — you give them cash, they give you stuff.
It actually is his responsibility, since it's a Federally designed system by the FCC. All the faults and benefits of the federal government ends on his desk. The buck stops with him, and we need to hold his feet to the fire on this issue.

"Why did this happen? What are you doing to make sure it doesn't happen again?"

Right now there are way too many people apologizing for his complacency (I guess people have normalized his uselessness at this point?), when it needs to be clear that he's responsible for this shit, too.
Not really true. Thanks to advances in technology POTUS had 10 minutes to launch by the 1970s before Washington was toast.

It was an open secret that nuclear retaliation could be instigated without White House or even Pentagon approval if the Soviets tried to decapitate Nato.
Zuckerberg is painfully slow. Makes me really question his so-called “genius”.
The real feat here is that they convinced the worms it was safe to eat there even though they got their heads cut off.
Ironically, when I left engineering for law, I met tons of left-brain women, many of whom would’ve been great engineers despite never even considering it. And thinking back to my AP computer science class in high school with just one girl it, and all the push back taking about whether gender parity in engineering is even a justifiable goal to strive for—who can blame them? Who wants to struggle with being a minority in their profession when they don’t have to?

But it’s a shame. Engineering is a socially valuable profession, and a great analytical framework for approaching almost anything else in life. We as a society lose out when our best and brightest women (quite rationally) stay away from it and do something else.

It’s also a tyranny of low expectations situation. Life isn’t just about you. You have an obligation to use your talants to serve society. Doctors, nurses, and teachers contribute a lot, but they’re not going to save humanity from global warming or turn us into a multi-planet species. People who can do that—including women—should feel some social pressure to do it.
If you don't mind my asking: what word is that? I'm only familiar with žena (I speak some Croatian but not enough to know archaisms)
That may be for some cases, but there should be an extreme amount of due care on the part of employees who can hit a button and cause parents to put their children in storm drains. The particular person who did this may not be fired, but their responsibilities will somehow change.
I was similarly underwhelmed.
So that 51% attack seems pretty critical if you don't know who owns the coins:

"Dishonest" developers could start with 100% of coin and then sell 49% of coins. As long as the developers retain 51% they can control the entire voting process.

This makes me think you should have a clear accounting of real people to each coin for something like this to work. Otherwise you're vulnerable to devs using shells to scam or bribing holders to increase tap. You're better off cutting out the middle man and just sending your coins to the "honest" developer directly because you really don't have any recourse when that happens.

Vitalik's assumption that developers will always be "honest" seems kind of silly because if developers are always honest what's the point of this complicated system he's set up? Might as well just give funds away to our "honest" developers' address.
The stories I hear from my female friends in law, medicine, non-profit, etc -- especially law -- make my experiences as a woman in tech seem downright blessed. Yet you never hear people telling women not to go into law (or whatever) due to discrimination.

Tech is not perfect, but I wish I had known about it sooner than college as an option for me. Once discovered, I totally fell in love with it and had to play catchup. That is why I spent time mentoring high school girls who were considering engineering, and a lot of them ended up pursuing it now that they are in college.

I think unilaterally pushing girls one way or another is wrong, but a lot of girls don't get as much exposure to tech so it is helpful to specifically tell them about it.
Was Steve Jobs in charge of over-viewing security?
> It's the protestant puritan spirit.

America was settled by a lot more than just puritans. There were also notably cavaliers, quakers, and borderers. That and a bunch of other groups that came later.

They definitely had an influence but you're going to need to make a better, less lazy argument than this. It's like invoking the Prussians to explain something about Europe you don't like.
Power users disable telemetry.
A touching note from Zephyr Teachout:

"I miss Aaron Swartz. He died 5 years ago today. He was a friend and a rare, huge, soul, and oh did he ever believe in freedom and the possibilities of the future. Wish you were still on call for late night IM strategy sessions, or philosophy, dear friend. I think of you."
https://twitter.com/ZephyrTeachout/status/951538523076792320

I also appreciate this thought from a fellow HN poster: "'They say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.'
That was not even close to the ending of Aaron Swartz."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11719398
Right! I think extreme prepping (the mild sort where you just prepare for a normal disaster is merely prudent) is dumb precisely because I know that people won’t be all friendly and nice after a collapse. Your stash just makes you a target for the meanest guys still around.
It is completely different.

If they ask you and you don't tell, it is a lie.

Imagine in a first date if you should say: I snore, every Wednesday I play soccer with my friends and arrive home somewhat drunk, and my family is full of assholes.
Don't let your loss or grief manifest itself as guilt, because you have nothing to feel guilty about. Feel the loss, but don't blame yourself, or the victim.

And don't feel like you have to live up to the image of someone else. Don't give yourself expectations on account of someone else. Set your own goals and expectations, from a place of self-compassion. And just like a good parent should never be hard on their child for failing to complete a project, neither should you be hard on yourself.

I'm sure none of that is helpful right now. But the next time you feel pressure or guilt rising up: Gently let it go. You don't owe anyone your peace of mind.
They are not running, only Play Services is and you need that anyway. It is event based, the app is only launched and notified, when the push notification comes.

And even that may be delayed, because the push notifications might be delayed to get the radio the chance to sleep and save battery.
He was important to getting civil rights legislation passed in 1964. He also taught poor Mexican kids when he was younger. He was a lot of things, but racist isn't fair.
The total destruction radius of current ICBM warheads is much smaller than large population centres - if you live in one, and a single 2-5 megaton nuke would hit it, you likely won't die even if you stayed where you are (but duck&cover'ed, preferably in a basement, to avoid the secondary effects) because that nuke would hit some other district of your city; for any major population center the expected casualties from a single hit are just a small portion of the total population.
I'm surprised the discussion here hasn't veered toward what actually happened. Technical glitch/human error? Hacked emergency alert system? Missile actually was on the way, but being a cheap North Korean one, it fell into the ocean on the way?

There are lots of potential explanations...whatever happened, there is stuff to work on in the aftermath of this. Barring the idea that it was an actual missile that failed to hit its target, if these alert systems are vulnerable, that's a bad thing. This could have caused serious chaos in a large city like New York. Techniques like this could be used to cause gridlock before a terrorist attack, suppress voter turnout on election days, etc.
I thought who would decide how he would pay his debt to society were the judge, not the employer.
> Intel Cyclone V

That's still weird to see; it's kind of like AMD Radeon was for a few years.
MakerDAO’s “DAI” stablecoin is breaking, as predicted
The mocking is utterly unjustifiable. Duck and cover would have saved millions of lives if MAD had come to its conclusion. The inability of a building to resist bunker busting bombs is completely unrelated.
Why do you trust the ad blocking vpn more than google?
Actually the point you made was that it should be considered a gourmet meal, which is slightly different to the argument that it is not abuse.
I run about 50 miles a week.
I think people increasingly do care, and will care more and more.

Some points:

* The revelations of Snowden and all the many hack attacks in the news have impacted the average Joe
* Many security experts expect more downfalls in the short future. For instance, cyberwarfare has relatively just begun.
* As example, in Germany, people are much more conscious about privacy.
* And think now about people who want to secure their crypto assets investments.

All in all, I think Apple is betting properly on security and it will have an economical reward.
REQ because its a simple yet huge idea, it's not a cryptocurrency per se, but a service backed on the blockchain.

FUN because it solves a real problem (lack of trust in online gambling).
Food safety inspection is a relatively recent innovation. Somehow our ancestors survived. Diarrhea isn't fun, but one can generally avoid it by avoiding liquids that haven't been boiled. Most foodstuffs don't require near as much refrigeration as an American might imagine.
Another thing that constantly astonishes me is how the immediate direct damage caused by any kind of intentional explosion is consistently overestimated by public at large. I largely blame action movies where C4 block of the size typically used for initiating industrial explosives in bore holes is often shown as leveling complete buildings.
Ouch. Turns out even worms backup more frequently than humans do.
That still leaves plenty of space for additional apps and data. Also you can uninstall e.g. Libreoffice post-install to slim it down.
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Interesting. However the color is very hard on the eyes and so is the very narrow-thin text.
If you do not want to use them, disable them. If you disable them, no updates will be done (and existing ones will be deleted).

You cannot delete them, physically, because they are on /system partition, which is read only. That means, even if you would delete them as root, you would not get more space for another apps or your data. However, the read-only /system has more functions, that you would lose: it has known file layout (so you can image-update your phone, if you ever get an update), it is signed (so you can know your phone has not been tampered with, as it is not going re-sign itself once modified), it is also for factory-reset/sofware recovery purposes, so once you wipe /data, your phone will be in factory-mint condition (software-wise, of course).
Very cool. Hot reloading in iOS would be extreamly useful. I remember that I used a plugin that was called injectionforxcode but it was not working very well.
At some point a software engineer actually sat down and implemented a worm "torturing" algorithm.

I'm not a worm rights activist or anything, and the paper was a fascinating read, but man I'd hate to be a flatworm in these guys' lab. Makes me wonder if some dark agency somewhere in the world is using AI to perfect their autonomous human-torturing machine.
It was discusson on HN 5 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15110850
From a mass-market perspective:

- Amazon's Alexa: I am willing to put a microphone and/or camera into one or more areas of my home so that I can do things without pulling my phone out of my pocket.

- Google Gmail: I am willing to give you full access to the text of my emails so that I don't have to pay for an email service.

- Facebook: I am willing to give you a massive amount of information over what I do on a day-to-day basis in order to facilitate my social life.

Things along those lines.
Right clicking the start button also brings up the same menu.